Lunacon panel schedule

[rm]

Building Blog Readership
Friday, March 20, 8 - 9pm
How do you create a persona and personality for your blog? How about courting controversy: When should you use it, and when should you diffuse it?
Seriously, kids, I just got this schedule, I did not write the panel description, but hilarious, ne?

When Slash is Canon
Friday, March 20, 9 - 10pm
How is explicitly queer content in SFF (Torchwood, the Buffy comics, etc.) changing fandom and fanfiction?
Yes! I proposed this and am very happy to see that it's happening.

Writing Sex
Friday, March 20, 10 - 11pm
The mechanics of writing and the mechanics of doing are often two very different things. From making sure no one accidentally winds up with three hands (species of that sort being a different matter entirely), to figuring out the logistics, rules or conventions of something you've never done or simply understanding a gender other than your own, writing sex that's clear, hot and narratively relevant to your tale can be a challenge. This is an opportunity to talk about the how and why with writers that include erotic elements in their work.
I moderated this craziness last year, and it's back!

(Note: the Steampunk Ball begins at 10pm. I will be going there directly from this panel and encouraging people to follow; Patty will be with me, but since we haven't seen a whole programming grid yet (and she'll be just back from Oman and possibly still dealing with jet lag), I can't speak for what she'll be attending).

Fandom as a Job
Saturday, March 21, 1pm - 2pm
In the wake of events like Steve Vander Ark of the Harry Potter Lexicon being sued by J.K. Rowling and the publication of Melissa Anelli's memoir on her work on The Leaky Cauldron, there's increasing scrutiny on those fans that are able to parlay their fanish obsessions into (sometimes lucrative) jobs. In some cases, these fans themselves begin to acquire fans. Is this good or bad for fans as a whole? What are the pitfalls of being a professional fan? How do you become a professional fan and would you really want to?
A bigger, better version of a panel we tried to do last year that sort of died in scheduling hell, now at a time when your brain can actually engage it!

Comments

[kessie.livejournal.com]

The panels should really interesting. The first one is hilariously ironic, alas.

[elionwyr.livejournal.com]

You have now made me wish I was going to Lunacon.
*sigh*

[alterjess.livejournal.com]

the Buffy comics

Not just the comics - Willow was gay from S4 on. (Though the Willow/Tara relationship was nearly all offscreen and/or metaphorically sublimated into "doing spells together" until S6 when the show moved to UPN.)

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's the off-screen vs. on-screen thing that I want to talk about there. I didn't actually realize it was ever on screen.

[alterjess.livejournal.com]

In S6 they were allowed to kiss onscreen and were shown living together and sharing a bed. The closest they ever came to an actual oscreen sex scene starts at about 1:30 here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSowjp254mA&feature=related), during the musical.

Willow/Kennedy in S7 was kept almost entirely offscreen as well, but Kennedy was such an intensely annoying character that I'm not sure anyone minded.

[norda.livejournal.com]

The first panel, indeed, is blissfully ironic.

The "Fandom as a job" panel intrigues me. I'd love notes, if anyone's taking notes.

[better-late24.livejournal.com]

Man, those are panels I'd totally go to. How fun!

[stakebait.livejournal.com]

I've got a 10-11 AND an 11-12 panel, but I've written to beg off the latter. If that works, I will try to lead people from the techno sex panel to the Steampunk Ball as well. Which also means I will be talking about sexbots in a bustle and a top hat.

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

I wish I could be there -- they all sound fascinating.