YOU CAN'T TRIPLE-STAMP A DOUBLE STAMP!

Ok, so that DAAS poll was because, thanks to the unyielding demands of procrastination and nostalgia, I am throwing up some pages on fanlore about The Good Old Days and I wanted a little consensus on what to call the DAAS page. I think I will go with Allstars because that's what's inside my copy of Book.

My main problem being that I have destroyed a number of brain cells in the years between TGOD and now so I am pretty useless at creating actual content.* I only joined in 1999 and I was a total lurker. For instance, I can't remember if there was wank that moved the fic over to DAASFic or if it was congenial. And did we talk about anything other than the DAAS boys? This kind of archival is exactly what Fanlore is built for so come on old guard and new guard, roll up those sleeves and get those memories down! And please do spread the word if you have the inclination.

Australian Comedian RPF page; The Big Gig page; Good News Week page; DAAS page.

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* To be honest my abiding memory of those boards was getting schooled for sticking my fourteen-year-old nose into someone else's flamewar. OH THE BURNING, I CARRY THE SCARS TO THIS DAY.

Dear Fandom,

I am looking at the fandom_counts profile, and while I like looking at all the languages, and I appreciate the geek factor of a Latin translation, I have to ask, where are the Elivish and Klingon translations?

FAIL!

Jessie

After a discussion in angstslashhope's journal, moveablehistory has set up a Digg-style link aggregator. It feels like something that could fit perfectly with lj fandom--is there one out there already?--because the dispersed nature of it is something I hear people complain about quite often.

I think this could be a really, really useful tool to keep track of the several major events happening in fandom right now, and I encourage people to spread the word, join, and especially add links! I suppose metafandom serves a similar purpose but link aggregators are perhaps easier to surf than lj, and it has the potential to be aimed at the fanlib/fanarchive and strikethrough2007 issues and the fan activism that has grown out of them with greater breadth and depth. Also, it wouldn't be for just lj links. Posts like catrinella's awesome collection of links are great but can become unwieldy.

moveablehistory has also noted that link aggregators have the potential to serve as a centralised portal for access to decentralised fandom and fanfiction should there be mass migration from lj. In fact it would still probably be useful even if things stay essentially the same. As moveablehistory says, we can use the news one as a proof of concept to see if a fandom-wide one would be feasible.


Other shit you probably already know about: fandom_counts, fandompays. Interesting to see fandom try to take stoke of its numbers and how statistics will translate to resistance. The fandom_counts profile is occasionally breaking! This stuff fits into one my my major essays in ways I can't believe.


And on the season finale of House.....( vague spoilers )


oh, god, back to essays I suppose.

And now, in your latest issue of WHEN FANDOMS COLLIDE:

1. Daran Norris, aka Cliff the Awesomest Lawyer Ever on Veronica Mars? IS THE VOICE OF COSMO AND MR TURNER.

2. Bruce McDonald, Hugh Dillion, and....Michael Rosenbaum? Match made in heaven! GAY heaven.

Discuss.


Essay mojo gone. Apparently I suck at stuff that doesn't have anything to do with pop culture and/or the gays. Funny that. FUNNY CAUSE IT'S TRUE. I wish I were a penguin, that'd be pretty cool. Or a llama. Or, like, Jake Gyllenhaal's dog. Yeah, that I could deal with. Ego-deflating essays? Something that requires an attention span of longer than ten minutes? Not so much.

Ok so this is going to be long, I think.

Anyway, lainy122 has done a photo post and covered all the pertinent bits, and melinda_goodin has already written up a couple of panels excellently. Also, docbrite's reactions (and her bird-related squeeing) are great. So probably this is all redundant :-D

Right, well, first up, I adored Melbourne. ( Melbourne; Meagan; fabulous purchases )

Sad farewells to Meagan, and then we started trying to make our way to the Hilton, which is where the con was at. I left the map at the hostel and got us totally lost and poor Lainy had to walk about 2k out of the way with a busted knee.

( Vampire panel; Blankety-blanks; first-time con-goer panel )

That night was the Great Debate, which had us all laughing our bleached anuses off. ( Great Debate )

( martial arts panel; slashgirl parTAY )

Saturday morning we began with the Moving out of Genre panel with Jack, Neil, Poppy and Fiona, and it was really interesting. ( Neil and Poppy stuff, mostly )

( Neil's GOH speech, Mirrormask, Dave McKean )

The forensics panel, like everything else, was interesting. ( More on this )

( Fantasy and Fairytale panel )

Somewhere in there we had a great Chinese dinner with a lovely old-school fan and slasher named Donna (if you're reading this, Donna, drop us a comment!) and hooked up with Jess from Perth (who kindly allowed us to stash our stuff in her room, and whose lj name I have no idea of) to watch an episode of Firefly ("Arial") and the bloopers (hee!) and the Serentity trailer (eee!). Then at night it was the masked ball, which Lainy and I didn't exactly prepare for, like, at all. But a cool dude was making balloon hats and he gave us one each! The costumes were absolutely amazing. There were any number of gothy outfits, some furries, Danny Oz and his wife and someone else as the Joker, Harley and Ivy, a Jack Sparrow, a TV's Frank (I think! But he didn't have the right hair), and so on. Amazing work by some people. Also somewhere in there we went to Neil's and Poppy's signings (squee!) and melinda_goodin made a Harry Potter run, being nice enough to grab me one at the same time :-D

Sunday morning we got up ridiculously early for the first panel, Myths of Warfare. ( More on this )

The Australian Folklore and Fairytales panel was extremely interesting and I was really looking forward to it (Lainy went to the Stephen King panel at this time, so ask her for info about that). It began with the panellists noting that they had a really interesting experience going to Europe, where mythology and history are tied directly to place and especially nature, and how this is not their experience within Australia. Of course this segued into Indigenous mythology and the Australian landscape, and the bulk of the discussion was about how appropriate it is to use Aboriginal mythology in fiction if you're a non-Indigenous Australian. ( More on this )

Not having read any of her work, and having had the impression throughout the con that she didn't really want to be there, I was not expecting to enjoy Robin Hobb's Guest of Honour speech quite as much as I did. ( on writing and having children; Important Lessons Jessie Learnt from Robin Hobb )

( LOTR in the style of... panel )

During the lunch break we watched Neil's A Short Film About John Bolton, a funny mock documentary about a vampire-obsessed artist. It managed to be both completely predictable and extremely entertaining.

Then was Poppy's GOH speech in which she was the cutest thing ever. ( Witness: )

( Gods and Monsters panel; Neil being amusing; Research and Methodology panel; blogging panel )

( Slash panel! )

Then there was the closing ceremony, then Melinda gave us a ride back to our hostel, then I ate an extremely nice Chinese meal, then we caught the train, then I read HBP, then we got home, the end. My god!

These things are so much fun! You get to find out lots about people.

1. Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3. You will update your blog/site with the answers to the questions and leave the answers as comments on my blog.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Questions from chameleongirl79:
1 - What 5 things do you consider essential for others to know about you?
2 - If you could trade places with any super villain for a day, who would you choose and what would you get up to?
3 - What's the story behind your username?
4 - Peace or freedom?
5 - Umm ... is Adelaide as boring as everyone says?

( Answers )

Part 2 (Part 1 here). More people including Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon, Nicole Kidman, Paul Battany, Paul Gross, River Pheonix, Sam West, Johnny Depp, and Tori Amos. Also miscellaneous comics stuff, horses, and other photographs. Rather less worksafe than pt 1.




( ...and on and on... )

Thank you and goodnight!