Amalthia's recs and fan works

I'm attending Escapade and it sounds like January 2025 is just a tough time for con attendance this year and that is reflected in Escapade putting out a call to bolster this year's attendance or to help the con in other ways.

This is my favorite convention to attend, it's great meeting fans in person and California has nice weather in the winter. :) I hope more people on my friend's list are able to attend or are able help in other ways.


Escapade is the world's longest-running annual slashcon! Let's keep it that way!

Escapade's call for help on Dreamwidth.
Escapade's call for help on the con website.

I signed up to moderate two alternate panels on Friday and I think I'm now having a mini-freak out.

The only panel I sort of feel comfortable with covering, and I am by no means an expert, is the DCU panel. Here is my brief description, "Introduction to Young Justice, popular slash pairings, and comic recs. Discussion about the new reboot and whether or not it worked."

The other panels for Avengers and I'm reading the fan fiction and I've watched all the movies but I haven't read the comics...so I'm not sure what to say about it yet. I may have to come up with a list of my personal favorite fics and maybe just see what people at the panel want to talk about.

Here is the description I submitted for the panel, "Discussion on popular pairings, hoped for pairings, and favorite stories in Thor, Iron Man, and Captain America. What sparked off the fan fiction explosion? What do fans hope for in the upcoming Avengers movie?"

I only really have this weekend to prepare...I'm also completely willing to accept the help of anyone willing to co-moderate the panel with me.

I've moderated panels before but I'm not sure I'm the most exciting person to lead a panel. A lot of the time I really depend on audience participation. But I'm still really exited because I get to squee about Avengers and DCU with fellow fans. :)

In random other news. I'm testing out DW new beta posting interface and I really love it.

I made it back and now I have to get ready for bed.

I had a wonderful time hanging with my best friend and roommate lovesrain44 and meeting new people, who I hope to meet at future conventions. :)

Here are a list of links and recs that were brought up during the panel.

Important info: American Air-date for Merlin

June 21 NBC 8pm (Sunday)

Communities on LJ.

bbc_merlin_news
merlin_flashfic


Rec Lists

Amalthia's Delicious Merlin Recs
Merlin Instant Recs by Amalthia

Specific Story Recs

Drastically Redefining Protocol by rageprufrock
The Crown of the Summer Court by astolat
Danver's Merlin fic

I'm 99% sure I'm missing something..but it's kind of late and I've been drinking a bit.

So this is it for now.

Tomorrow, at 5am I have to get up and get to the airport...and then my friend and I are going to start our drive to Lansing, Michigan from Denver. I've been looking forward to this for a few months now. :)en

I don't plan to be active online this upcoming weekend, week, and next weekend. If I don't get a bit drunk at MediaWest then I will have failed at vacationing! Um but I swear I'll eat first before drinking! and not driving anywhere.

I will be checking my emails mostly for archive related questions.

Waves and have a fun weekend everyone! :)

I made it in safe and sound and rather late tonight. I had a really fun time at the convention, I enjoyed the panels, didn't sleep nearly enough and ate too much food. :)

The hotel was right on the beach and it was beautiful every day I was there.

Don't really have much else to say, I'm kind of sleep deprived.

I had fun on Saturday. wyrdfae and I went to most of the panels (had a blast with the Supernatural, RPS, Heroes, and bdsm panel) Well okay those were the panels that I remember. Stargate Atlantis/SG-1 panel was frustrating because not everyone, actually I don't think anyone had actually seen the endng of SG-1 or the rest of season 3 Atlantis and yet the topic was "where is SG-1 and SGA going from here?" but mostly we just talked trash about Carter (well not season 1-3 Carter because everyone agreed she was great until season 4). I think it was agreed by most that M&M are incapble of writing women or their way out of a wet paper sack.

Anyway, this was a small low key con, mostly women fan fiction readers and writers it seemed like. I was able to browse the dealers room. (the only problem for me is that I'm trying not to buy zines anymore because I don't have room on my bookshelves) I had a lot of fun going through the photos but didn't buy anything. I didn't get a chance to see the music videos entered for the contest because I was at the Heroes panel..I was a bit dissapointed about that.

Oh and I think I managed to maybe convince a few people to check out Torchwood. :)


I'm not a zine maker but I gotta wonder if people are really buying zines the way they used to?

I had a great time at Escapade and I met a lot of new people. It's just it hit me that I kind of regret not getting to actually spend time with some of the people who went that I originally intended to spend time with or at least have a good 5-10 minute conversation and it just never happened.

maygra comes to mind first. She bought me a drink!!!! which was awesome. I got to see her at the vid show and the SPN: Nature of Evil panel. We got to talk a little but I kind of wish I had more time. Next year I'll have to kidnap her or something. (I think I get nervous meeting someone for the first time within a group of people. I can do it but I feel overwhelmed)


destina is another person I'd loved to have more time to talk with in person.

Strangely, I met all the SGA people I planned to meet. I even got to talk with permetaform and she was sick. I didn't even talk vidding with her which I find somewhat funny. :)

Basically, next year I think I'll stay until Monday because during the day on Friday/Saturday, I and just about everyone else was going to panels and it seems like Sunday evening would have been a good time to unwind and just visit with people without worrying about getting ready for panels or not missing panels.