!!!???!!!!
Seriously people. Boundaries (for the guests being invited). And why sex toys? Why.
Sometimes a thing gets broke, can't be fixed.
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askye - Sep 03, 2007 5:02:35 pm PDT #4271 of 10436
Thrive to spite them
Nutty - Sep 03, 2007 6:12:24 pm PDT #4272 of 10436
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Uh.... okay? In the annals of reasons I stay away.
Seriously. Who is fandom's ambassador? And how can we have that person fired?
Fay - Sep 03, 2007 6:39:51 pm PDT #4273 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
I'm sorry, WHAT? They did what? Why on earth did they feel the need to break out the sex toys?
Jilli speaks for me, because I have lost the power of speech.
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...not that I'm anti-That Kind Of Thing*, mind. (I mean, I thoroughly enjoyed The Vagina Monologues and ended up going drunkenly shopping for rude things with my friends afterwards.) But - but - sheesh. That would be decidedly outside my comfort zone.
I mean, maybe if it were a Porn Panel, I guess this would be more fitting (although, frankly, still outside my comfort zone, unless everyone was sloshed) but I'd be expecting a panel about slash to be about writing and subtext, rather than for it to be some kind of Geeky Anne Summers Party.
(...do you folks have Anne Summers Parties?)
*as Father Ted would put it.
shrift - Sep 03, 2007 8:43:57 pm PDT #4274 of 10436
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
The Stargate slash panel at Dragon*Con was like watching a Mutual Masturbation Society throw a skanky bachelorette party, with all the implied shenanigans, rambling life stories, and high-pitched giggling of We Are So Daring, Drunk and Totally Daring!
It was mentally scarring. My mental scars. Let me show you them.
Fay - Sep 03, 2007 8:54:28 pm PDT #4275 of 10436
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.
shudders.
and not in a good way.
Zenkitty - Sep 04, 2007 2:03:31 am PDT #4276 of 10436
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Wow. I'm not mad that I missed that panel.
Jars - Sep 04, 2007 2:14:34 am PDT #4277 of 10436
high-pitched giggling of We Are So Daring, Drunk and Totally Daring!
Well it is pretty daring to be willing to parade your total lack of social skills so publicly. Yikes.
Dana - Sep 04, 2007 4:05:16 am PDT #4278 of 10436
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
but I'd be expecting a panel about slash to be about writing and subtext
Ha ha, you fool! No, in the ten minutes or so we were in the room, we heard mostly about the family lives of the panelists. Gay fathers who bonded with their daughters over slash. Young sisters being "corrupted" into slash.
Supposedly they started talking about characters after we left, but I don't regret leaving.
Nutty - Sep 04, 2007 4:11:36 am PDT #4279 of 10436
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
So, you're telling me, not only was it TMIriffic, it was also desperately in need of a martini-swilling BOFQ?
Because, bitches, please. Your transgressiveness has not even crossed the road yet.
I think I should get paid to sit around being jaded, don't you?
shrift - Sep 04, 2007 5:43:44 am PDT #4280 of 10436
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I got the impression from the panelists -- from the short time we were there -- that Stargate was their first slash fandom. And while that's all well and good for a Stargate slash panel, it's not remotely representative.
I don't like crashing panels, so we ran screaming rather than ask the room if they were tired of listening to the panelists' threesome fantasies and would they like to speak with people who actually possess tact and have some small amout of fannish cred.