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I ran three panels at con.txt this year. Two of them were "Make a List of Things That Were Awesome", so I am now coming back to actually share the lists with people.

Femslash Fandom Faire spreadsheet, which lists the Name, Medium, and genre of everything on the list. Feel free to add links! I have put in a few to get you started.

Subtext is Not the Only Text which lists the name, medium, and genre of actual queer media. Please add links about these stories and links to where to buy them, if they are for sale!

So, I am going to con_txt next month, and, because I thought this panel sounded totally awesome and there was a good chance it wouldn't happen if I didn't volunteer to mod it, I volunteered to mod the panel described thusly:

Hot Girl on Girl Action In stories, we mean. Not Live. Probably. How to write good f/f porn, where to promote it, and how to encourage more to magically appear.)

That sounds like a totally awesome panel, right? Well, I have a teensy, tiny problem, in that I have been sort of…distanced from fandom lately? Like, I never post to my LJ, and I don't write any more (fic or meta or even episode reactions), and I do not know what the best place is to promote f/f stories right now. If there are new and fascinating places to post one's femslash that are not girlgay or femslash_today, I would really love to hear about them.

Also, if you have thoughts or feelings about either how to write more f/f porn or how to encourage more f/f porn, I would love to hear that also. I may even, depending on the scope of my lazy, create a wee little handout for people at my panel to take home.

Basically, what I am saying is, help me help us get more femslash going. Please, yes, thank you!

So, the weekend was sort of defined by my decision to wear bad shoes, and ignore the subsequent ankle pain. I have flat feet, and I was wearing these sandals with a tiny bit more wedge in them than I am used to, and I felt pretty much fucked for a good deal of the weekend. So, lesson learned: my next con will be accomplished entirely in sneakers and slippers.

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The only bad part of con.txt was that I didn't hang out with some people I wanted to.

I pretty much entirely missed Melannen, and I did entirely miss bethbethbeth, and even though I went to the same dinner as Brak, we wound up at opposite ends of the table, and I don't think I actually cuddled with Synecdochic (although I did cuddle with SarahQ, which I had really wanted, so that was good!) And, I did not meet very many people I did not at least Internet-know already, which is a little disappointing. Meeting new people (and perhaps then getting to Internet-know them!) is one of the pleasures of going to cons.

So, I do hope that my next con.txt should be very similar, except with better shoes and fewer panels. (I did, indeed, pre-register for 2012.)

(P.S. check out con_txt for more con reports and panel write ups. I will try to write panel write ups for everything except the Psych panel, which I am leaving to Aral, by the end of the week.)

P.P.S, JFC, this took two hours to write.

I'm here, in my hotel room, writing my month_of_june story. I'll go back down to the bar in a bit.

So, last week I decided that on Friday, when I inevitably did not have any journals, comms or feeds for Follow Friday, and decided to offer a fic meme instead, that I would just read back on the Latest Tag:Meme feed, until I found an interesting fic meme and used it.

This week it's all filled with a bunch of non-fic memes, so that didn't work out.

So, instead ... point me to a kinkmeme or commentfest prompt that you wish I would tackle. Let's stick with fandoms for which I've already written, but excluding SGA and adding in NCIS: LA.

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In other news, a bunch of my panels either definitely got picked or probably got picked for con.txt, so I've definitely signed up to mod four panels. (I don't know if that makes you happy or sad.)

I'm looking for a co-mod for the Femslash panel I'm doing. Mine is not the meta one, mine is "This is not the recruiting panel." A name which is actually a bit misleading, as I do want it to be a recruiting panel, but, like, a Ship Manifesto recruiting panel, not a If we can focus, keep discipline, and not have quite as many mysterious deaths, Femslash is gonna rule! recruiting panel. (And, yes, I will even set aside 7 minutes at the end for people to gush about The Good Wife, even though I Do Not Get It.) Honestly, I mostly want someone to help me brainstorm pairings we can talk about ahead of time, in case the audience doesn't have that many pairings it wants to recruit for.

Also, I am feeling of two minds about whether or not I want to mod "They Fight Crime…More or Less." On the one hand, I actually do think it's a wickedly interesting topic, on the second hand, FIFTH PANEL OF THE CON, ZOMG. I actually want to go swimming, if it's warm enough. I want to have lunch! I want to talk to Caorann and Brak and Bethbethbeth and…people. Outside of panels. Someone might want to make out with me! I might want to attend someone else's panel. Just occasionally.

What do you think, dear readers? Fifth panel? Someone I should nominate to lead it? (I thought about asking LaT, because I think it would be really entertaining watching her lead a panel about Chaotic Good and Lawful Neutral characters. [LaT is deeply into Lawful Good; favorite characters include Benton Fraser, Commodore Norrington, Superman, and Carlton Lassiter.] But then I thought the con would be more fun if her head stayed on her shoulders, instead of exploding.)

Also, also: tell ConComm that you want a bar at VidShow! A Bar at VidShow is a Vote For Awesome!

Also, also, also: register for the con, you guys!