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alexseanchai) wrote2019-10-03 02:16 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2019-10-03 02:16 pm
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HI SO do I know anyone who is familiar with both SFF convention fandom and transformative-works fandom who writes Leverage fic
(link is to a subthread onfairestcat's Hugo-wank-adjacent post on the historical conflict between those fandoms)
(link is to a subthread on
fairestcat's Hugo-wank-adjacent post on the historical conflict between those fandoms)
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Before the internet, or at least the web, surely -- it would have been a lot easier in the Olden Times to avoid any accidental encounters with actual documentary evidence.
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Considering the current state of the OFSCI board I'd be happy to see that fall apartThey is old, though, and have actual endowments to sponsor writers and musicians. When the local crew runs a Worldcon they run it in Las Vegas because Portland isn't a viable site due to lack of rooms near the convention center. That is changing in two months and OFSCI has been planning for years to bring Worldcon run by that crew back to Portland as soon as possible.
Hi, I know a lot about the local SFF con scene and am willing to rant on everything from policies to art theft at a drop of a hat.
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Hello from a fellow Portlandian -- who is, weirdly enough, also tied into both the OSFCI-centric conrunning combine (although more and more tangentially these days) and the fanfic community (mostly by way of online activity, although also by way of a handful of Yuletide writing meetups). Indeed, I suspect there's a non-zero chance we've crossed paths at one or another OryCon over the last decade or two...and I've also crossed paths with Kevin Standlee in person on a handful of occasions -- the first having been long enough ago that there were Man From U.N.C.L.E. printzines for sale in the relevant BayCon dealers' room.
As far as OryCon itself is concerned, I know of at least one local who's been gradually working on this very con-stealing project in real life; if you look at last year's schedule, you'll find a panel on fic exchanges and also one on female Sherlock Holmes analogs that was fairly open about being fic-adjacent (both proposed and moderated by the same person). But from a historical perspective you're not wrong; local fic fandom and local conrunning fandom have -- with certain specific exceptions -- intersected very sparsely at best, and not typically on friendly terms.
That said, the fic-centric cluster is starting to wake up and organize on its own; see specifically Left Coast Sherlock coming up (good grief) in just a week, at which the moderators of the Holmestice fic exchange are two of the featured presenters. [I will be at that one, deerstalker hat and all.]
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I am glad that someone is working on Orycon. I made a few changes there myself. I see a panel on online art theft, which is interesting as I took a very, very direct approach to making the con confront it's art theft problem a few years back. Orycon still has a lot of entrenched problems, but, like I said, it's hardly going anywhere.
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God knows, I'm occasionally prone to fits of nostalgia for Fandom As I Knew It When I Was But A Newbie myself, but not to the extend of wilful blindness to the actual state of things.
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