At MediaWest this year, there was a vendor making metal bookmarks on site. I took a look at the photos she had brought, but none of the fandoms caught my eye. myfieldnotes must have asked her to create a Hunger Games version just for me:

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Sure, you could go see Ghostbusters as it plays in theaters this week, but real nerds will celebrate by figuring out how would NYC respond to an actual Stay Puft marshmallow man.

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Improv Everywhere reenacts the NY Public Library scene (sort of) from Ghostbusters:

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My good friend Yum@ of Pyramids Press is announcing a new gen multimedia print zine, The Brotherhood 7, to premier in three weeks at MediaWest*Con 29, and available for mail order now at the website.

The Brotherhood 7 is an enormous gen anthology zine packed with new stories in our favorite fandoms: Supernatural (3), Stargate Atlantis (4), ( Read more... )

My friend b7kerravon made the mistake of asking "If I was marooned on a desert island, what ten fanfics would I want with me?" Of course, being the geeks we are, if we knew we were going to be marooned on a desert isle, we'd have a laptop and a external drive packed with fic with handy solar power converters. Even if I'm only flying to Cleveland, I make sure ( Read more... )

RGB: A Fanfic Primer -- delightfully skewers the fanon and the canon...

*In order for your reader to follow your narrative, it is important to refer to the characters by their names. Failing that, you should always refer to them by their profession, by their hair color, or by their eye color. ... Avoid standard pronouns at all cost.

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My bootleg RGB dvds are here!!! The Collect Call of Cthulhu! Ragnarok and Roll! The Boogieman Cometh! The Thing in Mrs. Faversham's Attic! No One Comes to Lupusville! Knock, Knock! Cry Uncle! Apocalypse ...What, Now?!

I am officially in ecstatic meltdown.