conferece-y stuff

[wyncatastrophe]

So, I'm at ICFA right now, which is a good place to be.

It's especially a good place to be because:

a) I'm staying with my favorite aunt and uncle, and these people rock.  They'd rock even if they weren't family, but I'm just always kind of amazed that I'm related to them.

b) I met an awesome new pal from Britain, and this is very exciting.  She's

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[wyncatastrophe]

Hi, yes, I know who you are! *waves* I friended you back, although sometimes my LJ friender doesn't work exactly as it should, so if you don't see an "added" message from me in the next little while, A Thing has gone awry. Things sometimes do.

I figured you just hadn't had time on the email, since I was so late sending it. No worries. That whole conversation went in different directions from what I was anticipating anyway, so it probably wouldn't have been all that helpful. Do they always do that?

Palpakin, yay! If you really are interested, here are some linkity-links you might enjoy:

http://wyncatastrophe.livejournal.com/20381.html - this is the web version of a very short Palpakin presentation I did for a casual Archive event near the beginning of my fandom studies.

unlimitedepower - the real home of Palpakin on the web, as far as I can tell. There is also an archive on another site by the same name; that's where I pulled the first story in my presentation from.

Speaking of, this is a link to the "exhausted snail" story:
http://unlimitedepower.atspace.com/absolutes.html

This is a link to the other one:
http://ansketil-rose.livejournal.com/101945.html

While you are on ansketil_rose's page, you should read everything written by that woman ever. But you should also check out:
luminations, who has written some lovely Palpakin fluffy fics that I really wish I had had the time and space to talk about in that paper; the lighter side of Palpakin fandom, so to speak. (Well, maybe not Monster.)

If you look at the sidebar on my LJ, you'll notice a thing called the "The Dark Arts Series." No representation is made that this stuff is great, but it's a sampling of my Palpakin fics, all set in the same storyline. I have written other ones, but not gathered them together; the place to find them is by clicking my "palpakin" tag in the little happy cloud.

If you haven't already encountered these folks and you are interested in dark themes more generally, ansketil_rose, mentioned above, is a good resource for dark introspection and equally dark hilarity; and darth_eldritch frequently muses on the meanings of Sith and other dark philosophies.

Happy exploring! Hope you enjoy the metal and leather. :)

[caras_galadhon]

Wow! Thank you for all the links! That's amazing. ^_^ I'll be rolling around in those for a while.

That whole conversation went in different directions from what I was anticipating anyway, so it probably wouldn't have been all that helpful. Do they always do that?
*sigh* No, they don't. Most of the time they stay on track and don't spin away into the ether like that one did. (Or if they do, it's because the panellists as a group are excited about something I hadn't anticipated, and all move in a new direction together.) In fact, the panellist in question gave me a minor warning right before the panel that she was going to be "controversial," and I should put her introduction at the end, and I said, "Sure, whatever, controversy is good! It creates conversation!" and then... that happened. And in my little moderator head, I was looking at my list of questions and thinking, "Well, shit, what the hell do we do now?"

As controversial and interesting as it may have been, it was also a conversation-killer, because how do you get around it without just going, "Well, Derrida aside..."? We were there to talk about the monstrous in a tangible way, and instead we all ended up staring at a definition that is unsustainable, because if the monstrous is unsignifiable, there's no way to discuss it. *throws up hands* My apologies. I didn't anticipate that happening at all, was at a loss as to how to get us all back on track without simply going, "BZZZT! Nope! Now, moving on...", and was pretty peeved afterwards.