Meta Collection Post
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Get ready to Meta!
10am
The Coming of A Closed Canon: Blessing or Curse?
Cancelled!?! Gasp! Or how to keep the love alive once the series goes off-the-air
11am
Due South: How An Old Fandom Stays New
Plot, Woe, Plot: Faking Forensics and Conjuring Crimes for Investigative Fandoms
12pm
From Ten Seconds of Screentime to Ten Thousand Fanfics: How and Why Some Secondary Characters Take On a Life of Their Own
Kidfic and Smarm. Guilty Pleasures: why we love them, why we're embarrassed by them
1pm
Teeny Tiny Fandoms
House: which way is the show going?
2pm
John Sheppard: Johnny, Are You Queer, Boy? (Don't Ask, Don't Tell.)
The English Language (or, "How People Really Talk")
3pm
Callum Keith Rennie: The Man, The Myth, The Fandom
Ins and Outs of Sex in Greece and Rome
Ray Kowalski As Hero
5pm
I Ran a Secret Santa Three Times. This Is What I Learned.
8pm
Captain Jack Harkness: Shallow Con Man with Hidden Depths
10pm
"Life on Mars" - Intentional Homoeroticism - a nod to 70s Cop Shows? Or more?
9am
Canon vs. Fanon: Where does Fanon Come From and Why Does it Refuse to Die?
For Those of You Still Watching at Home, Please Give Us a Call and Tell Us Why (SN)
10am
The Slash Closet: Are You In or Are You Out?
The many wonders of Daniel Jackson and Jack O'Neill
11am
Franklin's Hand: The Adventure That Built The Ship (Ins and Out of Authorial Intent and the Slashy Heart of Paul Gross)
HBO: So Much Good TV, So Little Fandom!
12pm
Online Friendships: better than real life?
Whos On First: An Old-School Doctor Who Primer for Fans of Nine, Ten, and Torchwood
Rentboy!fic and the Sex industry. Squicks, kinks, reality and fandom
1pm
Real Issues Used In Battlestar Galactica
Mytharc vs. the Road Trip: Striking a Balance (SPN)
2pm
The Mystery of Rodney McKay: Why Do We Love a Character Who's Entirely Obnoxious?
Veronica Mars: Buffy 2.0?
3pm
OTmore-than-twos: What do you do with all those legs and why do we even want them?
Everyone At NCIS Is Sleeping With Everyone Else: Discuss
4pm
Turning Up the Heat: maintaining sexual tension in fic
Balancing Belief -- RPS, tinhats, veils of fiction and CKR/HD
SGA Codes Of Conduct (who can have sex with whom in Atlantis)
6pm
Masculinities in "Firefly"
8pm
Confessions of a Multi-Fannish Whore: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Orgy!
10pm
Betrayal And Abandonment In Some Of Our Favourite Heroes
Get ready to Meta!
10am
The Coming of A Closed Canon: Blessing or Curse?
Cancelled!?! Gasp! Or how to keep the love alive once the series goes off-the-air
11am
Due South: How An Old Fandom Stays New
Plot, Woe, Plot: Faking Forensics and Conjuring Crimes for Investigative Fandoms
12pm
From Ten Seconds of Screentime to Ten Thousand Fanfics: How and Why Some Secondary Characters Take On a Life of Their Own
Kidfic and Smarm. Guilty Pleasures: why we love them, why we're embarrassed by them
1pm
Teeny Tiny Fandoms
House: which way is the show going?
2pm
John Sheppard: Johnny, Are You Queer, Boy? (Don't Ask, Don't Tell.)
The English Language (or, "How People Really Talk")
3pm
Callum Keith Rennie: The Man, The Myth, The Fandom
Ins and Outs of Sex in Greece and Rome
Ray Kowalski As Hero
5pm
I Ran a Secret Santa Three Times. This Is What I Learned.
8pm
Captain Jack Harkness: Shallow Con Man with Hidden Depths
10pm
"Life on Mars" - Intentional Homoeroticism - a nod to 70s Cop Shows? Or more?
9am
Canon vs. Fanon: Where does Fanon Come From and Why Does it Refuse to Die?
For Those of You Still Watching at Home, Please Give Us a Call and Tell Us Why (SN)
10am
The Slash Closet: Are You In or Are You Out?
The many wonders of Daniel Jackson and Jack O'Neill
11am
Franklin's Hand: The Adventure That Built The Ship (Ins and Out of Authorial Intent and the Slashy Heart of Paul Gross)
HBO: So Much Good TV, So Little Fandom!
12pm
Online Friendships: better than real life?
Whos On First: An Old-School Doctor Who Primer for Fans of Nine, Ten, and Torchwood
Rentboy!fic and the Sex industry. Squicks, kinks, reality and fandom
1pm
Real Issues Used In Battlestar Galactica
Mytharc vs. the Road Trip: Striking a Balance (SPN)
2pm
The Mystery of Rodney McKay: Why Do We Love a Character Who's Entirely Obnoxious?
Veronica Mars: Buffy 2.0?
3pm
OTmore-than-twos: What do you do with all those legs and why do we even want them?
Everyone At NCIS Is Sleeping With Everyone Else: Discuss
4pm
Turning Up the Heat: maintaining sexual tension in fic
Balancing Belief -- RPS, tinhats, veils of fiction and CKR/HD
SGA Codes Of Conduct (who can have sex with whom in Atlantis)
6pm
Masculinities in "Firefly"
8pm
Confessions of a Multi-Fannish Whore: Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Orgy!
10pm
Betrayal And Abandonment In Some Of Our Favourite Heroes