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wyncatastrophe

conferece-y stuff

Mar 23, 2012 23:01

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 ( Read more... )

fun times, academic, family, icfa

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savageseraph March 24 2012, 04:37:40 UTC

Just got in from the cemetery tour and I'm already sleeeeeeeeeepy. I think we should move our session to noon. At the pool.

What do you think? :)

Also, so happy you enjoyed the paper. Yours totally rocked as well.

wyncatastrophe March 24 2012, 04:47:06 UTC

LULZ, yes please. Poolside panels could be the next big thing. Let's call it subversive, that makes everything cooler...

I did really enjoy your paper! I wish now that I had spent more of my available brain cells theorizing the monstrous in my own, since I think that might have connected up better with other themes at the conference, but... meh. Palpakin as a topic still gives me the happy giggles.

Rest well!

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wyncatastrophe March 24 2012, 09:58:37 UTC

I do like it a lot. Jenkins, I don't know, his work is interesting and it has been influential in ways that I think are very productive. But I wouldn't put him in a category by himself with the making-a-living thing; a lot of us do/hope to do that. Fan studies are (I think) on the rise. What I really wish we had are more academic studies of the fandom canons themselves, but that's hard to get to.

caras_galadhon March 25 2012, 21:03:55 UTC

Hiya! Just wanted to drop you a note, since I just friended you (hope you don't mind). For reference's sake, I was your moderator on Sat. morning. ^_^ (Thank you for the email, btw. I'm sorry I didn't have the chance to answer, and forgot to say so when we were in the same room!) So now I'm all primed to learn lots and lots about Palpakin from you. Lay it on me! *G*

wyncatastrophe March 25 2012, 23:30:57 UTC

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 ( ... )

caras_galadhon March 30 2012, 04:38:39 UTC

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 ( ... )