The bunnies are talking...

I appear to have a ticket for The Hub. It's entirely lonelybrit's fault. lonelybrit and alyse and the4ts. Not my fault at all.

::grin::

And the ticket confirmation for Peg3 dropped into my inbox today. Which means I, temaris, seiyaharris, saffronra and the4ts are all breathing sighs of relief...

So, I went to Collectormania in Manchester at the weekend and took a lot of bad photos (my camera is very much of the suck). However, some of them turned out not so bad, so I've decided to inflict them on you *grin*

Totally graphics heavy under the cuts.

( Jason Momoa and David Nykl's talk )

( Jason Momoa )

( Torri Higginson )

( David Nykl )

( Doctor Who talk )

( Peter Davison )

( Claudia Christian )

( And to end, a really bad photo of Dominic Keating and Adrian Pasdar )

I'm seriously tempted to go to Collectormania in Manchester next Saturday. Torri Higginson is going and I need her on a couple of SGA shots to complete the signatures on it. David Nykl is also going, as is Jason Momoa.

And Peter Davison. Dude! Five was my Doctor!

So, connotations had a vid show again this year, and included in among the vids were two of mine. They went online yesterday, so I'm inflicting them on sharing them with you guys :-)

Right-click and 'save as' please.

Gotta Be
Fandom: SGA
Pairing: Several implications, but like Tem said, it's more of a bring your own subtext.

The Wanderer's Heart
Fandom: Tremors
Pairing: Tyler/El Blanco*
Yes, this is the vid I've been threatening everyone at Connotations with for about three years. Yes, I finally did it. Yes, this is actually the pairing I ship. No, I don't have any shame. (And, no, it's not meant to be serious.)

* Dudes! We're a proper fandom with three writers, three stories, several drabbles and a vid. At this point, I'm seriously considering an archive...

Dude! The gods of Royal Mail love me!

A parcel arrived for me today and I open it to find a totally funky knitted bowl from zortified for the fandom Pay it Forward meme. *glomps Zort* I love it! Although I totally can't decide what to put it in. I'm all, 'Ooh, those! No, those! No...'

Also, a couple of weeks ago I ordered some stuff for the connotations con packs and then proceeded to panic when I found out about all of the strikes going on. So, I was resigned to them not being here in time. However, tonight there is a knock at the door and our next door neighbour has taken in a parcel for me. And, lo! For we have con pack things! Yay!

Okay, so I'm modding the 'Things That Annoy Me' panel that's running at connotations, and I don't want it to be just me standing there, ranting and frothing at the mouth. What I was thinking was a panel of what annoys us in fandom, and why they annoy us.

So, my question to you is exactly that.

What annoys you in fandom? Why does it annoy you? (Or is it one of those annoyances that you don't have a reason for, it just bugs you anyway?)

For me, the big one is author's notes that say 'I've never seen the show, but...' And it annoys me because what I'm reading (even if this isn't what the author intended) is the following:

- I don't care about the show enough to actually watch it.
- I don't care about my story enough to check that my canon / characterisation is okay.
- I don't care about the people who are going to read my story enough to check that my canon / characterisation is okay.
- I'm better than you are because I don't need to see the source material to write beautiful fic that everyone should love.

I write because I love the shows and I write because I love the characters. And I read for exactly the same reasons. What this means is that when I read the latest SGA epic, I want to recognise John and Rodney and Teyla and Ronon. I don't want to read Author B's interpretation of Author A's versions of those characters - especially if Author A's versions are already seven steps to the left of Whacksville. And because emo!cutting!omgsofatanduselessandnobodylovesme!Rodney bugs the crap out of me anyway, without other people thinking that's the characterisation they should base their McKay on.

Basically, for me the bottom line on this one is: if you can't be bothered to see the source material for the fandom you're writing in, I can't be bothered to read your story. Because my time is finite, and, hey, I'm probably not missing much.

Also: the word 'ficcy' drives me insane. But that's one of those irrational annoyances. You're reading NC-17 rated fic, people, stop speaking like six year olds!

So, yeah, hit me with your annoyances *grin*

For those people coming to connotations, the list of possible panels is up here and ready to be voted on.

The panels run on a 'whatever wins the vote' basis, so if you see something you want to see at the con, then vote for it.

You have to be registered for the con to be eligible to vote.

Also: Gimme vids!

So, my feet hurt, my arse hurts (I've been walking or sitting on the ground for two days except for the trains, so stop thinking that, ya pervs...), but gods, it's been fun.

( Me, Bumblebee and Patrick Stewart's arse... )

Now, before I go, z_rayne and ravurian, can you both please send me your addresses (z_rayne, I don't think I've got your new one), because there were a couple of occasions where I saw something and totally thought of you *grin*

So, we're sitting in the lobby of the Marriott in Ventura, and three of us have laptops and one of us has a PSP and we're being very sociable not speaking to each other *grin*

The flight over here was fine. I was awake for about 23 hours before I finaly flaked at 6:30pm US time. Then the phone rang at 12:15 heralding the arrival of M, so we stayed up and chatted for a little while before going back to sleep until about 7am. We've got today to mooch about as the registration for con doesn't open until this evening.

And then we get to talk about porn. Yay!