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Another con survived, and this time without "Hotel California."

ArmadilloCon is over, and I had a lovely time. I missed the waterfall in the lobby on Friday, but I was out for dinner and drinks with the Bat City Novelocracy at the time, so it wasn't as disappointing as it might have been. My reading went well, I gave away two ARCs of A Fantasy Medley 2, and my panels were smart, fun, and contained no slut-shaming at all*. The writing workshop also went smoothly. We even got to blindfold the workshop students and do terrible things to them.

And did I mention I have ARCs for A Fantasy Medley 2? I drew names out of a bowl at the reading, so I should probably use a slightly more sophisticated system of placing the next two. Suggestions?


* Sadly, I'm told that wasn't the case in other panels. Panels, I am disappoint.

Date: 2012-07-30 11:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mmaresca.livejournal.com
I can say that the FutureSex Panel, despite its bad male-female ratio (5-1, due to last-minute substitution), had no slut shaming. Bestiality shaming, yes. But no slut shaming. I don't know about other panels, but if they did, I join you in the disappoint.

Date: 2012-07-31 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stina-leicht.livejournal.com
which panels? i am the curious and the disapoint.

Date: 2012-07-31 04:58 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stillsostrange.livejournal.com
I have this only secondhand, but I'm told that the Stuff We're Tired of Seeing (or whatever the actual title was) panel turned into a lot of hating on para rom/UF and female characters who have sex.

Date: 2012-07-31 01:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fadethecat.livejournal.com
Yeah, it was the Stories We're Tired Of Seeing panel. About half of it was interesting and useful commentary on "For the love of pete, stop deploying rape everywhere to emphasize how bad your villain is" and the other half was "Girls! Girls having sex! Girls being sexy on covers! Girls in high heels! God, how can you take these girls seriously? Cliche girls having sex are so cliche! Girls having sex with vampires! Sexy noir boys are fine but ugh sexy girls!"

To be perfectly fair, I was already a little touchy because I'd walked out of the previous panel I'd attended when it turned into "Kids these days haven't read all the books I read so they're just writing old stories with more sex. Pff." I don't even particularly like much sex in the stories I read, but I do not like seeing it slagged on without any objection, either. And I have learned that if anyone on the panel brings up Twilight (to mock for sparkling and romance and pfff girls wanting boyfriends, so stupid!) it's a bad, bad sign.

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