About the Con

is a slash con, a place for people who enjoy slash to gather and celebrate the joy of fandom, a place where you can indulge in endless conversation about your favorite guys (or girls), debate metaslash topics of great import, and squee over the pretty, all in the company of like-minded folk.

also aims to provide a space for fans to share and learn tips and tricks for using technology to create, organize, and access things we love about slash, from art to fic to vids to online discussions.

But mostly, wants to be an accessible and welcoming place for slashers. Whether you're a Pros monofan or a fannish butterfly, a SGA newbie or a StarTrek old-timer, a techie or a total Luddite, a craftsperson or just a windowshopper, you are invited to come, talk, listen, hang out, and enjoy.

We hope to see you there!

About the Con Com      

Your Con Comm at Disco Duck, 2006

Molly-o (livejournal: molly_o)

A Brief History of Molly-o and Slash Fandom

1968  birth
1977  favorite game of pretend is "Trapped on a Desert Island with the Hardy Boys"
1983  lines up at the crack of dawn to catch the first showing of Return of the Jedi
1985  reads Elizabeth A. Lynn's "Dancers of Arun" to tatters
1993  discovers ASCEM
1997  discovers Chakotay/Paris (still thinks slash is a Trek-specific phenomenon)
1998  discovers Sports Night slash. Thunder booms, lightning crashes, peanut butter meets chocolate, and Molly-o officially Becomes a Slasher (albeit a feral one). She spends the next couple years as a fannish butterfly, reading her way through Sentinel, Highlander, Star Wars, Dead Poets Society, the Buffyverse, Andromeda, and too many other fandoms to count
1999  camps out on Connecticut Avenue for tickets to The Phantom Menace
2000  falls hard for Fraser/Kowalski and enters a period of monofannishness
2000  meets the DC Slashers and comes in from the cold
2001  attends her Very First Convention (ConneXions)
2002  meets the man who will give her a life-size cutout of Spike (oh, and he marries her, too)
2005  discovers SGA, the fandom that will woo her away from Due South
2005  joins the CON.TXT concomm!

Meri (livejournal: meri_oddities)

Meri read her first zine in 1981, and was completely hooked. She had amassed a huge collection of zines (mostly slash) by the time she came in from the cold and found the people of fandom in 1994.

Her first *true* love was The Professionals. By the end of the 90s, Meri had collected every Pros zine ever published and most of the circuit stories. Bodie and Doyle will always have a special place in her heart.

Over the years, she has dabbled in many fandoms UNCLE, S&H, Highlander, X-Files, The Phantom Menace, The Lord of the Ring, X-Men, Master and Commander, and of course, her latest love, Harry Potter (and Severus Snape).

Meri has written over 150 stories, both in zines and on the 'net. She is currently writing in Harry Potter, and occasionally writes in other fandoms.

Meri attends several cons each year. She was on the con com for Connexions for 5 years. She's worked at the art shows for Escapade, Connexions, Z-con and Virgule-L.

gblvr (livejournal: gblvr)

A lot of you probably know me, but for those that aren't sure, here's a hint -- I'm the loud, sparkly one!

I came to fandom through Star Trek (DS9 and Voyager); I was into a het pairing, but really loved Garak, too. While looking for gen Garak-centric stories, I stumbled across one of BGM's hurty BDSM stories; after a week of wibbling over the kinkiness, I dove in and pretty much never looked back. I was a monofan for a very long time, but when Deep Space Nine went off the air, I started to branch out a bit. Since then, I've bounced through quite a few other fandoms including Phantom Menace, Sentinel, Andromeda, due SOUTH, Popslash, Lord of the Rings/Lotrips, Smallville and Harry Potter. I seem to have come to rest (for the time being) in CSI, Pros and SGA. Other shows that I am fannish about are Project Runway, Bones, Heroes, The X-Files, Firefly and Tru Calling. I also love cop procedurals, so I watch a lot of Law & Order, too.

When I'm not working on con comm stuff, I can usually be found reading and writing fic, manipulating images, and very rarely, indulging in meta discussions about fandom and my favorite shows. My Real Life (tm) consists of school, kids and a lot of scrapbooking and cross stitching.

This is the first time I've been an official member of a con comm, but I have two teenagers, so I figure I'm more than qualified to help organize a weekend party.... ;-)

I'm really excited about the con -- I think we're going to have a great time. Hope to see you there!

Justacat (livejournal: justacat)

I'm Justacat, and I'm probably the fangirl-come-lately of the group, for despite the fact that I think I was probably born a slasher, I only discovered this wonderful world of slash fandom in 2002. But it was like a revelation, like coming home - I immediately knew that I had found My People, and I've never looked back. I'm lucky enough to have a wonderful community of local slashers, who welcomed me with open arms and made my integration into this world easy and painless. Before I knew it I felt like an old hand, and could barely even remember - barely wanted to! - my life P.F. (pre-fandom).

I tend to be a bit ... well, obsessional in my approach to things, and I tend not to be able to spread my passions around too widely - I'm not quite a hard-core monofan, but a butterfly I am not. I'm a sucker for the cop-buddy dynamic - ensembles don't do much for me. Sentinel was my first fandom, due South held my heart for a while, but my deep and abiding love (no surprise to anyone who knows me) is Pros, the eternal appeal of which continues to lure me ever deeper. These days I live, breathe, eat, and sleep Pros, at least or so it sometimes seems!

My fannish activities tend to be of the archiving and pimping sort. I have no ideas (of the story-writing sort, I mean), but I have a passion for details, a lot of technical/computer experience, endless (and probably endlessly annoying) enthusiasm, and a pathological fear of being alone with my obsessions, along with a corresponding willingness to beg, borrow, steal, or prostitute myself to keep that from happening. This makes me an ideal candidate to do things like overhaul, redesign, and now run the online Pros archive! I also occasionally dabble in vidding, which satisfies my technical urges and permits me a bit of creative expression, and I like to do website-designy-things.

I am a passionate con attendee. From the very beginning, cons have been one of the great joys of fandom for me, and it saddens me to hear people say that the day of the "traditional" con might be passing. I don't think that's true - I think there will always be the need for human contact, there will never be a substitute for it, despite all the internet can bring us.

I'm a bit of an amalgamation of "new" and "old" fan, myself; on the one hand, I came to fandom in the livejournal era; fandom has always been a web-based (and specifically LJ-based) activity for me, and I love the way the internet enables us to connect continuously, with people we'd never otherwise meet. I love the communities LJ allows us to build, and I'd certainly never have found fandom without the web. On the other hand, I'm a passionate participant in a very "old-school" fandom - I love zines and have shelves and shelves of them, and for me the web could never replace cons.

I love the fannish community, but I am definitely a slashergirl, and I never lose sight of that - of the guys. So while I like meta-type discussions in limited doses, and I love analyzing, I tend to prefer staying quite close to the source - what I call "high-level low-level" meta; e.g., Why I Love Bodie and Doyle (besides the tight jeans, that is! ;-). I like thinking about why I love the stories I do, or what pushes my buttons - but I love the fact that I can, in fandom, be free to simply love a story for no other reason than that it makes me happy, makes me feel good.

But that's just me. What I love most about fandom is that there is something for everyone. It's hard to put a con together, I'm discovering - because it just can't be everything to everyone, no matter how much I want it to be. What I hope, though, is that CON.TXT will have at least something for everyone, and most important, that it will have that incredible, indescribable atmosphere of fannishness, of joy and ... oh, I don't know, solidarity, or recognition or something - when you know you are somewhere that you absolutely belong and there's nowhere on earth you'd rather be at that moment.

I can't wait to see you there!!

(Did I mention that I'm also the long-winded one of the group .....? But since these intros are supposed to reflect who we are, I figured I might as well leave it as is! :-)

SerpentJen

An Unauthorized Biography of Serpent Jen, International Woman of Mystery

Little is known about Serpent Jen, International Woman of Mystery, who is also a member of our con comm. We do know she was born in Morocco, and lived for a time in Germany before coming back to the States; we're not sure how that affected her, but it does make for some entertaining stories. Her fannish life began in Maine, where she worked as a bookseller. One day, she met Serpent Jody and attempted to sell her Mel Keegan's Fortunes of War. Serpent Jody took this as a sign, and invited Serpent Jen home for fandom pimping; the rest, as they say, is history....

We also know and are very grateful that Serpent Jen rarely has met a fandom she didn't like. Her consumption surpasses voracious and she has a special fondness for alternate universes and crossover stories, which makes her an excellent source of fic and recs in just about any fandom we can think of, and some that would have never crossed our minds.

(Bios for SerpentJody and cmshaw are not yet complete, and it is con com policy not to post WIPs! ;-) Stay tuned!)