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Escapade 2023
Escapade 33 was held from March 3-5, 2023. The there was a complete in-person convention, and a smaller online component with one combined track of meta, fandom, and tech/alt panels, and the Chalk & Cheese channel dedicated to The Professionals. The in-person portion of the con moved back to the previous hotel (the Embassy Suites LAX North). Escapade Online 33.5 was held online August 19-20, 2023.
Escapade 33 In-Person Programming
Fandom-specific panels
- KinnPorsche: Where Mob Boss Meets Fandom Cliches - An easy introductory guide to the hot new dubcon/non-con fandom of the year. Piles of sexy men, bondage, power imbalances, identity porn, complicated relationships, sacrifices, mafia wars, imprisonments, ethical cliches, ghosts, and manipulation–KinnPorsche is for you! A Thai BL drama with an origin story you will not believe.
- Our Flag Means Death: Looking Toward a Second Season of F*ckery - David Jenkins has promised/threatened to “wreck our ship” in the second season. What do we expect? Hope? How do we fear/hope new canon will affect established fanon?
- Star Wars: Andor - Twisty spy games, anti-colonialism, and plot-relevant pot banging? Andor hooked a lot of fans this year who’d dropped off the Star Wars content train with its adult-oriented style and powerful acting. Come discuss what you liked, wished had gone different, and are hoping will happen next in this year’s Andor panel.
- Wednesday: Dun-Dun-Dun-Dun– *Snap**Snap* - Say what you will about the newest part of the Addams Family franchise, it gave us a new femmeslash ship with so much mutual softness. Wednesday’s lesbian awakening meets Enid’s newly-discovered goth kink. Not sure if you should watch the show? Come to the panel and let us sell it to you. Harold? They were roommates.
- Star Trek: Stayin’ Alive at the Disco(very) – what the hell am I watching and can I have some more? - Twists, turns, sharp turns, whoa we’re over the cliff! Humor, drama, fucking amazing language, a giant tardigrade and a scenery chewing dame (gone but never forgotten Michelle Yeoh, also spelled YEOW and YOWZAH!). The person suggesting this panel is clearly biased but this could be so much more than a squee session. Come school me or share my shock, awe, delight and wish for Tig and Michelle to share screen time.
- SVSSS: Proud Immortal Demon Way: Shifting the Paradigm - An in-depth look at the canon of Proud Immortal Demon Way and the subversions addressed in Scum Villain’s Self Saving System.
- Goncharov in Media - Modern fandom discussion of Goncharov usually focuses on the movie itself. But “the greatest mafia movie ever made” has been seeping into pop culture for years. We all remember the homages in Supernatural and X-Files, but did you know that South Park also did several shoutouts? And Facts of Life did a whole parody episode? Let’s talk about why these tropes and characters endure.
- Sandman: The joys of Dreamling - He’s an anthropomorphic manifestation of Dreams. The other man is a person that the first guy turned immortal on a whim. Together, they become one fascinating relationship through time. A primer of the Sandman (TV) fandom and a discussion of everything we love about the show.
- White Collar: (Starched) White Collar, Sexy Black Undies? - Neal is easy on the eyes, but we also love the OT3. Highs, lows, and fanfic that someone should write.
- M/M Romance - What are you liking in the m/m romance publishing world this year? How is this market niche the same as or different from BL publishing? And can we really still call it “romance” when so much of it is series mystery or series urban fantasy?
- Leverage Redemption: New Cons, Same Old? - Let’s talk about Leverage Redemption, the good, the bad, the things that make us happy to see the Team pull their heists and the things that are driving us crazy. Spoilers through S2 likely.
- Star Trek: Everything - We got so much new Star Trek this year. Let’s roll around in it like excited dogs!
- The Untamed: Everyone but WangXian - There is one (1) canon pairing in this fandom. Let’s talk about everyone else: JC/LXC, Huaisang’s porn, whether Jin Ling hooks up with Lan Sizhui or Lan Jingyi, who gets paired with Wen Ning in the AUs where he’s not a fierce corpse, and the one unredeemable, unshippable character in the fandom.
- Glass Onion: A Knives Out Conversation - Glass Onion, the next Knives Out mystery, has come out, so what are your thoughts on the movies? Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc has been confirmed as married to Hugh Grant’s Phillip, so there’s already slash. There are also many intriguing characters at every turn, and plenty of fic fodder. Come share, add, … and compel.
- Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi - What happens when content creators give us well-crafted writing, thoughtful characterization, suffering and angst, and return characters from the dead (sorta)? Obi-Wan Kenobi. What’s great? What’s not-so-great? Discussion and recs sharing.
- Transformers: Gender, Sexuality, and Class Differences: A Sociological review of Transformers - With dozens of different canons, Transformers fandom (and canon) still persists in being one of the most varied and complex explorations of gender, sexuality, and class differences through the lens of addressing serious systemic concerns of Cybertronian Culture. Join us in a review of the most hard hitting parts of fandom. Also, FYI, the trucks fuck.
- The Locked Tomb: We Do Bones, Motherf-cker. - Lesbian necromancers in space. Frontline Titties of the Fifth. Canon-typical necrophilia and cannibalism. God, but with memes. Cow facts. Do you love The Locked Tomb series? Are you curious or confused about it? Then you’re in the right place! Let’s talk about these books together. One flesh, one end (bitch).
- DC Comics: A Rainbow of Spandex - Let’s talk about the queer characters of DC–Harley & Ivy, Tim Drake, Jon Kent, Nubia of Themyscira, Connor Hawke, and all the rest.
- Interview with the Vampire: No One Left to Stop Us from “Interviewing” the Vampire - They changed the timeline, the ages, the characters, and the backstories–and it only made everything hotter, sexier, satisfying, and really intense. What do we like? What do we dislike? What do we ship the most? Let’s discuss our latest sexy fandom revival. Now with less lawsuits!
- Dr Who: Who’s Who these days? - The 60th anniversary is coming up. Let’s visit with new Whos (from first female to first person of color with a detour in between), the three specials in November with the return of some familiar faces, and changes in companions and villains. What did we love and still love or want to see? What do you think of the move to Disney in 2023?
- The Last of Us (Wildcard Panel)
Meta panels
- Welcome to Escapade - Come see old friends, make new ones, meet the concom and scholarship recipients, and generally get oriented. Learn which Wayback Panel won the vote, and help choose the Wildcard Panel (something so new and hot it didn’t make it onto the panel ballot).
- Fantastic Bits and Where to Find Them: Monster Fucking - The ever necessary and eternally beloved panel where we talk about all the delightful ways we can boogieman and get down! If you like plumbing wet depths and weighing snakes, this is the panel to fuck your freak in. We guarantee one REAL biologist and at least one REAL freak! It’s an amazing deal.
- Let’s Hear it For the Girls - BL is big business, but femmeslash is fabulous! Let’s talk about women who love women. Bring your favorite recs for fanfic, anime, novels, or live action shows – new or old! – that feature two gals getting together.
- Twitsplosion/You Can Find Me At - Let’s review the Pros and Cons of various social networks and how fandom is using them. Twitter’s still around (…for now). Mastodon has its issues (so let’s gossip about them). As social networks grow, change, get bought out and decimated, or die, there’s a massive loss of fandom community and culture.
- OT3s I have Loved - This has been a great year for polyship fandoms. Let’s go over our favorite new fandoms and canons that we have discovered or rediscovered that have been about poly love.
- Fanworks Time Machine: Creating Fanworks set in historical and pseudo-historical settings - From lovers in ancient empires around the globe to swashbuckling pirates to the ballrooms of the Regency ton to Jazz Age vampires to detectives sleuthing by gaslamp – fandom can transport us to the past. Canon, AU, or time travel, we’ll explore how to research and make historical fanworks, especially for characters from communities whose stories are often written out of mainstream histories. We’ll build an Ao3 reference guide, so bring your favorite fanworks, resources, and tips!
- Fandom Connections in a Diaspora - How do you connect with others when you fall in love with a new show? How do you find the secret handshake to get connected with where the fandom is at? Let’s discuss meeting points and how increasingly, fandom connections can fracture as social media giants change.
- The Vocab of Shipping Discourse - Proship. Anti-anti. Comship. Anti-proship. “Proship content.” Let’s discuss what the Kids These Days are calling the kinktomato.
- Fanvid Futures (aka vidding 101 for the future) - Vids? Edits? FMVs? Loops? Reels? What is the current state of fan video as a creative and cultural form? What tools are people using to make fan videos, where are fan videos shared, and what shifts are we seeing — in form, content, sharing practices, etc.– as fans spread out across a wide array of platforms? If you’ve been vidding for a while now, how has your approach and output changed? And if you want to start editing now in the current moment, midst all of this diversity and change, how would you begin?
- Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Canon? - Getting into a new fandom? Rejoining an old one? Paddling along in a long-time fave when suddenly it gets new content? Either way, chances are good that you’ve heard the term “canon” being thrown around, often as a way of explaining what actually happened or what you need to watch. This panel will be a place to get into what this term means, where we’ve seen it used, and what it seems to mean to fans, particularly as producers are starting to use it too!
- Beauty Is In The AI Of The Beholder - When they said, “the robots are coming for your job,” did you know that job would be writing Stucky omegaverse porn? AIs are grabbing art and writing and mashing them into new projects. Is it art? Is it ethical? Can we separate the two? Is it all worth it to see John Oliver marry a cabbage?
- Wayback Panel - This is our chance to revisit something we talked about at Escapade ten years ago. Selected by poll before the convention.
- Mama Mia, Here We Go Again: The Cyclical Nature of Fandom - Water is wet, aliens will always destroy the San Francisco Bridge, and fandom is an ouroboros. So what has fandom brought back that you hate (or love) and what’s been lost that you would like to bring back – kicking and screaming, if necessary?
- I Never Thought it Would Happen to Me, But… - What is your “No, never‚ well, HARDLY ever” kink? What kink did you never think you would want to read or write, until you did? What taboo tropes and forbidden fruits are tempting us today? Come join us for a frank discussion of your favorite kinks… Yes, even THAT one!
- Future of Escapade - How’s the online track? Has Escapade dropped events that you miss? Are there new things you’d like us to try? (Should we have an annual fanzine? T-shirts? Games with sex toys as prizes? Bring back the strippers?) Times change, fandom changes, so Escapade changes. Let’s brainstorm some ideas and make plans for Escapade-of-the-future.
- Beyond Star Trek: The Slash of the 60s that Was (and Should Have Been) - Kirk/Spock is the pair that launched 1000 ships, and M.U.N.C.L.E. is a famed duo, but in the swinging sixties, there was SO MUCH fertile material. Shows with passionate male leads dripping with unresolved sexual tension. From the Green Hornet to The Fugitive, let’s discuss our favorite pairings that should have been (or at least, should have been more of!) Brought to you by the time travelers at Galactic Journey!
- Found in Translation: Boys Love Worldwide - New live action stories centering M/M relationships are coming out every day in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and more! Ranging from sweeping epics to small, intimate stories, many of these shows deliberately play into beloved fanfiction tropes. Will American producers ever get a clue? Do we WANT them to? Whether you want to share your favorite danmei/yaoi/BL show or just see what the fuss is all about, this panel is for you!
- In a (really, really big and well-populated fannish) Galaxy Far, Far Away… - The SW universe has expanded its universe like any good fandom, producing new content that’s arguably better, more detailed, and richer than the early source. And, like fandom, there’s no hint that it will stop expanding any time soon. Discuss!
- Too Tall To Ride This Fandom - Owl House, YA novels, K-Pop, She-Ra, Rescuebots: most of your new blorbo’s fans are new to fandom, under 20, or both. How do older fans navigate the social mores, emerging slang, and community structures of fandoms with a large youthful presence? Let us talk about the shades of gray when the antis and the newbies are still discovering black and white, how it feels to be the only person in the conversation who can rent a car, or that horrific feeling when your backpack or shirt is older than everyone else on the Discord.
Tech panels/Alternative Programming
- How to start a writing group that will last - I’m trying to start a writing group in my town, and the only ones I’ve been a part of haven’t lasted six months. Clearly, I need help. Bring ideas, questions, suggestions, warnings, good/bad experiences, and of course, scary stories of Just How Wrong This Can Go.
- OTW: How It Works - It’s more than AO3! There’s Open Doors (which is pretty strongly connected to AO3), Fanlore, the academic journal, and legal advocacy. We’ll review what the projects are, what the Board does, and how people can get involved.
- Fractious Fiction: Writing Fails and Flops - You ever have a fic that just … didn’t? You ever fail to feel the fun? Sometimes a fic is a flop – so let’s talk about why, and lay to rest the fractious souls of those fanfic fails that still haunt us.
- Bookmarks, Archives, and Fanfiction Downloader: Ways to Save and Preserve fic - A review of various websites and ebook systems for saving, storing, and tracking all your favorite fics.
- Polyamorous Crafting - Do you like crafting? Do you refer to your local crafting store as “the bad place”? Come join us as we discover what fellow fans have been up to, what is the newest craze, and ponder yet again where to put it all.
- Horrors! I’m dead! What will happen to my fanstuff? - What will happen to your fannish merch or your fanfic after your death – will Sister Mary find THAT piece of art in your closet? You won’t care – you’re DEAD! But what can you do to preserve your fannish legacy? Donate art to a university or zines to Escapade? Do you trust your relatives to treat your treasure hoard with care – or will it end up in an estate sale or at a thrift store? Do you have a Fannish Next of Kin? Face it – we’re ALL getting older. Isn’t it time you start making a few plans?
- Feed Me, Seymore - A fannish recipe exchange! Food, drinks, snacks, etc. If you love it, bring it to share.
- Calibre – Fanficfare - Learn how to download fanfiction directly into Calibre, create custom columns for warnings, genres, challenges, pairings and more! If there is time I can also share how to generate your own custom covers per fandom.
- One Finger, Two Fingers, Three Fingers, Cock - Many gay men have pointed out that the finger-prep system is not part of most M/M sex. (One person said: “Fingering is normally an end in itself, not ‘preparation’.”) So why is it so common that leaving it out will sometimes get writers yelled at? And what can we write instead?
- Vidding Without Footage - How do you make a vid for a fandom that doesn’t exist? Or a book fandom that doesn’t even have a graphic novel version?
- One for All, and All for One Season: Writing Together - Have you ever thought about what goes into developing a television show? Together, we’ll develop our own – from its intended length, to its main characters, plot, and theme. Will it be a rollicking one-season sci-fi show for teens? A ten-season high fantasy featuring That One Actor We All Know? Or will it be a three-episode special featuring terrifying monsters and breathtaking vistas? Come join us to find out!
- Fannish Dating Game - Fandom Dating Game! Play along and get matched with the perfect new fandom for you!
- Secret back room deets on Smallville & House
- Vid Review - If watching the Escapade Songvid Show isn’t enough, and you want to dig into why a vid did or didn’t work, analyze technique, and basically geek out over vids, this is the panel for you!
- Draw Your Own: Gardens of Gayness - The design of gardens for their erotic potential reached its height in the 18th century — but let’s bring it into the 21st (and further) with a fandom twist! Drawing materials will be provided, but feel free to bring your own.
- Physical Zine Preservation - The universities that have zine archives have mostly closed for new entries. There are people willing to donate zines to fannish archives but no archives. Should we (should someone) start an org? Do we have physical storage space volunteers? What would it take to set up a database?
- Wait, You Found What???? - Have you found a fanwork so wild/ bizarre/ fascinating/ bugfuck wild out there that you just HAVE to share it with someone? THIS IS YOUR CHANCE. Bring your Best (and Worst) fanworks you’ve found in the wild that blew your mind. We’re talking kinkmeme fills, youtube poop, regretsy works, and anything else that you can never unsee. You bring the Tea, we bring the popcorn.
Parties, Events, Games, etc.
- Fan Faire
- Friday Night Dance Party - Get your groove thing on with everyone who came to Escapade in person. Dance (or watch) a curated selection of catchy vids, or hang with your friends and chat.
- Game Night
- Gallery Walk - Online and in person, we’ll stroll through the art show and admire the pretty!
- Escapade Songvid Show - Vids, vids, vids! The show will be a livestream on Saturday night, so you can watch it in person if you’re at the hotel, or online everywhere in the world!
- Escapade Art & Charity Auction - This is your chance to take home some of the beautiful artwork you’ve been drooling over.
- Tea Party - Come enjoy a nice cup of tea, whether you take it black or with a dollop of milk and seven sugars.
- Dead Dog Party - We don’t know what a COVID-era Dead Dog Party looks like, but by Sunday we’ll have figured it out.
Escapade 33 Online Programming
Escapade Online
- Welcome to (Online) Escapade - This is the opening of Escapade Online. Come find out what’s up, what’s different, and who to ask for what kind of help.
- Roswell, New Mexico: Queer Americana - Diners and drive-ins, gunslingers and novelists, cowboys and mad scientists, pickup trucks and… bisexual aliens? Join our panel to discuss the ways in which the recently closed canon of Roswell, New Mexico used the tropes of the American Dream to center queer, Latine, immigrant, and alien (as in Oasian) perspectives.
- Goncharov: Time on the Bridge - If we were really in love, you wouldn’t have missed… Let’s talk about the greatest mafia movie never made.
- Diversity and Representation in Media and Fandom - While it’s still depressingly easy to find bad examples of diversity and representation in media, there have been some encouraging trends recently. As fans and as human beings, how can we improve in our own writing, and be more discerning in what we consume, so we can encourage more good representation?
- Deltas, Ferals, and Ringlocks: Evolution of Omegaverse - Omegaverse has come a long way from its humble beginnings on the SPN kinkmeme. Over the years we’ve expanded genders and gender representations, and the trope has become so popular that it has spilled into mainstream publishing and pop culture. Join us for a review of the evolution of omegaverse, the appearances of different changes in fandoms, and the latest evolution of “ferals” to the trope.
- Crossing that Bridge - Let’s talk crossovers! What constitutes a crossover, as opposed to having cameos and walk-in parts? Do crossovers work for you, and how? Do you go out of your way to read/write crossovers? What makes a good (bad) crossover? How do you fit the various fandoms together? How much (little) do you need to know about the fandoms involved? How about fusion?
- “period-typical (whatever)” - How do you deal with the way attitudes shifted (for better or for worse) since the canon for your fandom was aired/published? How about older stories in the fandom, including what you may have written in the past? How do you deal in general with what people/you may feel is “problematic”? Do you embrace, explore, avoid?
- Wait! Did They Have Mobile Phones in the 1980s? - Writing in a fandom set in the past may be tricky, especially when “the past” is fairly recent. We know ancient Romans didn’t have wrist watches, but when exactly did mobile phones become a thing?
- The Devil's Always Got the Best Lines - Why do we find anti-heroes so fascinating? How can we get more of them?
- Anime, Anywhere, All of It! - Calling all otaku! What are your slashy new loves? Do you have an old favorite you think EVERYONE should watch? From ‘Yuri on Ice’ to ‘My Hero Academia’ to ‘Bleach’ and everything in-between: let’s talk about anime!
- Our Flag Means Death: Squeeing and Speculation - What we loved about Season 1, and what we hope to see in Season 2.
- Vidding Without Footage - How do you make a vid for a fandom that doesn’t exist? Or a book fandom that doesn’t even have a graphic novel version?
- Fanworks Time Machine: Creating Fanworks Set in Historical and Pseudo-historical Settings - From lovers in ancient empires around the globe to swashbuckling pirates on the high seas, the ballrooms of the Regency ton to Jazz Age nightclubs, vistas of the American West to detectives doing their sleuthing by the light of flickering gas lamps, fandom and fanworks can take us to bygone eras. Whether the historical setting is canonical, an AU, or a time travel adventure, the challenges and delights in creating fanworks set in days of yore are legion–especially when characters hold marginalized identities that history books aren’t fans of highlighting! Join our panel discussion about those challenges, trade tips, and share resources with us.
- Sex, Sex, Sex and More Sex - Fandom’s language for sex has changed over time and keeps changing. Not just in the words we use, but in how we frame relationships, how we approach interpersonal conflict, and how we use physicality to reflect the emotions that underscore a scene. Let’s discuss some of our favorite multifandom fics and how language is used to take those fics from just another story to the type of story that stays with you for the rest of your life.
Chalk & Cheese
- When did he know?
- Discussion of The Untouchables
- Game: Pros Porny Pictionary
- Case Fic: the great, good, bad, and ugly
- It's in the script
- Discussion: Everest Was Also Conquered
- The Professionals Vidshow
- Game: Pros bingo
- AU recs for AU haters
- Discussion of Slush Fund
DIY
- Raiders of the Lost Art [subject: archiving fanworks]
- Future of Fandom Communities
Escapade Online 33.5
Fandom Specific Panels
- OFMD: Our Flag Means Porn - OFMD fandom is here, it’s queer, and it’s making great fanwork! The fanart in this fandom is mindblowingly gorgeous and beautiful. Let’s screenshare our favorite fanart with each other and give the fanarts the appreciating they deserve.
- Star Trek: Unfound Worlds - What do we want out of unexplored spaces in Star Trek? There’s so many shows but still so much potential in the universes to explore. What is our ideal Trek show? What do we dream?
- Anime: That Time I Got Transmigrated to an Escapade Panel - Anime fans, come join us! Old school KOR and Ranma or the newest Spy X Family fans are all welcome! Let’s talk about which shows are worth watching or re-watching.
- Ted Lasso: RomCommunism - The show’s ended, so let’s talk about what we loved, hated, and the bits in-between. How do you feel about the show’s portrayal of mental health and therapy? What about how it handled queerness and representation? Or forgiveness? What’s your favorite funny episode? Which one made you cry? And of course, what are your favorite ships, and did they play out like you hoped? Bring fic recs and let’s talk Ted Lasso!
- Kinnporsche: KPTS Talk & Rec - Let’s talk about all the awesome things we’ve found in fandom! Fics! Vids! Art! All the fun!
- Marvel Cinematic Universe: MCU 2023 - Guardians of the Galaxy has wrapped up, and The Marvels are just around the corner. Secret Invasion is out, and Loki just dropped a season 2 trailer! How are we feeling about it? What do we like? What do we not like? How do these projects feel in the greater scheme of the MCU universe?
- Teen Wolf: Alpha, My Alpha… is he really Alpha material? - Is Scott truly the lead of the show? Is Scott the moral upright leader of the “Light” he identifies as? Is he deserving of being the TRUE ALPHA? Is he a good friend and a dependable person, or is he a stupid bad puppy? Let’s discuss the reality of Scott and why, in my mind, Teen Wolf is all about the Stiles.
- Barbie (2023): Barbie Movie Hype - Come squee about the Barbie trailers! Share hopes and fears about the upcoming movie and discuss Barbie meta, fashion, professions, and social impact.
- Love in the Air: Weatherboys Pimping Panel - It’s got everything! Spanking, Non-Con, PTSD, Street Racing, and Daddy Kink? Come get pimped into a new fandom. :)
- The Old Guard: Sequel: Excited or Terrified? - We’ve been waiting for three years! Have you seen the on-set photos? Have you read the comics? Are you looking forward to the second Old Guard movie, or peeking through your fingers?
- Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System: More Scum, More Villains! - Which version of Shen Qingqiu is the best? Do you like evil Shen-Jiu or poor little meow meow Shen Jiu (or are they the same???) Are you a fan of BingQiu or MoShang or the rarest of pairs? Let’s talk about the wildest and wackiest and Most Meta of MXTX’s novels!
- The Untamed: Untamed Recs - What’s new and what’s good in fandom? Finding anything good or is everyone fishbowling?
- IWTV: Interview with the Vampire - The guys are hot. The guys are gay. What more do you want?
- Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - Humans, Beasts, Cars, Transformers has something for everyone. With an exiting new movie and a new cartoon and a comic coming up let’s talk about a fandom that’s More Than Meets The Eye.
- Spiderverse: The Spiderverse Opens - Across the Spider-Verse is here, and it’s brought whole new dimensions to the original. Let’s talk about these films: the amazing art and animation, characters old and new, and what we might expect in the future.
- D&D Honor Among Thieves: Honor Among Thots - Are they Thots? We don’t know but let’s talk about Thots, DILFs and Paladins. And Holga and her one true love: Potatoes.
Meta panels
- Welcome to Escapade - This is the opening of Escapade. Come to find out what’s up, what’s different, and who to ask for what kind of help. Choose some last-minute programming, and meet the team.
- In the Key of C-Novel - So many C-Novels are being officially released! Which ones are great, which ones should we stay away from, and which do you Wish would be licensed?
- Bechdel Variations - The original Bechdel-Wallace test for movies: Must have 2 women who talk to each other about something other than a man. Some people make it “two NAMED women.” There’s race variant: two PoC talk to each other about something other than a white person. What other variants have you seen? How useful are these tests?
- Changing the Canon from Underneath Us - What do we do when canon changes out from underneath us? Do we move on or change things for the betters.
- Time Travel Fics - Some fandoms get tons of time-travel fics. Some barely get any. From fix-its to “Groundhog Day” setups to post-canon “travel back to canon and do things differently” (or the same, with a new perspective) – what tropes have we found? Which kinds of canon inspire which kinds of time-travel stories?
- The Perennial Panel 👾🍆 - Once again, we meet to discuss the ultimate kink. Which is better: Wings, scales, tentacles, lycanthropy, shapeshifting goo? (Anyone have recs that combine all of those?) How do recent trends compare to “traditional” fics, and what’s in store for the future?
- History of Fandom - Who are we? How did we get here? Where are we going now?
- Showing up 5 Min Late with Coffee - What do you do when you show up to a fandom several months, years, decades after a fandom’s had it’s heyday? Do you revive? pimp? Dig through buried treasure?
- Pre K/S, Who Should Kiss - Subtitle: Slash in the ’60s–the digital edition? You loved it before, now love the love again–we’ll go through all the shippable characters from ’60s tv and beyond, the couples and threesomes that should have been slashed, but it hadn’t been invented yet.
- How to keep your fandom alive & vibrant - The last Professionals episode aired in 1983. Forty years later the fandom is not just surviving, it’s thriving, with regular onlne meetups and its own in-person convention. If you want tips on keeping the thrill alive, this is the panel for you.
- Alternate Universes: Make a Wish - Which shows lend themselves to AUs? What makes an AU work or not work? At what point does a AU move too far away from the show to be recognizable, or take away what makes the original show what drew you to it on the first place? Are fusions an AU or a different trope altogether? Let’s discuss the best of show, the good, the bad and the “what is that doing in my fandom” AUs.
- But Are They Doing It Right - We are getting more representation in our media, but are they getting it right? Are the depictions realistic or just old stereotypes doing more harm than good? Were we better off with meaningful looks, sly quips, good actors with great chemistry and filling in the rest ourselves?
- Superhero Slash - We should have a space to talk about superhero slash. Bat kids. Flash villains. The Boys. There’s so many interesting characters and so many ways to slash them.
- AI: Threat or Menace? - AI-generated art & text are all the rage these days! Which means: Marketing departments are pushing them hard, and fandom is enraged. However, coding and gaming communities are finding a lot of value in them. Let’s discuss what’s going on and what it might mean for fandom in the future.
- The Writers' Strike & Fandom - Sad at the lack of new content vs. support of the people who make fandom possible. How will the strike goals benefit the shows that make good fandoms?
- Mega Fandoms of The Olden Days - A walk through memory lane of our favorite troupes of classic fandoms that has fallen out of fashion.
- Shallow Fandom - How hot do you need a character to be in order to engage with fandom? Two hot guys? Ten? Is the content more important than the hotness? Where do we fall?
- Closing panel - Come by to share what you thought of the weekend, acknowledge the panel mods or volunteers who made the weekend great, and discuss whether we Escapade Online is worth carrying on.
Tech panels/Alternative Programming
- Tech and the Way it Shapes Fandom - TVs have changed shape, so have camera and filming techniques. How have the changes to technology shaped the way people interact with fanworks.
- VIDS VIDS VIDS MORE VIDS - Share your favorite vids! Everyone take a turn sharing their fave vids so we can enjoy it all together. :)
- Top Three Recs - Bring three vids/fics/arts/etc to share with everyone. This is your moment to pimp out your loves.
- Manage Your Ebooks with Calibre - This free, open-source software will keep track of all your ebooks, across any e-reader, backup your ebooks, and keep reading a pleasure.
- FAPA: Join Us! - FAPA is the longest-running APA in sci-fi fandom – it started in 1937 and is still going. It’s a quarterly zine collection distributed by mail. Some of us are involved! You could be part of it!
- Wayback Panel (Slash Taboo) - This is our chance to revisit something we talked about at Escapade ten years ago. Selected by poll before the convention.
- Formatting Ebooks - How to convert fics into attractive ebooks that will be a joy to read.
- Sharing Fanvids - YouTube vs. Archive.org vs Vimeo vs The Next New Thing. Where to host vids, and the pros, cons, and costs.
- Vid Review - If watching the Escapade Songvid Show isn’t enough, and you want to dig into why a vid did or didn’t work, analyze technique, and basically geek out over vids, this is the panel for you!
- Wildcard Panel: Webrings and Personal Fanworks Archives; What’s Old is New Again! - What better place for Web 1.0 to make a comeback than in fandom? Let’s talk reasons and resources and nostalgia. (Note: this wildcard topic was chosen during the welcome panel.)
- Discord Recs - What terrific servers are you in? Specific fandom, writing discords, video games, hobbies, other topics? What makes a good Discord server – how many people, what kinds of channels, what kinds of topics?
- Fanfic Book Binding - How to transform your favorite stories into physical books that you can enjoy forever.
- Game: They Said WHAT? - Kandy names the fandom & the episode, then shows a slashy/out of context picture. The player picks which of four quotes matches that scene.
- How to make online conventions feel real - Let’s talk about what makes an online con feel like a gathering of people and not a chatroom with a lot of shared links, or a set of streamed videos.
- Accessibility in Fandom - What’s possible? What’s needed? Let’s talk about screen readers, podfic, sites blocking APIs, TV shows with audio description, AO3 formatting and accessibility for the visually impaired.
Chalk & Cheese
- I’m Too Sexy for My…I wonder what we could fill in there - Lets see if we can try.
- Episode Discussion: When the Heat Cools off - A temptress convinces Doyle to re-open the case of her father, a man Doyle helped put in prison.
- Best Screen Moments - Which are the scenes that you hit the pause or rewind button? and Why!
- Pros and Starsky & Hutch: Similarities and Differences - Just how much do they have in common?
- Pros Vids
- Porny Pictionary
- Missing scenes and Episode tags - Are there scenes missing? What should have been there, and what would we would have liked to see.
- Episode Discussion: Weekend in the Country - Bodie, Doyle and their latest girlfriends are on a quiet weekend in the country when they unwittingly get caught up at a farmhouse siege in which they must try and escape from a group of gun-toting fugitives.
- Character Focus – do they ….? - A look at what makes them who they are.
- Fic Recs: Crossovers & Fusions - Ones that work, which don’t, what you’d love to see explored.
- Bingo
- Fic Recs by Genre - Let’s rec 3 or 4 of the best...
Parties, Events, Games, etc.
- Escapade Songvid Show - Vids, vids, vids! The show will be a livestream on Saturday night, then available for re-watch after if your time zone is incompatible, or even if you just want to watch again.
- BIPOC Meetup - A casual meetup of BIPOC Escapade members.
- LGBTQIA2S+ Meet Up - A casual meetup of LGBTQIA2S+ Escapade members.
- Dead Dog Party - Take a break after the last panel, then join us for chatting, drinking, laughing, and reminiscing until we’re all too tired to go on.
Vidshows
Escapade 33 Vid show
*Premiere
Escapade 33 Dance Party
Escapade 33.5 Vid Show
*Premiere