Schedule

Thanks to the input of dozens of fans, here is the panel schedule for Escapade 25! You will note that there are several hours marked “Available.” These are our alternate programming slots, where you have a chance to revive something that didn’t make it on to the schedule the first time, or offer something completely new. To claim a spot, send an email to infoescapadecon.net. Include a title and description of your panel, as well as your first and second choices for timeslot. We’ll let you know by return email when we’ve scheduled your panel, and update the schedule below.

Coming soon: specific hours and topics for the Genius Lounge.

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10:00am – 11:00am

Mainstreaming Slash
Is going mainstream and achieving respectability changing who, what, and how we slash? Have tropes, memes, bingoes, etc. become a veil to hide behind, from the Creators wandering around in our fandoms? How does what we do influence the canon? Some creators run from it, “straightening up” their leads. Some cater to us, providing loving looks and overlong hugs. Can we encourage what we want, and discourage what we don’t?
Mod(s): Aral, Charlotte C. Hill
Location: California B

The Perfect Slash Vid
What makes the perfect slash vid? Is it the song choice? The point of view? The abs? (Okay, you got me: it’s the abs.)
Mod(s): Killa
Location: California C

Comics on the small screen
From Arrow to Agents of Shield here’s been an explosion of comics based TV shows in the past 2 years, and now Netflix is throwing its hat in the ring in a big way. What’s working? What isn’t? How are they different (and better) from past comics based shows? What are we hoping to see next?
Mod(s): Kadymae DevilC, tartysuz
Location: California D

11:00am – 12:00pm

‘We need some… stuff…’
Stuff! We know what they are talking about: lube! But do we know what we are talking about? Do we want to know more? Come along and get your hands… er… wet, as we investigate the different alternatives available and what our protagonists might think of them (if they were even available for them). Complete with what happens when you mix and match, and dubious speculation on historical alternatives. Anecdotal personal experience greatly encouraged. Samples welcomed. Tissues provided.
Mod(s): Mead
Location: California B

UnSlashable
Sure if you can think about a pairing, someone has put them together. But there are some people that are rather ‘unslashable’. We will discuss what makes a person/character unslashable or at least more difficult to pair up.
Mod(s): Anneke, Saklani
Location: California C

Lost Girl-The Best Fanfic Ever Filmed
Still loving it, or has Lost Girl lost you?
Mod(s): Killa, kerithwyn
Location: California D

Art Show Gallery Crawl
Join us for a group stroll through the Art Show to talk about the art on display. Critique and squee equally welcome!
Mod(s): Naked Bee
Location: Brentwood

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Fanlore
Come learn how to use Fanlore, whether for researching that zine you’d like to buy, setting the record straight about that aged kerfuffle, or poking around in unfamiliar corners of fandom.
Mod(s): Elf, Franzeska
Location: California B

Real Kink
How do real BDSM and kinky practices interact with our canons, our fandoms, and our fanworks?
Mod(s): Krytella
Location: California C

The Many Incarnation of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s most (and least) favorite detective and doctor have been represented and reinterpreted in many different ways over the last century and change. Discussion of the various versions of Holmes and Watson in books, movies, tv shows, and comics.
Mod(s): Kat Killalla, Dorinda, Christy
Location: California D

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Say What You Mean and Mean What You Say
“I don’t usually like X, but.” We’ve all gotten them: the backhanded compliment—and we’ve probably all given them, too—in a comment, a rec, or an in-person comment. We have good intentions! And the last thing we want to do is discourage anyone from giving feedback. But is it really a compliment? Why do we feel the need to couch our comments that way? More importantly, is there a better way we could express what we’re really trying to say? Let’s discuss our real motivations for leaving feedback and making recs, and ideas about how to express ourselves clearly.
Mod(s): Megan Kent
Location: California B

From Tubbs to Rhodey
Is it unexamined racism in fans/the source material or other canon-based reasons that characters of color are shipped less?  Or are they shipped all the time but just not where we’re looking? Share your faves with the group and lets discuss how to get more fic (or find it) for them.
Mod(s): Calysta Rose, Saklani
Location: California C

Librarians-File Under H for History
General discussion and squee about the new show, The Librarians.
Mod(s): Denise Raymond, Kat Killalla, devo, delibby
Location: California D

2:00pm – 3:00pm

So You Wanna Be A Vidder
Bring your laptop or at least a pen and paper and find out how to get started in vidding.
Mod(s): Anneke, Franzeska
Location: California B

The Slash Gaze
The “female gaze” has gotten play lately in entertainment media–as if it’s a novel concept. Where does slash fit into the picture? If we’re so fringe, why do shows keep teasing us with hints of what we want? Do they know that queer subtext makes text richer, or are they queer-baiting? Do we want slash in our canon?
Mod(s): Charlotte C. Hill
Location: California C

Hockey or porn? We have both.
This is one fandom not lacking in glorious, exciting storylines. And if you have a taste for RPF, we promise NOT to whistle a penalty for slashing, because we already committed it ourselves. If you’re a curious rookie, come in for an intro. If you’re a veteran, join us to dig into the fandom side, from fic to Tumblr recs.
Mod(s): M’lyn
Location: California D

3:00pm – 4:00pm

Pegging Our Boys – An Enthusiastic Instructional
Or How To Fuck A Straight Boy With Your Own Cock. A lot of straight men like getting fucked by their ladies. Here we will discuss how to discuss butt sex with straight boys, fondle dildos, try on harnesses and get meta on Pegging as a slash friendly genre. 
Mod(s): fashes ilia
Location: California B

An Extra Hour in the Ballpit
From Ultimate Fantasy to DashCon, let’s discuss con disasters and how an event can go wrong. Are fans today failing to learn from the mistakes of cons of yore? You all get an extra 50 minutes in the ball pit! (Hey, we need a passing period before the next panel.)
Mod(s): Snow, megan kent, Marnie Strom
Location: California C

Ur Doin It Wrong: Teen Wolf As Case Study in Fannish Engagement
Now that they value us as a market, TPTB are scrambling to figure out what to do with us. They are increasingly likely to engage with fandom directly, and some are more successful than others! Teen Wolf broke ground with its level of fannish engagement, but it’s strategies have been clumsy and incoherent at best and offensive at worst. It’s a case study in doing it wrong! What can we learn from TW fandom’s experience?
Mod(s): Aral
Location: California D

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Tumblr 102: Into Darkness
You’re here, now what? Here we talk about etiquette and xkit and making the most of your fannish tumblr experience.
Mod(s): Michelle, Calysta Rose
Location: California B

Fifty Shades of Fandom
Fifty Shades of Grey has become the representation of fan fiction in mainstream culture. It’s bad fan fiction, and it’s being used to ridicule women while making millions off women readers and viewers. Can we connect with these women: proto-fans who would love to read, and maybe write, great fan fiction if they found it? Can we use the FSoG phenomenon to expand our community? Does keeping our doors closed and our mouths shut perpetuate both monetization of our fan culture and misogynist scorn?
Mod(s): Rachael Sabotini
Location: California C

Highlander: Mind, Myth, and Magick
From Cassandra’s Voice to Darius’s visions, from the dream projections of Garrick’s insanity to the healing power of a heyoka, from the Four Horsemen to Ahriman to the prophecy of a child born on the winter solstice, Highlander is full of more myths and magic than just Immortality. The show never tried to explain the rules of the Immortal world, leaving the playing field wide open. What questions beg answers? What territory lies unexplored?
Mod(s): Killa, devo, Melina
Location: California D

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Wildcard Panel
SOMETHING happens between the closing of panel ballots and the first day of Escapade. We set aside this hour to talk about the biggest “something”. Bring your hot topic to the Welcome to Escapade Panel.
Mod(s):
Location: California B

OTW Today?
What’s the current state of OTW and its projects? AO3 still growing? As a reflection of fandom issues, what are OTW’s current priorities, successes and ‘still needs work’ problems? Plans for the future?
Mod(s): Elf
Location: California C

Agent Carter: A Woman’s Place Is…
Agent Carter rewrote the rules, again, for a lead female heroine and the supporting characters. Let’s talk about what went right, what needs improvement, the future of the show and its effect on the MCU as a whole. 
Mod(s): Denise Raymond, Raine Wynd
Location: California D

8:00pm – 10:00pm

Escapade Songvid Show
Featuring new and nearly new vids from a variety of fandoms, the Escapade vid show is not to be missed. Choose your viewing environment: on the big screen in California C (quiet and attentive atmosphere), or the Vid Show Annex in California B (where conversation and commentary are welcome).
Location: California C, California B (Annex)

10:00pm – 12:00pm

The After Party
For those night owls among us, a post-vidshow pajama party on Saturday night. Come hang out in the con suite until the wee hours. We’ll be reading more bedtime stories (the more terrible and inappropriate, the better), watching more vids, and just chilling and talking.
Mod(s): Franzeska
Location: Santa Monica

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9:30am – 11:00am

Escapade Art & Charity Auction
I’s fun, exciting, and sexy (and that’s before the artwork)! This is your last chance to take home a lovely bit of crafts or artwork, win those prizes, and support artists, our charity, and the con.
Location: California C

10:30am – 12:00pm

Vid Review
Flash all the way back to Saturday night to dissect our favorite (or not) vids from the show.
Mod(s): Killa, lizbetann
Location: California B

11:00am – 12:00pm

Wayback Machine
One of two “wildcard” panels that we select as a group at the Escapade Welcome Panel, the Wayback Machine pulls from Escapades Past–usually, 10 years past. This year, we’re going all the way back to Year One… but since we only ran one track of panels in Year One, we’re adding years two and three.  
Mod(s):
Location: California D

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Face value
Are we fans surrendering instead of owning our fandoms–taking what we’re given at face value?  Do we give TPTB too much power? Do we no longer challenge what we see on the screen?
Mod(s): Aral, Denise Raymond
Location: California C

Sleepy Hollow-Apocalypse averted… What’s next?
Now that Moloc is dead and Purgatory is leaking, where do our intrepid witnesses go from here? Will Katrina go dark? What_x000B_is UP with Frank? Will Henry become a vigilante? Questions, questions, questions! Let’s talk!
Mod(s): bren/glacis
Location: California D

1:00pm – 2:00pm

Small Fandom Dating Game
Our fangirl will go home with one lucky fandom today. Will it be yours? Come play the hippest, grooviest, most swingingest game show around!
Mod(s): Denise Raymond
Location: California B

WTF is wrong with you people!
For all the fantastic, slashy shows that should have had fandoms and didn’t. Burn Notice is the prime example, but there are many more. Come ready to argue for your favorite “could have been” fandoms.
Mod(s): Charlotte C. Hill, Commodore Marie, Barbana
Location: California C

Pairs of Interest; Slash in Primetime
Finch/Reese, Root/Shaw, Elias/Anthony, how many slash pairs can this show make canonical? (How about The Machine/Samaritan?) Is this possibly the most slash friendly show on network TV? Let’s discuss how PoI manages, or doesn’t, to pull its characters into deeply homoerotic relationships while still serving its complicated plot. Was Root/Shaw a real relationship? Just how far did Elias and Anthony’s relationship go? Will we ever see Finch and Reese alone together again, and happy??
Mod(s): Kat Killalla, KathyM
Location: California D

2:00pm – 3:00pm

Escapade Review
The last official panel of the weekend, this is your chance to talk about what what worked, what didn’t, and what you might like to have different next year. Never run by a con chair (but always attended by both), the Escapade Review seeks to capture the essence of the weekend to carry forward into years to come–and to quarentine any problems that arose, so we can leave them behind. It can be very funny. It can be very heartwarming. It always helps you, the attendee, since you’re the deisgner of this con. 
Mod(s): Katharine
Location: California C

4:00pm – 7:00pm

Dead Dog Party
Programming may be over, you–and we–have leftover snacks, time before we must leave the hotel, and no desire for the convention to end. Drop by to pick up your copy of the songvid DVD, register for next year’s convention, fill out a comment form, and hang out ‘til your plane or ride leaves.
Location: Brentwood

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