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Tips for Presenting at Conventions
YOU can present at conventions!
Seriously. You reading this. You can.
As a programming director for a local convention with several years of experience (and a lot less hair than I started with), I thought I'd make an informative post to help newbies join the fray and have some fun.
Here are the basics:
Know what you want to present, and get specific with it ("Vampires" is a lot less inspiring than "America's vampires: slavery, class warfare, and myths of antiquity." It will also up your chances of being accepted if someone else is presenting about another vampire-related topic.).
Make sure you're addressing the right topic for that convention (the above presentation would rock at horror or steampunk cons but probably not an anime or comic con).
Check the convention website for proposal directions. There will probably be a form. Take your time and fill out the whole thing.
If there are issues when the programming director reaches out to you, address them promptly. They won't be able to do much except drop your presentation from the schedule if you wait til two weeks before the show to explain you have other commitments at the time you're supposed to present.
Assume things are hellish behind the scenes and be patient and polite if things go wrong (I can promise things are worse than you think).
Come prepared. Bring the tech hookups your show director advises for projectors/any handouts/etc.
Engage the audience, but don't feel bad about ignoring problematic audience members. If the know-it-all in row three wanted to do this presentation, he should've submitted a proposal and done the work.
Have fun! And don't feel bad about a bit of shilling. Want folks to know about your website? Book? TikTok? Share it! If they liked your presentation, they probably want more of your content.
And now, my dears, we must address the "Don'ts":
Do not submit an idea for a panel (a presentation with more than one presenter/usually a group of experts discussing the topic) without having put together a panel. It is not the programming director's job to find panelists for your panel. It is not the programming director's job to contact your dream panelists and enlist them to your panel. It is your job. All yours. You literally signed up for it. It should be fun. Do it.
Do not assume that because you are friends with someone on staff and have discussed your presentation that it is accepted and on the schedule. Submit the form. If you aren't sure you did that, and you haven't received confirmation of receipt, email and ask BEFORE THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE.
Do not become the bully by playing victim if you don't get what you want (a time you don't like/room you don't like/aren't accepted/etc.). (This is different from discrimination, and you know it, so don't @ me.)
Don't complain about attendance/imply it is the programming director's job to wrangle people in for you. I have a friend who walked around in a sandwich board sign challenging people to duels to draw attention to his presentation. It worked a treat.
Don't claim you're only available during peek hours. Everyone wants to present on Saturday. No one wants to present in the morning. Anticipated hangovers do not count as a disability (there are probably presenters with genuine time-related needs linked to their disabilities - so don't be a twat). The friend mentioned above could pack out the largest room during the earliest time slot. Have something interesting to say and make sure people are aware. Then you'll have an audience as hung-over but enthusiastic as you are.
Really, though, I hope more of you get out there and participate in local conventions! Small ones are eager for new blood, and they're a great way to meet people with similar interests. Have fun out there, and remember the two key rules: enjoy yourself, and don't be a dick.
#totally not personal venting#conventions#cons#presenting#diy#local conventions#small cons#horror#steampunk#anime#comic con
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ultimately i think my insistence on aro positivity honestly is as much a political stance as a personal one.
when i say aro positivity is crucial and that i dislike doomer-ist posts that express sentiments like 'I hate being aro so much I wish I was dead instead’ it's not because I don’t think there can and should be a space for negativity and acknowledging self-hate, or the many ways being aromantic can really suck sometimes. i find that to be very important!
that being said. there is smth here about how self-hate posts are sometimes just arophobia that we inflict on ourselves. and when we put that out into the ether it (intentionally or not) can become arophobia that we inflict on other members of the community. i think there absolutely needs to be a place for negativity and the expression of anger and frustration and self loathing even - these are all good things to talk about because these are things that we experience. that being said, it can also be genuinely upsetting and triggering to people to have what is essentially arophobia shown to them and then have that be validated by other aspec people. your personal thoughts can affect your wider community on a level you may not anticipate. and i understand it i truly do! it took me so long to be able to recover from accepting being aroace - it threw my entire world off kilter and made me question everything about my place in the world.
but my insistence on aro joy and positivity is because ultimately i do believe that building is at the core essence of it all. that ultimately discussions and the purpose of community should be about construction, not destruction. and this is both a personal and a political stance. talking about how much you hate yourself and cultivating online discussions/spaces where negativity about aspec identity is the main and only theme is destructive - if that’s where we let the conversation end. these thoughts can and should be used as a vehicle to look for a path forward!
joy and positivity create a space where the focus can become on forging a path forward, on construction, on community building instead of tearing ourselves and others down with negative thoughts. it’s not productive or healthy when it stops at a place of negativity - it becomes actively destructive to the essence of community.
and i do think that this is especially poignant considering the fact that being any kind of queer, but especially aromantic (and/or asexual) means forging a path for yourself and making your own happiness where there is no obvious way forward. our communities exist mostly online (right now, anyway), there is little recognition of our existence in the real world, the effects of amatonormativity are both pervasive and actively dehumanising, and there are legal, economic and social structures in place actively making our lives more difficult. yes that all sucks! it’s good to acknowledge that. we need to in order to change it. but more importantly, that’s not the end. we are still here and our happiness, our future is for us to determine. even if we can’t change the laws or society, loving yourself and understanding aromanticism as a political identity (as well as personal), as a radical worldview, and as a protest against amatonormativity is essential for both community and personal well being. the personal is political.
tldr. i guess my point is that as a community, we should focus on building, improving, and nurturing ourselves and each other (construction) as opposed to destruction. we should recognise aromanticism and asexuality as political identities as well as personal ones and rely on community and self-love in the absence of anything else as a form of protest and political power. destruction (the recognition of everything that is wrong) is essential as a starting point - but where do we go from there? we rebuild.
#aromantic#aro positivity#aspec#aroace#aro#aromantic joy#arospec#when i saw its important to 'love' yourself - pls understand i am in no way trying to exclude loveless aros from this#that was just the easiest way to express what i meant! when i say 'love' i mean positivity/respect/happiness. etc. i just used that word bc#it works for ME which is why i said it. but feel free to replace it with whatever works for you! <2#also sorry if not everything im saying makes total sense i tried my best#this is something ive been thinking about for a while and have been struggling to articulate#i maybe should have read some theory for this abt community building but im too tired + overwhelmed w school reading right now so sorry.#if anyone has additions on that front though please do add them#also ngl im kinda scared to post this. i hope i explained what i mean well enough. like i get wanting to vent and express self hate BUT.#there is nuance to this and it is not unilaterally healthy i think. also i dont see any other online community fostering the normalisation#of selfhate the way the aspec one does! which makes me feel weird abt it especially.#anyway. this is basically my personal philosophy towards aromanticism#mossy posts#⚙️
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dp x dc prompt #54
When Danny was first given the opportunity to make a public persona when he came to live in Gotham, he was a little bit concerned. How was he supposed to come up with an entire elaborate character to act as all the time. Then he remembered the time that Vlad called him a rabid badger when he got especially angry and a genius idea came into existence.
When the press gathered around to interview and write about the newest Wayne adoption, they thought they had seen it all already. The last new child had tried to skewer one of the unsuspecting interns after all. When the teenager didn’t even get all the way out of the car before punching someone standing too close and snarling at him, several considered filing their resignation letters on the spot. The pay wasn’t worth this.
#dp x dc#danny phantom#danny fenton#dc x dp#crossover#dc universe#dp x dc crossover#writing prompt#writing#funny#batpham#danny decides to go feral#who would ever think that the well mannered ghost bat and this absolute monster were the same person#danny gets an idea#alfred was the only one informed ahead of time#the press didn’t think it could get worse than jason or damian#now they get someone worse than both of them combined#danny can and will bite anyone that gets close#dick totally just cheers him on#one time danny definitely gets into the vent ducts and cackles menacingly at people just trying to get through their meeting#absolute gremlin#they have tried bribery blackmail and duct tape and he still won’t sit still for a picture#that’s totally why they all come out weird#no other reason#mans would absolutely go crazy to be able to embarrass the entire 1% as a whole with his behavior#excepting his family and sam ain’t no rich person getting off scot free#people totally think he’s the newest rogue and bruce is just oblivious lmao#danny phantom: scaring the city as a whole from appearance 1#:))
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it's so hard to explain to people who aren't jewish the profound sense of loneliness we feel when our posts about any other cause get ten times the engagement, but whenever we share something about antisemitism, the only people who engage are other jews. it's not about likes, but it feels like screaming into the void. we post about the latest synagogue attack, or about our community getting bomb threats, or how another jew got assaulted on the streets, or killed at a protest. and the world sees it, and doesn't blink. doesn't care. because they can care about anyone on the entire planet, defend them, speak up for them, but a jew? well, we aren't people, are we. we'll never count.
how fucking bad does it have to get for my friends to share a single fucking post.
#vent post#ok to reblog#i don't think i can ever feel totally safe around someone who isn't jewish again. and i hate that so much.#i hate that i cant trust my friends. the people i love. to stand with me if people start killing us again#will they watch? will they think we deserve it? will they join in?#and maybe theyre not personally posting blood libel but they're friends with people who do#how are we supposed to reconcile that?#jumblr#antisemitism#avi posts
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Alright y'all, come gather round, come to my corner over here. Come help strategize with me.
I'm not going to be able to afford to send out holiday cards this year. I've been hit with disaster after disaster and I've been trying very hard to figure out how to work things but the math isn't coming out in my favour no matter how I swing it. Am I devastated? Absolutely. Even though most of you get your cards in like... March... you all still send me the nicest most kind comments and I love being able to make your day brighter.
I feel like a few people are going to say I should take donations, and I might've considered that, except... I don't want to take donations only to then still fall short.
A quick summary of the math is, like, stamps are 2$ for international cards and 1.50$ for non-international. I send out about 200 cards a year which means shipping alone is about 550$, plus about 200$ for sticker sheets, 70$ for envelopes, 150$ for printing the cards, and about 200$ for the everything else of new blades and mats for cutting the dolls on my cricut, thick paper for the dolls, ink for the printer... I'm sorry guys, there's no way I could try to ask people to donate over 1000$ just for this fun little event.
So like. Truly devastated over here as I'm doing the math because I desperately desperately do not want to disappoint people. I'm not even buying irl people presents this year. It sucks. I'm feeling like a failure in a lot of ways and I hate it, because I'm over thirty now, I should be able to have my shit together. But unfortunately I just... don't. And I'm trying to make sure I can afford my cats medication and rent because my roommate has been out of a job for two months and is just straight up not paying her part of the rent.
So. I will continue to feel sorry for myself, but this isn't about that. What I want to know is what ideas do we have. I can't send people physical things, because money. But are there... other ways I could make people happy? I don't know if anyone cares about digital paper dolls, but I could just like. Put my dolls online for people to print out? And draw whatever outfits people want? Like a sort of advent calendar of doll outfits?
Help me out. Brainstorm with me. Is there some way I could make people happy that, this year, doesn't involve funds? I want to keep my 1D Holiday Queen title. Please.
#yes I have covid still#so i have not even been doing inktober#I DO NOT LIKE THIS I FEEL LIKE I AM FAILING SEVERAL WAYS#I THOUGHT I WOULD BE PAST THE BURNOUT BY NOW BUT IT TURNS OUT BURNOUT IS MADE WORSE BY NOT HAVING MONEY#im sorry i am totally using this space to vent#and I am trying not to i am trying to be an adult about all this#but also i have not really Talked to a Person In Person in 3 days#so i might be going a little insane by now#WOOOOO CHRISTMAS
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#ok maybe I’m obsessed lol#LISTEN no hate really#I’ll always push people to pursue their inspiration and create something#wether it’s fanfiction or fanart#REALLY#I’ve seen some AMAZING work#when it’s done out of positive creativity and not pure hate for a literal cartoon#I just find it funny that people are still starting wish rewrites#when there are so many already and they all start from the same main point#which is. bring starboy back and make him fall in love with asha#which is totally fine but#I mean maybe it’s time to start calling them fanfiction at this point? there’s nothing wrong with that?#instead of staying on this line of. movie terrible so we’re fixing it since we’re all such better storytellers than the idiots at wdas#I swear if I see another person going#I hAvE nOt SeEn WiSh BuT fRoM wHaT I'vE ReAd iT lOoKs bAD!! sO I'm GoNnA FiX iT!!!#I will riot#how can you tell it’s bad if you have not seen it????#ok enough#sorry for the vent#I lowkey wanted to make the she’s so pretentious meme but it was too mean?#wish#disney#wish 2023
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one thing i always undeniably get nostalgic and giddy about considering tennant's doctors' is that besides now being a whole new gay perspective on both of my favourite characters ever is that he looks and sounds incredibly attractive when they're being whumped. he just has the look. there's just so many things packed into one alien that make them my favourite characters ever, but the fact of different bad things happening to them just...make them so much better.
#whump#not to sound like a total sadist#this feeling's been around for longer than i can seem to remember it#doctor who#please someone tell me they feel this too#david tennant#fictional crushes#tenth doctor#the doctor#fourteenth doctor#doctor who whump#new who#i am always a sucker for things happening to them i am going insane and i want to sCREAM#vent#personal#ok to reblog
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guess who got on testosterone this week
#totally reaal e vent that happened ann personally held my thigh a nd injected me#they put me on a real low dose cause my meds... hopefully will get it upped soon#nurse ann#creepypasta#creepypasta fanart#crp#old fandom#creepypasta girls#the nurse ann#transgender#art#my art#rendered#techincally self insert#p.awesome sauce
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Someone added these tags to my post and someone else put them in the main body and it's so minor but it's pissing me off. As part of their gay john evidence:
I'm sure it's half joking but. A man having sex with a woman does not make him gay. Even if she straps him. A woman isn't less a woman for enjoying doing penatration. Be more normal about sex.
Also the whole relationship was enforced 2.5 kids picket fence hertonomativity literally by heaven like it's so easy to use it as gay john and gay mary evidence without needlessly gendering sex positions. But what do I know.
#i also didn't like the allusion to percieved incestuous attraction bc now I keep seeing tags about that in my activity and it grosses me out#and the (again also jokey! it's not a big deal!!) bobby/john shipping. bobby likens john to his absuive father#but this weird 'woman gives strap therefore man gay :]' thing I've seen several times recently and it annoys meeeeee ik it's a joke#i saw one recently that tied in that plus 'therefore lisa is a fujoshi THEREFORE she actually would be totally fine with dean cheating#on her with a man' like. fuck off.#anyway. not that anyone would but don't send hate to this person this is just me venting
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[ * Pros of self indulgent art: making what you crave and want to see in the world! ] [ * Cons: It’s not everyone’s niche ]
#Random Ramblings#And it’s totally fine!#It just stings when I have to remind myself of the fact I am in a very very niche area#Like being really proud of something and how it looks#posting it and the only people who pay it mind is like. Mutuals.#Okay this all sounds really ungrateful and bitter and I’m not!! I appreciate the fact that even one person is seeing it and bothering to#interact in a small way#But I create and post to SHARE these things I enjoy#and it feels like sometimes like I’m one of those newspaper boys in movies where they’re shouting and everyone is just running by#And more people notice than I realize I’m sure!! But. GSHSHDJDHJSD it’s hard to get out of my head#vent#the tags are#kinda
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Magneta????
#my ideal: there's a gofundme or “therapy pool” where people can donate $20 - $25 so I can give peeps free coaching services#and down the road when I'm licensed have the same thing for therapy sessions#so then the people that want help most and cant afford shit out there can absolutely get services or try it out and see if it helps#and i get paid enough to not worry about losing my ability to help people cause I'm no longer in the pit worried about food and a roof#the thing i hate about this work is that i want to give everyone a chance#if we dont click and it doesn't work out that's fine but at least give someone a shot to try to help themselves#i hate that money is something i gotta absolutely think about cause im walking in the same shit as everyone else even though I'm a provider#cause my go to instinct is “person need help. help that person. if helping isn't working help person find another person to help them”#sorry for venting#2 client recently had to cancel coaching cause they just can't afford it right now cause The Economy (tm) which i totally get#i wish i could've said “that's not necessary. i can cover your next several sessions via donations from people”#im going off tangent#magenta#magenta is my vent tag
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you know 99% of the time i get nice, totally reasonable, polite, and frequently kind asks on bearotonin. but every now and then i get some asks that just make me wanna reply snarkily so badly lmao
#the weird shit people send me#like unsolicited 'helpful suggestions' about how to run my blog better#or 'concerns' about the way i run it or some of the photos i post#and it takes a significant amount of self control not to be snarky#because i am not allowed to break brand continuity#but like#people really gotta learn that it's not cute or helpful to come into a stranger's inbox and critique/suggest they run their blog differentl#and i get that most of these (admittedly not that many but still frequent enough) asks are probably not meant to be obnoxious#like i'm sure the person who sent them doesn't have bad intentions#and probably just doesn't realize what they're doing is irritating and a basic etiquette no no#but it's still annoying#sometimes people just gotta learn to keep their opinions to themselves#not every opinion should be shared#just being clear 99.9% of the many asks i get are totally fine and nice#but because i get a fuckload of asks the 0.1% of annoying asks i get is substantial enough to get annoying and tiresome#don't mind me im just vague post venting here as a stress relief so i don't reply snarkily on bearotonin#okay im done ranting now#please ignore me lmao#Posts about bearotonin
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ok im keeping it cool. im very calm and normal about this. this is just another human interaction like any other. i am not about to go into cardiac arrest. it's ok. im normal. so. normal.
#holyshitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyahitholyshitholyshitholyshitholyshit#why cant i just be normal#no it's not like ive admired him since i was a kid or anything no it's totally cool im totally fine yup so. fucking. normal.#personal shit#vent
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Hello. I just wanted to say, even if you don’t get enough likes or reposts on any of your comics, you should still be posting them for those people who enjoy them and DO want to read them whenever they can.
Hey bro, I understand what you're saying, and I think maybe your point is supposed to be, like, that I shouldn't worry about notes and stuff? But this is one of quite a few anons/messages of this ilk I've received lately, so here's the thing.
I've literally posted about seventeen different comics on tumblr for you guys over the past three weeks. In addition to multiple illustrated pieces, three fic updates, and two oneshots (that's over 36k words my guy!) in that same timeframe. Quite frankly, that's a lot of content.
I'm really, really glad you guys are enjoying the things I'm making! But please let me publish things at my own pace. When I say that I usually wait for the previous part of a comic to hit a certain number of notes before I publish the next, I mean, like I previously stated, that I'm using it as a way to time things/space things out and give each part a chance to breathe and do the rounds before adding more-- not that me continuing the project is dependant on the amount of attention I receive. But even if it was... it's my right to operate that way if I want to!
And. Like. Yeah, okay, I guess I'll go ahead and delete that other ask about the SepAU thing? 'Cause it's really just resulted in me being informed by people, anonymous or otherwise, that I'm totally screwed, they'll be voting against me, etc etc. and I'm? Not having that fun of a time?,,, Actually?,,, I'm already aware that I will likely lose and that's okay, it's just a game. I'm not going to stop making content because of it, so please don't worry about that. But all these anons and such are really not,,, helping. Nor encouraging me to publish anything else.
So I'd really, really appreciate you guys' patience. I'm not gonna answer any more asks like this. Thank you.
#asks#anon#i also like. dont expect everyone to be totally up to speed on like#my personal life and mental state and all that but like#gestures to all the vent comics and posts ive made in the past few days#guys please#why are we doing this NOW?#and @ anon im sorry its not just you and its not just your ask this is the one i chose to answer#there were others who probably deserved this response more but i deleted all of them#so sorry#im just a little frustrated right now#i just wanted to? play the silly tumblr poll game#and i think the universe just actually designed it to humble me and put me back in my place maybe#and also maybe theyre just not for me and i made a mistake#so this is probably going to work out for the best#sorry
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I think I'm actually gonna put Ford haters in my DNI list like okay I don't mind if anyone dislikes him but SO MANY of his haters I've seen are such big victim blamers it genuinely makes me uncomfortable
#ford pines#gravity falls#dex talks#I personally don't understand how people can hate Ford without hating BILL#because Bill is like 80% responsible for the reasons I've seen people claim they hate Ford#like for an explame his 'ego'? Result of Bill using his insecurities and low self esteem and praising/manipulating him into believing he was#smarter/better than everyone else and that everyone (including his own friend) was untrustworthy. He was manipulating and isolating him#and like the other 20% is also the result of having an abusive father and being the “gifted/golden” child of the family#and also the bullying from others that he got for being a “freak” for his 6 fingers#this gotta sound like a vent but I relate to that so I totally get how he probably felt. I was also bullied for being a “freak”#for something that was considered “abnormal”#(for context I feel like I might had/maybe still have pica? I would basically eat things that weren't food because I just felt an urge to-#like I would eat paper. pencils. erasers. hair and other things. I was considered a freak for that and bullied for it.)#so like I feel like I understand what Ford was feeling and why he was so obsessed with proving himself to be something more than a freak#Stanford Pines nothing could make me hate u#anyway sorry for the vent lol
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#And you know sometimes my mother's just like#Hey. You should go kill yourself :)#And does it multiple times in the day#Wow! I'm proud mother#You've learnt how to be a great human being!#And that's *totally* a *fine* thing to tell your kid#The slurs and swearing she uses against me are just awful she's such an awful person#And apparently#I'm just expected to somehow live through all this#Fucking hell#I'm just tired can't she leave me alone just even for like me succeeding for her damn shit?#Tw vent
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