UPPCO- No, wait, actually I'm still more worried about my con...

[dancing_moon]

Today everyone else were all UPPCON! AHMAGAWD IT'S UPPCON AGAIN!!!

This is the orange elephant in Swedish anime fandom. You plan your cons around it, heck, I'm pretty sure a lot of the anime kids plan their yearly budgets around it... And for the first time in approximately five years, I'm not responsible for anything karaoke-related! Or anything else for that matter, I'm just going there to work at the Nerdy Bookstore's table and have fun in my free time ^_^

But despite being so busy for The Big Con (or moving), several people took the time to fix things for Our Cute Lil' Con recently, which I have just collected and sent to our webmaster.

For instance, my little pet-project at BLYG:
- Ze Lectures!
Yaoi - men vad ÄR det egentligen? / Yaoi 101
(given by me. And My, which really isn't a pun but looks like one in english)

Lesbian schoolgirls and hermaphrodites in space: Queer gender and sexuality in 70s shojo marshtide & her Val

Johnny's som slash-objekt / The slash-fandom of Johnny's Entertainment

Yaoi-manga - av kvinnor, för kvinnor, om män som älskar män / Yaoi manga - by women for women, about men who love men

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Ze roundtables!
Boy's Love i mainstream serier / BL in mainstream series
This and the following two are Yuna's. I think he'll do a good job about them, he held an improvised yaoi manga shopping-tip roundtable in the dealers room last time, which was quite entertaining ^^

Finns det verklighetstrogen Boy's Love? / Does realistic BL exist?

Ho-Yay and You - From Stargate Atlantis to Naruto
For info about what Ho-yay is, please visit TVtropes. Or read about it on the BLYG homepage.

Mangademia och fandomstudier / Acafandom and manga studies, basically. This one is with me and Alitna.

Shoppingtips för fujoshi / Shopping tips for fujoshi (rotten girls/yaoi fans)
lanjelin and My tell tall tales about Japan... No, but seriously, they've both been multiple times and know where to find the good stuff

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Ze workshops!
+ How to make your own karaoke
+ Pimp my peruk - Cosplay-wig styling
+ Drawing class for BL and shojo-ai

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Ze... wait, is there more? YAY
Stuff not yet on the homepage but coming up soon!

Takarazuka-teatern – Japans romantiska drömvärld / Takarazuka-theatre - the romantic dreamworld of Japan
Lecture by a lovely woman who wrote her thesis on Takarazuka. I'm definitely going to be in the audience!

"I wish I was gay and lived in Sweden" - homoromantiken inom lolitakulturen / Homoromanticism within gothic lolita culture

Harry Potter och de vilda slasharna / HP and the wild slashers
Miko-chan and I roundtable Harry Potter. Followed by the wizardrock-band The Swedish Shortsnouts in the café next door ;)

Gotta tell you, I'm pretty psyched and proud. It's gonna be so much fun!

& now off to bed and tomorrow off to Uppsala and the eleventh (my tenth!) UPPCON!!!

Comments

[marshtide]

Uppcon has to wait till next year for us. We were planning on going, but ugh, this spring has been stupid. Right now I just have my fingers crossed really hard that I won't end up with my operation schedule right before blyg. Stresssss. ;;

[dancing_moon]

Uppcon is really Super Busy. Was good this year, but it's not something I'd recommend if one is not in good shape. But if you are feeling better, Närcon is in August. It always collides with Pride, alas, but they run four days so it is possible to combine them. And I bet something will turn up during the late autumn, not counting all the little cons that seem to run every other week

And then Meuwcon announced that they're running again in 2012, they are a large cosplay-focused con in Stochkholm.