#Virtual Con

[alwayscaskett810]

[catboyriot]

HI HI!!! I'm going to have a virtual booth at CozyCon in a couple of weeks~!! If you're into VRChat or just wanna check out a collection of cool vendors and DJs, mark your calendars for the 20th-22nd!

[blerdyotome]

Get Ready, the 2023 Game Devs of Color Expo Online Starts This Week

From September 27-30, the annual conference will showcase voices of color in the games industry The 2023 Game Devs of Color Expo begins its eighth annual online event this Wednesday, September 27, featuring discussions, panels, interviews, and game announcements from creators of color in the games industry.  Continue reading Untitled

[silverfangnetwork]

Reminder that applications are still open for the Silver Fang Con Artist Alley and Panels! Even if you were in last year's event, you need to reapply. More info at https://con.silverfang.net

Applications and attending our VIRTUAL worldwide convention is FREE!!!

[luisasource]

Get your ticket here

[needles-and-witches]

Such a cool idea! Don't think I've ever come across anything like it. I really hope Netflix will come around eventually a save Lockwood & Co.

Hello LockNation, we've got some Excitement Afoot!

It was announced at the end of last week (if memory serves), but here's some more information about ClusterCon, the virtual fan event that's one month away! Mark your calendars, stock up on biscuits (and make sure to stick to biscuit rotation), and, of course, get hyped with us!

Sign up below on Twitter:

While you're there, go ahead and check out the schedule, panelist reveals, and everything else you'll want to know about this event!

We'll of course post it closer to the date, but here is the youtube link where ClusterCon will be happening for anyone curious and who wants to give it a follow!

We're beyond thrilled to bring awareness of this incredible event to y'all, darling LockNation.

Image credits go to the amazing misskatwinn on Instagram and @thisgameissonintendo here on Tumblr -- thank you for sharing your creativity, passion, and expertise!

We'll see you all there, and please feel free to send in any questions on any of our official social media accounts!

[clannfearrunt]

side order stages like

[conkreetmonkey]

Dashcon 2 tickets sold out instantly, they were all gone by the time I got there *sobs*

[takikojou]

Can we get some virtual panels again? I mean, CE had a few live streams of actual J2 panels. I enjoyed that.

❤️

[crowvaarts]

I will be at the invictus con 2025 artist alley!

Hey everyone! I have some exciting news to announce! I will be attending the virtual INVICTUS CON 2025 as an artist in the artist alley this year! This is my first virtual con experience so I am very excited! The convention is 100% free and takes place entirely in the Invictus stream community discord! There are a bunch of other artists, panels, cosplay contests and live ttrpg games going on all weekend March 21st - 23rd. For the weekend I will be opening my etsy store for a pop up shop! (You do not need to attend the con to order things from my store). My shop will only be open for a limited time only from March 21-23 so if you want to pick up any physical prints or stickers from me, thats the time to do so! GET HYPE! The invictus server: https://discord.gg/4Y6FRajV More info on my commission sale and actual etsy store soon to come, I just wanted to share the word! See you all there!

[warpedwings]

Misha Collins - 2020 Con Highlights

📷: JeannineD (TheLineBetween) Momoyuzuka

There were just a few cons this year due to covid, and only one was in-person. So there's not a lot of variety this year, but still many gorgeous photos.

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[noirnil]

[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

ok, once more I realize that my own kindness and friendliness has been taken for implied consent, and as always, the troubles that are brewing now are connected to OCs.

So let me be clear and frank one more time, one last time, because I have NO INTENTION of going through what I went through in 2021.

While I am always immensely happy that my Original Characters are enjoyed and that they can serve as source of inspiration, they are NOT however a template for anyone to base their OCs on.

They are not something that you can take in their entirety, change whatever suits you, and then call it your own.

It doesn't work like that, especially because, and allow me to reiterate this once and for all, OCs are *immensely* personal.

They are an extention of the soul of the person that creates them.

So taking whatever suits your fancy and use it for the "aesthetic" or the "vibes" is immensely disrespectful and, dare I say, rather impertinent, especially when both characters happen to belong to the same fandom.

Now, I am not talking about certain tropes and subjects that are typical of certain genre, of course not.

We are all somehow reinveting something that's already there when we work with OCs and stories.

What I am talking about is taking certain specific idiosyncrasies that make a certain character unique, change them to suit your character, and then being SO IMPERTINENT to just call it your own and parading it around without even having the courtesy to quote the person that has inspired you, taking advantage of the fact that I am just a small creator with a small following.

This is a huge No No for me.

Huge.

I appreciate that other creators might have a different opinion or perspective when it comes to OCs, and while I do not share entirely in that, I sure as hell respect it.

But allow me to be crystal clear: if this happens to me, like it had in 2021, that's the *easiest* way to lose all respect I might harbour for you, and I seldomly get mad or angry.

I am always accomodating, always supportive, and I think I have proven it aplenty in the past few years.

But this is something that I cannot condone nor agree with.

And it's not just a matter of ethic, in this sense: it's a matter of also hurting me, and literally put my whole creative process into shamble.

It's a matter of having respect of others.

Now, you might say: who cares if they hurt you? they are characters that do not exist, just move on and have thicker skin!

Well, as I said above, for when it concerns myself, my OCs are an extention of my own soul, a way for me to formulate and explain feelings that sometimes I have a hard time let out; a way for me to actually face, fragmentize and analyze my own trauma through them;

and most important of all, they are OFTEN a love letter to both the world I am exploring with them AND my own husband and child, such as in the case of Jacob and Dorothea,for whom, as I said often in the past 5 years, I have poured A LOT from myself and my husband's own story.

You could say that it probably my fault for having bared my feelings so much and poured so much of myself into a character;

And you might be correct, because I have learned my lesson, and ever since Dorothea and Jacob, no other character has been infused with as much of my own being as they were.

but that doesn't mean that it stings any less when I see it unravels in front of my eyes.

I am tired.

[silverfangnetwork]

Silver Fang Con is starting now! Join us at https://con.silverfang.net

[ansonmountdaily]

Anson Mount on theatre roles he'd like to play

When Anson was at Dragon Con in September 2022 promoting Star Trek: Stange New Worlds, a fan in the audience asked him what theatre roles he's always wanted to play.

Anson mentioned Hamlet by William Shakespeare, Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (the role of Mikhail Lvovich Astrov, a country doctor), and The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley (the role of De Flores, servant to Vermandero). The fan also brought up Shakespeare's Macbeth and Anson said he's played the role of Malcolm (Elder son of Duncan, king of Scotland) before.

In 2020 Anson played Uncle Vanya's Dr. Astrov in a virtual theatre production of the play (gifs here and here).

Uncle Vanya portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his glamorous, much younger second wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that supports their urban lifestyle. Two friends - Vanya, brother of the professor’s late first wife, who has long managed the estate, and Astrov, the local doctor - both fall under Yelena’s spell, while bemoaning the ennui of their provincial existence.

The Changeling is about young Beatrice who is in love with a visiting nobleman, Alsemero. However, her father has already arranged her marriage to Alonzo, another nobleman. Desperate to be with her love, Beatrice enlists the help of De Flores, a cunning but ugly servant, a deceptive man obsessed with her and determined to claim her virtue. While she initially resists him, Beatrice is drawn into lustful complicity with De Flores, and together they set in motion a chain of love, lust, madness, and death.

Source: Dragon Con panel footage (via Clayton Courtney)