WisCon Online, DW Mobile Testers, Fandom Quarks & a Unicorn Chaser

[jesse_the_k]

WisCon ONLINE! reg closes 20 May 2020

The 44th WisCon was scheduled for the Concourse Hotel here in Madison over Memorial Day Weekend. They’ve swerved to an online iteration. Here’s your chance to try out WisCon and see if you like it.

Online memberships range from free (for those of us who don’t have extra money right now) to $55 (for those of us with extra money). Read more details about programming at the registration page.

Testers Wanted for DW Mobile Features

roadrunnertwice has been busy updating our elderly codebase right and left. They’d love to have mobile users, particularly Android, find problems with the latest code push.

Standard Model (of top, bottom, and other things)

fictional_fans is a pan fannish community, and yesterday extrapenguin blew my mind with this excellent prompt, which I honestly wish to nominate for Yuletide:

We've probably all heard about tops and bottoms, but why not expand this into the rest of the quark family so we have six options to play with? A character can be not only top or bottom, but also up, down, strange, or charm. (Some sources even call top and bottom truth and beauty, respectively!)

https://fictional-fans.dreamwidth.org/58681.html

Butches & Studs

are the unicorn chaser, from the NYTimes style magazine, of all places
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/t-magazine/butch-stud-lesbian.html

Comments

[green_knight]

Thanks for the Wiscon info. I can finally join a Wiscon! I will not be watching any of the evening programme, because timezones, and I'll join as soon as my credit card has finished being lava downstairs. Yay!

[tei]

YES, that would be such a great Yuletide fandom! Though I guess it would have to be... that plus something else? Like, a Quark AU of your fandom? IDK how it would work!

[firecat]

I get to attend Wiscon this year!

Quark orientations! What an utterly delightful idea!

And I'm definitely saving the Butches & Studs for a careful read later.

[tozka]

Oooo, WisCon! I actually HAVE been wanting to go, and am very excited to be able to try it out virtually. Thank you for the link!