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DC-Slash Con - Coming Up Soon!

Fri, 18 Jul 2025 01:31:31 GMT

So what is this DC-Slash Con that Amedia keeps babbling about?

It's an online fan convention that welcomes all sorts of fandoms. (The "DC" in the name is for Washington, DC; this con is a continuation of the in-person ConneXions, whose last incarnation was held for several years in the DC area.) This is the same DC-Slash group that hosts the free online binges that I post about ... er, when I remember.

DC-Slash Con also welcomes people from different parts of the world and strives to provide programming for whatever time zones people are in.

It costs a whopping $15 to sign up and there are scholarships available if that's too much. This Saturday's "binge" will be a tech day for folks who would like help learning to navigate an online convention.

This is the con with pimping slides, so people can pimp their favorite fandoms - and also shows slides with the fandoms from the vid show so viewers could have a chance to recognize the new fandoms they haven't seen before.

If you have any questions, you are very welcome to ask them here!!!

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DC-Slash Con Seeking Panel Suggestions Today

Mon, 30 Jun 2025 17:47:14 GMT

DC-Slash is an online convention coming up at the end of July. We still have ONE DAY for people to make panel suggestions (https://www.dcslash.org/dc-slash-con/programming) and I for one would LOVE to see MOAR Asian Drama-related suggestions!!!

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Sungkyunkwan Scandal - Pimping Slides

Thu, 29 May 2025 03:56:10 GMT

I made a set of these a few years ago and lost them in a computer crash. So I made new ones, because this deliciousness needs to be shared!

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DC Slash Online Binge: TATORT MULTI-CITY!!! Sat, March 29

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 16:50:38 GMT

N.B. We are starting an hour early! (12:00 Eastern)

This Saturday's binge will feature Tatort Münster, Tatort Berlin, and Tatort München!

We'll be starting with Dornröschens Rache from Tatort Berlin, followed by Gott ist auch nur ein Mensch from Tatort Münster, finishing up with Wir sind die Guten from Tatort München.

Tatort means "Crime Scene" in German; it's an umbrella title for detective shows set in several different German cities. Tatort Münster is the most light-hearted and blatantly slashy, but other cities bring their own delights. These vids by Kerguelen will give you a taste:

Thiel/Boerne (Tatort Münster), "One Call Away"

Ritter/Stark (Tatort Berlin), "Love Will Keep Us Together"

So many Tatorts! So much slashiness!

The binge begins at ~~2 p.m.~~ 1 p.m. Eastern time (US) and usually runs until 5 or 6 pm. Here's the Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/91462849358?pwd=TzNLZnplUDFCcVVTUE96dzhmam9Odz09

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Taiwanese BL drama: First Note of Love

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 03:02:58 GMT

I started this drama in November of last year and managed to finish it earlier this month. I watched it purely to see Liu Minting, a.k.a. Tim Minting, better known in Guardian fandom as the adorkable scientist Lin Jing, in a secondary role. I got to see more of him than I expected!

( Screencaps galore! )

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Escapade 35 Saturday Night Vid Show Report

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 05:10:23 GMT

The Escapade 35 Vid Show served up a delicious platter of fanvids!

I've made what observations and comments I can, but I would thoroughly appreciate any readers who are familiar with canons that I don't know, or don't know fully, jumping in to speak more accurately about works based on Wicked, Starsky & Hutch, Agatha All Along,The Professionals, The Terror, Dark Winds, Fangs of Fortune, Arcane, Heaven Official's Blessing or Our Flag Means Death.

In fact, I would also love to hear from *any* viewer with their own perspective on *any* of these vids!

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New recruitment slides - lots of them! VERY Image heavy

Sat, 10 Aug 2024 20:11:10 GMT

The slides I made this year are a mixture of shows I really love and want to introduce to potential new fans, (Guardian and Ancient Detective) and shows that were in the vid show for which we didn't already have slides (all the other ones below).

I'm already starting on slides for DC-Slash Con 2025! The next ones I make will be for Sungkyunkwan Scandal; I had made a set using my old computer and didn't back it up to the external hard drive (oops) ... and then the old computer crashed so hard that it lost files I hadn't even written yet, lol.

Ancient Detective (link to another entry; will open in new tab)

( Gollum )

( The Case Files of Jeweler Richard )

( The Marvel Cinematic Universe (focus on Captain America, Tony Stark, and Loki) )

( Stargate (focus on SG-1 and SGA) )

( White Collar )

( Guardian, revamped for legibility & availability )

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New recruitment slides - Ancient Detective - image heavy

Wed, 10 Jul 2024 21:12:10 GMT

Some of y'all may remember the Guardian Recruitment Slides I made a while back.

I'm at it again! Click to see Ancient Detective Recruitment Slides - to be shown at DC-Slash Con!

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Speaking of the DC-Slash Con ... I made vids!

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 17:34:36 GMT

I have made two songvids for the upcoming DC-Slash online convention!!! (You can click for more info about the con - the link will open in a new window.)

The convention is July 19-21 and the vid show deadline is July 12, so I actually got my vids in ON TIME!

There's both short, and one of them is to a Wizard Rock song. In other words, they're by me. ;-)

One is for the fandom Tatort Muenster, while the other one is about Gollum. They're premiering at the con, so I can't link to them now. But I am very excited!!!

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Guardian Recruitment Slides (image heavy)

Sun, 17 Dec 2023 03:56:32 GMT

As seen at DC Slash and REVELCon!!!

Ker and Aaron of DC Slash encouraged members to make these powerpoints to recruit their fellow convention goers to their fandoms! They also sent us helpful templates. :-)

The recruitment slides were shown at various times throughout the DC Slash convention, and were a delight! I thoroughly enjoyed learning about potential new fandoms.

I showed my Guardian slides again at a REVELCon panel to convince my fellow RCon attendees to send slides of *their* fave shows to DC Slash, too. That's not to say that I didn't put my whole heart into this "sample" presentation and possibly convert a few people! ;-)

I plan to tweak them before they're shown again, mostly by increasing the font size on the dialogue captions.

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Nostalgia fic post: Chandler/Joey

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 03:58:10 GMT

Chandler was always my favorite character on Friends, with Phoebe running a close second.

I wasn't seriously into the fandom, but I wrote a couple of fics back in the day. In honor of Matthew Perry, I thought I would repost them here in case anyone would find them soothing. They're not connected; each one is a standalone.

This one's from 2010:
Not Kissing Joey
Characters/Pairing: Chandler/Joey
Word Count: 1448
Content Tags: Fluff, First Time, First Kiss
Summary: Chandler is not kissing Joey.

And this one is from 2015:
Lucky for Me
Characters/Pairing: Chandler, Joey, gen or pre-slash
Word Count: 758
Content Tags: Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Snow and Ice, Bickering, Coffee
Summary: Joey talks a lot; Chandler is in denial about his feelings. Okay, that's more like stating the premise of the show than describing a story. Let's try again.
Chandler insists that it's totally about the coffee.

The second one has an illo by an artist whose name keeps changing; when they drew and gifted me this it was Your Royal Madjesty and/or drawthelinestoallconstellations, and I'm incredibly grateful:
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Vid Show Report: Escapade 33.5 (August 19, 2023)

Sun, 27 Aug 2023 02:39:14 GMT

Here's my report for the fantastic vid show at the virtual Escapade 33.5. I kept a window open and typed up notes while the show was running. A lot of it is still more notes than sentences, but I hope it all makes sense! An asterisk means that the vid premiered at this vid show.

You can watch the vid show online at: https://vimeo.com/showcase/10584452

Certain vids, including all premiering vids, were discussed the next day at the Vid Review Panel; the abbreviation VRP introduces comments that were made by various participants when the vid was discussed and shared here with permission. All other comments are my own. ( Read more... )

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VIDS VIDS VIDS panel at Escapade 33.5

Sat, 19 Aug 2023 18:29:41 GMT

I had marked the VIDS VIDS VIDS panel as a must-see and I'm so glad I did!!! Airawyn coordinated recommendations from Escapade attendees ahead of time and put together a great selection of vids in terms of time (older and newer vids) and space (Western and Asian fandoms) and feels (deeply sad, laugh-out-loud, and many things in between). ( Read more... )

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DC-Slash Con 2022: Not an official vid show report ... but some notes

Mon, 01 Aug 2022 03:25:16 GMT

The DC-Slash Con 2022 vid show, held last night (July 30, 2022), was truly a well-assembled collection of high-quality vids: kudos for Aaron for the terrific selection! SO many great vids, including several that made me want to start watching the show they were based on right now.

I had some favorites I'd like to mention--I'll write up something more comprehensive later, but I want to get some first impressions down now.

N.B. AARGH, I am going through the list and in order to keep this post reasonably doable tonight, I am skipping SO MANY EXCELLENT vids!!! These are not necessarily the best--they're the ones that made a big impression on me.

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And there were many more wonderful vids that I hope to cover in a longer report someday soon!!!

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Fic: The Adventures of the Grumpster (Guardian, Chu Shuzhi & Guo Changcheng, 2755 words)

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 19:29:24 GMT

Title: The Adventures of the Grumpster link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: G
Fandom: Guardian
Characters: SID ensemble, Guo Changcheng, Chu Shuzhi
Ship: Chu Shuzhi & Guo Changcheng, Shen Wei & Zhao Yunlan(background)
Summary: Lao Chu gets hooked on a superhero fanfic series whose author is anonymous.
Word Count: 2755
Author's note: This fic was inspired by comments on china_shop's brilliantly hilarious fic Transformative Work. You can read this one without reading that one, but it will make a bit more sense if you read that one first. More notes (spoilery) at the end!

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Fic: Three on a Match (Guardian, CSZ/GCC/YH, 1560 words)

Thu, 03 Mar 2022 04:46:01 GMT

Story title: Three on a Matchlink to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: A bit spicy
Fandom: Guardian
Characters: SID ensemble (briefly), Guo Changcheng, Chu Shuzhi, Ye Huo
Ship: Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng, Chu Shuzhi/Ye Huo, Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng/Ye Huo, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan(background)
Summary: Watching Chu Shuzhi and Ye Huo sparring after hours has an effect on Guo Changcheng.
Word Count: 1560
Author's note: A gift for Dorinda on AO3. I hadn't thought about shipping these three until Dorinda mentioned the idea and I read some wonderful fics by maggie33 and theleakypen! Hugs to all three for expanding my ideas of what's possible. ♥

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Fic: Gathering Intel (Rat Patrol, Moffitt/Troy/Dietrich, 937 words)

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 02:49:01 GMT

Story title: Missed Chance link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: Very Spicy (briefly)
Fandom: Rat Patrol
Characters: Jack Moffitt, Sam Troy, Original Male Colonel
Ship: Moffitt/Troy/Dietrich
Summary: Troy and Moffitt run into complications trying to arrange for Dietrich to get his birthday off.
Word Count: 937
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 23). This one wasn't written to a prompt--it just popped into my head when TODS suggested I should write a spicy Rat Patrol fic for the calendar.

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Fic: Missed Chance (due South, Fraser/RayK, 388

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 02:40:59 GMT

Story title: Missed Chance link to fic on AO3 (update before releasing)
Author: Amedia
Rating: Explicit (briefly)
Fandom: due South
Characters: Ray Vecchio, Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser
Ship: Fraser/RayK
Summary: Ray Vecchio reflects on the hints he deliberately passed by.
Word Count: 388
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 21), inspired by the prompt "On the outside looking in."

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Fic: One Tied, One Tying (due South, Fraser/RayK, 539 words)

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 02:27:56 GMT

Story title: One Tied, One Tying link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: R (fairly spicy)
Fandom: due South
Characters: Ray Kowalski, Benton Fraser
Ship: Fraser/RayK
Summary: RayK, Fraser, and a lot of beautiful knots.
Word Count: 539
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 17). A serendipitous birthday gift for ride_4ever, inspired by ride's exquisite poem "Kinbaku-bi". [There's another note at the end, just so you know.]

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Fic: Hear the Noises You Make (Tatort Muenster, Boerne/Thiel, 98 words)

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 02:14:44 GMT

Story title: Hear the Noises You Make link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: R (spicy)
Fandom: Tatort Muenster
Characters: Frank Thiel, Karl-Friedrich Boerne
Ship: Boerne/Thiel
Summary: Thiel teases Boerne about his vocabulary.
Word Count: 98
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 3). Prompt: "Hear the noises you make"

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Fic: On the Outside Looking In (Tatort Muenster, Boerne/Thiel, 247 words)

Sun, 19 Dec 2021 02:05:36 GMT

Story title: On the Outside Looking In link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: PG-13 (mildly spicy)
Fandom: Tatort Muenster
Characters: Nadeshda Krusenstern, Wilhelmine Klemm, Frank Thiel, Karl-Friedrich Boerne
Ship: Boerne/Thiel
Summary: Nadeshda & Klemm can easily see what Thiel and Boerne don't realize.
Word Count: 247
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 18), in response to the prompt: "On the outside looking in"

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Fic: At the Old One-Two (Barney Miller, Harris/Dietrich, 448 words)

Thu, 16 Dec 2021 19:46:32 GMT

Story title: At the Old One-Two link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: PG-13 (mildly spicy)
Fandom: Barney Miller
Characters: Harris, Dietrich, Luger
Ships: Harris/Dietrich
Summary: Harris and Dietrich settle an argument.
Word Count: 448
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 15).

"The Old One-Two" is Luger's nickname for the 12th precinct.

When I set out to write up this scene for the Spicy Advent Calendar, it took on a life of its own; the original outline didn't even include Luger here, but he strolled in, tucked the prompt "outside looking in" under his arm, and took over.

This ficlet is an excerpt from a longer fic in progress that begins with Harris and Dietrich fighting. Each of them takes the seldom-used back stairwell in order to avoid the other and they accidentally collide on the landing, each carrying a folder of paperwork.

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Fic: Just for Show (Guardian, Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng, 400 words)

Sun, 12 Dec 2021 21:42:39 GMT

Story title: Just For Show link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: R (just a little bit spicy)
Fandom: Guardian
Characters: Guo Changcheng, Chu Shuzhi
Ships: Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng
Summary: When you wander into a nest of vampires, the safest thing to do is play along.
Word Count: 400
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 11), in response to the prompt "just for show."

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Fic: Unsure of What I See (Guardian, Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng, 796 words)

Sat, 20 Nov 2021 02:33:39 GMT

Story title: Unsure of What I See link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: R (just a little bit spicy)
Fandom: Guardian
Characters: Guo Changcheng, Chu Shuzhi
Ships: Chu Shuzhi/Guo Changcheng
Summary: Guo Changcheng isn't entirely sure of what he thinks he sees in Chu Shuzhi's eyes. But he's hoping to find out.
Word Count: 696
Author's note: Part of this year's Spicy Advent Calendar collection (Day 1), in response to the prompt "unsure of what I see."

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Promptfic: About Time (Star Trek/Sherlock Holmes crossover, slash, 2962 words)

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 00:39:32 GMT

Story title: About Time link to fic on AO3
Author: Amedia
Rating: PG
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes (book-verse), Star Trek TOS
Characters: Holmes, Watson, Mycroft Holmes, Spock, McCoy, brief cameo by Captain Kirk
Ships: Holmes/Watson (pre-slash), Spock/McCoy (background)
Summary: In which Spock and Sherlock squabble like brothers, Mycroft gets to strut a little, McCoy is far too modest, and everyone except Holmes and Watson realizes that Holmes and Watson are in love.
Word Count: 2961. Yes, this was supposed to be a drabble, but I couldn't seem to stop!
Author's note: Based on Noxelementalist's highly inspiring prompt, Sherlock/Watson, Kirk/McCoy (or Spock/McCoy, or all 3, your call). In which Spock meets his ancestor and McCoy drinks heavily. I went with Holmes/Watson and Spock/McCoy, wound up soft-pedaling the drinking a bit, and had tremendous fun with the whole idea. For logic nerds, Sherlock and Spock are arguing about the significance of existential import.

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