The coolest girl I know

BistoCon is a slash convention for fans of 1977 British crime drama, the Professionals. Traditionally held every two years in Romulus, Michigan, Virtual BistoCon was created in 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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A quick, fun recruiter vid for Year of the Rabbit (Channel 4, IFC). I discovered the series through a screencap last year. Period piece, comedy, Black characters, I was interested.

Rec (anti-rec?): The show was a fun watch! Set in 1887 London, the 6 part series follows the crimefighting adventures of a trio of misfit cops. The characters are fantastic as are the costumes and locations. The plot was a bit convoluted and wonderfully bizarre - there was a villain called Brick Man...um, like a man-made of bricks who stabbed people. I was delighted by all of the "new" technology (electricity, phones, bicycles) and how they were played for laughs.

The anti-rec is that parts of the show were viscerally repellant for me. I'm not overly squeamish, I don't think, but Merrick (The Elephant Man) - FANTASTIC make-up- I squinted through many of his scenes. Murky John who lives in the sewer and makes his living from... things in the sewers...THINGS IN THE SEWER! Inspector Tanner has an unfortunate meeting with a bomb that leaves him in a face mask - like those US Civil War or WW1 era crude masks meant to cover bits that are missing. It creeped me out. Some of the dialogue is...really foul. Not curse words, just, extremely descriptive lines about deeply unappealing things and ideas. Finally, some of the characters just seemed really dirty and stinky. Sometimes the show is a bit too earthy/vulgar for my taste. (And yes, I am fully aware that I have "outraged old lady" morals about some things while being positively enthusiastic about others, like swamp slick omegas in heat.)

So, while I very much *did* enjoy the show, it was a difficult watch.

But - I was on a tight deadline for a CON.TXT vid (because I squeezed a 3rd video into my 2 vid edit window) and knew I could do a fun WTF!? style vid for Rabbit quickly.

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Pumzi is a Kenyan science-fiction short film that is available on YouTube. It's a great watch! This fanvid premiered at Visioning WisCon on May 30, 2021.

This year there were nearly 10 prompts that appealed to me, which was great because my fannish interests tend to be niche. Of them, Black Girl in a Big Dress, sounded amazing. It's a cute YouTube series about a Black girl who loves historical dress but lives in the present day - with all the travails of work, love, and saving the estate. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsfdAYPzeQ7kPLZ9-pz2I2Q

FanWorks Convention 2020 Premiere
Content Warning: Seizures, Physical Triggers



The story of the film is about relationships between a family of mothers and daughters. Also, they all have elemental superpowers and the government wants to find them and do experiments, for the good of all mankind. Black lady leads and a climate change bleak future setting were pretty much all I needed to whet my appetite. 

Fandom: Person of Interest (TV)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Major Character Death
Relationships: Harold Finch & Nathan Ingram, Harold Finch & The Machine, Nathan Ingram & The Machine

 
Nathan's dead and he's abandoned Grace - this is fine.
VidUKon 2020 Premiere

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I was in my early twenties when I discovered online fandom. Wow! 
This was the late 90s. Professional wrestling was my jam, and Scott Hall was my dude! 

Pro wrestling fandom was, and probably still is, a dual fandom of sorts. I started out on usenet and quickly found rec.sport.prowrestling, RSPW. 
EVERYBODY was on RSPW back then, fans, smart fans, dirtsheet writers, promoters, agents, writers, wrestlers. and BAH GAWD, even Jim Ross!

It had everything from the backstage gossip, to fans making great lists and writing e-fed storylines, to, in hindsight, straight up trolling training grounds. It was the wild west to me and most of what I know about the internet I learned in my first month at RSPW. So anyway, while I'm immersed in this super male-centric, rough fandom, I'm also very interested in looking at photos of hot wrestlers and bit by bit I found the female fans.

There were websites, and photo galleries, and message boards with threaded conversations so you could meet and talk to other lady fans! Then I found the fan fic and that lead to a whole other level of websites and mailing lists and archives and a different set of fans who would become friends. I learned how to code HTML and javascript, how to make Flash games, how to edit video, how to sell on ebay - I learned a shit ton of stuff during this period. I was in college on a business degree, but looking back some 20 odd years later, I'm making a living off the things I learned through fandom. My real life job is digital content producer, and that's all fandom.

Anyway, this is getting long. Eventually most of the wrestlers I enjoyed left the business or died :/  I fell out of active fandom and was out for a loooooong time until, in 2013ish, I found my new thing, Person of Interest.