Arisia: 50 Panels in 75 minutes

[kate_nepveu]

Description: You write down panel titles at the beginning. We’ll draw them out of a hat, and try to get through 50 panels in 75 minutes.
Kate Nepveu (moderator), Mark Oshiro, Chris Brathwaite, Ashe Samuels, Jennifer Pelland, Andy Rosequist

This was ridiculously fun. Mostly I just curated the order of the panel titles, because I'm a control freak, and tried to stay out of the way.

For obvious reasons I cannot provide a summary, but I did keep the notecards, and I'm fairly sure they're in the correct order, too. There were about twenty we didn't have time for.

Thanks to Mink for passing--and bringing!--the hat.

The List, transcribed; punctuation etc. as in original, though I'm rendering line breaks with "//", because they don't play well with the list format. Also if something's written in block caps I'm not using all-caps for it.

1. Why Do Girls Love Unicorns?
   
2. 50 Shades: A list of people I wish were ghosts
   
3. Arisias of the Future
   
4. From the Makers of Riverdale // This Fall // The CW Presents // H.P. Lovecraft's "Dunwich"
   
5. Being 40 and on Tumblr
   
6. A film you almost loved but ABSOLUTELY HATED
   
7. Scenes from a hat! // J.K. Jason Momoa (ed note: which demonstrated to me that I was not actually certain how to pronounce his name, sorry)
   
8. would you rather fly slow or run incredibly fast
   
9. What is the most interesting anime about the least interesting topic?
   
10. Metaphors involving dragons
    
11. Best shows/books/movies of 2017
    
12. Toxic Masculinity and You!
    
13. Gay Courtly Romance
    
14. Boo Berry // Count Chocula // Franken Berry (a dividing line, and then:) What the Hell?
    
15. Do you eat cake and ice cream with a spoon or fork? (The submitter clarified that this is if you're handed a plate with both cake and ice cream on it.)
    
16. Favorite Saturday Morning Cartoon
    
17. Comic book characters I have a crush on
    
18. Look it up: best new words introduced by SFF
    
19. Political Real-Person Fic + Ethics
    
20. Poe and Finn or Finn and Rose
    
21. What would you rather do instead of attending Arisia?
    
22. octopuses vs dolphins // VS // HUMANS (!!!)
    
23. Millard Filmore: sexy beast
    
24. Aliens explain things to me
    
25. Can you pinpoint the exact moment Doctor Who went to crap?
    
26. Which SF series is the most racist?
    
27. Dream ships that pass in the night (ed. note: I initially read this as "dreamships," which was pleasantly SFnal)
    
28. Anime that really ought to be a musical
    
29. Bollywood superhero movies (okay, I have to link to Eega here, which Ashe described, because just go look)
    
30. Why the world is ending (and how to deal with it)
    
31. Has the Sorting Hat ever been wrong? (Harry Potter)
    
32. Harry Potter as if written by E.L. James
    
33. Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science. Discuss/debate/argue
    
34. The narrative significance of hero-sized air vents in films & video games
    
35. Three characters that embody you perfectly
    
36. Dinner with ___? which book characters would make for the best dinner party
    
37. Space Vampires: Do Buffy and the Expanse share the same universe?
    
38. Costume-making using Aluminium Foil and clothes pins
    
39. How to make a cosplay with dollar store materials
    
40. cosplaying with prescription glasses
    
41. The fae (fairies, dragons, merfolk, trolls, etc.) cosplaying 2018 humans
    
42. Favorite villain archetype/trope?
    
43. Erostication: Fortune Telling through Fornication
    
44. Which is the best meal, breakfast, lunch, or dinner?
    
45. And Now You Know: Life Lessons from G.I. Joe
    
46. Gaylaxy: Gay Culture in Space!
    
47. The Spice Girls and 9th Grade Algebra Class
    
48. Chewbecca fanfic live reading/improv
    
49. Purposeful Anachronisms
    
50. Greatcoats vs. Musketeers
    
51. Most underrated movie
    
52. Problematic media you love
    
53. Why Does Space Get the Opera and Cyber the Punk?
    

Comments

This is brilliant.

[jesse_the_k]

I want to steal this for WisCon. Anyone with ideas on how to modify are most welcome to pipe up in my journal.

Re: This is brilliant.

[kate_nepveu]

thingswithwings is also suggesting it per Twitter, but the more the merrier!

[larryhammer]

I am disappointed you couldn't get to 48.

[kate_nepveu]

Oh, we did! I believe there was a reference to this fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2080878

[larryhammer]

*snrk*

[kate_nepveu]

(just to clarify, anything on the list is something we did, I didn't list the unused ones!)

[larryhammer]

Ah! I misread.