Conventions » BUCK 2014 Fanfiction Panel · 3:09pm Aug 20th, 2014
Some of you Fimfic fans (or as I call them, FIMfans) may already know this, but Saturday 23rd August is the UK pony convention BUCK, and I will be present to host the fanfiction panel. This is something I have taken very seriously and done lots of preparation for......
I'm not saying this panel will literally be the event of the year, but let's be fair, unless man walks on Mars by December 31st, it probably will be. If you're going to BUCK, make sure you are there at the fanfiction panel. You can meet me and the following amazing writers (and Blueshift):
Arcanium
Blueshift
Greatodyer
Metaphor
Obabscribbler
We will be talking about many exciting fanfiction-related things, such as:
> How to be an amazing writer
> What you need to do to make your story as popular as possible
> How not to sell out to The Man
> How to access the secret Fimfiction Gold section of the site
All this and more, 11am on the Saturday! I'm not saying that if you are present at the con and don't attend, I will find out and siteban you, but that may be something you want to consider.
More details on the panel are here: http://buckcon.org/events/word-crimes
I know you are excited, so here is an adorable picture of Fluttershy to calm yourself down with.
If you're not sure what to expect, this is roughly how the panel will go:
Warning: May include less Pat Sharp
*This comment can only be viewed by those who have a Fimfiction Gold account*
Well, I was all set to go until you said that Pat Sharp wouldn't be there ...
Seriously, if I still lived in the UK, I'd be all over this like something that is all over something else and is tricky to shift.
Adorable Fluttershy pictures only make me more excited. Dunno why that is.
knighty for Person of the Year 2014.
Oh my goodness, you figured out how to punch people over the internet.
Wow, Pat Sharp, whatever happened to him?
If there was anything I wanted to see at Buck, it's this. And Heather Breckel. And a bunch of other stuff. Sadly I'm broke. I could get into Manchester just fine, but getting into the convention centre is more money than I could afford.
Woe is me and so forth...
Anyway, I hope you and everyone attending has a great time.
There's a FiMfiction Gold account? I WANT ONE!! although I can't make it to BUCK. In the words of Sweetie Bell: Oh Come On!!
I kind of live in the U.S., and this is the first I'm hearing of it, so sadly I won't be at the convention. Good luck with the panel.
P.S. Any chance of catching it on video or live stream?
Well, have fun. My broke American ass will be sitting in the U.S., brooding...... I needed that fluttershy pic.
2385618 It apparently will be video'd, but in my experience, don't hold your breath. A lot of cons record everything and say they're going to release it later but stuff doesn't go up.
Wait, that's legitimately a real thing?! I thought it was a joke or something like that.
EDIT: Geez, don't vote down because of one moment of gullible-ness.
2385623
The joke ---->
Space
The atmosphere
Earth
Hell
<------ Your head
2385623
Pretty sure it is still a joke.
I'm a mod here and I still don't know how to get into Fimfiction Gold.
Knighty why
So, we're s'posed to post adorable pictures of Fluttershy here?
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--Sweetie Belle
If I had enough time and money I'd go, but alas, it was not meant to be.
Btw, I just realized Britain has much better television shows than here in America (except for MLP and the Walking Dead), such as Doctor Who, Downton Abbey, and Monty Python. I think I saw that Fun House show once, about 10 years ago.
I'm reading something about a BUCKcon, and yet somehow it's registering in my brain as:
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I hear there's like a 20 billion times better con and fanfiction panel happening in Canada on the same weekend at Bronycan.
Okay, maybe not 20 billion times better.
Actually, it's probably going to be a lot smaller.
...
LOOKING FORWARD TO THE CROSS-CON LIVESTREAM THING-Y.
Aw man, no monies and no transport make me a sad pone. Ah well, easy come, easy go.
Can you not take your own camera/audio recorder (if you have one), knighty? Or is that against con rules and the like? Would certainly make recording the panel a hell of a lot easier.
I will be with you there in spirit, although the flesh is still chained to a desk at work. Besides, I'm barely able to do what it is I do, let alone explain it.
I think we just got a taste of your childhood. British 90's game shows for children. Gotta love it.
What a delightful birthday gift. That was thoughtful of you, Knighty.
Gold!?! Damn it I still got that diomond platinum account.
Well goodie....
The "Gold" account was an April Fool's Day experiment.
Pay no attention to the words behind the spoiler bar.
Looking forward to it!
2385669
You were banned from it after the whole Fimfiction Mauve debacle, remember?
2385786
Wait, no, I thought that was Fimfiction Puce?
2385787
Fimfiction Puce was the codename for Gold while it was in development. Shot yourself in the foot there!
2385575 Wait'll he puts some Spike art in the banner options and replaces the current Power Ponies tag with one that shows the full team. Then we'll talk.
What's the secret FIMFiction gold section?
2385658
Oh, okay.
2385657
Well excuse you.
2385683
I heard we are posting cute pictures of Fluttershy here? POST PO- oh wait, we can't. The mods aren't asleep.
They never sleep.
Too bad college is starting back up tomorrow...
I'd go if I had the time and the money.
Pfft, as if I need any suggestions as to how to become an Amazing Writer.
I am the James Baldwin of FimFiction. Well, if James Baldwin watched anime and wrote about futanari.
Now present me with my medal, mortals. The GENIUS is sitting at his desk. Look at the GENIUS! Look at him, and his COMPUTER.
2385669
You need to write knighty a Fluttershy comission.
At least, it gets you EqD Gold Member status if you do the same with Trixie to Sethisto.
2385669
FimFiction be a harsh mistress, maytee.
In spite of my genius-level skill, which nobody can deny, I have yet to be featured.
fight the power, brother
2385684
No, it doesn't. You're only seeing what gets imported. What gets imported? Stuff that isn't shit.
And using Walking Dead as a flagship of good anything is hilarious. That show's had shit writing and bad acting since season 1.
I had a Fimfiction Gold account once. Did I miss a payment or something?
What do I even pay with? Money? Blood? Blowjobs?
2386006 The souls of brony haters.
So I lost my old Email provider for the account I had linked to my FimFic Gold account, and I've been trying to get everything switched over to the new one. I've used the Change Address link. I've called customer service. And what they keep doing is sending a verification letter to the old account. I am supposed to clink on the link within to switch everything over. Except that I can't. Because there is no old account any more and so I never receive those letters. And every time I write or call customer service, they tell me to just check my Email for the link, and site policy will not allow them to effect an address change in any other way. Because the only proof of my possession for both the old and new accounts they will accept is my giving the now-bankrupt former Internet provider several hundred thousand dollars so it can reopen for one day and allow me to click the received link.
Please advise.
I have been having this exact fight with a different site for the last two months.
But enough about me! I must address the very nub of Knighty's grist, the symposium regarding tiny equines of which the meat of this news-post addresses.
I apologize profusely, Knightly, but I cannot go to BUCK, as I am an American; and not just any American, but an African-American. Were I to set foot upon British soil, a group of Manchester Yobs would very likely catch me and skin me from head to foot, firstly, for being a born citizen of the accursed nation that shamed the mighty British Empire in that embarrassing little debacle of 1776, and, secondly, for not being lily of complexion.
Ah, but we are paying a most dear price for our pride, Britisher pal of mine! Our country's formerly bounteous economy is in shambles, our once-mighty Army is in disarray, our people are plagued with discontent, woe, and poverty; shunned, oppressed, mocked by our superiors, and our leaders do nothing to allay our cries of anguish, even as we lift our hands in supplication to our masters on Capitol Hill.
Let these words be the cipher by which you shall know my speech in this thread to be true: Ferguson, Missouri.
/clambers off his soapbox
acta est fabula plaudite
2385997 And what do us Americans have to offer the entertainment world? The Kardashians, Justin Beiber, and piles of other tasteless crap. And I'm sorry if Walking Dead doesn't have enough explosions for you.
2386006
You need to buy me TF2 hats.
2386122
...Your joking, right? Please tell me you are!
2385699
The only exciting thing in Canada is FanExpo.
So if I were to bake a traditional Spanish desert with this site's logo on top, would it be a FIMflan?
2386122
I'm pretty sure they stopped doing that sort of thing at least six weeks ago.
So what we are to gather from this selection of comments is that no one in the entire world is going.
THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT EVERYONE
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Don't feel bad. I thought it was just something he made up too.
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Yes, obviously because I don't like a show with terrible pacing, bland characters, and stupid decision-making on the part of the characters, I only like explosions. Astounding counterargument.
There are plenty of shows from the last few years that aren't the Kardashians or Justin Beiber that are at the very least decent. And if you're going to use them as an example, there are plenty of garbage reality shows in Britain, so don't cherry-pick cuz I can do the same.