#dashcon guests

Hi all,

DashCon 2 tickets go live TOMORROW!! (March 1st, 12:00 PM EST). Once again, tickets will be sold through our Simpli Events page, found linked here or on our website. Since DashCon 2 is two days long now, here are a list of panels, special guests, and other convention programming!

Special Guests

Top Row: @fordtato; @strange-aeons*; @xiranjayzhao; @theshitpostcalligrapher*. Bottom Row: Blue, Overly Sarcastic Productions; Harriyanna Hook**; @raccoonmilf**; Red, Overly Sarcastic Productions. *The Shitpost Calligrapher will be operating a vendor booth. Strange Aeons will as well, but via proxy. **Will be operating a vendor booth part-time.

Programming

Saturday, August 1st

Main Event

The Vote & The Guillotining Cast your vote on who to execute: the knight Strange Aeons, or the revolutionary Robespierre! Saturday/Weekend attendees will be given a token to vote with at registration. (Voting will close around 6:30 PM, and the execution will happen about an hour later.)

Other Stage Events

Cosplay Competition

Idol Showcase

Dr. Miku’s Entity Auction

Tenna Game Show (Deltarune)

Sea Shanty Singalong

Panels

The Joys of Overthinking - Overly Sarcastic Productions

Why Robespierre Was a 1790s Tumblr Sexyman - Xiran Jay Zhao/Robespierre

BUG ASS: Adventures in Entomology - Lochnessofficial/The Ball Pit Queen

Writing Goncharov - Abby Kate/thesleepydm

Why Are Sports On My Dash? - The Intern

Birds and Symbolism: What the Bird Doing?

Classpecting 101: Classes, Aspects, and You

Fanfiction, Community, and Gift Economy

AMV Contest

The Renaissance of Haruhi Suzumiya

an incomplete history of girlblogging

Snapewives, Christian Bronies & Margery Kempe: Fanfiction as Religious Ritual

It’s Sew Easy: Make a plush that’s cute as a button!

Omegaverse 101 (18+)

Payment Processors & Internet Censorship (18+)

Robin Blorbos (18+)

The Coffin of Media Literacy (18+)

Vanilla Extract

Sunday, August 2nd

Main Event

SuperWhoLock Wedding and Reception Attend the tripartite weddings of Dean Winchester and Castiel, the Doctor and the Master, and Sherlock Holmes and John Watson—then dance the night away in celebration!

Other Stage Events

Drag Show

The DashCon 2 Trials Experience (Game Show)

Panels

Updated Raccoon Lore - Lochnessofficial/The Ball Pit Queen

Corporate Furry Ranking LIVE! - Zee the Raccoon

Queer Organizing 101 - DashCon 2 Co-Founders

Is She Annoying, Misunderstood, or Poorly Written? - Harriyanna Hook

Queer Reading of Shadow the Hedgehog - Hana Hyperfixates

Ragebait Pokemon Quiz

Podcasting for Fame (unlikely), Fortune (DEFINITELY NOT), and Friendship (Absolutely!)

DashStuck

Queer History of Comics

A Very Supernatural Panel

Graphic Novel Grievances: A Warrior Cats Panel

Intro to the Indie Web

Vanilla Extract

Did I see a Drag Show in there?

Yep! We’ll be sending out an application Google Form sometime after ticket sales go up :) hang tight!

Vanilla Extract…? What’s the deal with those panels?

Vanilla Extract.

VirtualDash

In person tickets sold out too quickly for you to snag yours? No way to get to the JCCC this summer? No problem! VirtualDash brings the ball pit to you!

VirtualDash is the digital home of DashCon 2, a full virtual convention with exclusive online-only panels, as well as livestreams of the main events, stage events, and most panels. This year, VirtualDash has been expanded to offer exclusive gameshows, video game nights, and movie screenings!

(also tickets tomorrow and wristband mailout)

You may know him as the spectre in the corner of your eye, the darkest voice buried in your subconscious mind, the muppet, the joker, or even a beloved mutual, but Dashcon 2 is proud to announce the Croaker as our latest guest! 

Renowned online for their unique writing and a passion for all things Kermit and Joker, the Croaker is a beloved tumblrina to many hellsite locals. Though that’s not to say they haven’t made their fair share of enemies, and we fear a strange confrontation may be brewing.

You can peruse the depths of their sick and twisted mind @the-muppet-joker, if you dare. 

Also tickets are on sale tomorrow at 9AM EST. Admission is $35 CAD before tax.

Wristband Mailout

Since DashCon 2 is only one day, it would be a shame to spend hours stuck in a long line trying to get in. So for $7 CAD you can have up to 10 admissions wristbands mailed to you before the con. We encourage you to buddy up with your friends and buy your admissions together in one order to save on fees (and save us the time using our meat hands to shove them in an envelope). 

Up your mailout fee to $10 to have a DashCon 2 merch sticker mailed with them!

Another very special guest.

Hi all,

We are so, SO excited to share this special guest announcement. If you’ve watched Strange Aeons’DashCon: An Extensive Oral History video—if you haven’t, how did you end up here?—then you know her already.

Introducing, Lochlan O’Neil!

Lochlan, or Nessie as she goes by online, is DashCon’s original creator. The mythical fifteen-year-old that started it all. DashCon expanded out from under her beyond her wildest dreams (and nightmares), but we are so excited to show her what our team can do in her stead.

Also referred to as ‘The Ballpit Queen’, Lochlan came up with the original idea for having a ball pit at the con after watching a YouTube video where strangers befriend one another in an outdoor ball pit. Obviously, the final product was not supposed to be Like That (sorry). Nowadays, she channels her energy into raccoon biology, studying human-raccoon interaction and the conservation of the critically endangered Cozumel raccoon.

Apparently Toronto is the racoon diabetes capital of the world?? As such, Lochlan is absolutely giddy to visit. This explains a lot about the attacks on our green bins.

You can find her @lochnessofficial on TikTok and @racoonmilf on Tumblr.

Wait - do YOU want to learn about raccoon biology?

Calling all rabiosexuals: Lochlan is hosting her very own panel at DashCon 2! Enter the trash panda extravaganza at her panel, Rabid, AND Loving! Intro to All Things Racoon. Despite their bandit-like appearance, raccoons are truly wonderful creatures, and we have so much to learn from them!

We wanted to bring a live raccoon to the facilities to participate, but there are these annoying things called “laws” we have to follow. Truly a shame.

A Note On DashProm

For the unaware, the original DashCon held a massive dance party on the first night of the con, themed around prom. We can confirm that DashCon 2 will be having a dance party! However, the theme will be very different... and you can probably guess it; we’ve given you the clues in this post :) Theme confirmation will be coming next week!

Volunteer Applications: Still Open!

Would you like to be involved with DashCon 2? Are you a local who didn’t manage to snag tickets? Do you want to keep vigil over the ball pit? Volunteering is the best way to get involved with the in-person DashCon 2 convention! You can apply now through this form, or learn more on our website!