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The Wee Con 2 - Glasgow Edition! An Our Flag Means Death convention planned for the fans, by the fans.

For the sole reason of thinking it would look cool, there's a new t-shirt design option in the add-ons on the kickstarter 😁
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fyr...

Huzzah! See you there!

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And lastly, we're doing some comms updates through our website with a blog set up for any new developments, so any updates will be added here, there and on our tumblr as soon as hands and eyes coordinate
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There is also a bonus special tea party in the offing! Do you want seven lumps of sugar and a dollop of milk? How about some orange cake? Stede's afternoon tea is being organised by @heyhayley.bsky.social at one of the delightful establishments in the city 🫖

And, of course, we'll be featuring a costume showcase and drag show because as much as we're magpies, we also love a bit of dress-up. The drag show will round out our closing-night party and hopefully, a fab time will be had by all and sundry :)

There will also be Calypso's Market again because we as a fandom are known to be magpies. We can't confirm how many tables and/or slots there will be yet, since we need to do the usual room-tetris and work out where/when/how things will be set up.

Since we'll have tables in our theatre this time, it's a fun way to let everyone have a chill now and then, we'll be setting up crafting tables with different kinds of media to dabble in.

Flag-making will be back of course, but we're putting together some other shiny things. And glue. So much glue.

We're also planning on running workshops again due to popular demand, although we're still working on the fairest way to make sure the sign ups are available to everyone and not just our earliest birds.

Which leads nicely onto informal crafting sessions between panels

(Special mention to the fact that this year will *not* be happening on one of the two weekends of the year when the UK/USA timezone difference is completely forked by daylight savings 😅 )

Like TWC 1, we're going to have panels, but this time around, it'll be a mix of long-form or short-form, depending on peoples' preference. All panels will be streamed again, the same way as last year.
Submissions will open once we get the funding sorted and know how much room we'll have

blue background with cartoony image of Buttons from OFMD from the back, with his arms raised, facing the moon. He has a traffic cone on his head. Black text on the moon reads "the wee con 2026". To his right, larger white text reads Glasgow Friday 6th November to sunday 8th November - A wee our flag means death convention for the fans and by the fans

A week in and we're heading towards the 50% mark on the kickstarter 🥳
For the curious, here are some of the shenanigans we are planning for The Wee Con 2!
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Good news for our TWC attendees! We have got the available VOD streams online and you should be receiving a message from tickettailor with your access information :)
A few panels are still waiting for their release forms, but as soon as we get them, we'll have those panels online too.
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We're just waiting for a couple of release forms from panelists and then we can make them available :)

Just to add, we'll still have some big panel spaces for those who want to do a full length, but this will take off the pressure for people who would like something a bit shorter :)

So have a think and a plan and once the kickstarter is done and we know the state of play, we'll be opening submissions!

We're nerding! Let's have fun with it!

A spoof of a TED talk set-up with Ed standing in front of Stede's curtained off bed nook and gesticulating. Down the right of the image there is text that reads ED Talks with bullet points for Advance tricks of the trade, fuckeries, the shape of clouds, plans and other fun shit

A screenshot of Ned Low from S2 episode 6, in Stede's cabin, point his bow. Down the left of the image, the text reads NED TALKS with bullet points for torture, trauma, gore, hot pokers and the viability of guts as a bowstring

For general and wide-ranging knowledge from weather patterns and special interests in fabric to a well-crafted fuckery, we will have Ed talks.

For anything a bit more... grisly, gory and anatomically exploratory (with eyes or hot pokers), NED talks are the place to be.

We had a lot of fantastic panels at TWC last year.

This year, we'd like to shake things up a bit - for anyone who didn't feel comfortable with filling an hour, we're planning 15 minute mini-panels. Like a TED talk, if you will. Only OFMD flavoured 😉
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The Wee Con 2 - Glasgow Edition! An Our Flag Means Death convention planned for the fans, by the fans.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fyr...

A screenshot of part of the kickstarter, showing the scale of donations and the following text £5,135 pledged of £13,600 goal 40 backers 27days to go There is a green button with white text below which reads "back this project"

We're almost at 40% already, my lovely crew 🥰Only 2 days in! Your generosity never fails to astound me 🥹
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screenshot from the kickstarter for the wee con 2 showing that £4540 has been pledged out of a target of £13,600 goal with 35 backers and 28 days to go

24 hours and we're 1/3 of the way there already 🥳

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All Sna has been Unfued! Everyone can reclaim their add-ons now :)

Minor Snafu with the add-ons importing incorrectly - if anyone has the following in their pledge baskets, please can you remove them temporarily so we can try and fix whatever nonsense that is happening!

- £20 Pay It Forward pledge
- Exclusive tote
- WeeGie Con t-shirt

Thank you ❤️

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The Wee Con 2 - Glasgow Edition! An Our Flag Means Death convention planned for the fans, by the fans.

Prithee Gentles, your attention!

Our kickstarter for The Wee Con 2 is now live!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fyr...

#twc #twc2 #theweecon

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(Sunday 8th. *Eighth*. This is what I get for writing this post on a Friday evening 😅)

And once again thank you all for your enthusiasm about our event! We're so excited to do it all again, this time with less stairs and absolutely zero Escher architecture 😅

Submissions for panels, workshops and crafting will all be after the kickstarter. Plenty of time to don your planning caps!
If you're intimidated by the idea of a full-length panel, we're hoping to run a selection of short panels as well as longer ones so don't worry about filling an hour :)

What next:
We’re aiming to get the kickstarter up and running as soon as possible and a link will be dropped in here when it goes live. We’ll also be adding all current updates and news to the website with a blog feature so you can see the latest developments and news as it comes in.

Full event tickets - £140 plus (with discounted rates on hotel and parking through the venue)

Saturday/Sunday only - £110

One day tickets - £80

Online only - £30

We will be expanding our pay-it-forward option as well to include full tickets.

How much: Unfortunately, the venue hire is higher for a more accessible and modern location than the combined total of both venues last year and then some which means we will have raise the ticket prices a little. We've kept it as minimal as possible while still covering all overheads.