ArCon (convention)
| Online Convention | |
|---|---|
| Name: | ArCon, Archives Con, Archive Con |
| Dates: | 2021 - Present |
| Frequency: | Annually |
| Type: | Fan run |
| Focus: | The Magnus Archives and The Magnus Protocol |
| Organization: | ArCon |
| Founder: | ArCon |
| URL: | ArCon Website |
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ArCon also sometimes known less formally as Archive Con or Archives Con, is a fan run online only convention, run as a 18+ event. It is focused around the fandom for The Magnus Archives podcast, and once it had come out, also the connected work The Magnus Protocol. It runs once a year usually in the summer, usually having a welcoming ceremony on Friday night followed by two full days of panels, including some evenings, on Saturday and Sunday. Most of the convention is held through a Discord chat server, with some panels being held through the Zoom teleconferencing website, especially those which require multimedia parts.
2024
The 2024 convention had panels on "closet cosplay" and other cosplay, as well as several flash fan writing and flash fan drawing events, with individual rounds lasting from 10 or 15 minutes to about an hour. It also had an online Artist Alley,which was run as a discord thread with subthreads where individual fanartists could show off their art and commissions and talk to those who were potentially interested in their art. For special guests, who were part of presenting a panel, it included Billie Hindle and Anusia Battersby, the voice actors for Alice Dyer and Gwen Bouchard in The Magnus Protocol. It had about 300 guests who showed up for some time at the convention.
Besides the flash fan writing and flash fan art events, in 2024 it had the following panels:
- To Divide the Fungal Bloom from the Maggot: or, There's No Such Thing as a Fear Entity
- Cosplay Makeup Basics
- Fan Studies for Fans: Recent Developments
- A Civil Servant's take on the OIAR (as an Organization)
- The Magnus Multiverse - Narrative uses and possibilities of alternate realities' tropes
- Nightmare Fabrication - How to make Mr. Bonzo's head
- Bucket of Doom (note: this is a "party game")
- Kink and BDSM Applications of the Fears
- For the Archivist (note: this is a "party game")
- Q & A with Anusia Battersby and Billie Hindle
- Audio Editing 101
- Beat Your Face: Quick Cosplay Makeup Effects for Bruises, Wounds, and Archivist Eyes
- Magnus Opus: Alchemy in the Magnus Protocol