Friday (and Sunday) at Comic-Con
I must preface this with an apology--I was not able to record the Future Fond Memories panel. I can summarize it, though?
Follow the cut for pictures of Sarah and my Mae costume.
(four Sunday pictures added)
(One) (Two) I made some presents for Sarah...I replaced the labels on a small jar of marmalade.
(Three) (Four) (Five) (Six) I also relabeled a small box of Frosted Flakes.
(Seven) Full shot of my costume. I confirmed the shoes and hair length with Sarah before hand (the first comment being the one in which she revealed her attendance at Comic-Con, at which point I minorly freaked out because what if I wasn't good enough? Then the giddiness took over.)
(Eight) I would normally have more process pics for a costume, but we suffered immense technical difficulties--the pink hairspray ran out halfway around my head! So I drove to the train station with my hair half pink and half white while my mom went to the store (which didn't open until nine o.0;;) to get more...
(Nine) ...but they were out of pink. So we made do with white over red for the right side of my head, and it turned out pretty nice. You can see the demon's mark necklace from playwithfyr.
(Ten) Me with Al's torso.
(Eleven) (Twelve) Me with my presents, waiting for the Future Fond Memories panel.
(Thirteen) (Fourteen) My sister and I accosted Sarah before the panel. Need I describe how charming and funny she is? No, I do not, because you read her blog too and you already know. She was wearing her demon's mark necklace too--apparently it arrived just barely before she left, which was quite fortuitous.
(Fifteen) (Sixteen) The panelists, before and after P.J. Haarsma arrived. From left to right in photo 16, Michael Reismann, Mary Pearson, P.J. Haarsma, Sarah Rees Brennan, Alyson Noel, Michael Spradlin, and James Owen. A nice group of people :) I sat next to narutootaku, whom I almost took a picture of but then her phone rang and then the panel started and I was too excited. She was quite well-dressed.
(Seventeen) (Eightteen) (Nineteen) Sarah talks, listens attentively, and smiles! Of course, I only put up the very best out of the dozen or so photos I snapped throughout.
Panel questions included whether the authors, as they write, think about how their work will affect future generations (Sarah does not fixate on that); what books or authors influenced them as children (Diana Wynne Jones taught Sarah that fantasy is very good even if it is made up, that children's books are not always to be scoffed at, and, more indirectly, that hitting people with books can result in friendship); what the new technological connectivity between authors and audiences is like (Sarah loves us!); and if that connectivity results in pressure (She did not mention her silly fanfic-starved haters).
(Twenty) At the signing after the panel--this picture shows Sarah with my freshly-signed copy of Nick. I gave her the presents then, which I am pretty sure she quite liked. She is thoroughly engaging at all times. I babbled shamelessly.
(Twenty-one) (Twenty-two) (Twenty-three) Around the Con. 23 is with Richard Hatch, old Battlestar Galactica's Captain Apollo and new BSG's Tom Zarek.
(Twenty-five) (Twenty-six) (Twenty-seven) (Twenty-eight) Off the trolley, waiting for the train home.
(Twenty-nine) (Thirty) Rawr!
...
And now Sunday is over! Not as many pictures from today, since I went alone and my sister could not photograph me. But I met up with Sarah after the Harry Potter panel, which she was quite fashionably late to. She had presents for me today, because she is wonderfully kind! (A) (B)
I mentioned the free books I had accumulated, and she asked if I had stopped by the Random House booth to snag Kitty and The Midnight Hour. I'd seen the booth but not the book, so she led me ramblingly to the booth, where there were none left of the book. We knelt out of the way and she gave me the bookplate and bookmarks, but then Security shooed us away because we weren't supposed to sit there. So we went out to sit in the grass, where we talked for the remainder of the hour until she had to depart for dinner with Heidi Tandy (of FictionAlley). I asked her to pose fashionably like she did for the magazine photo shoot, resulting in my final two photos. (C) (D)
Follow the cut for pictures of Sarah and my Mae costume.
(four Sunday pictures added)
(One) (Two) I made some presents for Sarah...I replaced the labels on a small jar of marmalade.
(Three) (Four) (Five) (Six) I also relabeled a small box of Frosted Flakes.
(Seven) Full shot of my costume. I confirmed the shoes and hair length with Sarah before hand (the first comment being the one in which she revealed her attendance at Comic-Con, at which point I minorly freaked out because what if I wasn't good enough? Then the giddiness took over.)
(Eight) I would normally have more process pics for a costume, but we suffered immense technical difficulties--the pink hairspray ran out halfway around my head! So I drove to the train station with my hair half pink and half white while my mom went to the store (which didn't open until nine o.0;;) to get more...
(Nine) ...but they were out of pink. So we made do with white over red for the right side of my head, and it turned out pretty nice. You can see the demon's mark necklace from playwithfyr.
(Ten) Me with Al's torso.
(Eleven) (Twelve) Me with my presents, waiting for the Future Fond Memories panel.
(Thirteen) (Fourteen) My sister and I accosted Sarah before the panel. Need I describe how charming and funny she is? No, I do not, because you read her blog too and you already know. She was wearing her demon's mark necklace too--apparently it arrived just barely before she left, which was quite fortuitous.
(Fifteen) (Sixteen) The panelists, before and after P.J. Haarsma arrived. From left to right in photo 16, Michael Reismann, Mary Pearson, P.J. Haarsma, Sarah Rees Brennan, Alyson Noel, Michael Spradlin, and James Owen. A nice group of people :) I sat next to narutootaku, whom I almost took a picture of but then her phone rang and then the panel started and I was too excited. She was quite well-dressed.
(Seventeen) (Eightteen) (Nineteen) Sarah talks, listens attentively, and smiles! Of course, I only put up the very best out of the dozen or so photos I snapped throughout.
Panel questions included whether the authors, as they write, think about how their work will affect future generations (Sarah does not fixate on that); what books or authors influenced them as children (Diana Wynne Jones taught Sarah that fantasy is very good even if it is made up, that children's books are not always to be scoffed at, and, more indirectly, that hitting people with books can result in friendship); what the new technological connectivity between authors and audiences is like (Sarah loves us!); and if that connectivity results in pressure (She did not mention her silly fanfic-starved haters).
(Twenty) At the signing after the panel--this picture shows Sarah with my freshly-signed copy of Nick. I gave her the presents then, which I am pretty sure she quite liked. She is thoroughly engaging at all times. I babbled shamelessly.
(Twenty-one) (Twenty-two) (Twenty-three) Around the Con. 23 is with Richard Hatch, old Battlestar Galactica's Captain Apollo and new BSG's Tom Zarek.
(Twenty-five) (Twenty-six) (Twenty-seven) (Twenty-eight) Off the trolley, waiting for the train home.
(Twenty-nine) (Thirty) Rawr!
...
And now Sunday is over! Not as many pictures from today, since I went alone and my sister could not photograph me. But I met up with Sarah after the Harry Potter panel, which she was quite fashionably late to. She had presents for me today, because she is wonderfully kind! (A) (B)
I mentioned the free books I had accumulated, and she asked if I had stopped by the Random House booth to snag Kitty and The Midnight Hour. I'd seen the booth but not the book, so she led me ramblingly to the booth, where there were none left of the book. We knelt out of the way and she gave me the bookplate and bookmarks, but then Security shooed us away because we weren't supposed to sit there. So we went out to sit in the grass, where we talked for the remainder of the hour until she had to depart for dinner with Heidi Tandy (of FictionAlley). I asked her to pose fashionably like she did for the magazine photo shoot, resulting in my final two photos. (C) (D)
