Insurgence 5
It's just so sad what happened with Gabe Tigerman's wife. I hope people will have some money left to donate for her, what with so frigging many fundraisers and kickstarters happening right now.
And I really have to rectify my other post. That Vampire Diaries convention in Birmingham was awesome!! The amount of short-dressed high-heeled girlies was super low. Instead I met so many super nice people. Almost every time I was queueing for something, someone turned around, asked me if I was alone and then proceeded to talk to me until we got to what we had lined up for. That was really awesome! The only thing that sucked was that a lot of them were reserving seats for a whole bunch of people. Without putting anything on the seat. So I'd go to a row, happy to find an empty seat, only to then get informed "oh, no, those seats are ALL taken". After five rows with the same answer, every goddamn time before a panel, you start to get slightly pissed off.
Also, people have been littering like there's no tomorrow. If you looked down the seats, you'd find a whole bunch of food wrappers, but also glasses - broken or not - batteries, bottles... just huge amounts of trash. Seeing how just about everybody was sucking up to Ian about ISF and how awesome it is and yes, let us all be active and do something for our future, waste management would be a good way to start, you morons. Just saying. I packed my food wrappers in my bag and then threw then in the trash can later. Unless it would have been batteries. Those are toxic waste. But whatever. "I donated money, so now my conscience is clean." o.O
But yeah, that aside, it was a bunch of lovely people. And the panels were super inspiring. Just about all of them, but especially Ian and Nate, kept telling us to follow our dreams, to chase them, to never give up, to be persistent and to find the thing that makes us happy. I was all woeful at the end of it all, because I know what makes me happy, and I've been neglecting it like the lazy "giver-upper" I am. Though Ian warned us about resolutions, because those wopuld set us up to fail and be unhappy. He also warned about thinking that you had to know just what you want to do with the rest of your life with 18, because that would rarely happen. And right he is. I was super insecure back at that age, because everybody in my class was all "and I want to become ..." when asked and my answer was just "uhm, I dunno. I wanna write for a TV mag?" (Which, just for the record, is still my dream job. LOL.)
Nate brought me to tears when he talked about his past and his mom. He asked us not to share it, so I won't. Even though I'm pretty sure it's all over the internet anyways. Ian seemed a little depressed about everything, candice was a little less depressed about the downside of being an actress than last week, but overall none of them made you wish you had their jobs. That was also kind of awesome, especially today with the instant fame of some reality show folks. None of the kids at that con got exposed to "and omg, my life is so awesome. Party 24/7. Fame, you guys, FAME." Instead all of them told us what hard work it is and how emotionally draining work on TVD can be. And let's not forget Nate with his 5-years of fruitless job search - and it's not like he has a nice cushion now. He was in how many episodes? Three? - But he was still happy and grateful. That's what I mean about inspiring. The job kinda sucks and it's a struggle, but it's what they want to do, so they work hard.
Ian seemed really unhappy with Damon lately. He misses the old days, when Damon was actually scary and unpredictable. Apparently Paul was also really unhappy with his storyline lately. So Ian is happy Paul will get some better stories next season.
Seb got so weepy that this was not the Supernatural cast, he played them all the SPN Harlem Shake and con videos backstage and insisted they all do it. Thank you, Seb, because now we got some real nice Matt, Nate and Seb dancing. :) Kat insisted this was not the Harlem Shake and showed us the proper 90s dance move by that name, but I don't think she actually knew what the internet Harlem Shake is. Because who the fuck cares what that was in the 90s? ;)
Seb also made a lot of fun of Rick, and he didn't apologize for it (he also made fun of Paul, but always apologized and added what an awesome guy he was), so IMO, he has the same impression of Rick that I have.
And the scrapbook is currently not properly loading, so photo ops tomorrow. Also maybe more, I stopped my report when a colleague entered the office. *coughs*
And I really have to rectify my other post. That Vampire Diaries convention in Birmingham was awesome!! The amount of short-dressed high-heeled girlies was super low. Instead I met so many super nice people. Almost every time I was queueing for something, someone turned around, asked me if I was alone and then proceeded to talk to me until we got to what we had lined up for. That was really awesome! The only thing that sucked was that a lot of them were reserving seats for a whole bunch of people. Without putting anything on the seat. So I'd go to a row, happy to find an empty seat, only to then get informed "oh, no, those seats are ALL taken". After five rows with the same answer, every goddamn time before a panel, you start to get slightly pissed off.
Also, people have been littering like there's no tomorrow. If you looked down the seats, you'd find a whole bunch of food wrappers, but also glasses - broken or not - batteries, bottles... just huge amounts of trash. Seeing how just about everybody was sucking up to Ian about ISF and how awesome it is and yes, let us all be active and do something for our future, waste management would be a good way to start, you morons. Just saying. I packed my food wrappers in my bag and then threw then in the trash can later. Unless it would have been batteries. Those are toxic waste. But whatever. "I donated money, so now my conscience is clean." o.O
But yeah, that aside, it was a bunch of lovely people. And the panels were super inspiring. Just about all of them, but especially Ian and Nate, kept telling us to follow our dreams, to chase them, to never give up, to be persistent and to find the thing that makes us happy. I was all woeful at the end of it all, because I know what makes me happy, and I've been neglecting it like the lazy "giver-upper" I am. Though Ian warned us about resolutions, because those wopuld set us up to fail and be unhappy. He also warned about thinking that you had to know just what you want to do with the rest of your life with 18, because that would rarely happen. And right he is. I was super insecure back at that age, because everybody in my class was all "and I want to become ..." when asked and my answer was just "uhm, I dunno. I wanna write for a TV mag?" (Which, just for the record, is still my dream job. LOL.)
Nate brought me to tears when he talked about his past and his mom. He asked us not to share it, so I won't. Even though I'm pretty sure it's all over the internet anyways. Ian seemed a little depressed about everything, candice was a little less depressed about the downside of being an actress than last week, but overall none of them made you wish you had their jobs. That was also kind of awesome, especially today with the instant fame of some reality show folks. None of the kids at that con got exposed to "and omg, my life is so awesome. Party 24/7. Fame, you guys, FAME." Instead all of them told us what hard work it is and how emotionally draining work on TVD can be. And let's not forget Nate with his 5-years of fruitless job search - and it's not like he has a nice cushion now. He was in how many episodes? Three? - But he was still happy and grateful. That's what I mean about inspiring. The job kinda sucks and it's a struggle, but it's what they want to do, so they work hard.
Ian seemed really unhappy with Damon lately. He misses the old days, when Damon was actually scary and unpredictable. Apparently Paul was also really unhappy with his storyline lately. So Ian is happy Paul will get some better stories next season.
Seb got so weepy that this was not the Supernatural cast, he played them all the SPN Harlem Shake and con videos backstage and insisted they all do it. Thank you, Seb, because now we got some real nice Matt, Nate and Seb dancing. :) Kat insisted this was not the Harlem Shake and showed us the proper 90s dance move by that name, but I don't think she actually knew what the internet Harlem Shake is. Because who the fuck cares what that was in the 90s? ;)
Seb also made a lot of fun of Rick, and he didn't apologize for it (he also made fun of Paul, but always apologized and added what an awesome guy he was), so IMO, he has the same impression of Rick that I have.
And the scrapbook is currently not properly loading, so photo ops tomorrow. Also maybe more, I stopped my report when a colleague entered the office. *coughs*