I GAVE LEONARD NIMOY A PINK TRIBBLE.
WHAT DID YOU DO WITH YOUR LABOR DAY WEEKEND?
Hahaa. But no, seriously. I did. And it made him go "Aawe, it's a pink tribble." That man is adorable.
It's not really image-heavy since I'm too lazy to shrink the pics, so it's link-heavy and I'm not putting it behind a cut.
We did get there early enough to register on Thursday (Ticketmaster, so apparently we got both the expensive tickets, and the dicks who's computers would go down. Constantly.) so we could be there Friday for THIS.
There's seven parts in all, it's not all of the panel but it's awesome quality, I'd recommend watching it since they're adorable and hilarious together.
This is actually how close we were, but I'm not complaining. I'm just glad we were there to see them. c:
But it was still adorable and awesome. They answered like, no questions, lol. But we didn't really go to have questions answered. We just wanted to see Shatner and Nimoy being adorable together.
And while I'm on the Star Trek note, I mentioned before that Cat and I were making tribbles to sell. Well, because I had safety pins and felt like it, my Kirk costume got a few, fuzzy additions. It was a little special, actually, I thought I was Captain Kirk. I wasn't. Two hours in I realized my name officially changed to The Trouble With Tribbles.
We weren't quite as awesomely nerdy as these ladies, though. But we did sell them tribbles. 8D
Galaxy Quest! And now it's time for Awesome Crossovers.
Because I'm a huge Freddy Kruger fan I asked let him kill me. Twice. Honestly, I do kinda wish girl-Freddy had the burn scar makeup, but it was still cool. And all she was wearing was a cut up sweater. c:
A lot of things were steampunked this year, including X-Men. There was a Rouge running around with him, but I couldn't find her for the picture, we did get Professor X, at least. Also, that wheelchair? Fully functional. And the gears turn and the wheels move like train wheels and it lets out steam occasionally and everything. It's awesome.
Pan was cool as hell, and I'm glad the camera caught how glittery he was XD
I actually have a fun story about the Andorians in our hotel. We were on floor 12, and the elevators are glass. When we got into the elevator, the 28th floor button was hit and nobody else was on the elevator with us. We didn't really care, it meant we were going up ad we wouldn't have to deal with the 28th floor anyway, right? No. Going up, we saw the Andorians on floor 5, and since we wanted their pictures we rode it all the way up to 28, then back down to 5. Thankfully, they hadn't left by the time we actually got there. XD;
Switching gears to Batman, let me start off with an awesome Scarecrow (and the only one that I saw at the con).
There was a Killing Joke Joker there, which was not only cool, but kinda made everyone go WUT. Mostly because of all the crap he had to do for that costume. The shirt he had to make himself, the colors and patterns and everything. Oh, and his white body paint? Took six hours. He was completely covered in it, and I know this because he unbuttoned his shirt and showed off his bright red nipples. Yeah. XD; Same shade as his lips and kinda just made me go LOLWUT. Cool, though.
This was the group we were hanging out with. They were kinda cool, nice, they wanted to run around and find a Batman to terrorize. The only problem was, well, there was another Joker and Harley (they were zombies, they're not in that picture now) so it was basically 3 Jokers, 2 Harlies, a Two-Face and a Riddler. But hey, it's not like there was a JOKER HERD. (And that's STILL missing zombie!Joker from the group.)
Lol. But srsly. There were a lot of freaking Jokers. XD And once we were out of our Two-Face and Riddler costumes Cat and I kept finding more Two-Faces and Riddlers, too. XD
There was a DC photoshoot that we FINALLY got to. The guy organizing us was having problems with me. XD; Kept telling me to move one way, then another, then people behind me would bitch. But I got some pretty pictures.
I'm not really happy with this one. My makeup looks weird in the sunlight, and we're both kinda making funny faces, and I was going to dye my hair before I left (to a tannish/brown kind of thing, so I would have it for Kirk) but I was told it looked fine blond and blaaaah. Two-Face never looks good blond. But what's done is done.
I took this one and this one, though. The only thing I would change is that I wish I would have told the people behind Cat in the second one to GTFO, but I think they look beautiful.
While we were at DragonCon, they were having a blood drive. We both tried to give blood. Cat did. I fainted. Although I want to explain this a little, so you're not all "Oh, it's just a little prick and she passed out, lolwimp." There were a few problems because of the room, because of my phlebotomist, and because of me. First off, the room was warm. That's a bad thing when you're giving blood since then your blood's flowing everywhere instead of just staying centralized. I was in a suit. It was my first time donating. My phlebotomist not only didn't hide the needle going into my arm, he TAPED THE BLOOD TUBE TO MY FOREARM AND HAND. BLOOD IS HOT. IT'S BAD ENOUGH KNOWING IT'S LEAVING MY BODY, BUT ACTUALLY FEELING IT DRAIN OUT AGAINST MY SKIN IS ANOTHER THING. 8C So, partially warm, partially psychological. Oh, and you know how you squeeze a ball to make the blood pump into the bag? Nobody told me what the ball was for, Cat told me what it was for when we were in the car going home like, two days later. They just told me to squeeze it every five seconds. I did it like, every three or four because I didn't know how important it was. So my blood drained out too fast and I passed out because my blood pressure dropped.
This was one of our roommates at DC. When we were at the Hard Rock Cafe they gave everyone at the table these little booklets of crap they wanted you to buy. One guy ripped his up. Everyone else gave theirs to this guy so he could build a tower with them.
Because it was the last thing we took a picture of, it'll be the last conpic I post here~ King of the Hill, con-style.
Ah. The memories of DragonCon will last a lifetime. Hopefully not as long as my conplague.
Oh! Almost forgot. You know those tribbles I've been mentioning? The ones I was going to sell? I made 61. I now have 4. Not only did they sell, they sold better than we thought they would. You know what that means, right? c: I was able to afford to have Shatner and Nimoy sign my copy of The Voyage Home. SPOCK WITH WHALES. I also got a couple things that... I couldn't reeeally afford, but I wanted so bad. All of them are here.
We were actually able to talk to Paul McGillion and dear lord that man is freaking adorable and so sweet. Nimoy and Shater were adorable when we gave them the tribbles. c: Even if Shatner's signiture does kinda look like he just wrote "HWut" XD; Nimoy's you can kinda make out, Shatner's is just lolwut. And yes, I bought a James Doohan one. I had to. I mean, I bought a DeForest Kelley one, how could I not get Doohan too? Kelley was kind of a FFFFFFF moment because dammit, I love Kelley. But this was the cheapest autograph at $175. The other ones were $220 (that one made me go WUT because it's the EXACT SAME ONE as the one I got), $300, and $400. The $400 one was beautiful, but it was bought before I could ask the vendor about layaway. :c Jason Momoa was freaking adorable too. c: His autograph is nothing but a huge J and M. XD Couldn't really talk to Momoa the same way we talked to McGillion, though. He had a longer line, and his handlers were selling tickets and trying to shoo people along. XD; We just walked right up to McGillion, paid, and got his autograph without really standing in a line and nobody scooted us away when we talked about some stuff.
Do kinda have one thing to rant about on Doohan and Kelley's autographs, not about the prices (Doohan's was $45, but Kelley's is so expensive because when he was alive he had bad arthritis and could only sign a couple, according to the vendor at least, and if that's true I'm okay with that. My mom has arthritis too, and I know how horrible it can be) but about the vendors. I always got the same. Freaking. Joke.
"Well it's not like they can sign anymore, lol."
YES. I GET THAT. I KNOW THEY'RE DEAD. IF THEY WEREN'T I WOULDN'T BE PAYING YOU FOR SHIT. I WOULD STAND IN A LINE FOR TEN HOURS AND GET DEFOREST KELLEY TO SIGN MY ARM SO I COULD TATTOO IT ON THERE. >| YOUR JOKE SUCKS AND YOU SUCK BY DEFAULT.
That's part of the reason I wanted the Doohan one this con, the vendor who had it was one of the few that DIDN'T make that joke. And because I got Kirk and Spock and McCoy, so I wanted Scotty real bad.
Well. All in all, I paid $425 for autographs. Oh, and about $13 for goggles for my Professor Normal costume.
...As soon as conplague's gone I need to get a new job. :c Ah well, at least I had fun~
Hahaa. But no, seriously. I did. And it made him go "Aawe, it's a pink tribble." That man is adorable.
It's not really image-heavy since I'm too lazy to shrink the pics, so it's link-heavy and I'm not putting it behind a cut.
We did get there early enough to register on Thursday (Ticketmaster, so apparently we got both the expensive tickets, and the dicks who's computers would go down. Constantly.) so we could be there Friday for THIS.
Click to viewThere's seven parts in all, it's not all of the panel but it's awesome quality, I'd recommend watching it since they're adorable and hilarious together.
This is actually how close we were, but I'm not complaining. I'm just glad we were there to see them. c:
But it was still adorable and awesome. They answered like, no questions, lol. But we didn't really go to have questions answered. We just wanted to see Shatner and Nimoy being adorable together.
And while I'm on the Star Trek note, I mentioned before that Cat and I were making tribbles to sell. Well, because I had safety pins and felt like it, my Kirk costume got a few, fuzzy additions. It was a little special, actually, I thought I was Captain Kirk. I wasn't. Two hours in I realized my name officially changed to The Trouble With Tribbles.
We weren't quite as awesomely nerdy as these ladies, though. But we did sell them tribbles. 8D
Galaxy Quest! And now it's time for Awesome Crossovers.
Because I'm a huge Freddy Kruger fan I asked let him kill me. Twice. Honestly, I do kinda wish girl-Freddy had the burn scar makeup, but it was still cool. And all she was wearing was a cut up sweater. c:
A lot of things were steampunked this year, including X-Men. There was a Rouge running around with him, but I couldn't find her for the picture, we did get Professor X, at least. Also, that wheelchair? Fully functional. And the gears turn and the wheels move like train wheels and it lets out steam occasionally and everything. It's awesome.
Pan was cool as hell, and I'm glad the camera caught how glittery he was XD
I actually have a fun story about the Andorians in our hotel. We were on floor 12, and the elevators are glass. When we got into the elevator, the 28th floor button was hit and nobody else was on the elevator with us. We didn't really care, it meant we were going up ad we wouldn't have to deal with the 28th floor anyway, right? No. Going up, we saw the Andorians on floor 5, and since we wanted their pictures we rode it all the way up to 28, then back down to 5. Thankfully, they hadn't left by the time we actually got there. XD;
Switching gears to Batman, let me start off with an awesome Scarecrow (and the only one that I saw at the con).
There was a Killing Joke Joker there, which was not only cool, but kinda made everyone go WUT. Mostly because of all the crap he had to do for that costume. The shirt he had to make himself, the colors and patterns and everything. Oh, and his white body paint? Took six hours. He was completely covered in it, and I know this because he unbuttoned his shirt and showed off his bright red nipples. Yeah. XD; Same shade as his lips and kinda just made me go LOLWUT. Cool, though.
This was the group we were hanging out with. They were kinda cool, nice, they wanted to run around and find a Batman to terrorize. The only problem was, well, there was another Joker and Harley (they were zombies, they're not in that picture now) so it was basically 3 Jokers, 2 Harlies, a Two-Face and a Riddler. But hey, it's not like there was a JOKER HERD. (And that's STILL missing zombie!Joker from the group.)
Lol. But srsly. There were a lot of freaking Jokers. XD And once we were out of our Two-Face and Riddler costumes Cat and I kept finding more Two-Faces and Riddlers, too. XD
There was a DC photoshoot that we FINALLY got to. The guy organizing us was having problems with me. XD; Kept telling me to move one way, then another, then people behind me would bitch. But I got some pretty pictures.
I'm not really happy with this one. My makeup looks weird in the sunlight, and we're both kinda making funny faces, and I was going to dye my hair before I left (to a tannish/brown kind of thing, so I would have it for Kirk) but I was told it looked fine blond and blaaaah. Two-Face never looks good blond. But what's done is done.
I took this one and this one, though. The only thing I would change is that I wish I would have told the people behind Cat in the second one to GTFO, but I think they look beautiful.
While we were at DragonCon, they were having a blood drive. We both tried to give blood. Cat did. I fainted. Although I want to explain this a little, so you're not all "Oh, it's just a little prick and she passed out, lolwimp." There were a few problems because of the room, because of my phlebotomist, and because of me. First off, the room was warm. That's a bad thing when you're giving blood since then your blood's flowing everywhere instead of just staying centralized. I was in a suit. It was my first time donating. My phlebotomist not only didn't hide the needle going into my arm, he TAPED THE BLOOD TUBE TO MY FOREARM AND HAND. BLOOD IS HOT. IT'S BAD ENOUGH KNOWING IT'S LEAVING MY BODY, BUT ACTUALLY FEELING IT DRAIN OUT AGAINST MY SKIN IS ANOTHER THING. 8C So, partially warm, partially psychological. Oh, and you know how you squeeze a ball to make the blood pump into the bag? Nobody told me what the ball was for, Cat told me what it was for when we were in the car going home like, two days later. They just told me to squeeze it every five seconds. I did it like, every three or four because I didn't know how important it was. So my blood drained out too fast and I passed out because my blood pressure dropped.
This was one of our roommates at DC. When we were at the Hard Rock Cafe they gave everyone at the table these little booklets of crap they wanted you to buy. One guy ripped his up. Everyone else gave theirs to this guy so he could build a tower with them.
Because it was the last thing we took a picture of, it'll be the last conpic I post here~ King of the Hill, con-style.
Ah. The memories of DragonCon will last a lifetime. Hopefully not as long as my conplague.
Oh! Almost forgot. You know those tribbles I've been mentioning? The ones I was going to sell? I made 61. I now have 4. Not only did they sell, they sold better than we thought they would. You know what that means, right? c: I was able to afford to have Shatner and Nimoy sign my copy of The Voyage Home. SPOCK WITH WHALES. I also got a couple things that... I couldn't reeeally afford, but I wanted so bad. All of them are here.
We were actually able to talk to Paul McGillion and dear lord that man is freaking adorable and so sweet. Nimoy and Shater were adorable when we gave them the tribbles. c: Even if Shatner's signiture does kinda look like he just wrote "HWut" XD; Nimoy's you can kinda make out, Shatner's is just lolwut. And yes, I bought a James Doohan one. I had to. I mean, I bought a DeForest Kelley one, how could I not get Doohan too? Kelley was kind of a FFFFFFF moment because dammit, I love Kelley. But this was the cheapest autograph at $175. The other ones were $220 (that one made me go WUT because it's the EXACT SAME ONE as the one I got), $300, and $400. The $400 one was beautiful, but it was bought before I could ask the vendor about layaway. :c Jason Momoa was freaking adorable too. c: His autograph is nothing but a huge J and M. XD Couldn't really talk to Momoa the same way we talked to McGillion, though. He had a longer line, and his handlers were selling tickets and trying to shoo people along. XD; We just walked right up to McGillion, paid, and got his autograph without really standing in a line and nobody scooted us away when we talked about some stuff.
Do kinda have one thing to rant about on Doohan and Kelley's autographs, not about the prices (Doohan's was $45, but Kelley's is so expensive because when he was alive he had bad arthritis and could only sign a couple, according to the vendor at least, and if that's true I'm okay with that. My mom has arthritis too, and I know how horrible it can be) but about the vendors. I always got the same. Freaking. Joke.
"Well it's not like they can sign anymore, lol."
YES. I GET THAT. I KNOW THEY'RE DEAD. IF THEY WEREN'T I WOULDN'T BE PAYING YOU FOR SHIT. I WOULD STAND IN A LINE FOR TEN HOURS AND GET DEFOREST KELLEY TO SIGN MY ARM SO I COULD TATTOO IT ON THERE. >| YOUR JOKE SUCKS AND YOU SUCK BY DEFAULT.
That's part of the reason I wanted the Doohan one this con, the vendor who had it was one of the few that DIDN'T make that joke. And because I got Kirk and Spock and McCoy, so I wanted Scotty real bad.
Well. All in all, I paid $425 for autographs. Oh, and about $13 for goggles for my Professor Normal costume.
...As soon as conplague's gone I need to get a new job. :c Ah well, at least I had fun~