this was a lot longer than i expected

[tsuki_no_bara]

first, happy late birthdays to ladycat777 and jola, who are both pretty fabulous people. smooches and glitter! and your celebratory food of choice. :D

dancing boys: *tango*

and that. :D

so i'm home from wizardworld, clearly, and when i got to work this morning i had a ton of email in my inbox. >.< not that i was surprised. otherwise it was a chill day but

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[bleodswean]

WOWZA!!! What a report! I've never been to such a thing but now I feel as though I have. ;) You could be a journalist, C! I love that you got to hang with fellow fangirls and I love that you learned some things to about the process. Because it does sound like a process!

That was a long bus ride. Muggy. I'll never forget the first time I stepped off a plane from Cali in New Jersey. How do you people DO THAT???

[tsuki_no_bara]

i've never been to a con like this for the special guests! i used to go for the comics, but i'm not sure who even does plain comicons any more. and yeah, i definitely learned something.

i have no idea how people survive the humidity, except that they have air conditioning. i grew up in tennessee where it was worse, because the summer lasted longer. ugh, weather.

[donutsweeper]

Wow what a report! I could never do a con (anxiety would kill me and that overwhelming sense of star being exhibit in zoo thing that you mentioned) but it sounds like you had a blast. I loved your question and comment to Chris :)

I really liked Dominic's comment re:Howard- it's very insightful and thought out about the character changing and whatnot. Loved all the jokes about his hair too (in the bts and interviews by tptb behind Preacher there is a LOT of comments about Dominic's hair for some reason, mostly that it looked too good and they couldn't make it look bad.)

Good to hear that Stephen Amell is good in person too, he seems to be a good guy from the tweets/etc I've seen but it's to find out that true. His answer re:movie!Oliver was really good, it's got to be hard for the actors (him and Grant Gustin/the Flash) to be the character and take on that mantle but at the same time be told they're basically not good enough to be the character in the bigger picture of the film universe.

[tsuki_no_bara]

it wasn't until sunday afternoon that i really felt the "exhibit in a zoo" thing, but by then it was really, really strong.

there are probably a lot of comments about dominic cooper's hair because it looks so good! it's quite attractive in real life. and among all the goofing off and teasing, he and hayley were very serious and thoughtful about some of the questions. there were good questions, too.

i know almost nothing about stephen amell, so everything he said was a really nice surprise. i did want to know what beautiful man he'd take to dinner if he couldn't take his beautiful wife, tho.

i still can't believe i said that to chris hemsworth. >.< i totally forgot i wasn't talking to myself in my own head.

[chaneen]

I lived through most of this (though it was nice to hear it again--excellent recap, btw!), so the thing that jumps out at me the most here is my utter jealousy over Wren's friend's Cap shield waffle maker. That sounds amazing.

But yeah, I agree with you 100% on autographs, photo ops, etc. I only did the ones I did because I specifically had a thing I wanted to get signed, and wintermute wanted to split the Chris/Sebstan photo op with someone and I figured 'why not?' (it turned out really well, at least!). I love the panels and the cosplay-watching, and the artist alley/vendors browsing, and this is a good, smaller con for all of those, so. If there are some fun guests next year that you want to see (or if you just want to see the con itself), you're welcome to come stay with me again! :D

[tsuki_no_bara]

i remembered a lot more than i thought i would! i really wasn't expecting the recap to be so long. but i'm glad you enjoyed it, even tho you were there. :D i'm really excited about the shield waffles, to be honest. some whipped cream, some strawberries, some blueberries, maybe we'll watch catws....

your photo op did indeed turn out well! you and wintermute both looked good. i know everyone does cons differently - i've done it one way, now i can do it a different way. maybe with less public embarrassment next time.

[azewewish]

WHY DID I NOT SEE YOU WHILE I WAS THERE!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!! We were both at Tucci's panel!! And the Chris/Seb/Mackie panel!! And the Dominic/Hayley panel!!!

ANDANDAND the Steph with the brand new tattoo? She's a VERY good friend of mine. :DDD In fact, she & I are both gonna be in Boston for the 4th, so I was planning on introducing you guys to each other.

I cannot believe we missed each other!!!!

[tsuki_no_bara]

dude, there were a million people at the team cap panel. i never would've found you. we were sitting way back behind the screen. i never would've thought to look for you at stanley tucci's panel, tho! i thought of a question to ask him but by then i was kind of trapped in my row and didn't want to climb all over people to get out, otherwise you would've actually seen me.

you should totally introduce me and steph! and i can say "we actually already kinda met". :D and i can admire her tattoo when it's not covered in plastic wrap. i love that i met her so randomly and you guys are friends.

[nomercles]

I don't even know where to start! DARTH TRUMP. I got a good cackle out of that one. What, like Darth Vader helmet, but with a toupee? Also, SHIELD WAFFLE MAKER. There was a lot there, though, so I'm gonna end there. (Except...what's the horse story?)

[tsuki_no_bara]

darth trump! i think he was dressed as darth vader with a trump wig, but now i don't remember!

the horse story involved norman reedus not having the first clue how to ride a horse - they had to lift him onto the horse's back with a little crane or some such thing, and as soon as the horse started to move he panicked. "it's moving! it's moving! what do i do?" and spf, who grew up in texas and knows what to do on a horse, just cracked up. and they had to get norman off the horse with the little crane. there's more to the story but that's the general gist, but spf is a much better storyteller than i am and the entire room was dying with laughter.