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Friday, ctd:
We went to the Sex and Sensuality panel after food, thinking that it might be lame and run by Jack/Ianto shippers and all focusing on New Who, but in actuality it was the best panel of the whole weekend, and the people who ran it were 100% awesome and there were many hilarious quotes. We took up two rows in the front as a kind of loud Big Finish cheering section, which was a bit not-good, but all was well. Afterwards we kidnapped one of the panelists up to our room for a while and had some drinks, and probably frightened her a bit because she had only gotten into Doctor Who over the past summer and hadn't gotten to the older stuff yet. Whoops. (But now on Twitter she's getting into books and audios and all sorts of awesome stuff, so we were victorious after all!)
Zombie!Ianto Lia didn't actually make it to that panel, alas, but I stole Jazzy's video camera that she'd taken an awesome video of Lia staggering zombie-like down the hallway. If I had a movie editor on this computer I would've added some creepy music in the background, but as it is, I pulled it onto my computer and headed out to the lobby to upload it (I was getting occasional internet service in the room - I can connect to the lobby's free wi-fi, but every once in a while it notices that I am actually in a guest room and shuts me out). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcPeiBsH4s - awwww yeah.
Jess and Rose and Brewster and our kidnapped panelist hung around in the lobby for a while, looking at photos and videos and things to draw her into the dark side of old!Who, audio and novel fandom. I'd...kind of forgotten that when I was in the room, I was telling her about Philip Olivier's ~other job, so when I opened up my laptop in the lobby the first thing that popped up was photos of him naked. Whoops. As it turned out, he had gotten a job at the last minute and wasn't able to make it to the con, but it's still rather awkward to be caught with compromising photos of con guests, present or not.
Eventually we decided that bed was a good plan and retreated to our respective rooms, where we found that everyone was still awake at, what was it, 2am? 2:30? Awesome. More hanging around in the room, saying hilarious things and eating allllll the food. Denise and Rose dropped off to sleep first (Denise had to actually be awake for her panel in the morning), but the rest of us piled onto the empty bed and made an enormous and awesome cuddlepile. Like puppies. We didn't actually fall asleep like that, but we did laze around being relaxed until Jazzy dozed off, at which point we broke it up and retreated to our actual beds. Best night ever, cuddlepiles are great.
Saturday:
Getting up early is horrible, but I did it for solidarity with Denise being part of the podcasting panel. Originally, Rose and I were going to grab autograph tickets for ourselves and her, since they were going to hand them out right when the panel began, but those things went like crazy, yikes. We ended up being just a few people from the cutoff point, but I'm not terribly fussed about autographs, and I'd gotten to show off my Erimem costume to the main people I was interested in (I was only interested in that session for Philip Olivier, who was not even there anyway).
There was a lot of time spent wandering around the halls looking at costumes, but we had a good time at the Big Finish panel. I had my Storm Warning version of Charley Pollard on, and therefore Ramsay, my vortisaur (err, well, inflatable pterodactyl, but whatever). I was clapping with Ramsay's wings instead of my actual hands, and I heard from a couple guys who saw me later in the day that they'd thought I was wearing dino-flipper hands or something XD It also made Tony Lee spazz out for some reason - I think he was attempting to embarrass me or something by pointing it out, but if so, it didn't work well at all.
Later on, before the masquerade, I changed into Alice Guppy to wander around a bit - I met a pair of ladies who had worn Alice and Emily costumes at the previous year's Gally, so I got their contact info so I could get pictures - I hadn't seen any from the ones I saw posted after the con last year. There were a good number of people who recognized the costume, so I was pleased. Still need to get myself a proper Emily to go with my Alice, every time I dig through my fabric bins for something I stroke that fabric lovingly. Shh, that's not creepy, that's being a cosplayer.
I ran into the Queen Victoria cosplayer from Tooth and Claw I'd seen around earlier, but she was no longer in that costume, unfortunately, or I would've gotten a picture with her. I did meet up with the John Hart we'd seen on Friday with a Jack Harkness, and Lia got photos with them (and rather molested by them) as Ianto. There are a bunch of quite improper photos of us floating around, I'm sure, but I unfortunately haven't found any of them yet. He kept channeling Spike and biting my neck - if I'd realized that the actress who plays Alice was also in Being Human as a vampire character, we could've had some fun with that, alas.
The masquerade was lots of fun - there was a good proportion of adorable/gorgeous/awesome costumes and nice presentations. I loved the Quark from the Second Doctor serial The Dominators, and the teen girls in cute little dresses based on Eleven, the TARDIS and two Daleks were precious. The ending skit was hilarious - I saw on the forums later that they'd actually gotten John Leeson to do the voice of K-9 for the skit, I love it when people play along like that. I'd link it, but there aren't any good Youtube videos of it up yet. Hopefully someone will put together a version from the projector-screen cameras like they did in previous years of the same group's skits.
Some of our group checked out the "Doctor Who Made Me Gay" panel, but the rest of us just putzed around the room relaxing - well enough, since apparently it wasn't terribly interesting. We made another cuddle pile, though, which was quite nice.
Sunday:
I wanted to check out the Torchwood cosplay panel at 11am (by which I mean, go to the panel and show off my Torchwood costume), which meant missing the liar's panel that I'd heard was hilarious. I definitely didn't want to wake up at 9am so I could get Alice on again in time to make both panels, though, so I slept in and then threw it on without much attention to wig or makeup. Somehow, despite that, I managed to keep the wig on for the entire day. Sunday was a lazy, zoned-out day of casually wandering in and out of panels I wasn't terribly gung-ho about, chatting with cosplayers and generally hanging out zombie-like. I did get to meet up with an Emily cosplayer named Jill who was, as it turned out, from Austin - so perhaps we'll cross paths again at some more local events! I also got pulled aside after the Torchwood meet-and-greet by a gal doing a research project about costuming, and hopefully I was coherent in the interview despite being so sleep deprived from a weekend of congoing.
Later in the evening, someone had left a bunch of old Doctor Who Monthly magazines scattered across a table downstairs, and we were flipping through them and found a pinup of Adric in a spacesuit - the kind of slim black, shiny, vinyl-and-netting type space suits they tended to use back then, much to the delight of fangirls. I may have gotten tipsy and allowed people to persuade me to go over to him at LobbyCon to get him to sign it? And I quote (or at least fairly accurately paraphrase): "Oh god, how many gay men have wanked over this picture?" I said I wasn't a gay man and I wasn't going to wank over it, which Sparrow pointed out afterwards when I told about it was probably a hit to the ego as well and therefore not much better XD
(It's strange how some people are approachable to me and some aren't. Richard Dinnick and Tony Lee hung out with us for a bit, and we all said all sorts of terrible things, but I don't like approaching actors outside of an autograph session to sign something. It's too weird and awkward.)
LobbyCon is always something kind of magical. We went down there fairly early in the evening with a few bottles of wine and some gin and tonic, and as the hours passed, the alcohol and snacks at our table multiplied as people saw us boozing and added their contributions. We schmoozed and socialized and got a little drunk (or more than a little drunk) and life was pretty awesome. The cuddlepile didn't get a chance to become tradition by happening for a third time because the three most drunk of the group flopped onto one bed and fell asleep before Jess, Denise and I even got upstairs, so we cuddled to sleep in two mini-piles instead.
Monday morning I had to get up early to catch my plane, woe and alas. Hugs all around - I got actual eye contact and return hugs from the gals in my bed, not so much from the more booze-ridden bed, heh. Spookily, I went over to poke them and say goodbye, and the order from nearest to furthest was Lia-Laura-Jazzy. I poked Lia in the shoulder first to wake her up a bit, but Jazzy was the one to open her eyes and stare at me. JAZZY IS SCARY, but in the good other!self way <3
The flight home was much less exciting than the flight to LA, since we had the proper classification of airplane so I was just in coach. And then I got home and made a pretty cake and didn't unpack for five days. THE END!
We went to the Sex and Sensuality panel after food, thinking that it might be lame and run by Jack/Ianto shippers and all focusing on New Who, but in actuality it was the best panel of the whole weekend, and the people who ran it were 100% awesome and there were many hilarious quotes. We took up two rows in the front as a kind of loud Big Finish cheering section, which was a bit not-good, but all was well. Afterwards we kidnapped one of the panelists up to our room for a while and had some drinks, and probably frightened her a bit because she had only gotten into Doctor Who over the past summer and hadn't gotten to the older stuff yet. Whoops. (But now on Twitter she's getting into books and audios and all sorts of awesome stuff, so we were victorious after all!)
Zombie!Ianto Lia didn't actually make it to that panel, alas, but I stole Jazzy's video camera that she'd taken an awesome video of Lia staggering zombie-like down the hallway. If I had a movie editor on this computer I would've added some creepy music in the background, but as it is, I pulled it onto my computer and headed out to the lobby to upload it (I was getting occasional internet service in the room - I can connect to the lobby's free wi-fi, but every once in a while it notices that I am actually in a guest room and shuts me out). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKcPeiBsH4s - awwww yeah.
Jess and Rose and Brewster and our kidnapped panelist hung around in the lobby for a while, looking at photos and videos and things to draw her into the dark side of old!Who, audio and novel fandom. I'd...kind of forgotten that when I was in the room, I was telling her about Philip Olivier's ~other job, so when I opened up my laptop in the lobby the first thing that popped up was photos of him naked. Whoops. As it turned out, he had gotten a job at the last minute and wasn't able to make it to the con, but it's still rather awkward to be caught with compromising photos of con guests, present or not.
Eventually we decided that bed was a good plan and retreated to our respective rooms, where we found that everyone was still awake at, what was it, 2am? 2:30? Awesome. More hanging around in the room, saying hilarious things and eating allllll the food. Denise and Rose dropped off to sleep first (Denise had to actually be awake for her panel in the morning), but the rest of us piled onto the empty bed and made an enormous and awesome cuddlepile. Like puppies. We didn't actually fall asleep like that, but we did laze around being relaxed until Jazzy dozed off, at which point we broke it up and retreated to our actual beds. Best night ever, cuddlepiles are great.
Saturday:
Getting up early is horrible, but I did it for solidarity with Denise being part of the podcasting panel. Originally, Rose and I were going to grab autograph tickets for ourselves and her, since they were going to hand them out right when the panel began, but those things went like crazy, yikes. We ended up being just a few people from the cutoff point, but I'm not terribly fussed about autographs, and I'd gotten to show off my Erimem costume to the main people I was interested in (I was only interested in that session for Philip Olivier, who was not even there anyway).
There was a lot of time spent wandering around the halls looking at costumes, but we had a good time at the Big Finish panel. I had my Storm Warning version of Charley Pollard on, and therefore Ramsay, my vortisaur (err, well, inflatable pterodactyl, but whatever). I was clapping with Ramsay's wings instead of my actual hands, and I heard from a couple guys who saw me later in the day that they'd thought I was wearing dino-flipper hands or something XD It also made Tony Lee spazz out for some reason - I think he was attempting to embarrass me or something by pointing it out, but if so, it didn't work well at all.
Later on, before the masquerade, I changed into Alice Guppy to wander around a bit - I met a pair of ladies who had worn Alice and Emily costumes at the previous year's Gally, so I got their contact info so I could get pictures - I hadn't seen any from the ones I saw posted after the con last year. There were a good number of people who recognized the costume, so I was pleased. Still need to get myself a proper Emily to go with my Alice, every time I dig through my fabric bins for something I stroke that fabric lovingly. Shh, that's not creepy, that's being a cosplayer.
I ran into the Queen Victoria cosplayer from Tooth and Claw I'd seen around earlier, but she was no longer in that costume, unfortunately, or I would've gotten a picture with her. I did meet up with the John Hart we'd seen on Friday with a Jack Harkness, and Lia got photos with them (and rather molested by them) as Ianto. There are a bunch of quite improper photos of us floating around, I'm sure, but I unfortunately haven't found any of them yet. He kept channeling Spike and biting my neck - if I'd realized that the actress who plays Alice was also in Being Human as a vampire character, we could've had some fun with that, alas.
The masquerade was lots of fun - there was a good proportion of adorable/gorgeous/awesome costumes and nice presentations. I loved the Quark from the Second Doctor serial The Dominators, and the teen girls in cute little dresses based on Eleven, the TARDIS and two Daleks were precious. The ending skit was hilarious - I saw on the forums later that they'd actually gotten John Leeson to do the voice of K-9 for the skit, I love it when people play along like that. I'd link it, but there aren't any good Youtube videos of it up yet. Hopefully someone will put together a version from the projector-screen cameras like they did in previous years of the same group's skits.
Some of our group checked out the "Doctor Who Made Me Gay" panel, but the rest of us just putzed around the room relaxing - well enough, since apparently it wasn't terribly interesting. We made another cuddle pile, though, which was quite nice.
Sunday:
I wanted to check out the Torchwood cosplay panel at 11am (by which I mean, go to the panel and show off my Torchwood costume), which meant missing the liar's panel that I'd heard was hilarious. I definitely didn't want to wake up at 9am so I could get Alice on again in time to make both panels, though, so I slept in and then threw it on without much attention to wig or makeup. Somehow, despite that, I managed to keep the wig on for the entire day. Sunday was a lazy, zoned-out day of casually wandering in and out of panels I wasn't terribly gung-ho about, chatting with cosplayers and generally hanging out zombie-like. I did get to meet up with an Emily cosplayer named Jill who was, as it turned out, from Austin - so perhaps we'll cross paths again at some more local events! I also got pulled aside after the Torchwood meet-and-greet by a gal doing a research project about costuming, and hopefully I was coherent in the interview despite being so sleep deprived from a weekend of congoing.
Later in the evening, someone had left a bunch of old Doctor Who Monthly magazines scattered across a table downstairs, and we were flipping through them and found a pinup of Adric in a spacesuit - the kind of slim black, shiny, vinyl-and-netting type space suits they tended to use back then, much to the delight of fangirls. I may have gotten tipsy and allowed people to persuade me to go over to him at LobbyCon to get him to sign it? And I quote (or at least fairly accurately paraphrase): "Oh god, how many gay men have wanked over this picture?" I said I wasn't a gay man and I wasn't going to wank over it, which Sparrow pointed out afterwards when I told about it was probably a hit to the ego as well and therefore not much better XD
(It's strange how some people are approachable to me and some aren't. Richard Dinnick and Tony Lee hung out with us for a bit, and we all said all sorts of terrible things, but I don't like approaching actors outside of an autograph session to sign something. It's too weird and awkward.)
LobbyCon is always something kind of magical. We went down there fairly early in the evening with a few bottles of wine and some gin and tonic, and as the hours passed, the alcohol and snacks at our table multiplied as people saw us boozing and added their contributions. We schmoozed and socialized and got a little drunk (or more than a little drunk) and life was pretty awesome. The cuddlepile didn't get a chance to become tradition by happening for a third time because the three most drunk of the group flopped onto one bed and fell asleep before Jess, Denise and I even got upstairs, so we cuddled to sleep in two mini-piles instead.
Monday morning I had to get up early to catch my plane, woe and alas. Hugs all around - I got actual eye contact and return hugs from the gals in my bed, not so much from the more booze-ridden bed, heh. Spookily, I went over to poke them and say goodbye, and the order from nearest to furthest was Lia-Laura-Jazzy. I poked Lia in the shoulder first to wake her up a bit, but Jazzy was the one to open her eyes and stare at me. JAZZY IS SCARY, but in the good other!self way <3
The flight home was much less exciting than the flight to LA, since we had the proper classification of airplane so I was just in coach. And then I got home and made a pretty cake and didn't unpack for five days. THE END!