The story of Phoenix and Vega
Okay, where to start. I don’t even know. This weekend was fabulous, amazing, beyond incredible. I loved everything that this trip chose to be. This is going to be a long picture-less entry, so continue if you dare.
We got in late Friday so we missed all the Friday stuff, sadly. But, Saturday was really fun. We got there in the afternoon. There wasn’t anything immediately going on when we first arrived so, we decided to try and interview people for the documentary. Brittany did brilliantly at recruiting people and the first people we asked jumped at the opportunity. We introduced ourselves as Vega (Brittany) and Phoenix (Me) all weekend, since those are our stage/professional names. Surprisingly, the first woman we interviewed was middle aged. She was really nice, but didn’t understand a lot of the questions we asked. But, she gave it a try, so I’ll give her that. Then, as we were walking back into the main room, Travis Wester (Harry from the Ghostfacers) walked right by us and totally checked Brittany out. Not even in a subtle way just BAM. I started immediately cracking up since Brittany didn’t notice, and when I told her, it boosted her ego. So, that made me laugh.
Then it was time for the Ghostfacers panel. I was really lucky because I got a Gold package seat for really cheap and was actually pretty close up. OMFG those guys are so funny and adorable. They are so sweet with the fans and everything they said cracked me up. They always make fun of Jared and do impressions of him, and at one point they kept messing up Misha’s name and somehow his name turned into a song and dance number. I was practically on the ground. They also mentioned that Travis just got engaged, that becomes important later. When it was time for questions, this one girl who apparently had been asking the same question to all the guests went up and asked, “If you had to be eaten alive, would you rather be eaten by a zombie, raptor or a shark?” The audience groaned, because, like I said, I guess she had been asking both days, but they answered and they both said shark. I was dancing in my seat wanting to shout out that it had nearly happened to me, but I had to keep my mouth shut. But, I decided that since I had an autograph ticket with them, I would bring it up then.
After that, we had some time before Mark Shephard’s panel started, so we decided to try and get more interviews. I went outside to smoke and there were two girls outside that I thought made good candidates, so I struck up a conversation. We learned their names, Cathy and Charity and told them about the documentary and they were excited to be a part of it. So, we asked our questions and even though they were less crazy then what we wanted, some crazy things did come out of their mouths. Examples, Charity was allergic to perfume and anything with fragrance and during her photo ops with A.J and Travis she broke out into hives where Travis touched her since he was wearing cologne or something, and she said it was “awesome” and “totally worth it”. Another was that they watch episodes of their favorite T.V shows over and over and over. Charity’s boyfriend actually banned the two of them from watching shows over and over because I guess Charity had said she watched the same episode of Supernatural six times in a day and a half, and that’s less than normal. They were really sweet girls, though and we actually talked to them for a majority of the trip. They said that they were with a group and would spread the word that we wanted interviews, so we made sure to keep in touch.
Mark’s panel was next and he was a real sweetheart. He seemed surprisingly nervous, but he was really gracious and thanked us and said he loved us and kept mentioning that he was a fan too and understands where we were coming from and our mentality. He had a few funny moments, but he had a very calm, cool presence about him, as one would expect. Not much to say there, but I liked him.
We met up with Charity and Cathy again and saw their group of friends. A couple of them were there with their mothers (there was a surprising amount of middle aged plus women there) and when we explained to all of them about the documentary, one of the mothers got really excited and was telling her daughter, “Oh, you’re going to be on film!” It was so funny how legit people thought we were. I think it’s probably because I was dressed professionally and was trying my best to have a very professional demeanor. We got some great answers out of them as well and sparked some really good discussions. I happened to catch a couple of candid moments and that made me extremely happy considering the subject manner. It went swimmingly. They really spread the word and were talking about us at random times to different people. We met up with them on smoke breaks and a few times they said, “Oh, we were just talking about you.” and that’s how we met a lot more people to interview.
It was nearly time for the autographs, so I went over to the photo table and bought photos of the Ghostfacers and Mark. We mentioned to the man behind the counter that we were filming a documentary (because it came up in conversation somehow) and he jokingly said, “Well, now that I know you’re filming I have to ask you to leave”. We explained that we had followed the rules and only filmed things outside and he laughed it off. He said, “I wish we would have known because we would have tried to get you press passes or something...” I told him I had tried to e-mail Creation (which I had) and received no response. He then gave me his e-mail address and asked us to e-mail him if we were to go to another con and he would try to help us out. Brittany and I were thrilled and high-fived because we managed to make a connection. Everything was seriously coming together. It was so exciting and I hope something comes of that should Brittany and I be able to go to another con this year or next.
So, I went up to do the autographs and told A.J. “Hey, you might wanna re-think your answer about the shark because I’ve actually been attacked by one.” I wish I could have taken a picture of his face. He looked horrified and told me he was terrified of sharks. He asked me when and where and what happened so I quickly told him the story and explained the thing about my leg and he just looked scarred for life. I told the same story to Travis and he didn’t believe me at first but then was like, “wait, seriously?!” and I finally convinced him after A.J. was all, “Yeah, dude. She told me the whole story.” I just laughed that I was able to tell them that story and said thanks. I didn’t really have much of an interaction with Mark, but I just said it was nice to see him there and thanked him for coming out to see us. He wrote “love and luck” (from what I can read) on my autograph, so that was nice. I looked at Travis and A.J.’s and A.J had written “I hate sharks” under my name and Travis wrote, “I am amazed, shark?!!” it made me laugh real hard. I hope I can get scans of those soon and show you all.
We did a few more interviews that night, and Brittany got invited up to Charity and Cathy’s room while I went to the cocktail party. I went back to the hotel and changed real quick and then headed to the party. It was really cool, they had a DJ playing mostly classic rock and the centerpiece contest was pretty neat to see. People are so creative! The girl at my table sculpted everything out of clay and she had never sculpted before. It took her seven months! It looked really nice and she had scenes from everything! It was so intricate. I had about four drinks so I felt pretty good. A.J, Travis, Matt Cohen (Young John Winchester), Aldis Hodge (from Season 2... I don’t even remember his characters name) and Mark went around to each of the tables for a bit. Matt came over first and he is just the most precious thing. They weren’t supposed to sign autographs or take pictures or anything, but he pretended to be looking at the centerpiece up close and leaned in to sign a bunch of napkins and was all, “I really wanna see this, oh wow that looks cool....*shifty eyes*” ADORABLE. He gave us all hugs, since he was continuing his trend of giving out free ones. “My Sharona” came on and we were rocking out to it together for a second. He apparently was a nut at the karaoke party and continued to do “The Jerk” all weekend. It was like his thing. Aldis came over and was sweet enough, but he seemed pretty reserved. He complimented the girl on the centerpiece though, and that meant a lot to her. Travis and A.J. came over next and Travis sat next to me but talked to other people at the table, and A.J. sat across from me and I apologized for traumatizing him. He was all, “Yeah, thanks for that. I’ll never go in the ocean ever again now. I’m terrified of sharks, and now that I know that happened, I really don’t want to. If I go with friends to the beach I’ll be like, ‘No, I can’t go in the water, because there was this girl at a convention...’. Seriously, you’ve ruined it forever for me now. Never going in the ocean again because of you.” It was so funny and he’s such a dork. They ran around and gave us all high fives. They were seriously bouncing off the walls. At one point A.J jumped on some other table and was lip synching to “Don’t Stop Believin”. I had to leave before Mark came over to our table, which I was bummed about because he was spending a lot of time at each table and having an actual conversation, I guess he didn’t leave til about 3am since he was talking to people.
I would have stayed, but we beat the system and were taking the shuttle from the Westin to the airport and a shuttle from the airport to our hotel for free. It cost $20 for a taxi, and with all the trips we took, it would have been a fortune. The last shuttle left at midnight, so I had to leave before then. I’m grateful for it now since I had to be awake at 5am to get ready and do Brittany’s makeup and be there for breakfast at 8am.
Sunday, magical Sunday. How do I love thee, let me count the ways. Breakfast was a blast. Jared and Misha were seriously on something special that morning. Jared kept wanting all the attention and getting mad when Misha got questions and he didn’t. There are videos of the breakfast, so
I’ll probably post those, but some of my favorite moments were when Jared would get jealous of Misha. He just kept throwing tantrums like a toddler, but in a precious way. Someone asked Jared how much he could bench, and he said 355. 355. I’m not joking. That’s like, two of me. Apparently, he can’t do so much anymore and isn’t as athletic. He talked about in the previous seasons how he was hitting the gym every day and there would be scenes where it said something like, “Sam does rapid fire push ups” “Sam runs 3 miles in two minutes” “Sam hauls a car” and now he’s like, “Uh...I can’t do this stuff, guys!” Then Misha chimed in with, “He suggested things like, ‘Sam eats donuts’....which can be equally sexy.” Then Jared said something about that scene coming up and he’ll be doing it naked. There was another joke where he said something about Sam paying for sex and he forgot that there had actually been an episode where that happened and asked the audience about it, and he was all, “I was kinda joking, but you’re right! Oh my god, you’re right!” and Misha was all, “I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU ALL KNOW THAT!!!!” Oh my god, I never stopped laughing. One more thing from breakfast before I move on. There was a 3 foot tall woman there and she had a guide dog and she asked Jared where she would come up to on him, so he jumped off stage and ran up to her and was all, “Uh, right about there.” and then he hugged her then started petting her dog, then he saw another girls guide dog and petted him and was running around all the tables being all, “Who has dogs, who has dogs?!” It was so adorable.
I met up with Brittany again after that and we waited for Jensen’s photo ops. I let Brittany jump in on my Jensen op because she was so persistent and I was feeling generous. On that day, I was wearing my “I’d go straight for Misha Collins” shirt, so when I walked up to Jensen he was all, “What does it say?” and when I told him he tossed his head back and laughed. Then I said, “I’d go straight for you too, if that makes you feel better.” And he was all, “It does, thanks” and smiled, then we did our picture. HE SMELLED SO GOOD. I don’t know what he was wearing, but OH GOD, he smelled wonderful. It was a bit strong and you could follow his scent down the hallway, but I still liked it.
We kinda slacked on our “work” that day. I think we did one more interview, and that girl was really nice. We were talking to her mom the night before (Yes, another mother daughter duo. We met three of them!) and she works for Misha’s charity. I guess she is all over the place on LJ, so I’m going to go look for her. She was mentioning the crazy stuff she’s seen and mentioned that there was already fic involving Misha’s son. It’s nothing inappropriate like sexual or anything, but just the fact that it exists three weeks after his birth is a little too much to handle. She said she wasn’t allowed to say anything about it on camera but got her daughter to for us. So, having that in there was pretty interesting. It’s just the kinda crazy shit we wanted in there.
I think it was at this point that Misha and Jared’s panel started. OH LORD. Okay, so, it was all brilliant, but I’ll skip straight to the good part. I got the nerve to get up there and ask a question, so, since I had a good seat I got in line pretty quick. I made Brittany go up with me since I was so flippin nervous. Right when I got up to the mic and it was the other side’s turn, Jensen showed up and crashed the panel. So, naturally I felt a lot of pressure. Jensen posed as a nervous fan and it was adorable. He talked for a bit and then they all turned to me. So, here’s how that went.
Boys: Hey.
Me: Hey, I hope I’m not a buzzkill since you just got up there, Jensen but my question is for Misha.
Jensen: How about if I answer Misha’s question?
Me: Uh, okay, I guess that works.
*He gestures that he’s kidding*
Me: So, we’re filming a documentary on the psychology of fandom...not now, so no one get mad at me, but we wanted your opinion. Why is it that when so many actors run away towards fandom, you run towards it and attempt to have some sort of relationship with your fans?
Jared: *reading my shirt* Would you really go straight for Misha?
Me: Yes.
Jared: *turning to Misha and grabbing his hand* Good job, man. You did it.
Misha: Yes, turning gay people. That’s my job.
Me: And you’re one of four men on that list, so feel privileged.
Jared: Oh, so %25 percent.
Me: No, because he has top billing. Even over Johnny Depp.
Jared: Do you need to have your eyes checked?
Me: ...I have a comment, but I’m not going to say it because that would give you guys too much...
*Brittany jumps in front of the mic*
Brittany: She’s legally blind. (because I am without my contacts)
At this point, the crowd starts dying, Misha starts walking off stage and Jared stands up in a victory pose. Jensen’s sitting in the corner facepalming and so am I. Then, Jared runs off the stage and starts barreling towards me, covering his eyes with his hands to make fun of me and then uncovering them and hugging me. Now, hugging that man really is like hugging a brick wall and I thought I was going to get the air squeezed out of my lungs because he was hugging me so tight. He apologized and then pulled away and was all, “It’s me, Jared” while pointing to his face. He turned around and gave Brittany a pat on the shoulder, which she calls the “I’m proud of you son.” pat. (I felt really bad about that because she loves Jared way more than me). Jensen then puts on his sunglasses and does a Stevie Wonder impression while singing “Mon Cherie Amor.” and we all start laughing. I go back into the mic and say “I have contacts!!” like 4 times and get mad at Jensen and Jared by saying, “You scared him off! I don’t care how pretty you are!” I don’t know why I blamed them, but I did. Misha finally came back and it went like this.
Jensen: Was there a question?
Me: Yeah, should I repeat it?
Misha: I’ll tell him. *he turns to Jensen* So, basically they are doing a documentary on crazy people and want to know basically why I make an attempt to have a relationship with the fans...*turns to me* What gave you that impression?
Me: Just with the things you’ve done and you’re twitter and things like that seem like a more genuine attempt than most actors.
Jensen: I'll answer... it's because Misha doesn't work so he has to do something.
Jared: I love that she calls Misha’s twitter genuine.
Jensen: Yeah because isn’t twitter one sided?
Misha: Like most relationships.
*Everyone laughs*
I don’t really remember what happened after that, but needless to say my question didn’t get answered. I didn’t really think that it would, so I just said thank you and walked away.
When I was walking up to my seat, Cathy ran up to me and was all, “Can I hug you since you hugged him?” I laughed and hugged her and sat down. The rest of the panel was adorable and hilarious, especially Misha’s impression of Dean and Jared’s impression of Cas and Future!Cas. Look those videos up, it’s so funny. They are too precious for this world.
I think autographs were after that, and Jared didn’t say much to me besides debate which pen to use on my picture for about five minutes and then winked and said something like, “Thanks, honey.” Then I went up to Misha and he kinda giggled and was all,
Misha: “Hello, love. How are you doing?”
Me: “Good, besides a little embarrassed.”
Misha: “Oh, I’m not embarrassed.”
Me: “Oh, good! That makes me feel a lot better.”
Misha: “I’m sorry your question didn’t get answered.”
Me: “Well, it’s you, so I didn’t really expect it to.”
Then he winked at me as I walked out and smiled and I melted on the inside.
Misha and Jared’s photo ops were next and I was going to ask for a pose if I saw other people asking, and thankfully, I did. So, I decided to ask them for blue steel. They both were game and we took our picture. As I walked away, Jared pulled me back and was all, “Wait, I didn’t do it.” So, I laughed and was all, “Alright. You’re evil! Y U NO DO IT?” He just kinda stumbled through his words and we did it again, and they said thanks and I walked off. You guys, that picture. I can’t even. I can’t wait to show you. I don’t even know what’s happening in it.
Nothing really happened in between that, but then it was Misha photo op time. OKAY. THIS STORY IS HILARIOUS. So, there was this woman going up and down the line, with a big ol’ rock on her finger and asking random pairs of girls, “Were you the two fun girls that me and Travis Wester were talking to in the bar? Have we ever talked before?” Every girl I saw said, “No” and I put two and two together and figured she was probably Travis’s new fiance. I kept seeing her diligently searching the entire time in line. I thought it was pretty funny. It gets better later, but I’ll talk about the photo op first. I walked up to Misha and I was all, “It’s me again.” he went, “Hey, doll.”
Me: *dead* Can I hug you?
Misha: *smiles wide* Of course.
So, we exit buddy hug for our picture and I walk away and thank him again and he smiles and says thanks.
So, yeah. He called me petnames and hugged me SO TIGHT. He smelled really good too, btw and I seriously felt his stubble on my face when we hugged. I can pretty much still feel it there if I think about it. Seriously, dead.
All throughout the day I felt like a celeb because I had random people coming up to me and saying they liked my shirt or that when I talked to the boys it was really funny, etc... and one time Brittany and I were walking and this girl that neither one of us had talked to was all, “Hey, guys.” So, being polite, we both said, “Hey!” back. But then we both looked at each other like, “Do you know her?” “No, do you?”. Cool and weird at the same time.
Okay, so the Travis story gets better. At the end of the night, Brittany and I went outside and I had a smoke and the usual smoker crowd was out there. We were just shooting the shit and discussing things etc. Then, who should walk out but Travis. He walks right past us with the woman I suspected to be his fiance (which was pretty much confirmed at that point) and TWO OTHER GIRLS. I just smiled at him and he had the smuggest look on his face. Seriously like, “Fuck yeah.” All the girls were in short skirts and high heels and after he passed we all just looked at each other and started laughing. TRAVIS WESTER IS A FUCKING WHORE. THE GHOSTFACER. Seriously.
I just got home about four hours ago and am dead tired. It’s a good thing considering I’m being thrown back into reality bright and early again for job #1. Hopefully, I can commandeer the scanner there and scan all the pics and stuff so you guys can see.
I’ll be in shock and awe if you got through that.
Here’s a youtube video of my question
and the entire panel can be downloaded here.
I hope you guys watch! Nice to be back and I love you all!
We got in late Friday so we missed all the Friday stuff, sadly. But, Saturday was really fun. We got there in the afternoon. There wasn’t anything immediately going on when we first arrived so, we decided to try and interview people for the documentary. Brittany did brilliantly at recruiting people and the first people we asked jumped at the opportunity. We introduced ourselves as Vega (Brittany) and Phoenix (Me) all weekend, since those are our stage/professional names. Surprisingly, the first woman we interviewed was middle aged. She was really nice, but didn’t understand a lot of the questions we asked. But, she gave it a try, so I’ll give her that. Then, as we were walking back into the main room, Travis Wester (Harry from the Ghostfacers) walked right by us and totally checked Brittany out. Not even in a subtle way just BAM. I started immediately cracking up since Brittany didn’t notice, and when I told her, it boosted her ego. So, that made me laugh.
Then it was time for the Ghostfacers panel. I was really lucky because I got a Gold package seat for really cheap and was actually pretty close up. OMFG those guys are so funny and adorable. They are so sweet with the fans and everything they said cracked me up. They always make fun of Jared and do impressions of him, and at one point they kept messing up Misha’s name and somehow his name turned into a song and dance number. I was practically on the ground. They also mentioned that Travis just got engaged, that becomes important later. When it was time for questions, this one girl who apparently had been asking the same question to all the guests went up and asked, “If you had to be eaten alive, would you rather be eaten by a zombie, raptor or a shark?” The audience groaned, because, like I said, I guess she had been asking both days, but they answered and they both said shark. I was dancing in my seat wanting to shout out that it had nearly happened to me, but I had to keep my mouth shut. But, I decided that since I had an autograph ticket with them, I would bring it up then.
After that, we had some time before Mark Shephard’s panel started, so we decided to try and get more interviews. I went outside to smoke and there were two girls outside that I thought made good candidates, so I struck up a conversation. We learned their names, Cathy and Charity and told them about the documentary and they were excited to be a part of it. So, we asked our questions and even though they were less crazy then what we wanted, some crazy things did come out of their mouths. Examples, Charity was allergic to perfume and anything with fragrance and during her photo ops with A.J and Travis she broke out into hives where Travis touched her since he was wearing cologne or something, and she said it was “awesome” and “totally worth it”. Another was that they watch episodes of their favorite T.V shows over and over and over. Charity’s boyfriend actually banned the two of them from watching shows over and over because I guess Charity had said she watched the same episode of Supernatural six times in a day and a half, and that’s less than normal. They were really sweet girls, though and we actually talked to them for a majority of the trip. They said that they were with a group and would spread the word that we wanted interviews, so we made sure to keep in touch.
Mark’s panel was next and he was a real sweetheart. He seemed surprisingly nervous, but he was really gracious and thanked us and said he loved us and kept mentioning that he was a fan too and understands where we were coming from and our mentality. He had a few funny moments, but he had a very calm, cool presence about him, as one would expect. Not much to say there, but I liked him.
We met up with Charity and Cathy again and saw their group of friends. A couple of them were there with their mothers (there was a surprising amount of middle aged plus women there) and when we explained to all of them about the documentary, one of the mothers got really excited and was telling her daughter, “Oh, you’re going to be on film!” It was so funny how legit people thought we were. I think it’s probably because I was dressed professionally and was trying my best to have a very professional demeanor. We got some great answers out of them as well and sparked some really good discussions. I happened to catch a couple of candid moments and that made me extremely happy considering the subject manner. It went swimmingly. They really spread the word and were talking about us at random times to different people. We met up with them on smoke breaks and a few times they said, “Oh, we were just talking about you.” and that’s how we met a lot more people to interview.
It was nearly time for the autographs, so I went over to the photo table and bought photos of the Ghostfacers and Mark. We mentioned to the man behind the counter that we were filming a documentary (because it came up in conversation somehow) and he jokingly said, “Well, now that I know you’re filming I have to ask you to leave”. We explained that we had followed the rules and only filmed things outside and he laughed it off. He said, “I wish we would have known because we would have tried to get you press passes or something...” I told him I had tried to e-mail Creation (which I had) and received no response. He then gave me his e-mail address and asked us to e-mail him if we were to go to another con and he would try to help us out. Brittany and I were thrilled and high-fived because we managed to make a connection. Everything was seriously coming together. It was so exciting and I hope something comes of that should Brittany and I be able to go to another con this year or next.
So, I went up to do the autographs and told A.J. “Hey, you might wanna re-think your answer about the shark because I’ve actually been attacked by one.” I wish I could have taken a picture of his face. He looked horrified and told me he was terrified of sharks. He asked me when and where and what happened so I quickly told him the story and explained the thing about my leg and he just looked scarred for life. I told the same story to Travis and he didn’t believe me at first but then was like, “wait, seriously?!” and I finally convinced him after A.J. was all, “Yeah, dude. She told me the whole story.” I just laughed that I was able to tell them that story and said thanks. I didn’t really have much of an interaction with Mark, but I just said it was nice to see him there and thanked him for coming out to see us. He wrote “love and luck” (from what I can read) on my autograph, so that was nice. I looked at Travis and A.J.’s and A.J had written “I hate sharks” under my name and Travis wrote, “I am amazed, shark?!!” it made me laugh real hard. I hope I can get scans of those soon and show you all.
We did a few more interviews that night, and Brittany got invited up to Charity and Cathy’s room while I went to the cocktail party. I went back to the hotel and changed real quick and then headed to the party. It was really cool, they had a DJ playing mostly classic rock and the centerpiece contest was pretty neat to see. People are so creative! The girl at my table sculpted everything out of clay and she had never sculpted before. It took her seven months! It looked really nice and she had scenes from everything! It was so intricate. I had about four drinks so I felt pretty good. A.J, Travis, Matt Cohen (Young John Winchester), Aldis Hodge (from Season 2... I don’t even remember his characters name) and Mark went around to each of the tables for a bit. Matt came over first and he is just the most precious thing. They weren’t supposed to sign autographs or take pictures or anything, but he pretended to be looking at the centerpiece up close and leaned in to sign a bunch of napkins and was all, “I really wanna see this, oh wow that looks cool....*shifty eyes*” ADORABLE. He gave us all hugs, since he was continuing his trend of giving out free ones. “My Sharona” came on and we were rocking out to it together for a second. He apparently was a nut at the karaoke party and continued to do “The Jerk” all weekend. It was like his thing. Aldis came over and was sweet enough, but he seemed pretty reserved. He complimented the girl on the centerpiece though, and that meant a lot to her. Travis and A.J. came over next and Travis sat next to me but talked to other people at the table, and A.J. sat across from me and I apologized for traumatizing him. He was all, “Yeah, thanks for that. I’ll never go in the ocean ever again now. I’m terrified of sharks, and now that I know that happened, I really don’t want to. If I go with friends to the beach I’ll be like, ‘No, I can’t go in the water, because there was this girl at a convention...’. Seriously, you’ve ruined it forever for me now. Never going in the ocean again because of you.” It was so funny and he’s such a dork. They ran around and gave us all high fives. They were seriously bouncing off the walls. At one point A.J jumped on some other table and was lip synching to “Don’t Stop Believin”. I had to leave before Mark came over to our table, which I was bummed about because he was spending a lot of time at each table and having an actual conversation, I guess he didn’t leave til about 3am since he was talking to people.
I would have stayed, but we beat the system and were taking the shuttle from the Westin to the airport and a shuttle from the airport to our hotel for free. It cost $20 for a taxi, and with all the trips we took, it would have been a fortune. The last shuttle left at midnight, so I had to leave before then. I’m grateful for it now since I had to be awake at 5am to get ready and do Brittany’s makeup and be there for breakfast at 8am.
Sunday, magical Sunday. How do I love thee, let me count the ways. Breakfast was a blast. Jared and Misha were seriously on something special that morning. Jared kept wanting all the attention and getting mad when Misha got questions and he didn’t. There are videos of the breakfast, so
I’ll probably post those, but some of my favorite moments were when Jared would get jealous of Misha. He just kept throwing tantrums like a toddler, but in a precious way. Someone asked Jared how much he could bench, and he said 355. 355. I’m not joking. That’s like, two of me. Apparently, he can’t do so much anymore and isn’t as athletic. He talked about in the previous seasons how he was hitting the gym every day and there would be scenes where it said something like, “Sam does rapid fire push ups” “Sam runs 3 miles in two minutes” “Sam hauls a car” and now he’s like, “Uh...I can’t do this stuff, guys!” Then Misha chimed in with, “He suggested things like, ‘Sam eats donuts’....which can be equally sexy.” Then Jared said something about that scene coming up and he’ll be doing it naked. There was another joke where he said something about Sam paying for sex and he forgot that there had actually been an episode where that happened and asked the audience about it, and he was all, “I was kinda joking, but you’re right! Oh my god, you’re right!” and Misha was all, “I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU ALL KNOW THAT!!!!” Oh my god, I never stopped laughing. One more thing from breakfast before I move on. There was a 3 foot tall woman there and she had a guide dog and she asked Jared where she would come up to on him, so he jumped off stage and ran up to her and was all, “Uh, right about there.” and then he hugged her then started petting her dog, then he saw another girls guide dog and petted him and was running around all the tables being all, “Who has dogs, who has dogs?!” It was so adorable.
I met up with Brittany again after that and we waited for Jensen’s photo ops. I let Brittany jump in on my Jensen op because she was so persistent and I was feeling generous. On that day, I was wearing my “I’d go straight for Misha Collins” shirt, so when I walked up to Jensen he was all, “What does it say?” and when I told him he tossed his head back and laughed. Then I said, “I’d go straight for you too, if that makes you feel better.” And he was all, “It does, thanks” and smiled, then we did our picture. HE SMELLED SO GOOD. I don’t know what he was wearing, but OH GOD, he smelled wonderful. It was a bit strong and you could follow his scent down the hallway, but I still liked it.
We kinda slacked on our “work” that day. I think we did one more interview, and that girl was really nice. We were talking to her mom the night before (Yes, another mother daughter duo. We met three of them!) and she works for Misha’s charity. I guess she is all over the place on LJ, so I’m going to go look for her. She was mentioning the crazy stuff she’s seen and mentioned that there was already fic involving Misha’s son. It’s nothing inappropriate like sexual or anything, but just the fact that it exists three weeks after his birth is a little too much to handle. She said she wasn’t allowed to say anything about it on camera but got her daughter to for us. So, having that in there was pretty interesting. It’s just the kinda crazy shit we wanted in there.
I think it was at this point that Misha and Jared’s panel started. OH LORD. Okay, so, it was all brilliant, but I’ll skip straight to the good part. I got the nerve to get up there and ask a question, so, since I had a good seat I got in line pretty quick. I made Brittany go up with me since I was so flippin nervous. Right when I got up to the mic and it was the other side’s turn, Jensen showed up and crashed the panel. So, naturally I felt a lot of pressure. Jensen posed as a nervous fan and it was adorable. He talked for a bit and then they all turned to me. So, here’s how that went.
Boys: Hey.
Me: Hey, I hope I’m not a buzzkill since you just got up there, Jensen but my question is for Misha.
Jensen: How about if I answer Misha’s question?
Me: Uh, okay, I guess that works.
*He gestures that he’s kidding*
Me: So, we’re filming a documentary on the psychology of fandom...not now, so no one get mad at me, but we wanted your opinion. Why is it that when so many actors run away towards fandom, you run towards it and attempt to have some sort of relationship with your fans?
Jared: *reading my shirt* Would you really go straight for Misha?
Me: Yes.
Jared: *turning to Misha and grabbing his hand* Good job, man. You did it.
Misha: Yes, turning gay people. That’s my job.
Me: And you’re one of four men on that list, so feel privileged.
Jared: Oh, so %25 percent.
Me: No, because he has top billing. Even over Johnny Depp.
Jared: Do you need to have your eyes checked?
Me: ...I have a comment, but I’m not going to say it because that would give you guys too much...
*Brittany jumps in front of the mic*
Brittany: She’s legally blind. (because I am without my contacts)
At this point, the crowd starts dying, Misha starts walking off stage and Jared stands up in a victory pose. Jensen’s sitting in the corner facepalming and so am I. Then, Jared runs off the stage and starts barreling towards me, covering his eyes with his hands to make fun of me and then uncovering them and hugging me. Now, hugging that man really is like hugging a brick wall and I thought I was going to get the air squeezed out of my lungs because he was hugging me so tight. He apologized and then pulled away and was all, “It’s me, Jared” while pointing to his face. He turned around and gave Brittany a pat on the shoulder, which she calls the “I’m proud of you son.” pat. (I felt really bad about that because she loves Jared way more than me). Jensen then puts on his sunglasses and does a Stevie Wonder impression while singing “Mon Cherie Amor.” and we all start laughing. I go back into the mic and say “I have contacts!!” like 4 times and get mad at Jensen and Jared by saying, “You scared him off! I don’t care how pretty you are!” I don’t know why I blamed them, but I did. Misha finally came back and it went like this.
Jensen: Was there a question?
Me: Yeah, should I repeat it?
Misha: I’ll tell him. *he turns to Jensen* So, basically they are doing a documentary on crazy people and want to know basically why I make an attempt to have a relationship with the fans...*turns to me* What gave you that impression?
Me: Just with the things you’ve done and you’re twitter and things like that seem like a more genuine attempt than most actors.
Jensen: I'll answer... it's because Misha doesn't work so he has to do something.
Jared: I love that she calls Misha’s twitter genuine.
Jensen: Yeah because isn’t twitter one sided?
Misha: Like most relationships.
*Everyone laughs*
I don’t really remember what happened after that, but needless to say my question didn’t get answered. I didn’t really think that it would, so I just said thank you and walked away.
When I was walking up to my seat, Cathy ran up to me and was all, “Can I hug you since you hugged him?” I laughed and hugged her and sat down. The rest of the panel was adorable and hilarious, especially Misha’s impression of Dean and Jared’s impression of Cas and Future!Cas. Look those videos up, it’s so funny. They are too precious for this world.
I think autographs were after that, and Jared didn’t say much to me besides debate which pen to use on my picture for about five minutes and then winked and said something like, “Thanks, honey.” Then I went up to Misha and he kinda giggled and was all,
Misha: “Hello, love. How are you doing?”
Me: “Good, besides a little embarrassed.”
Misha: “Oh, I’m not embarrassed.”
Me: “Oh, good! That makes me feel a lot better.”
Misha: “I’m sorry your question didn’t get answered.”
Me: “Well, it’s you, so I didn’t really expect it to.”
Then he winked at me as I walked out and smiled and I melted on the inside.
Misha and Jared’s photo ops were next and I was going to ask for a pose if I saw other people asking, and thankfully, I did. So, I decided to ask them for blue steel. They both were game and we took our picture. As I walked away, Jared pulled me back and was all, “Wait, I didn’t do it.” So, I laughed and was all, “Alright. You’re evil! Y U NO DO IT?” He just kinda stumbled through his words and we did it again, and they said thanks and I walked off. You guys, that picture. I can’t even. I can’t wait to show you. I don’t even know what’s happening in it.
Nothing really happened in between that, but then it was Misha photo op time. OKAY. THIS STORY IS HILARIOUS. So, there was this woman going up and down the line, with a big ol’ rock on her finger and asking random pairs of girls, “Were you the two fun girls that me and Travis Wester were talking to in the bar? Have we ever talked before?” Every girl I saw said, “No” and I put two and two together and figured she was probably Travis’s new fiance. I kept seeing her diligently searching the entire time in line. I thought it was pretty funny. It gets better later, but I’ll talk about the photo op first. I walked up to Misha and I was all, “It’s me again.” he went, “Hey, doll.”
Me: *dead* Can I hug you?
Misha: *smiles wide* Of course.
So, we exit buddy hug for our picture and I walk away and thank him again and he smiles and says thanks.
So, yeah. He called me petnames and hugged me SO TIGHT. He smelled really good too, btw and I seriously felt his stubble on my face when we hugged. I can pretty much still feel it there if I think about it. Seriously, dead.
All throughout the day I felt like a celeb because I had random people coming up to me and saying they liked my shirt or that when I talked to the boys it was really funny, etc... and one time Brittany and I were walking and this girl that neither one of us had talked to was all, “Hey, guys.” So, being polite, we both said, “Hey!” back. But then we both looked at each other like, “Do you know her?” “No, do you?”. Cool and weird at the same time.
Okay, so the Travis story gets better. At the end of the night, Brittany and I went outside and I had a smoke and the usual smoker crowd was out there. We were just shooting the shit and discussing things etc. Then, who should walk out but Travis. He walks right past us with the woman I suspected to be his fiance (which was pretty much confirmed at that point) and TWO OTHER GIRLS. I just smiled at him and he had the smuggest look on his face. Seriously like, “Fuck yeah.” All the girls were in short skirts and high heels and after he passed we all just looked at each other and started laughing. TRAVIS WESTER IS A FUCKING WHORE. THE GHOSTFACER. Seriously.
I just got home about four hours ago and am dead tired. It’s a good thing considering I’m being thrown back into reality bright and early again for job #1. Hopefully, I can commandeer the scanner there and scan all the pics and stuff so you guys can see.
I’ll be in shock and awe if you got through that.
Here’s a youtube video of my question
Click to viewand the entire panel can be downloaded here.
I hope you guys watch! Nice to be back and I love you all!