Why Does My Only Ruby Icon Look So Angry?

[rionaleonhart]

I have returned from the 'Asylum' Supernatural convention!

Firstly: I was terribly nervous beforehand, and it was very expensive, and the organisation was dreadful, and we lived off crisps and Subway sandwiches for three days, and I've never queued so much in my life, but it was such a good experience and I'm so glad I went. I was sharing a room with wanttobeatree and theoret, who are amazing, and all of the actors were some combination of friendly, hilarious, adorable and insane.

(From what I've heard, however, Jensen Ackles may have had a less good experience, which makes me quite sad. THINGS FOR FUTURE CONVENTION ORGANISERS TO BEAR IN MIND: you cannot force a man to sign a million autographs in two afternoons, because his hand will fall off.)


Friday was a rather frustrating day of travelling on trains and failing to travel in queues, of which the highlight was playing 'Truth or Unicorn' in the photo queue with a_starfish. Basically, the players sit in a circle and spin a toy unicorn, and then the person to whom the horn is pointing has to either act like a unicorn or tell the truth... about unicorns.

We are easily amused. Also, wanttobeatree is an excellent galloper.

By the time we filed into the panel room on Saturday, we had spent countless hours in queues and on trains, and we were tired, and the start was delayed, and I was wondering whether I had made a horrible mistake by coming, and then a fanvid to 'The Boys are Back' from High School Musical 3 started up and I knew it was going to be a good weekend.

Here is the story of my favourite part.



As all three of us are huge Ruby fans, one of the things that had most excited us about the prospect of going to Asylum was the rumour that Genevieve Cortese might be present to support Jared. There was no sign of her, however, and by the disco on Saturday evening we had more or less given up hope of a sighting.

We were sitting on the floor, stealing each other's shoes and listening to the live music, and when it finished and everone stood we noticed that someone had left their rucksack on the floor in front of us. Deciding to be good citizens, we picked it up and made our way towards one of the convention organisers.

On the way, we ran into one of wanttobeatree's friends.

"Someone left their bag behind," we said.

"Did you know Genevieve's over there?" she asked.

"WHAT?" we demanded, before dashing away in the indicated direction, leaving the rucksack abandoned in the arms of Tree's mildly bemused friend.

There were desks and security guards barring us from the corner of the room Tree's friend had indicated, but with a little craning we did indeed manage to spot Genevieve's beautiful face. "Oh my God, she's there, oh my God," I exclaimed manfully, before staff members pulled a screen across the corner, cruelly hiding her from our sight.

We were, quite understandably, not let in to shout 'OMG ♥' at an actress who wasn't officially part of the convention and presumably just wanted to listen to some music, so we asked a staff member to pass on our 'OMG ♥' to her and retreated to make excited squeaking noises at each other and eye the Genevieve-obscuring screen longingly.

And, as a result of our creepy lingering, we were near the front of the queue when Genevieve unexpectedly emerged to sign a very limited (only forty-two!) number of photographs.

THE MORAL OF THIS STORY: CREEPY LINGERING PAYS.

She was so lovely! She shook my hand and said my name was beautiful and was generally so gorgeous and friendly and charming. I stumbled away in a daze, clutching the amazing Ruby picture she had signed, and then collapsed into Susan's arms and started crying.

AND I WAS BEING SO DIGNIFIED UP TO THAT POINT. I swear I was not that excited about any of the official guests. Jared and Jensen? Yeah, they're pretty awesome. Genevieve? HEARTS AND INCOHERENCY.


The next day, I had Jared autograph my DVDs. The exchange we had went like this:

Jared: Hi!
Riona: Hi! Um, I spoke to Genevieve Cortese yesterday, and I was wondering whether you could thank her for me, because she was so lovely.
Jared: She is! She is. She's a doll. I definitely will.
Riona: Thank you! And thank you for coming as well; I hear you play something on Supernatural.
Jared: (throws back his head and laughs) Yeah, now and then.

That's right: I got a full head-thrown-back laugh out of Jared Padalecki. It felt pretty awesome.



Speaking of High School Musical (well, I was before the cut): an audience member suggested that Zac Efron play Sam in ten or twenty years' time. THAT'S RIGHT: ZAC EFRON IS FIFTY-YEAR-OLD SAM WINCHESTER.


At some point in the future, I shall probably make a rambling and disjointed entry about the actors who were, you know, actually there to talk and things, all of whom were amazing. For now, however, all you get is this little tale of my being smitten and ridiculous. Also, I'll tell you that at one point Jensen Ackles, rather oddly, said, 'If I were a dude, I would be here.'

It doesn't make any more sense in context.

Comments

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

RIONA WHY ARE YOU SO ADORABLE, THIS POST IS ADORABLE.

At least I warned you that cons involve a lot of waiting around! But they usually provide some AWESOME TIMES to make up for it.

[rionaleonhart]

I am glad my ridiculousness is at least cute.

I think this may have been a particularly waity-around con, because they had clearly sold tickets to more people than they could cope with. WAY TO ORGANISE, GUYS. But there were indeed awesome times!

[calamitysxchild.livejournal.com]

AAAAHHHH I WISH I WAS THEREEEE

you lucky ho you.

[misscam.livejournal.com]

Had fun, then? :P

I just read a lot of very silly wank about this convention. Hum.

[rionaleonhart]

Oh, dear. Dare I ask?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_afterism/]

I got a full head-thrown-back laugh out of Jared Padalecki.
YOU ARE AMAZING.

also, am very jealous. Gen! ♥

[rionaleonhart]

It was a good moment.

Hearts for Gen indeed! There was a general cheer when it was announced that she was in the building and signing, which pleased me immensely, because I was afraid that the fans might not be welcoming.

[honeymull.livejournal.com]

GENEVIEVE.

ALKJDHGLKJDHGLJHEGLJKHVDLJHv.

SLKUHDG.


AS:KG.

kjh.

&

[rionaleonhart]

This is a fairly accurate representation of the noises I was making. I LOVE HER.

[thrennion.livejournal.com]

YOU = AWESOME. TRUFAX.
*is also a tad jealous*

[lo0o0ony-lauren.livejournal.com]

♥ ahhhhhhhhh I agree with RD, this whole post is lovely & I'm so glad you guys had a good time! I don't really know what cons involve (there are videos on YT that involve a lot of...screaming?), but it sounds pretty fun so far. Can't wait to read all about it or, I suppose, something a bit less thirties-newspaper-boy.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

*_* OH HAPPY MEMORIIIIIES.

[rionaleonhart]

Indeed! (When I showed the picture to my mother, she said that she thought I looked a bit like Genevieve. Never before have I been so pleased by a comment about my appearance.)

[zeitheist.livejournal.com]

YAY GENEVIEVE. My friends and I shamelessly hung around her table to stare at her in awe. Also YAY PADALECKI. Your reply to him was brilliant. You're brilliant.

I'm sorry to hear Jensen might not have had a good time, though. :(

[rionaleonhart]

Hee, thank you! (We were probably very close to each other if you were hanging around Genevieve's table! It is a shame I didn't know what you looked like.)

I can't speak with any authority on Jensen's experience, because all I've heard is vague mutterings and rumours, but he did miss his final panel because he was so busy signing autographs, which doesn't sound like much fun.

[bubbles-san.livejournal.com]

You're very lucky, getting to meet someone you admire. Most of the famous people I admire seem to be dead. The cost of 6o's fandoms, I suppose. (icon is for an example, btw, not because I'm being suggestive at you.)

[make-a-move.livejournal.com]

THIS POST NEEDS MOAR MISHA.

(However, yay for this post. Look at you making Jared Padalecki laugh!)

[bouncywild.livejournal.com]

I didn't know she was there at ALL. You're like the SECOND person to mention it, and the first person that did was a crazy and was like, "I hear Genevieve's... around." ¬___¬

But Saturday night was crazy and I just wanted to die by that point.

BUT YAY for talking to Jared! I just sort of looked at him and said thanks. And then freaked out. mmmmm.

[bridget-x-alena.livejournal.com]

I AM TOTALLY JEALOUS OF YOUR GENEVIEVE MEETING AND HEAD-THROWN-BACK PADALECKI LAUGH.

So glad you had a good time! :)

[rionaleonhart]

Thank you! (Your icon pleases me greatly.)

[bubl.livejournal.com]

Jared: (throws back his head and laughs) Yeah, now and then.

THIS MAKES ME LOVE BOTH OF YOU.

And I'm so excited you got to see Gen!!

'If I were a dude, I would be here.'

NO more sense in context? Not even a little? What were other people saying?

[rionaleonhart]

I WAS ALSO EXCITED THAT I GOT TO SEE GEN. Just in case that was not clear from this entry.

Well, here is the context for you: a guy came up to ask a question and mentioned the fact that there were so few dudes at the convention. Jensen said, 'If I were a dude, I would be here; look at the odds!'

I had been under the impression that Jensen was, in fact, a dude, and was, in fact, there, but apparently not.

[cryforthemoon.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you had a good time. :D

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Aw, sweet! I bet they thought you were charming. It sounds like there isn't much appreciation for actresses and female characters, so it must have been nice to meet female fans who were so sweetly enthusiastic.

Also, you rock.

[moogle62.livejournal.com]

Glad you had a good time! My limited Supernatural knowledge means that I don't really have that much to add on the subject (fail for me) but I AT LEAST KNOW SOME OF THE NAMES YOU MENTION, and ajkdhjsgf well done, hurrah you enjoyed yourself all up with the famous peoples. :DDD

[misplacedmarble.livejournal.com]

That's right: I got a full head-thrown-back laugh out of Jared Padalecki. It felt pretty awesome.

OMGOMGOMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU MET JARED PADALECKI! YOU MADE HIM LAUGH! THROUGH YOU I AM LIVING MY WILDEST DREAMS!

Ok, well, maybe that's an exaggeration. :P BUT IT'S STILL SO COOL.

[rionaleonhart]

It was pretty great! I am happy to be used as a vessel for vicarious celebrity-meeting.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY :D

[rionaleonhart]

Yay indeed!

(I seeeeee you.)

[gulliblesnail.livejournal.com]

Aw, head-thrown-back laughs!

Basically, the players sit in a circle and spin a toy unicorn, and then the person to whom the horn is pointing has to either act like a unicorn or tell the truth... about unicorns.

I've never been much for party games, which is clearly because I'd never known they could be as amazing as TRUTH OR UNICORN.

[rionaleonhart]

IT IS A PRETTY AMAZING GAME. (One of the 'truth' questions was 'Do unicorns naturally sparkle, or does it mean they're vampires?')

[bouncywild.livejournal.com]

Did you hear the part where Jensen said (about the dodgeball scene) he got to "peg a kid"?! My friends and I were like "PFFFFT!" and maybe we're just weird, but no one else understood what that potentially meant at all.

[misskass.livejournal.com]

OH WOW I COULDN'T BE MORE JEALOUS OF YOU. I've tried to make celebrities laugh at conventions, but it never works. D= Usually I just stumble away, pleased that I didn't, IDK, throw up all over them or something. I'm a really ridiculous fan. =\

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

I wish I could have gone. But I would have been all I HAVE NO IDEA WHO HALF THESE ACTORS ARE, I NEED TO WATCH MORE

but head-thrown-back laugh! i am proud of you.

[smidirini.livejournal.com]

*waves* Hello, I am tree's mildly bemused friend. LOL. I'm glad you got to talk to her!

[rionaleonhart]

Hello! I was hoping to see you again and thank you for alerting us to her presence; we certainly wouldn't have managed it otherwise. Thank you so much!

[counteragent.livejournal.com]

This is such a cute post!