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rionaleonhart) wrote2009-06-01 02:35 pm
rionaleonhart) wrote2009-06-01 02:35 pm
Why Does My Only Ruby Icon Look So Angry?
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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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 witha_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 ofwanttobeatree'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.
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.
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-badly spelled screeds about Jeremy and Richard hiding their true love due to evil James=Jonathan Ross
-ranty screeds about James and Richard hiding their ragingly homosexualist love which is blatantly obvious, because they ride motorbikes=Jeremy
-strangely comma-deprived screeds about James and Jeremy being lazy and rubbish old tossers who are hiding their secret gay love behind the world's most unconvincing facade of heterosexuality, but are terrific blokes really, and anyone who gives them any trouble will get kicked in the teeth=Richard
We may have a system!
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Also, if there're lots of multiple exclamation marks involved, Jeffrey Donovan did it (http://twitter.com/Jeffrey_Donovan), if his Twitter is anything to go by.
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Aw, that's cute! Or, as Jeffrey Donovan would apparently put it, cute!!!!!!
Now I want to see an argument between a 'mysterious' anonymous tinhatter with way too many exclamation marks, and one who can't spell, and have the main three sit around going "One of them's obviously Wossy, but who the hell is this other bloke?"
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For extra hilarity, add Misha Collins. He did say he wanted to write slashfic, and he would probably argue in favour of Jeremy/Richard, James/Richard, James/Jeremy, OT3, and anything involving The Stig.
Jeffrey wouldn't be terribly good at internet arguements, but he would be adorable!!!!
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And then Jeffrey Donovan would be all "I think James/Richard is cute!!!!! Just look at how they sit next to each other and give each other looks!!!!!!!!!"
And then Wossy would jump in.
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Meanwhile, Bruce Campbell regrets the day he ever told Jeffrey about that pretty cool carshow.
I will not write Burn Notice RPF. I will not write Burn Notice RPF. Especially not about Bruce getting Jeffrey into Top Gear who then becomes a crazy shipper, so Bruce then turns to Gabrielle Anwar for some sanity, but Gabrielle sees Jeremy and goes 'excellent! A pyromaniac who likes guns! I can use him as a role model of sorts for when I'm playing Fiona!'
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Wossy would just go for the rage apocalypse. Possibly with an epic flounce, and even pseuicide.
Poor Bruce.
Why will you not write that? You need an idea for your big bang anyway! And it has Bruce Campbell, which automatically makes it at least 97% pure awesome!
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Bruce will complain that it is a CARshow, so people should be paying attention to the CARS, and okay, to the crazy stunts as well, and the races, and not to debate the presenters' personal lives like that. Bruce has also sent screencaps of James' horrible flowery shirts to the Burn Notice stylists with a 'I think this shirt is perfect for Sam' note.
I already told the person in charge of it I would write Top Gear RPF! So now I'll have to! Even if you're right about Bruce.
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(Yes, in my head, Jeffrey Donovan speaks with way too many exclamation points, whenever he's not acting. Bruce finds it cute in kind of a goofy way. Most people find it incredibly annoying.)
Damn. You could do two fic in one summer, maybe?
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(Jeffrey is just a very enthusiastic guy. And tweets stuff like "Humidity is not bad in Miami.... If you are a FISH!!!!!!" in-between his attempts at arguing with the sockpuppet army.
The RPF big bang allows for crossovers and AUs, and sign ups are closed anyway. I think that if I do incorporate crazy Jonathan Ross and Jeffrey Donovan and Misha Collins having shipwars over Top Gear, it would be a damn crazy crossover. Hilarious, but crazy.
Either that, or I shall be stealing the idea that came up in your LJ, where James Blunt is a supersecret vampire hunter and Richard is bitten by a vampire and Jeremy gets distracted by James Blunt's tank.
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And Bruce would be all over the Gay Wine Adventure. Then he'd find the Gay Drink Everything In Sight Adventure, and probably like that best, because it's hard for Oz to blather on about French crap in the middle of the average English pub. And then there'd be Bruce's Experiments With Making His Own Beer. Possibly involving fewer ingredients stolen from random breweries than James used.
I approve of the crossover idea. I think it would be brilliant!
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Bruce would also discover the Gay American Wine Adventure, and he will be keeping notes, for the next time he's in that area of California. Also, Bruce's homemade beer won't be very good.
It would prove that Top Gear fandom is the crackiest.
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I could picture Bruce with a list, offering to rent the world's largest motorhome with Jeffrey, being all "You're my friend, and I know you've been going through a rough time with the guy on TV apparently dating the other guy on TV, or not, and the whole internet thing with the ships or whatever, and now that you're actually in the motorhome, you're the designated driver. Wake me when we get to California."
See? It would be For The Fandom!
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Bruce would!
Oh, dear, it could work, and it is WAY too tempting.
Also, new Burn Notice episodes today!!!!!
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Gabrielle would have no sympathetic. Bruce would come complaining to her, too, going "I just wanted to watch a car show, and now Jeffrey's giving me all this crap about dating, and everyone being gay, and boats or something, and this guy named Wossy, who's apparently ruining his life somehow," and Gabrielle would just not care.
It would work quite well, really. And wouldn't it be lovely to share the awesome power of Top Gear-related crack?
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I always suspected.