NOLA Con JPEGs are in!
Met first-timer Jordan at pre-reg and made instant friends. But she didn’t have a Misha op so we HAD to fix that.
Wasn’t entirely happy with how this op turned out and Jensen’s hair was so beautifully floofy at this con that I couldn’t bear to not have a photo I wasn’t happy with so of course I bought another one (can you hear my wallet crying?)
Last year at my birthday con in Indy photo ops were still “no touch” so I had to have Misha stand in for me in my birthday hug. This year I got to play myself. <3
Jensen: Looks at me with this ‘what’s up with this, why are you back again?’ gesture
Me: “We just have to make this one super cute because the last one was NOT cute.”
Jensen: Completely understands the assignment
Me: Promptly dies of embarrassment because I just told Jensen TO HIS FACE that he didn’t look cute in my photo. *face palm*
Moose hug to tide me over since I won’t see him again until August.
Side note: The Moose was SWEATY. This is a picture of me with my face pressed up against damp t-shirt and the musk was definitely in action (I am not complaining).
Jeff Pierre is officially the happiest man to ever be in a photo. And such a sweetheart.
I also have to share an autograph story.
In the Gold panel at Atlanta last month the boys were talking about props they got from set and Jared asked Jensen if he had gotten any of the green army men, and Jensen said no.
Well, as it happens, I have a little batch of the green army men from props. In the prop and wardrobe auction after the series ended, I purchased the little tin soldiers from LARP and the Real Girl (the ones on the map table in Charlie’s tent that Dean and Charlie are doing battle strategy with). When they were shipped to me, they were all packed up in a rubbermaid box, labeled with the episode. And I opened it up only to discover, not just the tin soldiers I had purchased, but also 13 of Sam’s green army men. No WAY the auction house knew the significance of them or they wouldn’t have been tucked in as the best ever bonus to my purchase.
Anyway, flash forward to NOLA. I’ve brought two of the little green guys with me to give to Jensen. I go up to him at autos, nervous as hell, and start blabbering while he’s signing for me. “You were saying in the panel in Atlanta that you didn’t get any of the green army men from set, and it happens that I have some of the army men from set, so I thought these belonged with you.” And I hand them to him.
He’s just staring at them for a bit looking absolutely stunned and not saying anything and I keep blabbering about how I got them kind of accidentally with something else I bought in the auction. And somewhere in there he looks up... and the look on his face... I will live off that for a long time. It was the most beautiful, delighted smile and he said “I will gladly take these off your hands.” And I said “I thought you might like them.” And then I walked away and it took a good ten minutes for my heart to return to beating at a normal speed.
And then the next morning in the gold panel, this happened. I am so, so grateful to have been able to bring him this little moment of joy. Kind of made the whole con for me (and it was a REALLY good con).
And then, to make things even better I had a whole conversation with Drake about filming locations for The Winchesters and all the ones I had visited in the last couple of days, and he went “Wait, are you the one who posted that photo of Dean from the Pilot” because apparently he saw one of my location photos on Twitter? WHAT? He also tried to give me directions to one of the locations I still can’t find, but as yet I still haven’t been able to find it.
But anyway, yeah. Best con yet? Yup, I think so. <3
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