have been unavoidably detained by the world

The law school library (in one of their many [futile] efforts to get us involved) has a little poster board up with a border made of pictures of famous lawyers from various movies and tv shows and they ask "Who is your favorite fictional lawyer?"

We get to write our answers on post it notes and stick it to the poster. One wrote "This one!" with an arrow pointing to James Spader from Boston Legal.

I passed it today, stopped, pulled one of the post-its and wrote "KATE SPENCER" in giant letters and stuck it to the board. No one knows who she is but I'm not letting Marvel get all the comic book lawyers on that board. (Someone had put She-Hulk. I didn't notice a Matt Murdoch.)

Also, today I finally figured out where I can go online to find D*Con news and discussion, now that the official LJ has been dying along with the rest of the platform. Reddit.

I mean, I don't have a reddit account, but that's ok. The migration from LJ has basically turned me into a lurker anyway.

And how else would I have found video of all the EFF panels that I missed? HUH?

Lastly, I made the massive mistake of discovering the Hamilton soundtrack free online and also the Genius lyric commentary site so instead of doing homework, I'm listening to the whole soundtrack researching the legality of dueling in NJ.

So, you know, good things.

Once again, I reactivated my twitter account for Dragon*Con. I'll probably be updating sporadically and also using it to keep up with other people/events at con. (And watching Tom Hardy be adorable. Sometimes I think he really wants to be a RL badass, and then he hugs a puppy or something.)

My username on twitter is Eldarwannabe (because I am SO CREATIVE) and I have it set to text my phone, so that's the best way to get in touch with me until next week. (Email is the second-best option!)

If you're reading this and you're planning to come to Dragon*con, drop me a line! I'm always up for meeting new people. :D

It only took two days for this week to be in the absolute pits (Long story: In short, don't use AT&T or UPS. Ever.) and two posts from the Dragon*Con Brittrack to make everything aaaaaall better.

First, John and Scott got legally married! And now, depending on how the heck the federal government decides to standardize the Supreme Court ruling, they'll be able to enter the U.S. in the same line at immigration. Awwwwww.

Second, and actually more shocking (what? John and Scott have been not-legally-married for years):

BURN GORMAN IS COMING TO DRAGON*CON.

*faints*

*squees*

*stops eating because if I want a picture with his skinny frame I need to not look like I could squish him*

…If Naoko ends up coming this year, it's going to be a complete Torchwood reunion. *can't handle the pressure*

HEY FLIST. Considering the massive amounts of Torchwood love this year, anyone interested in doing a meet-up at con? I was thinking Saturday night or Sunday. I can bring the unbridled enthusiasm!

Dragon*Con
 
Well, LOTS happened this year. I went to the George Perez panel. I met a ton of awesome online people. I went to the Nichelle Nichols panel! I got a picture of Haldir in a muscle shirt. I very nearly ran into Felicia Day. (Literally. I wasn't watching where I was going, she was rushing towards a panel.) I had a totally different sleep schedule than most of my room, but I had one fabulous night chatting with pocky_slash, pressdbtwnpages and chiasmus until I fell asleep. (I kept doing that. Oops.)
 
But, well, I very nearly cancelled this year until the Torchwood guests were announced, so it isn't hard to figure out which panels I planned my schedule around.
 
( DRAGON*CON: A WEEKEND OF KAI AND VOLDEMORT )

OVERALL it was amazing. Too short, too fast and slightly too sleep-deprived, but amazing. Already bought my ticket for next year. :)

I'm fiercely holding on until Dragon*Con. I'm even working my way through the Barrowman sibling YA novel in anticipation of getting JB to sign it. (I though I would ask him a question about the book to be clever. But instead I'm going to ask about his role on Arrow.)

BUT I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING FOR KAI OWEN TO SIGN. D:

Should I buy one of the audiobooks he read on CD? Or, um, ???

Also, I am packing. And while I don't think all women pack the same, THIS IS HOW I PACK:



Listen, if there is any weekend the Zombie Apocalypse is going to show up in Atlanta, it will be Dragon*Con weekend.

Buying John Barrowman's YA fantasy novel from the Book Depository because it's not being released in the US officially until October. Which is a month too late to get him to sign it at Dragon*Con.

I really like having people sign things that mean something to them. ilizze probably remembers, but I asked GDL to sign his comic (or, really, Torchwood comic issues #2 and #3) and I'm planning to ask Barrowman to sign issue #1 (with a story he wrote) and his book. I'm mildly considering buying his second autobiography to have him sign that too. I do have the first one in ebook edition, but he can't exactly sign that. The first one was a welcome hilarious relief during a really bad time last semester, so I'm definitely planning on reading the second at some point.

I don't know if I want a picture with him, though. I imagine he's going to be charging plenty for both of these, and I still have to figure out pics/signatures/squee for Eve Myles and Kai Owen. Plus, time. I'm super awkward when meeting celebrities, so it's not something I'm dying to spend hours and hours waiting to do. I'd mostly rather have signatures than pictures. Overall I'm a much bigger fan of panels.

Too bad I can't get Kai to sign his twitter feed. Hey, he writes it! THAT would be hilarious.

APPARENTLY JOHN BARROWMAN IS COMING TO DRAGON*CON THIS YEAR???? *flail*

NOW I KNOW THE PANELS I AM GOING TO.

WHERE THE HELL DID I PUT THE COMIC HE WROTE? I HAVE TO PACK IT FOR HIM TO SIGN.

NO I CAN'T STOP CAPSING. MY FINGERS WON'T LET ME.

I'm going to have a more extended con report with all sorts of stuff, but I know what you REALLY WANT. You don't care about William Shatner or Wil Wheaton. You just want me to tell you that Gareth looked great and was hilarious. Right? I KNOW YOU DO. So here's the details on his panels. The bit about me meeting him will be in the longer write-up, probably.

Friday panel

My Flip ran out of battery a minute in, which is why there is an awkward break, but I got the vast majority of the panel. Vimeo limits uploads, so here's the first part now and I'll put up the second part when I can!

Gareth David-Lloyd at Dragon*Con '11 from Eldarwannabe on Vimeo.

Saturday panel

I hope someone else uploads a video or pics, because I've not got a thing from it. Link me if you see something?

( Instead, highlights! )

Sunday

This wasn't a typical panel, but rather a live audio commentary given by Gareth on Countrycide, which he has claimed as his favorite episode since forever. I'm not a bit horror fan, actually. I'm fairly neutral on the genre as a whole. *shrug*

I've got a few video clips on my camera which will be hopefully uploaded at some point after the rest of the Friday post. BUT I do have a complete audio file of the whole thing that I recorded to my phone. I'm not the first one, someone beat me to it, but I'm willing to figure out how to upload it if people still want me too?

(WARNINGS, guys, for anti-Gwen and anti-Jack comments. He even says something mildly disparaging about Tosh. It's fairly obvious Gareth's pandering to the crowd, but I was surprised at one or two things. (He compliments Burn Gorman at one point, though! Ha!) How did fandom's negativity about Gwen get prevalent enough for that? *is distressed*)

No matter how much Gareth makes fun of Wales in the commentary, I WANT TO GO TO THERE AGAIN. (Actually, now I want to drive out to some pub in the middle of nowhere and take off my shoes and curl up with a beer, which he talks about. And I think beer tastes like pee. Apparently I'm up for anything if someone talks about it fondly in a Welsh accent.)

Before he started, he auctioned off the defaced Children of Earth poster from Wizard World Chicago to raise money for his band's new CD, and I managed to record that as well. As he was planning to toss it, I think he might be surprised by how much it went for.

He ALSO mentioned that he'd love to bring the band over to the states, and specifically asked us to politely pressure Dragon*Con for next year.

...

!!!!!!!!!!!!

IF THIS HAPPENS, WE'RE ALL GOING TO D*CON NEXT YEAR, OK? I can attempt to show that they are weirdly better in RL than they are in video, and pocky_slash can make fun of them anyway!

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This post will be updated with the rest of the video for Friday, and possibly pictures at some point. If you want to link to any video/pics/etc. of the three panels that you find online, I'll link to them here for posterity. I like saving links. :)

Dear Internet Service Provider,

THE HURRICANE WAS ON SUNDAY MORNING. CLAIMING AN INTERNET OUTAGE NOW IS UNACCEPTABLE.

Good think I have friends on campus so I can stay here and use their 'net. But, everything I meant to take care of before I left isn't happening. So remember everybody! I will probably miss the new Torchwood and Who this weekend! No spoilers until Tuesday!

I'm off to dig up my flight confirmation home. THIS IS NOT A GOOD TIME TO LACK INTERNET. I HAVE IMPORTANT THINGS TO PRINT. LIKE FIC.

I have a smartphone so I won't be totally out of the loop, but email is the best way to get in touch for the duration - eldarwannabe at gmail dot com.

LOVE YOU ALL. ♥

Read this article and decided that yes, I think I'm going to take a train to Dragon*Con. I have to figure out if I can find my International Student ID Card I bought for London to try and get a discount, but this is ridiculous.

And this would make me so much happier if I didn't know anything about our current supreme court. Because if this case makes it too far, it could end badly.

What the hell, America.