Dragon Con 2013 - Day 2
Aug. 31st, 2013 02:40 pmSecond Day! Got up, took my time getting out of bed, to be honest. Showered, threw on Cheetara again and did my makeup again and everything, to go down to the Walk of Fame and try to see about that picture Burn Gorman said he wanted. He wasn't there, so we went and grabbed breakfast instead, then split up and I went down with the boy to see if he was there this time. He was! But I couldn't line jump just to ask him about that photo, so I stood in line for twenty minutes or so trying not to bolt from fear. Which turned out to be a good thing because not only did he remember me "How could I forget?" he thanked me for taking the time -- ME. That's a thing I usually say to actors! And he asked if I was changing into another costme or street clothes, so I briefly told him my costume plans, and he high-fived me again and was generally exuberant and darling. And now when I get home I have to watch all of the Torchwood and the ... thing. EVERYTHING WITH HIM IN IT. He was SO SWEET. I love this man. I wondered how this day could top yesterday? That was it.
So, after that we went out to the exhibitor's hall where I got an NCIS hat and some severely sore feet. While I was tottering back to the hotel after that someone told me about the DC photo shoot, so I figured, sure, why not, right? Tron photo shoot last year was fun, I could do that for 20 minutes and then dart back across to the Hyatt for Claire Coffee and gang's Grimm panel.
Apparently? Not so much. This was a full-on professional photo shoot with video, LOTS of cameras, maybe a couple hundred costumed heroes in various configurations (the smallest was the Batman heroes one I was in), all on the steps. LOTS of photos and video. It took a fucking hour and a half and could have taken longer if I'd felt confident enough in my costume to get an individual shot. Which I wasn't, but definitely next year. The thing that bugged me most about this year's Huntress costume was that I couldn't get the belt or bracers done on time. That ought to be easy for next year. So, by the time we got out of that it was 5, the Grimm panel was over, so Kiki and I decided to hit the panels tomorrow and head back up to the room and go horizontal for a bit.
After that, though, it was time for dinner at Benihana's and sushi and so on. Well, not sushi, but a hibachi dinner with an onion train instead of a volcano and the chef throwing the shrimp tails into his hat and making the egg roll and so on and so forth. I love hibachis. And there was pub and then there was![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
booknerdguru's panel about sexing up history. Which was pretty much what you'd expect from a room full of alleged adults who are at least half drunk (according to Bethany the next day) and talking about sex in history in television. "Such, my angels, is the role of sex in history." And actually Lion in Winter did get brought up once. Interestingly, Copper and Ripper Street and other Victorian shows barely got a mention, along with Deadwood. It was all Tudors, Borgias, Rome, Spartacus, and DaVinci, and that ilk.
After that we decided to go upstairs and get some sleep because there was a Sunday 10 am panel we wanted to go to. So I went up, started mends on my Silk Spectre, and curled up in bed.
So, after that we went out to the exhibitor's hall where I got an NCIS hat and some severely sore feet. While I was tottering back to the hotel after that someone told me about the DC photo shoot, so I figured, sure, why not, right? Tron photo shoot last year was fun, I could do that for 20 minutes and then dart back across to the Hyatt for Claire Coffee and gang's Grimm panel.
Apparently? Not so much. This was a full-on professional photo shoot with video, LOTS of cameras, maybe a couple hundred costumed heroes in various configurations (the smallest was the Batman heroes one I was in), all on the steps. LOTS of photos and video. It took a fucking hour and a half and could have taken longer if I'd felt confident enough in my costume to get an individual shot. Which I wasn't, but definitely next year. The thing that bugged me most about this year's Huntress costume was that I couldn't get the belt or bracers done on time. That ought to be easy for next year. So, by the time we got out of that it was 5, the Grimm panel was over, so Kiki and I decided to hit the panels tomorrow and head back up to the room and go horizontal for a bit.
After that, though, it was time for dinner at Benihana's and sushi and so on. Well, not sushi, but a hibachi dinner with an onion train instead of a volcano and the chef throwing the shrimp tails into his hat and making the egg roll and so on and so forth. I love hibachis. And there was pub and then there was
booknerdguru's panel about sexing up history. Which was pretty much what you'd expect from a room full of alleged adults who are at least half drunk (according to Bethany the next day) and talking about sex in history in television. "Such, my angels, is the role of sex in history." And actually Lion in Winter did get brought up once. Interestingly, Copper and Ripper Street and other Victorian shows barely got a mention, along with Deadwood. It was all Tudors, Borgias, Rome, Spartacus, and DaVinci, and that ilk.After that we decided to go upstairs and get some sleep because there was a Sunday 10 am panel we wanted to go to. So I went up, started mends on my Silk Spectre, and curled up in bed.