DRAGON*CON REPORT

[leaveoutalltherest]

Friday:

Left the house at the ungodly time of 4:30am. Flights were okay, got into Atlanta at 11am. Found baggage and MARTA and the hotel with little difficulty. Finding the room at the Hyatt was another story, mostly because my phone kept breaking up in the hallway while I was talking to Eiko (HAIL EIKO!) and because I got distracted by two catboys arguing over who had the better tail.

Found the room, then went to find, THE LINE. 2 fucking hours in line waiting for my badge. Then I went to eat! Which is where I met Kassy and Crystal and Mike and Anna and Chris and I think Tony was there, I cannot remember! Went to the Dealer's room with them all, spent some time there before heading back to take a brief nap at the room.

Nap sorta happened, in that I laid down, looked at the programs for a bit, and then went off to find the other girls. Back to the mall with me, where I met up with Drea and Timey and Kiko and Paul and Joe and Drew and Karolina and Keith. Then we went to see Indigo and Angelboy. Sat with them for a bit, got a wicked invite from Kiko to a Steampunk party.

Split off with them and went to wander and take pictures for a while. Then I went to check out the Buffy line. LONG LINE. Around the building and stuff. Anyway, I ended up sitting by some people at the front of the line and chatting after Drea texted to say they weren't going after all. Well, when the line started going in, I was bad. Waited for three guys to be in a row, told them I was by myself and could I cut in line. :D I got in the Buffy Musical. :D Ended up third row back next to a really nice belly dancer lady and the group I was originally talking to.

THE BUFFY MUSICAL SHOWING ROCKED. I love RHPS type shows.

After that, ended up back at Kassy and Crystal's hotel room for a bit before Kassy and I took off for the Steampunk part. COOL costumes in there. And Captain Morgan Tattoo. Loves me some Tattoo. 10 minutes in, the party got broke up because some idiots were tossing beer bottles off the balcony of the 23RD FLOOR. Morons. So, we all went back to Kiko's for more alkyhall and talking. Then Kassy and I went to check out the rave, but it sucked and we were tiredess and I made it back to the room about 2:30am.


Saturday:

PARADE! Nuff said.

Met up with Kassy afterwards and went to the 'Life on Mars' panel. It was fun and there was bitching about NBC and the bad things it does to British shows.

Went back to the Marriott with Kassy, everyone ended up traipsing over to the Hilton again. Ran into Drea and Lyssie and Timey and Karma and Megan there. Sat with them for a bit before going up to the Sherilyn Kenyon signing. Met the hot guy who was cosplaying Acheron. Took pictures, heard his horror story about the guy groping his balls while he was dressed as Anakin Friday night. Giggled at him and groped his ass while getting pictures.

Went and got food, got back to the room and vegged, chatting with Eiko (HAIL EIKO!). Went downstairs to line up for the Stargate panel and realised I should have been there two hours earlier. o.O Used and abused the 'By myself, can I cut in line?' thing again. Ended up VERY close to the stage. Learned to NEVERNEVERNEVER drink anything before a Stargate stars panel. Learned that Corin Nemec is fucking HOTHOTHOT. I want to be in a Jason Momoa-Corin Nemec sandwich noa plz. kthnx.

After that, I went and had a blast in the Stargate room for a few hours. Then I wandered around the Hyatt part of the con for a good portion of the night. Found the con suite. Watched a bit of Serenity and found a nifty new energy drink. EVIL ENERGY! :D Wandered in and out of the concerts and the parties. Had fun with a dragon boy who wouldn't leave me alone. (I threatened to skin him, he thought it was kinky, I ran away.) Drum circle was fun. Finally got bored of the rave and stuffs and went to bed at about 3am.

Sunday:

Today, I WAS SMART. Up at 9am. Grabbed breakfast in the consuite. Went down to check out the Hyatt floor and found people were ALREADY starting to line up for the Stargate Panel. So I did as well! I was fourth in line this time, after all the drama and stuffs with some people who couldn't understand the 'We're not allowed to form a line yet, so we're having a discussion group REALLY close to where the line will be'. Made friends with some security guys and the one Fire Marshall. This panel had Claudia Black who was at the OMGREADYTOPOP stage of being pregnant. The fun part of the panel was that someone had given them some modified My Little Ponies made to look like Stargate characters. Michael Shanks had to ask about Rodney's. The confused looks from the panel were awesome. Well, except Claudia Black. She figured out which was was 'Vala' and proceeded to fix the hair and the clothes and make it look all pretty.

After that, I hit another SG thing in the SG room, then went and got food and then went and got ready for the parties. I was planning on crashing the Yule Ball and then going to the concerts, but that was a bust because the ball was FULL. So, I got ready and then went to Kassy and Crystal's room. Sat with them for a while then decided to go to the Pirate party with them. Went back to the room and changed, but by the time we got to the party, it was maxed and they closed it to new peoples. So, went back to the room and changed AGAIN. Took more pictures and then Kassy and I went to the Cruxshadows concert.

OMG I LOVE THEM. There, squeeing done. Concert was a fucking BLAST. After that, there was Rocky Horror to be had and I realised that Kassy had never seen nor been to the movie or show. *insert evil grin here* It was fun. Made it back to the room about 5:15-ish because I got waylaid by hotties.

Monday:

Skipped panels. Hung out with K&C and Crew. Helped them get things moved out of the room. Hit the dealers area. Swag is had and Kassy is majorly owed. Left for the airport because there was rumors of HUGE ASS LINES. Rumors lied. Sat in the airport for 2 FUCKING HOURS. Was very tired. Overdrew checking account because I was tired and needed caffeine. Left Atlanta. In Milwaukee. Two more hours of napping while watching AFV reruns from 2002. Got home.

Tuesday:

Slept through the alarm, missed classes, wrote this.



Pictures are here.

Comments

[dreagoddess.livejournal.com]

Ooh, you got a pic of Iceman! I heard at the Superhero Photoshoot that he was wandering around, but I never was able to find him.

Indigo crushed me when she told me there was a Count Dooku running around but she hadn't gotten a picture of him. I can't find anyone who did. *sniff*

[nique.livejournal.com]

You found Reboot Cosplayers. I boggle. O.o

[leaveoutalltherest]

I DID! In the Marriott right near the skywalk to the mall!

[nique.livejournal.com]

I am... awed. There really was EVERYTHING at that con.