Back from my Supernatural weekend

[agt_spooky]

Wow, sorry to have disappeared for several days, guys. I had every intention of posting yesterday, about winchestmidwest, but instead I was laid flat with a horrible migraine for the entire day and evening. Ugh.

So anyway - winchestmidwest. It was fun, but a different kind of fun than last year. I didn't recognize many faces from last year's event, so maybe that was the difference, a different crowd. We were all a bit crazy last time and the panel discussions quite lively. It was, to me anyway, a bit more subdued this time around.

I was by myself on Friday, as my roommates, charityflint and asyouleft couldn't make it until Saturday, and they missed a good discussion panel led by katelennon, that kinda ended up being a wish list for season four.

I'd had a really long day at work on Friday, so when the panel ended and the Guitar Hero competition started up, I headed upstairs to enjoy the really awesome room I had to myself for the night. I wanted to take the 42" flat screen tv home with me! :-)

The next morning I was having breakfast when mummyluvr314 sat at the table next to me and we chatted for a bit before charityflint and asyouleft showed up and we headed into the panel room.

Lots of panels on Saturday, and I enjoyed most of them, even though I felt I was definitely in the minority in the "misogeny" one (Sorry, samazon13!) I just don't feel offended by the language used by Dean throughout the series, when directed toward women, mainly because he's insulting demons when he uses "bitch", etc. and not someone like Sarah or Cassie or Haley. But that's a whole can of worms that I'm not gonna open up! :-)

We had an interesting panel on the history of SPN fandom online (I didn't know that the spnnewsletter was the first SPN related LJ community) and then we were treated to the premiere of the season finale of PWT which was funny beyond belief. :-) And anteka even did a "behind the scenes" documentary on how she creates PWT.

My head was spinning with knowledge after gonturan's demonology panel and then it was time for MY panel, on fanfiction, co-hosted with my buddy, charityflint.

We had a small group, but we were definitely talkative *g* and the hour passed quickly as our topics flowed one into another. But the best part was after the panel, when Charity and I sat back down at our table with our friend adelheide. We were talking about going for dinner when everyone still left in the room suddenly showed up at our table saying, "But we want to keep talking! Can we sit?" LOL! Next thing we knew, there had to be 12 of us squashed at the table and I had suddenly made a lot of new friends! (waves to alphabet26, wilde_moon and mummyluvr314)

We all had such a fantastic time sitting there chatting about anything and everything SPN related and then we decided to move the party to the Mexican restaurant across the parking lot where I think we gave the manager heart failure when all 12 of us walked in. :-)

I only wish my fanfic panel had been earlier during the day on Saturday, so I could've gotten to know all my new friends sooner and spent more time with them.

After dinner it was time for the songvid show and holy cow, they showed mine first! It got some very nice applause so that made me happy. :-)

There was more Guitar Hero afterwards, since the hotel forbade us from doing karaoke (WTF??) so instead we sang along loudly to the GH songs! LOL!

Sunday morning was a panel on creating LJ icons, then an hour long panel on the music of SPN, put together with video clips by gonturan, which was a lot of fun. :-)

And then it was time to say goodbye, unfortunately, as I couldn't stay for the ghost hunt that evening. All you guys that stayed - did you have a good time? Capture any ghosts? *bg*

So all in all a good weekend, mainly because I made new friends and spent three days wallowing in everything Supernatural. :-)

I haven't been on the computer since Friday and not only am I horribly behind in answering back comments, but there's just no way I'm getting caught up on my friends page, so if something totally awesome happened in fandom while I was away give me a shout in the comments. Thanks!

Comments

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you had a good time, it sounds like fun!

You and Casey should try and come up next year!

Was there any discussion in your panel of using prompt communities or those prompt tables that authors work their way through?

You know, it wasn't brought up during the actual panel, but when all of us were sitting at the table afterward it was mentioned. The consensus was that we found it useful when it wasn't part of some challenge, when you were just looking for a prompt to kick start your Muse.

Even though I've left at least two prompts in your LJ. *LOL*

And my god, sweetie, I have the entire "Dean buys Sam clothes" story completely outlined and have for like two months now! If I could only get the first freaking sentence written it would start to flow, but it always seems like something else pops up that distracts me. And I want to write it so bad for you! Don't give up on me! :-)

I'm pretty sure that today is their first day of filming on season 4.

Yay! Welcome back, boys!!

The good news
Twizzle Me, the J@ fansite has opened.

What a fabulous site! Brilliant idea! I even helped by donating the Jensen on Megan Mullally video. :-)

The bad news (different fandom)
Don S. Davis died Sunday

Gosh, I was so saddened to hear this. I got to meet Don at an SG1 con many years ago and he was such a fabulous man. He'll definitely be missed.

[dairwendan.livejournal.com]

You and Casey should try and come up next year!

I know, I know. Someday when we have a handle on our bills we can start saving up for a con!

And my god, sweetie, I have the entire "Dean buys Sam clothes" story completely outlined and have for like two months now! If I could only get the first freaking sentence written it would start to flow, but it always seems like something else pops up that distracts me. And I want to write it so bad for you! Don't give up on me! :-)
Oh, I will never give up on you! The muse strikes when she will, nothing you can do to hurry her.

What a fabulous site! Brilliant idea! I even helped by donating the Jensen on Megan Mullally video. :-)
Oh good on you! So far I've only sent some quotes.

Gosh, I was so saddened to hear this. I got to meet Don at an SG1 con many years ago and he was such a fabulous man. He'll definitely be missed.
You got to meet him? How cool! I was really stunned to read it myself.

[agt-spooky.livejournal.com]

Someday when we have a handle on our bills we can start saving up for a con!

It would be SO cool to have you guys up here for something. :-)

Oh, I will never give up on you! The muse strikes when she will, nothing you can do to hurry her.

Thanks for being so patient with me. Strangely enough, I was dreaming about the story just last night! I'm hoping that's a good sign the Muse is finding her way back to me. *g*

You got to meet him? How cool! I was really stunned to read it myself.

Yep, both Chris and I got to meet Don and get his autograph and attend his panel. Such a warm, funny, down to earth type of guy. I'm still shocked that he passed away.