Since you're gone my empty arms have nothing left to hold

1) First: sorry for dropping off the radar and missing a bunch of comments/things but after the con weekend I fell into a pretty much comatose state. I still haven't sorted all my pictures (HOW DID I TAKE 2000 PICTURES SOMEONE PLEASE EXPLAIN ME THAT) and I had to go to class and everything and I managed to check the FL just today. (After one week. It was fun.) Anyway I should be all more or less caught up, and I'll go answer comments and things after I'm done with this post. And this weekend you'll get the con recap posts, if I manage to sort through my pictures.

2) Second: Misha Collins is awesome.

3) Okay, I just had to state that. Third: small tv recap, I won't even use the spoiler tag since I'll be very quick and generic. No vampire porn as I'm three eps behind, but I'm gonna catch up asap.

SPN 7x19 and 7x20: 7x19 was very good and I'm intrigued by how they're dealing with the Bobby situation, even if at this point I'd have preferred if they had just kept him alive in the first place. 7x20 was absolutely delicious and I want Felicia Day back. Please? I loved it! Even if I still can't take the guy playing Dick seriously. Just - he looks like Christian Bale okay, I can't. And I'm still intrigued by the Bobby situation.

GOT 2x05: Brienne, every scene you have is flawless. Especially if it's with Catelyn. Also, is it necessary to have Littlefinger every-fucking-where? Also, Theon, break my heart some more, will you. *grabby hands* *hugs* those were the specifics. As a whole it was a ton better than the previous one. Now next week it's going to be HILARIOUS. Not really, I'll weep.

4) In the midst of my coma-like week, I also saw The Avengers, without any context whatsoever as I haven't seen any superhero movie released since... probably The Dark Knight. Maybe. Whatever, I enjoyed it and I could follow it without much of an issue in spite of just knowing who a few people were in theory (even if I still stand by my opinion that the best superhero movie that will ever be is Batman Returns. There, I had to say it). And that stated... anyone could give me Bruce centered fic recs? (if he's paired with either Tony or Steve or - even better - both it'd be awesome.) *cough* because obviously I went out of the cinema being like 'I want to read Bruce Banner/THE WORLD, DID ANYTHING ELSE HAPPEN'. But from my AO3 forays I realized that there's not much around of my listed ships. Whatever, if it's good I'll take him with anyone really. But that said I'm just glad that now I know what everyone is talking about. xD

5) Aaand now that I got the 'I'M STILL ALIVE' post out of the way I'll go sort out pictures and answer to comments and catch up. Buuut here, I'm gonna leave you with a treat:



You're welcome ;)

And that's part three. It'll probably be the longest but I'll try to keep it in one post, shall I.

( Misha Collins meet & greet + panels: Misha Collins & Sebastian Roché, Jensen Ackles, Chad Lindberg and Rob Benedict again, Mark Sheppard & Richard Speight jr, Misha Collins & Jensen Ackles, Steve Carlson concert, photo op with Chad Lindberg, When Harry Met Sally re-enactment video + another couple & other general impressions and stuff. )

Aaaand that's part two of the whole thing. It's going to be way longer than one. Hopefully I won't have to split it in two. I have reports for all panels except the Mark/Richard one because I had to get autographs.

Also: I'll be re-posting here a couple of videos that I took (same goes for tomorrow). Which as far as I see are all over tumblr/LJ for caps and stuff. I really don't mind as long as there's at least a link to the youtube account (which in most tumblr gifs you can't find), but if you're on LJ could you please credit to my LJ name? If it wasn't clear, janiedean on twitter/youtube = janie_tangerine aka me. K?

That said, on to the fun!

( Opening ceremony, panels: Misha Collins, Jensen Ackles, Jared Padalecki, Chad Lindberg & Rob Benedict, Sebastian Roché, J2; plus, autograph adventures, Sebastian Roché likes to read, Misha/Jensen/Richard photo ops, something about Jason Manns' concert, two videos. )

... hi world.

Alright, so, I went to JIB, I took pics, I took notes, I hugged Chad Lindberg and I had the time of my life. And as per last year, I'll go and write a report, which will be as detailed as I can. I have reports on all of the panels except one (though the first day will be less detailed because stuff happened and I was too ecstatic to bother with notes), I have pictures which are for once good and I have videos as well (which I'll just link from my youtube). Now, just a couple things I'll say here before going to the fun: at the end of day three I'll post a zip with good pictures from all the panels (or, my selection). Then at the end of each panel I'll have a zip with all the pics I took from said panel and not just picks. Some of them might not be 100% focused, but if I kept them it means that there's something decent in them anyway so don't mind that. You're absolutely welcome to snag and use them wherever you want, though if you use them for graphics or whatever I'd like a credit back. Same goes from panel summaries.

Also: I posted photo ops. I'd really appreciate if they stayed on this post without going anywhere, k? Thanks.

So, uhm, alright! Let's go with day one.

( Opening and stuff, panels: Sebastian Roché & Mark Sheppard + Richard Speight jr + Chad Lindberg + some Rob Benedict, and ranting about how Chad Lindberg is amazing and omgomg I GOT HUGS. And cocktail party! )

Okay I'm half-dead and I have the twenty minutes with Misha and 15 other people at 9.30 AM so I'll be brief.

Yesterday I hugged Chad Lindberg three times in two hours. I'd just like to state that I don't know how I survived. Also I have good pictures and I have notes and I'll put everything up on Monday. That said, I HUGGED CHAD LINDBERG THREE TIMES and most of my ops look good and btw Rob Benedict is the most adorable human being ever.

Okay, I just really needed to state that I hugged Chad Lindberg three times. *squee*

So I might post some fic I have sitting on my HD tomorrow afternoon if I have time, but this will probably be the last you'll hear of me until either Monday or Saturday evening (in the case I get back home after convention activities are done at 6 PM, don't know about that yet). Unless I do a squeeing post on Sunday evening but that won't be coherent I guess. So, couple things.

a) I'll be tweeting stuff from panels. If anyone wants to follow me for that, I'm @janiedean. If you ask me questions I won't be able to answer them at once though - I don't have a smartphone so I'm sending texts and I can't get replies.

b) I have plans to meet up with some Twitter people and with some LJ people as well that I know are going, but if you are at the con, I don't know that and you want to meet up, either leave me a comment here or I can send you my number by PM, whatever is good with you. Anyway, if anyone wants to come up and say hi, I have neck-length brown hair, the first day I'll be wearing for sure a skirt with a flower on the waist and a pretty varied lilac background under it and a shirt with the angel banishment sigil. Also I should have a tag with my LJ/twitter username. And the first day I'll be dragging around also a huge bag with a pillow inside, I fear. well guest gift, so. Just stop me or whatever. I should be around the hotel from about 10 AM if everything goes fine.

Okay, that's it. I'll be checking the internet tomorrow and Friday morning for sure. :D now brb off finishing a couple last minute things. *waves*

1. First thing, birthdays grab-bag since there's a bunch of people having some yesterday/today/tomorrow and seen my track record lately it isn't a given that I'll manage a post each day, lol. Also tomorrow I'll probably end up spamming with old fic or posting new stuff so I figure I'll do it now.

So, happy birtdhay in advance to: emiliglia and dastiel_gal for tomorrow and aurilly and eide_oconrad for the 28th! ♥ I hope that you all have great days and the great years that you all totally deserve to get and that they're full of amazing things ♥. And if any of you wants to send a prompt my way I'll see what I can do after I go through my WIP folder. (which means you'll probably have a surprise like six months from now. *cough*)

2. Aand have some memes! First one, tagged by virtual_toast:

* People who have been tagged must write the answers on their blog and replace any question they dislike with a new, original question.
* Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.

( under here! )

3. Theeen, music meme. elliotsmelliot gave me R and joyyjpg gave me C.

Comment with "MUSIC ME", I'll give you a letter between A-Z, and you go post 5 8 (because I say so) favorite songs/music videos that start with that letter.

( list with downloads )

4. Life has been fairly uneventful lately. The fact that I don't go to the cinema anymore because the huge one giving movies in original language with subtitles has closed just made it even less eventful, and going like once each month when I manage feels massively weird. Though I've been reading a bunch of stuff which is fairly good at least because I'm actually finishing books instead of starting too many and not finishing anything.

5. Also my favorite class this year includes doing group work (eeeek!), except that no one else wants to work on the article I volunteered for. I just hope it's a question of subject, but tbh while I hate group work I don't even want to explain shit about ancient greek philosophy on my own or at least without someone to share the blame with if I say crap. xD Also I have to stop myself from snorting whenever Anaximander is mentioned, which is becoming a problem. Also last day we were supposed to download a program while in class -- the speed was 6.6 kbs per second. Obviously no one managed. Clearly universities can't afford a decent wireless..

6. Also uhm how is everyone doing with notifications? Because I'm sure I received a huge backlog but not a bunch from the first three days of the fiasco. Am I the only one? *looks around*

7. Anyway, going to work on a post about stuff to do/see in Rome which I had promised to some JIB-headed friends and possibly finish some more fic and feeling like I'm not slacking off while masterfully avoiding to think about the group work possible fiasco.

1. Happy birthday to hitlikehammers! :D I hope you're having an amazing day and that your next year is as awesome as you deserve. <3 and if you want to throw a prompt my way I'll see what I can do. <3

2. I probably won't be much around until Friday since marlonob and _izu_ are coming over and we're all happily going to see Steven Adler giving an almost-free concert here on Thursday. :D (Which makes another GNR member I get to see - I'm still lacking Slash and Izzy and Axl of the original ones, but about the third I doubt it'll ever happen, ugh.) I'll try to check the fl though.

3. Eric Kripke isn't attending JIB anymore, which made me sad as I read it. Then I realized that Chad Lindberg was replacing him and my reaction was squeeing to the umpteenth degree because I mean, if I get to see him I pretty much got to meet everyone from the SPN cast I'd ever wanted to meet. \o/ I'm probably in the minority being utterly overjoyed about it but.. IT'S MY FAVORITE AFTER MISHA DAMMIT. :DDD god I can't wait for April.

4. I'm catching up with Boardwalk Empire and I'll be pretty much done within the week. Expect a huge tv-related post by then because I'll have a lot of tv to talk about, considering all the catching up I did lately. Heck, I can't believe I watched all the tv I watched in one month. Not having university to deal with makes wonders with my total failures at catching up with shows.

5. Since this entry is mostly squeeage and random, let's have a meme stolen from everyone.

My het OTP:
My slash OTP:
My femslash OTP:
My endgame OTP:
My original OTP:
My crack OTP:
My guilty pleasure OTP:
My anti-OTP:

fandoms: Lost, SPN, Dark Tower [most Stephen King books would be game as well], Deadwood, The Vampire Diaries, Firefly, Friday Night Lights (S1-2, I need to catch up with it) Six Feet Under (S1-3, I still need to check the last two), Boardwalk Empire (I think I can do it with what I have for now), Chuck, Sherlock (BBC), Leverage, the Three Musketeers, Watchmen are sure bets. If there's something you know I like go for it.

1. First thing, HAAAI new friends from the lostsquee friending meme! And also the SPN ones that I made in other ways. ;) I hope you will have a good time here! <3

2. Lost speaking, if you're in Lost fandom, the most awesome haldoor is hosting a Lost love meme ♥ which totally made my morning/day/afternoon and is just as awesome as usual, so go play if you haven't already! ♥ And I'm so excited for the luau starting tomorrow. :D [to people not here for Lost: next month will be full of Lost related stuff. Skip it if needed. ;)]

3. I seriously, seriously hope that no one reading this will ever be in a position that implies having to read Heidegger talking about Medieval philosophy. Way to unite my two worse nightmares. Also, that exam will be the death of me but I just need to think that after that it's another two and they're easy. Though damn, I wish I had taken this in the first year.

4. Anyway, on to more cheering things. Uh. That long-ass fic I wrote for spn_j2_bigbang? It... uh. It generated spontaneous art. Which is also freaking gorgeous. I swear when _izu_ linked that to me I stared for a while being like no, I made it up in my head. WHAT. It never happens that people draw something because they like shit I write. It might have totally done my day yesterday. Now I feel like I should make myself an account on DA just to thank them personally because really.

5. That said, I promised wandersfound that I'd upload some Stone Temple Pilots for her so there it is under the cut. Two records and random songs, all on mediafire because it was more convenient for me but I can put them somewhere else if needed.

( music here. Quite a lot. )

6. Right now, I should be writing that pedagogy thing. Clearly I'm not doing that but I'll try to stop procrastinating after posting this. Whyyy do I even need to take that, whyy. /quits whining

7. Also, Misha Collins will be at jus in bello again next year! :D Guess who is going to get herself an early, early birthday present when they sell photo ops? *cough*

8. Aaand okay, this is probably all for now. Will try to write my pedagogy presentation while trying not to fall asleep over it and thinking it's for my own good. *repeats mantra*

Phew. Okay, last report. As usual, will break your dial-up. Also includes random pictures of stuff that wasn't included in the other two and general impressions at the end. This is also split in two because I have a bunch of pics and I don't want to clutter.

Please, do not hotlink pictures. Just in case, but since it already happened, I thought I'd state it.

( Traci panel, Misha #3 panel with bonus Jim Beaver crushing it AND auction, Jen/Misha op, some of Jensen's #2 panel. )

part II with Jake abel panel, Jensen autograph, Jim panel #2, Jensen + Jason panel WITH THE GUITAR PLAYING, Richard op, closing ceremony, Traci op, Steve Carlson concert, the rest of the stuff