being awesome at ECCC....

oh yes. 

emerald city comic con. 

it was pretty much the best weekend of all time.

there is a lot to cover and it is getting quite late, especially for one who has to work at zero eight hundred {yeesh}, so here i go!!

basically what happened was a friend of mine was able to get me a sweet three day pass so i could go and i paid the thirty bucks and whatever it was totally not a big deal. and then, on thursday {the day before the con} my bruv asks me, 'oh my god, red, can you please work we need hands oh geez!' 

so i totally say yes, no big deal as long as i get to have some regular attendee time too, which he says is totally doable {and was btw, there is no big dramatic story there or anything even though i kind of set it up like there would be. there isn't}.

so it's friday and i get to leave a bit early from work and i head home to change and whatever and then i hoof it as fast as i can to the convention center and check in and not two seconds after i had set down all my shit, i am sent out to line control. yea, they put me in charge of JAMES MARSTER'S line....

SQUEEEEEEE!

{i'll be doing a lot of that during this blog, btw. get used to it}

so basically, they are all like, 'you wont probly get to meet him or anything, you are just keeping his line under control'. 

FALSE.

turns out friday is a new thing for eccc, and so not a ton of people were there, and so when my line died down and i wasn't really doing anything, i TOTALLY went up and met him and shook his hand and got to tell him how wonderful i thought he was and how much i loved his work and he was so kind. he told me he loved my hat and we chatted for a bit and he was incredibly gracious and sweet. {in fact, everyone that i love that i met was everything that i had hoped that they would be!} he gave me the best hand shake ever and i made it all the way back to the end of the line before i started to cry. yes, i cried like a bitty punk. and i am SO not ashamed. ^_^

the hand that shook james marster's hand.....

on friday i also met clare kramer and nicholas brendon form buffy {among other things} and as a result of this i got nick's publicist's card and they both {clare and nick} remembered me all weekend.

.....

SQUUEEEEEEE!!!

/happy dance!

nick shook my hand and was very kind and so was clare. both very chatty and sweet. 

SATURDAY:

saturday was a bit of a rampage. one might even call it a cluster fuck. there were about a zillion people there, and yet i was able to meet felicia day and amy okuda:

and wil wheaton:

{all of whom were SO awesome, btw}

but i also met darth maul:

and a very cute ewok {eli}

squeeeeeee!

also, because i was a minion {note the green eccc shirt} i got to work the lines in the afternoon and since i had already hit the floor upstairs {more on that later} i went back to media and helped with lines.

three words.

william. FUCKING. shatner.

home boy's ego sucks up all the air in the room, a of all. secondly, i have never seen anyone go through a line of autographs so fast in my entire life. man is a total machine. but after the insanity that was billy shat, i got to go hang with nick some more and a bit with felicia and amy. and nick, being the sweet heart that he is, gave me the BIGGEST hug {he hugs like a big teddy bear} but he totally let me and  my sis in law get our pic with him!!!

i didn't see anyone else getting their pic with him. just sayin. 

i was also able to meet jonathan frakes, who was a freaking laugh riot and not only shook my hand but totally gave me an epic solid fist bump. man is a legend {MAKE IT SO NUMBER ONE!}. also, spiner was super nice and gracious when i fangirled on him a little bit. they both were so silly and wonderful.

also, working the lines, you meet the coolest people. for instance, i met a fan who made this:

oh yea. that's a replica of the super stake from season seven of buffy which she uses to kill the uber vamps. i felt like SUCH a bad ass ^_^.

but enough about working! let's talk about playing in the showroom!

i got to meet two of my absolute favourite artists, jeff jacques and danielle corsetto. they each did drawings for me of my favourite characters wearing my pom pom hat. 

here is pintsize!

{he is totally naked under that hat}

and HERE is jamie!!!!

i felt positively sassy after this. she was so great and sweet and FUNNY! it was really awesome to be able to tell these artists how much what they say and create means to me. 

i also got to meet a bunch of great new people and see some old enforcer buddies from PAX. 

artist alley was truly incredible. i have rarely felt my own talent so tremendously dwarfed, but in the very best way! ^_^ 

to be around all of that art and talent was very humbling and enlightening. it inspires me to do more with my art and reminds me how much i truly enjoy and love my chosen career. 

on sunday, i was sent to work at the back door of the photo ops room by the green room where all the actors were. now, this was considered by those who had gone before me to be an immensely boring job. I, however, had a BLAST doing it. for some reason, all of the celebs were coming and going through that door and i got to say hey to clare again and jacqui, and flirted it up with nick a little {you had to be there....chorizo....} and i got to meet sean patrick flannery and norman reedus {the boondock saints} and it was totally the best post ever to be on at the end of the con. 

needless to say, i had a fricken GREAT weekend, and now i am totally exhausted and being up past zero hundred is really not helping and so i bid you adieu! thanks for listening to my story, and now that all the excitement is over, i can get back to blogging more regularly! ^_^ yay!

but for now, i leave you with this wisdom:

'Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on.'

cheers!

~*~

DFTBA