DRAGON*CON 2011 - Friday
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tenel_kaI feel like Friday can be summed up best using photos. Nate and I wore three costumes that day (June & Junpei from 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, Ariel & Eric from The Little Mermaid and Meg Masters & Sam Winchester from Supernatural) so there was a lot of running around, changing and acting goofy BUT NOT JUST FROM US, NO.
This is Alex. He is pretty tipsy. Dressed like a GHOSTFACER. And he is dancing in the middle of the Hyatt lobby at 2am to no music, no nothing. He's just dancing. You can see Erin on the left behind him yelling at him.
9 HOURS, 9 PERSONS, 9 DOORS DERP DERP! Nate and I are always excited about anything relating to this game so we woke up on Friday ready to get into costume. We figured no one anywhere would know what who we were and what we were from but we didn't care.
BUT! Later in the afternoon while standing outside the Dealer's Room, pretty much right before we were about to head back up to the room to change, these two girls come bounding down the escalator beside us and one goes, "999 COSTUME FIST BUMP!!!1" and she gives us both fistbumps cause they knew who we were. It was awesome to find two people and one of the highlights of my con. :D One girl said she was going to do a Santa costume at some point in the future and I was all, "OMG SANTA DOOOOOO IIIIIIIT~ <3333"
The next day, I saw a fricking' Santa walking around! BUT IN WAS IN AN AREA THAT WAS SUPER CROWDED WHERE I COULDN'T TAKE PICTURES. Yeah, I was bitter. D: But I saw a Santa! :D
Anyways, thank you so so so so so much to Sara and Ashley who took photos of us in these costumes. You can see all the awesome serious ones HERE. I put some of the lol srs business ones here, but mostly the lj recaps are reserved for the absolute DERP photos, so that's most of what you'll be getting. :x
999 SERIOUS BUSINESS CHARACTERS
JK JK JK JK JK JK (did we really think he could escape without making the derpy Junpei face once? NO.)
Say hello to MUPPET FACE. Ashley sees this face on me all the time and cackles and cackles and says it reminds her of a muppet, hence my MUPPET FACE. Nate agreed and all weekend I hear DO THE MUPPET FACE. Nate gets specific and calls it the BEAKER FACE which is totally fine by me because Beaker is one of my favorites. <3
I love the expressions in this one. wtf.
NATE WANTED TO PLAY YU-GI-OH WITH THE KEYCARDS AW YES.
Here is a darling picture I snapped of Ashley after I changed the camera lens. XD
Aaaaand then a trillion derp photos.
These are our album cover shots. The left one is the emo one that's on the back cover and the one on the right is the LOOKING OUT AGAINST THE WALL THINKING OF WHAT BLACK LACE CUFFS TO WEAR TO OUR CONCERT AT THE DIVE CLUB shot.
MUPPET-HANCE
(i think pissed off muppet on the right is my favorite)
Here are some fun costumes I saw on Friday throughout the day:
Yoshi! His tongue was one of those party blow horn things. I don't remember the name of them. And then Lindsey in her Jaina costume! <3
This was classic. I just wanted to get a photo of Gumby strutting through the food court. He stopped for a minute and I was like, "Oh no, go ahead! I just wanted to get Gumby pimp walkin' through the food court!" and he gave me a giant thumbs up and a nod and laughed. And then there is awesome KILT!HAN!
I freaked out when I saw this darling. She was dressed like José Carioca - the green parrot from The Three Caballeros & Saludos Amigos. She had the umbrella and the Donald Duck and I flipped. SO ADORABLE. <333 And then on the right is Josh in his flippin' amazing Kung Lao costume!
This guy was really nice. :D He was from District 9 and his sign completely wins. XD The way he made the hand was pretty awesome too. I said it looked gross and slimy and he said to try and touch it. So I grabbed a finger and it wasn't gross and slimy. I was in awe. He and Nate talked about the movie while I poked at the hand some more, lololol.
And I took photos of Nic, Kyle and Bryent in their Catherine costumes, because omg DAT GAME and because they looked darling~
Later in the evening, we changed into our Ariel and Eric costumes and headed over to the Marriott where we picked up some dinner at the little sandwich shop. There we met up with Belle (Maggie), Jasmine (Bria), Rapunzel (Emily) and Mulan (Linh) and goofed off for a bit before hitting up one of the quiet floors on the Hilton for photos. I lost my lens cap to my primary lens somewhere around this point (DISAPPOINT) and a cute little girl wanted her photo with the group (EXCITEMENT). While we were in the Hilton, a nice group of women complimented us on our costumes and one also told me that she was excited that someone was doing the sail dress since people always do the gorgeous dresses or the fins. Since the sail dress is all I really have the skills for, I was very thankful to her for her comment and psyched about my ghetto-ass sail. Hehe~
Everyone is a princess, PRINCE ERIC IS A GANGSTER.
I have a billion photos of Linh cause her and I can't do anything at all together ever (which includes me taking photos of her) cause we just laugh about dumb shit the whole time. XD
SEBASTIAN IS A PRINCESS BOKAY
Here is Ariel giving Eric crab(s).
Here is a semi-normal photo of us.
ERIC NEEDS MORE CRABS.
This is when I was told to do Hipster Ariel and I borrowed Evil!Sarah's glasses. My Hipster Ariel photo came out blurry though, d'oh! XD
This quickly turns into...
This.
And this quickly turns into...
YUP.
As you can see, Nate's wig (which was like, an old wig of mine that I didn't use for anything) ended up not staying on his head.
SERIOUS MAGIC CARPET.
A WHOLE NEW WOOOORRRRRRRLD~
Linh and I talked about taking creepy zombie killing princess photos in the creepy stairs but we didn't have time, so as we were all bolting down the stairs, I screamed MULAN and snapped this photo when Linh looked up. XD
At 12:30 that night (Saturday morning!) the Supernatural shoot was going to take place in the Hyatt lobby. Nate and I rushed back to the room and he put his Sam jeans on and, no lie, went into the bathroom and tossed himself over the edge of the bathtub, turning it on and washing his hair right under the stream of water. I was like, "WHAFU--" and he's all, "I NEEDS IT TO BE POOFY LIKE SAM'S~"
We headed down to the Hyatt lobby and saw everyone standing around and we saw Travis, who had a gun he had made for Nate -- he was also dressed like Dean so there was this amazing and hilarious moment where they saw each other and Travis went, "SAMMY" in the gruff Dean voice AND THEN THEY HUGGED. AND I DIDN'T HAVE MY DAMN CAMERA OUT. >:X
Here they are being darling though.
DEAN ALWAYS WITH THE SCISSORS
I love this photo so hard.
And here are all the awesome people from the shoot:
Hunters! I love how there is boy!Bobby AND girl!Bobby~! <3
There is me in my Miss Meg Masters costume, Eve (she was so nice and speed changed into Anna later in the shoot XD), Gabriel (she was so frickin' funny) and Crowley! He was especially classic. Aaaaand he was running around with a cleaver so that was cool.
I have no idea what she said to them but the expressions are a total win.
YEAH! LUMBERJACK SHIRT CLUB!!1
oh noes (love how gabriel is giving sam hand hearts while dean is sprawled out)!
MORE BADNESS!
MULTIPLYING~! XD
Another group shot! See, these are getting all mixed up cause there's Eve then Anna then Eve again. XDDD
I love this. Travis was showing Beth the journal he made and I had to snap a couple shots of it. He makes the most amazing SPN props and that journal was no different. I also giggled that it was Dean showing Ruby the journal, hehe~
Ashley, Ronnie and Alex showed up in their costumes (John, Erin, Denis and Jeremy came with them but not in costume XD) a bit later and I stood and snarked with Ashley about things while Nate got more photos with everyone. I also got some amazing photos of Ronnie, who was Gordon (the hunter who hates vampires lololololol), and Alex, who was Ed Zeddmore (one of the Ghostfacers) and Ashley who was Pamela (the blind hunter). Alex was incredibly tipsy-- okay, no, he was pretty drunkish and I don't know wtf he was doing half the time but it was hilarious. Also also, he made an incredible Ghostfacer.
Jeremy spotting!
SAM THERE'S A GHOST!
GET OUT YO GUN.
GHOST. GHOSTFACERS.
I love this. Ronnie looks like such a badass. XD I kept taking pictures of him looking badass and Alex being silly. It was like 1:45 am at this point.
This is the absolute best because of the DENIS PHOTOBOMB ON THE SIDE.
Pamela and Gordon being badass. Ed Zeddmore being... a ghost. ghost faaaacer.
BADASS RONNIE.
what is this i don't even
Pamela totally missed the hi5 on purpose so she could smack Moose's ass, aw yeah!
I really think these are some of my favorite photos from D*C this year:
This turns into...
Which turns into these...
THEN FINALLY:
LOLOLOLOL OKAY.
Bawwww, Sam lost his shoe.
I love this effing photo SO MUCH. Denis is just like, "what... heh... i... uhhhhh..." and Alex is DANCING TO NO MUSIC AGAIN.
GHOST. GHOSTFA-- OMG THAT IS A DEMON, RUN BRO.
Everyone wanted a giant Moose Arm hug at the end of the night. Except Crowley, who just wanted to kill everyone as you can see in the bottom photo.
We tried to get some photos of our costumes afterwards but we were so out of it that there wasn't even any derping... just blank tiredness. D: FAIL. TOO TIRED TO DERP?
By the time everyone had wrapped up there photos and we all decided we should disperse, it was like 2am or something. Nate and I kept telling ourselves we were gonna go to the dance but we ended up falling asleep - shocker.
AND THAT WAS FRIDAY. XD
UP NEXT - SATURDAY! Gender swapped Star Wars! The Aquarium! MADNESS!
And I got a few more photos of our Disney group and the Catherine group and SPN shoot and all that jazz that I will be uploading to the zhobot gallery in one huge bunch at the end of all the recaps when I've gone through all these damn photos, lolol. XD
This is Alex. He is pretty tipsy. Dressed like a GHOSTFACER. And he is dancing in the middle of the Hyatt lobby at 2am to no music, no nothing. He's just dancing. You can see Erin on the left behind him yelling at him.
9 HOURS, 9 PERSONS, 9 DOORS DERP DERP! Nate and I are always excited about anything relating to this game so we woke up on Friday ready to get into costume. We figured no one anywhere would know what who we were and what we were from but we didn't care.
BUT! Later in the afternoon while standing outside the Dealer's Room, pretty much right before we were about to head back up to the room to change, these two girls come bounding down the escalator beside us and one goes, "999 COSTUME FIST BUMP!!!1" and she gives us both fistbumps cause they knew who we were. It was awesome to find two people and one of the highlights of my con. :D One girl said she was going to do a Santa costume at some point in the future and I was all, "OMG SANTA DOOOOOO IIIIIIIT~ <3333"
The next day, I saw a fricking' Santa walking around! BUT IN WAS IN AN AREA THAT WAS SUPER CROWDED WHERE I COULDN'T TAKE PICTURES. Yeah, I was bitter. D: But I saw a Santa! :D
Anyways, thank you so so so so so much to Sara and Ashley who took photos of us in these costumes. You can see all the awesome serious ones HERE. I put some of the lol srs business ones here, but mostly the lj recaps are reserved for the absolute DERP photos, so that's most of what you'll be getting. :x
999 SERIOUS BUSINESS CHARACTERS
JK JK JK JK JK JK (did we really think he could escape without making the derpy Junpei face once? NO.)
Say hello to MUPPET FACE. Ashley sees this face on me all the time and cackles and cackles and says it reminds her of a muppet, hence my MUPPET FACE. Nate agreed and all weekend I hear DO THE MUPPET FACE. Nate gets specific and calls it the BEAKER FACE which is totally fine by me because Beaker is one of my favorites. <3
I love the expressions in this one. wtf.
NATE WANTED TO PLAY YU-GI-OH WITH THE KEYCARDS AW YES.
Here is a darling picture I snapped of Ashley after I changed the camera lens. XD
Aaaaand then a trillion derp photos.
These are our album cover shots. The left one is the emo one that's on the back cover and the one on the right is the LOOKING OUT AGAINST THE WALL THINKING OF WHAT BLACK LACE CUFFS TO WEAR TO OUR CONCERT AT THE DIVE CLUB shot.
MUPPET-HANCE
(i think pissed off muppet on the right is my favorite)
Here are some fun costumes I saw on Friday throughout the day:
Yoshi! His tongue was one of those party blow horn things. I don't remember the name of them. And then Lindsey in her Jaina costume! <3
This was classic. I just wanted to get a photo of Gumby strutting through the food court. He stopped for a minute and I was like, "Oh no, go ahead! I just wanted to get Gumby pimp walkin' through the food court!" and he gave me a giant thumbs up and a nod and laughed. And then there is awesome KILT!HAN!
I freaked out when I saw this darling. She was dressed like José Carioca - the green parrot from The Three Caballeros & Saludos Amigos. She had the umbrella and the Donald Duck and I flipped. SO ADORABLE. <333 And then on the right is Josh in his flippin' amazing Kung Lao costume!
This guy was really nice. :D He was from District 9 and his sign completely wins. XD The way he made the hand was pretty awesome too. I said it looked gross and slimy and he said to try and touch it. So I grabbed a finger and it wasn't gross and slimy. I was in awe. He and Nate talked about the movie while I poked at the hand some more, lololol.
And I took photos of Nic, Kyle and Bryent in their Catherine costumes, because omg DAT GAME and because they looked darling~
Later in the evening, we changed into our Ariel and Eric costumes and headed over to the Marriott where we picked up some dinner at the little sandwich shop. There we met up with Belle (Maggie), Jasmine (Bria), Rapunzel (Emily) and Mulan (Linh) and goofed off for a bit before hitting up one of the quiet floors on the Hilton for photos. I lost my lens cap to my primary lens somewhere around this point (DISAPPOINT) and a cute little girl wanted her photo with the group (EXCITEMENT). While we were in the Hilton, a nice group of women complimented us on our costumes and one also told me that she was excited that someone was doing the sail dress since people always do the gorgeous dresses or the fins. Since the sail dress is all I really have the skills for, I was very thankful to her for her comment and psyched about my ghetto-ass sail. Hehe~
Everyone is a princess, PRINCE ERIC IS A GANGSTER.
I have a billion photos of Linh cause her and I can't do anything at all together ever (which includes me taking photos of her) cause we just laugh about dumb shit the whole time. XD
SEBASTIAN IS A PRINCESS BOKAY
Here is Ariel giving Eric crab(s).
Here is a semi-normal photo of us.
ERIC NEEDS MORE CRABS.
This is when I was told to do Hipster Ariel and I borrowed Evil!Sarah's glasses. My Hipster Ariel photo came out blurry though, d'oh! XD
This quickly turns into...
This.
And this quickly turns into...
YUP.
As you can see, Nate's wig (which was like, an old wig of mine that I didn't use for anything) ended up not staying on his head.
SERIOUS MAGIC CARPET.
A WHOLE NEW WOOOORRRRRRRLD~
Linh and I talked about taking creepy zombie killing princess photos in the creepy stairs but we didn't have time, so as we were all bolting down the stairs, I screamed MULAN and snapped this photo when Linh looked up. XD
At 12:30 that night (Saturday morning!) the Supernatural shoot was going to take place in the Hyatt lobby. Nate and I rushed back to the room and he put his Sam jeans on and, no lie, went into the bathroom and tossed himself over the edge of the bathtub, turning it on and washing his hair right under the stream of water. I was like, "WHAFU--" and he's all, "I NEEDS IT TO BE POOFY LIKE SAM'S~"
We headed down to the Hyatt lobby and saw everyone standing around and we saw Travis, who had a gun he had made for Nate -- he was also dressed like Dean so there was this amazing and hilarious moment where they saw each other and Travis went, "SAMMY" in the gruff Dean voice AND THEN THEY HUGGED. AND I DIDN'T HAVE MY DAMN CAMERA OUT. >:X
Here they are being darling though.
DEAN ALWAYS WITH THE SCISSORS
I love this photo so hard.
And here are all the awesome people from the shoot:
Hunters! I love how there is boy!Bobby AND girl!Bobby~! <3
There is me in my Miss Meg Masters costume, Eve (she was so nice and speed changed into Anna later in the shoot XD), Gabriel (she was so frickin' funny) and Crowley! He was especially classic. Aaaaand he was running around with a cleaver so that was cool.
I have no idea what she said to them but the expressions are a total win.
YEAH! LUMBERJACK SHIRT CLUB!!1
oh noes (love how gabriel is giving sam hand hearts while dean is sprawled out)!
MORE BADNESS!
MULTIPLYING~! XD
Another group shot! See, these are getting all mixed up cause there's Eve then Anna then Eve again. XDDD
I love this. Travis was showing Beth the journal he made and I had to snap a couple shots of it. He makes the most amazing SPN props and that journal was no different. I also giggled that it was Dean showing Ruby the journal, hehe~
Ashley, Ronnie and Alex showed up in their costumes (John, Erin, Denis and Jeremy came with them but not in costume XD) a bit later and I stood and snarked with Ashley about things while Nate got more photos with everyone. I also got some amazing photos of Ronnie, who was Gordon (the hunter who hates vampires lololololol), and Alex, who was Ed Zeddmore (one of the Ghostfacers) and Ashley who was Pamela (the blind hunter). Alex was incredibly tipsy-- okay, no, he was pretty drunkish and I don't know wtf he was doing half the time but it was hilarious. Also also, he made an incredible Ghostfacer.
Jeremy spotting!
SAM THERE'S A GHOST!
GET OUT YO GUN.
GHOST. GHOSTFACERS.
I love this. Ronnie looks like such a badass. XD I kept taking pictures of him looking badass and Alex being silly. It was like 1:45 am at this point.
This is the absolute best because of the DENIS PHOTOBOMB ON THE SIDE.
Pamela and Gordon being badass. Ed Zeddmore being... a ghost. ghost faaaacer.
BADASS RONNIE.
what is this i don't even
Pamela totally missed the hi5 on purpose so she could smack Moose's ass, aw yeah!
I really think these are some of my favorite photos from D*C this year:
This turns into...
Which turns into these...
THEN FINALLY:
LOLOLOLOL OKAY.
Bawwww, Sam lost his shoe.
I love this effing photo SO MUCH. Denis is just like, "what... heh... i... uhhhhh..." and Alex is DANCING TO NO MUSIC AGAIN.
GHOST. GHOSTFA-- OMG THAT IS A DEMON, RUN BRO.
Everyone wanted a giant Moose Arm hug at the end of the night. Except Crowley, who just wanted to kill everyone as you can see in the bottom photo.
We tried to get some photos of our costumes afterwards but we were so out of it that there wasn't even any derping... just blank tiredness. D: FAIL. TOO TIRED TO DERP?
By the time everyone had wrapped up there photos and we all decided we should disperse, it was like 2am or something. Nate and I kept telling ourselves we were gonna go to the dance but we ended up falling asleep - shocker.
AND THAT WAS FRIDAY. XD
UP NEXT - SATURDAY! Gender swapped Star Wars! The Aquarium! MADNESS!
And I got a few more photos of our Disney group and the Catherine group and SPN shoot and all that jazz that I will be uploading to the zhobot gallery in one huge bunch at the end of all the recaps when I've gone through all these damn photos, lolol. XD
