they're not circus animals
made me picture JP on stage trying to catch in his mouth peanuts being thrown from the crowd. Cuz it seems like he'd find that fun.
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they're not circus animals
made me picture JP on stage trying to catch in his mouth peanuts being thrown from the crowd. Cuz it seems like he'd find that fun.
I've been trying to find a good way to express this, because I don't want to sound like a crazy fan lady.
My relationship to my shows, the characters and the actors who play them is very personal. I enjoy discussing them with a select few whose opinions and attitudes are similar to my own (you guys). Much like music fandom(s).
I never attended a concert for a group I liked because it puts me at a remove from the performers and the music. I am not a crowd person, in fact they make me nonfunctional-panicky and hysterical. Not a pretty sight, and not a pleasant experience.
I feel much the same way about show cons. Discussion here enhances my experience, whereas sharing it with a crowd of strangers would dilute it beyond value, while adding the stresses of dealing with crowds.
This is why I love you people, but will neverever attend a con.
If I should run across Jared and/or Jensen at Bellis Fair Mall, I would likely smile, if they seemed receptive I would offer appreciation of their work and a wish for luck in the future. I don't want an autograph. I don't want a picture. If a hug should happen spontaneously I think I would be able to remember it without documentation, but I certainly would not pay them to hug me.
The same goes for John Cho or Tim DeKay or Matt Bohmer or Holly Hunter or, or, or. They do their jobs, I appreciate the performance and wish the performer well.
I enjoy con footage, but it's still performance, of a sort, and watching it on a screen is far more relaxed and satisfying than attempting to pay attention to what they're saying and trying to breathe at the same time.
I realize I'm a freak, but you love me anyway, right?
I don't think that's freakish. I think there are plenty of people on this board who aren't into cons.
Speaking of crazy fans, there's always that.
I mean, you go to a con, and there are going to be really insane fans, right? People you just look at and wonder "How can you be that crazy about the show?"
Or, better yet, you can't find those people, which means you're them, and everyone's looking at you.
Nah, just being excessive. Fandom's brushed with bad enough a rep as it is. No doubt there are cons with no outliers. I just remember hearing the horror stories at the LFN con of the craziness of years before, and even then that year there were people I looked at funny.
I'm not into cons where there is Talent there. I'm totes a Fan Con gal.
FANGIRLS AND OCCASIONAL BOY! RAMPAGE! DRINK! FECK! ARSE!
I assumed that was due to the case, same way we see the boys with Bobby, or the way an outside might, I guess. I could have sworn Ellen said something about it, too, about Jo off hunting and her not being able to say much about it.
It was pretty explict in Good God Y'All that she'd been hunting with Jo, because Jo was hunting, Ellen couldn't stop her, and couldn't not be with her.
That is so close to how I feel in crowds Bev. I love you always and forever.
Eta: Tim DeKay I might brave a crowd for. I have a little crush.
It was pretty explict in Good God Y'All that she'd been hunting with Jo, because Jo was hunting, Ellen couldn't stop her, and couldn't not be with her.
Point.
But, and remember I love John, I'm standing by my assertion that John was pretty hardcore to take two children on the road and never provide them a permanent home.
FANGIRLS AND OCCASIONAL BOY! RAMPAGE! DRINK! FECK! ARSE!
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I've never felt fannish enough about anything to go to a fan con. I kinda feel like you need to be a BNF to play, which is not grounded in any sort of reality.
ZenKitty just went to a Leverage con and had a great time and made new friends. Adore the show. Know a producer. Drool over the actors. Wouldn't dream of it.
I don't have crowd anxiety--I have crowd impatience. They're in my way! Sitting in my seat! Eating my food!
But...and I've experienced it at concerts and a concert afterparty, there are moments when you operate in synchronicity with complete strangers because you're in thrall to the same creativity or just the same presence, and it's pretty damned lyrical.
there are moments when you operate in synchronicity with complete strangers because you're in thrall to the same creativity or just the same presence, and it's pretty damned lyrical.
I love hearing music live. There's nothing like the feeling of hundreds or thousands of people all singing the same song from the top of their lungs. Absolutely electric.