But I do get inspired by people who seem to really live the example that their trying to set. There are several people in my life who have been that kind of example. When I was nine I had a lot of paper routes…..On one of my paper routes was this guy Mr. H who owned the radio station in town. And one day when I was collecting payment at the end of the week, Mr. H came out and introduced himself to me and my younger brother was coming along with me. And for some reason we chatted for a minute and he somehow learned we didn’t live with my father that I was being raised by a single mother. And he had this sort of ached look on his face. He’s an old man, he’s about 70 at that point and the reason he had that sort of down trotted look was because he had for a long time been a surrogate father to a lot of young boys who didn’t have dads around. Um and he’d given it up, because it had been too much work for him, but then he saw us and was like, “Uh, I have to do this again don’t I?” And then he was so unbelievably sweet and generous with us. He tried to teach us Chinese; we’d go over to his little workshop couple times a week and he taught us how to wire electric motors and how to make little balsa wood boats. He would take us out to eat at restaurants which we didn’t have money for with our mom, so it was always this really special treat for us. It was just such a generous and meaningful act. He never asked for anything in return. We moved to another county we didn’t see him much for about a year and stopped by to give him some Christmas presents. His wife came to the door and he had passed away…but it was such a generous act to basically a stranger. So I took inspiration from him and he served as a grandfather to us for several years. I like stuff like that.[x]
Mark: Was it given to Jared or Jensen or both? It was a book. A, uh, rather homoerotic book, I think. With two mannequins that vaguely resembled Jared and Jensen in a kind of ongoring love story. The end of which were photographs of a cat! Pouncing upon one of them in a rather sexual way.
Misha: It was just so… bizarre! And they’re looking through like, “Ahh! This is weird. It’s pretty weird.” And it was very well done, it was all kind of nice, and then -
[both pretend to open book]
Mark: D’oh! Ahhhhhh! [x]
(Source: misha-collins)
Asylum 8…..
Late I know but I have to pay to work for these conventions…..So Asylum 8, where do I start!!!
I have to say it was one of the best weekends of my life. As it was my first convention of any kind, I tried to go with as little expectation as possible (so as not to be terribly disappointed) but I have to say it was absolutely amazing!!! It often felt badly organised but I got every photo op & autograph I’d purchased and managed to see a lot of the panels (and luckily most of the ones I was desperate to see).
So, I got autographs from the following:
Misha Collins
Jim Beaver
Mark Sheppard
Mark Pellegrino
Steven Williams
Kim Rhodes
James Patrick Stuart
Matt Cohen
DJ Qualls
Jim Michaels
I had single photo ops with:
Misha Collins
Jim Beaver
And I had the following photo ops with my brother:
Mark Sheppard
Mark Pellegrino
Steven Williams
Kim Rhodes
James Patrick Stewart
Matt Cohen
DJ Qualls
Jim Michaels
& the group photo with Misha, Mark S, Mark P & Jim
The highlights of the weekend were:
- Misha getting emotional during the Sunday panel (I was there!!!)
- Misha & the lollypop (I was there tooo!!!)
- Misha’s 3 piece suit…..holy hell…..
- Mark P & Misha on the Sunday panel…..hilarious together
- Mark Sheppard’s panels (all of them)
- Steve Williams serenading me in the autograph room on Friday
- Chatting to Mark Sheppard about where he was born and where he grew up in London
- DJ Qualls because he was simply wonderful
- JPS who was charming, hilarious and very attractive!!!
- JPS telling a story about how he met Mark Sheppard 20 years ago when Mark’s dad sent him to pick James up from the airport
- Mark Pellegrino, wow what a man. I liked him before, but now…oh my god
- Karaoke…..especially Mark & his ‘big balls’
- Kim & Carrie Ann representing the ladies of Supernatural
- Kim’s tattoo
- Jim Beaver signing autographs for everyone, even though his queue circled the room. He did not leave until everyone got their autograph
- On Saturday evening after the group shots were done a lady in a wheelchair was told she could have a photo with Misha and then told there was no time. I then saw Misha talk to the stewards and they let her in for the photo
- Just how, in general the guys were happy to chat, shake your hand and how they constantly talked about how much they love meeting the fans & coming to conventions
- The closing ceremony, so emotional!!! A mixture of sheer joy and sadness that it was over
- My brother speaking to Jim Beaver so many times he started greeting him by name (as did Carrie Ann Fleming)…..so jealous
I’ve probably forgotten tons of it but it was all simply wonderful…..
So wonderful that I’ve already bought tickets for Asylum 9 & 10!!!
I’m assuming the London Olympics will have Quidditch
(Source: voldemortoutbitches)
