Mish Mish

I have spent the last couple of hours acting as a switchboard and retweeting all the stuff being posted about Misha's panel at the con. It certainly wasn't a chore and a bunch of people thanked me for keeping them updated but it got me to thinking about fandom stuff.

Misha is a smart guy. I think he knew exactly what he was doing when he got set up on Twitter and started posting all his silliness. He's a talented actor (and I'm not saying this because I fangirl him. Impartial critics have said the same thing) but up until SPN he was mostly doing guest slots in TV shows with the odd indie movie here and there. I think he knew that once he got the role of Cas if he could get the fanbase on his side they would stick with him (look at JM as an example. Ten years after Buffy he still has a huge fanbase that watches anything he is in). I'm not saying he doesn't love engaging with the fans because clearly he does but I think there was at least an element of planning behind it.

Look at the first couple of cons he did. He was all srs bsns talking about his poetry and building his house etc and then compare it to how he was at OzCon where he outed J2, crashed their panels and was generally the Misha we see now. Totally different people almost.

And it worked! People love him as much as J2 now. Some people (including me) love him more than J2. The fanbase got Castiel brought back as a regular. I don't think I'd have given Misha much of a second thought beyond 'Oh, I really like Castiel' if I hadn't seen how awesome he is on Twitter and at the cons.

So, yeah, that's why I'm so insanely obsessed with him. I know people tease me about it but I don't think I've ever fangirled an actor who engages the fans as much as Misha does. It's the fact that he's so accessible (and really clever, witty and funny to boot) and encourages the whole fandom thing.

Once SPN is over I likely won't pay much attention to what Jared and Jensen do next unless it's something I would watch anyway. With Misha he has a fan for life.

And now the point of this long winded entry. Photo and vid from the con!

( Yeah, now I use a cut )

Hee!

Misha does not usually wear underwear

Edit: I found some background to what they're talking about if you're confused

Richard found a pair of pumpkin colored bikini briefs (that had obviously been worn before, but were clean) in his trailer and he thought that it was a practical joke on him by Jensen and Jared (he did this funny side thing about talking to them and how tall they are) but they didn't have a clue, so there was the mystery of who the underwear belonged to. He put them up in the production office. And someone came up to him and said, Richard, we know who the underwear belongs to... Misha. And apparently a fan had given them to Misha and he wore them XD They'd gotten washed and the laundry service put them in Richard's trailer by mistake. So Richard added a note to the briefs which are still in the production room saying "These smell like Cas" or something of that nature.

Right

As much fun as spending yesterday lazing around on the internet was I think today I will get dressed and actually go outside for a little bit. Then I need to watch this weeks V and White Collar and after that I might make some icons.

Probably should buy my holiday cards so I can start writing them and filling them with drabbles

Wow!

I've just seen how many members there are on merlinxarthur. When I joined there was only a few hundred. I remember when we crossed the 1000 members mark.

Egads I feel old. LOL!

It's funny but each week that comm does a live episode discussion for flailing and squeeing while the episode is on. Last year I participated in pretty much all of them. This year yesterdays ep was the first one where I was in a position to take part. It's not the same though. Last year because of how small the numbers were everyone replied to everyone elses comments and I made a whole bunch of Merlin fandom friends just by participating. This year I think I got one reply and because there were so many people posting it was impossible to keep up

Kind of makes me sad. I appreciate that fandoms evolve and grow and it's awesome the show has so many new fans but at the same time I kind of miss the days when it was a small and more intimate fandom.

I wonder if this is part of the reason why this season hasn't inspired me to write any Merlin fic at all. Not even episode coda drabbles.

Dusting off an oldie

Meme: Ask me any question about any object of my fannish obsession(s) - be it my opinion on the canon to my thoughts on the fandom itself - and I will answer.

Meh

Giving up on V. It's kind of boring and not really engaging me at all.

Still loving White Collar though

Shows I am watching:
Castle
Supernatural
Flashforward
Merlin
White Collar

Will be watching Chuck, Leverage and Lost too when they come back.

All the Clois is tempting me to watch S8 of Smallville. Is it good? Have they stopped retconning their own continuity on a weekly basis? Are we definitely going to be Lana and fake!Lex free?

Icons

[Poll #1485789]

Tech question

Is there any way to set up VLC so that instead of saving all my screenshots onto my hard drive it just puts them on the clipboard? Because I really don't want 40+ screencaps for every episode that I make icons from. I know I could just delete them afterwards but it's a pain, you know. I want to just paste them into my art programme and crop them as I go

Gush, gush, gush

One day I will stop talking about him but today is not that day

Remember yesterday when I said that Misha told tracy_loo_who that he recognised her screen name? Well understandably the poor love was freaked out but Misha got wind of this and did absolutely EVERYTHING to settle her nerves. Seriously, he got her a free photoshoot with him and Jim and then he had a milkshake and a chat with her while he was signing autographs. The man is a legend! Find me anyone else who would do this.

Read Tracy's story about her date with Misha here

Seriously, just when I thought I couldn't love him any more.

Doctor Who

( Waters of Mars )

Do you know what I need?

I need an icon of this weeks Doctor Who with the text 'Doctor Badass is in'

Ash quotes ftw!

Aww!

A few weeks ago Greg told me he was thinking of proposing to Amanda on the ten year anniversary of their relationship. He was asking for advice on rings etc. I am not normally a romantic person (unless it's my OTP on screen. LOL) but I was quite excited about this for some reason. I've never seen an engagement from the man's side before so it was quite sweet seeing him get all nervous and freaked out about the whole thing. Anyway, he came into work on Friday with a ring to show. It was lovely.

Just had a text saying he proposed yesterday and she said yes. D'aww!!! I have demanded full details when he gets back to work on Wednesday.

In less happy news I am having VLC issues. Every time I try to use 'E' to move forward a frame the whole programme freezes on me and the only way to close it down is to reboot my computer. It's happened several times now and considering I only started using it on Friday this is not good. Yes, I have the most recent version.

OOH Pretty!

Considering I am a Sam!girl flickums has managed to get me to change my desktop pic to something that neither features Jared/Sam or Misha/Castiel. I know!

( It is rather hot though )