2 Days To Go: Your costumes for this year (if no costumes, outfits)

2 Days To Go: Your costumes for this year (if no costumes, outfits) Well I'm writing this a few days in advance, but: 1. Anne Boleyn - Anne of the Thousand Days (this is new!) 2. Peggy Carter -Captain America (new!) 3. Rogue as Ms Marvel (new!) 4. Donna Noble - Fires of Pompeii (new!) 5. Johanna Mason Interview dress - Catching Fire (new!) 6. Megara - Hercules 7. Dr Forrester - MST3K (updated version!) 8. Marie Antoinette ...

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3 Days To Go: Something you recommend everyone pack

3 Days To Go: Something you recommend everyone pack 1. Medicine Not just Dragoncon but every single trip I go on, I take a medicine bag of anything we may possibly need. Besides personal prescriptions, I always take pain relief (multiple kinds - aspirin and ibuprofen), Benadryl (also personally helps me sleep), Sudafed, Sudafed Sinus Headache, stomach meds, plus things like band-aids and moleskin. While most of that over the counter stuff ...

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mostly done

-Make collar and bracelet pieces for Johanna -Make earring for Johanna -Make bracelet for Johanna -Trim Johanna wig lace -Try on/clean up and finishing touches on Johanna -get eyelets set into Peggy belt -get buckle covered and attached for Peggy belt -paint my props for Peggy -recurl Peggy wig -assemble briefcase for Peggy -finishing resewing trim on Donna -paint crown piece for Anne -finish Marie Antoinette underskirt -steam hat ...

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4 Days To Go: Something you are really excited about this year

4 Days To Go: Something you are really excited about this year This year? I'm excited about several of the guests, especially Terry Gilliam! Don't know if I'll go meet him or not but I live vicariously through Cath's guest trans experience so I'll get to hear some stories I'm sure. I'm excited that Joel, Trace and Frank will be there - I'm going to get them to sign Tom Servo, ...

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5 Days To Go: One of your best memories from DragonCon

5 Days To Go: One of your best memories from DragonCon I have a lot. Meeting Chase. Partying with the girls. Our skit in 2005. Costuming with my mom. But I've talked about all those things recently, so in the effort to not repeat myself too much, here's a more recent fun story. In 2010, I think it was? Stan Lee was a guest. I almost walked directly into him after the parade. ...

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6 Days To Go: The guest you were most excited about from a previous year

6 Days To Go: The guest you were most excited about from a previous year As I mentioned before I don't get all that excited over guests --- well, let me rephrase. I get really excited over guests, then do absolutely nothing about it at the con. Some guests I've been excited about in the past and actually made an effort to meet them are Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy from ...

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I wanna go

Before every Dragoncon, before every Disney trip, I always feel like Joey in, "The One Where Ross Got High." Yet I've never been able to find a gif of that so I could share my feelings with the internets. So today I made my own.

7 Days To Go: The coolest thing you ever bought at DragonCon

7 Days To Go: The coolest thing you ever bought at DragonCon Hmm. Over the years we've gotten to where we really don't buy much anymore. We did get this Kingdom Come Wonder Woman statue I've always wanted a couple of years ago, now displayed next to my helmet: And, I don't have a photo of them, but you know that one dealer who sells the vintage movie posters and art? ...

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Dragoncon Meme Day 2

8 Days To Go: A pic of you at your most recent DragonCon and what you remember most from that year Hmmmm a story from last year, hmmmmmm. Oh, I know. I was wearing Donna Runaway Bride, and Chase and I had gone over to the Hilton for something, and were about to head back to the Marriott. As we started heading that way we were passed by a ginormous Doctor ...

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Dragoncon meme

Yes another one. Because sitting at work freaking out over how much work I have to do at home means I need something to distract me. This meme came from darkfirewolfe! 9 Days To Go: A pic of your first DragonCon and what you remember most from that year 8 Days To Go: A pic of you at your most recent DragonCon and what you remember most from that year 7 Days To ...

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