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This journal is for my personal posts and it' friends only. There will be some public entries as well but mostly it will be friends locked. Please feel free to browse around the public entries.


If you are interested to read my fics a better place for those is my fic journal fanfic_by_piksa. I don't really post fics here anymore. They are all posted at the fic journal. This is just for my personal entries.

Look at me, posting two days in a row. :)

Some of you might have already heard about this since I've talked about it on FB and a bit also on Twitter but here's more room to expand so will put it here as well.

Around the end of June, I bought a ticket for the Toronto convention on the website. Around 15 minutes later, I got an email saying that the organizer was denying my ticket "because past has shown we see things differently when it comes to fandom and conventions" and on the basis of the T&G which says that the organizer reserves the right to deny access to the event. Was very surprised by this and didn't know what to think. Sent an email back saying that I was sorry she felt so but also requested a bit closer explanation about it all. A few weeks passed and I got my reply. It pretty much stated that "based on my behavior in previous conventions, for the benefit of other attendees, a ticket could not be extended to me".

Now I've come to accept that I've been banned and truth be told, I'm not that willing to go somewhere, where I'm obviously not wanted. But to me the grounds of me being banned sound a bit flimsy. I would understand it if I had been threatening towards the organizer, guests or other attendees. But as far as I can see, all I've done is ask too many questions and bantered with the guests. Maybe that's wrong too. To my defense, the main reason I have asked so many questions, has been, that there hasn't really been anyone else asking questions. For example, several times in Bilbao, I waited for someone else to go there and pretty much only went up there after being prompted by Randy when no-one else was saying anything. I kept encouraging other people to go and ask questions but not with much result. I don't blame anyone since I know from experience that it can be nerve-wrecking to get up there in front of everyone.

However, it has also entered my mind, that is possible that some people were annoyed by me in Bilbao and have complained and that has lead to me being banned from Toronto. If that is the case, I want to apologize. My intention definitely was never to annoy anyone.

However, long story short, I won't be attending Toronto. However, will be looking forward to reading reports from there from people who do go.

And here's the final part of my report. It's again quite long so stocking up on food and drinks is recommended *g*

Also lots of pictures once more. Still asking you not to take any parts of the report or the photos but rather linking back to my journal. Thank you!

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Okay, here's the next part of my report. This one includes panels, M&Gs and Coffee breaks with the guests on the Saturday. Beware, it's long. :)

There are quite a few photos. The same disclaimers apply :)

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So here's the first official part of my report. This part of the report will be mostly text at the beginning with a picspam following in the end. It seems I concentrated more on talking with the guests than taking photos but there are already so many great photos around that I guess it doesn't matter. The pics are clickable for larger.

Standard disclaimer: As always I'm happy to share my experiences but I do ask that you respect the hard work I've put in this and don't take any parts of the report or the photos and post them somewhere else. I'm fine with people linking on this report and even encourage it. Also if you want to make icons of any of my photos, that is fine too. All I ask it that you ask. :)

Second disclaimer: All things stated here are my own opinions and don't represent the opinions of anyone else.

There's a story behind my copyright watermark but that story is still coming :)

Finally. I hope you enjoy!

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So here's the QWANvention part of my report. This time there are even photos, lots of them. What I said yesterday still goes. I'm more than happy to share my report and photos but please don't go stealing them. Tell me where you are putting them and give me credit. That's all I'm asking.

Now I hope you enjoy!

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Final comment: The whole event was so great. Everything ran smoothly and people seemed to enjoy themselves. My heartfelt thanks to Sarah and Milo, the organizers, as well as all the people who helped out with the event, in one way or another.

I'm back from my trip. It was an awesome trip and I'm so happy I had the chance to make it. I've done my best to write a report of all the things Randy that happened there but couldn't quite manage to get it all together tonight. True to form, I wrote too much. Therefore, I decided to cut the report into two parts. This first part has the parts when I went to see him in Harbor and the second part, which I'll hopefully finish tomorrow, will have the QWANcon parts.

As always with my reports, I'm happy to share my experiences and photos but I ask you not to spread them around without my knowledge or credit. Okay, in this first part there really aren't that many photos, but anyway :) So in short, feel free to share my report but please tell me about it so that I know. Thank you!

I hope you enjoy!

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And here's the final part of my report. Couldn't post yesterday because I spent the whole day at my sister's house. It was her birthday yesterday so we had a small celebration. And also just enjoyed the company of my lovely niece once more.

Saturday

Anyway, below the cut the Sunday part of the convention. Again some pictures included there.

PLEASE, do not take my photos and post them elsewhere before asking me first!!!

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And here's the next part. In case you happened to miss the first part it's here

This part got pretty long but tried to include as much details from the talks as I could remember as well read from my notes. There are also quite a few pictures. I hope you enjoy!

PLEASE!!! Do not take any of my photos and post them elsewhere without asking me first!

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Okay, done with the first part. Somehow I've got a feeling that this report might again get slightly long. However, I do hope I won't bore you. I've included some pics under the cut as well :)

PLEASE!!! Do not take any of my photos and post them elsewhere without asking me first!

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Doing things a bit differently this time around. It seems that every single time I start writing convention reports, they end up these huge epic posts that no one has energy to read. *g* Or actually right now I don't unfortunately have time to write. So I'm doing highlights per guest and starting with Thomas Dekker. Even if this was supposed to just be highlights, it got quite long anyway. *g*

General note. Had a blast. Saw a lot of old friends, met some new people.

There are pictures. Please don't repost without asking first. Also credit is appreciated.

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So here's the third and final part of my convention report from Planet Babylon

Advance warning. This part includes some bitching about the organizational side of the convention. Please feel free to skip those parts. I do hope you don’t think I’m a total bitch. These are just my thoughts. They were maybe partly agreed by at least some of the people I was there with but I’m not speaking for anyone else than for myself.

Another advance warning. There are many photos in this post. I couldn't decide which ones to include so I put quite a few there. It was impossible to choose! It's not my fault! I put the blame completely on Mr. Randy Harrison...


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So here’s the ending of my report of my lovely experience at Planet Babylon. Thank you for reading!

Trivia: For some reason Randy signed his autographs with just "Randy" on the first two days but on the third day he signed "Randy Harrison"

And here I am with the second part of my convention report. In case you happened to miss the first part, that can be found here

Again quite a few photos. I couldn't decide which ones to include so I put quite a few of them into the post. Again clickable for larger and shareable, just tell me if you put them somewhere.

I hope you enjoy!


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I so wanted to keep posting all kinds of random tidbits throughout the day today but in the end decided to go with one at least closely coherent post rather than several posts during the day that are in random order. If my adventures in Paris and Planet Babylon convention interest you, click the cut. *g*

Warning: This is a loooooooooooooooooong post. And there are a lot of pictures. I’m thinking this is the longest one I’m going to do of the convention. Somehow so much happened during the first days that the report got a bit long. The report includes practically everything that went on but if you are just interested in the parts with Randy, feel free to skip the rest. No hard feelings. *g*

There are plenty of photos in the text. They are all clickable for larger. Also this report is all shareable as are the pics of the guests. However, I'd appreciate a heads up if you take parts of the report or the pics.

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Seriously kudos to anyone who managed to read all that...You deserve a medal :D

Saw this petition and decided to share it with you too. Copy&pasted the text straight from the confirmation email I got from there. Please consider signing as well and spreading the word. It's sad that countries like this still exist.


Dear Friends,

I have just read and signed the online petition:

"STOP THE TRIAL AGAINST THE MALAWIAN GAY COUPLE"

hosted on the web by PetitionOnline.com, the free online petition
service, at:

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/ilh605/

I personally agree with what this petition says, and I think you might
agree, too. If you can spare a moment, please take a look, and consider
signing yourself.

Evilly snagged this idea from likegrass.

This post will stay on top of my journal for this year and will be updated as often as I remember with books I've read and movies I've seen. *g*

My goal is to reach 50 books during this year. Interesting to see how that goes. No goals about the movies but I do have a lot of movies I haven't watched yet so I'll probably try to go through some of those


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While I was at T1 I heard about Jonathan Woodward taking part in a charity at Haiti and about his plans to travel there this summer for two months. He did sell some raffle tickets there to this cause. Now I just found out that a site has been opened to support this cause. Through the page you can donate to the cause. Also the owner of the page is putting some btvs/ats stuff on sale to Ebay. You can find a link to those on the site as well.

The site is here

He's going to Haiti together with The International Association of Human Values and is taking part in Project Racine

Visit the site to find out more and donate! Every cent counts!

Also please spread the word!

It was my 5 year LJversary yesterday! Totally forgot all about it. Did remember it still during the weekend but brain was fried yesterday after work and there were no intelligent thoughts going around. Not that I'm saying there's usually intelligent thoughts going around in my head anyway...

So I've been here five years. It really doesn't feel that long. LJ has offered me a place where I can whine when things are down and squee when things are again looking up. I've met so many lovely people through this place and for that I'm very grateful.

I've been told to get a life when I've just sat at home surfing the Web but in my opinion being here has offered me a lot of experiences.

LJ has been a place for me where I can share my fics in peace and there are likeminded people who share my obsessions.

Here I don't get weird glances when I squee over some things, unlike in RL. Or at least I don't see the weird glances here *g*


So in short. Thank you to you all for being here with me! LJ is my home and I don't see myself leaving anytime soon!

Sharing this even if I'm not from the US.


"Fidelity": Don't Divorce... from Courage Campaign on Vimeo.


Fidelity: Don't divorce...

Watch the video and then go sign the petition.

They ask for a zip code in the petition but I guess you can put almost anything there in case you aren't from the US either.

You are in my thoughts. Sending lots of positive and healing thoughts your way. Hoping for a speedy recovery!




GET WELL SOON, GALE!


[For those who don't know: Gale Harold was in a motorcycle accident on October 14th and is currently recovering from the injuries he sustained. Those of us who call ourselves his fans want to make sure he knows how much we care about him and support him during this time!]