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I must say this was probably the best weekend in my life. I am so happy right now I could fly. But I can't cuz I need to be here and write a report. So here we go. (All the pics are previews so you can click them for a full size).

I arrived at London Euston station on Friday about 2pm and @pinstripeowl was there to meet me! We grabbed some coffee and then printed out some pictures for signing and had a nice long walk across the centre of London. I've got loads of pretty night London pictures but I will post them in another entry because not Collectormania-relevant. Only thing that's relevant is what @pinstripeowl wrote on a wall (it's pretty crappy but if you make an effort you can read: "Castiel raised you from perdition, and you should show him some respect").



DAY ONEDAY ONE

On Saturday morning morning I was so tired I could die, cuz I slept 3 hrs on previous night and didn't get much sleep that night cuz too excited. But it was all gone as soon as @pinstripeowl and I arrived at Olympia.

Misha was there at the signing about 10am, looking bloody gorgeous. Seriously, when other people said he looks even better in RL than on pictures I couldn't believe it's possible to look better. Turns out it is. We weren't allowed to take pictures but I managed to get one before the sleepy staff stopped me xDDD he's signing @pinstripeowl's picture and you can see his mom on the left! "> Yes he brought his mom to the event! That's soooo cute and she looks so proud of her baby boy. Eeeeee!



I was literally shaking and after he looked at me I'm actually proud I managed to say something cuz his eyes are mesmerizing. He looked at the picture and was like "Oh, I like this one", and I said something about choosing it cuz it's pretty new. (I think he says it about every single pic that fans bring with them cuz he's bored with standard pics provided by the event xDDDDD) He said he loved my name "> (It's pretty clever how they did with the names written beforehand cuz I had to spell mine for Gareth later.) I said thank you and that it's polish but that I'm actually from Russia, that he's got lots of minions there, and that they are all saying hi; and he was like "Oh really? I might wanna go there someday". I probably should've asked him WHEN but I was too busy staring xDDDDDD there'd probably have been a long awkward pause but Misha's really amazing at filling pauses with some random talk. He asked me if I was just visiting and I said that I'm studying here in Manchester, and he was like "Oh cool". Then he finished signing and looked at my hoodie reading what's written on it, then laughed and said it's really cool. My only clever response to MISHA COLLINS BLOODY STARING AT MY BOOBS was a "Thank you! ">" Then he gave me my pic with the autograph and I thanked him again, overall I must've said "thank you" there about 5 times. >_< (And another 10 the second time). Dumbo. Well anyway, here's the pretty! ">



Then I came up to Gareth and took an autograph from him "> Like I said, the Misha people organized it brilliantly, cuz Gareth started writing my name with "C" and I was like "it's K", so he changed that and kept on "Konstan..." then stopped and looked at me, I spelled "C.J.A." and he was like "Jesus Christ!" but managed to finish it anyway. xDDD Well done, Gareth! I asked him if I can have a picture with him cuz I saw someone having a pic with Kai next to me, but he looked very apologetic saying "No sorry, I can't cuz I'm having a photoshoot later". I couldn't do that cuz it clashed with my Misha photoshoot. I did get a pic with him in the end but I'll talk about it later. ">

So, then there was the Misha photoshoot. I've seen lots of pics on the table afterwards and they are all so cute "> actually, any guy should be jealous of Misha. Hugging lots of pretty girls and being paid for that. xDDDDDDD Well anyway, I was really shaky again but was all like, "now or never", so I asked "Can I hug you?" and he beamed as usual saying "Of course! ">" and once I've hugged him I felt so much better. He's so firm (c)Becky. xDDDDD Squeeeed all the way after that. Was outside smoking and literally screaming happily otherwise I'd have spontaneously combusted. @pinstripeowl tried to shut me up but with little success. Anyways, here it is.



So then there was a lot of time till the Supernatural talk and we just kind of hung around taking pictures with random cool stuff&cosplayers, wasting a lot of money on posters, and occasionally stalking Misha's signing table. Seeing him was just too addictive. Met some new cool people too. @absdax, @AlisonJayne82, @hils_k, so cool to meet you all guys! *Lots of huggles*

So, There's some pics with the Daleks.





And some R2D2! He was sooooooo amazing, dancing round the place, catching everyone's attention and running away scarily whenever Darth Vader and the stormtroopers were around. ">





And the Predator! He was sooooo cool scaring people around. Tought to scare me though. I hugged him instead.



Plus, a picture from camping outside the Torchwood talk, with @absdax and her supercool Supernatural & Torchwood bears! I'm hugging Ianto and Dean.



So, then there was the Supernatural talk. I was on L15 which is pretty far but it's an aisle seat, so I had a good view + a good zoom. You can see the pics I've taken here. Here's a preview. Pretty monkey!Misha.



I'm not going to talk about the panel much here, because you can download the whole audio here (please tell me whom to credit, cuz I have no idea!). And I'm sure the scripts are coming up. But best things were:

- Misha's prompt for Bobby/Impala fic with tailpipe action;
- Jason walking on the talk and asking Anna which part of Jensen did she like most during the scene at the backseat of the Impala;
- "I stopped at the part where Cas choked... on someone's cock"; and
- "You lost a fucking continent!" on Brits not celebrating Thanksgiving.

I LOL'd so hard. It was amazing.

DAY TWODAY TWO

Felt so much better cuz slept through the night like a baby. Must be the Misha effect. "> Anyways, we got our pictures with Julie. She's really sweet and we felt very bad for her not even having a queue to the photo area. xDDD But we suspect she might be a robot because she looks nearly the same on all the pictures. Some scary proof here.



Sunday was pretty much the Barrowman Day. The photoshoot queue was insanely long and the whole thing organized in a very military way xDDDD like, run to John, hug him, get a pic, get out. He's really sweet though.



I did get a picture with K-9 though while I was waiting.



Then I queued for Jason Momoa's photoshoot. I haven't really even seen him outside of Atlantis so it was quite weird seeing him without the dreadlocks. Still had long hair though, and looked really gorgeous. There've been hopeful talks around of him being shirtless for the photoshoot. Unfortunately not. xDDDDD But he was still very, very sexy. He was fooling around, too. After taking the pic with me he pulled me towards the exit pretending to be leaving and saying "Okay, no more photos". I think I died there. Once we were out he laughed, let me go and headed back, leaving me there with a stupid grin. xDDDDD



So then I went back to Misha to get my picture with him signed, cuz he was leaving comments on all the pictures with him that people brought! His memory really scares me cuz he remembers every single person coming up to him twice. Dunno who was before me but while they were talking he glanced at me, recognize me and smiled. Then when I came up to him saying I'd love our picture signed he was all smiley and said I look great on this picture, and I told him he looks awesome too (well what else could I say?!). I've written my name on the paper again but he didn't even look at it, asking "so it's Konstancja with a J, right?" and I thought I couldn't be more flattered that he remembered how to spell my name; until I saw what he wrote. He kinda wrote the first part, comma, rubbed his nose thoughtfully, looked up at me again, grinned and finished. And I think I died. I managed to say: "I think you should model too!" and he grinned again and I decided to get out of there before my knees gave out.




They eventually did, I pretty much fell to the floor about 20 feet away from the table and waited for @pinstripeowl who was taking Julie's autograph. Then she came back to me and we squeed over our new shiny signatures and then she decided to see if she can ask Misha whether he's going to be here when Sunday's pictures are done. What happened next was totally epic cuz Misha was actually walking past us and she nearly bumped into him, and didn't even see that it was him, I was still sitting on the floor blocking the way so Misha walked around me and smiled at me, then I looked at @pinstripeowl and was like "HOW DA HELL DID U NOT SEE HIM HE JUST WALKED PAST YOU!!!", and she was like "WHAT?! OHMYGOD LET'S GO CHASE HIM SO I CAN ASK MY QUESTION" and headed off after him, I was like "whatever" and followed her, at some point around the talk area we lost him and *THAT* is when I realized where he was heading. Yup, the bathroom that's behind the talk area. I'm glad we didn't catch up with him. That would've been SUPER AWRWARD.

Then I got my John autograph. They were not even personalized cuz too many people wanted them! And John didn't have any time to chat with people but was still very nice and called me sweetheart "> And I was clever to have his signature on the same picture as Gareth, which was already personalized ">



Then we went to the cafe, I got myself some coffee and a muffin. Loved how at some point then Jason started hanging around the place, w/o any staff, having pics with people for free, and generally not giving a shit about the event's rules.

Then there was the Torchwood talk. I had a pretty shitty seat but took pictures, mainly cuz I saw better when looking on the camera screen raised in the air than trying to peek over other people's heads. John, Gareth and Kai were sooooo funny. John and Gareth sang a piece from High School Musical together! If anyone has an audio of that and/or the whole talk, links plz? Also, John said he and his sister are writing a Torchwood novel!!! Eeeeee! John said Kai and Gareth are free to come to his place and wear some female dresses, he'd take pictures and post it online. Everyone was ecstatic. Someone asked whether they had Torchwood dolls and played with them, and they fooled around it only happening in the bathroom. Also John said there's a John Barrowman doll coming up which will be very proportional. IN THE FACE. *g* Someone asked John about the Youtube video to Single Ladies, can't remember most of the reply but he recommended everyone to watch Glee! Yuppiiii! "> He also said there will be a season 4 of Torchwood, 13 episodes, and better than what we've seen before. I doubt it's even possible without Ianto... But oh well. *Sigh* Anyway, all of my Torchwood talk pics can be downloaded here. Quality preview:



So then I met @pinstripeowl who already got her Misha signature, and we camped with a small minion crowd not far away from the Misha table I managed to take a couple of sneaky pictures of him. He looked so tired, poor thing. Hope he got some decent sleep afterwards cuz I heard he was having 25 (!!!) interviews on Monday. Holy Jesus.





Also, people were now taking pictures that weren't allowed before, cuz everything was closing and I guess the staff were too tired to care anymore. Plus, Gareth was a bit drunk to care about the rules as well xDDDDD you can see the bottle on the table. I dunno how many did he have before. But point is, I did get a picture with Gareth for free! *g* An epic ending of an epic day of an epic weekend.



Back at her place, @pinstripeowl and me took a picture of all the stuff we bought. Dunno about her but my Collectormania price mounts up to about 400 quid, if I take into account my train tickets, photoshoots, autographs, talks, and all the stuff I bought. Holy shit. But that was so worth it.



Overall thoughts now that I'm back: awesome. It was awesome not just cuz of meeting the favourite actors and having loads of fun. It was also the place in itself keeping you happy, nearly buzzing with positive energy flows from all the other happy people. You just couldn't stop smiling cuz everyone around you was smiling and laughing and hugging and occasionally squeeing with joy.

It's still sort of sinking in. My brain doesnt quite associate the guy I'm hugging on the pic with THE Misha Collins, THE Castiel from THE Supernatural and THE most amazing man in the world. I'm scared of what will happen to me when I finally realize what happened.

Feel free to snag anything from this report as long as you credit  timey_wimey_kid or @timey_wimey_kid.

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To add here, I couldn't stop myself from reposting some more cool stuffthe amazing Gareth and Kai pics by @absdax, also from Sunday evening.





Also, this pic from the signing, also by @absdax. Meeeeeeeeeeesha *g*.



And THIS. Cutest thing of the whole Collectormania. Jools aka mini-Castiel, by @captainpixie. I wish I were there to see Misha's reaction to meeting him ">

@настроение: BLOODY JESUS I MET MISHA!!!

@темы: Превед из Кащенки, "Fantastic!", Glee, Geek&Proud, "Мой моск тупое желе", Mish-Mish, "I wanna do bad things with you", "Misha Collins for world domination", John Barrowman, Фандомы, "Misha is our Aslan", "I'll be in my bunk", Сериальное, "Доктор, это лечится?", Ржунимагу, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Супернатуралы, Вааааааааааай, "We are alive, Negro. Isn't that beautiful?", "Карету мне, карету! С мигалкой!", Друзья, Castiel, Мужчины, SGA, Путешествия, Слэш, События, Свун - это диагноз, Фото, Цитаты, Чувства, Я, Слюни