fluent at last in the languages of the sea

So. Auckland Armageddon, 2009.

( First: the new venue )

Otherwise: Gigi Edgley is adorable and so awesome, and she has a fiance who is also awesome and rides a 12 foot unicycle. Jason Momoa was wearing an All Blacks shirt on Saturday. Both Jason Momoa and Joe Flanigan seemed pretty sure the Atlantis movie won't go ahead. Jason played the guitar. There were more vampires present than usual and Twilight merchandise at what felt like every second stall.

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ETA:

Things that made me happy:

* parents there with their kids
* especially the cute Jedi kids at the 501st Legion
* girls digging through boxes of comics
* listening to people talk about Stargate and BSG and Farscape
* getting awesome action figures at great prices, including Kat from BSG who I was not prepared to pay full price for, but got knocked down on the last afternoon
* so many people of all ages

Things I wish I'd done

* not missed Paul McGillion's panel
* gone to the Robot Chicken panel and signing because Seth Green
* had my photo taken with the 'Stargate Trio' - Joe Flanigan, Jason Momoa, Paul McGillion
* asked if they'd sell me the Joe Flanigan poster that Jason and Paul decorated (how awesome would that be? I bet someone scored it)

I almost subjected you all to a long rambling about my Swallows and Amazons books, and whether I should buy a particular copy of Missee Lee (one of the three I don't have) that is the same hard-to-find edition as the rest of the series, but is covered in clear film and has library markings on the spine. But while I was writing I realised I could not tolerate either film or markings, that I will likely not be able to remove either without completely ruining the cover and thus defeating the purpose, and that I'd rather wait two/three years for another copy rather than have to look at this one.

So you don't get the rambling after all. Probably you should be thankful.

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In more delightful news, according to the Armageddon Facebook group and Twitter, Gigi Edgley has been booked for Auckland this year. She hasn't yet made the actual website, but: Chiana!

Oh, this is going to be an expensive autograph year, isn't it? I'm up to four, assuming none of them pull out.

... Armageddon is doing my head in. Gary Jones has been added, David Anders is out due to work committments, and now we get a showing of A Dog's Breakfast instead, introduced by David Hewlett. Which I am okay with as a consolation prize. *g*

(I'm so glad I don't have to sort all that stuff out.)

Also, tomorrow(!)

I have to prepare. See, we're supposed to have horrendously bad weather tomorrow, so I have to wear something appropriate for waiting at the train station and walking up Queen Street in the rain that will not cause me to die of heat exhaustion cooped up in the Aotea Centre with hundreds of other people. And if I take a book for the train, I have to carry it around all day. And I need some way to get my autographs safely as far as Britomart in what may or may not be a howling gale. And a camera, and food to keep my blood sugar levels from going insane, and panadol for the inevitable headache from so many people in what becomes an incredibly small space once all the stalls are jammed in...

In real life, I am the most disorganized person I know, although you might not believe it from what I just wrote.

Michael Shanks is out for Armageddon. Kavan Smith is in.

Which I am a little disappointed about, because Michael Shanks, but then again, these things happen. Also, Kavan Smith is really, really pretty and well up there on my list of People I Want To Meet, so I can't be too upset.

Also, for once I have a semi-appropriate icon. See? Pretty.

I was going to write this Sam/Cam fic, and in my head it had lots of awesome dialogue and it was going to be really really cool. So why is it that when I sat down to write it out, most of it had vanished from my mind and the bits that I could remember proved to be incredibly lame?

Oh, brain.

But Sam and Cam? Freaking adorable. Seriously.

Also, Armageddon. Joe Flanigan was pretty and told us about his escape from a great white shark. Chris Judge was pretty and told us why he's afraid of polar bears.

They talked about Stargate, too.

Aaron Douglas is going to be at the Wellington Armageddon this year. This probably means that I'm going to be there too, because OMG Tyrol.