NIMBUSNIMBUSNIMBUSNIMBUS GLEE, GLEE, GLEEEEE!!!!

Fun joy happy glee tra-la! Joy, joy, joy, joy, joy, merriment, festivities!

Cassie, Heidi, Flourish, Ruby, Ebony, Aja, Ali Wildgoose, etc, etc, etc!

Okay, slowly assembling thoughts and feelings of great t00by glee into rational sentences and thoughts. The trip with Alicey, Mags, and Steph went really well -- we made excellent time -- and meeting everyone was absolutely surreal. Steph pointed out Heidi to me, and I tapped her shoulder to introduce myself, but then I absolutely went blank and was incapable of speech in her unassuming greatness. Steph had to introduce me to her, and shockingly, she knew me immediately. This is Heidi Tandy... HUGGING me! I then ventured into the throng and met Cassie, who is the most wonderful and funniest person ever. I got Ali Wildgoose to draw me Harry and Draco on my nametag, then Cassie drew a stick-figure minicomic for me.

Percy Weasley: I love you, Priscellie!
Pris: But you are evil!
Ron: I will save you!

I flailed massively and launched into my "Percy is not evil, it's all an act!" schpiel and made a fool of myself, but all was merry. Then we assembled all the art and submitted it to the Art Gallery, then dashed outside for the Marauders Panel, a con-wide discussion of all things Marauders. When Sirius, Lupin, and the joint Christmas presents were mentioned, the entire crowd burst into wild cheers and applause. (Theirloveissocanon!)

After the panel, we caught up with Cassie and offered to take her to dinner. She had to do a practice "Can Draco Be Redeemed?" (no.) panel, so we chilled out in the room for an hour, then joined her and Ruby in the restaurant. High points of the meal include Steph's encounter with an Anchovy of Doom, and our forced repetition of certain "salty" words due to Alicey's difficulty lipreading in the darkened environment. I don't think I'll ever forget sitting at a table of people repeatedly saying the words "Naked Ron" and "Smut," loudly and clearly, until we gave up and wrote the words in my Book. Then the group went up to our room to check out all our art. We had a fabulous time poking fun at Mags' obsession with Cedric and all Quidditch in general (Freud!Cass decided this was because Quidditch uniforms so resemble bondage gear) and drooling over all of Mags' and Alicey's gorgeous original drawings. Upon seeing Mags' picture of Cedric and Percy in towels and looking very pleased with themselves, Cassie and Ruby vowed to write Alicey a fic for her birthday, inspired by the picture. Heeee, I love these people.

Quotes:

"This girl... she really, really, really likes Cedric a lot." --Cassie's first impression of Magsby

"Kung fu solves everything. That's the moral of The Matrix." --Cassie

"Wake up. Rule Fandom. Have babies. Rule some more." --Cassie, "A Day in the Life of Heidy Tandy"

"t00by or not t00by?" --Best T-Shirt ever

"Whether I should be evil or not is hidden in my crotch!" --Cassie, regarding a collab between Mags and another artist

"Just because he's dead doesn't mean he doesn't need a new hairstyle!" --Cassie, regarding Mags' page of new hairstyles for Cedric

"I can't draw him happy! He's always sad... or taking off his clothes." --Mags, regarding Lupin


And now I'm going to sleep, because in Orlando time, it's 2:30 AM. Sleepy time for 'Scillia! More quotes from the road trip and such coming soon. Loff to all!