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arcanetrivia) wrote2018-04-08 10:59 pm
arcanetrivia) wrote2018-04-08 10:59 pm
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AAA IT'S ME AND DAVID TENNANT
So, yanno. It’s a thing.
This time I figured out where my teeth were and how to use them in a smile. I am still not photogenic, but as these things go, I don’t hate this pic. Meh. (Please to ignore my husband’s odd expression, since it seems he didn’t make it all the way to a smile before the shutter clicked. This is posted with his permission.)
When we walked into the photo booth, David noticed my shirt (!!!!!!) and started quite obviously reading it with an intrigued expression, saying, “What’s this shirt?” I said I would tell him all about it later. (The photographer and everyone behind us in line would surely have killed me if I’d tried to do it then and there.) When we were having him sign the print of this picture a couple hours later, he said, “Oh, here we are! ...So?” I, of course, again forgot half the things I meant to say (cf. ECCC), but did manage to explain the idea of the shirt and that the reason it stopped at McDuck on the back was because that was sort of current as of last June when I’d had it printed, and it was too bad it turned out he couldn’t be there in Chicago that August. He said “Well, I appreciate your efforts!” I’m pretty sure that was at least half just being kind, but he did seem genuinely interested during the photo, so I’ll take what I can get. In any event, I managed to mostly keep cool for the photo and autograph this time.
David’s panel with Krysten on Sunday was a treat. He’s amazing to watch in person
I managed to ask a question, but did not manage to get all the words out of my mouth in the right order at first. What I tried to say was “I’ve seen you both doing a good number of conventions* over the past few years. What was it like at your first fan convention as a guest, and how has it changed over the years for you?” What came out at first was a jumble, something like “I’ve you seen at cons both -- bleh, wait, let’s try English.” Then when I started over I didn’t really get across that I wanted a “then and now” comparison; ah well. I slipped in an aside that David must be spending half his life in airplanes by now, and he said, “I thought you were going to ask me which is the best airline.” That got laughter and a little tangent about well, sometimes it’s posh airplanes, sometimes ones that are falling apart, etc.
But wow, while they were answering, even though I had to do nothing but stand there and listen and it was unlikely they could even see me**, it felt like David was talking to me for minutes on end, and was I ever weak in the knees. I kept having to spread my stance out just to effing stay upright. So it seems that’s also something I have to do at least one more time so I can learn to keep my cool there as well.
(My boots are silver hologram Doc Martens, if you want to know. They’re delicate, so I reserve them for special occasions.)
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* I always feel bad for the other person in these dual panels because it’s usually so obvious by the questions that a lot of people are really just there to see David, so even though that was true for me as well, I tried to think of something that could apply to both of them and then did my best to phrase it equitably, even though I knew David had a longer track record than Krysten did.
** Everyone we went to see in this panel room complained they were blinded by the stage lights, and even more, when the person two ahead of me in line sat down halfway through their answer (I guess because David paused, or something, and she thought he was done?) and the next person walked up to await their turn, David continued as though nothing had changed, still addressing the head of the aisle space we were in, even though it was now a very different person standing there.
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