#2am virgo should be in bed

[virgothozul]

Late night sketches ! The two of them again, bc it’s cj craving o’clock.

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Zodiac signs as people I have met

Aries: My little cousin. Please send help. The building is on fire. Jk. That boy is a little devil. Loud. Temperament on point. Stubborn. Stop.

Taurus: My classmate. Boy loves to eat and has some nice sets of legs and hands. Though, he pisses me off.

Gemini: No shade to all those nice geminis out there, but my experience hasn't been the best with them. My uncle's wife. That uptight hoe. Another classmate, who should really stitch his lips together.

Cancer: I don't know anyone with this zodiac sign really. Or maybe I didn't bother to ask. But cancers are MASTER manipulators.

Leo: My friend. She is no attention whore. Really shy, but outgoing, like extroverted af. She is that one friend, who drags my introverted ass out of the house, after spending entire month of July stuck in my bedroom. Really fucking loyal and sweet. Won't spill your secrets or talk behind your back. Basically, I love them. Well, I love my friend.

Virgo: So, most of the people I know are virgos. Those hoes are everywhere. I'm one of them, BTW. My mom(sorry mom), one of my friends (we share the same birthday), my uncle, another friend and etc. Stereotypically speaking, my mom fits best into the whole 'neat freak' 'perfectionist' stereotype that I hate. Rest of us are pretty chill. (Have you seen my bed? I haven't seen it since February.) Detail oriented, little judgy, witty and sarcastic. That is us. That is Virgos impact. But other than that we are mostly too free spirited and 'go with the flow' kind of folks.

Libra: Only know two of them. Very different people. One is my former friend. Extroverted and social af, fashionable and make up obsessed. Can be bitchy. Second one, also extroverted, but not as much. Loves dresses. Chill and laid back. But like judgy af. My virgo ass could never.

Scorpio: Oh, that bitch is feisty. One of my close friends. She is fiery, has a bad temper, very hot headed, loyal to the core, will die defending her friends. Don't fight her. I beg you. Very opinionated and stands by her words. Even if they piss everyone off (me.) Hence why we get into fights. I say that I'll never get married and have children, cause commitment issues? The girl is seething. She bites. Despite that, they are wonderful friends to have.

Saggitarius: You thought, I disagreed with Scorpio the most? Well, you were wrong, Karen. Me and my Sag friend agree on some things, but not fully. (She can be very judgy. Not more than Libra 2.0 though.) Thinks girls with muscles aren't pretty. Hence, why I hate her guts sometimes. Points someone's flaws, as if she isn't judging them, but their tone says otherwise. Honestly, stop. She is too optimistic. My pessimist self wants to choke you and not in the way you'll like. Since, I am very opinionated and correct when people are being assholes, she finds it funny and makes fun of me for it. Well, excuse me Karen for correcting your dickish attitude.

Capricorn: You scare me. Like SCARE me. Might piss my pants. That one girl in my class, who is either a sociopath(cause where are your emotions) or a psychopath(she has the record of most mental breakdowns in the class. Crying, screaming at teachers, throwing your bag across the room.) Basically, please get some help. For your sake and ours. (But on a serious note, those are some serious mental illnesses, so, don't take my words seriously.)

Aquarius: Never met any of them or I don't care enough to ask about their zodiac sign. But those bitches are artsy af. OG"not like other girls". But they deserve their title, they seem pretty cool and different. And different is beautiful.

Pisces: Can't remember any. Cry baby 2.0 after cancer, but that's the way Internet portrays them and since I have no experience with them whatsoever, Imma stop.

That was my 2am crackhead hour rant edition. Thank u.

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nawar lover no.1 aka user shwhyuk uwu

bloodorangeki said: the lady formerly known as hyuccwoo, shreknu if u will,

send me a tumblr url and ill tell you what i think of them!

hhhhhh ok before i eben launch into this full love essay. i jst wanna say tht u truly are the light at the end of my tunnel sejung,,,,u make me so happy !!! Like i remember when i was losing my mind off of like three sips of pineapple cider and i legitimately felt like i was gonna throw up but then i was like … damn i can’t forget to text shannon and tell her about all this. and then i talked to u for a full hour or so while u called me a liddle babie nd i continuously whined…either way you truly have me under your spell you demon!!

okay so not to be. dramatic but youre so dreamy and pretty you remind me of rain and soft kisses on the cheeks and rose gardens and bouquets of flowers and soft sunlight on flower meadows and like! that feeling you get in your cheeks when you smile too much for too long and you get that permanent blush across your face! god that’s probabaly nonsense and not very cohesive but you have the same sort of colors…soft orange and light pink….you’re like a sunset on the beach right at the start of spring when theres barely anyone on the shore and the whole world feels really big and wide but even though youre all alone you don’t feel lonely because it still feels like the whole world(you) is poised right at the edge of your fingertips.

hhhh that also probably made very little sense but i dont care i love you so much and im very bad at expressing emotion (blame my virgo moon who hasn’t felt any feelings in over 18 years) but i still feel like always showering u in that sweet love and affection, despite the fact that im horrible with words and i have absolutely no consistency. I feel like it’s really rare to meet someone who literally changes your entire perception of the world but … damn here we are!! tlkaing to u is literally a part of my daily life its a part of who i am at this point :/

Anyways, friendships don’t really come naturally to me because I have a very weird perosnality where like. im simultaneously suffocating whilst also being very detached and it turns people off so quickly but..god we mesh so well i truly love you so much. i also tend to not write a lot whenever i make these posts bc im the kind of person who continously says how much i love you throughtout the convo (even thoguh ill ghost most ppl for a few days) so whenever i get around to writing these im like :// but what else do i say :// but this time!!! oooo i have so much to say i can never go into full loving hours with you bc you always turn things around and get me to start talking abotu myself and pretty soon we start talking about how i used to raise rocks as a kid instead of talking about how hot you are :/

so anyways firstly . those were just the intro pragaraphs im finally getting into my loving sejung essay :(( helloooo one of my favortie things about talking to you is how easily the conversation always flows ….us talking about shownus asshole and the questionable consumption of expired jello and orbeez at 3 am is most likely the more demonic things weve done while simultaenously being the more tame things…my head still aches when i remember that giagntic bruise i got from looking at that wonho+tentacles/changkyun+black hole sketch u made… god we somehow always go from topic to topic with absolutely no regard for cohesiveness and yet neither of us ever question it…we’ll spend hours discussing absolutely nothing …like that one night we stayed up for like three hours on rabbit talking about all the different mx stans and which member has the most stans internationally versus domestically and why….icons of developing complex sociocultural theories at 2am while occasionally mentioning “oh wow its late u should go to bed >:/” god its just that I always lose track of time whenever I talk to you…its like im so focused on that I Love Her mood that I don’t even realize its been 4 hours until I look down at my pile of unfinished homework and then back up at my laptop like. This was a Valid choice why would I pick ib math when I have a whole entire sejung talking to me. hhhh its just that talking to you comes so naturally and I always tell you all these quesiotnable things to which you always respond by first calling me a demon and then laughing about it and encouraging my stupidity. it’s also so so endearing that ill tell you about the dumb shit im doing and your first response is always to nag at me to be safe and take care of myself as if ill actually listen to you and clean a cut with alcohol, risking legitimate Pain… anyways sejung? queen of making me feel loved and noticed? MORE LIKELY THAN U THINK!!!!

hhhhh ok moving on now I get to talk about how. sexy u are damn….i remember back when we were first starting to talk and you sent me those pictures of yourself in that button up and I literally. I quite literally almost passed out in the starbucks while the barista was handing me my strawberry lemonade I truly almost lost it…nd right before that I was encouraging you to talk to the boba girl nd flirt nd be all spicie…but then u sent me those pics nd I was like for what reason would she have to impress boba girl when im right here … mouth open so wide in love that all the bobas are spilling out of my mouth :( not to be dramatic yet again when I know ive mentioned those selfies before but damn…those were so hot u unbuttoned like two or three of the top buttons and u looked so hot truly. raw me vore me behind each and every single boba store location hewwwooo u look so intense nd powerful im truly putty in ur hands not only would I lose my mind for u, I have already lost it

hhhhh im very much rambling and making very little sense rn bc its. 2:30 am and im sleebie nd I blocked all social media sites so id do homework bt I kept thiknning abt u so I was like hm the universe clearly wants me to write about sejung more even though ill have to post this in the morning bc tungle is blocked until then :// bt anaywas that also means I get to go into all the other thigns I love about u and all the things u remind me of :(( hhhh its so wild that I never actually aunch into full loving shannon mood bt I talk abt u so much w my friends theyre all. suspicious ,,,,

them: nawar u don’t actually like romance and u hate talking about people r u perhaps dating this girl??me, w hearts in my eyes laughing at smth ure saying on my phone: what

HHHH DJHFKSJDHF TAHST TRULY ME,,,,ALWAYS THIKNING ABT U,,,ALWAYS BEING BIG HEART EYES FR U,,,at any given moment I could be reminded of u :( I see a piece of paper nd im like huh I should do work then again is work necessary to live perhaps not but sejung is necessary to live,,,,me thinking abt u as I procrastinate every single thing ive ever had to do :D Like, ive never understood when people say that they hated a zodiac sign at one point, and then they met one person and they were like oh my god nevermind this sign is perfect but truly,,,I love geminis now ,,,I used to hate them almost as much as cancer nd now? geminis are all good ure so wonderful nd loving nd sweet u being a gemini saved geminis collectively,,

ill also neber stop talking abt how now matter how much I whine and demand attention, youre always jst,,,supplying it without any question like at one point people usually get annoyed, no matter how endeared they were by it at first, bt youre always calling me a baby (even though im older) nd giving me that sweet Love and Attention,,mmmmm my libra sun thrives under ur care :( hhhh also I feel it is important to point out I love. all of u,,,,like I don’t even usually care much for peoples voices or anything unless its like so deep it sounds like the grim reaper bc that’s wild u ,,bt anyways the first moment I heard ur voice I was. breathless I was so shocked like ur voice is so soothing nd warm its like. if the aesthetic of sunlight and honey and warm pies had a voice,,,hhhh im also not the type to really believe in things like fate nd destiny and soulmates and stuff bt that’s kind of what u remind me of ? in a? not weird way hhhhh so I feel like youre just so naturally in tune with people like nothing really catches you off guard and you roll with peoples different personalities and quirks and you always jst. mesh so well with everyone ure like the minhyuk of the internet,,,,nd like!! theres smth abt u that reminds me of balance and maybe its my libra sun always seeking peace and harmony in life but I always feel so relaxed nd steady whenever I talk to you its like . idk how to explain it!!! its jst so comforting!!!

I was originally gonna cut myself off at 1k but its too late for that now and im gonna put this under a read more anyways and its 3am now so I feel like. go Big or go Home!!! now im gonna launch into a long analysis of u! and ur smile!! first of all,,,its so rare nd wild to find someone who likes validating people more than being validated,,,,u finding my libra antics cute???hhhhh tahts so wild,,,,I could pout for hours nd u would call it cute,,,validating!!! nd the fact that you’ve read my writing,,,,excerpts from my demonic wips and youre stil friends with me?? you still talk to me?? damn that’s like. never to be expected any time I make someone read that tangerine fic they ghost me for a good month but I sent you pieces of that tentacle fic and YOU FUCKCING SKETCHED OUT THE LOOK,,,,,MY MUSE,,,nd also you tend to always steer the convo around to focus on the other person n dim a FOOL who almost falls for it every time,,,before I remember and make u tell me thigns…god ive told you so many obscure things from my childhood like that time I tried to eat a brick and yet you still,,,,talk to me,,,,who are u,,,,hhhh ure always so cute nd giving nd caring I feel like I could genuinely truly look like shit nd send u a selfie nd you would still be like WOW GORGEOEUS YOU LOOK SO GOOD THAT’S HOT!!! u,,,going out of ur way to make ppl happy :( anyways im a fool in love w u ,,,also not to be like. one of those old white boy text posts from tumblr but ,,,,hey girl,,,ladie,,,wamen,,,did u know? ur smile lights up my world? ,,,did u know? theres no such thing as u being anything less than perfect,,,why? because its impossible to be anything less than the essence of who you are. hhhh that’s the dumbest thing im ever written im cutting myself off that was too much this is like. 2k words so far and in all honesty I could continue but then id get gushier than that last line and nobody wants to see That,,,hhhh

this started out with. somewhat decent grammar like I used periods and I think I occasionally capitalized the first letter of the sentence but at this point its incoherent rambling it’s the inside of my brain every time I see u or hear frm u its like when spongebobs brain was on fire and all the cabinets and computers were going up in flames and all the little brain spongebobs were losing their mind that’s me right now losing my mind over you I wrote exactly 2k words in that whole essay,,,,im so fucking valid,,,,ananywas I love you if you couldn’t tell nd iim . somewhat satisfied at being able to vent all this love,,,smoochie,,smoochh,,SMOOCHIIE

[pfannkuchendammerung]

I think I was tagged for this by @fuckyeah-nerdery. My names not in his list, but tumblr is telling me I was tagged. 

01. Name  Christopher

02. Nicknames  Chris and... pretty much that’s it. Sometimes my mom calls me “Asshole”, but I’m sure that’s just a term of endearment.

03. Zodiac My best friend is way into astrology, so I know this one. Western astrology: Sun = Aries, Rising Sun = Virgo, and Moon = Libra. Vedic Astrology: Rashi = Virgo, Lagna = Virgo, and Nakshatra = Utter Phalguni. Do I know what any of this means? Only a bit.

04. Height Last time I measured myself I was 5′10″. Doctor’s office has me at 5′9″.

05. Orientation Pretty bi, but sometimes I wonder if pan would fit me better. Really, I’m open to just about everything. Just love me, damn it.

06. Ethnicity I am a mayonnaise packet.

07. Favorite fruit Strawberries, I suppose. Maybe fresh cherries, too.

08. Favorite season Living in Texas along the Gulf Coast, we pretty have 46 weeks of summer of 6 weeks of everything else. That being said, I live for those few weeks where the skies are overcast, everything is dying, and the temperature sinks below the 70s. So... middle of autumn until the end of winter.

09. Favorite book series Oh, man. I will readily admit that I so do not read as much as I should (or want to). Right now, my two favorite books at by Jenny Lawson: Let’s Pretend None of This Ever Happened and Furiously Happy. They’ve been a sort of security blanket to me with the depression the past couple years.

10. Favorite flower I’m a huge fan of marigolds. Too bad my obnoxious middle cat keeps eating them every time I plant some.

11. Favorite scent Pumpkin pie spice. It just reminds me of autumn.

12. Favorite color Blue, orange, and gray. I like most of the shade of each, although blue is where my heart is.

13. Coffee, tea, or cocoa Right now, unsweetened iced tea. ‘Cause my sleep cycle is so screwed up and I am avoiding caffeine. Even then, I only ever had coffee (with a little cocoa thrown in to take the edge off) when I was at work. 6am conference calls are the worst.

14. Average sleep hours Usually around 5 to 6 hours. Right now, I go to bed around 1am to 2am and doze off somewhere around 3am to 4am. Then I’m up between 8:30am to 10am. When I actually get out of bed? Whenever I have the courage to face the day.

15. Cat or dog person Cat person. I like dogs, but I’ve always been around cats more often. I have three of them, and right now they are all passed out sleeping.

16. Favorite fictional characters I like most of the Star Trek characters. I had a fondness for Dorian from Almost Human (fucking FOX) and Lana and Pam from Archer. Rommie and Trance from Andromeda, and Adama, Athena, Starbuck, and Helo from Battlestar Galactica.

17. Dream trip  I’d really like to go to South America some day. Most of my time in logistics has been international shipments to South America. I’d like to see the Far East and India. I really do not travel much at all.

18. Blog created April 2012. I joined for the memes.

19. Number of followers Right now, there are 191 of y’all. Most of them haven’t posted in anywhere from a few months to many years. There are probably a couple dozen or so that are regulars, and I love you all.

Now I’m supposed to tag ten people. I’m not going to put the onus on anyone. If you read this and want to get in on the action, consider yourself tagged like a dolphin by the NOAA.

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tagged by @ruby-dooby-do (thanks!)

Rules: Answer the questions in a new post and tag 20 blogs you would like to get to know better.

A - Age: 19 B - Birthplace: Langley, BC, Canada C - Current Time: 1;50pm  D - Drink You Last Had: coffee... E - Easiest Person To Talk To: pretty much anyone in the discord chat im part and my friends irl F- Favourite Song: right now?just the Transformers the movie soundtrack  G - Grossest Memory: Idk H - Horror Yes or Horror No: Yes I - In Love?: What is love? Baby don’t hurt me. Don’t hurt me. No more. (no) J - Jealous of People?: maybe? silently? probably not K - Killed Someone?: *glances sideway* er...no L - Love At First Sight Or Should I Walk By Again?: I’m a demiromantic ace, it’ll take more than a walk by. M - Middle Name: Leanne N - Number of Siblings: technically 3, all half. but I only live with one O - One Wish: to not to worry about my future P - Person You Called Last: I usually don’t call people but yesterday i had to call my coworker at other store to do something  Q - Question You Are Always Asked: “What are you smirking at?” “How are you?” R - Reason to Smile: my friends...and robots S - Song You Sang Last: it was probably bad romance by lady gaga cause reasons that involve me not being by myself and playing music out loud T - Time You Woke Up: 9:17pm, i went to bed after 2am U - Underwear Colour: Y’all don’t need to know that V - Vacation Destination: idk maybe scotland or japan W - Worst Habit: I have a tendency to overwhelm myself with things to do X - X-rays: Yes?? on teeth? Yes? Y - Your favourite food: coffee and chocolate Z - Zodiac Sign: virgo

@rally-the-ace @sky-nova @paper-ratchet @cookie-the-fell-skele @teenageapocalypsesurvivior @@trashking2000 @luciform-philogynist @jazzcat44 @reddustgypsy @insertevencoolername im ltoo lazy to tag that many

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rising signs

Aries

These are proud and fearless creatures. You cannot call their confidence a false one cause they are really competent and sharp people. They are known for their leadership. If you see a group of friends listening to only of them who sits in complete might smelling of a branded perfume and talking some explicit shit…it has to be an Arian.

Taurus

Never mess with the bull. They can be easily revoked with nonsense and they’ll not tolerate. They’re those creatures who more often than not either insult you on your face or will love you for no reason. They’re known for their passionate and undoubted love, loyalty and of course, anger. Its always prefered to be in their good books.

Gemini

The two faced sign truly implies that you can never know a gemini completely. There’s always a different person meeting someone new. They’re calm as breeze when happy and violent as a hurricane when harressed. They are easy to convince but never too foolish enough to take lies. They’re good analysts but often emotions take over them. They are known as the most passionate lovers and the best in bed.

Cancer

Their charm makes the outer shell and when the crab is cut through, you’ll find their soft and lovely emotions. They are the most genuine people. Rarely is the case when a cancer can be called a cheater or a murder. They are least harmful. That is maybe beacuse of their laziness. They are born with smartness and a heart of gold. Its always a ‘once and for life’ situation for them. If a cancer is your best friend, he’ll be it for his life unless, of course, you hurt them emotionally.

Leo

You can spot a leo on a busy road easily. All you need to see is a fierce and a swift stride with a bold and a confident look. They are the men of the people. Anyone can easily fall for their natural beauty and charm. You’ll always find them the wisest of their friends as they love the superiority and people even love them being so. They have staunch beliefs and are never a step behind to agrue when it comes to their views. They follow what they preach. They are extremely emotional and possessive with the ones they love. They often end up hurting themselves more than they should. They’re truly the kings when it comes to their own loved ones.

Virgo

Their beauty is well admired by the world. They are a mix bag of innocence, maturity, joy, love, and what not! What comes out of that bag does not depend on anything but them! They are happy-go-lucky people. They always mind people’s behavior and their mental notes are more detailed than the yellow pages.

Libra

They know how to balance that scale of life, be it any aspect. They are the best ones to be befriended. Librans are quiet intelligent but never show it. Their words should always be taken seriously because they never say anything in vain. Remember, the judge’s voice is the voice of god. They are determined, focused and peace loving creatures. Once out of a libran’s life, shall never be seen again.

Scorpio

The’ll sting you with poison but die out of the guilt. They’ll either be the highest mountain to cross or a smooth road to speed up the pace of your life. They can be known for their loyalty, although they are more stubborn kind of people. Their nature is quiet outgoing and pleasurable. They are too smart to catch the witch’s ponytail. Having a scorpion as a close friend gets you a lot of adventures and emotional pleasure. They hate losing.

Sagittarius

They are known for their tolerance. One of the best teachers, mentors, skilled and loving mothers are sagittarians. Even though they do not think much and end up creating a mess, their intentions of doing the same are never harmful. They are often the 2am friend next door. They are too hyper at times but they learn with time. You’re sure to learn your lesson when messing with a sagittarian.

Capricorn

They are highly complex and difficult to be understood. But you never see it on their face. They are too shy at the beginning but with time mix up with the whole group. They are the slow ones. For them, love is life. They are the innocent ones, occupying the first benches in your classroom.

Aquarius

Ah! May God garnish them with some stability. Their mood can swing right from a jolly one to a mournful. They live fairytales in real. They seldom have issues with anyone and so have a whole community as their friends. Always ready to help but never available! You’ll often find them engaged in creativity and something out of the box. Life as an aquarian shall be an adventure worth an oscar!

Pisces

You’ll find them paired with someone. They cannot be lonely although they’re very outgoing and go getters. They love being listened to while the’ll chatter, saying they are spreading knowledge all day long. They can bluntly review anything and everything under the sun. They are strategic planners and almost always perfect with whatever they do. They cannot stand braggers AT ALL. source: aeneasx

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The Clexacon team gives us a look behind the scenes plus what to expect in 2018

Ever wonder how Clexacon, your new favorite con, came together and what happens behind the scenes? Well, I had the pleasure of talking with Holly Winebarger, Ashley Arnold, and Danielle Jablonski, the hardworking full-time team of directors behind Clexacon, and they gave me the scoop on how this year’s inaugural con started and grew, what it’s like putting on an event of this magnitude, and how they are taking what they learned from last year in order to make 2018’s Clexacon an even bigger success. Holly, Danielle and Ashley   Bella Books: So, how did a little gathering of a 100 people turn into a massive con? How does that even happen? I have to give you guys some credit. You all have some moxie. Danielle Jablonski: Yeah, we’re all a bit crazy, aren’t we? Holly Winearger: The original idea obviously was to kind of go small, because we didn’t want to bite off more than we could chew, but between these two (Ashley and Danielle) and the supporting staff that we had, it just grew in good way. I was actually talking about this with someone the other day. People have thanked us on social media, and I’m pretty active on social media so they see me, but I always tell people, it’s not just us. If you guys hadn’t had faith in us, and bought tickets and shown up, it wouldn’t have happened. We kind of attribute a lot of the success to the people, to the fans of the convention. Just getting back to, have we ever done this? Not a convention, but I have thrown a lot of kick-ass weddings. Danielle: I think we’ve all done events, on some kind of scale. I used to run a small queer non-profit in New York, and we had three or four small events a week and then an annual big event. So I’ve done event planning, just nothing like this. Ashley Arnold: So I was in the Army for seven years. In that, I got into the weirdest situation ever and I was kind of a community liaison, so I helped the Army band set up performances and things like that. So it’s kind of just something that I’ve done, in a way, so it just fit.   BB: So you all had this skill set, essentially, you just hadn’t done it on this scale yet. Holly: Correct. Danielle: And we’re both Virgos (Danielle and Ashley) so we like to make stuff happen. Holly: And I’m an Aries, and that’s very important. (laughs) BB: And I’m a Leo, and that’s why I’m a moderator. Danielle: (laughs) Yes! Ashley: We’re really open and we want everyone’s input, and we want people to tell us what they want. A lot of this happened because of that. We asked people, and people came to us and said, “hey, why not do this? Why not have a film festival? Why not have this panel? Why not bring these people?” Really use those links on our website because actually are going to feed off what you tell us. If you don’t tell us you want more…anime…we’re not going to know. If you don’t tell us, “hey by the way, you’re missing this entire fandom, or this entire group of people,” we might forget. We need your feedback. Danielle: The whole point of the convention really is to have a community and be able to have good things come about because of the convention. We want to change things for the better. We didn’t come into this as, here’s a market we can make money off. It was like, we need to do this because our community needs this, so it really is all about community. What’s going to benefit the community is what we want to do, that’s the point of it.    Carmilla’s Elise Bauman and Natasha Negovanlis acting out an impromptu  scene (via clexacon.com)   BB: The three of you along with a few other hardworking folks are the heart of Clexacon. What’s an average day like for you while you are headlong into planning, or is there no such thing as an average day? Holly: When they aren’t here, I have a schedule. I go to sleep at 9pm, get up at 5am. Last night, we went to bed at 2am. We were working until 2am, and then we got up at 7:30am this morning for a site meeting. Danielle: We don’t really have a set day. Our schedule is probably twelve hour plus days, generally in this period when things are crazy and we are launching things and get things off the ground. We just work until things get done. (laughs) We don’t really have a 9 to 5 schedule.   BB: Do you guys have other jobs, or freelance stuff? How do you do it? Danielle: We all did, and then we were all not able to continue, so right now, this is what we do. The three of us, day in and day out. Holly: We were all pretty much in marketing or something, and it got to the point where I was working 8 hours a day and then I just couldn’t do it anymore. This is what we do. Ashley: Our savings hurt. Danielle: Yeah, our savings hurt but we want to make this happen. We want to make it a legit annual thing that we can do.   BB: Wow, so I’m really impressed and I think everyone needs to know this. Y’all gave up your careers to do Clexacon! That’s a huge thing. That’s a big sacrifice. Danielle: We all think it’s super important, and worth the risk of really trying to make this happen, and make it sustainable. Holly: This can’t be a part time thing, and I learned that because I wasn’t able to leave my job as quickly as I needed to, because I was the only one in the marketing department [at her former job]. It became very clear very quickly that if we are doing this, and doing it right, it has to be all or nothing.   BB: What was it like behind the scenes on that first day? (all three laugh) Ashley: Do you see my face right now? (I do. It looks pained.) The very first day, we moved into the convention space at 4am, the day of the event. We didn’t have any set up. The set up crew moved in at 4am. We didn’t have any lead in time. So, we didn’t eat that day. Danielle: The load in crew started at 4am, we got there around 6 or 7am and it was just straight through until about midnight. It was insane. Holly: We had run sheets that we had printed out that we were going to do this at this time, we were so organized. And then it was just… Ashley: 10 minutes into it, they went out the window. Holly: I was looking at my watch, and it was like, ok, doors open in 10 minutes for VIP and it was massive. Then all three of us broke into our own directions. I was on the vendor floor, Danielle was doing AV, Ashley was with agents and guests. I took 58,000 steps on Friday. My Apple watch told me 58,000 steps. BB: WHOA! Holly: And I didn’t eat so I was like, wow, tomorrow I’m going to weight 10 pounds less. It was chaos, but we learned a lot of stuff from Friday. We learned a lot, we got a lot of feedback and we tried to implement that right away. Then Saturday, it was the same, but longer. Danielle: So Friday there were some things we had to learn trial by fire. So things like the lines weren’t set up as well as they should have been. So Friday, as soon as people left, we were on the phone to vendors. “How to we get more stands, when do we get them in? They’ll be here in an hour? Great, so we have to be here or our volunteers. How do we make this happen?” All of the rest of Friday was trying to fix all of the things we’d learned to make Saturday better. Then Saturday was doing that again. Everyday it was four more hours of “how do we make this better for tomorrow?” Holly: There was one point in the convention, we had one of the biggest panels going on, and at the same time, we had two of the very popular guests doing autographs and photo ops, and our mics stopped working. We were with the AV coordinator for the venue, and he got us on speaker. It was separation by three people. I was on the line with someone in Chicago, and it was a friend of someone who was giving me tech support on this specific mic. People were texting me, and my phone was going off. It was crazy.   Opening day (via clexacon.com)   BB: I’m sure the number one question people who are reading this have is, How the heck did you guys get these huge and amazing stars to attend? Ashley: Um, it’s a lot of work. So, you’ll see a lot of smaller conventions aren’t doing the best… BB: That’s because they don’t have you, Ashley! [Side note, Ashley was my CC contact and I sent her about a million emails over the months and she was very patient.] Ashley: Aww. So you’ll see conventions fail and that makes agents very skittish. You’re a first year convention, you come to them with a proposal, you’re trying to work out these deals and they don’t trust you. So you literally have to build trust. You have to show them numbers and people don’t believe lesbians show up. Holly: For some reason. Ashley: For some reason they think we don’t show up. So being able to have statistics to be like, “hey, we sold out of our VIP passes in 3 minutes. We will show up, trust us.” It took a lot of emails, a lot of conversations. Just a lot of earning trust. Danielle: Some of them took a really long time too. Some of the guests weren’t announced until really, really late last year, partly because we started the whole process kind of late last year. We did the whole convention with 9 months lead time. But some people, it took 4, 5, 6, months of negotiating with their agents to prove that we were legitimate. They wanted to wait until closer to the event to see, is this even going to happen, because Pride Con was one of the events that happened early last year, right around the time we started reaching out to people. Ashley: And it failed. They pulled the plug. Danielle: Like the week before it was supposed to happen. So people were very hesitant. Ashley: So I was here, in Virginia [Clexacon headquarters] and it was like 1am, and we were pulling a very crazy work schedule. Danielle was in New York, going to New York Comic Con. She has these tickets, she’s going, she’s planned on it. And she was like, “oh by the way, Emily Andras is going to be doing a book signing. You should be here so you can meet her and try to get her to come.” So I booked a train ticket at like 1am, leaving at 5am to make it to New York on time to talk to Emily Andras and give her my business card. So I was packing my bags, I didn’t get to bed until 2am, and then we were up again trying to make it to the train station. Danielle: Ashley got there and I met her, and she went off and did stuff while I watched the bags. (laughs) That’s how much time she had to get to where she was going. Ashley: I didn’t have any time. It was really like, how do we put ourselves in front of these people? Sometimes it’s just really difficult to reach them. Twitter’s not always the be-all, end-all we hope it will be. We have to really go out of our way sometimes. Danielle: Face time makes such a difference. Holly: She got on a train and met Emily Andras… Ashley: And we got her. Holly: Six degrees of separation is how I think people took a chance, since we already had Kat [Barrell].   Dominique Provost-Chalkley, Emily Andras and Kat Barrell (via clexacon.com)   BB: What were some of the biggest lessons and takeaways from Clexacon’s first year? Holly: Good shoes. (laughs) Sorry, I know you want logistics and stuff like that, but good shoes. We were soaking our feet Sunday night. I mean, blisters upon blisters. But I think you wanted a better answer than that so… (laughs) Danielle: I think there are so many small things that it’s kind of overwhelming. Ashley: Make sure you get everything in writing. Danielle: Yeah, contract-wise, get everything in writing. Holly: Our community and supporters are absolutely amazing and loyal. Thank you, is what I would say. It wouldn’t have happened without them. Volunteers. If we didn’t have the people that signed up to volunteer…I mean, we had people who stepped up during the convention to help. That was something that I learned. I mean we were filling in holes everywhere, so the volunteers, they absolutely made this convention possible. If you are reading this, please consider volunteering. BB: What are the incentives for volunteers? Danielle: This year, if you volunteer for at least 4 hours, you get the day pass free. If you volunteer 8 or more hours, you get another free day pass. To make sure people can afford to come in and get some value from volunteering, but it’s also a way for people who maybe can’t afford to otherwise attend. There is a way that you can come and attend as well. A lot of people have already signed up to volunteer for all three days, just because they want to help and don’t even care about the perks, they just want to be involved. Ashley: It’s also cool, because there’s a good chance that you’ll be sitting at an autograph table next to Emily Andras or someone. I mean, lets be real.   BB: I have to say, as someone who was running around Clexacon myself…not nearly as much as you three, but doing a bunch of stuff, those volunteers were awesome. And even if they didn’t know exactly what was going on, they went and found someone who did. They were the true MVPs of Clexacon. Danielle: We’d love to do a shout out to them, just to thank them all, everyone who helped last year because they were so key.   Sara Ramirez surprised attendees and panelists when she showed up to support the con (via clexacon.com)   BB: Some cons move around, what made you decide to keep it in Vegas again this year? Ashley: We decided to stick with Vegas because we spent a lot of time building up those connections there, and after you learn how a system works, it’s really hard to take that and move it somewhere else. We would have to start from scratch, rebuilding our knowledge, and we just don’t have time for that. Danielle: One of the reasons Vegas was picked initially is because it’s relatively easy to get to from anywhere in the US. It’s a destination location. It’s close to LA, which is really helpful for us when it comes to bringing in guests. It’s also a destination for international travelers. It’s fun, there are things to do, and it’s also actually relatively cheap in the scale of convention cities. New York or LA would be really expensive for people coming in to town. Vegas is actually relatively affordable, and because we have such good connections there, we were able to work out a kick-ass room rate. The room block went on sale and we are already hearing from people that the rates are just insanely good.   BB: What can we expect from Clexacon in 2018? Give us a little taste. Danielle: More and better! Holly: Bigger and better! Ashley: Gayer!   You can buy tickets now for Clexacon 2018 here.  http://dlvr.it/PGwftd

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I got tagged by @timelord-at-hogwarts and it's way early morning at 2am so let's do this. Rules: Answer the questions and tag 20 blogs you want to get to know better! (I'll simply just let anyone fill out, I'm not good with the tagging thing). Nicknames: Vinnie, Vi, Bear, Face Star sign: Leo and Virgo, since I'm on a cusp at August 23rd. I can never take a horoscope test without being at an impasse Height: Like, 5'6 or 5'7? Time right now: It's 2:03am, I should be asleep Last thing you googled: I'm pretty sure I Googled Unitale Fave music artist: Many, many, many. But, you can never go wrong with Ninja Sex Party Song stuck in my head: Delfino Plaza from Super Mario Sunshine. It's 'cause I'm watching Grumps Last movie I watched: I actually ended up watching Two Weeks Notice with my mom. Good movie Last tv show I watched: The Office US. Good show What I’m wearing right now: Just my jimmy-jams. Snowflake bottoms and a tee with an edgy saying about space, as per the usual When I created this blog: It's had to have been at least 4-5 years. I don't know, Tumblr emails me every year, I've lost count how many times The kind of stuff I post: Dude, I don't even know. If you were here for something specific, it's time you knew now that I am impulse-oriented. I may post all about Grumps one day, and then a week later, I'm suddenly obsessed with Bo Burnham. But I do reblog a lot of memes, so... Do I get asks regularly?: Well, I did ask for fanfic requests, but I've closed it. People still send in stuff out of misinterpretation, but that's all. And sometimes if I do those number reblog things, I get a couple numbers. Why did I choose my url: It was my DeviantArt, and I'm uncreative. Now, it's my username for everything Gender: I am man Hogwarts House: Apparently, I am not a Ravenclaw, I'm a Slytherin. Go figure Pokémon team: What kind of team are we talking here? I'll go with the newest 3DS game, and let me tell you, Team Skull has a lot of highly musunderstood members Favorite color: Blue was my first, and it doesn't really matter to me anymore now, but I usually say blue Average hours of sleep: I don't even know. If you ever find out, tell me. Lucky number: However old I am, so currently 17 Favorite characters: Ones that actually have character (OOOOOOOOOOOH). I mean, ones who's characters have been made... There's a word for it. The real-but-not-real characters with good backstories and reasons and aren't clichéd and they show actual emotion and they make decisions with real thinking and literally all characters who have real character. Am I making sense at all? Dream job: Being normal, which many of my teachers believe is the worst job ever. Basically just give me a job and I'll be fine. Number of blankets I sleep with: Three, at every moment I am in bed. Thanks for the tag! I am exhausted. If you want to do this, then you can do it! I am not biased. I have 870ish followers, and there's bound to be someone who wants to do this! I am so tired. I'm going to bed. Love you!