#DragonCon 2022

[astriiformes]

Many of you know that I had the honor of organizing the Owl House photoshoot at DragonCon this year. It was a fantastic experience -- we had easily over a hundred people show up dressed as a whole array of different characters from the show, and everyone was absolutely lovely.

I never got around to sharing our official pictures, so here's a selection of some of my favorite pictures from the photoshoot (and stay tuned for some other silly ones that felt worth posting on their own)

This was absolutely one of the highlights of my 2022; I love this show and so many of its fans so much, and I'm looking forward to organizing more things like this in the coming year!

(Pictures courtesy of Photography by Anne Fry. I was the Hunter leading things; if you're also in some of these photos I'd love for folks to point themselves out!)

[radwolf76]

2022 Tumblr Top 10

1). 270 notes - Jul 27 2022

Orb

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2). 177 notes - May 15 2022

Color Theory in the Shower

3). 167 notes - Sep 5 2022

Nyan Cat at the DragonCon 2022 Masquerade Contest

4). 108 notes - Mar 12 2022

The House Panthers Are Confused With A Sudden Lack Of Couch

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5). 95 notes - Aug 15 2022

Remember The Absurdly Large Ball Of Yarn From A Few Days Ago?

(Note: this is a full grown, 12 pound adult cat, not a kitten. that yarn’s just that absurdly large.)

6). 70 notes - Apr 12 2022

Prepare yourselves, it's almost time again.

(I can’t go a single year without at least one Homestuck-related post in my Top 10. This one was from 4/12, Homestuck Eve)

7). 53 notes - Aug 12 2022

You ever look at a scene in a movie, and say to yourself, “THIS. This is exactly why they were cast in their later iconic role.”?

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Smudge Needed A Day Off, So Lucky Is Filling In

(My first Blazed post, in celebration of hitting 1,000 Followers.)

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(Weird Al, working Quality Control at the Schcukman Pharmaceutical Company’s Nasal Decongestant Factory)

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I know I've told the story here before, but I actually found the Netflix promotional shirt I wore to work an after-hours Blockbuster store inventory back in 2000

Honorable Mentions:

My 1,152 Followers (Up 33% from last year).

[tumblr]’s own Year in Review generator , which only lists half the posts of @jetblackcode​‘s TumblrTop10 but does offer up a bunch of other stats.

My Miette Halloween Costume post from 2021, which last year at this time was at 428 Notes, but blew up this year and is at 6186 Notes, becoming my most popular post ever.

My reply to a video of Dr. Tatiana Erukhimova stabbing a potato with a knife and hammer, consisting of an image of Bill Nye captioned “Inertia is a property of Matter”. None of the [tumblr] stats tools that I’ve found tell you what your most popular reblogs are, but I was seeing likes and reblogs on that reblog several times a day every day for a few months.

Similarly, my replies to posts by both spitblaze and chansaw. If I had a nickel for every time someone posted advice to new [tumblr] users that was just the text of “This is not a place of honor ...” long term nuclear waste burial site warning, and I replied with a photoshop of the DashCon Ball Pit in front of the proposed “Field of Spikes” warning monument ... I’d have two nickles, but it’s weird that it happened twice. But one of those posts inspired @th3b33skn33s​ to draw some wonderful art of a genetically engineered Ray Cat hissing angrily at the [tumblr] t in the ball pit as its bio-luminescence genes are triggered by the elevated radiation.

Some impromptu crafting the other day to make more storage for my ever expanding dice collection inspired others to go do the same.

The couch was not the only new furniture that the housepanthers had to adjust to.

Like everyone else, I had a post queued for the April First Crash.

I mess around with Hero Forge a lot, and post my stuff here and on the /r/heroforgeminis/ subreddit. The CEO of the company saw a .gif I had made, and decided that .gif making needed to be an official feature.

The Netflix shirt from 2000 mentioned above, that I found while emptying out my storage unit, wasn’t the only treasure unearthed. This Big Mac styrofoam clamshell did better numbers on reddit than here, but my most popular reddit post is still only a third the size of my most popular [tumblr] post.

And if you hadn’t noticed from two fifths of the top ten list, the household has new cats this year. We still miss the old boys especially around the holidays, but the Voids bring us much love and laughter.

Previous Year’s Top Tens: 2021, 2020, 2019

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[drsteggy]

It’s post DragonCon, so this is blowing up again.

I took this video at DragonCon 2022. That’s my voice going on about anxiety in this video. Yes, it did turn red and I have a shot of me as Link in front of this when it did so. I’m good at killing these and I still got anxious around it.

And yes. It’s cosplay. There’s a person in there. This was built by Alison Chase.

I’ll throw all my photos of all the Zelda I’ve been seeing (so many koroks!) but this deserves its own post.

Low key terrifying to stand near

[micveecosplay]

Just a look back at cosplays and costumes I’ve done from 2022 😉👍

🎶 Felix Cartal - Layover

[zai-ichii]

Cheers 2022!! 🍾❄️

[kores-pomegranate]

Story time!

I grew up evangelical Christian, specifically Pentecostal. My parents were very devout, but over the years they’ve both become slightly less rigid in their beliefs. My dad in particular has undergone such growth and I’m so proud of him, but my mom, while less rigid than she once was, is still Christian and still pretty conservative.

I am queer, nonbinary, and polyamorous. My girlfriend is moving in with me on Saturday, which meant that I really couldn’t avoid coming out to them about all of this. Today, I sent them this email:

Hey y’all,

I didn't necessarily want to have this conversation over writing, but I think I'm too nervous to have it any other way. There's a lot that I've wanted to tell you both for a long time but I've been nervous about it and putting it off indefinitely. There's a lot in my life that is going to change very soon, but I wanted to get through DragonCon and [my child’s] birthday before dropping all of this on y'all. Telling you about those changes requires giving you some background information first. 

So, I would say around 2017-2018ish, I came out to [my now ex-husband] as pansexual (which is similar to bisexual but basically a little more expansive). He was supportive and kind about it and it led to us having conversations about opening our relationship to give me the opportunity to have experiences that I wasn't able to have because we got married so young. We decided to try it out and it was bumpy but generally went well. After a little while we decided that we wanted to try polyamory (instead of just being "open") because it felt more natural to us to be able to pursue meaningful and loving relationships with other people if we found someone we wanted to do that with. During this time I also realized that I am nonbinary, meaning that I don't really identify with male or female as a gender and I use they/them pronouns to reflect that.

Through the pursuit of polyamory, we discovered a lot of weak points in our marriage. That's to be expected, because nonmonogamy has a way of exposing cracks and forces you to address them. That's when we started couple's therapy. I would say that polyamory and couple's therapy did a great job of showing us the weaknesses in our relationship. In particular it showed me how it felt to be treated well in a relationship. The differences between my relationship with [ex-husband] and my relationships with others were stark, and over time I couldn't ignore how unwilling or unable [ex-husband] was to change, and how unhappy I was with him. Couple's therapy for the years we were in it was mostly focused on what [ex-husband] perceived to be my deficits, which were almost entirely the fact that he felt like we didn't have sex enough. So, after years of going to couple's therapy and feeling as though all of the difficulties in our marriage were my fault, coupled with the experience of being treated well by a partner and finding that I am actually capable of functioning healthily in a relationship, I asked [ex-husband] for the divorce. 

My partner through this since May of 2022 has been [girlfriend], that I believe both of you met before and after her transition. We met at [convention] and she was also in a polyamorous relationship. She lived in [city] with her partner, [partner’s] husband, and the child they were raising together as a family. For the entirety of our relationship we have been long distance, and that has been hard but we have made it work. Recently for reasons that aren't dissimilar to the reasons that [ex-husband] and I ended things, [girlfriend’s] relationship with [partner] also ended. After a lot of conversations and brainstorming and problem solving, we decided that the best thing and the thing that will make us both the happiest is for [girlfriend] to move to [city] to move in with me. We weren't sure until very recently that this was going to be what happened, but it is now a done deal and she'll be moving in with me on Saturday.

I know this is a hard thing for y'all to hear, and I know that it goes against more than one of your values and beliefs as people. My partner, a trans woman of two and a half years who I started consensually dating with the full knowledge of all parties involved while I was still married has now parted ways with her polyamorous partner and will be moving in with me even though we're not married. It will also make it publicly undeniable that I am a queer person, whereas before I suppose there was some amount of deniability in that fact if you weren't looking at it too closely. 

This is a lot to throw at y'all and I'm not sure how much of it you had already guessed or suspected, but we've not really ever talked about it explicitly and I figured my partner moving in with me was the time to talk about it. I wanted to send the info dump in writing first so that you could have time to process all of it without having me right in front of you, but I really would like to talk about it face to face or over the phone or something if that is something y'all would ever like to do. I understand that this may change some things about our relationship--I don't know if y'all will continue to want to spend holidays at my house or if [girlfriend] will be welcome at family things, but I do hope that eventually that is something that can happen.

Please know that I am the happiest I have ever been with her, and I truly never thought that I would be able to find a person that I love as much as I love her, let alone get to have her in my life every day. I really want to be able to share that happiness with y'all, and I hope we can get there some day.

I love y'all,

--

[signed name] 

I have been wracked with anxiety all day, because I genuinely did not know how they would respond, especially my mom. Here is her response:

I cannot express how I never, in a million billion years, would have guess that this is how my mom would respond. I immediately started crying…hard.

Then my dad’s response came in and it completely wrecked me in the best way possible:

Even reading over it now is making me really emotional. I can’t believe that my family is unconditionally accepting of this news from me. I have been afraid to have these conversations with them for years. *Years.* It hasn’t settled on me yet that I will get to live with the love of my life AND my family is happy for me and won’t be cutting me out of their lives.

I think I am the luckiest person that’s ever lived and I have such gratitude to the universe for that fact.

[rabidrockhound97]

@ellyrox110

Going to Dragon Con is always like

[spnscripthunt-inactive]

SPNScriptHunt’s Script Raffle for World Central Kitchen

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For every $10 you donate to World Central Kitchen, you will be entered in a raffle to win one of up to 30 Supernatural scripts autographed by cast members at conventions in the United States, Canada, the UK, and Italy: the more we raise the more prizes we’ll add!

The scripts shown here are just a few of the ones we’re offering, the complete list and all the details (with preview images) is on our fundraiser page: https://donate.wck.org/fundraiser/4789450

The Kripke & Gamble era scripts:

2.12 "Nightshifter" - Blue Draft signed by Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki at Salute to Supernatural: San Francisco 2023; to be signed by Chris Gauthier at DragonCon 2023 [It's missing the last page so we'll include the episode outline 🙃]

3.07 "Fresh Blood" - Network Draft signed by Jared Padalecki at Rhode Island Comic Con 2022

2.21 "All Hell Breaks Loose: Part One" - Blue Collated Draft signed by Jared Padalecki at Creation New Orleans 2023

3.14 "Long-Distance Call" - Production Draft, Blue Revisions (Production Draft signed by Jensen Ackles at Creation Las Vegas 2023)

7.03 "The Girl Next Door" - Production Draft, Blue Revisions, Pink Revisions (Production Draft signed by Jared Padalecki at Salute to Supernatural: Nashville 2022)

Raffle closes on Saturday, August. 26 at 11:59pm (Eastern Time). Winners will be drawn by a random number generator and contacted by Tuesday, August 28, 2023. We require an email address to contact winners so if you donated anonymously but would like to enter the raffle, please email your receipt to spnscripthuntgiving @ gmail before the drawing date. Winners will have 72 hours to respond, and will be required to provide their physical mailing address and to cover the cost of shipping (currently $10 for priority mail insured inside the US, international rates to be determined as necessary).

[imzadi-caskett-huddy]

It had been brought to my attention (here on Tumblr) that today is Jennifer Morrison's birthday. To celebrate, here's a flashback of DragonCon 2022 when I spent the weekend working with her. She's quite lovely and a lot of fun! Happy birthday Jenn!

[rassilonwatchathon]

It's the 9 year anniversary of The Watch-A-Thon of Rassilon, so this month we're sharing our older episodes!

SEVENTH DOCTOR SEASON TWENTY-SIX (March 23rd, 2022-June 14th, 2023) Episode 156- Battlefield (A Very Ghoosty Movie) w/ Nathan Laws Episode 157- Ghost Light (Something Lungborrowed) w/ @mgoldentumbls Episode 158- The Curse of Fenric (Cursed and Horny) w/ @mgoldentumbls Episode 159- Survival (Cat Time, Baby!) Seventh Doctor Special - The Real McCoy (Wicked!) w/ @truestoriesaboutme Classic Who Special - Dimensions in Time (It's Big Ron!) EIGHTH DOCTOR Episode 160- The TV Movie (Eric Roberts, Amirite?) w/ Adam Clegg, Vincent E.L., @mgoldentumbls, & Felicity Kusinitz PATREON EXCLUSIVE Bonus Episode 10- Prisoners of Gritog/The Penta Ray Factor (Sleepy Boi) PATREON EXCLUSIVE Bonus Episode 11- Moon Landing/Time In Reverse/Prisoners of the Kleptons/The Caterpillar Men (Mmm Moon Dust) DragonCon Special- The Watch-A-Thon at DragonCon w/ Eddie McClintock BONUS PILOT- The Watch-A-Thon of Khan - The Cage (Intense Door Battles) BONUS PILOT- Walk With Me (Lost in the Labyrinth) BONUS PILOT- The Watch-A-Thon of Zhaan - Premiere (The Pilot Pilot) Richard E. Grant Special- Scream of the Fatal Death (Twice, But Not Allowed) BONUS PILOT- The Watch-A-Thon of Avon - The Way Back (Is This The Show?) Q&A Special- Talk With Me (Devious Gay Uncles) BONUS PILOT- The Watch-A-Thon of Raph & Don: Insane in the Membrane (You Know... 4Kids!) BONUS PILOT- Watch-A-Thon 13: Pilot (SyFy Cinematic Universe)

[airmanisr]

R5218200 DragonCon 2022 Sun 220904 by dsamsky

[astriiformes]

On a better note -- my 2022 still had some real bright spots.

I feel like I've really come into my own as a cosplayer. I worked on a lot of costumes this year (Caleb! Raine! Flyer Derby Hunter! A remake of my Percy de Rolo, and my sister's Cassandra de Rolo! A first draft of Palamedes!) and got to have a lot of really neat experiences as a result -- marching in the Twin Cities Pride parade as Raine and having a ton of people get really excited/emotional, running the TOH photoshoot at DragonCon, and even performing a whole filk concert in my Raine costume. And I'm excited to make more things in 2023!

I also made it back to Colorado for the first time in four years, which made me really emotional. Things are still rocky with my parents (especially my mom), but I still love my family and I finally really feel like things are headed in a better direction for us all. And of course, any time I get to see my sisters is the best. Driving up into the mountains for an adventure with them and Scribe (and also getting to meet my Chelle's girlfriend!) meant a lot to me.

And I did science! I always thought field work was somewhat out of reach for me, but my summer job as a field tech was such an incredible experience. I loved the scientist I worked with and who remains a great contact for me to have in academia, the work was really fun, and it was both interesting and hilarious to work with squirrels for several months. Academia may be trying, but I'm so glad I got to be a part of some cool research. Similarly, I am so glad to have made some wonderful friends at school through our queer student organization, and even have some professors I've really connected with.

Glad there's still good to cling to <3

[amazonmandy]

I was commissioned to make this for a Kefka cosplayer at DragonCon 2022! From Final Fantasy VI !

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[eiirisworkshop]

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[gnatty-bug]

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