#Landcon 7

[sgiandubh]

All set

Despite all the fuss back in June, I am happy to announce....

WE HAVE ALL OUR TICKETS SECURED FOR THE LANDCON 2025.

Shipper Mom included.

See you in Paris, ladies!

I am so fucking happy I could cry! I cannot wait to meet and hug all of you in person.

[Later edit] : In my excitement, I forgot to thank @pamalissou and our French friends who showed their support and were ready to the rescue. Without them, we could probably not have done it! 😘😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[pamalissou]

[bcacstuff]

Some additional notes from Day 2 at Highlanders 7 con my contact at the con remembered this morning:

From Cait's Q&A

She said the parts in the new films (red. Amateur and The Cut) are small and took her about 3 weeks each to shoot.

When they talked about a possible movie, she said she wouldn't be in that conversation.

When asked about keeping the costumes someone asked about the red dress. She said she didn't realize how revealing it was (after wearing it for 2 days) until she saw it in film.

And what was interesting about Steve (red. Himber, the moderator we know mostly from Sam's con attendances) is that he didn't appear to be vetting questions. The fan would come up, ask name and where they're from then hand them the microphone. It appears that fans asked if they could sit next to Caitriona to ask their question, which Caitriona agreed on. Apparently there were no worries about inappropriate questions

camera 📸 Nann on X

John Bell Q&A

Favourite episode Devil's Mark.

Favourite Ian moment when he meets Rachel

Favourite personality trait - unwavering loyalty

Who would you like to work with - Alan Cumming and young actors from House of the Dragon

Would love to work with Caitriona again - she inspires him

Everyone gets along so well they're not just co-workers they're friends (mentioned Caitlin, Izzy and Charles)

Funniest moment filming - Rollo always did the opposite (if they said leave set, he'd go on set and vice versa)

Hasn't read the books but read the Wikipedia summaries

Wants to take one of the tomahawks and already had a coat from S8 replicated

Needs/loves trust with a scene partner and had it from the start with Izzy. And "don't be a diva"

Hardest weapon to deal with - bow & arrow; favourite - tomahawk

What era would best suit Young Ian - 80s punk scene

Favourite/most memorable fan moment - broke a fan's leg ceilidh dancing - spun her round and when he let go she turned her leg

Go-to karaoke song "Dancing on my Own" in Young Ian's voice/accent (He did demonstrate the karaoke song and it was very funny/cute)

Doesn't have to prepare for a convention he just enjoys being with the fans. Gets a good night's sleep so he can give his all (he apologized to Day 1 Landcon attendees because he was hung over (didn't say which year)

All credits (except for the pic from Caitriona's panel yesterday) by my contact who wants to remain anonymous.

PS. she just told me she missed out on the panel with John Bell and Steven Cree today, due to a long line for Charles' autographs.

Later today, more (we hope 😉)

[samheughanswife]

Riddle Me This

Sam was in 🇦🇺, Bondi Beach and its surrounds for a minimum of 7 days. Offline by choice on his public IG.

Why did he not retroactively follow muscular women gym rats? Why was there no anons and DM’s to the two duelling accounts about sightings and connections? One Dutch account in particular has previously been used to generate the frenzy of speculation. The other, well she is just a joke and of no value to Sam on this forum.

We are talking Bondi Beach bikini babes, fitness influencers. Bondi and Santa Monica are same same, with minimal differences. Gym, beach scene literally on steroids.

As seen from the photo I shared of Sam in the North Bondi gym he was working out in a grace and favour arrangement with the gym. As well as running the Bondi 2 Bronte coast walk. Most likely all the way to Coogee. Duncan included photos of Gordon’s Bay on his to way to Coogee beach. Yet there not a single sighting of Sam doing beach things.

Not one single anon drop or DM to cooperative tumblr accounts who fuel the laugh out loud latest single white ( they always are) female hook up with Sam.

As soon as Sam Roland is back in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 it’s game on again. As @sgiandubh has posted you can see what’s at play here. To quote Debbie Harry a bleach blonde 😉 “ Paris is Calling”. LandCon coming 💳🔭🧿

It’s all a Con ladies. And just like all cons the grifter relies on the lure of FOMO to profit handsomely.

As the man himself said once, “I suggest you ignore”.

[maximumwobblerbanditdonut]

SH during his panel at The Land Con 6 in Paris on Saturday 13th of April, opened up about the last season and end of the series. They have been three weeks shooting Season 8 and part of his co-stars at Landcon are back in Scotland to continue filming 🎬 but his feelings surrounding the end of the series show a certain impact on him.

It seems that the conclusion of the series has affected him emotionally. The show is lasting almost eleven years, and during that time he went from being an unknown actor in TV soap operas, with some experience in films, commercials and theatre, to becoming a fan favourite. He even created an alcoholic brand inspired by his character in Outlander.

It will take him months or years to finally realise this. Like probably most people. The ending of the series is supposed an ambiguous future, for him as He clings to the character who gave him everything he has. As an Executive producer, He will create nothing new that endures up to the viewer to interpret for themselves. Finally, his fans will realise one day that they must say goodbye to Jamie, they have no choice in the matter.

Along with the final season of the series, a prequel spinoff titled Blood of My Blood will be released alongside the final season of the Outlander series. The prequel is based on a different book by the same author and is also being filmed in Scotland. The show will feature a mix of veteran actors and young actors with more experience in television and film, unlike SH when he started the show. In Outlander some veteran actors only appeared for a brief period or were invited for shorter appearances. Maybe the idea was not to overshadow SH the main actor.

Who doesn't remember this acting:

Douglas Henshall as Taran MacQuarrie in Season 1 of Outlander (2014) this actor 'stole the show ’.

The prequel's intention appears to be different: hire experienced actors to attract Outlander fans to the new show, adding the Outlander name to the original title. This would not be necessary, the new actors in the prequel are confident in their abilities and do not need to be compared to the original Outlander title. The new show will always be known by the original title Blood of My Blood – BOMB.

The approach of the show’s return season 7 part 2 arriving this November so there are only two years of Outlander on the horizon.

#DouglasHenshall #BOMB💥#TheLandCon6

Posted 16th April 2024

[briefcupcakealpaca]

LandCon 7. 26th-27th of April 2025! Paris, France.

[cend17]

So so happy to be part of the #landcon adventure Paris oct. 7/8th. can't wait to meet amazing #Outlander fandom (and @samheughan) @cesardomboy tu viens ?? @outlanderfrance @weventsprod

[samheughanfansite]

New Post has been published on Sam Heughan FAN

New Update has been published on http://sam-heughan.com/2017/10/19/photos-new-outlander-images-magazine-scans-and-landcon-additions/

Photos: New Outlander Images, Magazine Scans, and LandCon Additions

I’ve added a bunch of new additions to the gallery. Big thanks to FFA for some of the Outlander images. Enjoy!

October 7 – Landcon: Stills Outlander: 03×01 – Stills Outlander: 03×03 – Stills Outlander: 03×04 – Stills Outlander: 03×06 – Stills Outlander: Social Media Graphics 2017: TV Guide Scans

#SamHeughan #Outlander

[sgiandubh]

Happy you got your landcon tickets. Now crossing fingers that at least Sam's going. Then hopefully you will all take your chance to ask him about his son in person and why he and Cait were hiding for so long.

Dear Happy Anon,

Thank you for the warm wishes and I am almost sure/hopeful he (at least) will attend. But it's not just about meeting S with a bottle of very good Romanian wine in tow: it's more about meeting some of the wonderful women I have already become fast (but firm) friends with during all this last year in the fandom. And, of course, about celebrating this sense of home and belonging to a great fandom family together.

I can only hope you would understand why this precludes any other selfish or sensationalist temptation, such as asking this sort of things. Maybe this is my European self speaking, but I would definitely feel awkward doing it, especially when I know what many of us do, here. I do not think there is a need for me to go that extra mile and I also hope you will excuse my (perhaps) blunt honesty.

This is not about being a coward, as I think I have proved enough that sort of game was not in my cards, anyways. But this is about staying true to one's own values and respect of somebody else's privacy is something that is paramount for me. Embarrassing S, C or SC (as so many Antis do) is something I could never forgive myself.

[sgiandubh]

We'll always have Paris

I have pondered long and deep. I have thought about everything at stake. And here is my final decision about Landcon 7.

I will go. First of all, because my personal motto is 'Faire Face' (Face it!), an old French military battle cry - it never disappointed me. I felt it would be coward of me and I may be an idiot, but never a coward idiot. And then, simply because I would genuinely love to meet all of you shippers who will go, too. Finally, for the total immersion experience it provides: I think you are not in a fandom until you live it all. Cons included.

However, at least at this point in time, I am not planning to buy any extras. It is my useless, but completely assumed reaction to the cheap street show we've witnessed recently. And unless something changes drastically, I do not plan to shake hands, chit-chat, smile at the camera and beg for an autograph. I will buy the basic pack and I will watch & report.

I will be there for you and for me, too. Because of all the extraordinary people I have found in here. And I hope we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet around a Shipper Dinner table. That would be wonderful.

Thoughts?

[sgiandubh]

For all the Landcon 7 Attendees

This is the Facebook group you must absolutely follow, as it will give all of us the latest info on the event (extras, guests and everything else): Attendees/ParticipantsLANDCON7.

I can't post the link here for some reason, but you should look for it on Facebook and will find it with ease. They will ask for your ticket number, in order to become a member (it is standard procedure and not a scam). So this is really a private, closed group where logistical info is shared and groups are being formed - for bookings, arranging transportation, etc.

My proposal is to arrange van transfers from Roissy Charles de Gaulle Airport to Courbevoie (the more, the cheaper & merrier) and also the promised International Shipper Dinner/Get Along. I can and will help any shipper with that and anything else logistics related. Feel free to ask and don't be strangers. And I am thinking about some more things, too.

Also, for all of you who really wanted to attend and were unable to secure tickets, they now exceptionally opened a Waiting List enquiry, in order to see if they can/should do something about it. Please fill in this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeSm75MUSf1P4RkYDcVVBuuRJV6Y2AY0kKWZoiH4bi08TMMeg/viewform?vc=0&c=0&w=1&flr=0

Maybe this will allow them to secure a better, bigger venue? I won't venture speculating, but I surely do hope this will be every bit as memorable as promised.

[sgiandubh]

Calling all Landcon 7 shippers

Landcon is happening April 26 -27, 2025 : that is, of course a full week-end for us. But many will be coming to Paris earlier and/or leaving later, so here is the deal:

As you all know, I thought a nice, no frills International Shipper Dinner would be a great idea to meet, hug and celebrate. Now I know there is also that (rather expensive) cosplay ultra secret dinner with the cast, but I doubt all of us will book it, for many reasons. A nice pizza joint near our hotels has been mentioned and I think it could be fun and very easy to organize - if you have any other venue in mind, please mention it in the comments and we will decide together.

At the same time, I wanted to honor both this whole experience and our shipper community, so I felt something more could be done, if we all agree to it. Paris has been home to me for a long while and I am (also) a historian with a deep passion for and knowledge of the Eighteenth century. A 'Dragonfly in Amber' tour of Paris would have been a bit too much to digest, however, and difficult to organize. But I think a half day tour of Versailles is manageable and could be both enriching and fun.

So, if you remember this...

... wouldn't you like to visit the place where it 'happened', along with the faint echoes of all that gossip and intrigue, at the court of Louis XV?

If so, let me guide you around, informally and for free. That means if we decide to go for it, we could equally split the cost of a roundtrip transfer and perhaps even book entry tickets at a group price. The more being the merrier, I think renting a van with driver is achievable and not too expensive. I will do the talk, in full transparency. We will discuss all the offers together and settle for the best one. I will never ask you for anything else: this is not how I work and this is my way to thank you.

The reason I am proposing to rent a van is obvious: it is easier to coordinate the group and it takes less time, as there is no direct public transport link between Courbevoie and Versailles:

It would take us at least one hour/leg, with quite some walking and it will require us to change two trams and (perhaps) one bus also, depending on traffic. However, if you decide this is something achievable, why not?

To make this very clear, I compared the prices for a round trip with a rented vehicle (different types, depending of how many of us would join the group). The company is randomly picked on Google, it's the first offer that I could see online, without waiting for an email:

So a round trip with van and driver could cost anywhere from 108 euros/pax to 19 euros/pax (unrealistic, perhaps, as we would have to be 59 for that). Again: the more, the merrier.

Using the public transportation network is, indeed, less expensive, as a Navigo Day Ticket (unlimited trips on the entire network) will cost 20.60 euros:

Whichever we choose, I am fine with it and happy to help everyone.

This poll will help us decide quickly and effectively, together:

This poll will remain open for one week and I will pin it to my page to make it more visible. When it will be closed, we will decide together. I am not forcing anything, nor selling anything. I will simply be over the moon, at any rate and cannot wait to meet all of you.

If you think it's interesting, kindly share this poll. Thank you all!

[sgiandubh]

It's sad that you missed out on Landcon tickets. Do you know whether any fellow shippers are going? Bat cat maybe?

Dear Landcon Anon,

See? This is what it means to not read what I wrote properly.

I said I have missed the first BATCH of Landcon tickets, where most of those on sale were GOLD and LAND Passes, which did not interest our particular Shipper cluster at all.

There will be a second sale at the end of the summer, Anon. We are already organizing our teams in order to secure as many tickets as possible. And only when all is said and done, Anon, will we know how many of us are going to that Landcon. I shall be in Paris that week-end NO MATTER WHAT (eat my socks, BIF) and I will still be able to meet, hug and have dinner with anyone able and willing.

PS: There are a LOT of unhappy people after that first sale and with good reason. Making a 'karma is a bitch' post about what obviously was a critical server overload was so petty-minded and idiotic I could cry. But remember (ROFLMAO): she never disappoints.

[pamalissou]

[sgiandubh]

To your previous anon. When this side and mordor side are in 100% agreement about this latest stunt gone stupidly wrong, you know it's gone stupidly wrong! We don't agree on many things but with this we're all in agreement.

Dear 'Previous Anon' Anon,

Well, he screwed it up BIG time. He could have thought things better than reacting knee-jerk style in the spur of the moment. Holding hands was completely unnecessary, as it made him look as a disingenuous consumer of cheap company AND a fool.

His Mommies are, for the most part, Christian conservatives (this is a simple, but reliable descriptor, not a judgement) who came and stayed for the book first, then for that innocence. Of which they ALL wanted a part of. They wanted a part of the dream. But oh, now JAMMF (the confusion and the struggle are real, for the aging Onlies) canoodles with hookers in the streets of London. This is not 1744, there is no Bonnie Prince Charlie, no Murtagh, no Fergus and they are no Claire. I feel for them. And it is not the first time I am telling myself the whole agitation down here eerily mirrors particular book tropes - as if fiction seeped into their lives, somehow. Strange, to say the least.

How is he going to come out of it? I bet he hopes for the effective virtues of collective oblivion and prays for small mercies. But this is Season Eight in the making, already and both he and C are running out of time.

No underpants twisting from the *Ur-Troll will make this palatable to that public and the people still buying that particular brand of bullshit in shining wrap paper WANT to LIE to themselves. For the sake of the above fantasy only.

The Disgruntled Tumblrettes will snarl on. It is their moment of dubious grace, Gay Brigade included. At least Liberace had Sonja Henie, the Norwegian figure-skater Olympic champion. That woman is no Olympic champion (her discipline is not included in that club) and this will seal the deal to them.

What about us? I do wonder. Don't worry: I am not about to jump ship. I have better understanding of human nature than that and I am anything but shocked by what happened. However, I also do think that this man cannot go on like that, from blunder to blunder, from OL to LOL.

I will not post anything else about that woman. Anything about that woman, reblogs included, will give her traction and a raison d'être. My inbox is full with pleading Anons I am deleting. Go somewhere else for gossip, ask yourselves what happened to you in the process and why you are interested by a hooker.

I am still considering Landcon 7. I have not made my final decision and I think it's understandable. There is a fine line between being benevolent and being an idiot with one's own time and money. I will tell you very soon what my final thoughts on this are.

Tell yourself they are people like me and you. Good people make mistakes. This is a horrible mistake I am not finding excuses for. His problem to solve.

[pamalissou]

Hello to all those interested in Landcon 7. Passes will go on sale in June, but for the moment the exact date has not been given.