The Hard Things Part 2
Sep. 10th, 2024 03:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mad_tea_partyDear Fred,
It's been almost what? 2 weeks since Power Morphicon? And yet, I'm still sitting here. I am still sitting here just wondering if I had done you proud. Everyone says I did. I lived up to our true Con hype despite all that went wrong or every blip in the road.
I guess part of it is that despite the Con itself being over, I'm still experiencing it in my head. That was such a huge Con for me. It reminded me sharply...of my first OTakon. Do you remember? 2005. We met the year before. And you, Jason, Matt...all of you, kept warning how big it was, and I if I'm being honest with myself I didn't believe you guys.
That first day... OTakon threatened to swallow me whole it was so big. I didn't have my walker yet. For me, it was whole ot of walking and line waiting and aching feet. Thank God for my parents' hot tub back then, huh? I don't think you'd been in it. Hell, I don't know if you *ever* got in the hot tub. I *know* we did the pool together.
You remember 2005? It was the year I met ALL and I DO MEAN ALL of my favorite voice actors in anime. It was just my luck that first year that so many of them were there. That was the year I Was in Saiyuki, and Inuyash, and more impotantly, Ranma 1/2, where it kinda all started. Hell, Ranma 1/2 is pretty much the cornerstone of our friendship. It might be why I have yet to go back to it. Why hearing Inuyasha's voice (done by the indominable Richard Cox) has hurt. It's not that it's bad memories. IT's just that you won't be here anymore to laugh at Ranma's sarcasm anymore.
But back to Power Morphicon.
Friday alone was overwhelming. Saturday....I feel like I could have handled Ryota Ozawa a lot better than I did. But then again. I also feel like you would have been laughing your ass off at how completely I fell apart over him. LOL. Not in the way I did after. That part, you probably would've been trying to snap me out of. But the balatant fangirling....
Here is something that I described to those who were with me. Each actor I met that weekend? They were themself, but in my head, when I looked at them? None of them had aged a day since the time I Saw them on screen. This repeated itself with Ryota, but to be honest? With him, I didn't have to "picture" anything. Ryota hasn't aged a day. The only thing that happened with him? I asaw him as Captain Marvelous, and geezus. Why? LOL. I can only imagine he was talking about me to his agent/translator. I mean, here I am meeting him, and i"m literally dropping everything. He was amused, and I told him it was his fault. LOL. I hope he understand I was completely joking about that. But I Couldn't have been the ony fangirl to have that happen!
But seriously, Fred. How could you let me do that Captain Marvelous? LOL. Can you just imagine if that had been Don or Joe? I would've been a complete fucking wreck, probably 100% worse. But maybe it was also a bit of nerves. I mean, hell. I was about to meet the first sentai actor I'd ever completely fallen in love with. And taking into account this was YOUR favorite actor in the Gokaiger series? I think that really added to my nerves.
I think this only repeated itself (not dropping stuff part, thankfully) once. And that was with Milo Catwthorne, who I Feel like I completely let my full fangirl fly with. I mena, not that Richard B completely escaped it, but with Milo... if anyone reminded me 100% of his character... He had so much fun with me, I think. I think he really understood Ziggy's impact on me. Let's be real, I hadon't gotten too far with RPM by that weekend. But I loved Ziggy probably within two episodes, and the weird best friendship that formed between him and Dillon? That was everything. Those and his interactions with Dr. K were probably some of my favorite parts of RPM. Give me that playful, former thief with a heart of gold any day of the week. And by the way, I imagined, within an episode or two? That Ziggy gives the best hugs. Guess what, Fred? He does. Or rather, Milo does... same difference. LOL.
I wish we could've shared that stuff together.
It's been almost what? 2 weeks since Power Morphicon? And yet, I'm still sitting here. I am still sitting here just wondering if I had done you proud. Everyone says I did. I lived up to our true Con hype despite all that went wrong or every blip in the road.
I guess part of it is that despite the Con itself being over, I'm still experiencing it in my head. That was such a huge Con for me. It reminded me sharply...of my first OTakon. Do you remember? 2005. We met the year before. And you, Jason, Matt...all of you, kept warning how big it was, and I if I'm being honest with myself I didn't believe you guys.
That first day... OTakon threatened to swallow me whole it was so big. I didn't have my walker yet. For me, it was whole ot of walking and line waiting and aching feet. Thank God for my parents' hot tub back then, huh? I don't think you'd been in it. Hell, I don't know if you *ever* got in the hot tub. I *know* we did the pool together.
You remember 2005? It was the year I met ALL and I DO MEAN ALL of my favorite voice actors in anime. It was just my luck that first year that so many of them were there. That was the year I Was in Saiyuki, and Inuyash, and more impotantly, Ranma 1/2, where it kinda all started. Hell, Ranma 1/2 is pretty much the cornerstone of our friendship. It might be why I have yet to go back to it. Why hearing Inuyasha's voice (done by the indominable Richard Cox) has hurt. It's not that it's bad memories. IT's just that you won't be here anymore to laugh at Ranma's sarcasm anymore.
But back to Power Morphicon.
Friday alone was overwhelming. Saturday....I feel like I could have handled Ryota Ozawa a lot better than I did. But then again. I also feel like you would have been laughing your ass off at how completely I fell apart over him. LOL. Not in the way I did after. That part, you probably would've been trying to snap me out of. But the balatant fangirling....
Here is something that I described to those who were with me. Each actor I met that weekend? They were themself, but in my head, when I looked at them? None of them had aged a day since the time I Saw them on screen. This repeated itself with Ryota, but to be honest? With him, I didn't have to "picture" anything. Ryota hasn't aged a day. The only thing that happened with him? I asaw him as Captain Marvelous, and geezus. Why? LOL. I can only imagine he was talking about me to his agent/translator. I mean, here I am meeting him, and i"m literally dropping everything. He was amused, and I told him it was his fault. LOL. I hope he understand I was completely joking about that. But I Couldn't have been the ony fangirl to have that happen!
But seriously, Fred. How could you let me do that Captain Marvelous? LOL. Can you just imagine if that had been Don or Joe? I would've been a complete fucking wreck, probably 100% worse. But maybe it was also a bit of nerves. I mean, hell. I was about to meet the first sentai actor I'd ever completely fallen in love with. And taking into account this was YOUR favorite actor in the Gokaiger series? I think that really added to my nerves.
I think this only repeated itself (not dropping stuff part, thankfully) once. And that was with Milo Catwthorne, who I Feel like I completely let my full fangirl fly with. I mena, not that Richard B completely escaped it, but with Milo... if anyone reminded me 100% of his character... He had so much fun with me, I think. I think he really understood Ziggy's impact on me. Let's be real, I hadon't gotten too far with RPM by that weekend. But I loved Ziggy probably within two episodes, and the weird best friendship that formed between him and Dillon? That was everything. Those and his interactions with Dr. K were probably some of my favorite parts of RPM. Give me that playful, former thief with a heart of gold any day of the week. And by the way, I imagined, within an episode or two? That Ziggy gives the best hugs. Guess what, Fred? He does. Or rather, Milo does... same difference. LOL.
I wish we could've shared that stuff together.
