Ascendant

[burntcopper]

Starfury : Ascendant, aka the convention where after Dina Meyer cancelled, I knew none of the actors or the shows they'd worked on. A small con of 350 people and 3 actors, as the others had cancelled, it being pilot week in the US (we're so not believing the line they gave us about being worried about air travel). And you know what? It was fan-bloody-tastic. No late times, no pressure, no big queues, and amazing performances from Wayne Pygram (Scorpius - Farscape), Anthony Simcoe (Dargo - Farscape) and Laura Bertram (Trance - Andromeda). Aka the serious intense one, the nutter stereotypical Aussie bloke, and the little giggly one who won't stop bouncing.

Started off with discovering Wendy (comicjoy) and her fiance were there, as well as Selena and Ming. Nattered for ages with Jackie while she was waiting for SloopyJon (a man of bad spelling and fantastic costumes), then found out his wages hadn't gone through, so offered to share with Jackie while Sloopy bunked with someone else. A wise choice on my part, as she is mad, bad, and insane, and far too much fun.

First party - me and Jackie doing ages of pinning and so on to get a rather fabulous Poison Ivy costume on her part into place. Am fortunate my Black Canary required nonesuch - and also discovered that the corset top that was the top half is impossible to fall out of. And we tested this. As anyone who's been to the cons and knows the dancing style of our group will attest to. Heidi was also bunking with us for the night as she was only on a Saturday ticket (three in tiny double bed, just a tad cramped), and the girl went through more changes over the course of the night than I've ever seen. (Starting with PVC trousers and long-sleeved top, changing the top for short-sleeved, changing it for a different short sleeved, changing the trews for a miniskirt, the miniskirt for hotpants (all PVC), the whole lot for a tutu, then bra and tartan miniskirt, and then changes back and forth amongst all the items as the night wore on... ) We got a bit of notice from Anthony Simcoe (went on the dancefloor a few times, good lad) as the fishnets and hotpants girls for the weekend. Heh. Other fabulous costumes - Tor and Sonja as Sugar and Spice, accompanied by Two-Face, Chewtoy plus girlfriend as Joker and playgal, one bloke we dubbed The Penguin even if he didn't mean it to be that way, two Catwomen, Judge Death (endorsing Dr. Pepper as his official sponsor, prompting many laughs and "Dr. Pepper- What's the worst that could happen?" and "The sentence for Coke is Death."), Ming as Triad member. Wheeee. Exhaustion.

Saturday. Laura is tiny, giggly and nuts. Memorable quote of her pretending to be a fangirl on set as her makeup renders her mostly unrecognisable and following Kevin Sorbo around. Plus the story of her having to get bodymoulds of her bum for the much-hated tail... :snerk: She will also not stop bouncing. The girl actually had a list of stories with her that she wanted to tell.

Wayne Pygram is serious, intense, and very much an actor's actor - lot of talk about his character, the unexplained death of Farscape (basically, Sci-Fi channel heads had it in for them - didn't advertise the last half of S4 at all, even though it was making money and popular), and even better, the guy is one of those who loves playing an obsessive psycho and makes no apologies for his actions by trying to say there's good qualities in Scorpius. Stephanie Romanov is the only other actor I've come across who revels in playing a villian and doesn't want redeeming qualities to interfere.

Anthony Simcoe is almost completely stereotypical Aussie bloke - mad, bad, intensely physical and crude as hell. We've all decided we love him unequivocally, along with his campaign for literacy through the 'Jane likes Dick' t-shirts. More Farscape talk, character stuff, and so on. Hard to find a fave quote or anything...

Have been converted to Farscape by these two and all the talk/music vids at the weekend and have been promised Ming's Farscape dvds. Mwhahaha.

Saturday Night : starting with Heidi having freakings over her Sadako (Ringu) outfit, doing a french plait for Jackie's Tomb Raider outift - I was Generic Sci-Fi Babe. Good lord, the sheer quality of the Farscape costumes by the usual suspects... (plus Ghostbusters, Starship Troopers, and many others) Oh, and got roped into the Save The Iguana Fund entry while chatting with the costume contest entrants by them chucking a t-shirt at me. (party line : "Remember, an iguana is for life, not just for conventions." Also got the plastic iguana attacked by a steward's dog, the Fund members getting summarily excused of neglect and iguana abuse - our excuse of "We were getting alcohol!" was accepted as a perfectly understandable one. Incorporated dog attack into entry.) SloopyJon deservedly won the contest with his Dargo outfit that was wondrous and amazing. More dancing. Plus Anthony dancing with *everyone*. Also got Marwen to play Cellblock Tango, and our lot did all the roles. Heh. Jackie as 'Pop', Sonja as 'Six', Claire as 'Squish', me as 'Uh-uh', Tors as Velma 'Cicero' and Jo as 'Lipschitz'. Lotsa fun. Also introduced to the Air Hostess version of the Macarena. Cathy is of course to blame.

Sunday - more of the same, (aside from the zip on my jeans dying. Came detached and can't fix it. bugger.) utterly fabulous. Twenties gangster night - detailed costuming again, with blokes as gangsters, a couple of flappers, various Cellblock Tango gals including me, Sonja and Tors as white outfit Velma and Roxie. Jackie in utterly fabulous All that Jazz Velma outfit, Chewtoy as shoe-shine Billy Flynn (we nicked him for the role of victim for our repeat of Cellblock Tango) with girlfriend as one of the dancers from that scene (has managed to win title of least amount of skin covered, and coming from Claire, she of the thong Chastity costume, that's impressive), Tors' boy as sparkly Billy Flynn, and Ming as what was supposed to be a gangster but was universally dubbed Elliot Ness. Something about him just screamed lawman. When you get every single person going 'FBI/lawman, right? Cooool.' you really have to admit defeat. Also had a Private dick around too. Perfect.

Utterly fantastic con. There you have it.

Comments

[aderyn.livejournal.com]

Wow, it sounds like you had a great time, and yay for being a Farscape convert! Seriously, at it's best Farscape trounces every other show I've ever loved, it's just a crazy, sexy, cool show. ::nods::

[endcredits.livejournal.com]

[lmao] They're still going on about that poor Iguana?! (RIP)

Oh, it sounded like such fun. I'd have loooooved to have seen Wayne, because I'm a die-hard, no-apologies, Scorpius lover, but I'm going to too many bloody cons this year (EoD, Harvest, etc). Glad Farscape has another convert--work your way through the DVDs and you'll be totally hooked and shipping John and Scorpy in no time. ;)

[burntcopper.livejournal.com]

But of course they are. Starfury Conventions : spearheading the campaign against cruelty to iguanas. As we were at the Thistle/Heathrow Park, where the iguana is buried, we had the memorial service on monday, with added gospel singing.

And Wayne is just so intense anyone would be.

[celiaka.livejournal.com]

Ack! Now I'm just bouncing to go to EODs! One month to go!

Alas, I believe the Iguana will be milked for years to come. "Would the trio like...this girl?"