I am so ecstatic today! Why? The title pretty much sums it up, but a little back story is needed.
Today was Dragon*Con in Atlanta, GA. I went with my fellow nerdy friend in hopes to go to the autograph signing for our favorite author, Laurell K Hamilton (best known for Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series). Well, we prepared four days before the con, making a custom pony of our favorite character from her books. I am going to post a few pictures to the customs board, but I am just so excited for what happened! Before her signing, we attended the panel "the good, the bad, and the undead" about vampires in six different series. Laurell was one of the authors at the panel.
Well, as we were exiting, Laurell walked right past us and my friend turned to me and said, "This is our chance! Let me have the pony." We walked up to her husband who was blocking the crazy panel room crowd and my friend asked if we could give the Nathaniel pony to Laurell. The minute he saw the pony, he was so excited and all of us started talking. He's a brony!
I did not see that one coming, but excellent! And Laurell is into ponies as well, which blew my mind! They were both so happy with it that she hugged us both and took a picture with us AND posted our custom work on her twitter! It was so nice to meet an author that I have admired for years and see her eyes light up when she saw her pony. That made our day. Seriously, that was an epic moment that even driving through Atlanta traffic hasn't managed to knock me down from the high.
I only have a few WIP pictures because we were literally working until the last minute on him, touching him up at 4:30 am before having to drive up to the con, but she posted a picture of him on her twitter, so he is here:
https://twitter.com/LKHamilton/status/241678600938594304/photo/1 It's hard to see, but he has a bite mark on his neck as well.
I don't know if she saw that yet, but she definitely noticed the handcuffs! This just made my pride go to my head and ooze out my eyes! Best. Dragon*Con. Ever~
Edit: Okay guys! Finally got settled down tonight and managed to upload two of the pics. My friend made the pony clothes and accessories, so she has a few pictures of the items she worked on. I have to wait until she has time to send those pictures, but I'll add them in the customs forum when I post there.
I'm still so happy!
Also, random add to this brag--I got my first tribbles and can't stop giggling every time they go off chittering on my desk.
; I also got a picture with a terrific Pinkie Pie cosplayer on Friday! She was just awesome. Had her own party cannon and everything! I'll add that soon.
This has just been an awesome experience!! I really just cannot believe all of this happened...to ME of all people! I'm typically unlucky at events like this and end up lost. lol...long story there, but yeah.
This has been a humbling experience. It's so awesome to be around so many nice people. This was the nicest bunch of people I've ever been around for a convention. -^_^- I really wish I had had the time to take lots of pictures of the custom, but I was up all day and night before the event working on him...All I have is pictures of his head, but hope you guys like him, too.
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