The Sound of Flailing In Real Life

[laliandra]

This post is especially for two fantabulous sets of ladies, the very shiny marmalade_fish , and the ever beloved Ladies of Spam.

My first fandom meet up was amazing! I had so much fun! I mean, I suspected that I would, seeing as I spent a ridiculous/insane amount of time with many of my fellow fishes in the chat. I wish you all could have been there!

I got the bus to London, which wasn't as bad as I thought it might be. Also, when I was waiting at the station...

Guy: *appears to be staring at my boobs*
Lal:*raises eyebrow*
Guy: No, sorry, oh god, I was just trying to see what the last line was!
Lal:*looks down at zombie bf tee* Oh, sorry. It says "He's a zombie."

Later I met hanelissar and had coffee and made excited noises at her, then we found altogetherisi and we all were a little dazed and delighted together.

The signing was at Murder101 club and was filled with many charming people, like playwithfyr , who made us a marmalade fish sign to attract fellow fishes, because we felt marching up to people and asking them their thoughts on lasagne might be a little too strange. And I met my fellow Sekrit Nefarious Organising Woman pigrescuer and also littlered2 , both of whom were sporting very excellent tee shirts, and lots of other super cool fun people whose names escape me (so sorry!).

The Author herself was very sweet, very witty and knew who I was, which still makes me happy to think about! The infamous 'they' claim that you should never meet your heroes, but that, my friends, is a lie.

In short, everyone I met was someone I could have talked to all night, and I was very sad when I had to leave. Like I said, I've never done anything like that before, and I feel all kinds of lucky to have stumbled across such a great fandom, Even if people keep blaming me for things on the chat...


VERY IMPORTANT ETA: The wonderful bryoneybrynn  is giving away a free copy of The Demon's Lexicon. Go here to enter!


Also, for my other lovely ladies (and anyone else who wishes to hear my dulcet tones), I present my AudioSpam, in which I say 'um...' a lot, and showcase my terrible language skills.

Here!

I hope you like it bbs!

Comments

[branquignole.livejournal.com]

Well, you say "um" very beautifully! And your French is sooo cute! And it gets even better - your German! Aaawww. :)

And I totally love that you tagged this under "Alan is totally scrubbing the cake tin". :D

[karenknismesis.livejournal.com]

OMG YOUR VOICE <33

I love to bake as well! You're right - food at the end = :DD

Oh god I'm so bad at French that isn't written, I have no clue what you're saying D: (very pretty! I heard very pretty!) and I'm going into my third year...

Omg, please do an American accent. I will die. I will even attempt British if you wish...

[hanelissar.livejournal.com]

I loved making excited noises at you and receiving them in return. :) It was so wonderful! And I will never be as delighted as I was when I told Sarah 'It's Hannah' and she said 'oh of course!' I feel famous by proxy and I loved it all immensely. (And also you, who are lovely. Even if I did disgrace myself with flaily hands of glee and rambling.)

And if Polly ever finishes downloading your file, I shall listen to it and love it I am sure!

[pigrescuer.livejournal.com]

Gah I want to listen but I have to be at work in half an hour and I'm still in my pajamas!

Was just going to say - I'm afraid you don't win the uber-long fannish bus journey award. I remembered my friend Elledoll, who came to London for a Green Wing signing from ABERDEEN. 19 HOURS. And no hotel, just went back up.

:D

[kaiserkuchen.livejournal.com]

YOUR VOICE IS SO CALMING ♥. THEY SHOULD BOTTLE IT UP AND SELL IT AS A SOOTHING BALM FOR THE EARS AND FRAZZLED NERVES, FOR REALS.

And I love how you and C have the French flourish-y sounds down pat, all the authentic sounding 'uhh's and 'alorssss', SO DARLING. ET JE TE COMPRENDS BIEN AUSSI QUAND TU PARLES, MOO HA HA HA MAIS JE SUIS TRES SUR QUE MA CAPACITE D'ECRIRE QUELQUECHOSES EN FRANCAIS IS TOTALLY DOWN THE SHITTER DEPUIS MON DERNIER COURS FRANCAIS A L'ECOLE, NO LIES. <--a fuckton of errors and ignoring the accent signs woo woo XD

Your German was so cute! You pronounce the 'ch' sounds stronger than I do lolol-- also my first thought was that you sounded pretty Swiss at first :D If you ever want to widen your arsenal, you know who to hit up ;D (IDEA FOR NEXT AUDIOSPAM POST?? Lolol)

[mcollinknight.livejournal.com]

Ahhh your voiiiiiiice! So adorable! And so British, "which I approve of greatly" ahuhuhuhuhu. You are very soft-spoken - and "en fait" is actually the BEST FRENCH PHRASE THERE IS. You as well have perfected the 'euhhhh' of French umming XD