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This one was a long time coming!

Originally planned for May 2020, the pass was booked in Summer 2019.  Five times postponed, there were times when all of us thought that it would never happen.  But thanks to the perseverence of Daniela and the JIB team, it did.

There were a couple of last minute cancellations - Karl Urban was due to be there, but had to cry off, and Tom Ellis too, but Daniela managed to secure a couple late replacements, including Drake Rodgers and Jojo Fleites from 'The Winchesters'.

A few of us flew in a day early so that we could get a headstart on the socialising, and so on our first full day, four of us headed off to Ostia which is a ruined city which used to be Rome's main port.  It was great wandering around and having a leisurely catch up before the madness of the next few days began!

The convention itself began on Thursday with JIBLand, the multi-fandom segment of JIB, and that was the day we first met Drake and Jojo.  They quickly established themselves as two convention darlings, and have certainly made me want to go back and rewatch the Winchesters (I'm up to episode 6).  Also on the first day we had the return of Ricky Whittle from American Gods, Alexander Vlahos from Versailles and David Ramsay from Arrow.  We also knew that Ricky Whittle was a bit of a nutter who adores JIB, but paired with Alexander, who takes being a nutter to a whole new level, their panels were absolute hilarious bedlam.

Here are my Mugshots from the first couple of days


Image heavy post! )
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 I'm a happy Dizzo :)
Come on, own up, seriously - who thought we'd be seeing this again?

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Just wishing each and every one of you the very best wishes for 2022.
Let's hope this year sees an end to Covid and a beginning to being able to live a life again!
Have fun and stay safe.  See you on the flip side xxx
*hugs*

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Here's Jensen time with some bonus lovely Misha!

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Happy Easter to you all.  I  hope the Easter bunny has been kind to you!

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Today I thought I'd share one of my favourite videos - Jensen and Misha at JIB 3 talking about recasting Dean Winchester.  As Misha.

Jensen's not convinced...

XD



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Okay, so we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK, but that doesnt mean I can't give thanks for certain things.

And right now, I'm being thankful for having these adorable souls in my life for the last eleven years, and the joy and inspiration they've given me.  Not just that, but I'm thankful for all the wonderful friends and experiences they have gifted me with. 

So right now, I'm channelling my inner AA Milne:

How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard






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It's been a rainy lazy day today, and I'm enjoying a bit of downtime with my online Jigsaw game.  I especially like that you can make jigsaws out of your own pictures.

Guess what my favourite subject is ...


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One particularly endearing characteristic of Jensen that I have noticed while watching several con videos recently is that he tends to touch his heart when he is expressing gratitude and sincerity.  It’s really rather sweet, and really speaks a lot about the sort of person he is. 

And because we operate in the shallow end of the gene pool here at Dizzojay’s journal, I got to thinking about what other parts of his body he is prone to touching.  And why am I not involved?

Therefore, in this picspam I shall be exploring the apparent tactility of Jensen. 

To support this, I will be using photographic evidence and not, unfortunately, a practical assessment.

*sulks*

Okay, so to move on to exhibit A, here is Jensen touching his heart:








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So, the lovely Misha celebrated his 46th birthday yesterday; of course I would have loved to celebrate with him yesterday - he just happens to have a birthday on the one day of the year when I really do try to put Mr D first!!

But anyhoo, Misha is one of those characters that puts a little bit of extra sunshine in the world.  As well as being easy on the eye he's responsible for bringing everyone's favourite fallen angel to life, being a beloved friend to J2, being one of life's 'generous-spirited' people and, possibly best of all, being totally and utterly barkingly bonkers.

MIsha and his shenanigans have also been responsible for spawning a meme ... yes, Misha has his own meme; 'Meanwhile Misha...'

The 'Meanwhile Misha' meme arose from the fact that normal stuff happens in life, but meanwhile, in the background there's Misha usually creating havoc.

So, with all good wishes to Misha after his special day, herewith is a homage to our beloved basketcase...

Happy birthday, Misha!







Meanwhile Misha )
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I'm sorry I'm late to this party.  After about three months of basically hibernating, this weekend has actually been very busy, which means I've had to dredge some energy up from somewhere!  And now I'm pooped!!!

So before I hit the sack, I'd just like to add my voice to everyone elses who is celebrating the day that you managed to shake off us pesky Brits!

Well done!! :D



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Wishing the happiest of happies to my fab con buddy [livejournal.com profile] sasha_dragon on the occasion on her birthday.  And of course, such an auspicious occasion deserves lots of J2M pretty!

Enjoy!! xxxx

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Well hello gang!  I hope you're all bearing up under lockdown, and staying well and healthy :)

It occurred to me at the weekend that I never acknowledged Livejournal's 21st anniversary recently.

Now, as I've spent the better part of my fandom years with Livejournal as my online home - it will be 10 years in December - this felt like a grievous oversight.

I thought about what I could do...  I could post my 21 favourite Jensen pics, but then, how do you pick 21 favourites from the 328,848,861,002,763 pictures of Jensen I have on my hard drive?

Then I thought I could rehash my 21 favourite posts or my 21 favourite drabbles... but, nah, too predictable.

So I decided to make this post about me, about you, about our boys, and about my experience of the Spn fandom in general, because Livejournal has played a massive part in that whole experience.

So herewith are 21 pictures that sum up my fandom time, and why it has been so bloody AWESOME!!


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Something unexpected.



yourself (disguised enough that you're comfortable sharing the photo) your favorite book (we won't tell any of the others you picked a favorite) merchandise from a fandom (pick your definition of fandom--sports 100% qualify) your exercise equipment the view out a window
something alive a meal a letter/postcard from someone (feel free to redact) something that keeps you sane your computer
a useful tool memorabilia from an event outside wild card a game you've been playing a musical instrument
something someone made for you a gift you're planning to give an outfit you've worn recently (with or without you inside it) something that makes you smile the kitchen sink
something unexpected something funny a bad habit a good habit something you're proud of


This turned up on my Facebook feed this evening; the new cover of EW Magazine. I knew nothing about it.

I think this might be one of the most beautiful pictures of our boys I've ever seen!  (I really hope it's part of a photoshoot!)

*heart eyes*

Pic here )
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So today has been a day of endings ...

It's 'Brexit day' here in the UK.  The day we finally leave the European Union.  I'm old enough to remember when we joined the 'Common Market', the precursor to the European Union, back in the mid seventies.  I didn't understand what it was all about back in those days as I was only about seven, but I remember it being something my parents talked about a lot and something that a lot of boring people on the TV were talking about.

From my point of view now, I have mixed feelings.  I loved the EU vision of countries working together, trading together, supporting each other, learning from each other, shared knowledge, shared protection, freedom of travel, freedom of culture, benefiting from each others' strengths and protecting each others' weaknesses.  Conversely, I intensely disliked the political entity that the EU became.  I've always thought it was bloated, wasteful and self-serving.   That said, although I wasn't one of these people with really strong feelings on the matter, on balance I still believed we were better off staying in the EU.

So, there are people having Brexit parties, and others are having Brexit wakes.  Our country has never been so divided, and that's sad.  I hope if anything good comes of our current circumstances, it's simply that this country can start to heal, and move on from this whole bloody debacle.

On a more personal, but no less significant (for me at least) scale, I settled in this morning to watch last night's episode.

Over the last few years, I've settled into a little routine; Monday to Thursday in the mornings before work, I go to the gym, then Fridays I have a little lay in for about 20 minutes, then I get up, download the lastest episode, make my breakfast then watch it before I go to work.  It's a lovely llittle routine which works for me and makes Friday feel just a little bit special.

As I started to cue up the episode this morning, I realised, this is the last time ever I will watch a new episode of Supernatural on a Friday morning.  When our show comes back after this latest hellatus in six and a half weeks, I'll be settling in to watch it on a Tuesday.  From now on in, my Fridays will feel just a little bit less special.  :(

By the way, I thought the episode was great!

Anyway, that's a bit of a melancholy post, so just to lighten things up, here are three more 'ends' that are much nicer to think about!



The ends ... )
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With all my good wishes for 2020...


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Art Masterpost for spn_reversebang
Art Title: I don't think we're in Vancouver any more...
Prompt No: R1005
Artist:
[livejournal.com profile] dizzojay
Fic Title: Once a King in Narnia, always a King in Narnia
Fic Link: AO3
Author: [livejournal.com profile] zara_zee

This has been another wonderful Reversebang collaboration with [livejournal.com profile] zara_zee who, as always, has been a delight to work with, and has created an amazing piece of work from my art.  Please make sure to read the brilliant fic that she has gifted us with!

Original Prompt:



As soon as I received [livejournal.com profile] zara_zee's first draft, I could see that the story was all based around elemental beings, and my mind immediately went to natural themes with the emphasis on the colour green .






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I would have been celebrating Misha's birthday along with everyone else yesterday, if I hadn't had my own celebrations going on, so to make up for lost time, here is a celebratory spam for the one, the only, the totally not-normal ...

MIsha







Normality-free Zone )
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So, it's a quiet weekend.

Mr D has gone down to Devon for the weekend to catch up with some friends, so I have the house to myself, and I've been taking advantage of the time to do a few chores, and make a start on a commission of two miniature yorkshire terriers.

You know how every now and again, you embark on a creative job - art work or fic or video or whatever, and you just don't feel it?  This is me with this picture.  I'm poncing around with it for half an hour, then getting up to do something, then sitting down again... I don't know why, this one just hasn't grabbed me. The muse isn't co-operating and I can't lose myself in it at the moment.  But, it's work; it's money, and I should be grateful for that.

In other news, Jus in Bello J2M double photo ops were released yesterday.  Now, Jus in Bello has always been crazy mad when it comes to getting passes and photo ops, but this year it seems to have gone nuclear!  Perhaps people think that because the show's coming to an end JIB will too - and of couse, that's very possible - and so everyone is just going all out for it.

The J2M single photo ops were released three weeks ago and the Jensen ones were all snapped up within the first second that they were released.  That's right, you read that correctly; the first SECOND.

Jared's and Misha's all went very shortly afterward.  Unfortunately, I missed out on a Jensen single which I was gutted about, (soneone sent the request  for me as I was away from home that day, and they sent it bang on time, but it arrived just a nanosecond too late) but I did manage to get hold of a Jared and Misha op, so it's not all bad.

That's why I'm so hoping I'll get my hands on a double op - I've requested two - a J2 and a Jensen&Misha.  Again, the organiser was overwhelmed with emails and they were all snapped up within a second or two.  The lovely [livejournal.com profile] herminekurotowa sent my mail for me because I just don't trust my internet speed, and we've got the email to say that it arrived ok.  The organiser tweeted last night to say that all photo ops were assigned and there were still over 200 emails left!!

Apparently, they're going to contact the people who didn't get anything later today, and maybe into tomorrow, so if I don't get one of those emails, then I've got at least one of what I requested, and I will get my Jensen squeeze after all!

So at the moment, I'm glancing at my email like it's a rabid animal, and every time an email pings up, I get a little palpitation.  If I haven't got an email by the time the organiser tweets that all unlucky people have been contacted - then I can breathe again!

Honestly, the things I do for those boys!!

Ultimately, I know I'm lucky to be going to JIB at all so this is totally a first world problem - don't waste any sympathy on me! :D

But anyway, here's some gorgeous dorky boys, because you all deserve it!!

*hugs*


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