My brain and my heart are still VERY FIRMLY in a hotel in Gatwick airport, basking in the most insane and most wonderful memories ever made!
As always, there will be a write-up, this one will be MADNESS (because this time around I have VIDEO from all the panels (THANK YOU @siren-events-uk for that wonderful option!)) and the THINGS that happened away from the panels are so crazy, they'll be stuck with me forever!
As of now: pics! Enjoy!
(and yes, that DJ hug pic IS indeed signed as well but it feels too freaking personal to share right now *shrugs* it's weird, it's probably not even that deep or anything but to me it's special so I'll keep it to myself for a while!)
Im still flying so fucking high, you won't believe it!
These people and this fandom are fucking outstanding - there's nothing else in the world that comes even CLOSE to what just happened this weekend!!!
I am so full of love for every single person at this con, and I would do it all again in a fucking heartbeat!
Last November was already great but this?
EXCLUSIVE: Your first look at Connor Storrie in 'Criminal Minds: Evolution.' The 'Heated Rivalry' star plays Lance Kingston, “a charming narcissist with a deep sense of entitlement.”
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Bonus : Show director Adam Rodriguez talks about how Storrie was cast and why he went from being a one-episode guest star to having a four-episode arc.
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“Everybody is asking, from our wardrobe department to our grips, ‘Is there a way to bring him back?’”
Criminal Minds, now Criminal Minds: Evolution, has had legendary celebrity guest stars over the course of its 19 seasons. Many of them, including Aaron Paul and Evan Peters, got to play creeps, killers, and kidnappers/kidnappees before they became household names. This season, Heated Rivalry breakout Connor Storrie will continue the tradition with a four-episode guest stint. As Lance Kingston, “a charming narcissist with a deep sense of entitlement,” Storrie becomes a major player in a Behavioral Analysis Unit investigation after being accused of stalking his ex-girlfriend.
It’s a perfect time for any show to cash in on Storrie-mania — fans are clamoring for more of the actor while waiting for season two of Heated Rivalry — but series creator Erica Messer tells Vulture that Storrie was cast and shot his part last summer, long before anyone knew the Canadian hockey romance would become such a sensation. “We were very much interested in finding somebody that would stand out a bit. Connor won that, hands down,” Messer says. “The interesting thing is, none of us knew what Heated Rivalry was. Even if it was on his résumé, I think the conversation was, ‘He’s just finished this thing that hasn’t aired yet.’ It wasn’t anything more than that.”
When casting director April Webster and her department chose Storrie, he was only meant to appear in one episode and shoot for two days. He brought such enormous screen presence, however, that the writers immediately expanded his part. “We were like, ‘Okay, I know he was important for episode four, but we’ve got to make him more integral to the rest of the season,’” Messer says. Storrie went from a one-episode guest-star slot to a four-episode arc, “100 percent because he was so compelling,” Messer says. Vulture got an exclusive first look at the character alongside series stars R.J. Hatanaka, Aisha Tyler, Adam Rodriguez, and A.J. Cook.
As for what fans can expect from Storrie’s arc, Messer says he goes “toe-to-toe with the BAU,” and there’s a scene where “Adam’s character kind of alphas him, in a way.” On set, Messer says Storrie made such a good impression that “everybody is asking, from our wardrobe department to our grips, ‘Is there a way to bring him back?’”
Well? Is there a way Storrie could come back? “I would just say, on Criminal Minds in general, you never say never.” Storrie’s first episode, titled “The Witching Hour,” premieres June 11 on Paramount+.
a selection of photos taken by other people from their first year of marriage:
towards the end of their wedding reception, sun setting, looking rumpled and tired, Ilya kissing Shane's palm while Shane is very seriously talking to Scott Hunter
the two of them with a fan, taken at the dog park, Ilya holding Anya and Shane with one arm around his husband's shoulder and the other trying to prevent Anya from licking the fan's face
Shane Hollander sitting on the Centaurs bench with blood on his face, mouth wide open, Ilya Rozanov gripping his chin and glaring at the gap where Shane's bottom canine used to be
Ilya Rozanov with his fist in the air after a goal, a smear of red in the corner of his mouth
sitting next to each other at team tape review, heads bent together, Ilya's hand on Shane's thigh, Shane's hands sketching out a play in the air
Ilya Rozanov leaning against his car in the airport arrivals line, a coffee in one hand and a forest-green smoothie in the other
Shane Hollander giving his husband the middle finger after losing the shot accuracy competition at ASG by half a second
piggyback racing across the yard with a Pike twin each clinging to their necks
Ilya Rozanov, outraged, with a face full of snow, as his husband doubles over with laughter
wearing identical blank expressions the seventeenth time a journalist asks about their "off-ice chemistry"
Shane Hollander throwing his head back and cackling in a booth at a random dive bar in a random city, Ilya Rozanov grinning into his drink
asleep on the team bus after game 5 of the conference finals, Ilya curled into Shane's shoulder
the concept of post-intimate scene aftercare. hudcon checking in with each other, especially during the early shoots like the vegas hotel. "you ok?" "you good?" "yeah fine, kinda hurt my knees..." "that felt good, though" "yeah it did...".... like hudson literally got a tummy ache from how hard connor was pounding him...did connor feel so bad about that? did he give hudson lots of gentle hugs and comfort after? did they cuddle between takes? did they cuddle after takes? make up artists and hairstylists encroaching on them to touch them up and they're just wrapped up in each other's arms giggling, waiting to go again?
