Hey I'm sorry to bother you about this but I know you're going to the convention in paris and I would really like to come too but I've never been to a convention before so I really don't have any idea of how these events work and I don't even know where to start? Do you have any tips for me? 😭
Hello anon, this is not a bother at all! this turned out into a full DREAMIT CONVENTIONS GUIDE so I apologize in advance lol but hopefully it will help you and other people out! You can also always dm me about it, I really don't mind talking about it or helping people out in any way I can.
This is all from my experience at DINAH last year so please mind that some things might be a bit different for FRR but here you go:
DREAMIT:
This is dreamit website (you can select the language on the menù at the top on the right), twitter and instagram.
I suggest you turn their notifications on to keep updated since twitter and instagram are where they make all their announcements.
WHEN AND WHERE:
WHEN: June 3rd and 4th, 2023
WHERE: Centre Evénementiel Mairie de Courbevoie in 7 Bd Aristide Briand, 92400 Courbevoie, Paris, France.
The location is not in the city centre but there are several big chain hotels nearby such as: Best Western, Ibis and Mercury hotels among the many.
How to reach the location from the city centre: either by metro, train, taxi or uber. If you use public transports get ready to walk a bit.
GUEST LIST:
Guests are announced whenever Dreamit gets a signed contract. According to their last update (March 2023) they're now focusing on bringing more Station 19 and Grey's Anatomy guests while 911 Lone Star guests are currently on hold. There will be minimum 10 guests.
So far the guests announced are: Stefania Spampinato from Station 19 (bonus guest), Ronen Rubinstein and Rafael Silva from 911 Lone Star (regular guests).
BONUS & REGULAR GUESTS: the difference is basically on their request and their cachet. Bonus guests cost more and their activities will therefore be more expensive than regular ones.
PAYEMENT:
You can pay on their website with credit or debit card, by wire transfer and with PayPal. PayPal gives you the option to split your payement into 4 parts if you want.
ACCESS PASSES:
You need to have one of the below passes to access the event and to purchase extras:
FIRST RESPONDERS PASS: a pass for the whole weekend. It can be paid in 2 parts. In this case you need to buy the First Responders Pass 1/2 first and then the First Responders Pass 2/2.
EMERGENCY PASS: a pass for 1 day only, either Saturday or Sunday.
FAST ACCESS:
This is an extra pass that gives you priority for activities for all/some guests, they basically let you skip queues:
Fast access+ will give you priority access to all the guests activities for 1 day only (you need to choose for which day or you can get it for both days).
Fast access Stefania/Ronen/Rafael/etc etc will give you priority access for the activities of the chosen guest(s) for 1 day only (you need to choose for which day or you can get it for both days).
I personally don't recommend getting these cause they're expensive and not worth it in my opinion. Queues are not that long anyway and there's time for everyone to get their extra done so there's literally no rush. Also sometimes these priorities in line aren't really respected and queues are where most friendship start so just take advantage of that!
PACKS:
Packs allow you to buy extras in a bundle and save a bit of money. They are on sale per guest and per day:
REGULAR PACKS: include a photo, an autograph and a selfie for 1 day only for 1 guest.
FULL PACKS: include a photo, an autograph, a selfie and an individual meeting room for 1 day only for 1 guest.
ACTIVITIES:
You will get a complete schedule of all the activites 1 week before the convention by email.
Every activity gets announced on screen in the panel room. So you don't have to wander around waiting for the activity to start or for your turn. You just need to sit in the panel room and wait for the activity to get announced. Once the activity has started, you can go where it will take place. Staff members will be everywhere to help you out in case you need it. Photo ops are all taken in one room, autographs in another and meeting rooms in other rooms.
PANEL ROOMS: with any pass you can get access to ALL panels for all guests. In a panel you basically have the guest(s) on stage and you can ask them questions going through a moderator first. They usually last 30 minutes.
MEETING ROOMS: they're basically a panel but have place in a separate room with a limited number of people (max. 30 people + guest(s)). They last 30 minutes. You can ask the guest(s) questions and just talk with them. At the end a group photo is taken. Sometimes they let you take an individual photo/selfie with them instead. These meetings can also come under the form of breakfasts, tea time, board games, etc etc. Meetings can be individual (with one guest only), or group ones (with 2 or more guests). The duo/group meetings usually happens with actors from the same show or who portray a couple on screen (see Ronen Rubinstein and Rafael Silva). There's usually an individual meeting per guest per day and a duo/group meeting per guests per day.
1:1s: usually very limited. You have 3 minutes with the guest alone. At the end you'll get a selfie with them.
PHOTO OPS: it's your chance to get a photo with the guest(s). There are individual photo, duo/trio and group photo ops. There are usually 2 photo op sessions per guests and per duo/trio/group per day (one in the morning and one in the afternoon). If you want you can show guests what pose you want to do on your phone or you can just explain it to them. Obviously no inappropriate poses are allowed and guests are allowed to say no if they don't feel comfortable with any suggestion. At the end of the day you will get printed copies of all your photos. Once the convention is over you will get the chance to buy the digital copies too.
AUTOGRAPHS: it's your chance to get autographs from the guests and this is the only moment where you can give them gifts if you brought any. You can get signed anything you want, something you brought from home or photos that you can buy at the convention. You can ask guests to write anything you want on the autographs and have them personalised.
SELFIES: they happen at the same time as autographs so you need to have an autograph if you want a selfie. If you have a selfie ticket but not an autograph one, they won't allow you to take a selfie with them. So you get the autograph done and then you can take a selfie with them. You can ask the guest to take it for you if you want.
PARTY: limited. It happens on Saturday night and NOT all guests will be attending (Stefania Spampinato will be there, Ronen Rubinstein and Rafael Silva won't).
ONLINE ACTIVITIES:
Sometimes they add some online activities so that people who can't be there in person have the chance to interact with the guests too:
ONLINE 1:1s: it usually happens on zoom and you get 3 minutes with the guest alone. At the end you'll get a screenshot of the two of you.
ONLINE 3:1s: it usually happens on zoom and you get 5 minutes with the guest and 2 other fans. At the end you'll get a screenshot of the group.
SHIPPED AUTOGRAPHS: you can order autographs from guests that will be shipped to your home. Dreamit will give you photo options so that you can choose which one you want to get signed and you will have to email them your personal details, shipping info and any request you have for your autographs so that you can get it personalised. They might take some time to get delivered.
VIDEO RECORDINGS: you can order a video recording from guests. You will have to email them any request you have for your video so that it will be personalised. If you don't have any special request the guest will just record a general video. The lenght of the videos is usually around 1 minute but depends on the guest. They will be sent it to you by email. They might take some time to arrive.
TO KEEP IN MIND:
DISCOUNTS: Dreamit has a fidelity program called "Dream It Club" so that you can accumulate discount points with each purchase made. You need to sign up for it here. It's 1 point for 1€ spent: -10% with 500 points, -20% with 1000 points, -40% with 4000 points, -50% with 6000 points.
FANBOOKS: if you want to do a fanbook for a guest you need to fill in a survey that Dreamit will post on twitter to show your interest. You need to have a pass beforehand. Dreamit will randomly pick a winner and contact them directly to be in charge of it.
Bring water and food with you. They don't have stands at the convention where you can buy something to drink or eat so be prepared in advance. There are some grocery stores in the area where you can go during lunch breaks if you want.
The convention place has no running AC so be aware that it's gonna be very hot in there but bring a jacket too cause it gets chilly outside in the evening.
There are several bathrooms at the location.
IMPORTANT:
VIDEOS: the general rule is that you cannot film anything including guests except for the welcoming and farewell parts of the panel room. You can film some bits here and there of panels as long as they're not too long. They'll be making a DVD of the event so they don't want people to leak the whole thing before that happens.
PHOTOS: you can take as many pictures as you want during panels. You cannot take pictures of the guests anywhere else or during any other activity.
AUDIO RECORDINGS: you cannot record anything at any time.
BE DECENT: people are there to have fun, have a good time and share the experience with other like minded people. Every single person will get their chance and time to interact with the guests. If you have a ticket for an activity you will get that activity done. If something happens at one session and you can't get it done then, you will get another chance at another session, that's exactly why there are multiple sessions during the weekend. The staff will make sure that you will get what you paid for. So there's no need to scream, yell, run around, push people to arrive first or be disrespectful to anyone, whether it's other fans or staff members who are just there to help. Please.
Life is full of positivity and harmony, only if you have the heart to feel it.
No nation is perfect, it has to be made so.
On that note, wishing a very Happy Malaysia Independence Day to all.
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OMG they’re so sweet !
The fact that Rocco can’t cook made me laugh so much and reminded me of Niccolò’s carbonara disaster in episode 2 of season 2 !
And Lukas is the sweetest person on this planet, I swear.
But yeah, everytime I see actors from different SKAM versions talk to one another, I’m just so happy. My biggest kink from this SKAMverse I think, makes me so so so glad they know of one another !
And my biggest kink of all time in the SKAMverse : when actors tell each other that they’ve seen the remake the other actor acted in. I LOVED that Lukas watched OG SKAM, SKAM France and SKAM Italia, and Rocco watched parts of Druck, OG SKAM and SKAM France as well, I love how they gushed at each other’s performances !
That crazy dream I had with Gruvia and gave me the feeling of making a fanfic, but I ended up reading Todomomo stories, because I'm hella lazy
I had this dream with gruvia today, and I think it's give a great plot for a fanfic (or even a light novel, I dare to say lol)
Well, it started with Gray, Juvia, Natsu (I think) and Lucy on vacation, or something of sorts, I don't really remember. They were going to a city that was in the middle of the desert, or somewhere really arid.
The thing is, that was this dark guild that ruled the city... and then there was this flashback of Juvia before phantom lord had disbanded. She was fighting these bad guys, like, all by herself and super badass. She fought everyone, and killed a bunch of people because at the time she was not this cinnamon roll she is now. Anyway, at the end there was three people in the battlefield, the main leader, one extra and a boy. She defeated successfully the box and the extra, she left the boy alive, though. All of this was part of a mission, by the way, destroying a dark guild and stuff.
Well, years later, like many many years later she was back. But, really, she didn't remember about this at all, everything was different in that place. So, she was all Juvia like with her Gray-sama and having a good time with the orders, until that hella hot guy, and super bad btw, appeared in front of them. It haven't started like a fight, he was like all menacing but talking like a normal human being. Juvia couldn't recall who he was at all, but he appeared to know much about her. After some time that was this click in her head and then she understood what all that mean. Said man was demanding her to come with him and take the responsibility she once had with his land. The guys couldn't understand a thing.
Ok, so just to explain, after she defeated and basically smashed that dark guild, Phantom Lord master told her to rule the place, so she became some sort of master herself in that illegal guild, or something like that. Because it rained everywhere she was, people in the town not only appreciated her presence, but made her the ruler of the land (because it was a desert so rain was cool). She would come once in a while. Even if she sorta liked the place, it wasn't something that big to her, not at that time. And then phantom lord disbanded, and she got in fairy tail, met Gray-sama, and there was also the thing in the island.. so she just forgot about that city for the time being.
Back to the present
Hella hot and mad guy in front of them is actually the boy she left alive in that battle. He was demanding her to come with him, and Gray didn't like at all. As for Juvia when she had the view of the situation something sink in her heart. It was a brutal error, a big mistake in her past. A lot of bad things happened in these land, said guild that she had to maintain was evil, and she never truly understood why master Jose would want to keep it. It was her mistake and she knew what she had to do.
She would come with hella hot and mad guy, she would fight him and put an end to that atrocity of her past.
The thing is, it had nothing to do with fairy tail, and she actually wanted to protect Gray at all costs. So she said she would fight alone, which was typical of her and Gray found it very strange, he wanted to argue, but Natsu said something that convinced him to stay still. Which made Juvia glad btw.
And so the battle started. And God, Juvia's strong. Like, hella strong! It was like her past self fighting there, she used moves that she hadn't used for a very long time. There was no bubble Juvia now, the girl in front of them resembled very much the one they first met and this alone scared Gray a lot.
It appeared she'd win, but the guy there made a trick move that engulfed Juvia in a very strong wind, and she couldn't fight it because it was too strong. She yelled Gray's name, and he tried to save her but it was too late. Hella hot but mad guy took juvia with him.
Gray was enraged.
All the trupe went to the city to rescue Juvia. In the streets they discovered lots of stuff in Juvia past, the woman was a monster, real strong, very strange, full of quirks, but they liked her because she made it rain.
Juvia was trapped in this castle with handcuffs restraining her magical power. The guy that I didn't bother to give a name wanted to marry her (😮😮😮) and run the land with her power, and make strong babies and stuff, be the lord of the world also, maybe.
Well, there's lots of fight, Juvia's rescued, Gruvia gets moments, nalu gets moments, Jerza gets moments (bc why not), people kiss, the guy that is hot still hot (bc he was so hot in the dream!!! All blond and tanned) bad guys are destroyed, gruvia teases, maybe confessions etc
Well... that was a crazy dream. What's quarantine doing to me
