#spnminncon2017

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Omg if I have to type this story one more time, Tumblr…

Today I received a wonderful little gem from the amazing Chris Schmelke.

This... @fuckyou-mavhenan and I weren’t planning on doing this. We agreed that, when we purchased our silver weekend passes, autographs sated our needs in meeting most people. But when we arrived at the con Friday morning, we decided to check if any tickets remained.

One. There, on the table, was one Jared and Jensen photo op. We split it without hesitation.

And these two. I can’t get over how nice they are with their hugs and smiles and “thank you, darlin’” and a rub of the back I walk away.

“Separate Ways” by Journey was playing as we were waiting in line and Jensen did little dances in between people, sometimes mouthing along to the words. So as our turn came, I kinda shimmied over to them and Jared started doing a little dance, too. It was super cute. And then I had to shout over the music to tell them what we wanted to do. Felt kinda obnoxious.

Jared is a very sweaty man. :3

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Gil McKinney, Kim, and Briana at Friday panels. Woo!

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So I tried scanning this last night and it looks like shit, so here's a picture of a picture. Jared and Jensen are the sweetest people. Their con presence this year was muted, though we all knew why. Their families were in the middle of Hurricane Harvey without them, and though they were fine, I can only imagine the stress they felt being away from their loved ones in a time of need. But they were still magnificent. Jensen is very quiet in person; my autograph with him went quite quickly but he smiled and rubbed the back of my hand when he pushed my journal - my replica Henry Winchester journal - back to me. Jared on the other hand is much more conversational and animated during autographs. His line took ages because of this but I wouldn't have it any other way. I added a custom page to the journal - it came with printed pages the mimicked the journal from the show very well but was missing the angel exorcism language. So I figured I'd add it quick while I was waiting for autographs to start. And after I added it, I knew I wanted Jared to sign that page. The second he saw it he was like, "Oh hey I know this, this is so badass," and I told that I'd just added it. He looked the rest of the journal over and I explained it was a replica except for that page. And he said, "that's so cool, you remembered the angel exorcism, this whole thing is super cool," then signed it and thanked me with a classic Texan "darlin'" tacked on the end. I'll post pictures of the autos with their stories later. :)

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Jared: “Here’s something I’ve learned in life, even though I’m only 35 years old ... I do have grey hair though.”

Someone in the audience: “It suits you!”

Jared: *offended*

Jensen: *approves*

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Gil McKinney a.k.a. Henry Winchester and mah face. :3

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Witch-mom. :3

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Misha Collins appears to be looking directly at my camera (he probably isn’t, this is a common phenomena in photography, especially when using max zoom).

But you know what is going on in this picture? Nobody noticed it for the first half of his panel because he was sitting ...

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First up for the autographs is Samantha Smith, a.k.a. Mary Winchester.

Season 12 was weird for me. I was torn with the writing of Mary Winchester, but she’s grown on me. And I was super excited to meet Samantha Smith at SPN MinnCon 2017.

This was the last autograph I got last night. It was the very last autograph of the entire con, after both Jensen and Jared, of which Jared’s is forever burned into my memory in an oh so good way because it took forever and what he said to me. I’ll get to that later.

Remember this scene?

Season 12 Episode 2, Mary is still fresh on the scene (no pun intended). She’s still out of her element, learning her sons as grown, adult men that don’t need a mother. And yet she feels comfortable enough to admit to them that she doesn’t cook.

Confused, Dean asks after her classic meatloaf. To which she responds:

“Came from the Piggly Wiggly. Sorry to burst your bubble.”

I died. I fucking. Died. Piggly Wiggly is a Midwest/Southern grocery store chain that is very near and dear to my heart. “The Pig”, colloquially, has a commercial jingle that goes, “Pigg-ly, Wigg-ly! Shop The Pig!”.

So I had Samantha put that in my journal for her autograph. And because I’m morbid af, I picked John’s journal entry for the day of her funeral for her to sign. The best part was that Samantha Smith was not familiar with Piggly Wiggly and when I told her it was real, she was baffled, had no clue, and was super excited that she now understood what it was referring to. :3