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Back to day 2!

Saturday didn't start as early as Friday, but it was still about 7:30 when I dragged myself out of bed. The first half of the day was kind of a blur.

barbed_whispers and I sat in on the Weird West panel (which you can read a little more about here), and then

theemdash and I showed up to the DarkHorse presents panel early and busted in on some sort of Joss Whedon acting game. I'm telling you, this whole busting in on panels we know nothing about strategy really worked out in our favor for the most part. The DarkHorse presents panel featured both Scott Allie and Georges Jeanty and was entertaining and informative, so I can't slight them for anything. I do wish it had been a little more about DarkHorse titles that aren't tied to some sort of Whedonverse, though. *cough*UA*cough* I realize it was a part of the Whedonverse track, but it was the only DarkHorse panel that I could find this year.

Saw these two on the way the to the Weird West panel. I also saw a Kyouya and a Tamaki later, but didn't want to stop in a crowded area to harass them.

This girl was in the Weird West panel I went to and I LOVE the back of her outfit. Let me tell you, there's not really a non-creepy way to ask someone if you can take a picture of their front and back. I tried to be less creepy, though. >.>

I've decided that if I do pull together a costume next year it will be based around one or two of the male characters in my novel, but I still like getting ideas for girly steampunk dress. I do have female characters that can't run around naked, after all.

I almost lost my life trying to make it to the Stargate track room. The Patrick Stewart line mixed with all the people trying to get to the Peachtree Center for lunch mixed with I don't know what made for a very crowded hundred square feet of space. I have never felt so panicked in a crowd in my life.

One of the symbiotes made by

mckays_lab. If you like Stargate at all, you should definitely go to his journal and check out his handy work.

These guys made me squeak with joy. I forgot that Mighty Boosh had been on Adult Swim. I'm always glad to see more appreciation of it, though.

The afternoon was kicked off by Abney Park on the concourse. It was the first concourse show I'd ever been to, and I showed up right at start time, so I hung in the back and pushed in as close as I could. There were people--Hyatt employees or Dragon*Con staffers, I'm not sure--walking along the back and shouting about where people could or couldn't stand and trying to move anyone who stood behind me along. Luckily, I slipped below their radar.

This year at D*C was the year of the accordion. I totally approve.

The gentleman in the back on the left is Davis Patterson from Ghost Project. He sat in with them and did some extra percussion.

Abney Park performing Aether Shanty, which is the title track on the new album. (I am way excited about that new album, by the way. I hope they don't have any more trouble with it.)

Abney Park (attempting to) play Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This kind of made my weekend, you guys.

Abney Park performing The Ballad of Captain Robert.

The afternoon could be characterized as 'all steampunk all the time'. I showed up early for the Alternate History Classics panel and ended up crashing in on an author panel. I believe her name was Diana Gabaldon. It was historical romance fare, which is really not my sort of thing, but it was alright.

There were some army cosplayers in the room when I got there. I may have fallen in love with their lace up spats. I've decided that if I make a costume that's James-ish, it'll have lace up spats like this, since he's rather lower middle class.

The Rule, Victoria panel was my favorite panel of the evening, and you can read more about it here. It mostly dealt with the textuality of what we know of the Victorian era in the context of the machinery and things that we might not have at hand. Nicely academic.

barbed_whispers and I went to the Steampunk, Anachronistic and/or Retrofuturistic Music panel, which was hosted by Dimitri von Stadberg of The Extraordinary Contraptions. The band led us in a 19th century sing-a-long, which was good fun. Plus, the lyrics to 'Daisy, Daisy' were spotted with inappropriate quotation marks that reminded me of that blog, and entertained Lisa and I for hours.

After that, Lisa and tried waiting in line for the Cabaret and because of a late start on their end and a late getting into line on our end, missed it for the second year in a row. I swear, I don't think the powers that be want us to see that blasted Cabaret.

It was just as well though, because we had a show to catch! The rest of the evening was spent with the Hellblinki Sextet and Voltaire. I heard a rumour they're going on tour together later this year. Fingers crossed that they come near me!

The Hellblinki Sextet performing You Are My Sunshine. Sunshine is

barbed_whispers favorite song, I think this version might now be her favorite of everything.

If you're a fan of Hitler and My Chemical Romance, you might like Voltaire's new haircut!

That's

sweetnovicane up there with Voltaire!

Voltaire and the Hellblinki Sextet perform Coin Operated Goi.

Voltaire performing The USS Make Shit Up in honor of the new Star Trek movie. I feel that the lens flare in the video is clearly an ode. ;) This might actually be my favorite Star Trek song ever.

And that brings Saturday to an end. I stumbled up to my room much like I had the night before. Head over to my last post, which includes more Abney Park and Hellblinki Sextet, and a whole lot of ridiculous. ♥