VanCon 2015: Welcome to the land of the Starstruck

My husband watches the show with me, and he lets me babble on about it. He even participates sometimes, offering his own perspectives and speculations, and he is often my first reader and beta. But I don’t think he ever envisioned himself attending a Supernatural Con. “I’d be the only guy there,” he’d tease. “Why do people want to go to these things?” The argument (borrowed from the Fangasm ladies) that attending fan conventions could be analogous to following a favorite football team around the country did little to convince him that he might actually have fun. When we arrived on the first day and got into line behind a trio of teenaged girls, I could see him inwardly groaning, putting on a stiff upper lip for my sake. He wanted to be on hand as my “moral support”. None of this was going to touch him, personally.

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VanCon 2015: The Poster As Proof

Here is my best treasure from VanCon:





When I saw this poster last year in an ad for "Famous Monsters of Filmland", I knew it had to be the one. It has everything I love about the show on it, with the sad exception of our favorite angel and demon. My kids say that everyone on the poster is a monster--or has been--and I guess, now, that's true. What really sold me on the thing, though, was when I recognized the house in the background, and then realized why Sam and Dean's postures really looked so familiar.



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