Oh Captain, My Captain

NO THIS ISN'T OBSCENELY LATE YOU'RE OBSCENELY LATE.




I am absolutely exhausted but it was SO freaking worth it.

Comic con was like a shining nerd haven of glory and t-shirts.

And nachos. Those are pretty important.

But oh my gosh. Holy flipping cow. I was in the SAME BUILDING at the SAME TIME as some of my all-time favorite people.

Like I saw Brent Spiner.

BRENT. FLIPPING. SPINER.

Don't even attempt to tell me that wasn't freaking awesome.

But that wasn't even my favorite part of the con.

The con was awesome right from the beginning, when we pulled into the parking garage. My dad had been screaming "NERD!" at everyone we passed on the way in, so I was already super excited and the parking garage only made it a million times better.

"A parking garage?" you say. "Why the flip were you so excited about a dumb parking garage? Are you mentally stable?" Well, reader, if you just hold your horses and slow down a bit, I will tell you all about the parking garage. And no I am not mentally stable because finals DON'T JUDGE ME.

So I don't know if you've ever been to the Salt Palace before, but the parking garage has really low ceilings and is very poorly lit.

There is no color.

You can barely see anything.

Just cement walls, pillars, and ceiling.

It was awesome.

I wanted to run around and jump on cars and play Secret Captain America WWII Bunker. I wanted to scream as loud as I could just to see how long it would take to echo back to me. I wanted to try and find Nathan Fillion's car or Patrick Stewart's car or other famous people's cars just to see if I could find them but not to follow them because I'm not creepy.

And then Katniss got out of a car not too far away from us and I almost fainted.

Because it was real.

I had wanted this my entire life, and I was just now realizing my dream was coming true.

I can't explain what it was like when I walked through the doors. I just laughed. Because these were my people. They all felt the same way I did about a lot of the same things. They all wanted to experience this just as bad as I did.

Kori, Amanda's awesome nerd cousin, managed to sneak me into Nathan Fillion's panel and I can never repay her for that. It was glorious. I WAS IN THE SAME ROOM AS MY CAPTAIN. And as awesome as you think that man is, let me tell you, he is a million times more awesome in person. He's hilarious and charismatic and just a happy person.

I kind of wish I had been able to meet him, because I was wearing my Captain Hammer Stalker t-shirt and I know he would've said something awesome. But a couple people did end up commenting on how my shirt was an extremely "clever idea," so that was pretty great.

Anyways, I ended up leaving the Con and coming back later with Kenzi. She bought a full set of Dragon Balls and we spent most of the night sending questionable Snapchats and throwing innuendos back and forth. Best of all, we made it to the Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog sing-along. Seriously though--being trapped in a room with 700 other nerds all trying to out-sing and out-quote each other is one of the best things you can ever experience.

Really though, Comic Con was everything I'd ever dreamed it could be and more. It was beautiful.

~Kylie


PS: here are some legit pictures of Nathan Fillion that I took