So, on Saturday Catt of The Dreamer Reader and I went to a Vampire Diaries event. The event was supposed to be a signing with the cast and then a Q&A, but it ended up only being Paul Wesley (Stefan) signing, and then him, Ian Somerhalder (Damon) and Nina Dobrev (Elena) doing the Q&A. The band A Fine Frenzy performed before the Q&A as well.
Catt and I waited like two hours in line for the signing, because we are fangirls like that. We made friends with a girl who was wearing bright orange pants, and we talked to her the whole time, which made waiting not-as-bad.
I was wearing my Salvatore jacket, which I totally did not realize related to the show. The jacket has a patch with the name "Salvatore" on it, like the on in the Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist movie/book. But Catt pointed out while we are waiting that Salvatore is Stefan and Damon's last name. When she told me, I realized that I actually had something to say to Paul since I had no idea what to say before.
When I got up to him I had my hair back so he could see the patch, because I wasn't going to starting yelling "HEY LOOK AT MY JACKET THAT I DIDN'T EVEN MAKE FOR THIS EVENT!" I was just going to say that in a subtle, quiet way. And it worked. I walked up in front of the table, and he pointed at the patch and said "That is awesome."
Obviously, before I went up to him I thought I was going to be ~calm, cool, and collected~, unlike the million other fangirls. Obviously, that plan went away once he complimented my jacket.
After he called my jacket awesome and I died, he was like "did you make that?" and I was like "Yes, it was for a Halloween costume," which is technically true. I just didn't specify what the costume was. And then he called my jacket awesome again and was like "thanks for coming!" and I said "thanks for signing the poster and dealing with all the insanity!" and he was like "I'm just doing my job."
Meanwhile, on the first floor of the mall, my amazing mother was saving Catt and I a spot in the Q&A area, but Catt had to leave after the signing part (boo!) and I got to push my way through a ton of people to get to where my mom was so I could have a space. Luckily for her, my mom got to leave the mob of people that she had been standing in, and she got to go some place that was probably much less warm.
And then I stood in the mob for an hourish, until A Fine Frenzy finally came out and played for the mob.
(Alison, the lead singer)
They were fabulous, but after like 4 or 5 songs they had to leave, and then...we all waited.Paul was still upstairs signing stuff, and Ian and Nina were snowed in earlier in the day so they were on a helicopter and plane and such, trying to get to the event as soon as possible. The emcee guy was trying to make the 2 or 3 hours (YES, THAT LONG. I AM DEDICATED and knew that if I left and didn't get pictures of Ian, Heidi, Mitali, and Chelsea would yell at me.) There was trivia and then he asked for question suggestions to ask the cast, and most of the questions were things like "will Ian marry me?" or "who is the better kisser, Ian or Paul?"
I think that tells you everything you needed to know about what the people there were like, but to give you a better idea, one of the rules for the signing was "don't touch Paul."
Eventually, Ian and Nina arrived at the mall, and they came on to the stage with Paul. Then the insanity really began.
That is the mob, minus all the people on the side.
Paul and Ian talking about how they are brothers IRL or something like that. I couldn't hear.You might be wondering what questions were asked and what their answers were. I wish I could tell you. All I could hear was the Paul grew up with cats and that Nina wouldn't tell who the better kisser is. Also, in the beginning Ian acknowledged a girl with an "Ian will you marry me?" sign by saying that he's not ready for marriage, and then the girl cried.
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Ian also danced (warning: this video is probably really, really loud):
I have no idea what he's saying in the video either.
I seriously could not hear anything else over the screams of the fangirls. For some reason, all the Ian fangirls were around me, and the entire time they screamed his name or "IAN, WILL YOU GO TO PROM WITH US?" They also threw pieces of paper at him. I have no desire to know what was on those bits of paper.
(Paul and Nina did not get as many screams. At least, not ones that I could hear over the Ian fangirls.)
(I don't think I would ever want to be Ian Somerhalder, even for a second. He was really nice about all the screams and acknowledged some of them, but if that were me I would have ran away.)
And because I have no idea what was happening during the really short Q&A (I don't think the cast knew either, because they kept having to ask each other what the emcee dude asked), here are some pictures:
Paul and Ian's arm.
Nina and Ian
All of them, plus some of the hands of the crazies in front of me.
More crazies, plus the cast.
Nina and Paul and some white thing someone was holding. I think it's a magazine. Who knows.
I find the above picture very funny for some reason.
Sorry most of these are blurry, but you would be taking blurry pictures if you were being jostled around by crazies too.And I think most of you read this post in search of the answer to this question:
Is Ian as gorgeous in person (or from afar)?
I will answer that question with a question: do you really need to ask?
More importantly, he seems nice even though I think most everyone there was ready to jump over the fence in front of the stage to get to him.
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