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some of my favourite sign fails <3

HANNIBAL REUNION at C2E2 post time! ❤️ I don’t know what all I can say that hasn’t been said already by hundreds of screaming Fannibals but, man, what an absolutely surreal experience. It was just amazing to see Mads and Hugh together again!

Everyone else has already shared much better photos and clip moments but here are a few of mine!

Alas I didn’t capture the hug. I didn’t want to take too many photos as I wanted to experience the moment more than I wanted to see it through the lense of a phone. I wanted to just take it in, and enjoy it. I’m so happy I got to experience it with so many fannibal friends. ❤️

I’ll be making a huge diary/post reblog thread here of my experience!

tumblr won't allow me to upload another video in the reblog so here is the twitter link:

https://x.com/beanyzilla/status/1785152377613660194

And another one I shot of the crowd of Fannibals starting to mill into the panel space:

https://x.com/beanyzilla/status/1785149915775279539

I got to touch greatness! 😍 Twice! ❤️🤣 Mads and Hugh were total sweethearts and absolute gentlemen. 🎩 So glad such lovely, handsome chaps put up with my silliness! 😆❤️

I had asked Mads (in my solos) if he could pick me up and he said “Oh no, I’m sorry, it would kill my back!” And then quickly whispered “… it’s not you, it’s the 200 other people (who would ask).” 🤭 Fair’s fair! He also had to crouch down so far because I’m so tiny!

What an incredible experience. Went by way too quick but it was 1000% worth it for the fun memories. ❤️

Okay, #HannibalReunion2024 C2E2 autograph story time! I’ll be doing a lot of gushing so feel free to mute the hashtag (or me, haha) if you don’t want Mads Mikkelsen spam and tiny blue kaiju simpering. 😆

First off, um, I MET MADS MIKKELSEN??? The man, the dilf, the legend??? 🔥🔥🔥 He is every inch as sweet, kind and charming as everyone says he is. Just a really warm, down to earth person, no ego whatsoever. ❤️

I was so nervous to meet him at first and my Fri autograph session was not great. I wished I’d known that the sessions would get calmer and quieter towards the end of the day (they don’t always!) as I would have chosen to go get autos then, instead.

I was in one of the first sessions and the C2E2 staff was just RUSHING us through. 💔 Like BANG BANG BANG. I barely got any interaction with him when I was getting my sigs! 💔 They had him seated behind TWO sets of tables, like a barrier, to keep the fans further away from him!

I said hello to him and gave him one of my gazonga mousepads and a bundle of art prints and charms and he didn’t even look up, was just too busy talking to his manager and the handlers who had all his attention, constantly sliding him stuff to sign. 🥲 No interaction at all. I will admit I was quite crestfallen, especially when he didn’t even see the gifts.

Another handler then scooped up all my gifts and dumped them in a bag before Mads even saw them. 🥲 He (handler) did… pause at the mousepad though, and made a face. He held it up to me and asked “… they sell these?” And I bashfully said, “uhhh I sell them?… 😅” He made another face and then showed the gazongas to Mads, who kind of smirk/smiled. “That’s Hannibal! That’s good.” 🤣 So that made me feel a bit better.

At the very end of the day, I went to find @/Sunnylit and she was in the auto line with @/shaybeenerd and @/LovclyMikkelsen, and the line was much smaller so I went to try my luck again. And it was a much better experience!

I got to actually gush at and chat with him a bit, say hello and tell him we all love him and that I was the one who gave him the “boobies”. (“That’s good!” - Mads, very confused) I thanked him for being so inspirational to all the Fannibals and he said “You guys are a wild and wacky bunch, and we love it. Don’t ever change.” ❤️❤️❤️

(I made another thread for the photo ops but suffice to say by the end of the weekend he’d seen my stupid face enough and I’d chosen the quieter times to get autos that they were much nicer experiences than my first on Friday.)

On Sunday I’d gone back to get his sig for @/jorassicworld, who wanted him to sign my Mads Kitty Cafe commission print I did for her so I just went up there and handed him a print of like … 7 of him as cat men. 😅🐯 All in one picture. He laughed and said something like “Oh, look at that! Hmm, I wonder who will win?…”, and showed it to Ulrich.

I asked him to please leave some room for Hugh too, and he was like “Ohhh, I dunnooo about that…” So I told him he could just eat up all the space if he really wanted to and he smiled and signed. I then asked if I could please take a picture and the handler was like “no” and I said “BUT HE IS SO BEAUTIFUL” and Handler Man said “Well then you’d better get a good look at him now~” 🤣 So I shamelessly faux-stared at him while he signed Joa’s print. He laughed, gave it back to me, I thanked him profusely and he gave me a wink as the handler shooed me out. 😆 (I think I yelled something about seeing him later at photo ops)

At 0 hour I went back to get my final autos and also gave him a copy of the Kitty Cafe print. I asked him if he looked at his gifts and he said something about there being so many it was hard to get through them all. I was like “Don’t you remember the boobies? I gave you the boobies!” And he was like (slaps table) “Oh! That’s right! THE BOOBIES!” 😆 I told him he could use them for his wrist or give them to his wife if he wanted. He grinned and said conspiratorially, “Who knows what I will do with them/use them for~ 😏” (I HOPE HE DOES NOT JUST THROW THEM IN THE TRASH 🥲) … I really wished I’d waited until the last day to give them to him as then I might be able to get a photo of him holding them. 🤣

I asked if he could tell me anything about Dust Bunny that wasn’t dusty or bunnies, he said there was Kung Fu in it. “Flying Kung Fu…?” He told me we’ll see and that we would love it. ❤️ And as it was at the very end of the day, I again begged the handlers if I could please take a photo and they said “no”. So I asked Ulrich.

“… okay, just one.” ❤️ After that Mads gave me a big smile and a fist bump, Handler Man laughed and told me to skedaddle, and I yelled after Mads, “maybe I’ll see you at RDC!!!” and he said “I’ll be there. 😊”

THE SWEETEST DUDE. ❤️ He made me feel completely at ease and talking to him felt so natural after I got over it all. A genuinely awesome human being.

OKAY NOW THAT I’VE RECORDED MY MADS DREAM DIARY, it’s Hugh time! They had him at a much more normal table where it was 1 handler (vs Mads’ THREE 😓) and we could actually go right up to him like NORMAL without a second layer of table to block the way. 🙄

(I think the con ended up forcing Mads into the Featured Guest spot after Josh Brolin cancelled at 0 hour, and they didn’t know how to handle it and that’s why it ended up much more guarded and impersonal for how they treated him and his fans)

Hugh was so friendly, courteous and cordial! His voice is sweet and warm, makes me think of a fuzzy bee. Little bee voice. 🐝 I gave him some art (it was… his head, sorry Hugh, but I didn’t want to subject you to what I usually draw Will Graham doing 🤭) and he graciously accepted it. We didn’t get to chat too much either as there were others in line but he was a total gentleman! 🎩❤️

All in all, both such lovely guys and I am so happy for the experience. ❤️

(…OH ALSO!! 😆 I saw him trying to accept a friendship bracelet from someone, and as he’s sliding it off their wrist it exploded into a bunch of beads and Hugh yelled “OH SHIT” and there was a mad scramble to scoop up all the rolling beads. 🤣)

HANNIBAL REUNION at C2E2 post time! ❤️ I don’t know what all I can say that hasn’t been said already by hundreds of screaming Fannibals but, man, what an absolutely surreal experience. It was just amazing to see Mads and Hugh together again!

Everyone else has already shared much better photos and clip moments but here are a few of mine!

Alas I didn’t capture the hug. I didn’t want to take too many photos as I wanted to experience the moment more than I wanted to see it through the lense of a phone. I wanted to just take it in, and enjoy it. I’m so happy I got to experience it with so many fannibal friends. ❤️

I’ll be making a huge diary/post reblog thread here of my experience!

tumblr won't allow me to upload another video in the reblog so here is the twitter link:

https://x.com/beanyzilla/status/1785152377613660194

And another one I shot of the crowd of Fannibals starting to mill into the panel space:

https://x.com/beanyzilla/status/1785149915775279539

I got to touch greatness! 😍 Twice! ❤️🤣 Mads and Hugh were total sweethearts and absolute gentlemen. 🎩 So glad such lovely, handsome chaps put up with my silliness! 😆❤️

I had asked Mads (in my solos) if he could pick me up and he said “Oh no, I’m sorry, it would kill my back!” And then quickly whispered “… it’s not you, it’s the 200 other people (who would ask).” 🤭 Fair’s fair! He also had to crouch down so far because I’m so tiny!

What an incredible experience. Went by way too quick but it was 1000% worth it for the fun memories. ❤️

HANNIBAL REUNION at C2E2 post time! ❤️ I don’t know what all I can say that hasn’t been said already by hundreds of screaming Fannibals but, man, what an absolutely surreal experience. It was just amazing to see Mads and Hugh together again!

Everyone else has already shared much better photos and clip moments but here are a few of mine!

Alas I didn’t capture the hug. I didn’t want to take too many photos as I wanted to experience the moment more than I wanted to see it through the lense of a phone. I wanted to just take it in, and enjoy it. I’m so happy I got to experience it with so many fannibal friends. ❤️

I’ll be making a huge diary/post reblog thread here of my experience!

tumblr won't allow me to upload another video in the reblog so here is the twitter link:

https://x.com/beanyzilla/status/1785152377613660194

And another one I shot of the crowd of Fannibals starting to mill into the panel space:

https://x.com/beanyzilla/status/1785149915775279539

You know, once you get past eating people, fucking my therapist ain’t so bad.

Hannibal Postcards for C2E2 2024!

Come find them at booth AA X-19!