Faerie Tanith

John C. McGinley Brian Van Holt Olivia Cooke Jason Isaacs Ben Feldman Sophie Turner Alan Ritchson Jeffrey Dean Morgan Andrew Lincoln Freya Allan David Thewlis Kathryn Newton Natalie Dormer Josh Lawson

I went to see Conclave last week. Pretty decent, Ralph Fiennes is always good.

Him and his wife and their dog, too. It's just tragic.

Snap, just posted the same thing. May her memory be a blessing. I'm absolutely in pieces right now.

It's only February and 2025 has broken my heart to pieces already. We've lost the beautiful Michelle Trachtenberg at just age 39. She was a huge piece of my childhood. I've never really watched Buffy, but I grew up watching films like Ice Princess and 17 Again and she's always been in my peripheral in some way. May her memory be a blessing.

Haven't even decided if I'm going this year.

Brian Van Holt

Love her in Sucker Punch as Madam Gorski!

Hence why this is the first LFCC since 2015 that I've chosen not to go to.

I saw him there, but didn't have the money to meet him. I just gazed at him wistfully from afar.

Crushed to hear he's died. I only ever glimpsed him at Collectormania in 2014 but didn't get to meet him. He cancelled every other appearance after that, so I'm gutted that I never got the chance to properly meet and talk to him. I've loved him for a long time and I'm so sad he's gone.

Well now I might HAVE to go.

Professor McGonagall for me, forever and always. Absolutely heartbreaking that most of the iconic Hogwarts professors have passed away by now. And even more saddening is that she's passed away on the one year anniversary of Michael Gambon's death. RIP Maggie, you'll be missed.

He hasn't done a UK con in a few years but Alan Ritchson would be good.

Okay, this one MIGHT make me change my mind about not going.

Unless there's a significant number (or quality) of guests or attractions that interest me attending this event, I'll probably be sitting this one out. First year I've been on the fence about coming back which is a touch sad. You never know though, SM could surprise us all.

That sounds like poor management or communication, or both. That's not how that should work.

Steady on!

Denise and David were sat next to each other in an upstairs corner!

Considering how quiet it is today it's oddly chaotic.

It does kind of suck that that's what we have to do now though.

Two. One of them is only a maybe.

I'll be there tomorrow and I have to say I haven't gotten excited yet. I'm sure it'll hit me at any minute.

I don't know how true this is, and I'd probably get in trouble for spreading rumours if mods were still active here, but I recently spoke with a collector & convention organiser who attends most cons around the UK and he (supposedly) has it on good authority that a lot of big names simply won't work with SM any more. He used the Joseph Quinn incident as just one example of why. Then there are guests who sign exclusive contracts with other companies like Monopoly Events that state they can ONLY appear at conventions held by those companies for the next x amount of months/years. Between contracts with other companies and guests who (again, supposedly) have blacklisted SM, it sounds like they're struggling.

I hated this at the time but now I really do miss it!