Not My Scene?!

So your LGBTQ and you want to develop a social life, but *gasp* you don’t like clubbing or pounding 8 grams of Mkat up your nose on a week night. So what the fuck do you do. 

Luckily in this day and age going clubbing isn’t the be all and end all for a *cough* nearly 30 year old who cannot stand the sticky floor and shitty music. But what do you do instead? 

There is an app out there called Meetme which is always a great start. They advertise meet up spaces for people regardless what you are into. For instance I go to a LGBT geeks meet up once a month at a coffee/bar place and get to meet up with new people like that. 

You can do a shout out to do stuff with friends on Facebook. Like cinema trips or days out. You can make your own little queer events by looking for cheep or free venues, and have meet ups there. 

Look round in your local areas for fun things to do. There are often craft or activities days going round in cities and towns.

Join groups that include your favourite hobbies on Facebook. You could find new friends on there and maybe find ways for you to hang out. 

There is of course YouTube tutorials if you like making things, and many different types of stores where you can find stuff you want to build. 

Basically, there is a whole world outside besides clubbing and drinking for queers, you should go out there and find places that make you happy. 

Ideal Home

Today’s challenge is to describe my ideal home.

Firstly running water, electricity and WiFi would be a must. Secondly it would have to have at least 4 bedrooms so we could have guests to come over. 

Then there would be a separate nerd room for my funko pop collection as well as all of my geek stuff and gaming. There would have to be a couple of gaming chairs in there a d a huge TV. 

Kitchen needs to be pretty big with a huge oven and a good coffee machine. Living room I’m not too bothered about so that would be a cat den. 

Swimming pool is a must. This will be filled with ducks. Baby ducks will come and they will enjoy the huge swimming facility. Bread will be thrown daily. 

Maybe pond for fish and otters. 

Brighton Film and Comic Con

On Saturday I finally managed to tick of two things on my bucket list. And I’m still shaking from the second one, but I get to that later on. The weekend was Brighton Comicon and honestly it was an amazing day.

The place, the Hilton hotel. I didn’t even realise how fucking big the place was until we got to the convention area. The entrance fee was just under £10 and it was worth it. We paid also £10 to go to a talk to and I will get to that soon.
There were probably a couple of hundred stalls, each with every geeky and collectable item you could possibly imagine. There were at LEAST 1000 people in there at one time and it was based on two floors. The first floor was all the stalls and photos, the second floor was all the celebrities.

We got to see so many iconic things, from the Delorian from back to the future, to the throne in game of thrones. There was so much to see, it was quite overwhelming. I had to take a few rest stops to catch my breath and cope with everything.
We bought some stuff from a couple of the stalls. I got myself a poker chip from “casino royal” as well as a set of cards from the film, and the eeveelution pin set from Pokémon. I got Kai a couple of Harry Potter pins and a poster of Dumbledoor.

THEN THIS HAPPENED

John Hurt answering MY question

JOHN HURT FUCKING SPOKE TO ME!!!!!!!
OK, this is where my second bucket list item comes in (first being actually going to a comicon). I GOT TO SPEAK TO ONE OF THE GREATEST ACTORS ALIVE. Kai and I purchased a ticket each to go to John Hurts talk. I would have got an autograph but I couldn’t afford the cost.
So we got to the talk and then they opened up the floor for questions and I just started shaking as they picked me to ask. The fact that he spoke about his struggle with cancer, got me to ask about the film “champions”. The film that I fell in love with his acting with. I think he was taken back a bit, because everyone wanted to talk to him about Alien, and Dr who, and I wanted to know about this film. A film that wasn’t a horror or a sci-fi. A film that meant so much to me, because it was the ultimate underdog story.
He then told me about how hard the role was, in comparison to his own personal battle with cancer. He then said about how he visited the Injured jockeys at functions and how he had so much respect he had for them, considering how so many end up in wheel chairs. I then explained about how my mum is an ex jockey and how she was injured and he told me to send my mum his love.

Honestly I’m still fucking shaking over it. It was overwhelming. It had reminded me of the first time I watched ” Champions ” or “Nineteen eighty four” , all those feelings and emotions flooded me.  I was physically shaking for hours. I will never regret having the chance to talk to such a wonderful man, and I am entirely humbled by how he spoke to everyone there.

Later on in the afternoon (after a quick coffee and a pop in to the monthly poly meet up). Kai and I went back in for the talk with Carl Weathers (which was a free, yes free) talk.
I had been debating if I was able to manage it, because I had been battling tiredness all day, but I decided to push forward and go to his talk.
I would like to say thank you, because he is probably one of the funniest people out there. The way he spoke to the crowd, and the MC for the day was just wonderful. He was also so humble to all the people he worked with, and was amazing when little children wanted to speak to him and ask him questions about the Rocky films.

Honestly I loved the day. If I went in costume, or wanted to see more people u would gave totally got the weekend pass.
Well done Brighton for hosting such a wonderful event, and to the celebs and event organisers who took part. You did Brighton proud. Thank you.

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