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The last days of December. 2024 is soon to be just a memory and sometimes I feel that the most parts have been just nothing to cherish. But there is some moments that have made my year a better one. Last year I and my youngest daughter won some tickets to the Comic Con and this year we bought our own tickets for the same event. We booked a long weekend at a family house outside the big city. We stayed at them last year too and felt safe and slept well. It is a family father that has made his two floor house to a living place for his family on the upper floor and the first floor he rents out to travelers. This year we had luck to get the master bed room. There is a bath room and a kitchen that is for every one. It worked very well. All the rooms were taken, but it did not feel crowded.

Stockholm and Comic Con. The Q&A, some cosplayers and artists at work.

We had three days at the Comic Con fair hall. So many people in cosplay, selling stuff and so much food in every corner. We did a lot of walking during these three days. This time we focused on the Questions and Answers with three well known actors. It was nice to relax and listen to the interviews and get to know them a bit better. It was Paul Wesley, well known from The Vampire Diaries. I watched that serie with my kids when it was aired here in Sweden. And then he was in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for a couple of years ago. Husband and I saw that movie. Sadly the Q&A's focused more on his time in The Vampire Diaries, and some young girls in the audience still dream about him as their future husband.

Mark Williams, from the Harry Potter movies, visited Comic Con too. He is even a comedian, so it was a up lifting and fun time to listen to him. He told a lot of the pros and cons with filming the Harry Potter movies and shared some anecdotes from behind the scenes. He is even well known from the series Father Brown.

From my 'younger' days, Tom Welling from Smallville had a Q&A too. I watched the whole serie while nursing two kids, in the beginning. It was nice to hear that he is still active. While listening to him, my daughter had an awakening and showed me a picture of Tom Welling in a serie she had seen recently, asking "Is this him?". Said 'Yes, but much older than in Smallville'. We had a good giggle.

Cosplayers.

He looks so sad. Poor thing.

Some cosplays were really amazing. We went to a short lecture, last year, on how people build up these cosplays and it can take many years to the finished product. This year we listened to other lecture about acting and how you can build your own Falcon (the ship) from Star Wars in real size - if even just a part of it.

Kasia Nie's amazing work on the the magazine.

We had some lovely days. Bought some stuff, especially a Fantomen-magazine to my husband and talked to the artist who had made the front of the magazine. She was really nice and gave us a poster for free and autographed both the poster and the magazine.