Supernatural-related geekery
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ravenIt's dark outside. It's dark inside. I have only one more day to finish off all my packing and get ready to, er, move out. Which is a momentous event, no? That thing where you put your entire life into cardboard boxes and move two hundred and twenty-five miles down south, right. What am I doing? I'm mainlining Supernatural like it's my new anti-drug.
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likethesun2 - this is undeniably, unequivocally ALL YOUR FAULT. OMG. I have now seen the first seven episodes and have all the others - including the season premiere, eee! - and at this rate I'll have seen the lot before the weekend is over. Sigh. What, it couldn't have been fluffy and lame eye-candy? It had to be good?
Thoughts so far, in no particular order:
-This show is actually scary. Maybe because the effects are ten years better than The X-Files? In fact, definitely because of that; XF was probably better than SPN in terms of how well-written it was, but there's really nothing to choose between them. Except maybe aliens are just inherently less scary than ghosts. I don't know.
-But yeah, scary. I am never getting on a plane again. Okay, so I have to get on a plane again sometime. (December 31st, to be precise.) But still, argh, that was really, properly scary. Although, Sam reciting Latin - teh sex. It seems people speaking Latin is one of my most bulletproof kinks. (Yes, I did go to a single-sex public school, why do you ask)
-Speaking of which, the fandom at large seems to want to collectively jump Dean's bones, but not me. Oh, Sam. No one should be allowed to walk around looking like that. I mean, the man is attractive even when his eyes are bleeding.
-The eye-bleeding thing. Oh god. I loved that episode. I love the whole relationship between the two, actually. I really, really wish they weren't brothers, but they are and incest squicks me, so no slash here. Which means for the first time ever, I am watching something, for lack of a better word, chastely. No sifting for the naughty meanings in every look and gesture. It's a novel experience, certainly.
Actually, no, I don't wish they weren't brothers, because that's an integral part of the appeal of the show. And that's a new one on me, because you don't usually see such a focus on family relationships in genre television - more soap opera territory, isn't it? - but it works here. And I like that it's mostly understated - it does misfire here and there, but I don't think I mind. It's good fun and it works.
-The XF references continue apace, and make my geeky heart squee. I would make a proper list of them, actually, if that wouldn't be too incredibly nerdy a thing to do. Seeing as I'm basically watching both shows at the same time, they're jumping out at me from all angles, so I may have to list them regardless at some point.
It's practically a given that I shall babble some more about this show later on this weekend. Probably later on tonight, to be honest.
Er, in other news. Yes. I am moving out on Sunday, which is probably a good, good thing. I'm very much looking forward to going back to Oxford.jacinthsong, I'll bring over SPN and Studio 60 whenever you like.
What else? My last day in work today, and it featured a quite horrendous amount of books. Obviously working in a bookshop does entail books, and a lot of them, but today was one of those days where I had to unpack and shelve five boxes of hardbacks and it wasn't fun. To distract myself, I started playing with the shop's Amazon account, which we use collectively to get American or second-hand books. The recommendations are a work of art, honestly. They recommend two books about cricket umpiring, another about fly fishing, every volume of a manga called Bleach, some trashy bondage porn, a guide to home sausage-making and the Doctor Who Storybook 2007. Seriously. I wanted to read all of it.
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hogwarts_today, which fittingly enough, did make my day. Love In Fire And In Blood - James and Lily get married, Sirius and Remus help! You know you want to read it. [/pimpery] Now, obviously, I feel a stupid desire to write Supernatural fic, which is a very stupid idea that I'm thinking about anyway. (Angst! Pretty boys! Endless roadtrips! OMG I am doomed!) Before I write anything, though, I really should finish the fic that is now known as The One With The Hole In The Universe, Bad Sex And A Serial Killer From Ohio.
I sort of wish The X-Files wasn't canonically fictional in the SPN universe, now I come to think of it; a crossover could work really well.the_acrobat gave me a five things prompt - "Five cases Mulder and Scully never investigated but probably should have" - and the first one I wrote tried evolving into just such a crossover. I have about five hundred words of it sitting in a notepad file and lurking at me. I don't know, maybe I'll write it.
Yep, shutting up now.
likethesun2 - this is undeniably, unequivocally ALL YOUR FAULT. OMG. I have now seen the first seven episodes and have all the others - including the season premiere, eee! - and at this rate I'll have seen the lot before the weekend is over. Sigh. What, it couldn't have been fluffy and lame eye-candy? It had to be good?Thoughts so far, in no particular order:
-This show is actually scary. Maybe because the effects are ten years better than The X-Files? In fact, definitely because of that; XF was probably better than SPN in terms of how well-written it was, but there's really nothing to choose between them. Except maybe aliens are just inherently less scary than ghosts. I don't know.
-But yeah, scary. I am never getting on a plane again. Okay, so I have to get on a plane again sometime. (December 31st, to be precise.) But still, argh, that was really, properly scary. Although, Sam reciting Latin - teh sex. It seems people speaking Latin is one of my most bulletproof kinks. (Yes, I did go to a single-sex public school, why do you ask)
-Speaking of which, the fandom at large seems to want to collectively jump Dean's bones, but not me. Oh, Sam. No one should be allowed to walk around looking like that. I mean, the man is attractive even when his eyes are bleeding.
-The eye-bleeding thing. Oh god. I loved that episode. I love the whole relationship between the two, actually. I really, really wish they weren't brothers, but they are and incest squicks me, so no slash here. Which means for the first time ever, I am watching something, for lack of a better word, chastely. No sifting for the naughty meanings in every look and gesture. It's a novel experience, certainly.
Actually, no, I don't wish they weren't brothers, because that's an integral part of the appeal of the show. And that's a new one on me, because you don't usually see such a focus on family relationships in genre television - more soap opera territory, isn't it? - but it works here. And I like that it's mostly understated - it does misfire here and there, but I don't think I mind. It's good fun and it works.
-The XF references continue apace, and make my geeky heart squee. I would make a proper list of them, actually, if that wouldn't be too incredibly nerdy a thing to do. Seeing as I'm basically watching both shows at the same time, they're jumping out at me from all angles, so I may have to list them regardless at some point.
It's practically a given that I shall babble some more about this show later on this weekend. Probably later on tonight, to be honest.
Er, in other news. Yes. I am moving out on Sunday, which is probably a good, good thing. I'm very much looking forward to going back to Oxford.
jacinthsong, I'll bring over SPN and Studio 60 whenever you like.What else? My last day in work today, and it featured a quite horrendous amount of books. Obviously working in a bookshop does entail books, and a lot of them, but today was one of those days where I had to unpack and shelve five boxes of hardbacks and it wasn't fun. To distract myself, I started playing with the shop's Amazon account, which we use collectively to get American or second-hand books. The recommendations are a work of art, honestly. They recommend two books about cricket umpiring, another about fly fishing, every volume of a manga called Bleach, some trashy bondage porn, a guide to home sausage-making and the Doctor Who Storybook 2007. Seriously. I wanted to read all of it.
Okay, it's two am and I should shut up. Er - the fic I posted last night appeared on
hogwarts_today, which fittingly enough, did make my day. Love In Fire And In Blood - James and Lily get married, Sirius and Remus help! You know you want to read it. [/pimpery] Now, obviously, I feel a stupid desire to write Supernatural fic, which is a very stupid idea that I'm thinking about anyway. (Angst! Pretty boys! Endless roadtrips! OMG I am doomed!) Before I write anything, though, I really should finish the fic that is now known as The One With The Hole In The Universe, Bad Sex And A Serial Killer From Ohio. I sort of wish The X-Files wasn't canonically fictional in the SPN universe, now I come to think of it; a crossover could work really well.
the_acrobat gave me a five things prompt - "Five cases Mulder and Scully never investigated but probably should have" - and the first one I wrote tried evolving into just such a crossover. I have about five hundred words of it sitting in a notepad file and lurking at me. I don't know, maybe I'll write it.Yep, shutting up now.
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