The Wanderings and Ramblings

I've now experienced projectile baby poo (so has the floor, the wall, the changing table, my clothes, and the gliding chair at a distance of 3 feet), a stream of baby urine (further mobilizing the projectile poo), and a mouthful of baby spit-up (all over the bed/sheets after the culprit was momentarily put down in attempt to deal with the aforementioned).  The deed doer of all this?  Is smiling and filling her brand new diaper with more surprises.   

There's only one thing to say about this episode...

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You guys, this show makes me sad.  :'( 

I'm spammy today, but I can't help it because I just saw some VERY SPOILERLY promo pictures for 5x04 here, which had me wondering if CW got its promo pictures mixed up with some movie or something and prompted me to make this face:



And then I was asking, "But why ... and how ... huh ... sandals?"  *head scratch*  And it all seemed rather surreal like this picture (which is not a spoiler, btw, but is a real picture of MC being MC apparently *snigger*):


Then I thought about it and ended up doing this:


Now all I have to say is OMG WHAT?!??!?!?!?!  SHOW. CAN'T. POSSIBLY...OMG.  O.O 

Why do they have to release promo pics two weeks in advance?  Now part of me wants to skip straight to 4x04.  But I suppose having interesting looking episodes coming down the pipe isn't such a bad thing, right?  ;) 

Bwhaaaa!  One of the best SPN crack!vids I've seen!  Go, Chuck!


Leave comments for lsketch42 here.

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Here ends the epic VanCon post!  \o/  VanCon Part 1 here. 
 

( Saturday and Sunday: When The Big Guns Show Up )

 

Joe Wilson (and his spontaneous flappy mouth) is a douche.



What are you?  A five-year old?  Stupid politicking.

Scratch my idea that I was going to put together a mini location tour post because hugemind has already done such a spectacular job that I'm just going to point to her journal and say, "Everything she said." :)  I'll just add that there were an insane number of filming locations and we were are crazy.  We decided by the end of the week that everything looked smaller in real life except for the boys, who were gigantic (I think they were an optical illusion). 

Part 1 and Part 2

Here starts the epic VanCon post!  \o/

I'm back and recovered from VanCon!  It was an experience to say the least, but a lot of fun.  I met up with friends and a handful of people from my flist (hi, everyone!), which was probably the best thing about the con itself.  I'll post some pictures and scattered thoughts later, but I thought with S5 looming over the corner all the SPN fans needed a bit of a boost until Thursday, so here are some pictures to help celebrate the fact the hiatus is nearly over!  \o/  Feel free to take any or all of them, post them to your journal or use them to cajole friends into tuning in, as a procrastination tool (*stares*), or print them out and make placemats to serve pie on ... use them however you please.  Just don't laugh too hard at my attempts at abusing using Photoshop and please mention that you snagged them from me.  :)  Sorry, no Castiel because I couldn't find an appropriate, high-quality image of him that wasn't him being "Jimmy". 

Happy holiday weekend to all of you celebrating Labor Day!

Title: Circadia
Rating: R
Word Count: 6,897
Warnings: language, brother angst
Summary: It’s like Sam’s dead all over again.  Only this time there isn’t a deal that can undo what he’s done.
Disclaimer: I don’t own any part of the Supernatural universe.

( There’s nothing much to do when backed into a corner than to take the best of the worst ways out, even if that means grasping the hand of the devil himself. )

( my reaction in pictures )

Flist, do you have your daily weekly monthly dose of angst yet?  If not, check out this vid by absrip.  The still art that's used in it is gorgeous and should get a nod just on its own.  But animated, set to music, and paired with clips from the show, it's something to see.  I love the coloring, the sepia tones give the entire vid a sort of ethereal, otherworldly feel, and the close-ups featured in most of the clip selections gives it an intensity and a weird feeling of intimacy that would've been lost otherwise (also, there's that underused overhead umbrella shot from "Scarecrow" compliments of Kim Manners \o/).  The editing is well done and compliments the music; the last 40 seconds are my favorite.  FYI, this is a Wincest vid (one of the best I've seen).  There are manips and some explicit external-source material.  Leave comments for the vidder here.  

A meta by karenmiller got me thinking about Dean and Sam and the overturning of their belief systems since S2 ("HotH") and how that would affect their actions at the end of S4.  I started typing my response only to find I wrote way too much to politely post as a comment (oops), so I'm posting my thoughts here because nobody cares if I pollute my own journal. :D

There are spoilers in karenmiller's post and what is discussed below is based on the 4x21/4x22 preview. 
( Desperate times, desperate measures... )

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After months of laying low and lurking on the edges of fandom, I suddenly looked up and realized I've been hiding away for half of the season and we only have four episodes left until the uber-summer hiatus!  And now I'm starting to feel like I'm missing out on all the interesting episode discussions/recaps, meta, vids and ... everything.  :(

The workload is still the same, but I'm realizing that I don't have to do 110% all the time, esp. if it does nothing but stress me out and takes up the little "fun" time I have.  So here's to lowering my personal standards.  *raises glass*  We'll see how it goes starting this week with photocopying intro. pages from a lab book for pre-readings like everyone else instead of completely rewriting my own.  Also, tonight I could finally stomach the sight of meat and was feeling good enough to actually cook an entire dinner.  And even better I ate a little bit of red meat for the first time in months and *looks at watch* so far so good.  \o/  It was SOOOOOOO SOOOOOOOO YUMMY.  Sorry to you vegetarians out there, but meat is delicous, fat and protein and gravy and mmmmm.  *wants more* 

So as I was properly fed and feeling ambitious (and procrastinating), I cleaned out my hard drive tonight and stumbled across never finished fic, half baked meta, and cinematography stuff, and now I'd rather work on that than my real work.  I think my brain is starting to decompartmentalize itself as it realizes the freak out my body has been having for the past 4 months is not going away any time soon.  But more importantly, I found amazing insta-rec vids that I didn't share previously when I was in hiding.  So in lieu of anything of my own complete enough to contribute to fannish glee, I'll pass along these recs instead.

This vid, Somebody's Child, by sabaceanbabe is well done and one of the most unique vids I've seen.  The use of a secondary screen along the sidebar allows for multiple interpretations of the lyrics and lends to its alternating (or omnicient if you look at it another way) POV.  Dividing attention between a large and a smaller screen has an interesting effect, and you'll probably have to watch this vid more than once just to see exactly what's going on.  Also, because of the size of the small screen, to get the intended effect either download the vid and watch it in its original size or maximize it to full screen.  The song catchy, achy, and fitting for a future look back on the "Winchester gospel" (*chuckles* that still cracks me up) and the sequences during each play of chorus are beautifully chosen and will probably make you choke up (but maybe I'm just an over-emotional sap right now).  Go watch, you won't be sorry.



This vid, Kinetic, by maichan808 is gorgeous and flows from clip to clip almost seamlessly.  It's seem to be more of study of camera movement and impressions than a narrative-based vid.  I really like the severe desaturatization and blurriness; I think it fits nicely with the music.  If you want to see some of the most striking pans and crane shots of the entire series (with the exception of the awesome overhead umbrella shot in "Scarecrow" ... more vidders should use that in my very biased opinion) take a look at this vid.

So I’m no longer a SPN Con virgin and A and I got in without our tickets!  :D  I’m not sure if my approach or perceptions of these things are typical or not so I’m not sure if anyone’s interested in my update of the boys’ panels, but here goes for whatever it’s worth.
( No spoilers! \o/ )

In celebration of today, here's a deleted scene from 4x10 featuring our angel of Thursday and his loose-canon side kick arguing about orders from above and Sam and Ruby.  Interesting stuff swirling around in those feathery heads...


On a personal note, things are busy but I'm feeling better.  :)  Hopefully I'll be able to romp around LJ land more in the upcoming weeks and catch up with everyone.  In the meantime have a terrific week everyone.  *hugs*

And thank you to everyone who sent me birthday wishes in one form or another.  It's always nice to get an inbox full of well wishes.  It was a wonderful day, full of some pretty amazing things.

Watch the promo!  From blackjedii.

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Hello flist,

Just a quick post to say everything is fine, but I'm bowing out of daily LJ stuff for a while.  I'll be visiting occasionally, lurking, posting the presents from that last friends meme, and hopefully doing some drive-by commenting.  :)  My response to convo threads will likely be tardy and far and few in between, but please know I still care and want to keep up with everyone when I can.  Even though I may not comment, I'll still be visiting/reading.  *hugs to everyone*

Also, I want to thank fannishliss for her beautifully written fic, "Why Sam Winchester Hates Death Cab for Cutie".  It's lovely and achy and full of that addictive Winchester codependent dysfunction.  Mmm, love/angst, my favorite Winchester flavor.  Thanks again, sweets.  I love it. 

"Sam knows the language. That’s kind of the problem. He’d learned the language at the knee of the boy who’d invented it. A language consisting entirely of longing, loyalty, love, and the deepest need, the most wholehearted self-sacrifice Sam could ever imagine."

OK, I'll bite.  Can someone please explain what's up with all these references to JP and "Gen" and "Jen"?  Is this yet another product of some wanktastic wankitude or something else entirely?  Normally I have a clue, but this just sailed straight over my head and is orbiting some alien gas giant past the Oort Cloud.  Am I going to regret asking about this? 

And why is there not an option for "STUPID" in my mood theme?  Is that not a relevant emotion/state of being for life?  Hello?  Doesn't everyone walk around feeling stupid about 75% of the time or is that just me?  Wait, maybe don't answer that.

( Does this count as meta? )

Once upon a time there was a person who had a very short attention span, no patience for TV shows of any sort, and who--even though she valued her friends' opinions--always found other things to do rather than sit down and watch her friends' TV show recommendations. 

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 Do not watch this clip if you are in a public cafe with a mouthful of coffee.  XD


Perhaps we can think of this as a teaser for the S4 gag reel as I'm sure there's more where this came from.  Compliments of growyourwings.