Here are links to my various scribblings.

Supernatural fic - The epic (sometimes love) stories of Sam and Dean and friends.

RPF - where I make real people do rude things.

The Crack Den - from muppet porn to the mathematics of J2.

Thinky shit tl;dr meta ramblings on Supernatural

So memphis86 started a 30 days of music meme which i thought (belatedly) I'd like to play in. I won't be posting 30 songs, none will be Christmas themed. In fact I am just going to post one song. 22 versions of one song.

Stairway To Heaven

I've chosen this song, because i know if he could afford it Kripke would be playing Zeppelin in every ,episode of Supernatural. So this is my musical present to him, that you get to share in.

Anyway, a long time ago (omg it was 20 years!) there was an Aussie TV show hosted by one Andrew Denton called "The Money or the Gun." Part comedy show/part doco it was brilliant, and hard to explain (they did an episode on disability called "The Year of the Patronising Bastard"). Anyway each episode ended with a cover version of Stairway to Heaven, done in a different style each week.

1. Nick Barker and the Reptiles. Nick was part of the quintessential Aussie pub rock of the 80s and early 90s. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAi46QuKG6k Check him out here].

Nicks 'Stairway to Heaven' is a thumpin' heavy blues version that I love. Download here

Had a fraught 48 hours with v. sick dog but he's home from hospital and i've taken the day off work to recover- oh and look after him. Many thanks to tomoffinland for providing ambulance services.

* Interview done with Misha at Collectormania last weekend in which he regrets Castiel not getting drunk, and hopes he might become evil! (no spoilers though)

* Great article in The Advocate - Meredith Baxter of Family Ties comes out as a dyke, and it's a particularly gorgeous story of someone discovering her sexuality later in life.

* Misha just posted a nude pic of himself on twitter:


ETA: meant to rec this gorgeous J2 vid 'Crush' by proofpudding. She is so brilliant at melding diverse source material into a story.

Most of the reports and pics I've been able to find for Colelctormania are up at the Wiki. Sounds like an awesome Con - and the story of MiniCastiel is heartclenchingly adorable! Seriosuly i am grinning like a loon and children aren't even my favourite thing!

An added bonus for Towrchwood fans is that some of reports contain Surprise!Barrowman, Gareth and Kai.

In this meta I want to look at the episode through examining the brilliant direction of Philip Sgriccia.

I think its amazing particularly how on a shoestring budget this show can have cinematic levels of visual composition for both the epic moments, and the intimate ones.

Of course its more than just Phil's direction everything here also owes a lot to everyone from the set designers and art department to the wonderful Director of Photography Serge Ladouceur.

I should add that all i know about directing comes from watching TV - i am sure there is so much more to be said about the direction here. I would love Phil to do a DVD commentary.

Crossroads:


Remember when they used to be two simple dirt roads? Things are so much more complicated now. Almost like an infinity symbol. Just a wonderful visual metaphor.

( and under the crossroads )

Interview with Sera Gamble. Impossible to despoiler I'm afraid except for...

Abandon All Hope was the first time I actually cried watching a director’s cut. At first I thought maybe I was just having one of those days, but I checked in with the other writers… I don’t want to incriminate anybody, so I will just say that one or more male producers also shed what we like to refer to as A Single Perfect Man-Tear.

( cannot wait for... )

Please pass around to any Melbourne writers you may know:

I'm organising a gig for Midsumma called "Creatures of the Night" - a night of readings about queer vampire, zombie, werewolf, monsters, and things that go bump or grrr in the night! The event is on 20 Jan 7.30pm at Hares and Hyenas Bookshop.

I'm looking for writers who'd like to perform in this event a short story (or poem or song!), or extract from a longer piece, preferably less than 2,000 words (so under ten minutes reading time). It can be scary or sexy, funny or fierce or all of the above. No limits in regards content: sex, drugs, sparkles - anything goes as long as there is something queer about it. (note: altho the stories need queer content - writers don't!).

I am happy to consider fanfic as well as original stories - just make sure the piece will make sense to an audience unfamiliar with the source text.

Obviously this is specifically for Melbourne people (unless you can find a Melbournian happy to read your story!), but if you have a fan vid along the same theme that you would be happy to have played at the event, drop me a line.


Details and enquiries via me at missyjack [at] livejournal.com

Went to an event last night as part of the Big West festival. it was called "The Writer's Pyre" , and the idea was people bought along pieces of bad writing, read them and consigned them to the flames. (The event was outside and there was a fire in a 44 gallon drum).

Some of the stuff people read - poems written when they were 14, poems of uber angst written after a break-up, old (and not so old) diary entries, abandoned WIPS, pretentious wankery from their avant garde phase, publisher rejection letters, appalling jargon from arts funding applications. It was very fun and i thought i might do something similar here over the hiatus, where we could all post bits of our own bad writing. YOU KNOW YOU HAVE SOME.

I am also putting toegther a picspam meta on "Abandon All Hope" and wanted to mention Bobby the photographer. I love that, following the picture Dean found at his place of the crew at Camp Chitaqua, this now becomes a Bobby "thing".

I like to think it was Bobby who took this pic of the Winchesters that the boys found in John's motel room in Jericho. And that maybe somewhere he has an album full of pics of Sam and Dean growing up. I also loved how in AAH, they used the photo to recreate a hunter's pyre for Jo and Ellen.

Pics of Misha and Julie up at the Super Wiki here.


tracey_loo_who has a collection of the days tweets and also an upload of an audio recording of the panel in this post.


Some classic moments:
* Julie said she read a fanfic but stopped when she got to the point that Anna, Cas and Dean were together but stopped at the sexing
* Someone asked Misha for fic prompt and he said Bobby /Impala with tail pipe action
* Misha on reading a fanfic : "I stopped at the part where Cas choked... on someone's cock"
* Jason Momoa (!!) asked Julie about her sex scene with Jensen!!!!

Sounds like it was hard to get vid of the panel - expcept for Misha's mom!

And its on again tomorrow.