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

My reaction to the finale:





So long Sera, and thanks for ALL THE FEELS! As usual with Sera's episodes, this one packed so much in!

( warning this is word spew! )

My latest ink - inside wrist.

I do like text tattoos, but had never latched on to anything that I wanted. Then this came to me.

The phrase of course is from Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel and has long been a hallmark of bad writing. I first came across it as a kid, as it was the opening line of the novel Snoopy was writing on top his kennel. It's also the opening line of one A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L'Engle, a book I adored and which really sucked me wholly into scifi at an early age. (Actually in the book the sentence is "It was a dark and stormy night in a small village in the United States."). It pops up of course all over pop culture.

Storytelling in some form has always been a big part of my life. Part of the meaning of this tatt is that its creating itself which is the important thing - not whether your story is the best or most popular or most acclaimed. I like the allusion to the horror genre too, and wanted the ink splots to be a bit reminiscent of blood. And the typewriter font is slightly ironic, as I think its funny how often its used esp online to signify "writing" given that fee people under 30 will have ever used one.

I know I'll discover more about why I chose to get this tattoo over time. Such as the fact that I chose to get it in a very visible spot and I am not sure why that felt important.

As an added lol the tattoo parlor I went to had a Star Wars special discount on "May The Fourth" . My tattooist Jamie said the best one he did was of two slave girl Leias having a pillow fight. Now that gives me an idea....

ETA: wanted to link to this Great site full of literary tattoos

My icon is from an interview the boys did at the 2005 WB Upfronts - now SEVEN years later:





*happy place*

Beardy suity Jensen at the Upfronts. Check the Super Wiki Upfront page for more pics.

Supernatural moves!

Supernatural will move to Wednesday night at 9pm after the CW’s new series “Arrow”“. great news for Supernatural which will benefit from the night change and having what looks to be a strong lead-in. I’m also predicting Arrow will be a big “slash” hit! source

Personally the move to Wednesday is a bit sucky for those of us Down Under - back to sitting at work, fretting til hours away til we can get home to watch it (its middle of the day here when its 9pm in USland). But I'll live with that - I think the pairing with Arrow is a sign the network wants the show to continue.

Settle in for a long hellatus though: Season 8 of Supernatural won’t start til October - but this mean fewer breaks during the season.


The officially vague synopsis for Season 8:

The thrilling and terrifying journey of the Winchester brothers continues as SUPERNATURAL enters its eighth season. Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) have spent their lives on the road, battling every kind of supernatural threat. Over the years, after dozens of bloody adventures, they have faced everything from the yellow-eyed demon that killed their mother to vampires, ghosts, shapeshifters, angels and fallen gods. They even came face to face with Lucifer and the Four Horsemen in averting the Apocalypse. With the help of allies – both human and supernatural – they’ve discovered that every threat they vanquish opens a new door for evil to enter in. In the show’s seventh season, their hunt for the dreaded Leviathans – monstrous creatures escaped from Purgatory – has cost them dearly. Claiming the life of their best friend and father-figure, Bobby Singer, and shattering their protector, the fallen angel Castiel, Sam and Dean’s battle to somehow defeat the age-old Leviathan threat will take everything they’ve got. As dawn arrives after their endless struggle and sacrifice to defeat the world’s evils, they know that, come nightfall, something otherworldly – something supernatural – will claw its way out of the shadows, demanding their attention. The series stars Jared Padalecki as Sam Winchester and Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester. SUPERNATURAL is from Warner Bros. Television in association with Wonderland Sound and Vision, with executive producers McG (“Charlie’s Angels,” “The O.C.”), Robert Singer (“Midnight Caller”), Jeremy Carver (“Being Human”) and Phil Sgriccia.

OMG Bat Signal to gekizetsu!!!! Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang director Shane Black is to direct RDJ in Iron man 3.

Jon Favreau says:

if you've ever seen Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang you've seen that when Downey and Shane get together, interesting and unexpected things happen,...Shane and Robert definitely have an original point of view and an original take on the character, and I think it delves deeper into what makes Tony Stark tick and plays on the unexpected original unpredictable quality of the character that I think fans gravitate to.

*****FLAILS*****

****dies****

A comment from Jon Favereau asked about Kripke/Abram's Revolution (Favreau is directing the pilot and is also a writer/producer on the show):

...when Eric came up with the idea for this, I think he was looking at things like Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings -- how to set a fantasy with swords and lo-tech societies butting [heads] and set it on an American backdrop. So even though America’s overgrown, it has a personality that you don’t see in those European-based shows. source

See - I love this concept which seems an evolution of his "Star Wars in truck stop America" pitch for Supernatural. Not sure if I really got this vibe from the video from the trailers to date, but it intrigues.

So its rare to get a chance to look at any data related to fic genres in fandoms.]. I 've done a number of posts on SPN fic, both fandom wide and in the spn_j2_bigbang, most recently on this year's challenge

Anyway I found today that a Merlin Big Bang - paperlegends had just posted the fic summaries for art claiming in their Big Bang. Same warning as with my other posts - these stats relate only to this challenge and should not be assumed to be reflective of genre representations in fic writing overall in the fandom.

Anyway - the stats! These fic are all Merlin fic ie no RPF.(I found an RPF BB merlinbb_rpf but last year it had only 6 entries - that can't be right surely?! is there another one?)

As a reminder, in the SPN fics in this year's Big Bang there were 87 fics with a breakdown of 75% slash, 20% Gen and 5% het. Note while there 14 other Big Bangs in SPN, these ratios have been reasonably steady over the six years of the Big Bang, with the main change being a slight increase in slash since 2010 due to the arrival of Destiel.

Anyway - over in Camelot there were 62 fic summaries posted. 82% (or 51 fics with three of these were femmeslash) were slash and 5% (3 fics) were het. Of most interest, no fics were labelled as Gen although one was labelled as "not shippy per se" and another as "really pre-slash".

There were 6 fics or 10% that listed an equal number of slash and het pairings. A number of the fics that were - judging from the summaries primarily slash fics - also listed het pairings. No vagina warnings here!

The other things that I noticed was the amount of fics that warned for character deaths - 20 fics or just over 30% !!! You Merlin fans are hardcore! Or maybe in SPN we suffer enough through characters dying in canon that we avoid it in fic?

Finally warnings - generally very srs bsns although I did like "Death by Mythical Creatures, Destruction of Landmarks" and "fire-fighting and car accidents and cats trapped in trees"

And the interesting juxtaposition of "Character death, violence, betrayal, so much fluff you'll want to puke". Wow in SPN we define fluff as Sam and Dean making cupcakes and playing with kittens. It doesn't usually come alongside death, gore and betrayal!

Anyway some hypothesis...certainly as I've stated before I have the impression that SPN on LJ has a high proportion of Gen due to the only pairing being available for the first 3 seasons was Wincest. Merlin obviously has a number of canonical het pairings, as potential slash pairings which has led to shipping dominating, at least in this challenge.

of course this is a very high level look but I am fascinated,. I'd love to hear any insights from those of you that write or read across any fandom.

Trailer for Kripke's new series Revolution

...although probably not surprisingly they're pimping it as being by JJ Abrams and directed by Jon Favreau! What don't they think "from the creator of the CWs Supernatural is a big drawcard. LOL.

Anyway production values are pretty awesome, its a dystopian future full of hot people, family dysfunction, and bow hunting. I'll certainly be tuning in.

* Cold and wet day here so i am continuing my franchise festival. I've done the SAWs and last week was all the Resident Evils. Now I'm into the Predators. First one is still fantastic but man the second one sucks. Heading into Alien v Predator now. Next up is all the Aliens in preparation for the epic that will be Prometheus.

* Dear spn_summergen writer, ummm - go for it! I hope you find something in my prompts to inspire you. My tastes are pretty broad but if you can manage to work in a dinosaur that would be cool.

* Booked flights for my next trip. By some weird quirk of the universe I found a fare from Melbourne to LA to Vancouver and home, that is cheaper than just LA return. I don't know how that works. Downside is that its on United who have a reputation for being shit, but hey given I'm saving nearly $500 it can't be anything a few wines and a Xanax can't get me through. So I have 3 weeks - about half each in LA and Van.

* Anyone else think the boys have been rearranging the furniture in their love shack Rufus's cabin?? And possibly remodelling the whole layout? I need to go back and do a cap comparison I think.

In this week's episode Sam and Dean use the Word of God to get Dick.

( seriously I <3 a good dick joke )

Jared and Jensen will BOTH be at the CW Upfronts on May 17th!!!

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ETA: Its so long since SPn has been at the Upfronts, I forgot many people don't know what they are. Upfronts are held this time each year and its where networks formally showcase their programming for the coming year. So yes - pretty awesome to be there, although if S8 was to be SPNs last season this would be where it was announced. But i think that is highly unlikely.

So the artists claims are done for the 2012 spn_j2_bigbang and I thought I'd do some a stats snapshot. I'll leave my traditional graph extravaganza till after posting. (anal note: these stats relate only to this challenge and are not reflective of genre representations in fic writing overall in the fandom)

There were 190 stories up for claiming, which is done from last years total. This isn't surprising, as there are now (at my last count) 14 other big bang challenges in the Supernatural fandom!!! The DeanCas Big Bang is probably the biggest and now entering its third year. There are also many inter-fandom BigBangs as well.

In line with the last couple of years, the number of SPN vs RPF fics is pretty equal (45% to 55%). In SPN fic, again the genre breakdowns have been relatively stable over time, with a slight increase in the slash proportion with the advent of the Dean/Cas pairing. Slash makes up 75% of the SPN fic, Gen 20% and Het 5%. Wincest still dominates making up 52% of all SPN fic and 70% of the slash.

J2 of course dominates the RPF fics. As usual RPF fics are almost entirely romance genre stories. Not that there's anything wrong with that *g* although personally it's not my genre.

One thing I have seen increasing over time, and its particularly noticeable this year, is that many stories involve quite complex world building, and narratives in which the romance sits alongside other plot elements. There's dominance of scifi/fantasy genre intersecting with slave fic and knotting tales. \o/

As ever I love the warnings on Big Bangs and this year didn't fail to disappoint. Some of my favorites were warnings for:
• superheros
• torture (kinda)
• best friend Genevieve
• allusions to mpreg via egglaying
• graphic description of an x-ray made during a root canal
• two occasions of warning for bottom!Jared
• three warnings for het *eyeroll*
• and the brilliant "Jensen has tufts in this fic"

There were two warnings for Chad – but none for JDM. Has fandom finally got over its fear of Sir?

Under the cut is Bob Singer's preview of this week's ep, and some pics from the finale. Not highly spoilery - but DELICIOUS. Come squee with me....

( oh castiel... )

Tumblr of the week: Porn stars who look like the cast of Supernatural

You're welcome.

ETA: hey does anyone have a copy of a short v. hot vid that was around years ago (like 4-5 years) of a guy wanking which was very Jared reminiscent (although you didn't see his face in the vid). Would love to snag a copy! **Found thanks to dev_earl and just as hot as I remembered. (see comments)

Future tense by checkthemargins

This is perfectly Winchester, set just after the boys gank Dick Roman. It's achey and melancholy but also hopeful. Also, I rec it even if you don't read Wincest - just read the sex as a metaphor for their feelings - becasue you don't want to miss the note perfect character voices here.

So - this much admired pic of Jared prompts me to ask - what do you call that "V" hip thing, sometimes known as the Adonis belt, you know the sexy bit that runs in from the edge of the abs to the pubes?

Because in the part of queersville that I come from, they're known as cum gutters. But I've never heard that used around fandomland.

sooo.. the translation Kevin did of the Word of God (oh Show really? ilu)

the body will founder. Waste not thy time nor your breath upon the Leviathan herd. Point thy blade at the heart of their master, for from him springs all their messages. Leviathan cannot be slain but by a bone of a righteous mortal, as light and good as the Leviathan are hungry and dark, washed in the three blood of the fallen: a fallen angel, the ruler of the fallen humanity, and a father of fallen beasts."

So Castiel=fallen angel, and I am assuming either Crowley (or Lucifer??) as the ruler of fallen humanity, and an alpha as "a father of fallen beasts".

big question is - who is the righteous mortal? Pretty sure neither Dean or Sam count anymore. Kevin then? mmm sacrificing a bone doesn't sound pleasant ;(

btw do follow @OsricChau who plays Kevin on twitter - like DJ Qualls its kinda delightful to see them be all O.o at being embraced by our huge fandom.