HAHA SMITH IS DEMOTED DOWN THE LINES AND PAILLE IS PROMOTED UP THE LINES.

By HAHA I mean HAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGHHHRGHRGRGH. It's nothing we're not used to seeing from Smith nowadays, and that is the unfortunate thing, the depressingly unsurprising thing. Paille missing open nets has become the punchline to a long-running and very stilted joke, but at least Paille shows up. Smith is a non-entity. Smith is losing his job to this guy. SMITH. SMITTY. WAKE UP, SMITTY. You can't do this to us, man. Not like this. NOT LIKE THIIIIIIIS.

So yeah, that was some tragic hockey last night, so naturally the perfect antidote is to watch a movie about hockey tragedy. ESPN's "30 for 30" last night was called Of Miracles and Men, about the 1980 Miracle on Ice from the Soviet POV. It's been widely compared to Red Army, but that one's still on the to-watch list for me, soooo Of Miracles and Men it is, and we loved it.

I had Smith not!fic I wanted to burble out, but I'm tired and hungry, so I will get to it AT SOME POINT, maybe. Also, sign up for hockeyexchange on LJ.

I hadn't realized that we're playing against Dallas next hahahahahahahahAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

is it baseball yet

THIS IS NOT REALLY AN EPISODE REACTION, IT IS MOSTLY MY RAMBLINGS ABOUT FEATHERS. I actually have ramblings also about the Most Noble and Ancient House of Winchester and the AU where Sam and Dean live a Malfoy kind of life, but I ran out of time, so have this for now.

( i apologize for the weird formatting maybe )

uuugh I totally should've written my Skyfall reaction post sooner after I watched it, I had a lot of feelings, now most of the feelings I have left are about how it can be turned into a Dean/Cas AU. I REALLY ENJOYED SKYFALL. I saw a review describe it as "it's to James Bond what The Dark Knight is to Batman" and I concur, and that's probably one of the bigger reasons I love it, a James Bond in a post-Bond world. Also aaaaugh so many Bond&M feelings. I WILL TOTALLY WRITE THIS REACTION POST.

But right now, I'm having reactions to SPN 8x07.

( spoilers: IT WAS REALLY GREAT. MORE LIKE THIS PLEASE, SHOW. )

SPN 8x03 HEY IT'S THAT GUY

( I watch entirely too much SPN. )

OMG SO. twasadark recorded Bring Out Your Dead and it's prologue/prequel, The Future as B-Movie as podfics! You can download the files here. Thank you, twasadark!

This is one of those fics that never would've been written were it not for a commentfic prompt, and Uno and I are forever grateful to maychorian for letting us take her prompt and run with it hard and fast, cackling maniacally. Croatpocalyptic road trip gen h/c, if you're into it. Plus vampires.

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I haven't watched SPN 7x18 yet, but I have some 7x17-related recs. I'll put them behind a cut for spoilers.

( 1 fic rec, 2 meta recs, brief thoughts )

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I'm also into The Sopranos like a billion years too late. Damn, that shit is bleak, I can't take too much of it at a time. I can't help but wonder if it had had a fandom then like fandoms work now, what it'd be like. I bet there'd be a lot of Christopher apologism hahahaha DX. If the characters were younger and prettier, I bet there'd be slash up the wazoo. I am also watching the Sarah Connor Chronicles and am already dreading running out of episodes, MAN. It keeps giving me things I never knew I needed. why did they cancel this show.

But another thing about The Sopranos: they keep playing all the classic rock songs that SPN used in Tony's strip club. I get cognitive dissonance. Brother feelings? DENIED. JERSEY MOBSTER SKEEVINESS WHILE TOPLESS WOMEN GYRATE IN THE BACKGROUND.

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Also I am co-writing a Big Bang with zempasuchil. It's an S4 AU where Cas's vessel is Sam, and it's not gen.

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I'm 83 pages into Carlos Ruiz Zafon's "The Angel's Game" and I'm really loving his style, or at least the translation. The blurb had me at "dark gothic Barcelona", "pulp fiction writer", and something called "the Cemetery of Forgotten Books". It sounds foreboding and it gets pretty grim, but I am also delighted at the author's self-deprecating humor. Here's a short quote:

Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency. Any journalist prone to florid prose would be sent off to write funeral notices for three weeks. If, after this penance, the culprit relapsed, Don Basilio would ship him off permanently to the 'House and Home' pages. We were all terrified of him, and he knew it.

"Did you call me, Don Basilio?" I ventured timidly.

JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS OUT, MORGANA PULLS ME BACK IN.

( spoilers for the sword in the stone pt. 2 a.k.a. morganaaaaaaa <3333 )

Tomorrow's the last day for SPN Femslash Week and erasureathon sign-ups, so HAVE AT YE.

ALSO IT IS TIME FOR:



Perfect for those with small attention spans! SPAM IT WITH PROMPTS. STUFF IT WITH FILLS.

I have ( Sanctuary feels. )

Poem rec! Confessions: My Father, Hummingbirds, and Franz Fanon by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. It's about identity, representation, and the sentimental attachment to the flaws you've been told are inherent. It gets me like right here.

Speaking of poems, I wish I can remember the title and author of this one book of poetry I found in the New York Public Library last year. All I can remember of it is that it had a green cover of blurry trees (and maybe a boy?) and it had a bunch of long poems about the poet's distant father HAHAHAHAHA THIS SOUNDS LIKE A PARODY ALREADY but seriously. I was really digging it and was sad I didn't get to finish. It was at a very innocuous-looking NYPL branch close to the main branch, like a block away, and if you take the the escalator to the 2nd(?) floor, it would be in the bottom-left corner of the room. WORST CLUES EVER. RANDOM BOOK OF AWESOME POEMS, I WILL NEVER FIND YOU AGAIN basically, just like I will never again find that song whose chorus goes "hey, heeeeyyyy" or was it "mmm, mmmmmmm" and it sort of sounded like The XX. This paragraph is the most hipster thing I've ever written.

1. There was an article about how bromance movies tend to celebrate how some boys just don't grow up aww how ~presh, but that the same sentiment doesn't really extend to women. I didn't really notice this or feel its absence until Parks & Recreation's Leslie Knope gave it to me. There are some behaviors that I think society has labeled as juvenile and therefore a "phase" in girls, but Leslie embodies these behaviors AND YET the narrative doesn't punish/degrade her for it. SHOCKING?! They are presented as just another facet of a whole, happy, successful human being, and seeing this is poignantly affirming. YOU'RE OKAY, GIRLS. YOU'RE JUST FINE. You don't have to overcome yourself to ~become yourself! And I am like :'DDDD. There are all kinds of standards about what makes a woman a functional adult, and Leslie Knope dismantles the bullshit by... existing. Okay, existing fictionally, BUT STILL. BLESS YOU, AMY POEHLER.

2. I found a Hawaii 5-0 confessions blog, and it is both hilarious and disheartening how all fandoms are the same. "I miss how chummy fandom used to be." "I hate this new character, they should get rid of her." "I miss the bromance between the two white male leads." It is ONLY THE SECOND SEASON LOOOOOOOOOLOLOLOLOL. Oh, H50 fandom, hang on to your hats.

3. Does anyone here watch Sanctuary? I just finished watching the pilot and have the rest of S1-3 lined up on the torrent queue. I'm very intrigued by Dr. Magnus's character because she seems to be very much the valorized scientist of the type you find in genre stories - compassionate but paternalistic towards the Other. I wonder if this is something the show will address. (DON'T SPOIL ME THOUGH.) I'm also intrigued by Druitt because Christopher Heyerdahl is fucking ace, goddamn. This quote by him about his character that made me go, "FINE FINE OKAY I WILL WATCH SANCTUARY, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW??"

4. I know there are at least 2 Sons of Anarchy fans on my flist, but there are MORE OF YOU, RIGHT? I already babbled a little bit about how awesome the Gemma&Jax relationship is, but this post's bit of SoA love is for the Gemma&Tara friendship and how organically it developed from ENEMIES!! to mentor/mentee BFFs. Like, blink and you miss it. MASTERFULLY DONE. Anyway, what is the deal with the DA, guys? He is super weird.

5. I had the BEST DREAM last night. I call it the banana chocolate waffle burrito. So, you take a waffle, right? You pile it on with bananas, chocolate, IDK, cream and stuff. Caramel, whatever. Strawberries! ANYWAY. You put all this stuff on the waffle, then you roll it up, like a burrito, then you put it in your mouth. WAFFLE BURRITOS. I will patent this and start a franchise.

THE NEW SPN EPISODE. ( THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE IMPALAS IN FRANCE. THEY CALL IT L'IMPALA. )



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In other news, I wish this WW2 AU would shut its face already. I don't even know how to spell 'lieutenant' before I spell-checked this sentence, so why do I have this rambling outline threatening to turn into actual fic? Ugh, weatheredlaw, this is all your fault. You and your WW2 AU Wincest graphic, DAMN YOU.