I can't BELIEVE nobody made a "got a frog in your throat?" joke.

Also, Merlin writers, anytime you want to give Morgana something to do other than look terrified, and Gwen something to do other than make motivational speeches to Arthur, and, frankly, Uther something to do other than get duped, again and again and again, that would be GREAT. Cheers!

On twitter today, regarding Hot Fuzz slash:

simonpegg
All power to the slashers I say. I'm deeply flattered that anyone would take mine and @edgarwright's balls and run with them. [Link]

edgarwright
@simonpegg I too am deeply flattered by the slashers. I say all power to handstitched homoerotica. [Link]

BLESS THEM

Posts like this one on spnstoryfinders make me sad (emphasis mine):

1- I'm looking for stories with only Dean and John (slash would be prefered but no-non con, I want a willing relationship). I don't want any Sam in the story., no apparition, no references! (hard I know, but I can't stand 'Sammy is God' anymore.)

2- I want a reaaaally good Sam bashing where John/someone else to really put him in his place for being the selfish prick that he is especially with Dean. (I'm mad at him for the moment!)

3- I don't know if stories like that exists but is there any fic where Dean is John's son but not Sam. And he's like either not in the story or just someone else. (Dean/John centric fics, please!)

4- JDM/Jensen with Jared bashing because he's mean with Jensen (don't scream, it's just like that...)

I don't even dislike the baddies this much.

I was going to say I've never really understood the Sam-hate, but in the course of writing this I suddenly realised: this is the sort of hostility usually reserved for female characters, specifically female love interests of the fan's preferred woobie (see Gwen from Torchwood for example, I've seen both the accusations of selfishness and the calling for her to be "put in her place").

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

SPN fic: Writing (And Other Things That Are Hard) (Chuck/Becky, mentions of Becky/Sam, Sam/Dean & Dean/Castiel; PG-13; ~2,000 words) by trinityofone - Post 5x01. When you get right down to it, Becky and Chuck are both writers. Add imminent death to the equation and you’ve got…whatever this is.

This is a wonderfully funny fic, deftly fleshing Becky out from a caricature into a recognisable human fangirl. ♥

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

This is me and my dad in 1981, I have no idea where. England though, certainly, not late 19th century colonial India as the pith helmet my dad's wearing might suggest.

I'm such a sap these days; I got all choked up during Monsters Inc. last night. Twice. Possibly three times. Luckily later there was Harper's Island, with the blood and terror and basically being the classiest tacky thing on telly, to make me feel robust again.

Anyway, meme.

day 01 | a song
day 02 | a picture
day 03 | a book/ebook/fanfic
day 04 | a site
day 05 | a youtube clip
day 06 | a quote
day 07 | whatever tickles your fancy

Seeing as it's The Apocalypse and everything, I thought something apocalypsey, but, you know, upbeat, so:

Mama Cass - California Earthquake

(I really have a hard time with Merlin. Most of the storylines involve deception (frequently of friends), misunderstandings and people generally getting the wrong end of the stick, either by accident or design, and all the humour seems to be predicated on embarrassment. These are things I find excruciating. Plus, it's full of just STUPID things, things that make me yell at the television screen. The only reason I haven't given up watching yet is that SOMEHOW Merlin manages to still be kind of charming. I like the main characters and I think the actors are lovely. Oh and slash goggles are practically unnecessary.)

A few things:

I was going to post about "The Once and Future Queen" last week but the only thought I had in my head during most of that episode was my GOD Angel Coulby is pretty.

Add me to the ranks of people currently boggling at the film world's outpouring of support for Roman Polanski.

For shame, Tilda Swinton*. For shame.

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* And all the rest, obviously. But seriously Tilda, I thought you were COOL.

ETA: Ha! Haha!

I didn't even know he was ill. Shows how much attention I pay to these things.

My sister told me about it on the phone this morning. I think it says something about me that my first thought was to wonder if Dean's use of "swayze" as a verb to mean ghostly powers in "In My Time of Dying" was now retroactively in slightly poor taste.

And now I have the sudden urge to see Road House and it appears I do not have a copy! This is terrible! It is the best film about a world-famous bouncer ever made! And there are times when you just need to watch Dalton rip a man's throat out with his bare hands, you know?

Pick your Show: Supernatural

Are you a male or female?: Bloody Mary
Describe yourself: Scarecrow
How do you feel: Roadkill
Describe where you currently live: Home
If you could go anywhere where would you go?: Mystery Spot
Your favourite form of transportation: Bedtime Stories
Your best friend is: Heart
What’s the weather like: Yellow Fever
Favourite time of day: Red Sky at Morning
If your life was a TV show, it would be called: It's a Terrible Life*
What is life to you: Metamorphosis
Your fear: No Exit
What is the best advice you have to give: Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things
Thought for the Day: Criss Angel is a Douche Bag
How I would like to die: In My Time of Dying
My soul’s present condition: On the Head of a Pin
My motto: Everybody Loves a Clown

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* Not really! Couldn't resist. Actually, I'll go for "Wishful Thinking".

Mr Wrong by giandujakiss.

Who doesn't like comedy Dean vids? This one really made me laugh, and so the moments of wistfulness were all the more profound. Lovely stuff.

Ended up watching "Wendigo"* on Living this evening. Spent most of it going n'awwwwwwwwww over their little season one faces and their little season one voices. Seriously, by season four everyone talks like they're facing off against Dwayne from Spaced.

Anyway, Living have these - I don't know what you call them - the "sponsored by" type ads that bookend the ad breaks - and they were for some sort of Mexican food product, which made for some entertaining juxtapositions when the act would end with the sound of a hapless victim being slaughtered for food by the wendigo, and then we'd cut to a shot of someone chopping up an onion and some peppers and making a fajita.

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* The plot of which the Radio Times describes as "Sam and Dean help a pair of teenage brothers", which is not only bizarrely vague but completely excises that Hayley girl from the picture.

I was in my (ground-floor) bedroom this morning, hadn't yet drawn the curtains, and I heard one of my upstairs neighbours come down the steps outside checking on her plants. She came down to the yard outside the back door, and then she... closed my bedroom window, and went back upstairs again.

I just. I don't even. I don't get it.

Holy ELVIS but this made me laugh.

Anywho, got some memes:

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Bloody hell that was a lot of writing for me. *faints*

The trailer for Tim Burton's upcoming Alice in Wonderland film got me thinking about previous versions of the story, and I came across this clip from Jonathan Miller's 1960s production for the BBC. No special effects at all and yet I think it's the most spellbinding down-the-rabbit-hole sequence I've ever seen (the section where Alice runs along the corridor of billowing tattered white curtains and emerges at the top of a decaying stairwell gave me tingles). It might be a scene from a Victorian Neverwhere, and I wonder if it was ever an influence on Neil Gaiman - it seems exactly like his sort of thing.

Also, I saw Moon last week - BEST thing I've seen at the pictures all year. Wonderful, stripped-down thinky sci-fi (I can certainly enjoy a bombastic space adventure/evil alien global plot, but it's often the smaller-scale stuff - the stuff narrowed down to the individual and full of brain-tickling ideas - that I love the best). And it made me cry just as much as Children of Earth did but without leaving me with that lingering urge to kill myself.

I would LOVE to see a film like Moon with a woman as the main character though. But apparently we only get to be astronauts'/time travellers' wives.

Yesterday - never one to pass up the opportunity for delicious cake - I went for afternoon tea with the delightful biffy and her equally delightful husband, Mr S, at emporium of gorgeousness Bea's of Bloomsbury. My cupcake genuinely had a cherry on top, and a proper one at that, not just a glacé one.

BoB is two doors down from Castiel's Hairdressing. I like to imagine he pops in for a scone or two whenever he's missing heaven particularly badly.

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Things I Have Learned Today part one: Return of the King was called Return of the Hobo in Russia, and in China, Leaving Las Vegas was called I'm Drunk and You're a Prostitute.

Things I Have Learned Today part two: (what follows is a casting spoiler for Supernatural S5, so avoid if you're averse to those, although I think it's hilarious and knowing it spoils absolutely nothing.)

Last year, in an email to my sister in which I discussed the relative merits of Boogeyman and House of Wax (yes I KNOW), I wrote:

I preferred [Boogeyman] to House of Wax, but mainly because I prefer fantasy horror to mad-person-carving-up-annoying-teens-in-increasingly-preposterous-and-elaborate-ways horror. You know? Also there was no scene where Paris Hilton performs a striptease in Boogeyman. That has to count for something. I mean, I know she wasn't even in it, so the chances of there being a scene where she performs a striptease were never going to be high BUT YOU NEVER KNOW WITH HER! She managed to infiltrate Veronica Mars, goodness knows where she might pop up next.

Guess where she's popping up next.

This might actually be the greatest thing since Davina McCall played herself as a zombie in Dead Set.

→ Is anyone else fed up to the back teeth with vampires by now? Anyone? I just. Don't CARE about the mopey, sexually deviant bastards OR their inevitable dastardly plans to take over the world. Although I would probably quite happily watch a film where Edward Cullen was eaten by dinosaurs. I never grow tired of dinosaurs.

→ Mark Kermode, last week: "I met Eddie Izzard, very briefly, just the other day. He said 'I know your hair'". ♥♥♥

→ Pixar artists are illustrating this book called The Ancient Book of Sex and Science; io9 has some examples of the artwork - gorgeous, cute retro stuff, my favorite is the one entitled "Mathturbation" [NSFW].

→ A couple of weeks ago I was exploring down in the City (which is always fun because it's full of wonderful names like Knightrider Street and Old Fish Street Hill and St Andrew-by-the-Wardrobe), and I went through Postman's Park and came across the Watt's Memorial to Heroic Self-Sacrifice. Spent some time reading the tiles - and it's not like I didn't already know this, but I clearly need to cut down on narratives featuring brothers dying for one another, because this one made me get all choked up: