The Tyranny of Socks

So Supernatural made it to 300 episodes and celebrated by bringing JDM back to play John Winchester! I split up with the show at the end of season 3 and have never regretted that decision, but they must be doing something right to have made it this far.

I'm not sure I am going to watch the episode when it turns up here, though.

I did slip down the nostalgia tunnel of my posts about the show from 2007 and 2008. Those were certainly the days. The days in which I had a lot to say for myself. It was very clear, too, that the more things change the more they stay the same: did you know that we were all discussing racism and misogyny in fandom back then all the time? The other day I saw an honest-to-god "why do women like slash" discussion in the wild.

I found out about a bingo comm the other day -- for apocalyptic & postapocalyptic fic -- called tic_tac_woe, but Brexit is not among the promps so I'm not sure. I guess that could be the wildcard! (I mean to make a separate post about Brexit. These are some wild days, I can say that.)

For the record, I totally wanted a snow day today. Alas, we just had snow.

You know how there are people who add notes to their episode review posts along the lines of, "This entry is squee-only; please don't make negative comments"? I am thinking of adding something like that to all my SPN posts. It would say something like, "This journal is John Winchester-friendly; you're welcome to your opinions, but please don't try to persuade me that he was a bad parent." I mean, I criticize the man myself, but I'm really, really tired of having the "John Winchester was an abusive parent" or the "John was mean to my woobie Dean!" debate in comments. I hate to be the person who suppresses debate, but I just have no desire to go round #837 on this one.

I am only joking about this a little.

I've seen a lot of talk, on my friends list at least about ( this spoilery thing to do with last night's episode of SPN )

I am so looking forward to the end of today. This has been a long and tiring week, and I just want to go home and put my feet up and not worry about work for a couple of days. That three-day weekend is looking pretty wonderful to me, right now.

My "real" comments on the episode are here; under the cut is just emotional stuff, not analysis. ( self-indulgent fangirl stuff )

On rewatching, I have a question: ( episode spoilers under the cut )

Also, is it Thursday yet?

First, via marinarusalka, a list of the 50 most-visited (non-religious pilgrimage) tourist attractions in the world. Bold where you've been, italicize where you WANT to go, and name one place you want to go that is NOT on the list.

( Clearly, to be well-traveled, I need to go to more amusement parks )

I also really want to do this meme (seen everywhere, most recently on minim_calibre and lizbee's journals:

Name three fics you think I will never, ever, ever write. In return (and if inspired), I will attempt to write a snippet of one of them.

Although of course I still have 5 Winchester crossovers to get through from the last meme... but this looks fun.

Would Dean Winchester use the phrase "the icing on the cake"? (You know, to mean that little extra something that makes everything that much better -- or worse.) And if not, what would he say instead?

You all know how crap my grasp of English idiom is. Help!

( the usual scattered comments )

Spoilers under the cut, of course.

Among the many things I'm poking away at in my inefficient way is an XF/SPN crossover, despite the fact that it becomes ever clearer that not only was XF a television show in the SPN universe, it was one which the Winchesters watched as often as humanly possible. Yes, all of them, even John when he wasn't off hunting things, although he had the bad habit of nitpicking mid-episode. In fact, there were a few years in the mid to late 90s when the hotness of Dana Scully was the only thing that all three Winchesters agreed on, until John got contrary and decided he didn't agree. (Not because he actually didn't agree, but because he's contrary.) And there was about a year when Dean secretly thought Krycek was pretty cool, but then he changed his mind and was really relieved he never mentioned that to Sammy, because Sam would never have stopped teasing him about that EVER.

But somehow I just turn off the part of my brain which has all that (and more) as its personal fanon, and go on thinking about the crossover. The nice thing about fandom is that it allows you to believe all kinds of mutually contradictory things, if possible before breakfast.

I've found a channel that shows early Due South -- from the Ray Vecchio years, which were the years I watched. And I've completely forgotten just how slashy that show was. Last night's episode had Fraser in drag dancing with Ray at a Catholic school dance. Usually, you have to go to fanfic for that kind of thing, but not Due South. I never got into the habit of watching it when they had Ray Kowalski, because I was in the UK during those years, but I hear that it got even slashier. How is that even possible? BH used to call Angel the gayest show that ever gayed (my husband is a secret Spike/Angel shipper), but Due South is in another class altogether.

Actually, in tonight's episode they're squabbling again. But I'm sure it won't last. And I think Fraser's still wearing eyeshadow.

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There's an archive for Supernatural crossovers now, on the model of Twisting the Hellmouth. TtH is one of my guilty pleasure sites, since although the stories are not really all that good, usually, they do satisfy, in their way. The SPN site is, of course, a great deal smaller, and doesn't look like quite such a guilty pleasure: right now it's got a lot of summaries with typos and portentious questions.

I think I may feel obliged to join and put my stories up there, though. I mean, I like SPN crossovers, they like SPN crossovers, what do we have to lose? It just seems like an alien culture, after all this time on LJ, where I can tailor my experience to my elitist bitch preferences.

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Not unrelated, as I was walking home tonight it occurred to me that one of the Three Portions of An is called Hel, and a story with Sam, Dean, Rood of An and a whole lot of pigs would probably be extremely funny. A caper, I think. Or possibly a brawl.