Finishing exams was supposed to mean plenty of net time! It looks like I assumed the hours in a day would also multiply, because I have to take back up all the things I put off until, you know, the exams, and now I'm swamped. My Sup today also told me to move my butt and he'll let me graduate in December. Which would be astonishingly quickly by normal standards. *fingers crossed*.


In the mean time, ever feel like your fandom is crazy? The special thing about the intrawebz is that there is always a group of people crazier than your group of people. I mean, what? Really?

Refresh your eyes with some intense!Castiel staring here.


Meanwhile, here's why Joss Whedon is the Jedi master and Kripke is still the young Padawan. My favourite parts are the sound effects and Xander's expression, heee!


Trying to write fic. To my astonishment, two of my plot!bunnies mated (or fused?) and now I have a huge plot bunny right next to the third one, that thankfully will stand alone. I fear the big plot bunny, though. I have the worst track record with longer fics.

As of today, I have finished ALL my exams! Thesis and graduation, here I come!! This last exam (anglo lit, natch) went brilliantly too! Full marks, and the professor complimented me on top of that! And she was even cranky because she's been sick lately (she actually snapped at the girl right before me). So, go me :-)

Tomorrow I go visit my sister, so net access but no privacy whatsoever... possibly will not attempt LJ contact. Starting next week, all the bunnies I've been carefully keeping at bay these last two weeks while I diligently studied will start getting some attention. There's even a multi-chaptered monster in there *gulps* My track record with those is absimal, but hey, this might be the one, who knows :-)

In the mean time, I'll get on with some reccing. I've created a system where I have a "temporary" folder for reccing links, so I don't lose stuff I don't have the time to rec immediately... yeah, I'm afraid to count, but at a glance I'd say there's at least twenty over there. I'm... not good with procrastinating recs (or is that TOO GOOD at procrastinating?).

But instead of going back from the top, here's the latest, because it hasn't had much circulation and it's absolutely bloody brilliant and everyone should read it, and people should quote it and write meta over it and and *deep breath*

Ok, colour me suprised, but I didn't know that oatmeal_queen wrote fic in addition to making some of the best fan art out there. And this disgustingly talented lady is (if that is even concievable) even better at writing fic, which leaves us poor smucks pretty well off if all you do is read and look, but green with jelousy if you write stuff too (I'm still hiding under my blankie in shame).

Only she doesn't post to her journal, or crosspost anywhere besides deancastiel , which means that unless you're watching that community like a hawk you miss out. But fear not! For I have links:

525,600 minutes, five parts, complete, PG 13, gen as in "no sexyfuntimes" but with Dean/Cas propelling the whole thing. It's practically a BigBang, with plot and intrigue, and a mistery that slowly unravels until the last piece of the puzzle right at the end. Also, Amnesia!fic. Who can resist amnesia!fic? Dude, not me.

I usually don't rec WIPs, but here's a bit of advice: follow I Sought Refuge in a House on Fire, (we're up to part 5 right now, of 11), because it looks like only three people are following it right now and that's just unfair. Rated R, it's got whump and adventure and an imaginative villain and sneaky Winchesters who are competent and hot. Wait, did I say that outlout?

If a picture's worth a thousand words, then this is a complete crack fic all in itself, by the lovely pentapus  who did this icon too. The expressions! The marks! Totally wsf :-D

Got a B today on an exam where I thought I was going to get at least an A- (for sure!). Damn, and I worked really hard for it too! The professor was clearly enjoying handing out low grades (he had this little self-satisfied smile on his face every time he'd disappoint someone!).

On to the next, next week! The last exam of all of my university career too :-O

Meanwhile, xkcd knows us too well :-D

Tomorrow morning I have an appointment at the local branch of Big Insurance Company (BIC for short) for an unsolicited job interview. What I mean is they got my name from Uni and phoned me up out of the blue offering the interview. They were not very clear on what type of job, (or commitment) they were looking to fill, but I figured, hey, it's BIC, it's unlikely it's some kind of scheme, and at the very least I'll get some practice for a job interview, so I agreed.

The fact that they sought me out skeeves me a little. Who does that? Particularly in this economy? The job must be really awful. If it's telemarketing insurance policies I might have to restrain myself from running away screaming. They did hint over the phone that it has something to do with personnel management, so what I'm dreading is that they're just hiring a lakey to lay off a bunch of people who've worked there god knows how long and then they'll get rid of the lakey too... well, that's where my imagination has gone, anyway.

Will let you know how it plays out :-)

ETA: Telemarketing insurance & door-to-door selling! Plus you're supposed to sell out provide a list of possible clients of your own. Triple threat! *shivers* Personnel managing? Yeah, after a year you become responsible for your own little group of telemarketers. God, it was a little like getting Zachariah's pep talk in "It's a Terrible Life", with all the "sure, you put in a lot of hours, look at me, I leave at ten at night! :-D But if you're good you make a LOT of money! In just sixteen short years I became the boss of more than thirty-five people!" *shudders*

If I want it it's mine. Not as flattering as I'd thought, considering they look to hire about five people every month, since they burn through so many so quickly, and basically take anyone who can actually print a curriculum and is willing. Bah.

Man, I love flash mobs! I hope I get to experience one one day! I'd settle for writing a story where A and B are in dire straits, and A is panicking and saying "what are we gonna do??" and B lightbulbs "Flash mob!" and C get's all snarky and annoyed and replies "That's your answer to <i>everything</i>."

...

*coughs* right, I promised a flash mob, right?

Finished part one of Things To Do For Exam Next Week... procrastinating sometimes helps. And while surfing I found an article pimping the airing of the second half of House M.D.'s last season over here. They were trying to amp up the tension by telling fans that THEY CAN'T MISS THESE EPISODES BECAUSE THEY'LL BE SHOCKING!!! And then they detail exactly how and why they'll be so shocking by revealing every major plot development of the season's arch. Seriously promo monkeys, ur doing it wrong. *shakes head*

Metaphor!
Twirling ninjas!
Fonzie clones!
Blind possessed choir boys!
Half-naked men dancing in diapers!
That angel just felt me up!
Mullet with headlights!


I need a crack! tag.

So, three days of rain out of five? yep.

On the one hand this meant temperatures were cool and no danger of getting a sunstroke, or lugging water bottles everywhere.

On the other hand, five layers of clothes and a big umbrella all the damn time.

And there's been the Brit con and I have this urge to check out all the reports and eff up my RL commitments. *le sigh* Fannish life, it is hard *hand to forehead*

Going away for the next five days. Catch up with ya later :-D

ps whether forecast predicts three days of heavy rain out of five... send sunny thoughts my way :-|

Slapped together a comment ficlet for the Dean/Cas anon kink meme. Prompt was: Cas's clothes get destroyed somehow, so he has to borrow some of Dean's - and he just looks tooo freaking adorable in the slightly too big clothes .

So, Layers, pg (one bad word!), gen.

In other news, am I the only one whose "manage comments" page has gone ka-puff?

Hey flist,

I’ve just sent my birthday message of support to Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Check it out and create your own here: http://www.64forsuu.org/word.php?wid=2527

Aung San Suu Kyi has now been imprisoned by Burma’s brutal regime for over 13 years. 64forSuu.org is a website where celebrities, politicians and the public from all over the world are coming together to send birthday messages of support to the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner.

Find out more about Aung San Suu Kyi’s fight for human rights and democracy in Burma on the website www.64forsuu.org

Nifty, huh? They even provide a ready message you can cut&paste to publicize it :-) Very quick and easy.

Just because I just spent the better part of two three holy shit four??? a few hours on the Star Trek XI anon kink meme reading doesn't mean I'm becoming a trekkie. No, nuh nope. My loved ones are concerned enough for my fannish hours enough as it is *nods* So I'm not even going to go there. Watch me hold steady.


... and have a nice little h/c post-movie vignette. Mmmmh, h/c.

The Techs got my interview out of the crappy recorder! Furthermore, they managed to get the crappy recorder to work, so I won't have to replace it!!!

Of course, this cues the sound drives of my PC to go haywire (as they are wont to do every now and again) and make me think that Vegas has magically muted my sound without prompt *headslap*. Last time I had to fix them they... well, it was not pretty.

Plus I have to figure how to do some tinkering with photoshop. I have a friend who's really good at it, but she's super-busy. I hope I manage to corner her so she can explain it to me... I think I know what to do but keep skipping some passage and so it doesn't work. :-(

BUT! Concentrating on having retrieved my interview! To celebrate that, have some fannish items:

An Icon that made me laugh and laugh.

The best reply to one of those "why ship Dean/Cas?" debates.

A Pretty awesome vid. I love that it includes so much external material, pictorial art FTW!

So I'm working on a Uni project, and I have to borrow equipment because I don't have any, and we must make a "multimedia product" of a certain quality, and since I've never handled a high quality video camera I run the risk of looking amateurish and so I propose pictures & music & writing & vocal interview. Right? Right.

I take the pictures. The camera is a normal, run of the mill digital thing, which means woefully inadequate, but then again I wouldn't know how to use a professional one, even if I could get my hands on one, which I can't. So the pictures don't come out exactly as I'd wish, but they'll do. And I do the interview, and it goes brilliantly, I get a lot of material, and everything looks good. I have the music. I get Vegas, start learning to use it, so I can edit.

Today I go and get the audio files from the interview and guess what? The recorder is dead. Like, no sign of life. Like, if I plug it in the computer it doesn't even read as existing. Which means I don't have the interview anymore. So:

1 I beg to re-do a forty-five minute interview with the very nice but very busy important guy who was kind enough to agree in the first place. If I can get a hold of him in time.

2 I dub the interview myself for the video, call it an "artist choice", and sound stilted and akward and squeaky when the guy was warm and passionate and had a nice, deep rumble of a voice.

3 hope against hope that the tech repairman can get my files out of the piece of junk. 'Cause I really can't see HOW it could have burned up by being left, shut off, on my desk, so surely the data can't be irretrivably lost? Right???

Goddamn.

Icing on the cake? Since I borrowed the crappy recorder, if it broke in my possesion I have to buy a new one for my friend.

Hey flist! Remember the eighties???

Watch at least the first three minutes with the presentation... some shows have a thirty second "previously" montage before each episode... this show had three whole minutes of the same presentation each time!!! Ah, TV! You have grown so much!

Speaking of TV, in case you didn't know and are interested, the second to last Numb3rs episode was a cliffhanger. I didn't know that. So now I'm here, waiting for the LAST episode to download because I've just finished watching the other one and my heart freaking jackhammered out of my chest! I can't sleep until I see what happens next!!! The really ironic thing is I thought I was slowly drifting away from this fandom... guess not *bites nails*

ETA: Ok, you can't have a Numb3rs episode where Charlie explains an analogy with demons trying to corner angels and then randomly throwing in the word "Impala", damnit! Now I have to write a crossover! *headdesk headdesk headdesk*

RATING: PG-13 gen
SPOILERS: For the Season 4 finale
CHARACTERS: One certain angel...
WARNINGS: Nothing really.
SUMMARY: First he'll find Dean. Then he'll deal with the rest. A coda for 4.22.

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Two fics + one vid + a bunch of plot!bunnies hopping around in one single week? Holy fannish splurge Batman! This means one thing, and one thing only: I should start studying for my final exams, so my brain is cleverly getting started on creative procrastination *headpalm* As always, concrit most welcome :-D

Disclaimer: Supernatural is owned by it's creator Kripke and the CW network, and I am in no way affiliated with them.

OMG you guys, Misha Collins Twits. Also Jim Beaver, but Misha posted a childhood picture to prove he's legit, and SO CUTE itty bitty Misha!

Plus, pandarus  did it again, and wrote a wonderful fic that should make all haters of a certain female character from SPN do an instant 180°, because, in her own words, Ruby was awesome.

( all the fangirls in the audience, please stand up! )Ok, getting late now. Might be back later in the week to expound some more, but won't be 'round much for the weekend... Will read all comments though!

Have at it flist! First fandom vid, third time vidding at all :-D

From "The Rapture", Jimmy Novak's story in less than four minutes.


Suggestions for communities?

Sadly, I wouldn't have any space for it anyway. Just, House M.D. writers: I'm sorry I doubted you, and I swear I will never, ever again. *prostrates self at the altar of House Writers*

Holy shit, I'm still O_O O_O O_O