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Urge to Write Rising....

I don't know what it is with me the last few days, but I suddenly want to write ALL THE THINGS. Except, I already have a few things on the go that I need to FINISH.

Today I was listening to Storyboard on Geek and Sundry over at YouTube while I worked - because there are some days where my job is so monotonous that if I don't have something to listen to, I go into a coma. Anyway, Storyboard is "Hangout" with a bunch of fantasy authors talking about writing, and it's something I can tune in and out of as required by my job...

But man, today it made me want to write the epic fantasy novel that I had an idea for ten years ago - so that's what I've been mentally doing for the past two hours, even though I have fanfic to finish... also, my epic fantasy novel doesn't have a plot, it just has a main character... and I don't even know his name or what he looks like, I just know who he is and I love him. So really, all I've been doing for the past two hours is thinking about an awesome guy that I made up ten years ago... and when I put it like that, it sounds rather pathetic.

In completely unrelated news: I follow some teenagers on tumblr who can't tell the difference between legitimate photos and manips... and it makes me want to weep for the future, because honestly, it should be pretty bloody obvious that that's Jensen's head on the body of a porn star. I feel like this should be taught in Junior High at some point: "Okay, Class, today, we're going to cover how to spot manips so that you don't look like an idiot on the internet - you'll thank me later."

Also, completely unrelated: Is it just me or has LJ been crazy quiet as of late? I feel like I even have less people chatting with me here. Maybe it's because I stopped writing epic Harry Potter crossovers? Maybe it's because people have moved on from the show? Maybe people have moved on from LJ? Maybe everyone is on tumblr reblogging manips? I don't know. Tumblr is far more narcissistic than LJ, which is I think part of the reason why I can't get into it that much. I basically only use it to look at pretty pictures of good-looking men... and to keep tabs on the Sherlock fandom.

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Yay! As someone who frequently drops bandwagons, I support you.

And thanks for supporting my idea to FINISH ALL THE THINGS! Just finishing one of the things before I start a new thing would be nice. :P

I might not be able to talk to you about Rugby, but I do enjoy seeing your posts about it as proof of life. ;)

But I feel sad about this one, because I stil really like Jared and Jensen and sort of miss all the shinanigans that went with the SPN fandom. :( And also because it meant that I actually talked to people online (well... you, but you totally count) which I... don't so much any more. Aaaah well.

Well I will read everything, even if it is post S7 SPN fic and I don't know what's going on. :D

Haha well, proof of life will do I guess, until I have something better to talk about. :P

Well, obviously this means that I just have to write more so that you can talk to me more often again. ;)

I don't have any plans at the moment for a post S7 SPN fic... probably the next demented'verse timestamp will be one, but I think that's a ways off (I'll have to check my demented'verse timeline again, but I think the earliest that I can write is this summer, and depending how they leave the storyline, I may have to wait until next year.)

And I have an idea for a bridging fic between S7-S8, but you don't need to watch S8 to read it... unless for some reason you don't want to be spoiled at all.

But yeah... you are totally allowed to still like Jared and Jensen and miss the shenanigans of the fandom and not particularly want to watch the show, so don't feel bad. I still like the actors in Doctor Who and enjoy seeing the gif-sets on Tumblr, but I don't watch it anymore.

And quite frankly, if S8 of Supernatural hadn't gotten better, I'd have probably drifted away from it as well...since I was REALLY unimpressed with S7. But the writers have turned it around for me, and seeing as how I'm enjoying it again and there's probably only two years left, I figure I may as well stick it out until the end.

Or that I...become more interesting? Hmm...

See this is the thing. Sometimes I think I want to start watching it again, cos all I'm missing is SE7EP22 and S8, so it's not like it'd take me forever. And I see Kevin and Linda Tran and sort of wish they had been around FOREVER (and oh my Kevin Tran is an attrative man. Osric? :/ His name is something like that). But the reviews of S8 that I've read have been very hit and miss, especially regarding Sam, so...

Haha, hey, it's not your fault that I'm not into sports. :P I can talk about hockey a little bit, but that's only because I'm Canadian and it seems to be a cultural requirement.

Osric Chau - and yes, he IS an attractive man, and thankfully older than his character so I don't have to feel too creepy thinking so. :P

I wouldn't pay too much attention to reviews. It's better just to check things out for yourself and form your own opinions. A lot of the time, I'm not even sure I'm watching the same show as other people... it's such a subjective thing.

Personally, I think Sam's storyline in the second half of the season is stronger than his storyline in the first half, but that's just proof that, at least in my opinion, it's only getting better.

But again, it's SO subjective that I wouldn't ask you to rely on my testimony either. If you get a chance, watch a couple of episodes and see what you think. If you still aren't interested in watching, fine, but just don't let other people's opinions dissuade you.

It has to be said, apart from rugby, I'm not into sports either. Though I think I could do ice hockey, because it too involves SMASHING. :P

Osric Chau. I will remember this. Because... reasons. :P

That is very very true. And I may try again, eventually. Because I really do miss it. I just... couldn't with the end half of S7. And it's a miracle I got to S7 anyway, because I have very very few fond memories of S6. *shrugs* We'll see. And if all else fails, I will always have the gag reels. :D

(no idea why that ended up where it did. Sorry.)

Oh man, the other week an Ottawa Sens player got his Achilles tendon severed by an ice skate. *shudder*

Yeah, S7 pissed me off too. I think they're doing a pretty good job this year of opening back up the mythology and getting supporting cast back on the show... there were some rough seas in the first half of the season, but so far I'm really liking the back half. We'll see though...

As you point out, there's plenty of ways to still enjoy aspects of fandom without watching the show. There's gag reels and convention videos...and if you've decided you don't care about spoilers, the occasional funny interview with one or both of the boys.

Oh man why would you TELL ME THAT!? *shudders* I take it back... if that happens often I'm not going to like it at all. (I am aware that it doesn't happen often. Probably about as regularly as rugby players having career ending injuries AS YOU WATCH (:/) or getting completely knocked out)

Ooh is the mythology back? Hmm... tempting. I have very much missed the mythology. Has Jodi been back? Or Garth?

Never watched many convention videos. I enjoy reading interviews and stuff though. But the gag reels. Man. Best thing ever. :D

Hahah, sorry! If it makes you feel better, I didn't even know it was possible - that's the first time I've ever heard of such a thing happening in my life. It really was a freak accident - but yeah, sadly, possibly career ending, depending how surgery and recovery go. The most dangerous thing about hockey is usually the concussions, which I'm sure are also a huge problem in Rugby, so that'd be nothing new to you.

Mythology is definitely back! No sign of Jodi yet, but Garth is back and Charlie has appeared again too.

I like convention videos myself, but that might just be me. :P

No other show can top the gag reels though. Not by a long shot. And from a recent interview with Jensen, it sounds like the S8 gag reel has great potential. :)

Eep. Well good luck to him, whoever he is.

I think finger and ankle injuries are more common in rugby actually. They ahve a great deal of rules to try and keep head injuries to a minimum. In fact, on average you get more serious injuries playing football (soccar) than you do in rugby. But rugby is more dangerous (people have died playing rugby).

I knew Charlie had come back. Woo! Hmm... this is getting more tempting. We'll see. I haven;t atucally watched a TV show since I stopped watching SPN. I just haven't felt like it. But if I get the urge, I think I will try this. Just a question, does anything important happen at the end of S7, other than Dean going to Purgatory?

I like some! Like the one abot the pennies, and the one with the time lag on the screens behind them. And the candy war one. :P OH and Misha's CV. Pffahaha. :D

YEY GAG REELS. I think the only gag reel that is better than SPNs is Firefly's. BEST. :D

(I am so confused)

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I'll just respond to this one, because *shrug* I do not know what's going on with your replies... but it doesn't really matter. It's not like I can't keep track of the conversation if it's not nested.

Yeah, they keep talking about different rules for hockey to try to minimize the concussions... it's hard when an essential part of the game is the tackling, and you're moving at ridiculously fast speeds on hard ice surrounded by plexi-glass, while holding wooden sticks. :P

On the one hand, they used to play the game without helmets or padding - so it should be safer these days. But on the other hand, I think there's a false sense of safety with the helmets and the padding, and players/coaches don't really realize that they can only protect you from so much.

I hear Lacrosse can be pretty brutal too. Fun fact: Lacrosse is actually Canada's official national sport... we just all seem to like hockey better.

Nah, you don't really need to watch 7x22. Anything that happens in 7x22 is readdressed in 8x01 anyway (or neatly summed up in the intro).

True, Firefly's gag reel was pretty awesome! :)

Yes, ice hockey is not a sport that screams "safety" :P

You have told me that thing about Canada and lacrosse before! Still find it weird. Wiki says ice hockey is your national winter sport though.

Fun fact, England does not, apparently, have a national sport. Wales however have rugby union, so Wales win.

Wales is pretty awesome. I also like the way people talk there. (To be fair though, I like the way people talk most everywhere).

I am reusing my trivial fact knowledge! :P Maybe lacrosse is our national summer sport?! I don't know, I just was born, grew up, and continue to live here. :P

I like how people talk everywhere too. Apart from Estuary. Estuary is not a nice accent.

Hey I wouldn't worry. I had to look up our national sport. :P

I'm not a huge fan of South-Western/Montreal Quebec-French accent. The further east you go in Quebec, the better the accent sounds, in my opinion. That being said, I still like it more than the Parisian French accent, that accent grates on my every last nerve. (Mind you, my friend that can do it probably exaggerates it just to drive me nuts.)

As far as English accents go... I'm not sure there's any that I really despise. But then, I'm not that familiar with all of them.

Again I wouldn't worry. It still takes me ages to work out if someone is American or Canadian when they're talking. I'm getting better, but I'm not great.

Just as long as when you mistake a Canadian for an American, you don't say "What's the difference?" when they correct you. I got that a lot when I was traveling through Ireland, and it made me want to hurt people. :P

The problem with telling Canadians and Americans apart by speech pattern though is that there are a LOT of Canadians in the American media (actors, news anchors, etc.) The generic Canadian accent and the generic American accent that actors try to use regardless of their mother-accents (like the accent Jared and Jensen use rather than sounding like they are from Texas) are basically exactly the same.

Ironically, you really can tell the most with the words "sorry" and "about" - which American will say with "ah" sounds instead of "o" sounds (sahry, abahwt). I've been made fun of in America for the way I say those words, but I would like to point out that they are spelled with Os. :P

Anyway, yeah, there's your lesson of the day. Even though you probably knew all that.

Well I sure knew not to say "what's the difference" to Canadians when talking about their accents, that for sure. It's like calling an Irish person British. :P

And yeah, I also knew that about the "Canadian Invasion" and generic American accents. (Fun fact: It took me until uni to actually realise that American's had more than one accent, and they, like us, mocked people from their own country for how they talked. This seems really really stupid, especially as I have known about Deep South accents all my life, but somehow it never actually sank in.)

And that sahry and abahwt thing doesn't actually help with Canadian accents. Because we pronounce the o's as well, so now you sound British in my head. :P

Well, I HAVE been mistaken for British before by a Canadian (who perhaps had a more pronounced regional accent than I did.) But it's not actually a bad way to tell the difference - if someone sounds American but with slight British leanings in their speech, then that person is probably Canadian.

Everyone sounds Canadian in my head, because that's the way I read people words, even if I know they're Australian or British or something else entirely. :P

It actually took me a while to figure out that Canada had different accents. My family all speaks with a pretty generic Canadian accent (basically, we sound like we're from Toronto). I mean, I guess I knew about the Newfoundland accent, and the French-Canadian accent... but it wasn't until I was in my teens that I realized that there were different accents to the west too.

Well I shall keep that in mind. I am getting better at it at least, but I don't come across many Canadians often.

But... it seemes so silly to me, to realise it so late. I mean, York has a different accent to Leeds, and they're half an hour appart (the Leeds accent isn't great). Of course America will have regional accents. :P

Well, it probably doesn't help that a lot of American media whitewashes the accents... so, a lot of what you hear in movies is just ONE general accent. Whereas British movies tend to preserve accents.

Part of the reason America has to do that, of course, is that a lot of their accents are pretty damn hard to understand. I mean, besides the New York accents, and your general soft southern accent, I think the first movie I saw with a purposefully distinct regional accent was Good Will Hunting.

(And in Canada, there was the way me and my friends spoke - which was the same as the news-casters on TV and the radio... and then there were comedy troupe shows from Newfoundland/Nova Scotia. The Kids in the Hall were predominately from the Toronto area too, so they're accents weren't that special to my ears.)

But yeah... it's probably just one of those silly things that your brain for some reason never connects together. Like... I was in my late teens before I realized that "The Count" on Sesame Street was "The Count" because he counted... I just genuinely believed that he was a Count. :P (It doesn't help that they dressed him up like Count Dracula - who WAS A COUNT.) But yeah... according to my friends, it should have been obvious.

I get that some American accents are hard to understand, but at the same time, have you heard Glaswegian? I mean really. I think half the reason we can't understand some American accent is because we never hear them. So America should get on that. :P

Also, Good Will Hunting is regional American accents? Of where? Where's it set again? Detroit? Chicago?

I guess that's a thing too. If you speak the same as the people on TV you're less likely to realise. Same way as having parents with different accents to your own.

And yeah, it's proably a brain thing. Like that moment you realise that funny squiggle infront of the Disney logo is actually a D. :P

Good Will Hunting is full pretty much all Boston accents (except Minnie Driver and Skarsgard(sp?) for obvious reasons).

But how often do you have someone with a Glaswegian accent telling you the news on TV or featuring prominently in a TV show or movie? That's the thing, you aren't going to put the really really hard accents into media that you want to have wide-audience appeal... because then you'll have people writing in and saying "I can't understand what the hell X is saying!" So yeah, it'd be cool if the harder to understand accents were heard more, because then we might start understanding them... but there's the transition period to consider where you will have no idea what that person is saying.

That being said, I was watching a show on Canadian TV once and the two hosts had the most adorable accent that I had ever heard... so I looked up where they were from: My hometown. (They just had the area's rural accent, which I had never picked up, because I grew up in the city and was raised by parents who favoured the Toronto/general Canadian accent).

I agree on LJ being quiet lately, although I'm also one of those who hasn't been in quite as much as before. My whole sleep schedule has gone topsy-turvy, and so whenever I have the time to go online I'll go in and usually fifteen minutes later I fell asleep. And then I wake up and it's time to go to work and the whole cycle starts again. Or sometimes I managed to stay up late, but by then the backlog of things I have to go through is stretched by a mile (and here's where I say that I've finished reading your Sherlock's ASiB last week, but I haven't got the time to comment as long as I wanted to, but I will get to that! Hopefully.*crosses fingers*)

I follow you on tumblr so you can see that I reblog pretty pictures of men as well! :) And I don't think that I've ever reblogged a manip without knowing it's one, but anything's possible. I track a lot of tags, and yeah, you can tell if the person is a teenager/stuck-on-being-a-teenager from the amount of teenage angst that they spill between the lines of their rants LOL

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