Hell's Half Acre

Timeline is done! Stairway to Heaven (9x22) actually gave me a date! Yay! Thanks to that date, I could put specific dates on the last three episodes (arguably, the last four episodes)... and they actually bucked tradition and set the finale in June rather than May! Weird! Hopefully they don't mess it all up when they come back in S10. :P

I've only updated my LJ with the new timeline for now. The Supernatural Wiki is being really finicky at the moment, so I'll have to wait for a day when it's running smoothly to start updating the timeline there.

I've also updated the pre-series timeline with the newest Winchester-related information that we got in Season 9.

Links:

Season 9 (I put it in with S8, hopefully that's not too annoying.)

Pre-series

Ta da!

How's everyone doing?

Question #1: Do you think I should try selling my Supernatural Pillow on etsy or something? I don't know... I'm trying to think of ways I can make a little extra money without leaving my house or doing anything that I don't want to do. The problem with this idea though is that the pillow takes a while to make... They'd also be like $50 BEFORE shipping, and shipping something pillow sized from Canada is ridiculous. On the other hand, I have the knowledge to turn ANY two-colour design into a pillow now... so I could make a lot of different things for different people and that might be fun, right?

Update #1: After a year of obsessively consuming Teen Wolf fic, my interest is finally starting to wane (in the fic, not the show), which means that I have a bit more time on my hands (because I'm not "wasting" it reading fic.) That being said, the latest Captain America movie has birthed a plethora of my absolute favourite kind of fic. The funny thing is that I haven't actually seen EITHER of the Captain America movies, but I don't even care - I just want all the Post-CA:WS fics. ALL OF THEM. I'm in love with horribly broken people who are never going to get better.

Questions #2: For those who like the demented'verse and/or Harry Potter - What profession do you think Teddy Lupin would go into? Also, can you think of a good demented'verse plot that would fit in well with either S8 or S9 of SPN? Because I can't.

Update #2: I'm super bored with my life... which makes sense. I've been living in Vancouver for nearly 5 years and living in this apartment for nearly 3 years. Is that right?! My god. I'm going to be dead before I know it.

Question/Update #3: I've finally started working on the fantasy novel idea that I started playing around with last year during my April Ficlet month. Let me know if anyone is interested in being readers/sounding-boards for whatever crap I manage to write every week or so. I won't be offended if no one does, however... maybe I don't need the pressure. Also, I know that the last novel project I tried didn't work out the best, because people prefer reading on a webpage and also the last 1/4 of the novel sucked donkey-balls. Though, in fairness, I did warn when the project started that there would be a good chance that the novel might end up sucking... this fantasy novel is no different, though I have HIGH HOPES (despite the fact that I haven't really worked out the plot completely yet.)

Update #4: I had a medical condition that I didn't realize I had because I acquired it slowly. Then I mentioned one of the symptoms to my best friend, because it was the best symptom ever and I was bragging... and he pulled the whole "Please see a doctor because I love you" card and I was super annoyed, because UGH BFF GUILT IS THE WORST.. and I didn't want to lose my super awesome symptom... BUT, then I got diagnosed and everything and it turned out that I actually had a bunch of not-awesome symptoms that had all snuck up on me... and as soon as the not-awesome symptoms started going away, I realized just how much better my life was without them... and basically, this is all a long winded way to say: Hey, guess what! I was kind of sick for probably the past whole year AT LEAST, but now I'm not anymore and it means that I have way more energy for things and I'm feeling pretty great!.. which is apparently how people are SUPPOSED to feel, but I had forgotten.

Question #5: Do you think I should do another ficlet month? I'm feeling a little uninspired when it comes to fanfiction recently... but I've been debating whether I just need to maybe do it anyway and maybe the juices will start flowing again? (That saying is so gross.) Anyway.. last year I did ficlets from vague non-fandom specific prompts.. but maybe if I did it again I could do requests? Or have like a schedule with a different fandom each day of the week or something? Anyway, let me know your thoughts.

Okay, that's it from me. Hope you all are well... and still around... so many people have migrated to tumblr, but I am not a good tumblrer.

If Clothes Could Talk has been updated for Season 8!

In addition to the S8 update, there were some minor corrections made to a couple of previous entries - thanks to my current volunteer researcher who caught a few mistakes. Nothing too drastic corrected - I had two entries for one shirt (I still have that for Dean's denim shirts though, and I have another entry that's actually for two different shirts, but at least I acknowledge that in those entries!) I also missed a new shirt in S7, when Dean acquired a Red Carhartt shirt.

Some notable things:

1. Dean has started wearing women's clothing.

2. There's a slight possibility that Kevin sometimes wears Dean's clothes. Dean also lends a shirt to Prometheus.

3. Sam's Blue and Black plaid is still bravely representing Sam's S1 wardrobe.

4. Sam is still a clothes whore.

5. Dean still has an insatiable love for jackets.

6. Despite Sam continuing his trend of owning way more clothes than Dean, Dean actually purchased more new clothes than Sam did this season.

7. Sam seems to have shrunk enough that he's been resurrecting a lot of his S3 wardrobe, including a shirt that has been both shot and set-on fire before. Sam's brown v-neck sweater from S2 also makes a reappearance.

8. Dean is wearing more plaid in S8 than he usually does.

CHARTS AND GRAPHS!!:



( more charts... )

PS: For the more astute observers out there: Yes, the clothing catalogue was actually completely updated last week, but I didn't have time to make this post until today. Sorry for the delayed announcement! You can blame Emerald City Comic-Con.

I'm just stopping by to recommend something...

As some of you no doubt know, Felicia Day (Charlie Bradbury from SPN) has her own youtube channel Geek and Sundry. One of the shows on that channel is her and her brother, Ryon, playing old-school video games. They're usually pretty hilarious. This week's "Battletoads" had me in tears.

I also think Ryon is a good looking dude...it's amazing to me how much he and Felicia look alike. I just like to stare at them and be amazed by genetics.

Anyway, check it out if you need a laugh on this dreary Monday:

So, I was super bored tonight, because of no new show, and I also didn't feel like writing (because I suck), so I figured I'd catch up on some of my timelining and watch Blood Brother 8x05 again...

I'VE DISCOVERED FACTUAL TREASURES!

Firstly, yes, Supernatural has indeed done the "soap-opera year" and despite being "one year later", it is still somehow 2012.





Secondly, Kevin Tran's date of birth is December 2nd 1993, making him nearly 19 years old, which is actually a little old to be starting university, isn't it? Maybe he did an extra year of kindergarten like yours truly...all the smart kids do it, I hear which is exactly the right age to be starting university, good job, Kevin!

Kevin is also an Agnostic, and he's using a credit card under the pseudonym Kevin Park.

We also get to find out Amelia's DOB: April 20th 1980, making her three years older than Sam.






Anyway, that was my fun for the evening. :) 

I have a problem with the words "all right" or the word "alright" depending on the day.

My problem is that it causes one of those...conflict thingies in my head.

1. I believe in the evolution of language. I believe that "alright" should be a word and that is how it should be spelled. I think it reflects how people SAY "all right" - as one word, not two. 
2. I really really hate it when I spell things wrong or have gross grammatical errors.

So, I never know when I'm writing whether I should write "alright" even though I know that it's blatantly wrong, because I want to encourage it to be officially accepted as the standard spelling - or if I should be writing "all right" because that is the proper thing to do, and I have a Masters, damn it!

The only way I have solved this so far is to avoid the words "all right/alright" like the plague and use "okay" instead or some other word. Of course, for those who read my Demented'verse, you'll probably have noticed that I use "alright" all the time in it - a fact that actually makes my fingers itch when I read it. That being said, when I read "all right" in other people's fics, I don't like it, I want them to use "alright."

Anyway, I don't know what to do about this problem....and somehow I doubt this keeps other people up at night.

Okay, two posts in a short span of time - forgive me.

But, while I've been at my mum's, I've been going through some old boxes of mine. I found some old paintings from when I was in Grade 7 or so...I went to a Christian-based private school...so, yeah, I found one old drawing that could serve as a "sort of" Supernatural fanart...

Behold my (12-13 year-old) version of Michael Slaying the Dragon:


( Behind here )

Mostly10 over on Tumblr finally did what I hoped someone would do, because I was unwilling: 

Mostly10 CREATED A CONVENTION CLOTHING GUIDE!

I was super thrilled, because I knew full well that Jared likes to steal Sam's clothes and wear them out in the wild. So, thanks to mostly10, you'll now find an additional fact listed at the bottom of the entries to some of Sam's shirts in my Clothing Catalogue.

Of course, I went through and picked out Sam's shirts very very late Sunday night when I should have been sleeping (...so sue me, I was excited), so I could have mis-identified some things, but hopefully if I did, people will let me know.

Unlike a lot of fans, I don't actually collect pictures of Jensen and Jared*, so I ONLY had the pictures from Mostly10's guide to go off of...and some of them aren't the best for light/colour/detail. So, yeah, if someone has a better picture of a shirt out there and tells me I didn't identify it correctly, then I'm willing to believe that person. :P

Also, in 2009 Jensen wore a very Sam-like shirt to Asylum 3. It's not Sam's shirt...but it's the style he favours, so subtract the Jensen-beard and you'd get an idea about what Dean!Sam would look like in a bodyswap episode (or what the show would look like if Jensen had been hired to play Sam and they kept the wardrobe the same).

*the only "Jared and Jensen" pictures I have on my computer are screencaps for my own clothing catalogue...so, yeah, not very useful. I do have raloria's pictures from the two Vancouver Conventions that I went to - because I don't take my own pictures at that event, but that's it.

I'm behind on my timelining, so tonight I'm combing 7x20 for information.

Here's a bit of trivia:

According to Frank's hard-drive's GPS, Richard Roman Enterprises is located at 707 Osterman Ave, Deerfield, IL.
Coordinates: 42.163992,-87.845703

It's a US Post Office.

:)

So, I've noticed a few things about my writing as I've been working on The Novel Project. For your entertainment, here they are:

1. Even when I'm writing "bad guy" dialogue I still can't bring myself to use homophobic slurs. Like...I just can't type them. It's weird, because I think I wouldn't have trouble writing racist things, and I've had no problem having them use the word "retard"...but, for some reason I just can't bring myself to type that word that means cigarette in the UK. :P Which is really ridiculous, because I used to say it all the time myself when I was around 13 and didn't know any better.* Anyway, so, my bad guys are surprisingly tolerant assholes.

2. Every time I use the word "she", I think of my grandmother saying "Who's she, the cat's mother?" And then I want to replace it with the woman's name.

3. After reading and writing mostly stories involving only men, I tend to use full names rather than pronouns, even in scenes where there is only one boy and one girl. At least one of my readers finds it annoying, but I just can't stop. :P

4. Even though I'm a huge supporter of the evolution of language, now that I KNOW "alright" isn't a word, I have a really hard time spelling it that way...but, "all right" looks ridiculous to me...so I'm constantly using "okay" instead.

I'm sure there are more...but these are the main ones. 

*I was never homophobic. I just didn't understand that joining my friends in using homophobic language wasn't helping society.