Evil Wrapped in a Fangirl Disguise

Just got back from the high school drama club's Christmas play.

Was sitting down to my computer, ready to write, when I glanced up and saw this:



( One more )

(Dusty shelves, what dusty shelves?)

I stood there and stared, running through all of the people who would have been over recently enough for me not to notice that.

Then I went to my mom and said, "Okay. I have to ask you something and you have to promise not to mess with me because otherwise I'll think I'm going crazy."

She pulls that Eddie Izzard Englebert Humperdink act on me all the time. (Which can be seen here if you don't know what I'm talking about.) Or the wide-eyed "It wasn't me, I swear."

Anyway. She owned up to it. Said she did it a couple of days ago.

Observant Mary is observant.

I'm having one of those days where I just want to surround myself with comfortable things and things that make me happy.

So I'm indulging myself with Dean and Castiel.

I've been re-watching bits of season one lately and thinking about the amazing luck SPN had when they cast Misha Collins. Before I'd seen any of the show, I'd read his first line several places. "I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from perdition."

Reading that? And not knowing the character? It's got the potential for massive fail. How do you make something like that sound...not ridiculous? I am convinced no one but Misha could make that line work because, omg, does it ever on the show itself. Now I read it/hear it and instead of thinking, "Who says stuff like that?" I become a quivering mass of flaily fangirl.

Besides which: best, most badass introduction/entrance of a character ever y/y? Seriously. He's got two of my favorite entrances on TV.

Also! Whenever I write a Dean line and go, "Ugh, that's pretty dirty. Even for Dean," I think about the deleted stuff from that scene and go, "Okay, maybe not too dirty for Dean."

CASTIEL: Finding a human vessel durable enough to contain me...it's not easy.
DEAN: I have that same problem with women.

SO MAYBE VESSELS CONTAINING ANGELS WILL WORK BETTER FOR YOU, DEAN. YOU SHOULD TRY IT.

OH LOOK. A CONVENIENTLY VESSELED ANGEL! ::smushes them together::

Um. Anyway. I almost couldn't believe he said it. Almost. Oh, Dean.

Also, this deleted scene from "Heaven and Hell." I just love how...subtly pleased/amused Castiel looks over telling Uriel to keep his hands off Ruby.

I have no really appropriate end for this post, except that the hiatus is surprisingly not torture. I think it's because a) I have lots of fic I want to write about them that works well with not worrying about new canon information and b) I am afraid the whole season is going to end in an epically bad way and if I can put that off, I'm good. I have no basis for this fear other than it's SPN and, well, look at the subject matter. But it's still there.

Apparently Neil Gaiman recently did an "Open Mike" piece on NPR. I missed it, but he talks about it in his blog and includes the audio bits. Which make me very flaily.

NEIL GAIMAN AND DAVID SEDARIS. TOGETHER. FOR ME TO LISTEN TO.

There were hearts in my eyes last night. ♥____♥

It's a subject, audiobooks, I find interesting, too. Especially whether or not listening to an audiobook "counts" as reading it.

I don't actually listen to audiobooks very often. I used to more when I was younger and Mom and I go to Seattle more. We had these Native American tales on audio cassette that I loved and I remember listening to. Now it's generally just David Sedaris or whatever short story might come on NPR. Or Neil Gaiman.

Because my problem with audiobooks is this: I have ADD when it comes to music. And, yes, audiobooks are not music, but they do involve listening. Anyone who has ever had to put up with me without my headphones in the car knows I have a really hard time not jumping around on any given CD/playlist. One song reminds me of another which reminds me of another and before long I'm changing out all six discs in the player.

So sometimes I have a problem paying attention, especially if I don't have anything to do with my hands. It just means I have to be in the right mood.

But I do love them, and I love the idea of them. What you can get out of them that you can't get out of a text for yourself. For example, when we were studying "The Waste Land" in Intertextuality, it was hard to find your footing on how to read the poem. Until the professor played a recording of TS Eliot reading it and all of the sudden it made so much more sense.

Though, haha, looking at the comments on this recording on YouTube makes me wonder about what I'm getting out of it and what other people are.

AH! I found David doing his Billie Holiday impression! Here! (Though ignore the video, as it's a completely different reading. Weird.) He wouldn't do the impression for us in Yakima, but oh, it's scary good. And the Oscar Meyer jingle! OMG. ♥ x a billion

Happy Thanksgiving to those that celebrate it! To those that don't, the sentiment remains though the holiday does not. I hope everyone had a wonderful day, wherever you may be. ♥

I had stuffing, so I am happy.

Now I am texting Tris about Black Friday and watching this teaser and this trailer for Bioshock 2. Grabby hands may be involved. WANT.

The funny thing about this is that I SUCK at games like Bioshock. I am way too excitable for games in which things attack you and you have to fight. I prefer to watch because then my flailing doesn't ruin anyone's chances. Except Tris rented Bioshock when I was over there last summer and I was actually pretty good at it. Even though parts scared the bejeebus out of me. Visually, aurally. It's a creepy game.

There was a great part while I was playing with Tris where a guy popped out of a bathroom stall I'd already investigated. I jumped and, yes, yelped and Tris screamed. He blamed it on my jumping. But I think we all know he would have done it anyway. After trying to play the game before me, he had to give up. The atmosphere is really effective.

It's just one of those things where I'm so intrigued by it visually and story-wise that I just can't help but be drawn to it. Curiosity really did kill the gaming-cat, didn't it?

Trailer. Other trailer.

I really just want to explore Rapture and not be attacked.

Anyhoo. I'm also trying to work on fic. It's going. But Dean is not being...Dean enough. Heh. When I think, "Quit being problematic, Dean," it sounds like Sam. Maybe I'll try Castiel POV for a while.

I'm also working on the last school board meeting. Levy and levy equalization talk! FUN.

I was checking the summary of tonight's Big Bang Theory earlier this morning.

After being humiliated on the radio, Sheldon vows to destroy Kripke...

Despite the first part, my first thought was, "Oh, so Sheldon's mad about Supernatural, too?"


From a couple weeks ago, Sheldon teaches Leonard about football. I love why he knows football in the first place. Partially because I called it. Mostly I love Raj's observation about commercials near the beginning.

"I'm just saying, maybe if you people cut back on the beer you could get out of the bathroom and satisfy your women without pharmaceutical help."

Also, Wil Wheaton!

I love this show, I do.

I don't know where this came from.

Somehow, I really want a fic in which McGee never joined NCIS and instead becomes a full-time writer. He publishes his first book and it's moderately successful. And then he gets writer's block. Massive writer's block. So he decides to become a private investigator on the side. Or maybe something happens to a friend/an acquaintance of his and they say, "Hey, you like mysteries. You're pretty good with them. Can't you help me out?"

McGee would refuse, saying that it's completely different because those mysteries he makes up himself, so of course he can solve them. But they plead and he's nice guy. Please, he's really intrigued. So he says yes.

And then somehow he meets Tony. Maybe Tony is (still) a cop. Maybe Tony's with NCIS and everything is the exact same except that McGee isn't an agent. I don't know. All I know is that somehow this idea got in my head and now I kind of seriously want it.

I don't usually want NCIS AUs. In fact, the only other that I've ever craved was Tony and Tim in boarding school. (Um, I may have written tiny bits of that already, actually.) But...I could just suddenly see Tim doing the Thom E. Gemcity thing but without the NCIS background, living in his apartment with his dog, dealing with his agent, going out with friends. And running into Tony, who is just as fascinated and amused by him as he ever is on the show.

Oooh, and now I've got Nero Wolfe on the brain.
Clip! I looove the music on this show so much. And the cast. The cast is perfect. Oh my God, Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin. ♥

I keep getting the girls' mash-up of Halo/Walking on Sunshine stuck in my head. This is not a bad thing as it makes me really happy.

There are two new song previews that I'm excited about: this one and this one. Artie! Kurt! ♥♥

Also, I enjoyed this interview with Mark Salling (Puck) on AfterElton.com.

AE: There was an episode earlier where Kurt made it clear that he's crushing on Finn, and Finn was really nonchalant about it. How would he react is Kurt was crushing on him?

MS: [laughs] Well, that has not come up yet other than in the fantasy world of YouTube, but I think Puck has become more accepting of the glee club and the people in it so, I don't know, maybe he'd just turn the lights off and be like, "Okay." Or maybe he'd just throw him in the dumpster again.

Um. Yeah. I can really see Puck just turning off the lights and going with it.

I am pretty much impressed with everyone on the cast, even if I'm not always impressed with the characters on the show.

First, Merlin series two promo shots! Gwen is gorgeous.

Second, Supernatural season five promo!

I am a flaily fangirl today.

The Ten Dumbest Moments in Wheel of Fortune History.

Grandma used to tell me people kept spinning for more money. Clearly they keep spinning because THEY ARE MORONS.

::facepalm::

Pat Sajak is sneakily sarcastic. I love it.

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The Middleman's sayings will never not crack me up.

I miss this show. I want the DVDs now, please. Or more of the series. Or more of the comic.