After five six years here (WHUT? WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN??), this journal has gotten seriously lengthy, and even with tags, it’s hard for me to manage different big fannish posts I have here. I keep finding a need to refer back to them, and as they are now, they’re just such a pain. I figured making one big sticky post archiving all my big posts, vids, SPN score, and all that silly color meta, would make things easier both for me, and for others that might want to access them in the future.

[In the order of most recent to oldest...]

( MY VIDS )

( SPN SCORE ANALYSIS & DOWNLOAD POSTS )

( SPN CINEMATOGRAPHY/COLOR METAS )

OTHER RELEVANCY:
- ’Statement of Fannish Intent‘: Where This LJ Stands Now
- My Love Letter to 'Supernatural' [circa 2006]
- Fic Recs
- Vid Recs
- Meta Recs

More recs at my delicious account

( SPN - 7.14 - Pluckie Pennywhistle's something or other )

Bat signal for another set of eyes! Anyone out there a Revenge fan? I've got this vid that after this week's ep, has me wondering whether I want to keep my original structure or revamp it. I need an extra brain to pick, anyone care to take a look? *bats eyelashes*

( SPN - 7.13 - 'The Slice Girls' - Well, well, then, show, keep on keeping on... )

I'm totally failing on LJ stuff these days besides posting SPN reactions. RL's been a bitch the last couple months, and I've been keeping sane during any downtime I can get with the fabulousness of new TV from this fall. But I haven't been up for talking about them much, they still have that new happy sheen on them I don't want to ruin, you know? Revenge has been my top darling since the moment it aired (and I may have a vidbunny I've thrown work into since November, I'm hoping I can get done before end of February!). Stupid, but Hart of Dixie for all its flaws has become my enjoyable light, fluffy happy counter to all of Revenge's delicious chaos and destruction (even as I want to fling the actress that plays Lemon over a building). Parks & Rec still remains a big smiling favorite and gets all the hearts of the world from me every week. Leslie Knope is my hero (TM) \o/. Also watching New Girl (which I'm enjoying more and more these days), OUAT (I make no promises, it's those Lost boys, but Emma Swan kinda kicks ass. Why they killed the awesome Sheriff guy so quickly and after that brilliant episode, I will NEVER understand.) Crying over the ruins of Pan Am which started out so well as a nuanced character drama until the network got nervous at its ratings and decided to inject lame melodrama into it. Oh, yea, and Community. Anyone know what the state of that is at the moment?? Any hope?

( SPN - 712 - Time After Time )

Also, I have INSTA!RECS
- ash48 commemorates SPN's two PCA wins with a celebration vid! For those like me who stayed up and watched that awful wreck only to be disappointed by Favorite TV Drama never being announced, this takes the sting out of it. We are Fandom, hear us ROAR! XD
- I wholeheartedly recommend to anyone looking for post-7.10 fic: 'Northern Birds' [Sam&Dean, gen, post-710] - roque_clasique -

Between Flock packing up shop, Delicious ruining itself, and everything with LJ this year, my favorite internet applications are making me BAWLLLLL. Someone obviously didn't relay the memo that pissing off your already paying customers is bad business.

These newest changes and proposed future ones feel like the last straw for me. I've been a loyal PAYING customer for seven long years, through a lot of ridiculousness, but fuckin' with the essential interface so drastically is my final line. Familiarity was what was keeping me anchored here, but without it, I'll be officially taking my business elsewhere.

Since I have some time this week for break, I'll be trying to update my Dreamwidth account and making a more permanent move there. I'll still crosspost, but between the new changes that are an absolute EYESORE and the attacks that have made it unreliable at best, I don't trust LJ to be the primary house of my posts. I'd really encourage my flist to do the same. I never got in the habit of commenting there, but I'm trying to do so now.

I'm HERE @ Dreamwidth. If you have one, and I haven't added you yet, let me know so I can keep track of you all. :) [If you haven't yet, and want to, 'Create a DW account'.]

Also, I'm also now on PINBOARD | AO3 | TUMBLR | TWITTER under the same name.

I'm still trying to figure them out (still behind on the times!), I'm not entirely what I want to do with the latter two them just yet. I still like the LJ/DW-type platform best, I'll take lj-cuts and comments and discussion over 'likes' and 'reblogs' any day. But I will admit Tumblr is nice when you're faced with only small bits of time for fandom things like grad school has done for me. It's been especially fun for celebrating old fandoms which I wish I had more time to do here. So I'll be trying to explore more of what I want to do with it. Hoping to use AO3 as a more permanent backup for my old vid posts in the future as well.

Yup.

( SPN - 7.09 - ‘How to Wind Friends and Influence Monsters‘ )

In other news, I went crazy and mainlined American Horror Story this weekend. OMG, compared to that SPN is lollipops, rainbows and sunshine. WOW. I wish it wasn’t so excellent and addicting. Seriously the show is like that turducken sandwich yo. It’s kinda a problem, since it scares the fuckin shit out of me and makes me cringe like a mother over all it's fuckedupness and the entire time I’m like WHY AM I WATCHING THIS, and then Connie Britton will be fuckin brilliant or it ends on some MINDFUCK of a note, and I’m like AHHHH, GIVE ME MORE. WHY?????

One of these days I need to talk about all the excellent tv that's been on my screen this fall, maybe this hiatus will give me the excuse to do that.

UGHHHHH, this week has been a disaster of epic proportions, midterms sucked the life out of me and I am running on EMPTY. UGH, SPN please be awesome tonight, I need to unwind with some quick light, filler, awesomeness before I have to dive back in again.

Totally late to the party, but in case anyone missed it first time around, quick SPN rec:

'Fallen' - ash48 - A farewell to Castiel through Dean's eyes.

My favorite thing about this vid has become how it's a tribute of three season long character and yet it doesn't shy away from the brutal narrative that canon already provides. It's just such a wonderfully Dean way of looking at what happened. Cas learned free will from Sam and Dean, both the power of it to do good and the consequence of it to reek havoc. In that way it's a very no-holds-barred tribute. Honest. Nostalgic. Hurty. And illuminating of canon. Just the way I like my vids. :)

HAPPY SPN DAY!

So....I've been vaulting my ep reactions the last couple of weeks. Because I honestly haven't known what to DO with the last two episodes. They did these things where they went much further and called back to the past much clearer than I expected them to go, and in that respect I LOVED THEM. But then they just left it there with absolutely ZERO follow-through, when I want them to DO something with it, so the episodes end and I'm like "Really? That's it? You opened up that box and you're just leaving it there?". Which was entirely too frustrating for words and made me question the writers abilities to more than reference back to the past, and doubt they're prepared to do more than just meta about the past in repeat forever. So I had written pages and pages of notes and meta, but I felt confident in very little of it and that posting it would have gotten my hopes higher than I could allow them to be so early in on the season. I guess you could say I was highly SUSPICIOUS, and I didn't want to jinx anything until I see more.

THAT IS WHY THIS IS EXACTLY THE ANVILICIOUS, MOTW, CLASSIC SPN FILLER I NEEDED! I have an intense love for classic anvilicious motw filler. The big heavy lethal episodes make me cry bucketfuls, but it's the fillers I watch over and over again. Bugs. Route 666. Roadkill. Red Sky in the Morning. Criss Angel. Fallen Idols. My God even Yellow Fever which I had nothing but hate for and still hate the execution for. They're the episodes that get a lot of criticism. But then they have these small detail moments that I love SO SO VERY HARD because they call back to things and yet at the same time also says things for the future that resonate even more as the season unfolds.

So...as a consequence, instead of using any of those notes from the last two weeks, which I totally could have done, this EXPLODED today in response to 7.05. It's basically my MAGNUM OPUS of S7 thinky thoughts in a nutshell...

( SPN - A 'Where we are now?' Meta on Dean and Sam and 7.05 in the context of 7.04 and 7.03 and the carousel of the last six years that is Dean Angst... )

*collapses*

Seven seasons is too much baggage, show. I have renewed sympathy for all those Buffy meta fans that tackled each episode of S7 with such deft grace and knowledge of six years before it. That much history. It's EXHAUSTING!

If this is the kinda things Twitter gives us, I am 100% okay with that. Embedded video under the cut...

( CRYING, I AM LAUGHING SO HARD... )

Okay, I totally have to post about OTHER TV at some point here, this is really getting ridiculous, but Sera Gamble just let a big one slip about their intent on the state of Sam for the future, and GUYSSSS:

( I CAN'T EVEN... [I don't even know how to mark this, is it spoilery? For 7.02 yes, but it's no more than clarifying intent for the rest of the season really...don't look if you don't want to know I guess but this is too delicious not to really...] )

These eps this season are talking me forever to watch, again insta-reaction from last night's watching....

( SPN - 7.02 - 'Hello, Cruel World' - Insta!Reaction...capslock/exclamation abuse, incoherent ramblings, fly-by-night picspamming... )

It was wayyyy too late to write this up last night by the time I finished the episode which took forever for me to watch with all my crazy pausing and flaily hands, so...insta morning after reaction!

( SPN - 7.01 - 'Meet The New Boss' - Insta Reaction )

HAPPY SPN PREMIERE DAY!!! Yes, it's S7 and I'm excited for the premiere, moreso than I've been...in a long while. Which I know is dangerous as hell and stupid, especially seeing as how my 'everything else is cake' mentality worked last season. But I can't help it, the show has been throwing slivers of hope out into the crowd and I'm jumping up and grabbing them.

Need some jetfuel to get you to 9PM EST tonight? Even worse, waiting like me for the download? Have some angsty/hopeful Winchester soundtracks to listen to...

'BEST OF' S2 SCORE:
It'll make you all weepy and nostalgic as it passes six years of memories over your eyes...

[DOWNLOAD]

S7 PREMIERE MIX:
Black Keys, Oasis, Mumford, U2, Beatles, Shins, Killers, Foo Fighters, Alice In Chains, Wilco, Dirty Pretty Things, Cary Brothers, Frames, Chil Peppers, Brand New.

Part boys back on the road, part heavenly beings and egocentric gods, part 'Hell flashbacks make me a little crazy', part 'Why yes I do have my leftover drinking problem from my own trip downstairs', part hope and forgiveness acoustic, part epic 'we've gotten this far' feel...

[DOWNLOAD]

ENJOY THE NIGHT EVERYONE!! XDD

Remember when I was trying not to be emotionally invested in this show anymore? For the record, I blame this on every tidbit we've gotten over the last month about what we can expect from S7. This little vidbunny got its claws into me and would not let go until it was finished...

’THE TOLL‘
Dean Winchester [S6]
Vidder: zimshan
Length: 03:49
Characters: Dean POV on Lisa, Ben, Sam [NOTE: Spoilers for all aired episodes]
Song/Artist: ‘The Toll’ by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Summary: "And the distance will always be home" This was never supposed to be Dean's life. [aka 'Why Dean in Lisa & Ben's lives was always inevitably doomed'
Links/Size: AVI (720x416) [42 MB] | VIMEO [Embedded below] | Vidders.net | YOUTUBE
Disclaimer: All clips property of Eric Kripke, WB, & The CW. I claim no ownership of anything in this vid other than the editing I have done myself.



( LYRICS & VID NOTES )

Some mucho amazing thanks goes out to ash48 who dropped everything at last minute's notice for a lightning quick beta! If any of this got cleaned up properly, it's due completely to her energy and enthusiasm that gave me a shot in the arm when I was redlining. You are wonderful! *smooches*

Hope you all can enjoy! :)

Any and all comments are coveted, loved, and adored! XD

So there’s all these new shows starting this fall! I actually have to make a list this year! New TV I’m willing to give a go at, and old shows I’m continuing to watch under the cut:

( NEW FALL PREMIERES )


( 411 on OLD RETURNING SHOWS I'm still watching...since I don't get to talk about them much... )

Holy shit that got long, it's been awhile since I've even thought about that much TV. For the first time in YEARSSSSS I need a TV schedule....

Week by week watching (priorities marked by *):

Mondays: *Hart of Dixie
Tuesdays: *Parenthood, Ringer, New Girl
Wednesday: *Revenge
Thursday: *Parks & Rec, Community, Bones
Friday: *SPN, Grimm

Shows I’ll catch up with in my own time:

- Necessary Roughness
- Castle
- Fringe
- White Collar (when does it start up again?)
- The Office
- Pan Am
- 2 Broke Girls

And I mayyyyyy have started Sons of Anarchy as well? Damn you flist and all your convincing pimps for the last year!!

OF INTEREST! Via missambs's pimp, a FANTASTIC idea you all must be alerted to...

A multi-fandom, multi-media, multi-language female character love fest!:

'We Love The Women That Fandom Hates'



Claims and sign ups going on now!

Still deciding myself, maybe I'll finally do that meta picspam on Jen Lindley that I've been itching to do for years. Battling my intense Leslie Knope love because she's the one female character I can think of who legitimately doesn't fit this (How is she so AWESOME, guys, HOW??? Crossing my fingers all summer S4 doesn't fuck it up! [TOTALLY OT, but I've been searching for a vid song for her for AGES now and I'm excited as hell to have finally found one! So you know, look forward to seeing that sometime in the next CENTURY at the rate I'm going lately...]).

I was wondering how on EARTH I could take watching TWO SPN eps in one night. The answer is: I CAN’T. The first hour left me downright TRAUMATIZED, by the time it was over, I was just at TOO MUCH TO PROCESS. And couldn’t even think about watching A FINALE after something like that. So I’m waiting until tonight to watch the second part. Because it feels weird to watch the show when it's not midnight. And because I seriously have to talk about this one first!!

( 6.21 - 'Let It Bleed' - no spoilers past this ep, I have yet to see 6.22 yet! )

I’m not watching the second part til tonight, but I’ll admit this one being so crazy has me scared shitless as to what else they have up their sleeve. PLEASE no comments, hints, illusions, or anything that might be construed as spoiling me for the second half. I am riding so blind and clueless in a way I haven't been for YEARS, it’s insane, and I LOVE IT. DON’T RUIN IT!

I’ve been mostly just lurking with the occasional drive-by comment the last couple months, it’s funny I just haven’t really been feeling SPN since it came back from winter hiatus, and I’m not sure whether it was just all the other shit I had on my plate lately, or whether every single episode became nothing more to me than one episode closer to THE EPISODE WHICH IS TO END ALL EPISODES OF FANGIRL WISH FULFILLMENT EVER. Really, I’ve been one-track mind fan since January. *fade to black* "Well that was nice, but OMG WESTERN EP!!" So the possibility that this hour could have let me down was huge. Instead?

( SPN - 6.18 - 'Frontierland' aka the ep I broke a fangirl muscle flailing over because seriously....There are no words, folks. NO WORDS. )

In case anyone might be interested in some classic western film score music (like say, any vidders out there who might be contemplating doing a western themed SPN vid????), I zipped up some of my favorite Ennio Morricone (The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly; A Fistful of Dollars; Once Upon A Time In The West) and Robert Rodriquez (more modern pastiche of Morricone with electric guitars) score to download HERE.

In other news, TV was so good this week I didn't even know what to do with it. Community killed laughing muscles I didn't know I had (CAN WE TALK ABOUT THAT MOST METATASTIC SHOUTOUT TO FANDOM SHIPPER VIDDING EVER???), Office tugged heart strings with a full cast goodbye song that didn't leave a dry eye in the house, Parenthood had me crying from the first two minutes in (I AM LOVING THIS FAMILY SO MUCH I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU, EVERYONE SHOULD BE WATCHING THIS SHOW), Parks & Recreation continues to be my FAVORITE THING ON TV (no, really, Leslie Knope, you deserve a medal!)...

If you have yet to see counteragent's new vid, 'Coin-Operated Boy'? Don't walk, RUN! I don't care if you hate SPN, have never seen the show, or whatever. It doesn't matter. This is like the most EPICALLY EPIC of all metarific vids EVER, that captures the comfort and insanity that is fandom in such an unflinchingly critical and pointed way, IT IS RIDICULOUS. My mind is still REELING from it 12 hours later. It will probably be EATING MY BRAIN for the rest of the week! That's how OMG, SHUT UP, ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? this vid is. NO, REALLY. SERIOUSLY.

On the flip side, my fannish heart just grew 100 sizes reading this new Sera Gamble Interview. Having such appreciation for a crew six seasons in is kinda unheard of for me, I'm not sure I know what to do with it. It's weird how the frustration depicted in the above vid goes hand in hand with appreciation with TPTB for me in this show. I think it has something do to with my disconnect between intellectually seeing something well thought out and working, and emotionally being denied what I want most as a fan based on what tv needs to be in order to keep going. If that makes any sense at all?

In LJ news, has anyone else been having problems with anons trashing old post? I've always kept anon posting on, because I've had non-LJers comment in score posts, asking questions and the like. But I've been having more and more problems with spam lately, and after some anon coming in and trashing my flisters' comments yesterday, I think that's my final straw. I can't tolerate my journal turning into some anon meme fan bashing. But my sincere apologies to those who got so baselessly attacked. That shit was so not cool.

( SPN - 6.11 - 'Appointment in Samara' - Insta!Reactions and some rambling incoherency... )

In other news, two more finals and I am vidding through this winter break! [NO SERIOUSLY hold me to it, I have three storyboarded, at least ONE will be done before the end of January. I SWEAR.]