Supernatural

[67Impala]

I was wondering if anyone here knew when the new series starts? I'm in need of a Winchester fix.

I made apple pie last night. And gingerbread. I'm happy to share.

I still haven't quite got over the shock of sunday's SPN. ((((Jimmy)))) It's on again tonight and dh will be watching it, I almost can't bear it. Still, lots of Misha to look at.

I'm not around too much atm as I'm working my way through the spn backcatalogue. Just up to Meg being introduced. She was rather spunky. My evenings are a Winchester filled dream.

Am in a slashy mood today and trying to finish my first attempt at Dean/Castiel. And entertaining the small person of course. She's currently painting swirls everywhere except upon the paper I provided for this endeavour.

This actually dropped off my active conversations (should be ashamed of myself) No apocalypse, but have been distracted by...

Misha's almost execution
SPN/J2 Big Bang Fics starting to be posted (all 20k+ word count, read a 50k one yesterday - I'm a fast reader, but it still took a while to get through!)
My postE22 fic that I'm currently writing(I'm easily distracted and a bit lazy)
Watching Castle (starring Nathan Fillion)

So, have lj, have fic posted to lj, attempted to post to comm. Awaiting rejection email on grounds of 'she may have 3 degrees but she's a right thicko'.

I may link my lj here and get one of you to explain the finer points. My head hurts.

I am rather enamoured of the execution/escape. It's not real, it's not real, it's not real. Tried to explain it to dh yesterday. Very large mistake. He thinks I'm cracking slightly. He may be right.

serenity, I have tried, I promise I have tried but I cannot understand Wincest. Or RPS, though there is one I read that... anyway. I tire easily of some of the longer stuff on there, I think I come across too much of the navel-gazing, cliched stuff. Some of the verses are good though and satisfyingly long. And, I did cry at a fic yesterday. What the hell have you lot done to me?

So, I wrote a fic. Well, it's about the 7th I've written but the first I've commited to the olde interweb. It's all downhill from here.

Oh dear. It's been accepted. It's out there. On the comm. What have I done? Nobody tell dh, he'll be forced to eye roll and sigh.

Where are you all?

serenity, this is all your fault. Were it not for you, I would not be posting this stuff on the web. I appreciate that I am the only person excited about this. I do. I truly do. But I did it. And at least two people have read it.

I actually leave the internet for a day and all hell breaks loose...

Sorry, was at the Rymans Football League Annual Dinner/Dance last night. I'm back for 5 minutes then I have to chaperone 3 9yo's at the cinema.

Don't blame me girly. I'm good, but not even I can corrupt over the net unless there's something to corrupt in the first place Which comm? Are you going to make me guess? I don't know your LJ do I? Will find it and read it tonight. And FGS don't apologise over not getting the wincest, seriously, it's bad, bad stuff. None of my friends read it.

Found you I hope (I really hope, 'cos damn it's good)

I'm sorry I don't know what football is. What film did you go and see? Did the trio behave themselves?

You found it I think. In the Groped by an Angel madhouse obviously. My OTP I think. You've certainly commented and flailed beautifully. I hope you liked it and if you didn't just lie . No, be honest, I can take it. I'm not completely happy with it. I've spent a few weeks writing a completely different tangent and tweaking it and then sat down for half an hour yesterday and knocked that out instead. Decided not to edit it and to just put it up as was. I've found through years of writing utter dirge that the stuff I spend time on is not as good as the stuff I just sit down and type without thinking. I've been rather inspired.

I am supposed to be writing a novel you know. This will not do.

Can you help me out with a couple of technical points? Do you mind? I'm going to write the next chapter this afternoon but want to link back to the first. How??? The instructions are probably straightforward but I've read them at least 17 times and the words are swimming. Also, how do people link back to their lj instead of posting the whole thing on the comm? Any help gratefully received. No rush. Enjoy the sun. I went out running in it. Which was ill advised.

When the Levee Breaks tonight. Is it good? Does Castiel get naked even a little bit?

re Wincest, actually if it's Dean/Sam/Castiel it's bearable. Enjoyable even. I just need the angel. Obviously.

Never mind the trio - pity everyone else there. It ended up being 19 children (1 yr5, 16 yr4, 1 reception, 1 nursery...) and 5 adults. We might have been a bit noisy (not during the film I hastened to add, well not too much) Saw Night at the Museum II, which is good but I've already seen. Birthday Boy's Mum has sworn that next year there will be less invited

No naked Castiel but it's good anyway. Couple of scenes where enormous amounts of subtext can be read into it (not like next week though fans self OMG)

Ok, linking back.

To link to your LJ from the comm.

Whatever you want the bit you click to say on the comm

This works for any link you want to post, don't forget the quotation marks. To link the second chapter to the first, edit your first and put a link to the second at the bottom, and put a link to the first at the beginning of the second (does that make sense?)

You managed to figure out LJ cuts, and those things drive me up the wall!

I don't lie on comments (I don't say bad things either, I'd rather just not comment at all) I've never seen the point

Okay stupid question no3847480

Chapter links done no probs.

When I'm posting to the comm and I want to link back to my lj, do I have to post all of the Title: Pairing: etc info completely in html (doing it in rich text atm so just doing the lj cut to the submission). To put in the link thing presumably everything has to be in html? It's just that unlike when submitting to my lj, if I click on the html tab it doesn't automatically translate it into html iyswim. Do I have to c+p the html version from my lj edit page into the comm submission?

Is that making any sense at all?

PS. That's a lot of children to take to one cinema.

I swap between Rich Text and HTML, but I need to go and look at this further

Ok, I see my bad for confusing things - it's different when you post (I forget that every single bloody time). In richtext, you write whatever you want people to click, highlight it, then click on the insert/edit link icon at the top (little planet with a chain link on it) then copy/paste URL in the relevant box.

I have to say the preview button is your friend in this - as long as it looks right and works in the preview, I'll go from one to the other to correct stuff. However, I do the bulk of it in richtext

I've probably made things more confusing haven't I?

i am so far behind with this thread, and I haven't written anything for ages

Huzzah for Misha being free though.

I'm still here the tumbleweeds didn't get me yet.. but its been a busy weekend so you must forgive me...

I did have a SPN dream last night.. it was alternate reality where Dean was a Professor of Paranormal Studies, with little round glasses and an abundance of tweed (a bit like indian jones) and Sam was a lawyer, both thier parents were alive but divorced and hated each other... Dean would hunt on the weekends and holidays with the Impala and his leather jacket.. I think I was a student and he took some of us students on a minor hunt.. and its was near where Sam was and they were arguing.. can;t remember anymore than that.. will have to imagine something..

will catch up tommorow!

No serenity, that's much clearer.

It's been a long time since I had to wrangle with html in any depth and I'm a bit hazy so if I can post to comms in rt then I'll do that.

Have done chapter 2. It's not great. Don't read it, it's just to move onto chapter 3 where things get interesting again. My italics have all disappeared on the commm and it's spellchecked and altered some stuff that it shouldn't have. It's more accurate on my lj.

meri, your dream sounds very involved. Why don't I dream in SPN? I dream in zombies and mutants. Oh and Dr Who (10) last night but he didn't invite me to play with his sonic screwdriver unfortunately.

If I don't read it surely I'll have problems with following chapter 3...?

Am going to look tomorrow, I'm supposed to be writing atm, and I try not to mix the two up because I get disheartened and do mass deletes after reading other people's fics (insecure writer is needy and insecure). You can see it's going well though due to my current haunting of MN.

Oh I know what you mean.

I was supposed to be writing (dh due home from work any minute, oh the life of a copper's wife) but am not in the right place for it. My brain spends five minutes chasing each phrase and even then it doesn't read how I want it to.

Bed might be the better option.

When the Levee Breaks has killed me dead. I mean I like a little Dean!Whump I do but c'mon Kripke. Sam you can whump to death, he'll probably choke on his own whining. I don't think I like Sera Gamble too much. Am I missing something? And Ruby, Ruby, Ruby. Go home. To the pit.

And Castiel. Come on, man up. Even Anna can see it and she has Impossible Hair. You're being silly. Stop follwing orders, take your top off and er, where was I?

It had plus points (and I like Sera Gamble, she usually gets at least one of them to take items of clothing off)

High points.

Dean and Castiel's epic subtext wedding (I swear to follow you and do lots of intense gazing)

Bondage!Sam (He was Tied To A Bed, there is nothing wrong in that)

Alastair! Wee!Sam! Mama Winchester!

Don't worry, there's still another episode...

I know, I know. So excited about the finale, I can barely contain myself.

The epic subtext wedding, oh yes. Cas had his hands stuffed in his pockets the whole time which yes can be read as a bit risque if you're writing a particularly filthy one shot but actually just added a nice human frustration to the scene. Very insular, very uncomfortable. And his gaze, all over the place. Just beautiful. Really liked it.

Mama Winchester was superb, nice make me proud type vibe.

Alastair (all comedy cartoon voices aside) is terrifying. Jared very good in this scene I thought, often a bit distracted by his overacting face twitches but liked the panic room. Have you read Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper? The way the character moves round the room at the end of that book reminded me of Sam moving round the panic room.

Come on finale. It's about time.

I have read up on everything but have had a really shite nite and can't think of anything to say that is witty.. my mouth or rather my typing has got me into trouble... DH's cousin spyed on my blog/twitter feed and saw my tweets about the party lastnight.. i wasn't being malicious i just didn't belong..,i'm quite and shy and get really uncomfortable in party situations...and it was a disco... I don't dance... and now i realy won't belong as have been dis-invited to any future parties.. I dunno I emailed an applolgy but it might be too little too late.. have cried for two hours on and off and tied myself in two for being me and my humor.. argh.. head splodes

so i guess this is my heritage to be a black sheep "baaa"

Hugs carefully

It sucks, but hopefully it'll blow over? That is the awful pitfall of t'internet - feels private and safe but in reality it's absolutely not.

Chin up. What's done is done, can't change it now and you've apologised. The ball's in their court, and fingers crossed they'll be reasonable and let it go. Do you usually get on OK? Is it just one person you've pissed off, or is it dragging other people in?

(Now I'm going to say sorry because I bet I'll reread this when I'm actually awake and think I'm sounding like a bitch. As usual)

You need sleep. Things always look insurmountable and FUBAR when you're tired.

takes own advice and heads off to bed, leaving DH playing Splinter Cell alone

Splinter Cell, eugh.

Oh meridian.

Hope things seem a little better this morning. You probably feel a little bit washed out this morning and fuzzy headed after the crying. Fresh air and lots of it.

serenity's right, you've apologised and you meant it too. You can only wait.

I understand what you were doing on twitter. I'm ridiculously, painfully, terribly shy and discos are my worse nightmare (bad music and dancing, neither up there on my things to do list) and you were mocking the music and your own displacement in the situation by retreating into what seemed like a little cosy world of blogging. Of course in the aftermath they're taking it as a personal affront (understandably yes) but give it a wee while and it will blow over. Assuming you married into a normalish family then they'll forgive you and it'll be on to the next thing. Shall I insert a Sam/Dean analogy here about family and it all comes out in the wash?

It's tough being shy because it comes across as being aloof and when the shyness is compounded by a situation you find difficult, people make assumptions.

The Internet's a weird old thing. There's no tone to it, it's so easy to misinterpret somebody's words as more malign than they are. It happens on MN at least once every half an hour.

Hope you find time for Starbucks today. I don't know anybody who gets as excited about coffee as you. I have the same visceral reaction to gingerbread.

meridian, my twitter's playing up. Have tried to send you a link to my lj but suspect it's not there.

Here. It's utter rubbish. Serenity will tell you. Chapter 2's a stepping stone and rushed. And my lj itself is terrible and yellow (ooh look buttercups mummy- 25 month old dd) and hard to navigate and just ignore it all.

serenity, possibly the last stupid q I'll ask (hollow laughter). If you post in a comm and link to your lj, you don't have to worry about doing an lj cut as well? Just a link suffices, yes? [slow]

How on earth do people navigate lj? People have such amazing pages and beautiful icons and I can't work out how to get from my homepage to my journal entries. Or how to add a friend.

Now, where's flame and where's her lj?

Serenity, Show- I know the internet isn't safe, but its the only place that I can be me.. hell DH knows this because we met via the internet...my writing and twittering is one if the ways I express myself.. my twitter is more the funny amusing side of me.. or so I though.. apparently I'm deluded on that front. i honestly didn't mean any harm was jsut being more normal self.. when abandoned at the party while DH took pics of the kids with grandma...i didn't know what to do with myself, I'm painfulyl shy in big situations and they have never really bothered with me in the slightest before... I'm going to have to write another apology and I don't know what to say... puts on social pariah badge

ugh.. huge headache...

Show- I have friended you on lj, I will try and read your fic in a little bit.. I still have to edit/beta it.. which i may try to do later.. at least put the grammercheck on it would be a start.. but I havent' added it to a community.. i was afraid it was too crap..

Hope you're feeling a bit brighter this morning, Meri.

SoH - LJ Cut just hides epic amounts of text, so you wouldn't need one on the comm post, but it's Polite and The Done Thing to do it on your LJ still so that people who have you on their flist don't get overwhelmed with text when you post something.

Navigating LJ - the Flist. It's wonderful when you get the hang of it. Friend everyone and every comm you have an interest in, then when you click on Friends List at the top of the page, it works a bit like Active Conversations here.

By Homepage do you mean the User Profile? Click on your name or where it says journal entries and it will take you there (and User Info to do the opposite)

The really snazzy journals are paid accounts - they're more flexible, and people post icons and headers and all that for people to use (as long as they're credited)

To add a friend... When you're in someone's LJ (reading fic or whatever) go to the very top of the page and it'll say whether you're a friend, mutual friend, or give you the option to friend them. Works the same way in the comms (but you must have done that to post the fic)

If you go into their User Profile, it gives you the same options on the right hand side, next to their details.

Why don't you look at my list of comms on my User Profile? Have a look at a few, see which ones appeal? Mishaland is weird and freaky but worth joining. SPNNewsletter is a must - lists the new fic (both of yours were on there) It might be a good starting point.

meri, don't write another apology. Give it a couple of days. When you feel a bit stronger, maybe a telephone call or a visit in person if you feel you can?

Get outside, fresh air, eat something good for you, have something to drink.

And for goodness sake, don't apologise for who you are. Apologise for any offence taken but there was no malice. Don't be so hard on yourself.

I'm going to write you a fic I think. Nothing too long or clever.