Lurker Central

I signed up for GISHWES! At least, I think I did; I had to edit the email and resubmit it, and there's always the possibility I failed the essay portion of the exam. But nothing is being announced until the 18th from what I gather, so we'll see if I managed to do this right.

These two were my favorite of Misha's countdown tweets today:

@mishacollins: Registration closes in 4 hours. i'm afraid, very afraid. A sh*t load of people have signed up. it's going to be mayhem.

@mishacollins: Less than 3 hours to register. This was a bad idea. it'll take hundreds of hours to review submissions. I have a family.

<3

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It is killing me that dc_dystopia's time frame is exactly the same as jimmybigbang's (the rough drafts are literally due within days of each other) because it hit me that would be the perfect excuse to write the SPN/24 crossover I've been kicking around the past few months.

OR! Or my 2014!Cas-does-drugs-because-Lucifer-keeps-walking-through-his-dreams idea! That would also work! Why does everything cool have to go on at the same time?!?

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So last night I had a dream where I was watching Human Target (God, I miss my show) where the case wound up taking a decidedly supernatural turn. The team all brainstormed what to when Guerrero walked in, heard the story, said, "I know a guy" and called up Bobby (because Guerrero and Bobby both know everyone.) Bobby sent in Sam and Dean with Cas along for the ride; when they all walked in Guerrero took one look at Cas and said, "Hey bro, been a while," just as cool as you please. Apparently Guerrero had pulled a Gabriel, only instead of an angel pretending to be a trickster he was an angel slumming it as a human assassin.

That was as far as I got before Lexi in all her grace knocked something over and woke me up, and I'm not sure how I feel about my brain coming up with that. On hand, the concept that Guerrero essentially fell for Chance the way Cas fell for Dean amuses me, and I like the image of the two of them sighing over their pain in the ass humans. On the other hand, one of the things I like most about Guerrero is that he has a kid, and I don't even know if vesseled angels can do that. I mean, Jesse Turner being conceived in a demon-possessed body made him the antichrist.

Although the idea that Guerrero's son might be the Second Coming is hilarious.

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Back to writing. I will have this deancas_xmas fic done and in beta shape tonight if it kills me.

I dreamed last night I was watching a movie starring Matthew Bomer, Misha Collins and Henry Cavill as a trio of bank robbing brothers who stumble upon a conspiracy and have to go on the run to clear their name, because apparently they were criminals, but had standards. Of some kind. I don't remember what the conspiracy was all about, only that it was suitably dire to force them into some semblance of heroics. Although hilariously Misha's character was pretty much, "Wait, why are we not robbing banks again? Guys? *sigh*" about the whole thing.

The point is, is there some genie I can summon to make this happen? The world needs that much blue-eyed pretty on one screen.

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It hit me today that I apparently ship Jason Todd/Roy Harper incredibly hard. Does anyone write these two? I want fic about broken vigilantes with mentor issues.

I had a dream last night I was watching a game show on what I guessed was Animal Planet. It was some variation of Wipe-Out; the contestants had picked out animals they wanted to adopt and if they got through the course the fees would be waived and they would receive free food and vet care for a year. There were the usual schmoopy videos featuring the contestants and the adorable animals, and I'm pretty sure one woman was talking to the (visible) ghost of her dead husband.

So that was odd. Although I would definitely watch that show. Even with the ghost.

A meme! from hako_neko

1. COMMENT WITH A MYSTERIOUS COMMENT OF YOUR CHOICE.
2. I will give you a letter.
3. Post the names of five fictional characters and your thoughts on each.

isilrandir gave me S.

Susan Ivanova: (Babylon 5) Always obey the Babylon 5 mantra: "Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out."

Simon Archard: (Ruse, CrossGen Comics) Simon is all of Sherlock Holmes worst character traits dialed up to eleven: he's arrogant, rude, incredibly impressed with himself and ruthlessly brilliant. His assistant is essentially a god and even that barely impresses him. I adored Ruse and Simon was my favorite character in CrossGen. Needless to say I'm over the moon that Marvel is restarting Ruse in a few months. Simon is going to break the world. It will be awesome.

Saitou Hajime: (Rurouni Kenshin) If they could create a character expressly for me, Saitou is what they would come up with. Principled and ruthless and defined by his personal definition of honor, Saitou is my favorite character in all of anime and he's easily in the top ten of favorite characters ever. And no one works a cigarette like him.

Sarah: (The Crow) Oh, my girl. You can't imagine how distraught I was when I saw Crow 2 and witnessed what they did to my street-smart, caring, brave little kid. The idea of her mentoring a new Crow was a good one --- I just wish the execution hadn't been so wretched.

Seth Bullock: (Deadwood) I love conflicted lawfuls. You show me a character who's trying hard to deny his impulse to make things right, who just want the world to leave them be, who's torn between what they've been told and what they feel (oh hi, Cas), and I am there. Bullock spends the entire first season trying desperately to not be Deadwood's sheriff --- except that he leads the posse after Wild Bill's killer, continually butts heads with the town's criminal elements and can't keep his nose out of everyone's business. By the end of the season it's clear to everyone that he's the only man for the job --- and then Bullock's real problems start.:)

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I have WIP-itis. And I'm pretty sure I'm writing something only I will ever want to read. Send help.

So last night I dreamed I was watching a fall season TV preview type of show, and one of the shows starred either Minnie Driver or Andie McDowell (I can't remember, and I actually think it changed mid-dream) as some kind of paranormal PI who was trying to balance the paranormal PI life with suddenly having to deal with raising her niece, who had been orphaned in a mysteriously paranormal way. It was like a mash-up of Supernatural and...I don't know, Medium, I guess.

I clearly remember that in the dream they were talking about how the niece character was originally going to be brown eyed, but the actress had a bad reaction to the contacts so they had to go with her natural blue eyes. For some reason they kept harping on this and mourning how with brown eyes the niece looked so much like the main Driver/McDowell character until in the dream I started getting annoyed and complaining, "Brown eyed people can have blue eyed relations, you know...."

Then I woke up. I don't even know, people. I don't even think I was planning on watching the show in the dream.

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Man, So You Think You Can Dance and America's Next Top Model BOTH start tonight? No fair, TV.

So last night I had a dream where I was reading an issue of Nightwing (which should have been my clue that it was a dream; Nightwing doesn't have his own comic at the moment and even when he did I didn't read it) where Dick was being followed by a mysterious figure...a figure that went "Hurm" in the last panel. Before I could even start going OMGWTFRorschach! the scene shifts and he and Dick are in the middle of a fight scene ("Hurm. You fight soft." "Who the heck are you?!"), presumably because they were tailing the same target. (The fight winds up more or less even, IIRC.)

Then the scene shifts again and Rorschach is in the Batcave, messing with the Bat-computer and going through the Bat-files; Dick's in this scene too and is all Dude, you can't be here, so I don't know if Dick let him in there or if Rorschach ninja-ed his way in. Then Rorschach gets to Blue Beetle's file; when he reads what happened to Ted Rorschach gets tremendously upset, and he can't understand why.

Then I woke up and just lay there going "Aw, dammit!" I wanted to finish that storyline.:)