affably

Despite f_march_madness helping me find the love of my fandom life this time last year, this year all the characters that I've cared about have been swiftly eliminated. And while some of it is grudge voting of the "I swear to God a female character is going to win this year so help me," all the female characters that I really like have already been voted out* so I've lost any sympathy for that approach. Only Blair Waldorf is still in the game, but she is currently being trounced by Veronica Mars, so.

Which is not to be a whiny loser about it; I just find it disappointing that I can no longer participate as enthusiastically as I was, for all that I was looking forward to it all year. And I know that plenty of people last year felt the same way about the final four, but I wasn't one of them. For all that I'm involved in more bigger fandoms this year it's unlikely that I'm gonna know the final four.

I guess a lot of the shows rounding the finals I've been kind of resistant to watching, though not in any kind of active way.

Let the record show that I did vote for Emily from Skins since thisbrain has had a busy life lately and probably small chance to participate.

* Cara, Parker, Cristina Yang, Joan Holloway, Dean Winchester. Etc, etc, cry moar.

Misha Collins' minions made a real live charity. I am laughing so hard at this. Celebrity dictatorships are a srs bsns. I'm sure the man in question is equal parts startled and delighted. Naturally, there's potential for abuse, so I like the protip of "up to $5."

Speaking of which, Newsweek wrote an article about how celebrity narratives are "The Greatest Show on Earth," which is supposedly a defense of tabloid culture. Okay, now give yourself a moment to throw up in your mouth after processing that. I find it interesting because it proves I am incredibly prescient (except not, since when did we start talking about the cult of celebrity? Wasn't it right around that guy in Germany started shouting? Oh wait, the Victorian era? Earlier?), but also when it comes to RPF at least the emphasis and awareness is on the fiction. Yes, the accusations of forced closeted gay lifestyles or whatever applied to reality are ridiculous and abhorrent, but we see so much worse examples in the way the media acts that we're just adapting those as socially normal.

I'm very much of the camp of "Oh you adore each other, hooray!" rather than interest in who's up to what or passive aggressively seething at a total stranger for scoring someone I will never meet. I mean, of course there are some celebrities I want to burn in hell (or a jail cell) forever, but that's a justice thing.

I am sitting in the airport and I will be in America in like 14 hours; I am so stoked to be able to use Hulu and CW streaming and Pandora and crap again.

Also this meta on Dean and food is totally spot on to me, and convinces me even more that John was the most incapable parent ever.

Do people want their Latin corrected? Or mind it? In fic I mean. Because it's not really my intention to come off as a major douchenozzle by jumping in on someone's story and yell "Ur doing it RONG!" over three or four words or whatever but GOSH is it difficult for me to just leave it as-is.

Especially since I've noticed some people have taken to the teach-self-via-dictionary approach, where you look things up word-for-word from English and just plop them down in a sentence and voila! Castiel is magically speaking Latin even though the reasons he'd be doing might be weak in the first place but we'll let that slide. In any case, many fics that have Castiel in them seem to enjoy zee Latinz, which is very \o/ except when it's weird and wrong and then it's /o\. For example:

Dean eats pie.
"Dean edo torta."

Best translates to "I, Dean the Pie, am eating."

...which is not at all what is going on there. Though it makes me wonder: if Dean was a pie, would he try to eat himself?.

I wonder if I should offer myself up as a Latin beta? And where and how I would do that? Or would this whole thing come across as douchenozzley? I'm really not sure what the etiquette here would be. It's a language skill I have and I could probably translate anything people wanted, including the fun obscene ones like calling someone a cocksucker or talking about getting their ass reamed — ahem. Then again I think I may be in the minority of people who are really bothered by Dean-the-Pie in Latin so perhaps I'm just making a big stink about something nobody really cares about.

At least when I yell at the weebos about how retarded they sound with their fake Japanese it's for a language that's actively used by millions of people. 何でそんな迷惑なこと言うの？馬鹿みたい！ But then again I have no tolerance these days for Japanese fandoms, so it's just as well.

While we're on the subject of language use...

Dear Supernatural fandom,

"Kripke'd" is not the same as "jossed." It is, in fact, the antonym.

So when you talk about how your explicit Castiel/Lucifer smut has been "kripke'd to hell" since Lazarus Rising, well. It sends a much different message. And makes me want to read spoilers because whoa.

Loling forever,
affably

ETA: This whole thing re: Latin in fic is just me being a prissy douchebag. D: Most people can't tell or don't care about the difference anyway. Carry on.

try making an arbitrary brainstorm word list:
thud, thump, clunk, clonk, crash, bang, clump, clomp, wham, whump, clang, chime, ring, smack, chop, whack, crack, clatter, clank, clink, rattle, hum, boom, rumble, growl, hiss, wheeze, fizz, snick, click, snap, pop, tick, dink, chime, toll, ding, dong, bong, beep, burp, huff, sniff, snuff, rustle, swish, swoosh, whoosh, wonk, bonk, cronk, fwap, blurp, mewl, tink, batter, shoonk, shunk, gasp, puff, buzz, sizzle, clack, croak, whuff, zoom, splash, honk, vroom, bleat, blairt, whoop, wham, plink, plonk, drip, smooch, crackle, clop, ping, jangle, blam, whizz, whirl, fizzle, sputter, squawk, chunk, chug, screech, skitter, wallop, murmur, burble, bubble, gurgle, guzzle, plop, slosh, slump, splut, squirt, bringg, bweee, creak, squeak, crinkle, blurt, scuttle

... and then try to legitimize it as fighting writer's block when really you're just a horrible procrastinator that procrastinates.

After discovering John Hodgman's twitter (@hodgman) I had the sudden thought: hey, how cool would it be to have Misha Collins on The Colbert Report? But then, once I seriously considered what I was suggesting, my head exploded. I don't think I could handle Misha and Stephen yelling at each other about religious interpretations and the Bible and Sam as Lucifer and trading quips about who has the bigger world domination army and having cupcake fights and dance-offs. And.

I don't think the human race is ready for that yet.

Dear Self,

Why, oh why, are you reading this High School Musical 2 J2 AU? Isn't it bad enough that you're mentally photoshopping Jared Padalecki's head onto Amanda Bynes's body/facial expressions without also photoshopping it onto Sharpay Evans' dance moves? Even though he is fantastic at spontaneous dancing...

No! No. You shall not sway me. I cannot deal with you.

No love,
Self.

P.S. Seriously, enough with the AUs. They're like fucking kiddie crack to you.

P.P.S. No matter how awesome it would be, you are also not allowed to read any stories where Chris Kane is Irvine and Misha Collins is Selphie from FFVIII. BECAUSE IT IS WRONG. Even though they're not dating thank God.

ETA: "..." said Jensen.

FML, and fuck you, Internet. God I love you.