You had to be there*

[bending_sickle]

First off, Livejournal is being a cold unresponsive little bitch today. Is it me, baby? We used to be so good together. Why aren't you loading your pages like you used to?

Secondly, my neighbour is playing really loud techno. Thankfully, it's not the same song over and over again (which he's done). Unfortunately, it's been going on for some two hours now and is really annoying. My roommate and I have this theory - based on totally judging people by their appearance and small bits of behaviour as espied from the balcony** - that he likes to celebrate the purchase of certain non-medicinal drugs by trancing out to techno, so we basically only get the noise when he's gotten lucky and has money. Omg plz be shutting up now.

Thirdly, the one thing that I'd been meaning to post about for days, I forget to post about when next I post. The fail, it burns. The thing I meant to blog about? The Jus In Bello Convention.

Please consider the following:

1) It was a Supernatural convention
2) It was in Rome.
3) It was from the 2nd to the 4th of April

Add to that:

1) I am a Supernatural fan
2) I was in Rome.
3) I was in Rome during those dates

What do you get?

Nothing.

Why? Because I didn't attend. The Con. For Show. In Rome. When I was there. This upsets me. Photos of Jensen at the Colliseo? Fuck me! I could've walked to the bloody Colliseo! Misha went to Ostia Antica? We bloody well went there! (Well, no, but we went next door, basically, because we'd arrived too late to really make a day of Ostia Antica.) Fuck! I just never did the math well enough to realize that it would have been possible - same place, same time - because those things' tickets are supposedly bloody expensive and need to be bought well in advance. Nevermind the folks on dean_sam selling tickets last minute. Gold platter, guys! The opportunity was handed to me on a gold freaking platter and I never even turned around to look! Argh!


Meme - 30 Days - Day 22 → A website ursulav's Red Wombat Studio, a subset of Metal and Magic. Too much win. I love her work - the art, the blurbs, the writing, the comics... ♥

Previously:

Day 01 → Your favorite song
Day 02 → Your favorite movie
Day 03 → Your favorite television program
Day 04 → Your favorite book
Day 05 → Your favorite quote
Day 06 → Whatever tickles your fancy - GIFs
Day 07 → A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 → A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 → A photo you took
Day 10 → A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 → A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 → Whatever tickles your fancy - Nature is awesome!
Day 13 → A fictional book
Day 14 → A non-fictional book
Day 15 → A fanfic
Day 16 → A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 → An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 → Whatever tickles your fancy - My irrational fears, let me show you them.
Day 19 → A talent of yours
Day 20 → A hobby of yours
Day 21 → A recipe

Coming Soon

Day 23 → A YouTube video
Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 → Your day, in great detail
Day 26 → Your week, in great detail
Day 27 → This month, in great detail
Day 28 → This year, in great detail
Day 29 → Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 → Whatever tickles your fancy


* Common expression
** Skinny, scary tattooed man acting erratically! It's the first theory we came up with. That doesn't mean it's right, though.

Comments

Part 2

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If taken into consideration that due to the writers’ strike back in S3, a lot of the, er, plot had to be reworked, it seems likely that the writers aren’t able to overlook what the hell is going on in their own show anyway, anymore. I mean, it is fact that Sam had been supposed to develop his powers back in S3 right after Mystery Spot and save Dean from hell! Also, Kripke only had the plot worked out for mere four seasons, hence many filler episodes, conflict recycling and whatnot.

I believe the writers just sat themselves down around one table one evening and were all: “Shit, what are we gonna do with ‘em now? Stupid fangirls. It would have all worked out so prettily, and now?! Ah, to hell with it all. Let’s do some Sam-bashing!”

Yes/No? Also, please ignore any and all grammatical errors. I don’t have currently the impetus to look through my verbiage.

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"... let's do some Sam-bashing! And then we'll have some Dean-bashing! And then we'll torture Castiel! And then Sam will drink demon blood and everyone will hate him! Including Dean! And then Dean will cry! A lot! Again! And since we won't be able to make people despise Sam for the demon blood all the time, we'll just have to roll up the old you left for Stanford! Ungrateful little shit! Hah! It will be glorious!"

*headdesk*

Even more spam!

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"... also, because we're sick of the fangirls, but shhht, don't tell anyone, we'll dedicate five episodes to the Prophet Of The Lord Chuck just to tell show those crazy people how ridiculous and batshit they are, even if it is no way relevant for the general plot development! Except for, maybe, creating a deus ex machina because we have absolutely no idea how to make Sam and Dean find this damn Colt! Which they won't need afterwards anyway, but whatever! Stuff happened! They're all just watching to ogle Jensen Ackles, anyway. Don't worry, they won't notice."

*double headdesk*

Sorry, Adri!

Re: Even more spam!

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Seriously, if Chuck doesn't show up again and do something actually relevant to the apocalypse, I will grumble. If he does show up (with Crazy Fangirl who it totally not representative of reality) and doesn't do anything but point and laugh at the audience, I will grumble. And I liked Chuck.

No apologies needed, darling. Ranting is fun :)

[seschat.livejournal.com]

I liked Chuck, too! But I never actually got the purpose of introducing his character. (Except for, of course, to tell us to BACK OFF WITH ALL THE BROTHER SLASH. Wimps.)

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And then Dean will cry! A lot! Again! - The basis for many an episode - and fanfic - plot. It's probably a whole story arc, Dean and his manly tears.

Re: Part 2

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

YED was actually a fallen angel - OMGWTFBBQ?!? I seem to be missing this memory! When was this said? Was it Anna?

[Sam's] powers are not actually given to him through the drinking of demon blood, rather they were always fully his. - Well maybe not through drinking Ruby's blood once he was all grown up, which is what she says anyway, but I still think that YED and his blood did something. Maybe it was more of a "With this blood I do hereby flip a demonic switch in the wee baby!" than "Let's fill this baby's belly with demonic blood so he's bursting with demony goodness!"

I mean, sure, maybe Sam didn't need Ruby's blood to develop his powers, but those powers were there because of demonic blood in the first place. I always saw the blood drinking as Sam tapping an energy source for powers he already had. The more of Ruby's blood he had, the faster he could flip the switch to use his powers and the more he could do with them. Castiel's "Your brother's going to become a monster" prediction aside, we did see Sam go all black-eyed when killing Lilith. I want to know if this was because of Ruby's blood - in which case Demon!Sam goes away with the detox - or if it was because his power skills were so strong - in which case, Sammy's pretty screwed.

As for Sam's psychic powers being gone through the magic of denial - hilarious Sam dialogue you wrote there, by the way :D - rather than being tied to YED (which makes no sense! "Oops! He's dead! No more power for you!" ...unless it wasn't powers but a psychic link to YED, but that can't be because the other YED kids had other powers)... I really would love it if he still visions, but they haven't smacked him in the head lately and it's not like he ever learned to control them. However, all the other demonic mojo - the "demonic power switch" - that the YED gave him? No amount of detoxing is going to take that away, Sammy. It's abomination all the way.

Sam had been supposed to develop his powers back in S3 right after Mystery Spot and save Dean from hell! - ...I want to read this now.

My comments are all over the place and probably too rambley to be coherent, so don't hesitate to point and laugh and ask me to restate it in normal-speak.

And she was so totally using her status as blood donor to control Sam.

The detox thing is all over the place. It's saying that Sam was addicted to the blood - physically, not just mentally, "I need this to help people!" - so it had to be having some sort of effect on him, even if it wasn't the source of his powers.

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So apparently I think I've finished a comment and then stuff I've typed shows up at the bottom that I never quite finished. I am horribly disorganized *hands head in shame*

About the detox again: they're assuming that Sam can get over the addiction to demon blood by just waiting until the demon blood works its way out of his system and he stops wanting it (which are, admittedly, two different things with different timelines). But then that suggests that the demon blood can leave Sam's body and doesn't like, I don't know, transform into demon power and hides out in his kidneys forever. But that goes against the assumption that Sam was permanently tained by drinking YED's blood. But Sam's still an abomination and Different.

...I'm so confused.

Re: Part 2

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*triple headdesk* I'm so stupid! I've totally presented the whole YED's a fallen angel! bit like it's a fact, whereas it isn't! It certainly at no time has been said so in the show. It's just that it’s been numerously mentioned in fandom, and apparently, something in brain liked the idea and after some sloppy Wikipedia'ing I was pretty much caught up in the theory, although naturally without actually having a real evidence. I'm completely ridiculous, so please accept my apologies, yes? I mean, it would certainly mean new discussion fodder if Azazel being a fallen angel would be actually confirmed, but in the current state of affairs it just is a mere assumption. *quadruple headdesk* Once again, sorry! That was utterly, utterly unscientific.

As for the Sam had been supposed to develop his powers back in S3 right after Mystery Spot and save Dean from hell! - I'm pretty very sure I've actually read that in an interview with Kripke/one of the writers/producers/Someone In High Places, although that was in the time when I still cared about staying informed in regards to the show. But I swear I'm not making that one up! (Like everything else, gah.)

[...] We did see Sam go all black-eyed when killing Lilith.

Oh, I've totally forgotten that.

But that goes against the assumption that Sam was permanently tainted by drinking YED's blood. But Sam's still an abomination and Different.

… You're right on every account. Good heavens, but the detoxing totally doesn't make any sense! Maybe it's just that only the YED's blood has made Sam an "abomination," left a permanent mark on him? Which, again, doesn't make any sense, since Cas and Anna only had started to remark on Sam being changed in the time in which he’d begun to actually drink the damn blood. And if Sam can detox from Ruby's or any other lesser demon's blood, why doesn't he still have the powers he had in S1/2? I mean, okay, the visions maybe can be explained away by saying that every one of his visions had somehow been linked to the YED or the Special Children. But the bout of TK? ...

I don't even get what I'm saying myself anymore.

[seschat.livejournal.com]

Also, grammar!surprise!

I'm just too stupid today.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I think both our brains have been squished by all this meta (which I looove discussin with you). But at least we've come to the conclusion that a) we need more explanation on Sam, the demon blood and exactly what kind of weird he is, b) more TK!Sam (yes please!) and c) Show is confusing in a bad way.

♥

Also, ok, I'm pimping this post of mine (http://bending-sickle.livejournal.com/402095.html) again, because we've talked a bit about stuff like that andI don't know if you've seen it and I'm an attention-seeking fool. Or something. Just, um, more thingy thoughts on the SamnDean dynamic.

[seschat.livejournal.com]

We should just print it all out and send it to Kripke and demand explanation! Or else! ... *headdesks*

But discussing with you is just so much fun! ♥

No, I've seen it, but then I had to rant about Stanford and have neglected your post completely. NO CAN DO!

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Well, if I'd gone to the JIB Con I could've just asked but I didn't because I suck. And honestly, I wouldn't have asked anyway, because I have Le Shy.

Discussion with you = win ♥

Discuss more! \o/

[seschat.livejournal.com]

YOU DO NOT SUCK! Be quiet!

... but who would you have asked, anyway (or, well, not asked for that matter)? ... Jared?

As if he gets it himself! ;P

*twirls you around madly* You're made of utter win and I adore you!