Will that whole mad season knock you down?*

[bending_sickle]

Public Service Announcement: November Madness

As many of you may know, November is Nanowrimo Month and we here at Imaginary Gardens are participating. This means public service will be erratic, as all of our resources will go towards writing an average of 1,667 words a day, every day, for the whole of November. Post content for the coming month will thus deal with a) whining and moaning about writing, b) whining and moaning about not writing, and c) squee about what was written.

We at Imaginary Gardens ask only for your patience, although donations of enthusiasm and encouragement - all forms accepted! - are greatly appreciated. Our representative will gladly return the favour to any parties also participating in Nanowrimo. Our supplies of *hugs* are fully stocked, and we've just ordered an extra supply of CAPSLOCK.

Translation: Hold me, flist!


Sickle's Brief Review of Supernatural 6x06, You Can't Handle the Truth:

• Can we keep the director, Jan Eliasberg? Seriously, ♥ There were some shots where I completely forgot what I was watching and instead just gawked and sputtered, "That's a gorgeous shot!"



• The opener was absolutely brilliant and awesome and I loved it. The Veritas Phenomenon felt a bit like telepaths out of control, and I approve.



• I literally did a fist pump when Dean considered that maybe, just maybe, Lucifer had been playing him this whole while. Because he never checked that Sam wasn't Lucifer! Man, I wanted to shake Dean so hard in Exile on Main Street.
  
  
• Castiel broke my heart. (And then then boys trampled on it and threw it in the blender.) He looked so tired and worn and even his voice sounded less angelicly gruff and just soft and normal and tired. Oh Cas! ETA: And he was so appologetic to Dean! And his heart looked like it was breaking when Dean called him a dick! Like, "Omg, why are you putting me in the same group as all the other angels that you hate so much?"



• Dean on the phone with Lisa? Ow, my heart. Dean hanging up after talking to Lisa? Heart went and had a good cry in a corner.



• Bobby made me howl with laughter. ♥ (And Dean's his favorite! Double ♥)



• I was actually, honestly scared of Sam when he called the sister's bluff. Like, he made my skin crawl in a "oh sweet mother get it away don't let it see me oh gods" way. I could probably count on a very badly mangled hand the number of times something evil on Supernatural has elicited that emotional reaction (rather than the intellectual, "dude, you craaazy evil" reaction).



• When Dean was in the bar, my sneaking suspicions came to a point and I started gesticulating and muttering, "It's the television!" and it was a frustrating while until the show caught up.



• Oh gods, Mittens and the cat-killing. I'd imagine it went a bit like Drag Me to Hell. Here kitty, kitty.



• I so knew Sam was lying, the little rat, mainly because of the utterly pathetic lying, as seen again with Veritas. It was just a by-the-book "say what they want to hear" lie with an added dose of "let's emote!". (I still love you, Sam! I'm just very upset at you!) Of course, I was thinking it was because he was holding the summoning box thingy and thus immune, or because he was just that mentally strong - oh hai he put Lucifer away - but it's worse than that. And seeing Dean's face as he struggled with "the truth" was just... My heart! What have you done to my heart! It's all ragged and broken!



• Remember how there was that one scene in Devour which made me cringe and capslock and go "lalalala not listening lalala my hands are over my eyes lalala MAKE IT GO AWAY"? Yeah, the doctor scene in this episode? The same. The tongue extraction? Same. Damnit, show, I can handle gore but you are hitting my squicks so hard.



• I loved Veritas and her cat-face and dungeon scene. That is all.



• Did Sam...nod? When Veritas asked if she should ask Dean about him?



• Yes! My meta didn't get completely jossed! You're not human! Although it might have gotten a little jossed, because Cas was all, "If Lucifer got out, we'd know!" but then I thought, well, yeah, if all of Luicfer, undistilled, got out, yes. But what about a tiny little piece piggy-backing on Sam? (Although I'm perfectly fine with the idea of Sam missing his soul or part of it, especially considering the emphasis the show's been placing on souls these past few episodes.) And yes, Sam, we know you can't feel anything, we've been saying that since day one.



• Dean, baby, puppy, darling! You are not a killer more than a killer! And you can so totes be a dad! I've heard your scary booming authoritarian dad-voice! That truth you were spouting? That's what you think is the truth, and you, dearest, are mistaken.



• I wanted to believe Sam at the end, I really did, but by principle, when people who've been lying all the time suddenly do an about-face and say, "okay, now it's totally the truth" I smack 'em. Not as hard or as long as Dean - because yowza, that was just... Although he did say, "You want the truth? Here it is, God's honest,", which just about raises every flag I've got for this show.



• All in all, and decided very early on in the viewing, this is my favorite episode of the season so far. It's the first time in a long time that I've enjoyed it so much. I loved it all, the angst, the humour, the monster-of-the-week, the story arc... ♥

Why Misha Collins Makes Me Squeeful, Entry 3948: Tea Party, 2010

Dear Mr. Collins,

Although this is not my PostSecret postcard, let's pretend it is, and that it's about you.



Joyfully yours,

Sickle


Quote of the Day: Luke Rhinehart, The Dice Man

Of course, continuity is sometimes tenuous, content thin. Digressions proliferate like weapons in a peace-lovng country. I may have to rewrite the thing seven or eight times. But words are written. To a writer, this is fulfillment. Creativity or crap, it counts.

Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
zimshan's Meta The Enigma Which is Post-Hell!Sam
vichan's Review Live Free or Twihard ; Review The Third Man
tracy_loo_who's Squeeful Castiel Thread You Can't Handle the Truth - "I'M PRETTY SURE THAT MAKES DEAN LIKE, HIS COMFORT FOOD AND HIS PILLOW ALL ROLLED INTO ONE SOMETIMES PRICKLY PACKAGE."
pat_san's Review Live Free or Twihard
verdander_mi's Review You Can't Handle the Truth
threecatmama's Review You Can't Handle the Truth
and_ed's Review You Can't Handle the Truth
ancastar's Review You Can't Handle the Truth
Cassopeia16's Review You Can't Handle the Truth - "Azazel, Alastair, Lilith, Lucifer.....Sam is the one who really scares me!" - So true.
spn_deanw's Discussion Post You Can't Handle the Truth
bofish's Report Convention
sandymg's Fic Phantom Limb - 6x01 Coda, 6x06 spoilers
leonidaslion's Fic Fumbling in the Dark: Effulgent (bad Day at Black Rock)
fate_incomplete's Fic Until All That is Left is Dust (Future!Castiel/Future!Dean)
theredfeather's Fic Miles to Go Before We Sleep - 6x06 Coda
daylightfire's Fic On the Way There - 6x04 Missing Scene
katsuyakaiba69's Fic Into the land of Nod, A Cain and Abel Remix
marlowe78's Fic Tooth and Nail
egsparks' Fanvid Poison in Your Vein (Sam)
counteragent's Fanvid Numb (Sam) - ZOMG
bevwa's Fanvid Are We the Waiting
bad__faith's Fanvid I Forgive You (It's You and Me Against the World)
nanoochka's Fanmix We're Gonna Groove (Zepplin Compilation)
laurie_ky's Fanmix Music for the Apocalypse, Vol. 1-4 - ♥!
blackcalic0's Icons
mata090680's Icons
Fandom Effects - School Assignment Survey
dean_sam's flocked Magazine Scans

True Blood:
nemesisofamor's Fanmix Get a Taste for Blood

Other Fandom:
redscharlach's Merlin Review The Eye of the Phoenix
tennant_love's flocked David Tennant on Graham Norton, 2007 - \o/
timepassedyouby's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Fanmix Over and Over (John/Cameron)
Absoluteradio's David Tennant takes a lie detector test: On the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show

Multifandom:
teand's Fiction Index
casettes' Icons - Inception, Doctor Who, Fringe, Merlin, Supernatural, True Blood
wuschel2nozzo's Icons - Supernatural, Vampire Diaries, Hawaii Five-o
Io9's Horror's greatest heroes: the 10 greatest monster-fighters

Random:
theweaselking's embed Most adorable costume EVER
extemporanea's Story Outsider
greygirlbeast's embed The Smashing Pumpkins - Zero ; Artwork Study #2 for Yellow - "Angels. Hordes upon hordes of them."
Wondermark's Meta Protest Sign (for Rally to Restor Sanity)
Movie Quotes - Find phrases in movies and series
YouTube's Bohemian Rhaphsody on Slide Flutes
Geekosystem's A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 (Minus North Korea’s) - Eep!


* "Mad Season", Matchbox 20

Comments

[lienne.livejournal.com]

*holds you*

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

*clings*

[capn-mactastic.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah, lets do this thing!

(though I rly don't know if I'm gonna make it ;_;)

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

I have a box of pompoms just for you! *\o/*

Nanowrimo, here we come!

[capn-mactastic.livejournal.com]

WooHoo! *cheers you on too!*

I'm procrastinating already, this is not a good sign XD

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

No, no, no, Nanowrimo is your procrastination!

*\o/*

[capn-mactastic.livejournal.com]

I really need to get that into my head because so far this morning I've done my laundry, hoovered, sorted out selling my old laptop and phoned my mother (she was like "you're supposed to be doing something else right now, aren't you?" nooo, mum, not at all >.>) and I'm planning to do a prompting post because I'm not doing a novel I'm doing vignettes (that's the posh word for 'finishing WIPs' isn't it?)

*\o/*

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Wow, you've been productive! As for Nano, I think that once you actually sit down and start, the initial squee will tide you over for a while. (And then it's just crash, burn, and caffeine time, oy.)

[capn-mactastic.livejournal.com]

I'm strangely productive when I'm procrastinating... just not in the right direction XD

Mmmm, I could go to Starbucks and write there...

[seschat.livejournal.com]

*cheers you on madly*

(I haven't written a word yet. Getting nervous, there.)

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

*\o/*

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

In case you're ever stumped and need a new character or something...THEY FIGHT CRIME (http://www.theyfightcrime.org/)

PS: WRITE! WRITE LIKE THE WIND! ON CRACK!

[seschat.livejournal.com]

*snorfles* This is awesome, thanks, love! ♥

Still haven't written anything. Suspecting am too unimaginative.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

LIES, ALL LIES. You are imaginative and awesome and damnit, you better get to it and write down your brilliant ideas or I will come 'round your house and stomp on all your toys!.

On a less demanding tone, I'm here for any plot-planning you require. I will juggle ideas with you, throw them at you, help you cook them to perfection! What about the brilliant idea of the Big Bad "soul-stealing bastards"? (What kind of thing are you thinking of writing, anyway? I mean, original fiction, SPN, crazy crossover of dooom*, what?)

Wriiiiiiiite! WRIIIIIITE! (Or the zombies will eat you!)

* The Winchesters. IN THE TARDIS. See? IDEAS LIKE CRAZY.

[poisoned-sleep.livejournal.com]

GOOD LUCK!

I know I will need it this month.

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

GOOD LUCK TO YOU TOO! *\o/*