bending_sickle | I'm sending Death a damn fruit basket!* (Reply)

There's not much going on right now. I went to get my fiscal code on Friday, but they'd run out of numbers and had some computer trouble besides, so I left empty handed. I'm going to try again on Tuesday, because they're open in the afternoon on that day and you have to be there before they open if you want even the slimmest hope of being seen to.

Mom's in Spain as of Wednesday, so it's just Dad and me. I seem to get on better with my dad when my mom's not here, but even so, argh. Tomorrow we're going to a ballet - Swan Lake, methinks - and I've got to do all the things I meant to do today tomorrow because I'll be damned if I do them today. Which means German homework and CV rewrites and all that fun stuff, including the Fanfic which I stopped writing October 31st on account of Nano and haven't found the oompf to finish or even work on it yet.

Supernatural 6x13 "Unforgiven":

\o/ The boys are talking about Papa Winchester!

Monster not terribly monstery, and again we have the problem of the boys killing the monster in front of them and totally forgetting about all the other monsters. Sheesh, boys, there's all the men who were turned last year, and now all the women who were turned this year. That's a lot of monsters on the loose.

As for the rest: OMGWTFBBQSaaaaaaaam!

Supernatural: The Anime 1x01 "The Alter Ego":

The anime looks pretty damn awesome (although please keep in mind that I haven't watched anime in over 15 years).

Sam looks like Sam down to his tiny little mole, but Dean? Dean is creepy as fuck. And skeevy. He doesn't look like Dean at all, even setting aside the "black hair and brown eyes" combination, which, what the fuck?. He just looks like Generic Symmetric Maleface. And his voice doesn't make me gooey, which is sad.

As for the story, I have no idea. My Japanese only gets me far enough to know that at one point, someone said thank you, but the story still seems pretty cool.

...until Dean blew up like a balloon and then went all Aliens. o.0

Dad's journal! \o/

*sporfles* Dean actually just went :D at Sam!

The closing credits are drawings of the wee boys! Set to Wayward Son! Oh, SPN-anime, you got a lot right!

Mad Dogs 1x01:

Oh, it feels good to see John Simm and Philip Glenister again! And hey, Marc Warren's a nice surprise!

The opening scene. OMG the opening scene. When are we ging to get back to that?!? Fast-forward, series, I need to know!

Amazing! Their Spanish doesn't suck! It actually sounds like Spanish! And it's incredibly bizarre to hear an Englishman speak Spanish with a good Spanish accent, or at least the Spanish pronunciation.

I get that they're setting things up for the "this series is a thriller" concept, but sometimes things felt like they went on a bit too long until something just a little off happens and then I'm on the edge of my seat, peering at the screen with Leonardo Dicaprio-like squintiness intensity, trying to see what else I'm missing.

There was this exchange headed by ~~the Guv~~ Philip Glenister's character, Quinn, which made me have to pause and transcribe it. (Baxter's played by John Simm, by the way.)
Baxter: So we all like, middle-aged now, then?

Woody: Speak for yourself.

Baxter: How did that happen?

Quinn: It's like...one minute, you're loking forward to everything, the next minute you're looking over your shoulder. You go from thinking you gonna live forever, to thinking you got brain tumour or somethin' if you got a headache.

Baxter: Yeah, it's all green tea and fish oil from here on in, mate.

I'm loving wee Simm in his glasses and scruffy beard!

I'm also loving Glenister's character who is all bottled-angst and actual common sense in that if your friend is acting strange and erratic and mean, you might just want to bail out on the crazy-ass cruise.

The cliffhanger ending was cliffhangery. *shakes fist*

Quote of the Day:

quizzicalsphinx, here

9.00: Store opens.
9.32.59: Lynette's period starts.

(An aside to the gentlemen. Imagine that there is an invisible midget following you around. This midget's duty is grap hold of your testicles and give them a good solid crushing wrench. Whenever this happens, it triggers a debilitating and instantaneous bout of bowel-busting diarrhoea that leaves you hunched over a toilet for ten minutes, clammy and groaning. Now imagine that every woman you told about this condition merely advised you to "work through it.")

Meme: Good Things:

Day 8: Mad Dogs with John Simm, and Philip Glenister! ...that was the sum total of The Really Good Things of the Day.
Day 9: I went out jogging! And exercised! And Supernatural whatwhat!

Links of the Day:
Supernatural:

captainlon's Review Unforgiven

spn_deanw's Discussion Unforgiven

bythedamned's Fic Starving, , Didn't Know
LightNeverFades' Fanvid What if Dean Wrote Destiel?, Part 1, Part 2

ashdoode's Fanvid In My Veins - Includes anime episode 1x01 clips

flowrs4ophelia's Fanmix Dean Winchester's Anti-iPod Mix

shichiloaf's Fanart Assorted

smallworld_inc's Fanart Assorted - ♥

nanoks' Picspam 10 Years of Jensen

marylillianhale's Icons

dean_sam's flocked Supernatural Anime 1x01

Other Fandom:

go_exchange's Good Omens Holiday Fic & Art Exchange Revelation

qthewetsprocket's Mad Dogs Review - 1x01 ; The Hobbit Cast photo ; Press conference and photos

john_simm's flocked Mad Dogs 1x01
Fishstick Theatre's Pillars of the Earth Screencap Gallery
Zine's Video Interview: Neil Gaiman - "Neil Gaiman speaks to Rich Millington from ORGZine about books, piracy, copyright and the internet" ♥
Kickstart's Video Replacing the "N-word" with "Robot" in Huck Finn - \o/ "So 'N-word Jim' is now 'Robot Jim' :D"

Multifandom:

wptjeh's embed Fox's Game On Promo - Squee!

Random:

ursulav's Really, All I Wanted Was Hummingbirds - Aptly tagged "inept activism"

sendhilfans's embed Sendhil Ramamurthy on Funny or Die - On Egypt
AltRightTV's Is PC Worse than Communism?
Professor Kate Clancy's Iron-deficiency is not something you get just for being a lady -

theweaselking's summary: "Iron-deficiency is not something you get just for being a lady. 86% of women diagnosed with gynecologically-caused anemia actually have undiagnosed gastrointestinal bleeding."
hh1edits' Fanvid Nicholas Cage Losing His Shit - XD !!! I think I laughed until I cried at this! ; The 100 Greatest Movie Insults of All Time
Nice Hair's Comic Archive
Gordon Kornman's No More Dead Dogs - "It's about a child who stands up to his lit teacher by saying 'No! Just because a dog dies in the end does not make it a good book!'" - I didn't note down who said this, but it wasn't me.
YouTube The Three Musketeers (1966)
Horrible Histories's Historical Wife Swap - "What happens when a strict Puritan family trade places with a fun loving couple from the Restoration period? We'll find out when we tune in to this week's Historical Wife Swap." XD ; Wife Swap: Spartans and Athenians ; Charles II: King of Bling ; It's Not True ; Plague Song

* Dean Winchester, Supernatural 6x12 "Like a Virgin"