I feel sort of like I should actually talk about Supernatural. I know, shocking, right? Me? On a blog? Talking? Perish the thought!

( But I am all caught up now, so... )

Title: It's All About Me
Author: Chash
Fandom: Supernatural/Buffy
Pairing: Sam/Buffy
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Sam finds something like a kindred spirit, and Dean is going to kill him.
Notes: During Supernatural season three and post Buffy season seven (i-ignoring season eight). Spoilers for both (SPN just to 308, because. That's as far as I've seen? :D?). And I really should have done more with the title and the whining, but fuck it, I'm tired. Don't judge.

( Sam realizes that if he sleeps with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, he has bragging rights forever. )

Last night, I had dinner with Sam and Tomio, and after several special text messages (including "which direction do we turn for the sketchy bar"), we all returned to the apartment, where Bevin had spent some time coming up with a game she called "Bevgammon." It was basically Kings, except she came up with new things to do for each card, and points were somehow involved. Bevin appointed the points pretty liberally (she gave points for good things, but also was allowed to take away points for "being a douche"), and Tomio ended up winning from an early lead due to his figuring out how to play Bevgammon with just one deck of cards.

From there, Tomio and Sam headed home while the rest of us turned right and headed for bars which turned out to be not sketchy. Although one guy came up and started asking Chaos and Val questions about themselves. They didn't reply, so he said (and I quote), "Am I the Antichrist?"

How do you respond to that?

We then came home, hung out and chilled, and Val and I finally went to sleep at like five a.m.

Today, we watched Supernatural.

That was honestly it. Val and I rock. I did find a few job leads to apply for (at some point last night I suddenly exclaimed "I should look for jobs at the aquarium!!" and woke up to find I had some tabs open with, well, jobs at the aquarium), and I need to write cover letters tomorrow.

But today, today was all about how Jared Padalecki is hot, freakish giant. Who is hot. (Jensen Ackles, also hot. But not a freakish giant.)

Trivia fact: Cargo shorts become see-through when they become wet enough.

( Senior Week Day One: Six Flags )

( Day Two: The Mount Hope Dance )

We have Cigars Under the Stars tonight, which sounds vastly unappealing. But my grandmothers and cousin are also coming in, so I'll probably hang out with them some. And be sober. It will be exciting and novel.

A serious question (I mean that without any irony) regarding porn. Namely, Japanese lesbian porn that one might hypothetically be translating for class.

( Cut for...talking about lesbian porn. )

I've been reading a pretty ridiculous amount of Jonny Quest fanfic over the last few days, and frankly I am disgusted and saddened by the total lack of hot, hot, Dr. Quest/Race fanfic on FF.net. Also by many other things, like the number of fics there are where Jessie gets raped or nearly raped so that Jonny can save her, but that's another thing.

In any case, I have written a short fic to 1. Rectify this terrible oversight on the part of fanfic writers and 2. Explain it.

( You probably don't want to click this. )

In less terrifying news, or perhaps more accurately, news that is a different kind of terrifying, gaisce and I were discussing the possibility of a comm for fic (writing and recs) of childhood nostalgia fandoms--basically, TV shows from the 80s and early 90s that have pretty dead/small fandoms at this point. The dates could be kind of tweaked, probably, since that's pretty focused on my childhood, but. Would anyone actually want/join/enjoy a community like that?

Things I learned from rewatching The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest:

1. They were kind of ahead of their time on the whole "It's the internet! I can be anything I want on the internet!" thing.

2. Also on the going to the Astral Plane to hang out thing. In my mind, Hadji and Sephiroth regularly have tea and talk about how crazy people are.

3. You can use mind powers to calm an angry horse.

4. The Easter Island heads can cause men to revert into apes in a virtual world.

5. If you turn Jonny Quest upside down and color his hair black, he kind of looks like Kon:



ETA: oh man, jonny quest, you are even more retarded than I remembered. Never change.

Okay, so. This new Wolverine movie has not been generating a lot of interest with me. I hated X-3. Wolverine has never been my favorite. I was pretty meh about the entire thing.

BUT

TAYLOR KITSCH

(that is TIM FUCKING RIGGINS)

AS GAMBIT

oh my god yes

yes

so much yes

Hey kids! Today we're going to talk about fusion fanfic. What is fusion fanfic, you ask? Well, I might have made the term up. I know there is a term for it, but if this isn't the right one, well. It isn't.

( blah blah blah PLUS AWESOME IMAGE )

No, seriously, I'm curious. FLIST TELL ME: Have you ever found a good fusion? I've found some amusing ones, but I can't think of any fusions of two current fandoms that I've ever seen that have been good. It seems like it should be doable, but...I can't remember ever having seen one done.

DISCUSS I GUESS?

Dear Bolton-sensei,

It is really awkward to have to watch movies with tons of naked people on reserve in the library, when there are people wandering around behind me. And it's like oh ignore that naked girl she's not important oh wow her breasts are exploding? It's cool, don't worry about it. Go back to your books.

Please take this into consideration in the future.

Thanks,
Chash

The Big, Gay, Sparkly Civil Union of Matt Parkman and Mohinder Suresh
By chash, inspired by shiny_karu

( Read more... )

OKAY

This is directed at no one on my flist, but instead at the INTERNET AND WORLD AS A WHOLE.

A LESSON ABOUT WHO VERSUS WHOM

I know it looks very scary! Whom has an m! It's very intimidating! There is a very simple way to determine which one you want. Observe!

[Who/Whom] are you writing to?
--Whom! (to whom, most properly)

Is that [who/whom] I think it is?
--Who!

That man, [who/whom] I long admired, is getting married.
--Whom!

Here is an infallible (as far as I know) rule to figure out these answers. Rewrite these sentences!

"I am writing to him."

"I think that is he."

"I long admired him."

Basically, if you rearrange the sentence and would use him/her, use whom! If you rearrange the sentence and would use he/she, use who!

As a rule, the verb "to be" always takes who/he. Even if it sounds funny, it's grammatically correct. You can get away with "I think that is him," but of course the reverse (I think that him is) is grammatically maimed. So is "Is that whom I think it is." For the same reason!

ANYWAY.

THAT WAS YOUR PSA FOR TODAY, INTERNET.

Title: Dark Horse Loves Us
Author: Chash
Fandom: RPS >_>
Pairing: Brian K. Vaughn/Joss Whedon
Rating: PG-13
Notes: I AM GOING TO HELL also you should read this interview for some context also there are some spoilers for various things BKV has written.
Disclaimer: I AM SO SORRY also this is totally lies and untruths and retarded.

( I mean, come on, there's just so much comics incest. )

Okay, a serious review of The Hardly Boys: A Ghost in the Closet. I'm not sure why I'm bothering, exactly, because the book is ridiculous and hilarious and you should read it for that, but still. It's not actually a bad book, which is kind of shocking in its own right.

( Rambling! )

ANYWAY. What you really want to do is buy this novel. You do. You can get it new on Amazon, but I'd suggest going to Abe Books, where you can get the book for just one dollar plus S&H. Mine was about five, and worth every penny.

"How are we going to get past these men?" Frank shivered to himself. "Why, those fellows are so manly and muscular they'll have us down on the floor in no time at all--and there's two for each of us!"

Later I will have a review of The Hardly Boys, but for now enjoy those lines, and also check out thats_terrible for more chapters read aloud. Basically, this book is so worth $5.

OKAY so The Hardly Boys continues to be basically fantastic, and I know you all want to hear me read chapter 12 of it aloud with terrible and inconsistent voices. So go here for part one, then part two and part three.

It's pretty gay, guys.

me: OKAY SO the scene:
I am at work, going into the library
Kyonbox: oho
me: Some guy holds the door for me
I go to thank him but he is ALREADY BEHIND ME and has started kung-fu fighting with this guy who came in after me
Kyonbox: ...omg whut
me: I don't know
Kyonbox: ..b...boys
me: I'm just like "o i will hold the door for you now O WAIT MORTAL COMBAT"

So I'm going through the stacks looking for books, listening to my iPod, as I so often do. And this song from the Escaflowne movie starts up--First Vision. Which is kind of a set-up song with a lot of atmospheric mystery music at the beginning. Very kind of suspenseful music where you'd get the protagonist sneaking around, waiting for something to attack. So I sort of...start doing that. As I'm going through the stacks. And wheeling my cart along. You know, looking around suspiciously, walking to the beat of the music...that kind of stuff. And then it starts up faster to be combat music and I like...start jumping. So that I land in time to the music. I swear, I nearly like, did a roll so that I could come up with a flourish at the right time. And I'm like, dashing along with my cart, still looking around for enemies. It was honestly one of the dorkiest things I've ever done. Sadly, the story does not end with me leaping artistically into one of the reference librarians, but with my luck I'm kind of shocked it didn't.