1) Thanks a lot Iowa. All this talk in the media about the holdup being due to an app failure is only going to help attacks on voter turnout when misinformation follows trying to hoodwink people into thinking they can vote by app. Get with the 21st century and have primaries that everyone can vote in. But no, it's more important to bring money ( Read more... )

1) SPN's episode last week struck various notes for me that I quite liked. ( Read more... )

As part of my meta move, I've also copied vid readings I'd done for fanvids I was connected to. However there were a few vids I hadn't posted those for, primarily due to time issues during the dates of their release.

That's now been corrected, beginning with this one for Maichan's SPN vid, Don't Let Him Go. I'll be cross-posting another one ( Read more... )

1) Spoilery discussion about Supernatural. ( Read more... )

1) Audiofiles has now launched to promote podcasts. The first one I listened to? Matchmakers. "Elna Baker worked at the giant toy store, FAO Schwartz. Her job was to sell lifelike "newborns" displayed in a "nursery" inside the store. When the white babies sell out, white parents are faced with a choice: Will they go for an Asian, Latino, or ( Read more... )

This is clearly the week to be discussing RP fic. Just as I was finishing the very enjoyable RPS AU Restraint by darkemeralds, a question was posted on writingthewall about RPF and original fiction, what distinguishes the two and "Should more RPF 'cross the line' and be turned into publishable original fiction?" And of course this was also the ( Read more... )

I've been trying to avoid any and all spoilers for SPN S6 so I have absolutely no idea how the new season will open. But looking back at S5 episodes Sunday did make me think of how season premieres figure into the rest of the season. ( Read more... )

I realized that the new season of SPN is about to begin and I hadn't yet done my annual "best written" episodes of the previous season. I'm not surprised it slipped my mind because there wasn't a lot of thinking that had to go into this one. ( Read more... )

As part of collecting all my work onto DW, I am reposting this here, which was originally at
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In the course of looking up an older post I came across what I wrote last year about hospitalizations in SPN. I realized there had been an important change in S5, namely that Sam has finally been a patient. But I think Sam Interrupted ends up revealing a more audience-directed reason for the pattern.( Read more... )