*falls over*

[sholio]

Today was a yardwork day ... putting together the frames for raised garden beds and partially filling them with semi-composted chicken litter (sawdust, mostly). I think I'm ready to go get a pickup truck load of topsoil in the next couple of days -- our yard is gravel tailings (old mine waste) and we have NO dirt except for the odd bit of river

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[flingslass]

It still weirds me out hearing about 24 hour sunlight. I would go crazy. How do you cope (AND sleep at night?)

[sholio]

Heh, we cover the windows in the bedroom with cardboard! Our bedroom is on the east side of the house, too, so we have to, or I will be bouncing awake at 4 a.m. (My husband can sleep through anything. I envy him.)

I like the 24 hour daylight because you can get so much done! If I get an urge to go work on a project in the yard at midnight, I can do it. But it's also rather peaceful to have the short days in the winter to make up for it ... you can just stay inside and not do much of anything.

[flingslass]

Well at least there's no danger of tripping over in the dark..;-)

[winter_elf]

Yea, like you said. I both like and dislike SPN at the same time. *sigh* And I watch it, then miss a few and not feel the urge because just more death. And yea, not all the happy at the ending, because geeze, can someone win, just once? So yea, I go around reading the meta and episode reactions too. But yea, I agree with your a)entertaining, b) my friends watch it c) the reactions/meta. But I seems to have distanced myself from caring as much, much like you have.

[sholio]

Yeah, I still get enough enjoyment out of the show to keep watching it, and I like being able to talk about it. But I also kinda dislike it for all the reasons I mentioned above. I think the show's ickiness really jumps out at me after I've been watching shows that aren't like that, and then mainlining several SPN episodes in a row ... it leaves me feeling like I need a shower. It's frustrating because the show doesn't have to be that way! They could fix so much of what bothers me just by changing a few things in each episode. But that's not the show they want to have, I guess.

[xparrot]

Ahahahah I haven't seen the last 2 eps of SPN (am all spoiled though, so) - I just loved it when they brought back Amber Benson's character just so Castiel could brutally kill her. Even if it was what she wanted - having killed off nearly every recurring female character they've ever had, they now have to go back and kill off the more awesome of the one-shot female chars! And even bring back previously executed awesome female chars to kill them again!

...I actually find the way the showrunners seem to be actively competing over whether they can be more sexist or more racist hysterically funny, because I am a bad person. ^^; My bro insists SPN is a fantastic show as long as you accept it as an absurdist black comedy. Trying to take it seriously hurts my brain.

Otherwise - I gotta say, the 24 hour sunlight sounds awesome! One of my fondest memories of Sweden is taking a walk at midnight without a flashlight, in the twilight that's as dark as it gets there at midsummer's. Would love to experience Alaska's hour-long night. ^^

[sholio]

I actually find the way the showrunners seem to be actively competing over whether they can be more sexist or more racist hysterically funny, because I am a bad person. ^^;

*laughs helplessly* But sometimes I swear it is THE ONLY EXPLANATION! There are times when I feel like the main thing I'm getting out of watching the show is amusement at the sheer predictability of its everything-ism (sort of like your brother, I suppose). I'm always surprised when they find a new recurring character to kill. HOW CAN THERE POSSIBLY BE ANYONE LEFT.

The bright nights here are amazing. I grew up farther south -- still in Alaska, but it would get dim/twilight-ish at night, even in the middle of June. Fairbanks in midsummer is bright enough to read a book outside at midnight ... but our long, bleak winters make up for it, I suppose. ^^;;

[liz_mo]

Good luck with your gardening endeavours!

My, you are far north! I'd love to have so much sun, too, if for winter it then would mean that there would be NO sun for almost 24h :)
I do not envy you that at all! I always get a bit depressed in winter because I miss the sunlight.

[sholio]

Thank you! :) And yeah, we are far north -- we're close to the 65th parallel. Our long bright summer days are made up for in the winter by equally long dark nights.

[astridv]

The SPN world isn't devoid of kindness or heroism, but it's a world in which the job of a hero is to torture and kill, and everyone else exists mainly to suffer and die.

That's the reason I stopped watching. I was never bothered by violence on tv before but the scene in the season three opener, in which that fellow hunter was killed in the nastiest way possible, was the final straw. (And the two fellow hunters were black so I knew they would die... that didn't help one bit.) I still tune in for a few of the cracky episodes from later seasons and they were fun, but the show itself, unfiltered, has just too many issues to enjoy any more.

That said, the fallen Angel storyline they've cooked up for Castiel, that actually piqued my interest! That sounds like it has a lot of potential.

It's at times like this that I'm kind of glad I don't care about the characters all that much.

Yeah, sounds much like Children of Earth, which I loved but could at the same time understand when longtime fans of the characters didn't.

[sholio]

Yeah, sounds much like Children of Earth, which I loved but could at the same time understand when longtime fans of the characters didn't.

*nods* That was my reaction to Children of Earth as well.

And, yeah - SPN ... I'm not generally bothered by violence in most of the shows I watch, but SPN is so over-the-top with it, so brutal for brutality's sake.