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Comment to gain access. ¡ATENCIÓN! THIS JOURNAL IS NOW PUBLIC AND WILL BE FOR FANDOM USE ONLY. IF YOU WANT TO ADD MY PERSONAL JOURNAL, PLEASE ADD wakeupfaithless.( what people say about me ) icons by me | last.fm | goodreads | del.icio.us | twitter Here is my master post of all my major fandom contributions. Yes, I am that full of myself, why do you ask? Current Mood:
 calmAsk me anything about anything. It's no secret that I love spoilers and think the name 'spoilers' isn't appropriate because stuff can't be spoiled for you just by knowing some background info ahead of time. Anyway, I was reading some posts on Current Mood:
 cranky ( More 'Sherlock Holmes' promo pics ) -- FINALLY! An HQ version of one of my favourite Jensen pictures:  CLICK FOR FULL SIZE ( TV programming schedule (so far) ) ...ok? More: http://spoilertv.blogspot.com/2009/07/s From Three new images of Mad Hatter, the Red Queen, and Alice are in the month's issue of Vanity Fair. ( Read more... ) Current Mood:
 amusedI just installed a shit load of Firefox add-ons and now I'm loading shit twice as fast, can highlight-to-search, got an icon randomizer, tons of added security shit, and stuff that helps me spam Tumblr. BWA HA HA HA. Because I have no friends and no life here in not-so-sunny-right-now Tucson, I will probably be spending it here, with you guys. At least I won't get shot! But I really want some BBQ. :/ Current Mood:
 dorkyhttp://true-blood.net/2009/07/03/exclus [Writing For The Genre] Raelle landed in the supernatural writing genre by accident. She and her writing partner had been offered several jobs and after looking at all of them, they decided that Supernatural was the one “with legs”, so they accepted that. Raelle recalls that she had to do a lot of catching up to write for the show. Look at the episodes she wrote (or co-wrote with Sera Gamble): Dead in the Water, Faith, Nightmare, Salvation, Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things, Hunted, Roadkill, What is and What Should Never Be... and she thought she didn't know what she was doing?! More than one of these are in my top 10! Also, if she wanted to do something that was more "her" and Supernatural wasn't... how is Tru Blood that different (lol besides being not good)? I ASK YOU. ---- http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/ask-m Matt Roush over at TVGuide.com talked about Supernatural in his column this week: Question: I just recently started following you on Twitter, and I see that you've finally begun to catch up on Supernatural. I'm a big fan of the show and feel that it is one of those hidden gems on the Thursday night schedule many people miss out on, so it makes me very happy to know that you're investing the time to get up to speed on the show. That said, I'm really curious to hear how you are enjoying it. Do you now see why the show has such a devoted following? I love the characters, the monster-of-the-week is often well-crafted (and can be downright freaky!), there's a good mix of scares and humor, and the on-going story arcs have got me deeply invested in catching the next episode. I feel that the show has gotten stronger in its storytelling over the seasons, and the mythology has been able to move beyond the initial mystery behind the murder of the Winchesters' mother which jump-started the series. So, what are your thoughts? If you are having a good time with the show, just wait until you get to season 4. You won't be disappointed! — Brodie L Fuck yeah. Also, where can I get a job like that? Goddamn. Current Mood:
amusedTitle: Walking in Circles Before Lying Down  Master Post ( Additional Art (May Contain Spoilers!) ) THE MOUSE BUTTON ON MY LAPTOP IS GOING OUT. DSFDSDFSDFSDF. Current Mood:
 groggy( 5x02 title ) Check out his moves. What a nerd.♥ AHBL Convention DVD trailer Move this from my other post...   Click for bigger. In an interview with Kerrang!, Jesse Lacey (lead singer and songwriter of Brand New) has alluded to possibly leaving the band and/or the band breaking up after doing some touring for this album.  -- For those of you attending San Diego Comic Con, here's a neat Comic Con survival guide. Some of it is common sense, but other stuff - I always fucking forget my poster tube! - is stuff you wouldn't even think about. If you're interested, information for the Zombie Walk is also up. Just Google it. It's a yearly tradition that I've never participated in, but it's fun to see. -- SO MANY AMAZING PEOPLE. I want to see this so bad. ;_; --  Current Mood:
 frustrated Raining Cats and Dogs: Origin This is an interesting phrase in that, although there's no definitive origin, there is a likely derivation. The phrase isn't related to the well-known antipathy between dogs and cats, which is exemplified in the phrase 'fight like cats and dogs', nor is the phrase in any sense literal (i.e. it doesn't record an incident where cats and dogs fell from the sky, obv). Small creatures, of the size of frogs or fish, do occasionally get carried skywards in freak weather. Impromptu involuntary flight must also happen to dogs or cats from time to time, but there's no record of groups of them being scooped up in that way and causing this phrase to be coined. Not that we need to study English meteorological records for that - it's plainly implausible. One supposed origin is that the phrase derives from mythology. Dogs and wolves were attendants to Odin, the god of storms, and sailors associated them with rain. Witches, who often took the form of their familiars - cats, are supposed to have ridden the wind. However, there doesn't appear to be any to support this notion. It has also been suggested that cats and dogs were washed from thatch roofs during heavy weather. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. This is nonsense, of course. It hardly needs debunking but, lest there be any doubt, let's do that anyway. In order to believe this tale we would have to accept that dogs lived in thatched roofs, which, of course, they didn't. Even accepting that bizarre idea, for dogs to have slipped off when it rained they would have needed to be sitting on the outside of the thatch - hardly the place an animal would head for as shelter in bad weather. Another suggestion is that 'raining cats and dogs' comes from a version of the French word 'catadoupe', meaning waterfall. Again, no evidence. If the phrase were just 'raining cats', or even if there also existed a French word 'dogadoupe', we might be going somewhere with this one. As there isn't, let's pass this by. There's a similar phrase originating from the North of England - 'raining stair-rods'. No one has gone to the effort of speculating that this is from mythic reports of stairs being carried into the air in storms and falling on gullible peasants. It's just a rather expressive phrase giving a graphic impression of heavy rain - as is 'raining cats and dogs'. The much more probable source of 'raining cats and dogs' is the prosaic fact that, in the filthy streets of 17th/18th century England, heavy rain would occasionally carry along dead animals and other debris. The animals didn't fall from the sky, but the sight of dead cats and dogs floating by in storms could well have caused the coining of this colourful phrase. Jonathan Swift described such an event in his satirical poem 'A Description of a City Shower', first published in the 1710 collection of the Tatler magazine. The poem was a denunciation of contemporary London society and its meaning has been much debated. While the poem is metaphorical and doesn't describe a specific flood, it seems that, in describing water-borne animal corpses, Swift was referring to an occurrence that his readers would have been well familiar with: Now in contiguous Drops the Flood comes down, We do know that the phrase was in use in a modified form in 1653, when Richard Brome's comedy The City Wit or The Woman Wears the Breeches referred to stormy weather with the line: "It shall raine... Dogs and Polecats". Polecats aren't cats as such but the jump between them in linguistic rather than veterinary terms isn't large and it seems clear that Broome's version was essentially the same phrase. The first appearance of the currently used version is in Jonathan Swift’s A Complete Collection of Polite and Ingenious Conversation in 1738: "I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs". The fact that Swift had alluded to the streets flowing with dead cats and dogs some years earlier and now used 'rain cats and dogs' explicitly is good evidence that poor sanitation was the source of the phrase as we now use it. Thank you, Jonathan Swift, for all you've done for language.  Current Mood:
 boredSeason 3: 'Long Distance Caller' - the scene where Sam is going to leave Dean in the motel room to go talk to the teenage girl, and Dean is mad because he's waiting for 'John' to call about the location of the supposed demon. Watch the actual scene here. Check out the GIANT camera operator guy at the end. Alternate official title sequence that was never used. It's fucking amazing and I like it way better than the fire or the feathers they use now. Screencaps here. Also, gembat made this hilarious video:My favourite part is when Sam gets all flustered from saying "OH MY GOD" in front of Castiel and Uriel. Current Mood:
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