everything but the girl

My spoilery post with omgwtf moments from Show last night ( and the one that I forgot... )

Sam's hair looks really pretty, and even prettier in the previews for next week. ( Everything else is spoilery. )

I am just loving the direction of the season!

Anyone planning to go to the SPN creation con in Nashville in June, btw?

I've been pollwatching since 6:45 AM and basically offline since late afternoon, and I am not capable of reading everything or in fact anything, but I will look over posts tomorrow. if there's something you want me to see, post a link here; all comments are screened. I'm off to look at that pic of Jared in the fx corset and Jensen on the microbike until I fall asleep.

As some of you may know, FictionAlley has been struggling for a few months with a sudden change in our financial circumstances. We're working on ways to help defray the costs to keep the site running, and we're always on the lookout for new opportunities.

Well, this morning, iGive sent out an email about a video contest:

Create a short, fun video (2 minutes or less) about FictionAlley/FAWC, and how iGive helps support it. Get the kids and pets involved! Think Halloween, Thanksgiving, and holiday themes. The top 18 videos (by votes) win cash prizes for their causes!

The prize for the winning video is $1000 - that's five months of our website hosting fees! There are smaller cash prizes, too, and our video is one of the first 100 uploaded, and we get ten votes (easy peasy!) we get $50 for FictionAlley automatically.

We'd love to do this, but we need your help! Have someone film you (solo, or with family and friends, outside or at your computer or anywhere magical) wearing a Potter-inspired costume, or your favorite FictionAlley or self-created t-shirt and say, shout, spell or sing "Creativity is Magic!", then send it to VidChallenge@FictionAlley.org. If you'd rather draw something, or use puppets or animation, that's fantastic, too!

We'll include as many as we can in our two-minute video. We have 120 seconds, and it takes about three to four seconds to say it (maybe five if you're singing) so we can include somewhere between 25 and 35 at a minimum - but we can also put two or four on the screen at once if we get enough submissions.

The thing is, to upload it at midnight (CDT) on November 1, we need your video in hand by 9 PM Eastern time on Sunday, October 31, so we can get it edited and uploaded. And really, the sooner you can film it and send it, the better. Keep it short and clever (and nonviolent and nonpr0n0graphic per the contest rules) and let us know if we can put your name on the screen - it's totally up to you.

Thanks in advance for your help with this! Together, we can make magic!

I was thinking about last night's Rocky Horror Glee, and saw someone wonder about the teens who saw the episode without having seen Rocky Horror beforehand (and is it only me who remembers the film originally being Rated X at least it's release on VHS in the early 90s?). Yes, everyone has been exposed to The Time Warp, but what will the teens think of the bits of the storyline? Won't they be spoiled for the film itself?

I can't be the only kid born in the 70s whose first exposure to RHPS wasn't from actually going to a midnight film, which I did in July of 1987 in Harvard Yard when I was doing a summer thug at Tufts. No, the first time I saw clips from it, and people getting up to "do" the show was in Fame when Doris and Ralph go to the show and Doris ends up taking off her shirt and joins in - did they go to the one in The Village in NY? I finally went to that sometime during the summer of 1989. I was probably 12 or 13 when. I saw Fame, but in retrospect I was probably too young - there was a lot I didn't 'get'. But when the tv show started, i was such a die-hard fan. I never missed a week! I think I still have e episode where they did Othello on videotape somewhere.

I don't think I've seen RHPS in a movie theater since maybe 1992 but it was a staple of Halloween parties through the 90s. My daugter sang The Time Warp at her pre-kindergarten graduation, and I've shown her Columbia tap dancing via YouTube.

While I'm waiting with excitement for Darren Criss to show up - in two weeks! Yay! - and looking forward to Puck's return, and loved the somgs as usual - possibly more than normal as there wasn't a Major Rachel Number - I suffered Will-squick. Again. And I'm just not into Sam. But I have preordered the Christmas Episode and for all the issues Glee has, at least it's not as bad as a certain piece on the Marie Claire website.

I can't do cuts here on DW, and I don't know why. I am following the instructions from the FAQ and wondered if it wasn't just that for some reason legacy code wasn't working on my journal but when I did it with [cut] (replacing [ with <, of course) it still didn't work.

So I'm testing out a cut where I don't actually need one, to see if it works:


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Posting, then editing....


ETA Sigh, no, it didn't. ANYONE have any advice?

I love Sam, I absolutely do. And I can't even begin to predict what is going on this season but ( thinky-thought from SPN 6.05 )

Re 6.04 - a small favor! Is anyone able to make me an icon of the boys in the second to last scene with an arrow pointing to the ruins that says Hogwarts? I would be extremely grateful!

As a friend reminded me, yesterday was three years to the day since Albus Dumbledore came out of the closet, via J.K. Rowling's reading/talk in NYC. And of course, today is Spirit Day, where we're wearing purple in memory of the 6 gay boys who committed suicide, and speaking out against bullying, especially anti-gay bullying.

I know a lot of you were at Lumos, where Emerson of Mugglenet and a friend crashed the slash panel and were really rude about slash, and also remember the first two thirds of the decade, when Mugglenet refused to host slash fics (although they did start before the Dumbledore announcement, fwiw).

So I wanted to point to the site today, which is purple, and especially Andrew Sims' post. Years pass, people grow up, things change - but not quickly enough for the kids that are lost, and who were never told "It gets better." If you haven't gone to Mugglenet in years, take a moment to pop over there today, and read Andrew's post.

What is the difference between Katherine Neville's The Eight series and RPF 18th & 19th century politics?

Anyhow, I ended up submitting these:
Tomorrow People (1973)
Katherine Neville's The Eight
Indiana Jones movies
Hiding Out (movie)
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (movie)
RPF 18th & 19th century politics (and I am shocked, SHOCKED that Germaine de Staël and the Empress Josephine were not already included in the "character" list)

It's looking likely that I'll be going to Epcot for some Food & Wine Festival funtimes in the afternoon/early evening on October 21 - anyone want to join me for a nosh-around?