Hils's journal

You know, it's no wonder people download music/TV illegally when the producing companies, for whatever reason, decide that their products should only be available in certain countries

Of the music suggested in this poll half of it is not available on iTunes in this country. I'm sat here willing to pay for it and I can't obtain stuff legally.

So if the government wants to combat piracy they should start by making their products available to all. Then go after the people who continue to download illegally.

RAH!

Dean Winchester is 33 years old today (or 34 if you include the weird missing year which I am not)

Happy Birthday, Dean. May your day be free of leviathan and filled with hugs from your brother and maybe a special gift of Cas coming back to you

Just testing the cross-posting feature.

Man, only 15 icons on a free DW and only 100 with a paid account. I have nearly 270 icons on LJ. This is going to take some getting used to

Originally posted by digitalwave at Seems I Am Not The Only One...

Gen (SPN/Eternal Law crossover)
Oh Captain My Captain by wildecate_alt
Tom is attacked and rescued by Gabriel
I'm not sure I can put into words how much this made me flail. I need more crossovers like this!

J2
Fight the Rising Odds by bertee
Ancient Greek AU. Jensen is sexually harassed by the entire Greek pantheon and Jared is hopelessly in love with him.
Loved this. Really cute and funny.

Dean/Castiel
Here Open the Gates
Death watches Dean Winchester. After eons of existence the feeling of something different, something original, is a novelty.
This was really interesting. Really nice look at the characters and their motivations from an outside perspective

Perceptions by jackvelvet
When Castiel becomes mortal, he rejects Dean’s offer of a seat in the Impala, and distances himself from the Winchesters for good. A chance encounter in Buffalo, New York reunites them, putting them on a case investigating strange poltergeist activity at a local restaurant. But Castiel is not the same awkward angel Dean once knew. Something’s changed. Life happened.
This had a really natural feel to it and some wonderful twists in the plot that actually had me gasping and shouting at my screen. Loved it.

Sam/Dean
I'll Look For You 'Till Eternity by sonofabiscuit77
lavishsqualor wrote: "something I can't understand why there's not more of: soulless!Sam/future!Dean" and I thought... yes, that absolutely must be written! So, have some Robo!Sam meeting up with bad-ass Dean in the The End 'verse.
Let's face it this was always going to push my buttons since I love 2014!Dean and I love Robo!Sam. This is so deliciously dark and fucked up, which is the only sort of wincest I like :D

J2
Manufacture a Miracle by tebtosca
Jensen and Jared are fic writers who take their rivalry very seriously--well, as seriously as a show about a zombie apocalypse can get. But when they imprint-at-first-sight while at a fandom convention, Jensen has to battle horny TV stars, physical exhaustion, and the loss of his favorite shoe to convince his brain what his body already knows--that Jared is his soulmate.
Oh, god, this made me laugh. It's crackstatic but also hot. Best combo!

Believe in Nothing But by sparseparsley
Jared figures he knows everything he needs to know about his boyfriend. Everything important, anyway. Right up to the night he gets attacked in his own home, waking up in the company of someone who will show him how little he knows about the man he calls Jensen Jones.
This was a fantastic read. It was gripping and dramatic with a side order of sweet and hot

Dean/Castiel
Five Conversations Dean and Castiel Didn't Have at Christmastime (and one they did) by tiptoe39
Dean is having some conversations with Castiel in his head.
Oh, god, this was so sweet! I just wanted to smish it!

So, those of you who own Sims 3 does anyone want to give me an idiots guide? It seems very different to Sims 2.

For example in Sims 3 it seems you can't set up loads of different families in the same neighbourhood and switch between them. You can only play as one and then interact with any other characters you move in, which is a shame.

I created a Sam and a Dean last night and had Cas move in next door, but obviously I can now only play as Sam and Dean. Dean and Cas really didn't get along. LOL. And Dean kept going to Castiel's and kicking over the trashcan.

I need to start over though. I'm not sure why but whenever Sam changes out of his regular outfit into anything else his hair changes and I have no idea why. Is this something I can fix or did I mess up the settings when I created him?

Also, someone on here (I can't remember who) recommended a good piece of software for screencapping Sims. Any recs? It was something that just ran in the background and you just hit a key and it saved a cap to wherever you specified.

And my final question. lexalicious70 said it's possible to delete all the pre-loaded characters from a neighbourhood so that only the ones you make live there. How do I do that?

Any other hints and tips?