Hils's journal

Many silly pics from the meetup today

( Chocolate, unicorns and bears )

It's 2:40am and I really should be asleep but I need to get this down while it's fresh in my mind.

I want to talk briefly about my weekly rec list and how it came into being.

It started last year when woman_of_, kittypoker1 and I decided to band together and do weekly recs for spn_j2_bigbang. Prior to that I'd been tossing out the odd rec here and there when something caught my eye but it was this that got me into reccing on a regular basis.

Every Monday I would link to my favourite fics posted for the challenge over the past seven days with a few details about why I was reccing it. When the challenge was over it just kind of stuck and branched out to include fics from any fandom/pairing and not just J2

I just want to say that I am far from an expert when it comes to fannish things. I haven't been in the SPN fandom for that long compared to a lot of people so I'm not what you would call well versed in characterisation and tropes that have been done to death. In fact I'm quite specific in my tastes and often I've found that fics that the majority of the fandom loves just doesn't do it for me. I just know what I like and that's what I rec.

I also want to add that there are LOADS of fics out there that I enjoy but don't rec. Unfortunately if I recced every fic I enjoyed my rec list would be pages long every week. The ones I rec are just the ones that I had a particularly strong emotional reaction to. They might not even necessarily be the most brilliantly well written, but if I get sucked into the story enough that is makes me laugh, cry or think then I'll rec it.

So I don't mean any offence if I don't include something you've written and it certainly doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it.

So there we go.

I'm going to bed now

Did any of you win me on Sweet Charity? User name I have is cybel. Not sure if it's a flisty or a random SPN fan.

Now for a fandom discussion. Well, I say discussion, more a fandom wittering.

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Someone left this link in a comment to my BNF post and I found it pretty interesting so I thought I'd share

Nobody Ever Admits They're A BNF

Thanks to everyone who filled in my SPN poll. The results were quite interesting. Feel free to comment with your own...uh...comments

Season 1 Dean and Season 2 Dean were pretty much evenly tied, with only one vote pushing Season 2 Dean into the lead. Season 3 Dean was the least popular.

Personally speaking I voted for Season 1 Dean for the simple reason that he was a lot more fun back then. I certainly agree the character has a lot more depth now but the reason I fell in love with the show in the first place was Dean's snark.

I'm assuming Season 3 Dean was the least popular because he doesn't do a great deal in that season. It's more about Sam trying to find ways to get Dean out of his deal while Dean is in denial about the whole thing

Season 2 Sam was a clear winner for the most popular. He's the one I voted for. I think by season 2 Sam has really come into his own and we see him grow up a lot and stop whining so much. LOL.

Season 5 Sam was the least popular, again I suspect because he hasn't done a great deal so far.

Season 4 Castiel was a clear winner. Personally speaking I'm still not 100% on board with what they're doing with Cas this year. I hate seeing him reduced to comic relief, and even his serious storylines seem to be massively underplayed.

Season 2 was voted the favourite with most people with Season 4 coming a close second. I voted for Season 2 as it's got loads of really great episodes and I liked the overall storyline about Sam being the chosen one and the boys having to deal with Azazel's plan for him, as well as coping with their dad's death.

Season 3 was the overwhelming least popular and I suspect this was due to the hurried nature of them having to tie everything up thanks to the writer's strike.

Favourite episodes:
In My Time Of Dying (x5)
Lazarus Rising (x5)
Mystery Spot (x4)
On The Head Of A Pin (x4)
Bad Day At Black Rock (x3)
The End (x3)
The Monster At The End Of This Book (x3)
Monster Movie (x2)
Yellow Fever (x2)
Dead In The Water
Pilot
Hell House
Hunted
Playthings
Crossroad Blues
What Is And What Should Never Be
Changing Channels
Born Under A Bad Sign
Faith
Folsum Prison Blues
Everybody Loves A Clown
Free To Be You And Me
Scarecrow
All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1
Bedtime Stories

Least favourite episodes:
Bugs (x4)
Route 666 (x3)
Criss Angel Is A Douchebag (x2)
Roadkill (x2)
The Magnificent Seven (x2)
Heaven and Hell (x2)
I Believe The Children Are Our Future
No Rest For The Wicked
When The Levee Breaks
Sex and Violence
After School Special
I Know What You Did Last Summer
Fallen Idols
The Rapture
Red Sky At Morning
Metamorphasis
Long Distance Call
Jump The Shark
No Exit

I don't know why I'm feeling all navel-gazy at the moment but I am. Thanks to everyone who commented on my LJ/Non-LJ discussion yesterday.

So, eliza_jane has written a really interesting post on advice to fangirls

It's really awesome but bits of it made me think so I'm going to go through some of the points and add my own comments

Enjoy the power and freedom of your fannish persona. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and freedom of your fannish persona until real life causes you to take a fandom hiatus. But trust me, in the middle of RL bullshit, you'll look back at your post-episode reactions and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much fun you really had. You are not as cynical as you imagine.
I don't know if I have a fannish persona. I suppose I'm a little more talkative on here than I am in RL but I think what you see is what you get with me. I hope so anyway. The sad thing is I have never really had to take a fandom hiatus and the mere idea of it saddens me more than it should. I think that possibly means I have an unhealthy balance between fandom and RL. Possibly something I need to address there.

Read a story every once in awhile that scares you.
Does this mean I should try Wincest? I'm willing to take recs at this point but I can't promise I'll read.

Don't waste your time hating BNFs. Sometimes you're part of the "in" crowd, sometimes you think they’re douchebags. The internet is huge and, in the end, they’re just fangirls like everybody else.
I find the whole BNF thing quite strange to be honest. Who decides whose opinions hold more worth than others? Are BNFs made because they write good fic or is it something else. I've never really born witness to a BNF coming into being. They've always just been there. To be honest, though, in all the fandoms I've been in the BNFs have been nice.

Get to know your friendslist. You never know when they'll fuck off to Star Trek. Be nice to your friends from previous fandoms. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to read your stories in the future.
Sometimes I feel that I maybe ignore people on here who aren't in my current fandom. It's a bad habit and one I am looking to break. Is there anything I can do my make my LJ more inclusive to you guys. Are there things you'd like to see that you wish I posted more of? Or would you prefer it if I just shut up about SPN. LOL.

Understand that lj friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in fandoms and favored pairings, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were a crazy Clexer.
I don't think I say often enough how appreciative I am of those of you who have been with me since the Buffy fandom days. I've been through several fandoms since then and you're still here. That means more to me than I could possibly say.

I choose to believe that Misha and/or Jensen and Jared have been teaching Danneel that the best way to get fandom on your side is to talk about it. Seriously, after the clasp clasp tweet she is now talking about Clex



I've always admired her for putting up with Jensen's batshit crazy fans but now I think I kind of love her.

Plus she replied to one of my tweets with surreal poetry. LOL!

I was going to do a meta post about this but I don't think I've been in the fandom long enough really. So instead let me pose a question.

What is it about Supernatural that seems to drive people more crazy than most other fandoms?

Really, I don't get it. I've been watching the show for years now but I only really got into the fandom recently because it has such a bad reputation for being full of crazies. What is it about this show that drives people insane? It really does seem to be worse than any other fandom I've been in, especially when you consider it's got a pretty small amount of viewers compared to a lot of shows.

The sheer amount of wank is off the charts, and don't even get me started on the huge numbers of fangirls who seem to have no grasp of what is and isn't appropriate to say to actors both at cons and on Twitter.

I'd love to know what you think. May compile a meta post based on the answers.

Got caught up in reading VanCon reports and replying to comments in my fandom wank post last night and didn't get to bed until gone 4am this morning. Oops.

On the plus side I woke up to nice and amusing things this morning

A while back I asked on Twitter (not to Misha directly, because no) whether Misha was a vegetarian for my rpf_big_bang. He strikes me as the sort of person who would be. So, sinnerforhire asked him for me! WHEE! It really does feel like I was there now *g*

If you were wondering

No, he is not a vegetarian; he was vegan and then veggie for 8 years, but now agrees that life w/o bacon is not worth living.

A man after my own heart. I was veggie for 5 years and couldn't even imagine it now. I don't know how people do the whole vegan thing. NO CHEESE!

Then on top of that I found the SPN tinhats were in full force this morning following the posting of this this. Really, I was laughing so hard at all the comments where the J2 shippers went mental, the Misha/Jensen shippers went gleeful, the Jared/Misha shippers chipped in and felt neglected and those of us who don't ship Misha with anyone just stood back and watched the carnage.

Really, aside from my little grumble yesterday, you cannot take fandom seriously. Things like this just make me laugh (and the only reason I was annoyed yesterday was because it was stuff being sent directly to the actors. Keep fandom with the fangirls, people)

For no other reason than I am curious

Who are your top five celeb crushes at this moment?

Post pics as well if you want :)