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I'm away from LJ for a day and I come back and there was a randomness posting day?! And I missed it?!! Boooooo!...though also YAAAY! Awesomesauce because lots of posts!! \o/ though...boooo, no way I'm going to have a chance to comment because I'm with my family (on the other side of the country) and spending time on the computer instead of with them is probably not a great thing. But then again...you guys are family too!

LJ is still wonderful. Even with Twitter and tumblr I think this is the best place to have really good discussions and get to know people. And make detailed posts and feel like a part of a real community. *hearts* the LJ community.

I've been thinking we might need an "active" LJ user friending thingy because I think there are more and more fans (re) discovering LJ and people might want to know who's out there. Maybe?

*hugs* ya all.

I'm getting excited about our spn_cinema entry. \o/ geckoholic has been sending me updates of her story and I've started to mess around with some ideas for the vid. This is a new thing for me and I LOVE doing new stuff. Ooooh... and the story is AWESOME!

I'm dreadfully jealous reading all the festivids letters. I would love to be taking part but after having to withdraw last year I didn't feel it was a good idea to sign up. I can't wait to see what everyone comes up with! <3

My CasnDean vid feels like it's (finally) taking shape. Here I was thinking I could just punch out a vid. But it seems I'd rather get it right than be quick. (Well, as "right" as it can be). I don't (can't! *g*) ship Cas/Dean, but after working with the footage I can see why people do. Man... the amount of gooey eyes they give each other...;)

Speaking of jealous. Wincon happened! (ruby_jelly I am expecting ALL the gos!) Man... we need one of those in Australia. I'm sure it would be awesome fun. And I could actually afford to attend one here! (how many fans does it take to make an Auswincon I wonder?).

I'M RUNNING OUT OF PODFICS TO LISTEN TO! Arrrrgh... this is awful. /o\ I surfed audiofic and I have pretty much listened to all I a) want to and b) all I can (as in audiobooks not MP3). I shall go into withdrawal if I don't have someone reading me a story. :(((

Though I have just started listening to one that is J2 and I'm actually really liking that it doesn't feature all the other personalities that usually accompany those fics. I don't mind them (I really can't because most J2 fic has Chad and Tom and Sandy and MIke and Chris and Steve etc. etc. ) but it's refreshing to have some original names and personalities. I think I might have squeed just slightly when Jared's best friend was Missy and not Chad or Sandy. :) It's not a deal breaker having them all in there, it's just so RARE for them not to be (for the stories that are podficced anyway), it just makes a nice change.

I have a HEAP of fics bookmarked to read though. (oh for the time....)

I'm pondering opening up a discussion on porn in fanfic, but I'm just not sure how that will go. I've been having some interesting discussions behind the scenes and it seems that there's some stuff that would be interesting to discuss. But...er...I suspect it would get rather...um... personal, so not sure it's a good idea *head scratch*

In RL (yeah I actually have a RL in between all this) I'm back at work. As much as I love my job and my kids I do love my holidays. Mainly because it means more time for fandom fun. *g*

*hugs* to all.

* Being on holidays means spending 1.5 hours at the hairdressers. Joy. I like not being able to do anything except sit back, relax and read/listen to fanfic. Great chance to catch up. (And missyjack... I have the issue of the porn covered. *g* I listen when the hairdresser is over my shoulder and open the iPad to read when they set the timer.... ;) )

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*hugs*. wow.. that was indeed random..

Also... meant to ask. What goes with LJ's new header? What a strange mix of....what exactly is that? There's a lollypop on my user name...

In case you need (another) reason to get excited about the return of Supernatural....

The fabulously talented lsketch42 has made an awesome S6 promo. It's so slick and professional it could be the official thing. Check it out and get even more pumped for the show's return.

In other (completely random) news I'm learning to play the African drums. How awesome is that!!? This is the kind of interesting stuff that can happen when you are a teacher. I gotta say though, it's the best thing ever. I never realised how powerful that sound could be. Love it.

World Cup

Paul the Octopus has predicted Spain to win over Netherlands in the World Cup. Which means of course Spain will win. Paul (*chuckles* perfect name for an octopus) has been correct 7 times out of the last 7 predictions he has made. 11 out of the last 13. Though in the past he's only been asked to predict matches that Germany have been in. I wonder if that makes a difference.?? Go Paul!


I went looking for The Hardy Boys on DVD today (/o\). When a shop assistant asked if he could help me I said "err, no", even though I really wanted to ask whether they had the DVD's but I was too embarrassed to ask. And he could TELL! He said "I can see you are looking for something in particular" and I still said "no, that's ok". I am ashamed at my gutlessness.

I saw some HB eps on YT and they really are quite woeful... but I was so IN LOVE with them all those years ago. I wanted a trip down memory lane. I still want them on DVD... //o\\

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