It took me forever to figure out what icon to use on this post, because I'm pissed off, annoyed or otherwise displeased with pretty much all of my fandoms right now. So I guess I'll use one from a show I haven't even watched. Nyah.

( Supernatural Abandon All Hope (and was there ever a more appropriate episode title?) )

Three people on my flist had co-workers laid off or otherwise let go today, and I'm only at skip=200.

*bubblewraps remainder of flist* *braces self*

Taken from the stage by Traci Dinwiddie at Chicago con:



Dear Eric Kripke:

( Mild spoiler for last night's episode. )

Happy-making: my daughter emailed me a flyer she put together for the Coexist Club at school (it's like glee club, but with less singing and more treating people like actual human beings, apparently) and asked me to print out a few copies for her, and they flyers are for their movie night and they're showing The Laramie Project, and y'all, I'm just so proud of her right now. We butt heads a lot because we're pretty similar, and just this morning I sent her out to the bus with "You know what? Don't eat breakfast! Don't brush your hair! Don't wear a jacket. FREEZE for all I care!!!eleventy!!"** But the thing is, she's a good kid. She cares about things that are important, and she's doing something about it. <3

Crazy-making: I need a fandom for a show that has less skeevy gender/race/ability issues, y'all. It's kinda starting to wear me down a little bit. I need a show/books/movies/etc -- preferably genre, but at this point I'm not picky -- that treats people like human beings. I need a fandom where pointing out skeevy issues isn't immediately greeted with "GTFO IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT" or "IT'S JUST A SHOW." Is there such a show? Such a fandom?

**Okay, so not my best parenting moment ever.

Okay, Glee fandom, you went from zero to 'GTFO if you have a problem with how women/minorities/disabled people are portrayed on the show, GOD' in approximately three months. I'd say you're on track to bypassing Supernatural fandom in terms of Batshit Quotient, and well on your way to challenging LOTR fandom for the Crazycakes Crown.

Well done.

...this will do the trick.

*sniffle*

Various entertainment news sites are confirming that Dollhouse has been canceled. Not surprising given its pathetic ratings, really.

Personally, I gave the show a few episodes, but it never worked for me. I'm sorry for those who will miss the show.

Here are just a few of the dogs Carolina Poodle Rescue is helping (note that they're not all poodles!):



Please help these dogs and many more by voting HERE for Carolina Poodle Rescue!

( A message from the director of Carolina Poodle Rescue: )

Not that she's completely wrong, but...

LOL MATURITY

Shame she's not 18; f_w would be perfect for her.

Y'all know I almost never do this, but this group means a lot to me and they need help. The poodle rescue group that I volunteer with is entered in a contest for some nice cash prizes. They really need the help right now -- with the economy being so crappy, their adoptions are way down and their requests to take in dogs (not just poodles!) are way, WAY up. If you could just take a couple of minutes and vote for Carolina Poodle Rescue, I'd really appreciate it (and you can do so anonymously.) Right now, we're number 2 in the nation.

The link to vote in the contest is: HERE.

If you'd like to see pictures of just a few of the dogs CPR is helping or read more info on CPR, go HERE. I've adopted three dogs from them in the past ten years, and I believe in what they do. :D

Thanks so much! :)

A few CPR dogs:

Can someone please get these people a copy editor, stat? If it was a breaking news story and they just threw it up there to get word out and then went back to edit, I'd understand. But I first heard the story four hours ago, so someone has had time to go back and edit. That said, I hope they find the missing women and that they're okay.

In fandom-y news, Legend of the Seeker season 2 starts this weekend, woot woot!

Can I just say that this is one of the few times I can remember a TV series actually being a lot better than the source books? I made it through the first three books in Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series -- barely. Went back and re-read the beginning of the first book and wow, this guy is a crappy writer. His secondary characters are all one-note, good or evil, no shades of gray in sight, and talk about anvil-icious! Dude makes Kripke and his writing staff look positively subtle. And do not get me started on his treatment of women in his books. Rowr. D:<

The series, while being somewhat heavy on the cheese factor, has so far been wonderfully fun, due in large part to the two leads, Bridget Regan and Craig Horner (also, Craig Parker OM NOM NOM.) I've described Bridget and Craig as alarmingly charming in the past, and I think I'll stick with that phrasing. It fits!

I can't be the only one who saw this and went "AHHH OMG CHILDREN STANDING IN THE CORNER BLAIR WITCH COMING AHHHHHH!"

Right?

First of all, I want to say that I hope no one who was given the chance to screen this episode early will reveal too much. This is definitely an episode where a lot of the fun comes from experiencing it without knowing everything in advance.

That said, if you watched the preview after last night's episode, nothing I say here will spoil you. :)

Just to be safe, though: IF YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT NEXT WEEK'S EPISODE, THERE ARE MILD SPOILERS HERE including guest actors (revealed in the previews last night.)

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In conclusion, you will not want to miss this episode. :D

Ugh, I'm a bad fan, but I just watched next Thursday's Supernatural episode ahhhhhhhhhhhhh and I need to know what episode number it is so I can talk about it asdfjkl;asdfjkl;asjdfkl;

Non-spoilery reaction: I really, really loved it. It's the first episode in a long time that I can't wait to watch again, which I think speaks volumes right there.

Edit: It's 5X08.

If you don't know the general gist of the episode, don't click.

Got this from write_light, who got it from andreas_ri.

( Spoiler pic for Supernatural 5X09 )

This is 45 minutes from my house:



A massive rock slide has blocked both sides of I-40 near the NC/Tennessee state line. It's going to take at least 3 months to clear it all out.

I'm thinking of kielle today, and sending love to those who knew her and are missing her today. ♥

I was thinking about this one time when I was RPing with her, and she was making little OOC side comments that had me cracking up, and teasing me about my tags being Tolkien-length, and I joked that just for that, I was gonna add a few more appendices to them. Good times. I think I still have those chats saved on my old computer. I'll have to see if I can find them tonight. :)