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Things of mine you might want to check out:

Hells Half Acre's Supernatural Time-Line  - The only accurate Supernatural Time-Line on the Internet....in my opinion.


Master List of my Fanfic

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Another vid idea!

What A Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong - only SARCASTIC! Think about it..."I see trees of green", and you see Dean tied up in the orchard from Scarecrow..."red roses too", and there's Lucifer!Sam being all evil...."and I think to myself, what a wonderful world" - Dean crying while Sam hauls out and PUNCHES HIM IN THE FACE! It practically edits itself.

It's brilliant. Someone please point me in the direction of step by step vidding directions (for PC owners), I'm dying over here!


Completely unrelated:

You know you're Canadian when...

*Susie and I are watching TV - a particularly attractive guy is on screen*

Susie: *dreamy sigh* Guys should only ever wear plaid shirts.

Random ideas that pop into my head that are ridiculously hilarious to think about:

1. A Supernatural/Corner Gas crossover!
-I don't know if there are any Canadians on my flist...but just to clarify, Corner Gas is a Canadian sitcom that takes place in rural Saskatchewan. It centres around life at the gas station and the diner in the fictional town of Dog River - the main characters are the gas station owner (Bret), the diner owner, the only two cops that the town has, Bret's idiot best friend, Bret's employee, and Bret's parents. It's got a pretty laid-back subtle sense of humour. Anyway...the Winchesters never go to Canada, it's true...but come-on! A show about a gas-station and a diner is just ASKING to be crossed over with SPN....at least in my head.

A clip of the show for the curious:


2. A Supernatural video to the Beatle's song: Two of Us.
-Haha...it's so upbeat and optimistic and buddy-movie-esque. Yet it has awesome lines like "Two of us burning matches, lifting latches..." It'd be so adorable!

Anyway, I suppose I should go back to my boring job now and stop having fun :-P

The signs are still up for the filming, yet, we cannot find them. They north down Commercial off of Hastings, but when you turn, there are no more signs and no sign of any filming whatsoever.

There IS something going on 3 blocks east. At Franklin and Hastings. There's some kind of chip-truck outside where people are making food. There's a security guard dressed all in black, and there were several cabs arriving. If that is the filming crew though, then they must be filming inside the building, because they sure as heck aren't filming outside of it. When we drove by, there were a couple of guys in suits, and one "regular" looking guy in a hat hanging out by an exit.

Anyway, we don't see why they would film inside a building when they could just use a set for inside shots...but then, maybe there's something particular about the inside of that building. Or, that might not be the filming crew at all and there's just some strange shindig going. ETA: Confirmed: It's a party.

Sigh...I don't have much hope. Figures they'd film in my neighbourhood and then hide from me :-(

ETA: Checked back, still couldn't find them. We've given up. We're assuming that they were filming Thursday during the day, or Wednesday night, and someone forgot to take down the signs on Commercial. It's either that or the entire Supernatural crew is invisible...because we freakin' COMBED those streets.

I am spamming you with my ennui.

The sad thing is that so many people would be thankful to have my job...so many people covet a job like mine...but, my god, I just don't like it.

I'm going to hit the town and see if I can track down the Supernatural crew tonight. Hopefully I will find them, and that will cheer me up.

( Read more... )There are SFI signs in the sketchier part of what I consider to be the edge of my neighbourhood. Susie and I walked down there to check it out. It's about a fifteen minute walk or so, maybe twenty.

Sadly, we couldn't find them. We found a bunch of creepy alleyways and a fish processing plant...and some place that makes airline food, but no Supernatural crew. We need someone on the inside of the film industry, because we don't know how far in advanced they would put up the signs...like, maybe they are filming tomorrow? I doubt it though...you'd think the businesses would have to run tomorrow and they'd be in the way...plus those alleys are really creepy at night, but would just be boring alleys during the day.

I got some cool pictures though on our little walk. We will drive down later (to save our legs) and see if it's some sort of after midnight shoot...but somehow that seems unlikely. Maybe they were filming earlier today and we've missed them completely? But then...wouldn't they take down the signs?

Sigh...

A funny conversation on the way there:

Susie: We should just pretend we don't even know the show...'hey what are you filming? Never heard of it...who's Jeensun Ayckles?'
Me: Haha...Jared Padawhatta?
Susie: How would you even mispronounce his name? JAR-ed Poodle-acky? Hahaha
Me: Hahahaha
Susie: If I ever meet him, I should totally yell that 'OMG It's Jared POODLE-acky!!!' Hahah, you should film it for youtube. It's be hilarious just to see his face.

( Some pictures! )

ETA: Ok, checked back...still nothing going on. Though, we figured there might be a small possibility they were inside somewhere. Still, we'll check back tomorrow to see if the signs are still up.

Susie's final thought on it was:
"Damn it, Jensen, you owe me for this."

Ok, I was cruising google maps the other day, and I came across all these fields that were in circles in the states. I mean...like, the crops were in circles. Like pies. I looked up in Canada, and we have them too. It's like someone scattered green coins across the country.

I was just wondering if anyone knew if it was a particular crop that people like to grow in circles, or if some people just liked to have circular fields. Where I grew up, people just grew things in rows...but then, mostly everyone just grows corn there. And in New Brunswick, everybody just grows potatoes.

It might be a pretty stupid question, but I am not a farmer - so I'm honestly just curious.

1. My username is ______ because ______.
My user name is hells_half_acre. Because I like saying stuff like "I searched all over hell's half acre, and couldn't find the bloody thing." When I wanted to make an LJ devoted to my love for Supernatural, I decided that hells_half_acre was a very fitting username for that community. I didn't actually intend to put any posts about my life up, but I get bored a lot.

2. My name is _____ because ______.
My name is the only one like it in the entire world. Well, my first name-last name combination is. That's why I don't use it on LJ. I'm REALLY easy to track down. I think right now I have my name as kalixa, which isn't hiding things THAT well, but I like the way it sounds. Actually, I think there's a town in Quebec called Calixa, but I could be wrong.

3. My journal is titled ____ because ____.
My journal is titled Many A Vanished Scene, because it's a phrase from a poem I like, and I thought it fitting for a place where I post fanfiction. The poem is called The Fire of Driftwood by Longfellow. In particular, my favorite lines of the poem are:

We spake of many a vanished scene,
Of what we once had thought and said,
Of what had been, and might have been,
And who was changed, and who was dead;

And all that fills the hearts of friends,
When first they feel, with secret pain,
Their lives thenceforth have separate ends,
And never can be one again.

-Actually, reading over those lines now: They really just suit Supernatural in general. Poor boys.

4. My friends page is called ____ because ____.
My friends page is called "Like-minded individuals and communities" because I'm a dork.

5. My default userpic is ____ because ____.
My default userpic is what I called "The Damned and the Saved" - well before I knew where Kripke was taking the mythology. I absolutely love the shot and the way the creater of the icon has coloured it. The original shot is from Houses of the Holy, which was long before they wove Dean into the mythology as anything more than the burdened older brother...yet I love the symbolism in their positions...standing under the trefoil - Sam crouched and looking up at Dean, who stands just a little bit more into the light than Sam does...man, love this icon.

So, I thought I should make sure my car still worked, because I hadn't driven it in a month. I drove Susie to her studio, and then went to the bank, and got gas (but forgot to buy windshield wiper fluid)...and during all this remembered how much I ABSOLUTELY HATE driving in cities. I'm a long-distance road-trip type driver. It's not that I can't handle cities. I can. It's just that my driving skills are those meant for the open road. I can change CDs, easy as you please, while going 140km/h in a van that really only has 4 gears...but put me in a city and I feel half-blind and constantly on edge.

To top it off, my usual parking spot beside my apartment was taken when I got home, and I drove around the block, but the nearest spot was way down the hill...and then I thought "hey, I can just squeeze in here between this guy and the stop sign, and then come back out later and move it....except that an hour or so was a little too long to leave the car there, because I got a parking ticket. My first EVER, I might add. I'm sorely disappointed in myself. Plus now I'm out $50....I forgot about the whole "don't park close to stop signs" rule.

Sigh...

Is it just me, or have there been more spoilers for this season of Supernatural than last season? I seriously do not remember THIS many spoiler posts last year. Are they just not keeping things as under wraps? Am I crazy? Maybe I'm crazy.

I usually avoid spoilers, but the other night I thought f*ck it! and I read spoilers up to 5x12....which I guess is really only the next two episodes. Anyway, no more! Still there seems to be so much more of them this year than last.

Also, I am sleepy and do not want to write tonight, but I feel horribly guilty about it because I didn't write on the weekend either - instead I got kind of drunk and morose.

Let's look at how sexy Jensen/Dean is in my mood theme!

Title: Damage Control
Author: hells_half_acre
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG
Characters: Castiel, Sam, Dean, OFC
Summary: Castiel runs into Jimmy Novak's mother. Dean and Sam have to run damage control.
Written for: liliaeth




Title: The Closest He Ever Came
Author: hells_half_acre
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Characters: Sam and Dean
Summary: Sam's POV on finding his old soccer trophy in John's lock-up.
Written For: lelaro

Title: Remake Horror Double-Bill
Author: hells_half_acre (ME!)
Genre: Gen
Rating: G
Characters: Sam and Dean (and Clay and Whathisname)
Summary: Sam and Dean go to a double-bill of Friday The 13th and My Bloody Valentine.
Written for: mymuseandi




Title: Attack of the Coffee-Monster
Author: hells_half_acre
Genre: Gen
Rating: PG
Characters: Sam, Dean, OMC, OFC
Summary: Sam and Dean battle a coffee-monster
Written for: auriliawestlake who is a fan of the Encyclopedia of Weirdness, and wanted a monster made of coffee.

Apt title.

( My thoughts )

All in all, a fantastic mid-season finale. It's going to be a long sad winter break. :-(

Possible sequel to Damned Demented Demons:
-I have all the character interactions figured out, all the little nuances that I enjoy writing. What I don't have is a plot. I have enough ideas to fill a good number of chapters, but nothing really to tie them all together. So, worse comes to worse, you'll get timestamps instead of a sequel...because, to me, sequels require plot.
-Oh, also, the show hasn't given me a good opening yet for inserting a sequel...so, I'm still waiting on that.

My Novel:
-It's coming along. I'm about midway through chapter two. Not sure how I feel about it yet.

Other Fanfic:
-I'm halfway through a Bobby + Hermione piece
-I'm part way through a Dean piece.
-The two above facts have been true for a couple of weeks.
-I still have two prompts that I could do on my little meme from the other week. I'm not sure if I'm going to get to them...maybe just one of them.

Myself:
-I need to get my head in the game. I'm slacking off so much at work that I'm worried about being fired. My psychological insomnia is back like a bitch. I just don't know how to correct these things...my will power isn't strong enough or something.
-I should look into schooling in order to get another career maybe...the problem is, the more I seem incapable of going to bed and waking up and doing my job like a normal person, the more I feel incapable of doing ANYTHING.

Pictures For Sad Children summed up the weather in Vancouver really nicely without evening intending to:



My favorite is panel 4.

It's after midnight and I'm trying to avoid going to sleep, for fear of the work week arriving quicker once I do. (Nevermind that it'd probably be better to start the work week on more sleep...rationality is for chumps).

So, let's go over some things I learned tonight by watching the few Chicago Con videos that have trickled in:
1)Dean's lines in 5x08 about "no talent douchebags" was Jensen adlibbing. Also, so was the "a plane crashed here" line in the same speech. Man, Jensen is hilarious.

2)People will pay a lot of money for a watch. I just...I mean, yay for Jared's mom's students...but that was more money than I make in a MONTH! Wow...must be nice to be rich. Ah well, I might not have Sam's watch, but I do live in the same city as the boys, and that's free! Yay! (Well, actually, it cost me about $1200 to drive across the country when I moved here, but that's still cheaper than that watch.)

In other news:
- I like to bold things randomly in entries, in the hopes that it means people will read them.

The status of my fic:
- The show still hasn't gotten to a point where I feel comfortable weaving in a sequel to Damned Demented Demons. I'm thinking I may have to wait until the spring before I start anything...but we'll see. It all depends what happens in the next episode and the first couple in January.
- I AM, however, working on a short Bobby + Hermione piece. No guarantees about when that will be posted, but it is something I'm working on.
- If you are wondering why I'm not as prolific as I was with DDD, it's because I've started working on my novel again...which means I'm doing completely non-supernatural-related writing...which obviously i wouldn't post here. The goal is to do a chapter a month. So far I was a week late on my chapter for October, and I only just started my chapter for November. The only person reading it right now is my sister.
- There is at least one other Supernatural fanfic I want to write, and that I've got about half done, but it's slow going...and truth is, I'm not sure it'll ever be good enough to post. Still, it's there. So, it's not like I've been doing nothing, you know?

Ok, QUESTION TIME:
- I'm not promising anything, but if I were to write a fic in which Dean and Sam encountered a boggart...what do you think it would manifest as? For non-Harry-Potter fans out there, basically what I'm asking is: What do you think Sam and Dean's greatest fears are? I've actually already sort of made up my mind about Dean's, but I'd be interested to know what you thought Sam's is?

Random Vancouver Information:
- The mountains are covered with snow now. When I can see them, they are beautiful.
- It starts getting dark here at 4pm. I realized that this is the furthest north that I've ever lived, even where I lived in Newfoundland was further south latitudinally. It's only November too...the 21st of December is going to be crazy dark.

If you are like me and you really really enjoy watching the world come to an end, then this is the movie for you. It is aptly described by the director as "disaster porn," and that is indeed what it is. The plot itself is very predictable, the circumstances through which our everyman-hero survives are very unbelievable...but if you were going for realism, I'm not sure why you would go to see this movie.

Once again, this movie if for those of us who love to watch great cities fall into the ocean.

It's also for those of us who like to look at Chiwetel Ejiofor....who I must say, NEVER AGES. Dude, that guy is so good looking.

Oh yeah, John Cusack is in it as well. He did a good job too.

ETA: I just found out that the waiter on the ship in 2012 was played by a close friend's brother-in-law! He did a good job too!

Obligatory Supernatural Topics:
On the way back from the movies, we passed Motel 2400, which is the location used for Sam and Dean's motels in such episodes as Something Wicked and Fallen Idol. It is amazingly only about a ten minute drive from my house. I should go back during the day sometime and take pictures.

Dude who played Corbett in Ghostfacers (Dustin Milligan), who is also originally from Yellowknife, NWT. Is going to be in an upcoming Paul Gross film...it's a western set in Canada...it's called: GUNLESS. Hahahahah...oh Paul Gross, your sense of humour is so awesome.

I took spn_heavymeta off my friends list. Even not clicking on any of the links, I couldn't escape the negativity.

So, if anyone wants to recommend me some meta sites, with, you know, ACTUAL meta and not just complainy-episode reviews...please do.

In the meantime, I'm going to go listen to reggae and drink.

Well, already, without even clicking on anyone's reviews/meta, I can tell that a lot of people missed the point of last night's episode entirely....even just reading the weekly poll over at spnforthesane shows me that people missed the point, because I couldn't even answer the poll, and that poll is never even serious.

I'm not going to argue with people, and most people on my flist seem to have actually understood the episode (thank goodness). But, man, I am going to point out one thing, just in case anyone on my flist wants to argue with people in other communities:

Supernatural: the books =/= Supernatural: the show.
-There is a REASON the audience at the convention in the show was mostly dudes.

Also, if you really did want a commentary on how Supernatural's fanbase is predominantly female, I don't see how making them predominantly male in the episode is NOT making a comment about it. If they TRULY did not want to comment on gender and fandom, then they would have made the audience perfectly mixed. Think about it, people!

When a show does something you didn't expect it to do (or you don't agree with) a good course of action is to ask WHY they did it that way, rather than just complain. More often than not, if you think about it for two seconds, you'll realize that they had good reason to do whatever it was that they did.

Anyway...that's all I'm going to say on the matter.

Ah Show, you are so ridiculous....


Is next week the last week before Winter-Hiatus? I'm going to be so sad. From the preview though, it looks like it's going to be quite the epic episode.