Trabia Garden

Who wants to see a huge number of characters from assorted fandoms playing Dance Dance Revolution/Dancing Stage? It will improve your day, I assure you. There is just so much love put into this animation! It is charming!

If you enjoy it and would like to let the creator know, you can drop her a comment here.


Unrelatedly: my goodness, I've just realised that the fifth-and-possibly-final season of Supernatural starts in the US tomorrow. Wow.

I have managed to remain almost entirely unspoiled, but here is what I hope the casting spoilers on my flist say:


( No spoilers for the fifth season, obviously, but there are spoilers up to the end of the fourth. )


I want an episode in Season Five in which people are dying mysteriously (so what else is new?). The Winchesters investigate. They become drawn into a battle of wits with their unseen opponent, and gradually realise that it is a human killing through supernatural means.

Eventually, they manage to catch Light Yagami (despite not being supergeniuses. Er. Perhaps they teamed up with L?) and acquire the Death Note.

Sam promises to destroy it.

He doesn't.


Seriously, do watch the multi-fandom Dance Dance Revolution flash. It is thoroughly delightful. Even the parts with characters I don't know charmed me, and the moments of recognising a character (and there are so many that you'll probably know at least a few) make it even better. There is a videogame bias, but I hope that doesn't put non-gamers off watching it, because it is a joy regardless.

When I was in Manchester with sazzlette and wanttobeatree, they forced me at what I'm going to say was gunpoint to watch One Tree Hill. This is an American drama about high school students and how basketball TEARS FAMILIES APART and IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING EVER and also about the evils of drugs and alcohol and partying and tattoos and infidelity and, gasp, safe sex. There is an average of one car crash every four episodes. It is ridiculous. It is also terribly, terribly addictive.

So far, I have seen thirteen episodes, up to 'Hanging by a Moment'. Here are some thoughts:

- Lucas is adorable. Adorable! (I still find Chad Michael Murray hilarious for no good reason.)

- I would be up for some Nathan/Lucas. It doesn't really feel like incest - they weren't raised together, after all - and so there's room for all the fun 'augh this is so wrong' feelings on the parts of the characters without violating my usual 'I CANNOT DESTROY THIS SIBLING RELATIONSHIP WITH INCEST' block. This is not helped by the fact that Lucas, in an episode in which he was kissing someone he really should not have been kissing, said, 'You know, that this is wrong... somehow it makes it feel deeper.' LUCAS IS DRAWN TOWARDS WRONGNESS, GUYS. LUCAS/NATHAN. YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE.

- wanttobeatree, sazzlette and I had a brief discussion about Lucas the sparkly vampire, who angsts about no longer being able to play basketball because oh no he is too strong. I would not be surprised were this an actual episode. (This is a lie.)

- I would rather like to see a Supernatural episode in which they investigate a haunted high school and meet the One Tree Hill cast, playing thinly-disguised versions of their One Tree Hill characters. They could be called things like 'Leyton' and 'Snucas'.

- I am pretty massively 'shipping Lucas/Peyton. wanttobeatree is horrified.


( And cut for spoilers up to the thirteenth episode, 'Hanging by a Moment.' )

Today, two other girls and I had to present to my Approaches to Grammar workshop group. It was not until twenty minutes after it ended that I realised I had concluded the session with '"...and witnessed is a lexical non-finite passive participle!" *JAZZHANDS*'

DEAR SELF: SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH YOU.

Then I went into a Zavvi, saw One Tree Hill DVDs and immediately cracked up laughing. I've never even watched One Tree Hill! There is just something intrinsically hilarious about Chad Michael Murray!


Here is something I just stumbled across in a Notepad document from about half a year ago:

You know what I'd like to see? A Groundhog Day-type fic written from the point of view of someone who isn't the person caught in the time loop. Endless permutations of the same day, the viewpoint character unaware while their companion becomes more and more distressed. I'm just interested in seeing whether it would work, really.

THIS IDEA IS AWESOME. WHY DID I NOT POST ABOUT IT BEFORE? I'm tempted to use it for my Art of Short Fiction assignment, actually.


I cannot stop watching videos of Jensen and Jared on YouTube. These guys are amazing. Here is a clip that particularly amused me: 'Let me rephrase that: what's your odd question?' (At the beginning, Jared is (adorably!) put out because all the questions the fans are asking are for Jensen.)


According to my tag counts, this entry officially makes Supernatural the most talked-about fandom in this journal. I should probably make some sort of ridiculous manip post to celebrate this.

I just discovered the following in one of my notebooks, presumably scribbled down after we heard that Jensen and Jared had moved in together but before it was confirmed that Jensen moved into Jared's place, rather than the other way around:

Jared and Jensen are clearly living together because Jared went to take refuge at Jensen's whilst Chad was pregnantly loafing around his place and somehow Jared never got around to leaving.

I really want this to be true. But Jensen moved into Jared's place! Alas! So I'm going to revise my personal canon to say that a pregnant Chad Michael Murray proved too much for Jared to handle, and so Jensen moved in to help keep Jared sane. At the expense of his own sanity, of course, because it's not like Jensen wants to be around a pregnant dude.

Also in my personal Jensen-and-Jared canon is the following extract, from a fic that may never be written:

They've only been living in the same house for four days, and already Jensen has learned things about Jared he doesn't think he ever needed to know. Like how Jared, after stumbling home late at night, will immediately go to sleep on the nearest available surface, with no regard whatsoever for whether there is a Jensen there or not. Like how Jared takes showers at two in the morning, sings appallingly, and somehow uses up three full-size bath towels getting himself dry.

One morning, Jensen wakes up and goes to have breakfast, only to discover that Jared has become bored with having all the cereal boxes in one cupboard and rearranged all their food alphabetically during the night. Twizzlers and tomatoes nestle together. It makes no goddamn sense, but apparently that's not enough of an excuse when Jared catches Jensen trying to sneak the canned goods back into the 'A to E' cupboard.

Come! Tell me about the way you imagine the Ackles-and-Padalecki household! Or just glee about the fact that we can actually say 'Ackles-and-Padalecki household'; that works too.

...oh, dear, I've reached Zanarkand and I think I've realised that my period of hating Tidus was probably emotional insulation. When you actually like the characters and care about what happens to them, Final Fantasy X is the most soul-crushingly upsetting thing in the entire world. IT'S SO MISLEADINGLY BRIGHT AND COLOURFUL AND SILLY AT THE BEGINNING AND TIDUS IS SUCH AN ADORABLE DORK AND THEN THE PLOT COMES ALONG AND STABS EVERYONE IN THE FACE AND MAKES ME CRY BUCKETLOADS.

Also, Tidus and Yuna are so cute I can barely stand it. SHE RUNS UP TO HOLD HIS HAND. IT IS ADORABLE. That Scene In Macalania is completely ridiculous (and Tidus' brain-eating grin terrifies me), but it is also sort of charming!


Anyway! Before season four of Supernatural begins (please note that I do not live in America and if you spoil me I'll cry), I would like to introduce you to someone! His name is Delaware Singer, and he is one of my absolute favourite Supernatural characters, and it makes me very very sad that, you know, he's not technically a Supernatural character in the 'actually appears or is even mentioned in the episodes' sense.

Delaware Singer is the brilliant invention of sazzlette and wanttobeatree. (He'll tell you his surname is Springer, but don't believe it.) He is Bobby Singer's hypothetical estranged hooker son, and he is hypothetically played by Chad Michael Murray, and he is a bit of a lunatic and ridiculously fun and I know that the fourth season is going to be a gigantic letdown because he is almost certainly not going to be in it.

I hope to make up for this by persuading you all to write fanfiction about him. (Hey, it worked with Zombie Piers Morgan.)

sazzlette and wanttobeatree have been roleplaying his adventures in the Impala over here (spoilers for the end of the third season). They are hilarious, and then when you're looking the other way they clobber you over the head and break your heart. Delaware is a little like Dean, except better-adjusted and unconstrained by broadcasting regulations and with more terrible hooker jokes. What's not to love? (Also, the hypothetical mutilated pairing name for Sam Winchester/Delaware Singer is 'Salmonella'. I think that alone is more than enough reason to write it.)