Love In The Asylum

Three Things About Wednesday:

1. I hate having arguments where both of you know that the thing you are arguing about is irrelevant - it could just as easily be radio stations or cake toppings as the state of the bathroom floor - and you are just displacing a different argument onto something less fraught. I got into two separate screaming fights with my dad today, one about dishes (although that was mostly an 'I don't like your tone, young lady' kind of fight) and one about chili sauce. I'm not even sure what we were actually arguing about. On the other hand, as arguing topics go for me and my father, those were pretty innocuous. We've certainly had worse. I didn't even have to cry to get him to apologize to me.

2. I made the most gorgeous loaf of bread ever today. I haven't even tasted it yet, it was too pretty to eat. It was almost perfectly round, and better risen than I've ever pulled off before. Normally my round loaves go out instead of up and end up like giant crusty pancakes - not bad tasting, but only good for very narrow sandwiches. I am getting better at this! I am also optimistic about how this one will taste. It has toasted cornmeal and lard in it, I have high hopes.

3. I'm finally finishing up season 4 of Supernatural. Yes, I know I'm horrendously behind. Life got complicated and stressful and I couldn't emotionally handle a show where the main characters routinely sell their souls to demons to stop each other dying. I'm really liking it now though! Although apparently I missed the memo that this is the season where Sam goes ABSOLUTELY CRAZY, because wow. I mean, I was aware of the whole sexing up a demon, drinking demon blood, using weirdo psychic nosebleed powers thing. But it wasn't until the episode with the Lost Winchester Brother that it really hit me how completely and utterly his frame of mind has shifted from earlier seasons. Dude is fucked up. I LOVE it.

So colourofsaying and I were talking, as we do, about fictional characters' pets and their names, and somehow the conversation turned in this direction:

colourofsaying: According to actor Misha Collins, the wardrobe of the character Castiel on the TV show Supernatural is based on that of John Constantine.
colourofsaying: Which makes one wonder - what sort of dog is Misha Collins?
masterofmidgets: ...huh
masterofmidgetsr: is he a big dog or a little dog?
colourofsaying: or Castiel

SO I OFFER EVIDENCE FOR OUR CONCLUSIONS:

( pictorial evidence of a canine nature )

I rest my case.

I am home, hanjuuluver is safely on the plane back to NM, and the con is over. D:

Since it was Halloween last night, the two of us decided that the thing to do would be to screen a few select episodes of Supernatural in our room, for our own entertainment and the entertainment of anyone on the third floor who noticed the sign on our door and stopped in. We watched Bloody Mary, Movie Monster, Ghostfacers, and the episode with the creepy soul-sucking changeling children, and spent the rest of the night terrified to look into any of the numerous large mirrors in our hotel room.

This morning/afternoon was the Small Fandoms panel (which lived up to its name by having five people show up), the Bishie Brunch, the Supernatural panel, and the Yaoi in Comics panel (which hanjuuluver talked me into going to because I was going to leave with her at 2.00). We sat with a nice group at the brunch and the eye candy was lovely - getting served by FFVII!Cid and a guy in black leather spanky pants more than made up for the light spread and the fact that I never got anything to drink. Also, I found out from one of the women at the table that yesterday's mystery anime with the guy in the red coat was Samurai 7, so now I'm watching that.

The Supernatural panel was the biggest panel I went to, and probably the most fun. Evenly split between the Sam/Dean and the Dean/Castiel groups - and me right in the middle liking both - and everyone agreeing that Bobby is the best ever. And a big chunk of it was devoted to fic recs and discussions of crackiest pairings ever. I think we won for Yellow-Eyed-Demon-possessed!Mary's dad/John Winchester. Fun times!

The Yaoi in Comics panel, like last year, was twenty minutes of Why Billy and Teddy Are The Cutest Canon Couple In the Universe, which I can hardly object to, twenty minutes of Why Everyone In The World Knew Northstar Was Gay Before He Was Outed, again much to my tastes, and then a free-for-all shouting match about whether Batman would bottom for Superman, why it sucks to be a Titan, and Daken sleeping his way through the MU. Also Robins! There was a Robin, a Deadpool, and three Wolverines in the room. So yeah, really glad I made the time to go to that.

And to cap it all off, I have pictures of the prints I bought yesterday! I'm still trying to figure out what to do with them - they are 8.5x11", which seems a bit small to hang on my walls, but I want to show them off. Whatever. Anyway, I got two prints by Jo Chen (hardest choice ever, her Runaways, Thor, and Buffy covers are gorgeous), and two pieces of fanart.

( Nightwing, smooching, and toppy!Sam under the cut )

Dear Supernatural Fandom,

I'm sure you'll think I'm a picky bitch for this, but it peeves me to no end that when you all write Stanford-era fics, you have this distressing tendency to give Sam his own apartment. Off-campus housing in Palo Alto is EXPENSIVE. It is really NOT a college town the way you are thinking of it as. While there are students who live off campus, be serious - Sam has no money, and functionally no family. Unless he is hooking on the weekends or something, he probably does not have cash to spare. WHY DOES NO ONE WRITE SAM LIVING IN RESIDENCE?

Especially since the place they show him living in when the series starts? Totally looks like the Row.

Ahaha, roommate and boyfriend just got back from Watchmen and are bitching about how much they didn't like it. Will not let this deter me though! Roommate has been categorically proven to have absolutely no taste re: TV or movies. Tried to explain the concept of Watchmen to them, but that was an exercise in futility. I suspect I shall have to do a lot of explaining if I talk hanjuuluver  into going with me to see it over break.