What you'll find here? Strictly Gen. Much of it pre-series; virtually all of it canon-based.
All of it about family. Often with monsters. None of them (the monsters) ever being John.

( Dodger Winslow's Master Fic List )

Yeah, yeah. My freaking fic list got to long for the character limits *headdesk* so I'm having to put the meta links in a separate post. Sheesh.


( Dodger Winslow's Master SPN Meta List )

A video from eldritchhobbit,  one of the coolest, most intelligent, most talented and just generally awesome people I've ever met (and yes, I met her through fandom ... fanfiction, in specific) about an interesting, important topic that is far to seldom spoken of:



This video, filmed for The Institute for Humane Studies and produced by Ozymandius Media, was inspired by her Reason article "Florida's Forgotten Rebels: Rediscovering the most successful slave revolt in American history," which received a shout-out from the 50th Annual Southern California Journalism Awards in 2008.

Way to go, Grasshopper! As always, I couldn't be more impressed with, nor proud of, you. And as always, I learn the most interesting stuff from you ... particularly on subjects with which I am already fairly familiar.

Congratulations to Jeffrey Dean Morgan for having his new series, Magic City, renewed for a second season before the first episode even runs.

Congratulations to Jared and Gen on the birth of their baby boy.

Congratulations to Neal McDonough for winning the guest role Emmy with tonight's episode of Justified (he won it with this performance, whether he gets the statue or not).

And lastly, Congratulations to David Milch for writing Luck, the best one-season series since Big Apple.

Huzzah, one and all.

For any of my flisties who are also Vampire Diaries fans, just a heads up that the series where Paul Wesley played a nephillim on the run from fallen angel assassins (Fallen) is on half price over at Amazon right now. The series and all 3 of the movies that followed. In case y'all are interested.

This made my day (my week, my year):

Is there a subfolder in your scoop files for “things that are never gonna happen”? If not, get out the label maker. You see, even though John Winchester hasn’t been on Supernatural in, oh, five years, I still get asked if he’s ever slated for return. So let’s let Jeffrey Dean Morgan put this to bed for good. “Yes, I would go back if they asked me. My stance always is I would love to come back. In fact, they have trashed John so f–king much on that show that I would like to come back just to set the record straight the real way,” he says. “I’m not that bad of a dad. I saved my kids. I went to hell to save my kids. How bad can I be, people? But there are a couple of story lines that I’d like to resolve and more importantly those people mean a lot to me. Jensen [Ackles] introduced me to [girlfriend and White Collar star Hilarie Burton] and they’re family, so it’d be fun to go back. But I don’t think it will ever happen.”

Yay, Jeff. And thank you for saying it.

I'm going to leave comments open so y'all can express and/or share your John/JDM love with me (I kinda need it right now) and with each other, but don't be offended if I don't respond to every comment. My state of mind is rather shit right now, so I'm not very chatty.

In fact, had Jeff said anything short of "they have trashed John so f–king much on that show that I would like to come back just to set the record straight the real way," I probably would have let other folks cover it/pass the word around. But since he did say "they have trashed John so f–king much on that show that I would like to come back just to set the record straight the real way" (and yes, I AM going to repeat it over and over and over again, thanks), I'm going to honor the integrity of that statement by poking my head out long enough to make sure everybody who's been hanging in there all this time on the John front hears it.

So once more, both because it is FUCKING TRUE and cause I just plain love reading it, Jeff said: "they have trashed John so f–king much on that show that I would like to come back just to set the record straight the real way" right here and that is the Best. Present. Eva.

Thank you, Jeff.

That is all.

(Except this ... Fair Warning Given: while I am normally a big proponent of my journal being a free venue where anyone can express whatever opinion they want (within reason), this is an exception. If you have ANYTHING negative to say about EITHER Jeff or John, go say it somewhere else. This post is solely for the Jeff love and the John Love. Consider yourself warned.)

(Oh, and this ... thank you to all of you who've sent your condolences via email and/or PM. I'm still in batten-down-the-hatches mode right now, but it helps very much to know y'all care. Thank you.)

For those of you who may be wondering why I posted a discussion-oriented review post then didn't respond to any of the comments, I lost one of my 4-footed kids the other day and have not yet dug myself out of the hole. When I can, I will get back to y'all.

My boy:



And Carol ... thanks for the blue dragon and for the card. You're the best.

A few thoughts on a few things I am enjoying or have enjoyed recently. Or thought I would enjoy but didn't so much. Or didn't think I'd enjoy that I did ...

( This, That and the Other Thing )

I'm running a test to see who's really reading my posts. So, if you really read this, do not leave me a one-word comment about your day that starts with the third letter of your LJ USERNAME. Not a single word please. Then don't re-post so I can not leave a word for you. Because writing, even on Live Journal, is about expressing yourself, not counting how many people are reading your posts and/or demanding proof of that readership. If you have something to say; say it and stop worrying about how many people do or do not read it. In conclusion, while memes can be, and often are, fun, the ones that demand my peeps to perpetuate chain letter nonsense in their own journals in the name of "proving" themselves to me just irritate the piss out of me. Can you tell? I assume you can, just as I assume you are reading this. If you're not, please be sure to leave me a comment to tell me so.

Not.