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I’m having a hard time to keep liking Sam, and that’s a hard thing to say about a character you used to love.


I’ve been struggling with this for all of s8, the way he abandoned Dean to Purgatory, and then his attitude all year. Self righteous, selfish, acting pissed off whenever Dean called him out on it. And basically threatening Dean into silence by pretending he’d just leave him again if Dean wasn’t suitably chastised enough.


I’ll freely admit I’m a Dean girl, I tried connecting to Sam from the start, but somehow, it just never worked. I mean, I may be a nerd, but that doesn’t mean that characters like Chloe (Smallville), Stiles (Teen Wolf) or Willow (btvs) have to appeal to me. Quite the contrary.

In reality, Dean’s more of a nerd than Sam is, Sam’s just more open about the book stuff, whereas Dean is the geek who’s hiding his love for all things nerdy*g*.

Sam might have the long hair, but Dean is the one more involved with stereotypical girly things, no matter how much he likes to put on the facade of being all ‘manly’. I think it’s his similarity to Spike that made me fall for the character.

And yet despite that, for seven seasons, I was only a step away from being bi bro. Dean might have been my fave, but Sam was right there on second place. (yes a girl can love both brothers and not be into wincest)

It’s just that this season, season eight, he just didn’t feel like Sam to me. It’s like he no longer cared about Dean. And the more the show tried to tell me how great Sam was, the more I started to dislike him. (the same kinda happened to me with Angel on his own show. the more you tell me how great a character is, the lower my tolerance of them tends to get, especially when those claims of their greatness and their actions onscreen don’t match up. )


I know they started trying to make Sam more likable again in the second half of s8, but somehow it felt too little too late. Especially since he still never apologized for his attitude at the start of the season. Whereas Dean was made to apologize to him over and over and over.

And what annoyed me most is that that attitude, the way he behaved matched the way Sam is often described by Sam bashers and I hate to see people like that proven right in any way whatsoever. Because that selfish, immature, manipulative little boy that the show gave us this season is NOT the Sam I came to love in the first seven years of the show.

Thanks to that, Sam has dropped down on my favorite SPN characters list. And that should never have happened.

Sam used to be on number two, but he’s fallen so low that right now it reads:

Dean
Victor Henriksen
Benny
Charlie
Kevin
Ruby
Castiel
Sam

See the problem here? Sam should never be that low, but unless they give him a major attitude adjustment in s9, I’m terrified it’s going to stay that way. And I really really don’t want that.


I want to love Sam, even just for Dean’s sake. Just like I wanted to love Dawn on BTVS for Spike and Buffy’s sake.Just like I love the Impala because Dean loves her.

And I can’t even find fanfic to help me bring back my love for Sam, because most Sam fans have only been writing ‘oh Sam really was suffering and it wasn’t his fault’ fic, instead of ‘Sam realizes what he did wrong and makes up for it’ fics that I need to read to get over these feelings…

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One of the things I like about taking evening classes for Photoshop, is that every single person in that class wants to be there. There isn’t a single person complaining about the homework, or hoping for the teacher to be absent, and when something does happen to cause the teacher not to be there, most of us are asking when we’ll get a replacement lesson for that missed class.

And the biggest complaint I and my two other remnants of the first module class I was in, have about our previous teacher, is that he didn’t actually make us do any homework during the weeks that were supposed to be for distance classes. In other words, we complained about the lack of work.


The amazing difference made when you actually have to pay for your own classes…
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Coolest, I just managed to get my second art claim for the J2_spn big bang.

Had a gen summary which was awesome as my first claim, reading that one now so I can start thinking about the art. Loving it so far. :-)

I'd been hoping for my second claim to remain free, so I could get that one as well.

SPN other slash 1

Dean/Gabriel with Dragons. Dragons I tell you. I honestly don't get how that one wasn't gone yet by the time I grabbed it up. Just happy that it wasn't

Dragons! and Dean/Gabriel, seriously, I can't believe my luck.

Either way, if the author of my second claim wants to contact me up ahead of time, I'd be more than happy.

At least I'll be able to actually use the skills I learn in my photoshop course this year :-)
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Just wanted to let my author (aka the writer of summary SPN Gen 7) know, that if you want, you don't have to wait for the reveals. I can't wait to get started on the art :-)
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k, I suck at sticking to deadlines, so the spn/in the fesh fusion/crossover I’ve been writing won’t be finished on time to be a part of the spn_cross big bang. Doesn’t mean I’m going to stop writing it.

Since I had such a hard time getting the Winchesters in Britain, I figured, why not write the bunny that kept invading my mind.

AKA what if Dean killed himself after Sam left for Stanford, and then came back during the Rising.

And now Dean’s coming home and John has to go pick him up, and is totally unsure what to tell Sam, or even if he should tell Sam, or keep quiet and kill Dean because Dean isn’t human anymore/is a monster now/….

And Sam is blaming himself, even though he really shouldn’t. (there was some monster involved in the suicide, but the Winchesters don’t know that yet.

And Dean loves his Dad and hates what he is. And really misses his little brother and…


uhm anyway, this is a pic of what Dean would look like as a PDS sufferer, so uhm, hoping someone at least will like it.


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((Anyone got any tips on how to make it so Dean fits better in the background? I'm not entirely used yet to my new Photoshop))
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There's times I think that I'm a bad fan.

I don't like Ten, I loved Eight, Nine and Eleven, and I like what little I've seen of the previous Doctors. But I don't like Ten. And though I like Rose, loved her with Nine, but I really didn't like her with Ten...

I loved Torchwood, but Ianto bored the hell out of me.

I love Teen Wolf, but I can't stand Sterek. Stiles bores me, I hate Jackson, and I really wish there was more fanfic focusing on Scott whom I love.

I hated Firefly, tried to watch Sherlock, but I by far prefer Elementary..

I don't think that Supernatural is sexist.

I'm a big Grimm fan, but I only like Renard when he isn't being mister mysterious and is just the helpful decent police captain persona. Even if it isn't entirely his full personality.

The Ghostfacers on Supernatural annoy me ever single second they're on screen. I hate 'relatable' losers.

Dan Slott sucks and has no clue how to write Spider-Man.

I also by far prefer the original three Spider-Man movies, even if they did have their flaws, over the new one with Gwen 'i'm so boring they had to kill me to make me interesting' Stacy.

I can't stand Loki. I think he's an annoying brat who has no ground to stand on. And no, finding out you're adopted is no excuse for trying to kill millions of people.At least Thor learned from his mistakes, Loki just decided to make bigger ones.

I love Captain America, and I'm not even American. I just love good decent people being true heroes. And no, characters like that don't have to be boring, not if they're written right.

I far prefer sci fi on earth, over sci fi in alien environments, it's an odd thing I have.

I don't hate Castiel, I think he goes well enough with Dean, but I'm not in love with the character and I could do without him if I have to. I actually like Dean/Benny much better and think that Benny is a more interesting and more likable character. Plus he has more chemistry with Dean in their first scene together, than Dean and Cas had in all the seasons that Castiel has been on the show.

I don't care about Castiel's feelings, I just don't.

Season eight of SPN is at high risk of making me lose all interest in Sam. And the more I see fics trying to tell me Sam really was this big hero, or that try and go all 'Sam did bring Dean back', the less I like him. Because they all ignore the reality that Sam didn't look for Dean and acted annoyed that Dean was back.And yes, Dean did have every right to be pissed off about this.

I can't stand Willow on BtVS. She's annoying, cutesy and passive aggressive.

I prefer Duncan MacLeod over Methos, so sue me...

I hate that so many people take Dumbledore's statement over Harry being the Master of Death literal. It's ruined 90% of SPN/Harry Potter crossovers for me.

I want Dexter to end with Dexter getting arrested, preferably after Deb turns him in.And I'd be even happier if the Miami PD finds out the truth about him midway through the last season, so we get at least a few episodes with people reacting to finding out he's a serial killer. With the series ending with him as the final antagonist that needs to be taken down.

I'm not a Glee fan, the music's cool enough, but I have no interest in the characters

I also don't like how much Avengers fandom is into Coulson. It's not even that I hate the guy, it's just that I barely even noticed him, yet fandom seems to focus on him over loads of far more interesting characters.

I also wish that they'd used Carol Danvers aka Ms Marvel aka Captain Marvel for the part that was given to Coulson. At least then Avengers would have been less of a sausage fest.

So I'm guessing, looking at my previous experiences in fandom, people are probably going to love Defiance, there will be loads of fanfic and fanart about it and no matter how much I'll try to ignore it, half my friendlist on lj will start squeeing about it and I'll be sitting by the side wondering how they even got through the first episode...
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Right now, I fucking love Adobe.

Don't remember if I mentioned this here before, but last month I bought myself an adobe photoshop. Only when I got the serial for the download I realized I made the very stupid mistake of buying the Mac version instead of the one for windows.

Now the company I bought it from, claimed they couldn't do anything since well... it was a download instead of a boxed version. After about a month of bemoaning my mistake, I looked up on google if there was a way to use the mac version on a windows computer and one of the answers was apparently that you can contact adobe for a change in platform.

Which I did :-)

They gave me a new serial and are going to send me the DVD later.

So now I have Photoshop CS6, the extended edition.

Yay for Adobe.
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Anyone feel like quickly betaing an 'In the flesh' character piece for me?
The fic's set before the series starts of and is only a little over 1k.
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My heart is broken. So so utterly broken.

That was a perfect ending to a nigh perfect three parter and I cannot accept that this is the end. There has to be a second series, there just has to be.

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Why isn't anyone on my friendslist talking about 'In the Flesh'.

This show is one the best things to come to television in the past few years, yet I had to go to Tumblr of all places to find people who are excited about it. I don't like Tumblr, please come talk about this amazing show with me, pretty please?


Just to give some of you an incentive...



The look on Kieren's life when he realizes the love of his life is back.

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And the face of said love when they see Kieren.

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And in case anyone is wondering about how much of this is canon...


Dominic Mitchell, the writer and creator of the show, when asked about Kieren and Rick

Kieren has a close friendship with Amy (introduced in episode two) and an almost romantic one with his friend Rick. Was that ambiguity intentional?

That was totally intentional. He’s not gay but he’s not straight. He’s more in love with the person than the gender. Rick is very uncomfortable with his relationship with Kieren. I don’t think it got to the point of having sex but it was maybe going that way and he couldn’t handle it. What’s so great about horror and fantasy is that you can talk about gender politics and identity freely.


See here for the rest of the interview

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I know what it's like to appear to almost be part of the group and yet, NOT be part of the group.

I know what it is to want something and not to get it.

I know what it is to be knocked down and have to get back up
ON. YOUR. OWN.

I know what it is to feel like your accomplishments aren't valued or perhaps seen by others.

I know what it's like to have a crush on someone and that someone not give a damn about your feelings.

I know what it's like to pretend to be "okay" with something when inside you're hurting but it's better to pretend that you don't care than to show your heart to a friend/lover who would use it against you.

I know what it's like to be lost.

I know what it's like to pretend you're tougher than you are.


Spike I can empathize with. Spike is emotionally accessible to me.

He may be a vampire, but he's more human than any other char on the show.

I am Spike.
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