Phantomas Studio

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I watched it, and really, most of season 8 (season GR8, I heard it called) was brilliant, made me laugh, made me shiver, made me cheer for the boys (and Benny, and Dean, mmmm) and for everyone, and so many little touches I won't start to count them, but all funny or touching or, you know, continuity for the win.

Loved the Finale :)
I'll see if I have some time to read around for some fandom reaction :) And yay for Season 09!!!

In other news, I gave up on Revolution (sorry, Kripke) but am still watching Defiance/, and also Perception and Hannibal. None of the latter three take my breath away, but I enjoy watching them.

In other other news...I was supposed to be at VidUKon today!!!! :((( Disaster striketh.

San Remo is a regular, yearly appointment on Italian television: a festival of Italian music, new faces and songs, well known artists and guests. It can be very controversial, about its quality, about who gets to win what, about the voting system. Me, I don't particualr like Italian music anyway, still, when I'm here visiting I may watch it, from nostalgia if nothing else.

This song won the Critics Awards (and first place in the voting-from-home votes, but then there's a 'quality jury' who decides the final result *cough*):


Amami Uomo

(I hope the link works)

The author is Renzo Rubino, and these are the lyrics:

Il Postino (Love me, Man)

On the curves of your body
my hand will slide
even if your body
doesn't have curves

you're always more edgy (you're all acute angles)
then you smile
when I'm jealous

Love me, man,
with your male hands
and you
touch me with pride
with a gentle whisper

loved by mum
all macho for dad
the man without curves
a big woman will marry
no
there's also love without rhyme
I want to scream louder than before


Love me, man,
with your male hands
and you
touch me with pride
with a gentle whisper

and take me away
in your arms
I'll be your prey
take me
set me (like a table)
then surprise me
with a bunch of flowers
just picked

and rest easy
now I go sing
that I'll go away
A postman I'll become
and there's no danger

ciao mum
ciao dad,
the man without curves
another man will hug
and it'll be his happiness

Love me, man,
with your male hands
and touch me proud
with a gentle whisper

take me
set me (like a table)
then surprise me
with a bunch of flowers

I'd love to see a slash vid to this song. Pretty please?

(via morgandawn)

Huge sale of Professionals zine to help fan in financial needs - it's the history of the Pros fandom zines, practically, and at a very good price!

http://ci5.dreamwidth.org/11233.html


(if I could, I'd buy them all and give them to one of those Uni libraries preserving them for posterity...but finances are miser :(

There won't be a Connotations in October 2013 :(  *cries*

Some of you knew her as icekestrel, on LJ, some of you as Shelley in RL.

She was a fan, a Pros fan, a slash fan, a writer, an overall genuine, motivated, resourceful young woman with a liking for tea, a belief in alternative spiritualities and other worlds, and cherished her partner Leah.

Sadly, Shelley passed away a week before Christmas in a car accident. (and No, I still can't believe it).

This coming Thursday there'll be a ceremony to remember her, and I'll be there. Whether you knew her or not, I hope you can send a vibe, a prayer, a thought in that direction, to remember this lovely woman and support her partner in her time of grief.

Hugs to all, and to this vast, extended, strange family that's fandom.

What the headline says! :)

I don't how many of you are still following SPN.  I sure hope some still are :)
Interestingly enough, SPN is the first ever TV series I follow from the beginning in Real Time.

When I first entered fandom, I was into Highlander:The TV series, but there were no downloads at the time, so my only way of following it in Real Time was to rely on the Big List after Episode Discussions and the tapes kind fans were sending me. To this day, there are still episodes I haven't seen (working to remedy that, though).

After that, I went back into The Professionals. I say 'went back' because I watched the series on TV in Italy when it first aired, and that was...uhm, 17/18 years previously. 57 precious episodes which I danced for when I saw them (on tape!) in a HMV shop in Manchester during the Highlander convention Chronicles 1997.

After that - and for the record, the series I love I keep loving, until now I've never gone completely off a series, the passion just leaves but there's always fire under the ashes, so to speak - after that...it was multifandom for a while: LotR and lots of other series, Harsh Realm, Krycek... (see my info page for the full list), many found following actors and actresses I liked.

And of course, there was roleplay writing in Theatrical Muse (once again, an amazing experience, and some true friends found).

But Real Time series? None, not really. I've watched many episodes of many series (still have to watch True Blood, though), but none from the beginning throughout not missing a single episode, and not getting as involved in the fandom.

Supernatural was the first one, and yes, I'm still watching it after 8 years. Wow :D

Reactions?

I quite loved it. I feel a clear return to season one dynamics between the brothers. The photography has peaks of amazingness, loved Dean's desaturated Purgatory back story (and that whole backstory? I hope someone is writing around it, cause there's so much scope for fun and exploration there!).
Sam is Sam. He never wanted to be a hunter, and I quite approve of this trait of his character not changing. It may well be a case of denial, but still. I like it.
Dean is always my favourite between them, but one without the other doesn't work :D (and no, I never slashed them, although I have enjoyed many stories that did).

The flashbacks are interesting. I think they are more for us, the audience, than anything else. I liked the silences between the brothers, as difficult as they were, and those are still there, only now we know what's in their minds when they're silent.
Narratively speaking, the series switched from a tighter pov to a close one.
Does it work?
In ways, but it does disrupt the narrative a bit, for me. I understand, of course, that it's another way to give the boys some days off from their filming schedule.

I fear for Dean's bond with the guy from Purgatory (can't remember his name, right now). I like it, and I don't want it to go.

And yes, I still cheer for John Winchester and what he's done for his boys :P

Looking forward to the more new SPN episodes!

In other news, I'm learning to become a Relational Dynamic coach (will specialize in coaching writers), looking after my father, and not yet finishing my novel. Bad, bad me!

How are you people? I want to see are Nick Lea's eps in Once Upon A Time, I hope it's a good role, and a lasting one.

Hugs!

Don't know if I'll participate, but I will certainly read and comment/engage with the posts in the Month_of_Meta community (on LJ and DW): I can't think of few things better than meta to whet my appetite for fandom :)

Melissa Scott has written a new Points book: "Point of Knives"!!!

It covers the time between Point of Hopes and Point of Dreams, and how Nico and Eslingen end up together :DDDD
Here the cover's preview, the book will be out in March:

http://mescott.livejournal.com/13176.html

I really love the Points series, and I admire M. Scott for deciding to keep on writing it, according to the plans made with Lisa A. Barnett (before she sadly passed away).

I'm looking forward to read this book, the Points 'verse is varied and rich and intriguing :)

I've started being on line a bit more recently (I finished my second MA, too, that may account for my time being so consumed), but I used to post to DW and LJ with semagic in one simple click, and now I'm using my old desktop and semagic is not set up and I can't remember how to do it, or where I found the info. This is to say, I posted a couple of times on LJ, I'm not ignoring DW (wish everyone was here, in fact), but I need to sort the posting thingamajig.

In other news, I have a cold! YAY! Not. Been a week now, got emails to reply to and stuff to do and my head is all wrapped in thick wet cotton - that's how it feels, anyway. bah :)

hugs!

But but..where is lorelei633 gone? :(


For Supernatural fans, two films you may like:

FRAILTY
(two boys grow up with a father obsessed by demons)


STAKELAND
(young boy learns to kill vampire-zombies)

I really felt the Supernatural vibes in both films, and loved watching them (Stakeland can be slow paced in points, but I still enjoyed it). Made me all nostalgic about Supernatural and those first years of total adoration for it...I want to see next season nao :D Made me all the more nostalgic for all the great fanfiction I've read:)

If you watch these films, let me know what you think :D