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I May Have Briefly Considered Purchase Before Coming To My Senses.

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.

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When Chad's episode airs on Monday, I'm going to upload it for

chaddiction, and you're going to end up downloading it and watching it AND THEN YOU'LL SEE.

sry2say that sounds like it would be boring. :(

At first I thought 'THAT'S AWESOME', and then I thought 'no, wait, it probably wouldn't work', and then I thought 'NO, THERE'S AN AWESOME STORY IN HERE SOMEWHERE, I KNOW IT'.

I can give it a go and see whether it works, and then if not I can go back to the idea about the last living human and his imaginary girlfriend.

LOLOLOLOLOL

Good luck!

It's been done before? I don't know whether to be pleased that it actually exists somewhere for me to see or annoyed because I like writing things that have never before been attempted.

I saw that episode! And it turns out that in genuine emergencies, my brain apparently decides to copy TV I Have Seen ("She's got a knife," not "He's got a bomb," but still, there's situations where you should not have that bit of your mind going "It's like that X-Files episodes!").

Also, Culf has an idea for a House/HSM crossover where Chase is Ryan's (and presumably Sharpay's as well) brother and goes to visit him and annoys House or something. She wants someone to write it and made me prod you. It's here (http://culf.livejournal.com/185683.html) anyway.

Your manip skills have improved a lot! And this picture is adorable! Physically, Dean and the Natu make a very good combination. Perhaps it is because they have the same expression.

I blame you for my ability to match people with their right pokemon.

What pokemon would I have, then?

EDIT: I blame you for my abitilty to match fictional people with their right pokemon.

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I'm incredibly sorry this turned out so friggin' ginormous

Er, wow. I think I'll screen this, just so it doesn't stretch other people's browsers. But thank you!

MANIP

I feel bad because I bugged you loads to do a manip post and then did not participate in your political manip post because I was having an off day )8

manip? WHAT IS THIS MANIP OF WHICH YOU SPEAK?!

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.

You should. You totally should.

Although now you've got me tempted to do Top Gear fic where Jeremy and Richard are caught in a time loop together, and James keeps waking up and wondering why his co-workers are in a mood/even madder than usual/shagging behind the portacabins/seriously off the rails/running off to steal cars and either getting themselves killed in horribly distressing fashions or being arrested for public carsex/engaging in wanton public snogging.

I considered Mystery Spot from Dean's perspective, but it would all be "Sam's being weird...urk!" "Sam's scaring me...urk!" "Sam's lost his mind...urk!" "Sam's gone axe-crazy...urk!" Might get a bit repetitive.

That Top Gear idea is absolutely excellent, and I encourage you to write it.

I think more presentations need to be ended with *JAZZHANDS*.

And that Groundhog idea sounds vaguely interesting, although I'm not quite sure HOW it'd be pulled off.

Some of it could be the standard Groundhog's Day approach: wake up, go through the standard morning routine, cut that bit down to the bare minimum once it's established.

Some of it would be tricky, as you'd need a progression that the main character didn't know was happening. Otherwise it would just be "He's being weird."

Background stuff going on, maybe? Or, like in Groundhog Day, where Bill Murray started to learn the piano, you can have the POV character go 'hang on, when did you learn that?'

They could definitely be surprised by the changes. Especially if it was a story more about the person in the time loop doing a lot of little things around town or wherever.

Also, when the X-Files pulled it off, they did have a degree of memory leaking through to other characters. Nothing solid for most of the story, just weird impressions and things.

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And with every bit there're more changes.

That would be tricky, because what was done wouldn't stay done. So unless the time-looped one was doing more each day, instead of merely different things, there wouldn't be more changes.

Unless you're talking about the memory bleed-through. That would cause all sorts of weird effects and impressions. Like hesitating over a cup of coffee because of an odd feeling, when the previous day you'd spilled it all over your pants.

Well, there'd be moments where the time-looped one would grab the coffee because the POV character keeps spilling it.

And yeah, probably more, and then it'd the end it would be utterly jarring.

But it's definitely tricky.

In a way, it's easier with the memory bleed. It lets the changes keep building. And I like the idea of the POV character waking up...unsettled after one of the nastier days. Like they had a disturbing dream they can't quite remember.

Well, when they did in Stargate, Jack ended one of his timeloops kissing Samantha, so if the Timeloop Character did something like that to the POV character, they could start the timeloop vaguely feeling like they were just kissed or whatever it is that happened.

Or suddenly and inexplicably finding themselves thinking about what it would be like to kiss so-and-so at the same time of day as the previous kiss, yeah.

It could be fun to write.

Man, I love you guys. You just do all the 'how can I make this work?' thinking for me.

Glad to help, ma'am. *tips hat*

Part of my brain, annoyingly enough, is still going "How can I make this work for Top Gear?" Especially with the scene where Richard does something horribly dangerous, gets killed, and Jeremy spends the rest of the day sulking and telling everyone not to get worked up because it won't matter tomorrow, and they're all horrified and worried.

The rest of my brain is slightly appalled that I accidentally caused an outbreak of 'I don't normally read Wincest, but I'd read that' at fanficrants. I need to get better at not encouraging Wincest, don't I?

Hey! I think I've seen something written kind of with that premise before.

*rifles through bookmarks*

Aha! This (http://www.alter-idem.com/index.php?set=fiction&story=18) is a single day from Sam's POV, where Dean is the one remembering each repeated day. It's kind of ridiculously angsty, though, which is not really what I expected from a time loop fic.

(Don't blame me! Supernatural writers consume plot bunnies like Jared consumes candy. They're a force of nature.)

That fic was amazing, in a horrible-in-a-good-way, er, way. Thank you for recommending it! (Wow, the Supernatural fandom really does have everything.)

I read that. It was brilliant. I may never sleep again.

You are awesome. I now wish I'd ended my presentation today with jazzhands, but seeing as we were talking about thousands of dead soldiers, I'm not sure it would have been appropriate.

Who am I kidding, jazzhands are always apt.

There is just something intrinsically hilarious about Chad Michael Murray!

Yes there is. THEREIN LIES HIS CHARM.

I was just innocently walking along after the workshop finished, and then I suddenly thought 'Wait, did I - did I do jazzhands?' and stopped dead. AT LEAST YOU DID NOT HAVE THE HORRIBLE MOMENT OF REALISATION.

RIONA THERE ARE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT SAZZ.

sazzlette: HER JOURNAL TITLE IS LIKE
sazzlette: THE TRABIA GARDEN?
sazzlette: EVERY TIME
sazzlette: LABIA GARDEN
wanttobeatree: asdghrfdtjyfkuhydgtsf
sazzlette: EVERY TIME
wanttobeatree: OMG

WHAT IS THIS TALKING BEHIND MY BACK?

Also, ahahaha, that's amazing. I'm not sure whether it's ruined my journal title for me or just made it better.

Obviously we were talking about how much we hate you and/or your mother :D (If you had AIM, we would share our hatred TO YOUR FACE.)

It definitely made it better for me. I can no longer think of labia without thinking of upsidedown dogs, so your journal is now pretty much 'garden of pit bulls with upsidedown vagina faces' to me.

I can no longer think of labia without thinking of upsidedown dogs

...do I want to know?

The Groundhog Day-type fic sounds interesting. You should write it :)

I used to have the same reaction with Chad, but then I started actually watching the show, and now I'm all caught up in the drama.

http://kroki-refur.livejournal.com/221446.html

Sam. Dean. Marine Biology. Pictures. Read it, read it, read it, read it!

'"...and witnessed is a lexical non-finite passive participle!"

I blinked and then blinked more. My mind cannot comprehend such use of big words!

I'm hoping the con this weekend shall provide us with lots of new material (porny or otherwise) of the boys. Oh yes indeedy!

Heh, I think you can be forgiven for not understanding if you're not studying the English language.

Ooh, there's a convention this weekend? New material! Excellent! (You're going to Asylum next year, right? I'm planning to be there.)

I am going to Asylum! My first ever convention and I am really excited! I'm sure we'll bump into each other. Are you staying at the Hilton?
A lot of my friends are actually flying over to go to Asylum with me. :D The term 'mischief managed' will never be more appropriate!

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