Oooh, this is from the most recent edition of the Supernatural newsletter -- the Winchesters' Weapons catalog, complete with pictures and descriptions. Very interesting, perhaps even moreso for those of you fic writers.

Speaking (sort of) of which, is there some sort of compendium of canon facts -- birthdates, heights, whatever knowledge has been gleaned from the show, or does each writer have to gather them on their own?

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Morgana, there's a Supernatural Wiki.

Also, I hate to nitpick, but if I can't do it here, where could I.... on that weaponry page, the top shot on page two is actually John's stash, not the Metallitrunk. I ::facepalm:: at my own nerdity.

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Also, I hate to nitpick, but if I can't do it here, where could I...

I'm pretty sure it's in our mission statement. Or a Commandment. Thou shalt pendant. Anyway, we do it a lot.

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I just changed the link to the very first page of the Winchester Weapons Catalog link (I was trying to cut down on the amount of clicking you would have to do... bad page design annoys me) anyway, the front page (which I should have left alone) states that "This is not complete simply because I don't have screencaps of every gun they own, plus there's John's arsenal, which is another critter entirely." So apparently she doesn't think it's John's stash, but I'll take your word for it.

And before I even hit 'Post message' here I ran through that site again, and the caption on that picture now says "A peek in John's amazing "Truckzilla" box. (Not the Metallicar's trunk, as I previously said.)" So she's corrected the error.

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I miss Truckzilla.

So, err. Right. Someone point me to the Hot Fuzz fic, and if there isn't any, I'll be VERY SAD, and have to request it for Yuletide next year.

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Heh. It's the best bromance movie EVER.

Though I have never seen fic for it.

Which doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

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I was just coming here to ask if anyone had seen any yet! I searched del.icio.us for it last night, to no avail. What is the world coming to??

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Big Pink has posted a one-off, gen, John's POV of IMToD, with a callback to Red.

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Nutty collected all of her really insightful posts on the Supernatural underclass here: [link]

Nutty, what I liked most about these is that you identified so much of my childhood in there, things I didn't realize were cultural markers of how I grew up until I examined them more closely. [random personal information] When my mom left my biological father, she moved to a new state with only her crazy parents for help (and not much at that). She had no job, two small children, and a shitty ex-husband who wiped out their savings to deal with in starting over. So the things I grew up experiencing--eating store brand food, developing a regional accent, concerns about money I had no grasp of as a child--are all things you wrote about, and thus feel very true to me in the context of the Winchesters. It's also a matter of acknowledging things that aren't normally identified from the cultural standpoint of the middle class. I can relate a lot to what you noted about Sam, because I experienced the same thing--as I grew up and my family became more financially stable, and as I moved away from home for college, my tastes changed and my wants changed in ways that divorced me from the way that I grew up; so the act of Sam abandoning four years of a more cultured palate (particularly in California, where things are far more readily available than in Kentucky, for example) is really a very notable and important character trait that fandom as whole generally passes by. Whereas my brother, Joseph, never really desired or experienced those things, and so he doesn't want them (as far as I know)--so our experiences have diverged in some notable ways. Not the least of which is that I live in England, and he lives in our hometown.

So, er. Thanks for writing about something I can identify with so strongly. You did a great job.

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SA -thanks for pointing nutty's post out!

Really excellently done, nutty. (I'm still reading it.)

One of my personal connections to SPN is that I grew up moving around alot with a father who (apparently) couldn't keep a job for more than a couple of years. I think that we are on the lower limits of the middleclass - the educated poor. We are/were also the poor relations on both sides of our families. (I'm recalling Dean's attitude about his mother's uncle in CDPWDT - I wonder what sort of interaction he and Sam had with their extended families while they were growing up.)

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