Book: I believe I just... I think I'm on the wrong ship. Inara: Maybe. Or maybe you're exactly where you ought to be.

'Serenity'


Supernatural 1: Saving People, Hunting Things - the Family Business  

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Nutty - Aug 29, 2007 3:47:07 pm PDT #1851 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

If they actually go for a Devil-and-Sam-Winchester scenario, they better make it AWESOME.

I had occasion to look up that short story recently, hoping it would tap into local lore and give some good fic cues, and remembered abruptly that it was written in the 1930s, not the period when Dan'l Webster himself was alive. The prose is very modern, in a way I found disappointing. And that the upshot of the story is that Webster doesn't even win on procedural grounds; he persuades a jury of dead souls with the power of his emotional rhetoric. (How he persuades the Devil to put his deal in the hands of a jury requires a bit of handwavium.)

Goethe, on the other hand, does use a technicality -- the only fate that ever hinged on a subjunctive verb!! -- or anyway a technicality and the overwhelmingly generative power of female genitalia. (Don't ask. The whole story is like that.)

I don't remember what Kit Marlowe did for his Faustus, because I've never read all of it, but it's possible his is the only one that dates from later than Medieval times where Faustus actually gets damned like the deal says.


Consuela - Aug 29, 2007 6:48:17 pm PDT #1852 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Oh, lordie, Refur's posted another picspam.

the Picspam of PAIN: [link]

... well, sorta. t snickers


Juliebird - Aug 29, 2007 6:57:55 pm PDT #1853 of 10002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider

how much do I love the part where sometimes only one of them was angsty?

THIS MUCH!


Lee - Aug 29, 2007 7:46:51 pm PDT #1854 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Heh. I was watching Provenance earlier, and there's one shot of several fancy cars, and the license plate on one was "The Krip".


Consuela - Aug 29, 2007 7:47:21 pm PDT #1855 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

Refur's picspams are a thing of beauty. I think my favorite is still the Ten Expressions she did after Houses of the Holy, which resulted in Sam and Dean arguing moral philosophy. So. Fabulous.


Beverly - Aug 29, 2007 7:48:02 pm PDT #1856 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Did you hear Dean say, "Jared, check it out."? Or hear Steve Carlson's song over Sam & Sarah's dinner?

I like Provenance.


Lee - Aug 29, 2007 7:53:39 pm PDT #1857 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I missed the Jared part.


Beverly - Aug 29, 2007 8:41:10 pm PDT #1858 of 10002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.

Here you go.


sumi - Aug 30, 2007 4:28:46 am PDT #1859 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!

Loved the Pic-Spam of pain.

Also in SPN music related news, Fresh Air interviewed Rob Halford and James Hetfield yesterday and it's archived.


Amy - Aug 30, 2007 5:34:47 am PDT #1860 of 10002
Because books.

I maintain he's saying Sam, and the sound is garbled and thick enough that you can hear Jared if you want to. Same "ah" sound in Sam and Jared.

I think I just can't buy that no one would have caught it before the final edit.