Wow! I've been caught in mood = cranky and old!

I am pretty sure it was Jez where I got called out for using the word tone, because I was numb to its inevitable baggage.

I tried to point out that not only wasn't I participating in "the tone argument" (or even talking to someone disenfranchised in any way more important than disliking a movie or TV show), but I was discussing the tone of written communication, and this was a possibility from *long* before the crystallisation of derailing principles was thrown at people discussing everything from genocide to Genoa cake.

Wow! I've been caught in mood = cranky and old!

That could be my fault. I've been there all day. And when I read that, I was just so exhausted by it, I couldn't even get outraged.

For a minute, I did want to get into a conversation about existentialism and individual being and life in general with them, but it passed.

In sum, JARED AND JENSEN ARE ADORABLE.

So is Dick Speight Jr.: [link]

Porncouver? I must be visiting the wrong bits.

Oh! Highwaymen is a D/C (what???) Harry Potter fusion with the air of SPN, not Harry Potter (i.e., not cafedelabielle/lettie style interepreation). So far I really like it, and although it's inconclusive on the topic of John, I am optimistic.

I don't even remember what story I was last reading that made me say "This is not even her second language, this is her THIRD." which she confirmed in a later author's note. I think one of the previous languages is one of the ones that uses ,, as an opening ", and I can't remember which those are--German? But the shame is, it's an awkwardly written good story. I'd love to know her language (or her know mine better) or there be, you know, A BETA OR THREE, because some of her turns of phrase and certainly expressive choices didn't deserve getting lost in her general crashing about the rules of grammar and communication in English.

Four-door Impalas! Four-door Impalas! Soon, anyway.

Really like Highwaymen so far. My reactions:

1) I really hope it gets finished
2) If it stays this well written all the way through, someday the writer should file the serial numbers off and try to submit as general fantasy.

While I was on the tv merch site I took a look at the calendar for next year and there's maybe a couple new photos. Some have been used in previous calendars, and I haven't been doing this long!

So I ordered the fan club calendar, which had no preview pics. Wish me luck.

Isn't Highwaymen evocative, Typo? It's by one of the authors of Pie Without Plot, which is very well written. I have no idea how much of the magic is canonical HP (I only recognise the floo pretty much), but it feels like grown-up angst in the same world.

I kind sped read HP, and never reread, so I can't answer as to authenticity of magic. I think this crossover reflects the spirit of both HP and SPN. The darkness in Highwayman is faithful to the darkness that always lurked behind a layer of gingerbread in HP. Often a very thin layer of gingerbread. In the later books almost non-existent. The characters are very faithful in spirit to the angst of SPN. Not only a good story, but so far well told - high quality prose, sometimes poetic, but never letting literary cleverness get in the way of the story.