My other life

12:00 am - Supernatural Master Fic List

Trying to put together a master list of my Supernatural fic, now that there's beginning to be enough to archive. All stories are Gen.

Throughout Time

Five times Dean tried to read The Lord of the Rings - and one time Sam was sure he had
At twelve Sam discovered The Lord of Rings. It wasn't really Dean's thing, but every so often he'd give it a try. Angst with hurt!Dean and limp!Sam. Story starts here.

Five times Jim Murphy called Bobby Singer - and one time someone else did.
Story here.

Pre Series

Promises
Sammy breaks a bone and Dean makes a promise. Family. Dean is 8, Sammy is 4. Story here.

Belief
Pastor Jim contemplates his greatest pastoral failure. Family. Dean is 10, Sammy is 6. Story here.

Magister quod discipulus
During a quiet afternoon in Blue Earth, Sam-the-researcher is born. Family. Sam is 9, Dean is 13. Story here.

"Psychic Boy"
Sammy is convinced the Santa Suit is haunted. Is he right, and how does he know? Dean is 16, Sam is 12. Short Case Fic with bonus Angst. Story here

Some things are cliches for a reason
When John refuses to allow Sammy to play soccer, Sam storms out. But in this little town that's not a safe things to do. Dean is 17, Sam is 13. Angst. Story starts here.

Season One

Aliases
The boys are on the case, and it's Sam's turn to choose the aliases. Humour. Story here

Cursed
Dean learns more about the female anatomy than he ever wanted to know. Sam copes. Crack!fic. Story here.

Season Three

Angelic Possession
The night Dean's deal falls due, Sam makes a deal of his own. AU. Spirituality. Story here

Current Mood: curious

03:36 pm - If it's in TV Week it must be true!

I'm starting to believe that Network Ten isn't about to screw us over again and will be showing SPN a week today - because this week's TV Week has a spread on it. yasminke, don't look below the cut if you want to remain completely Season-Five-Spoiler-free. (Those of you who've already seen up to 5.10 [!!!] - I imagine there's nothing new to see here.)

( TV Week article )

Oh, how I've missed my boys!

Current Mood: bouncy

09:25 am - Bother!

Just got spoiled for something in 5.10. My own fault, I clicked recklessly. But I'm doing pretty well on the "not being spoiled" front and, please God, from Monday week I can start catching up. Just as my life goes into crazy pre-Christmas overdrive.

Current Mood: annoyed

05:19 pm - Do I try the new SPN novelisations?

So, three new tie-in novels due in 2010:

Heart of the Dragon by Keith R.A. DeCandido in February;
The Unholy Cause by Joe Schreiber in April;
War of the Sons by Rebecca Dessertine in June.

The boys. In books. Yay!

But so far the tie-in novels have been well out-done by the best free fanfic. Would I be wasting my hard-earned cash if I purchased these?

Hmmm.

Current Mood: contemplative

09:28 am - Happy Birthday, yasminke!

Current Mood: cheerful

04:52 pm - Happy Birthday smalltwndreamer!!!

May your day be filled with so much joy that you resemble this icon!

Have a wonderful day.

Current Mood: cheerful

04:59 pm - It's bad.

Have decided to take the rest of the afternoon off, post-funeral, but despite this spare time, I feel too tired to even read fanfic. Cannot concentrate. Must sleep. Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

Current Mood: exhausted

03:09 pm - Overheard as I left today's service

"That was a lovely funeral. Well, as funerals go."

Current Mood: amused

01:29 pm - Might need some meta help ...

I've been invited to contribute to my theological college's e-journal:

we are planning an issue of Conversations next year to feature 'new talent' among the UCA theologians, and hope you would be interested to contribute to that. Existing work, such as the material on science fiction or your from your doctorate, would be fine.

and I'm thinking of writing something like: "Atheist angels and faithful demons: Judeo-Christian themes in Supernatural" drawing on the the article I wrote for In The Hunt and taking it further now that we have angels as well as demons in the mix.

(As a beginning, I went to my theological library yesterday and borrowed Between Sacred and Profane: Researching Religion and Popular Culture and Mediating Religion: Conversations in Media, Religion and Culture. Because I have so much spare reading/research time on my hands.)

I'd need to explain why I thought that was worthwhile writing about SPN, so I'll need figures on things like how many people of what age watch it in how many countries. And I'd also like some people to read drafts.

Anyone out there interested?

Okay, off for a funeral meeting. *packs away all thoughts of Show into a wee mental box*

Current Mood: busy

12:22 pm - Look! It's my mother's cat Milly and me.

This is the result of my attempts at cat-herding at last week's photo shoot.

( Article in the local paper )

Current Mood: amused

05:12 pm - Maybe I'm a zombie?

Or something. Woke late today; managed to do a session at the gym; came home and slept; and am now checking emails in what feels like a weird, half-alive, state. Soooooooooooooooooo sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepy.

Current Mood: exhausted

12:05 pm - Opening of tomorrow's sermon

What do you think? Too cheesy?

I am, as you may know, a reader of comic books. Mainly the Marvel books: the X-Men and the Avengers and my favourite, Spider-Man. When family and friends give me weird “why are you reading that?” looks I try and explain that comic books are full of deep and meaningful explorations of life's big questions. And usually my family and friends snort and walk away.

Issue 40 of The Sensational Spider-Man is called “The Book of Peter”. In it Peter Parker, who as a high school student was bitten by a radioactive spider, is having an extremely bad time, culminating in his Aunt May, his last remaining family member, lying in a coma. So Peter goes to take his anger out on a dumpster and in the middle of punching it up is interrupted by God. God and Peter then have a discussion about the meaning of human suffering. Peter asks God if he’s being punished for something, or tested, and God says no, human suffering is a mystery.

God’s exact words are: “Hard to explain why it’s necessary to someone who wasn’t there when the foundation of the earth was laid … or when the walls were built around the oceans …”

And this is why I love comic books. Because in the middle of a Spider-Man comic God quotes the Book of Job.

Current Mood: contemplative

01:36 pm - Life - can I take a break from it?

This week is just mad. Insane, I tell you.

So far there's been the three visits to the gym which means that I can't walk properly; the training in psychological first aid and emergency relief centre management (because fire season is approaching); the lecture by the Governor General I had to attend; meetings, meetings and more meetings (and another tonight and another tomorrow) - and I'm about to head off and have my photo taken at one of my churches with my mother's cats for an article about the Blessing of the Animals service we're having in a couple of weeks.

Oh, and random, unexpected things like the hospital visits to the congregation member who's been admitted because she's suicidal. Every time I talk to her I relive my own depression experience and come away feeling utterly drained. She says it helps to know someone else has been though it, but, och, it's exhausting!

And somewhere in there I need to prepare Sunday's liturgy and write a sermon.

I think I need chocolate.

Current Mood: busy

07:42 pm - The girls at Youth Group think I'm cool ...

... because I'm able to discuss Dean and Sam with them. Except for the rabid Dean!girl who was horrified to discover that I lean towards being a Sam!girl myself. ("But his hair makes him look like a mushroom," she cried.)

Watching Supernatural - an important part of any pastor's job!

Current Mood: amused

10:42 am - Thank goodness!

Feeling horribly depressed at the moment, for no particular reason. (yasminke, I didn't make it to the gym this morning but I am planning to get there this afternoon.)

But Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog just got delivered to my door. Maybe I can make it through this day after all - with that to reward me at the end.

Current Mood: depressed

05:44 pm - Writing to Channel Ten

I've been sending the occasional postcard to Network Ten to ask them to fast track Supernatural. The address I've used has been:

Network Ten
Private Bag 5000
South Yarra 3141

which is the mail address for Victoria. Addresses in other states are available here.

A well-organised campaign would send the postcards directly to the programmers, but I don't have that address. If anyone out there does, I'd love to have it.

Current Mood: cranky

06:24 pm - They've found me out!

As a minister in the Uniting Church, my life is covered by the Code of Ethics and Ministry Practice. Well, you know how I joke about being "Pastor Jim" to various of you online? The church seems to have caught on. The latest edition of the code includes the following provision:

Ministers may form pastoral relationships in a variety of contexts. Where Ministers form relationships through the internet and other technology any pastoral relationships they form are to be conducted in a manner consistent with the Code.

Not that I was planning to break any of the Code's provisions, but now I have extra reasons for not breaching confidentiality or abusing power or any of the other things the Code says I shouldn't.

Such a well-behaved LJ-user I'm going to be!

Current Mood: amused

01:25 pm - Thank you, thank you, thank you, just_ruth!

The Idylls of the Queen arrived today! It looks great. Was the final total US$12.32? Message me to let me know who to make a cheque out to.

Very excited!

Current Mood: bouncy

03:00 pm - First postcard sent

And my one-woman campaign to Network Ten commenced today.

"Please, please, please fast track Supernatural. It is very hard to avoid spoilers in today’s world."

Current Mood: aggravated

11:16 am - I am going to remain spoiler free for Season Five!

I just left all SPN fic communities. I can trust my LJ friends not to spoil me, but random posters to communities not so much. I can survive, I'm sure. There's a whole heap of summergen and Summer of Sam and Big Bang stuff out there that I haven't read, so I'll still be able to get my SPN fix.

But I might need a "Season Five hasn't yet been shown in Australia" icon of some sort if I'm going to comment on anything. I did the same thing near the end of Season Three, and still got spoiled. I was congratulating someone on their heart-warming wee!chester story (should have been safe enough) and they replied: "Yes, with Dean in Hell we need all the heart-warming we can get."!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never again!

Okay, time to start writing the postcards to Channel Ten.

Current Mood: determined