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HOLY CRAP YOU GUYS!

Why did no one tell me how awesome Delicious is? It has tags and a place for notes, and the Firefox add-on lets me have it ALL in a convenient sidebar and it's like an organizational orgasm!

*cough*

Uh.

I'm calm now.

I foresee spending a LOT of time on this website. WHEE!

In other news, because I've been trying to think long and hard about my BigBang fic, my brain has come up with at least two ideas for crossover fics. Because, as you know, BigBang doesn't include crossovers. My brain is perverse.

The first is Supernatural/Lie To Me: I want Cal Lightman and Dean Winchester facing off across a table in a glass room. The master liar versus the master lie detector. It would be EPIC. I have no idea what the plot would be, but I really want to write this.

The second is my first fanfic love, Dresden Files/Supernatural: Can you imagine a soul gaze between Harry Dresden and Dean? How Dean would react to Harry's car? (It's a Volkswagen Beetle, for those of you who don't know the series) What Harry would think of Sam?

I even have a sort-of plot burgeoning at the back of my head for this. God save me.

Oh, and of COURSE a short story from Missouri's POV inserted itself in there too.

GOD.

Dear Supernatural,

I love you, I really do. STOP MAKING ME THINK OF NEW FIC TO WRITE. I HAVE NO TIME.

Love,

Me

Speaking of which, can anyone out there tell me what sort of music Sam Winchester listens to? I didn't recognize the one song that played briefly in "Lazarus Rising," and all of the show is dominated by Dean's musical taste, not Sam's. The only thing I know is that, according to Dean, Sam listens to crappy emo music, which tells me nada.

I really ought to write that meta about how Show doesn't actually know anything about Sam Winchester the human being, and only ever shows us Sam The Convenient Plot Device™.

(Yes, I want to build a playlist. Yes, I'm very OCD, I know. My OCD is harmless, though, and doesn't interfere with my life in any way. It just makes me twitchy when things aren't a certain way.)

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I don't know Lie To Me, but the concept of Dean facing off against a human lie detector is awesome. And Dresden Files/SPN? I'm so there. A soul gaze between Harry and Dean? Whew. And they could have a car-off. The Impala vs. Harry's Beetle. Dean could even fix it for him next time it dies. And I've seen other people reccing things on their delicious accounts. How exactly do you get one? Is not up on deliciousing.

It was really easy!

I went to Delicious, clicked on "sign up" and hey-presto, a couple of completed fields later and there I was!

A car-off! I totally want to write this now. I even have an idea for the first scene in which they meet. GOD. What is WRONG with me?

"GOD. What is WRONG with me?" Nothing is wrong with you that's not wrong with all the rest of us too! I'm writing a fic where Dean's a rabbit for God's sake. We have ideas. Some of them foisted upon us by other people. And I mean foisted in the best possible way. Some of them come out of our own minds. We write them and they are good( or not)but they are written and out of our minds. Like us sometimes! I'm off to set up my own delicious! Thanks for the info!

"Currently out of my mind. Back later!"

:D

No problem! Delicious is made of win, and I have to stop poking at it and go to bed already.

I have too many ideas and not nearly enough time to write them all. *wails and gnashes teeth*

i vote dresden files crossover!

Guh, I KNOW! And

tifaching is enabling too!

I'm doomed.

The song on Sam's iPod in Lazarus Rising is Jason Manns' "Visions". Which is a cheery little love song and not emo in the slightest, and I'm the last person to ask about music quality but I think it's pretty good. (Incidentally Jensen sings backup on something else Manns did, but damned if I remember the song title.)

Thank you!

Google informs me that the other song you mention is "Crazy Love."

Ya, delicious is awesome!

I don't know the song in 4x01 either but apparently Sam is a fan of country music. Which is hilarious but also appropriate on so many levels.

Show doesn't actually know anything about Sam Winchester the human being, and only ever shows us Sam The Convenient Plot Device™.
Truth. This is why I gravitate towards Dean. Or is it that JPad is just an inferior actor? Who knows.

omg I have been making SPN playlists too! Yes, plural, because I am a dork. UM. I have a Dean/Cas one, a Cas one, a 5x04 one, and a Winchesters one, though I'm beginning to think making separate Dean and Sam ones might be a good idea. BECAUSE SPN HAS TURNED ME INTO A CRAZY PERSON?! Though to be fair, the Cas and 5x04 playlists have only 4 songs on them so far. If A Perfect Circle's "3 Libras" is not about the 5x04verse Dean&Cas relationship, I will eat my hat.

SPN has turned me into a crazy person too, if it's any consolation.

I don't think JPad is an inferior actor. I've seen both boys act in SPN and outside, and, umm... let's just say they *both* need a very firm hand when they're being directed. Otherwise, they slide very quickly into the land of suck. Hat-tip to the SPN directors. :)

I have a 5.04 playlist too, but it's under construction. The first song on the list is "The End" by The Doors. TELL ME THAT SONG IS NOT EXACTLY RIGHT FOR THE EP. I DARE YOU. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b26BD5KjH0

Also,

ash48 agrees with me, and even made a vid of her own (sadly very short): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIbHQJ3znjY

(See? Capslocky. Again.)

*goes to listen to the other song*

Considering the show's penchant for naming episodes after bits of pop culture, I'd wager that 5x04's title was a direct shout-out to The Doors. The lyrics for 3 Libras are weirdly fitting ("What occurs behind the eyes of a fallen angel, of a tragedy? Apparently nothing."). As is Trail of Dead's Another Morning Stoner, listen here. 'Cos seriously, dude:

Is heaven to you a perfect place?
The look of sorrow on a sufferer's face

What is forgiveness?
It's just a dream
What is forgiveness?
It's everything

and I'm just like CAAAAAAAAASSSS D: D: D:

Come to think of it, I saw JPad in Gilmore Girls ages ago... wherein he played a character named DEAN?? lol oh unintentional crossfandom hilarity.

Yep, the infamous Dean Forrester. I never watched past Season 1 of Gilmore Girls, but I recognized him when I started watching SPN. It was a bit brain-breaking for a minute there.

I went and looked up the lyrics, and yes. Poor Cas! I didn't like him at all at first, and 5.04 totally reconciled me to the character, and then 5.10 and 5.13 made me love him. "Sam Winchester is my friend." GUH! MY HEART!

I'm guessing the title was a shout-out to The Doors too, but the SONG! GOD. It's always been one of my favourites (it's scary how close my musical taste is to Dean's in some respects: Metallica and The Doors and... yeah.).

That's so funny, 'cos Castiel was what got me started watching the show in the first place. Like, my friend made an offhand comment about Dean and Castiel's relationship and my interest was piqued because, hmm, it sounds like the kind of relationship that would hit my story buttons. Based purely on hearsay he was my favorite character before he even showed up onscreen.

I'm still not entirely sure what his canon motives are sometimes, and how much he was on-board with bringing about the apocalypse. Like, in 4x20, did Castiel know all along about the angels' end game and only FINALLY decided to tell Dean about it after much moral wrestling, or did he just recently find out? And when are the Winchesters gonna find out that it was him who let Sam out of the panic room? Castiel, what a conundrum.

I loved the concept of the character, and I thought he was brilliantly executed.

Most. Badass. Entrance. EVER.

But I didn't like Castiel until he stopped being a douchebag to Sam. He grew on me slowly, basically.

Castiel is #1 for most amazing entrances on the show. This is but truth.

I think I was won over simply by the number of ridiculously cool entrances.

Delicious makes everything easier, right?! I'd never really used it before until I set up the comm's account a few weeks ago, and the tags are just soooo manageable compared to LJ's tags. I love it.

Also, re: Sam's musical tastes - idk! My personal canon is that he listens to angry chick rock, haha.

I think some song came up on his Ipod before Dean killed it, though, right? But I can't remember what.

I really ought to write that meta about how Show doesn't actually know anything about Sam Winchester the human being, and only ever shows us Sam The Convenient Plot Device™

This is sadly true! I think the show saw how great JA is with the single perfect tear thing and just makes him have revealing, teary conversations everywhere now. Which is FINE with me. ;D HOWEVER, Sam can cry too! I like, loathe the episode "Heart," but I love his snotty, no-holds-barred crying there. It's very refreshing!

::rereads comment:: Lol, okay, I'm going to bed...

Hee! I should go to bed too.

You don't like "Heart?" Why not? It's not one of the best episodes out there, but Sam does a thorough job of breaking my heart and so I am willing to forgive a whole lot for it. I might be a wee bit biased. ;)

The no-holds-barred crying was... umm... I have no way of saying what it did to me without sounding creepy and vaguely perverted. :P

(The song on the iPod has been revealed in an earlier comment)

Angry chick rock, FTW!

Hmm, I'm super-easy when it comes to SPN, but there are a few eps that just bug me for reasons that probably only make sense to me.

I thought it was melodramatic, and kind of rushed? Maybe if it had been spread out over two episodes or something and really dealt with Sam's dead girlfriend issues. As it was, my emotions felt like they were being manipulated to feel something I just wasn't feeling.

AND THEN there was the thing where the fire was blazing away while Sam had soapy, candelit sex that made me feel weird, and not in a good way.

I appreciated his massive shoulderblades, though! ;D

The no-holds-barred crying was... umm... I have no way of saying what it did to me without sounding creepy and vaguely perverted.

I UNDERSTAND. ::nods::

It was rushed, because the show doesn't really want to deal with Sam's dead girlfriend issues. Sam's dead girlfriend issues are just another Convenient Plot Device™.

The sex scenes in SPN do very little for me, I'm afraid, one way or the other. I just kind of shrug and wait until they're over.

It's not one of the best episodes out there, but Sam does a thorough job of breaking my heart and so I am willing to forgive a whole lot for it. I might be a wee bit biased. ;)

Heart was the episode that made me think that I might very well never find a show I loved as well as this one.

I was pretty sure of it before, but Sam's messy, heartbroken sobbing at the end gutted me. Still does, just thinking about it. :)

I, er, have playlists for Dean, Sam, the Impala (which is Dean music, as opposed to Dean's playlist which is 'songs that remind me of Dean'), the Apocalypse, and two that are most shamelessly titled "Back of a '67 Impala" & "Dean's Jeans". *cries* I also have a crapton of other people's compliations from

fanmix because when I fangirl, dude, I go full tilt. (I just typed full tit. Make of that what you will.)

I fully support the Sam meta because, damn, I think 75% of what I think of as "important Sam information" is really some kind of collective agreement by fandom of things that are and are not Sam. That and, well, I think you know how I feel about the puppy.

Don't you love your brain coming up with awesome ideas right when you're about to start something else?

NO. NO I DON'T LOVE IT. IT MAKES ME ALL CAPS-LOCKY!

I don't have time to write all these stories, dammit, but I WANT TO.

*cries*

I feel your pain and I don't even have hugely epic things that I want to write. Oh, time, I want more of you.

Edited 2010-02-20 06:23 (UTC)

So how hard is it to set up on delicious.com? I'm on the site constantly but mostly just following others'. I'd love to have a more organized system than just a long list of bookmarks.

The initial set-up took about two minutes. As for the rest, I suspect that the more you invest in it, the more you get out of it.

To use it is easy and fast, but as would every other organizing of a long unorganized list it still takes a lot of time to add all these existing links (write descriptions, add and decide on the right tags and all that), but you can do from the firefox-plugin pretty easy. Just press the button while you are on the page and fill out the missing fiels kind of thing.

Nothing is wrong with you! The same thing happened to me, and I'm a far less dependable (among other things) writer than you are! (so now I am signed up for two big bangs...yeah, this will be fabulous).

A dresden files / spn crossover would be epic.

And I love all SPN/ procedural crossovers.

Two BigBangs? Holy crap, woman!

Yeah, there will probably be FAIL with a giant red stamp.

But on the other hand, I make procrastination productive. When I hit a block with one, I end up working on the other.

Which are both sooo far behind, word count wise.

But it's going to be great, right? Right?

Ahhh, Dresden crossver fic! I love the idea. I've read numerous decent ones, a lot more than I expected but no where near as many as there should be. I heartily encourage this proposed fic!

I always thought a fic about Sam going to Dresden for information about breaking Dean's deal would be awesome BUT my feeble writing skills make that impossible! I still keep entertaining the idea of drawing it maybe. SOMEDAY when I am not bogged down in a million piles of projects...

I always picture Mouse would treat Sam a little like he did Molly at first. Growly but eventually warming up to him.

Right, when I saw your request about organizing fics, I thought of delicious, but had no time at that moment to comment, sorry.

Speaking of which, can anyone out there tell me what sort of music Sam Winchester listens to?
"Fight Song" by Republic Tigers (rockband from Kansas of all places) in the motel room, when Dean and Bobby arrived and in the car, the song that shortly played from his "douching up the car with an iPod", that had Dean all offending looking "really", like he would throw Sammy out of the car for forcing the car to play music like that was... wait for it..."Visions" by Jason Manns, as in one of Jensons good friends, for whom he already sung background-vocals on stage sometimes, so THAT one made me laugh. ;)

So in general, I would say modern country and rock, so pretty normal stuff for a college guy(?)

No worries, lots of people mentioned Delicious and now I'm totally hooked.

I haven't been in college for ten years, and I wasn't exactly "typical" in my taste nor in my friends, so I have no idea what normal is for a college guy these days. :)

I guess I'll just have to wing it. Luckily I listen to a fair bit of modern country and rock, so.

Thanks!

Maybe not specifically college-related, but just "normal" stuff from this century as in fitting a guy in his mid/late twenties.

I found this on SuperWiki:
We know nothing of Sam's music tastes, although Kripke gave some clues at another post Comic Con interview in August 2007.

Interviewer: Okay, and since we’re talking music, what in blazes is Sam’s problem with Dean’s music? And given the chance, what music would Sam play?
Kripke: (laughs out loud) We have interesting debates about that all the time; about what Sam’s music would be, and you know, I hope that Sam listens to whatever cool modern music is. I don’t know any of them because I don’t listen to anything after 1980, so, you know… Green Day, I guess? I don’t know! Who is cool these days? Is Green Day cool? What band is cool these days?
Interviewer:Maybe Red Hot Chili Peppers…
Kripke: Yeah, so he listens to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Fall Out Boy and maybe The Killers? I am so a stranger in a strange land when it comes to those bands that that’s why you never hear Sam’s soundtrack, cos I don’t know that music and I’d choose the wrong songs. All my friends call me “Old Man Kripke” because I don’t listen to any bands after 1980; that’s why Dean’s music always wins out, because I hate so much modern music that I can’t bear to listen to it in the editing room. (laughs)

Edited 2010-02-20 14:36 (UTC)

I'm not a crossover fan, but I think I could get behind a Dresden/Supernatural crossover!

I'm not a fan either, as a rule, but the ideas won't leave me alone!

I SAY I'm not a fan, but one of my most favorite stories is a fabulous Sandman/Supernatural crossover. If it's written well, as I suspect you'd be able to do, then I'll read it!

delicious is awesome!
I got one like two weeks ago, and I'm enjoying it so much.

Plus, reading other people's is an awesome way to find stuff. I started, and now I can't stop.

I personally believe that Sam Winchester listens to Keane. I have no canonical basis for this, but I heard a song of theirs one day and it just seemed right.

I have a Supernatural playlist! or three. You're not alone.

Dean vs Cal?? Holy crap! Why didn't I think of this before? Glad you did! WANT. I'm visioning both at the table, slouched in their chairs with the same shit-eating grins on their faces...

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