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Even though I live as an out and proud atheist now, I was a church raised Baptist brat. My dad was a deacon who could sub for the pastor, at least after the others decided that he'd redeemed himself from his divorce. My dad loved jesus christ superstar. Like, I'm pretty sure we wore out the first cassette tape we took on vacation. He was very jealous of a man who could manage a decent falsetto. I watched the movie when I was probably too young for it. All I knew was that a bunch of hippies drove out to the desert in the middle of nowhere, sang a lot of awesome music, then killed the guy that played Jesus and left his body behind.

Eventually I understood the story and connected it to the bible stories quoted at me twice on Sundays and once on Wednesdays. But, I couldn't ever really get over the change in Judas' story and how no one but Superstar ever showed him in a sympathetic light, or Jesus as an angsty sulk-monster. All that PLUS it's a ROCK OPERA?!? I'm just saying I quickly decided I was not giving it up when I made my switch to godlessness. It's still a great story especially if you watch it as either mythology or as if Jesus was just a poor deluded man.

Basically, as Judas goes, so goes I, and this might be my favorite Judas.

You can watch the whole special on NBC, and it is very watchable. Poor John Legend as Jesus kinda gets left behind in the musical theater department, but he sounds great and hits those high notes. For right or wrong, I always saw the movie as political to current events, and I do wish this could have featured a more recognizable bad guy to go with the punk disciples. Maybe a BLM reference.

Watch the special here! Though unfortunately the multiple commercial breaks really mess with the momentum. If you figure out how to watch it elsewhere without them, I'd suggest that. This really is an emphasis on rock opera concert, and I love how they use the musicians. Though I flinched hard when John Legend got the crowd to clapping. Death, taxes, and the fact that crowds do not clap in time.

I'm sure everybody but me recognized Brandon Victor Dixon from his Hamilton fame. Here he is singing the title song with a giant choir. Everyone looks like they're having so much fun. Well that video became unavailable, but here he is in his opening number:


I also had a fascination with Simon the Zealot, played here by Erik Grönwall of Sweden's Idol fame. I love this song.


I have a lot of feelings about Jesus Christ Superstar.

I had a great time. Apparently so great, that I haven't been able to finish anything since. whoops.


They’re Good Drones, Brent

Sam/Bucky
Teen and Up Audiences
13,000ish words


When Redwing becomes infected with an alien A.I., Sam has to balance the needs of the team with his own curiosity about his new partner. Redwing isn’t the only one acting strange, he also needs to get to the bottom of Bucky’s weirdness. It takes a training exercise gone wrong that Redwing and Sam might not survive for their secrets to be exposed.

Art by: @yawpkatsi please go by and feed them! It was so great to have them work on my fic. I was so lucky. I love it, like a million times

I signed up for cm_tropefic to write Cam Mitchell prostitution fic. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I think I'll have to dust off my dvds. I've always wanted to write an AU to Bad Guys which is totally in my top three episodes. There's still several unclaimed prompts over there.

I admit, I am stalking del.icio.us but seriously, the Misha and Castiel fics are killing me they're so funny. : )

Misha/yogurt/Vicky
Castiel vs reCAPTCHA and Castiel/Dean

LEVERAGE! Spoiler -> Chris' hair is still pretty!

I am the proud new owner of an elephant hair bracelet! \0/ Mine is a little better quality than the picture but it wasn't super expensive *is a poor jobless grad student* or anything. I love etsy.com. : )




I'm looking forward to oxoniensis's porn battle. I've looked through some of the prompts and I think that there will definitely be some that'll force me to write some dirt. : )

I'm getting the feeling that I simultaneous bit off more than I can chew and didn't come up with a big enough scope for my Big Bang. There are still a couple more things that I need to add and then it will be a matter of beating it into submission . . . making it readable . . . editing. It's already 39 thousand words and when I edit, it invariably means that I have to add stuff so that it makes sense. : ( Wonderful art though, I can at least promise that y'all will enjoy that part. : )

I put it aside for a little bit to work on the Dark Angel/Gilmore Girls crossover I started over a year ago. It's a little more than 8k right now and I think it'll end up being twice as long. For some reason the boys want to have lots of sex, and I'm going to do my civic duty and not stand in their way.

Is it time for new Leverage yet?

ETA I have a Dreamwidth code if anyone wants one or knows who wants one.

Conestoga 13 is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to the promotion of science fiction and fantasy literature, art, science and gaming. We support this goal by hosting an annual science fiction convention in Tulsa, Oklahoma.


I loved this last year, and I'm really looking forward to mingling among writer types again. : ) I got some good ideas and had a lot of fun. I might even try to talk to people. Scary, huh?

Mercedes Lackey and Larry Dixon are going to be there again and this time, I'll remember to take my copy of The Black Gryphon for them to sign. That's still my favorite book that she's ever written. I should try to think of a question or something intelligent to say in the two minutes when I may or maynot have their attention. : ) Any ideas?

Last year's report is here, and let me know if you're interested in any notes from these panels. : )

( Panels and fun... )

Also, I'm dabbling with the x-posting feature on DW so bare with me if something is wonky.

( Spoilers, yo. )

Did I mention that you should go see it? BECAUSE YOU SHOULD! I'd recommend unspoiled, but if you just can't wait, go ahead and click. : )

 Ten Inch Hero! 

( Very enjoyable, but for the love of kilts, why… )

In fic news, Only After Disaster can we be Resurrected is up for an award for Best Sex Scene in the j2_slash_awards. How neat is that? I'd really like to thank whoever nominated it cuz it's just astounding to me especially considering the fic it's up against.

Anyway, there's lots of tasty Jensen/Jared fic there, and I'm excited to read the ones that I missed before.

Go here to see the nominees.

Go here to vote!


There's been a couple of people friend me lately. Howdy y'all! Feel free to introduce yourselves. : )

Okay, so far this season is definitely giving S1 a run for it's money to by my favorite.

( Monster Movie )

Is it next Thursday yet?

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