Sharknado your faves!

Sharknado your faves or create your own hybrid force of nature. The choice is yours, and a Sharknado POP Vinyl figurine could be, too. Sharknado 4 will be released during the summer of 2016. Your moderators saw the news and thought: why stop there?

There are two avenues of participation in this challenge: Sharknado Your Faves or It’s Hailing Llamas. In the first, you bring the tried and true Sharknado to your favorite characters or world. In the second, you create your own mind-numbingly amazing force of nature and apply it at will.

Stories must be at least 1500 words. The challenge runs from 15 April 2016 to 30 June 2016. You have that long to complete and submit your story to the appropriate collection in order to be considered for the drawing.

Every story submitted will be counted as one entry into the drawing. Two winners will be chosen at random the end of the entry period. Multiple entries are allowed; if you want to Sharknado every fandom you’ve ever been in, we salute and welcome you, friend.

There’s a post on LJ that you can use as a place to brainstorm or chat about your stories, or to throw out ideas for others who might want to run with them. Go forth and Sharknado! Or Tarantusoon. Or Zombcano… you get the point.

Supernatural Rewatch - 4.08, 4.09, & 4.10

Date watched: Sunday, April 17

Episode: 4.08 Wishful Thinking, 4.09 I Know What You Did Last Summer, 4.10 Heaven and Hell

Wishful Thinking is full of dark humor. Watching the boys be teddy bear doctors is hilarious, but seeing a suicidal teddy bear is pretty dark. The overall humorous tone of the episode also provides a counterbalance for some pretty dark character development moments. Both Winchesters express that life isn’t about being happy, that it’s about suffering which is cheerful.

Sam reveals that if he had any wish it would be Lilith’s head on a plate which clearly concerned Dean. It’s such a dark wish that shows where he is emotionally right now.The episode also highlights Dean’s continuing struggles post-Hell. He’s drinking too much—even stealing alcohol in this ep—and having nightmares. By the end of the episode he is honest with Sam about the way he’s struggling but refuses to talk about it with Sam which I actually feel is fair in this context. It may be better for him to talk about it, but as he said, how could he even make Sam understand?

I Know What You Did Last Summer introduces us to Anna who I’ve always been extremely fond of and Alistair who I loathe, but since he’s an evil tortuous demon that’s the intent. It’s a plot heavy episode that brings Anna into the angel story and also shows us more about what Sam did while Dean was dead and the role Ruby plays in his life.

I think more than anything Dean’s issues with Ruby are because he doesn’t know what her end game is. Later when he works with Crowley and Meg he knows what they are getting out of it so he’s willing to warily ally with them. With Ruby, she plays at some sort of altruism regarding Sam and there is no way Dean falls for that.

Heaven and Hell directly picks up where the last episode left off. We find out about Anna’s angelic past and she and Dean have a conversation about the appeal of free will and human emotions. It’s a theme that’s a continual thread for the entire series.

Anna, Ruby, Dean, and Sam play Uriel and Alistair off of each other at great personal cost. Ruby is tortured extensively by Alistair and Anna gives up her hard won humanity to take back her Grace. The episode tried to make it look like Ruby was betraying them, but in this case it was all part of the plan.

Most importantly—and heartbreakingly—was the reveal of Dean’s hell experiences. Alistair and Uriel both tell parts, but at the end of the episode Dean comes clean to Sam about getting off the rack after thirty years and torturing others. He completely breaks down with way more than a single tear and it hurts me to watch.


Random thoughts:

-Heaven and Hell has Uriel telling Dean that Castiel likes Dean which is a weakness. I think that’s the first time we hear that about Cas (although it certainly won’t be the last).