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Sam Winchester's Hair - The Only Thing Left To Me

Sat, 28 Jun 2014 02:00:59 GMT

Dear Avid Readers and Anyone Else Interested in What I'm Writing About,

Some time ago, mid-Season Seven of Supernatural, I believe, I had a desire to do more of my own writing. My last post about Supernatural (and Sam's hair) was May 24, 2011. It was for the episode The Man Who Knew Too Much. That episode was the straw that broke my fannish back.

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Deep Water - Gina Lee Series - Part 1

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 10:29:34 GMT

Title: Deep Water
Author: N.J. Nidiffer
Genre/Rating: Gen/PG
Word Count: 3,354
Fandom: Dark Shadows
Verse: Gina Lee - Part 1
Summary: Willie picks up a local village woman and her kids after their car breaks down in a storm. And, of course, seeing as this is a story about Willie, bad things happen after that.
A/N: My friend Nik wrote this story, and I thought it was a very good story, so much so that I was inspired to write a sequel of sorts, called Tree, where more bad things happen.

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Water - a Gina Lee Story - Posted to AO3

Sat, 08 Dec 2012 09:55:55 GMT

The second to the last in the Gina Lee series is posted on AO3:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/586631

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Finally! Stone - A Gina Lee Story - Posted to AO3

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:22:35 GMT

Last year I promised to type up and post this story, one in the saga of Gina Lee and Willie Loomis. I've only ever had a hard copy; could never find an e-copy and so put off the task. But, now I've done it, it's typed up, and I hope those Dark Shadows folks who have been waiting, will be pleased. Nik could always write rings around me. : D

Here's the link: Stone on AO3.

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Shells - A Gina Lee Story

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:39:18 GMT

TItle: Shells
Author: N. J. Nidiffer
Rating: G
Word Count: 3,557
Summary: While cleaning the house, GIna finds a conch shell that Willie had given Polly on the last Fourth of July they shared together.
Author's Note: Nik and I had this idea about creating a story for every major holiday, so that Willie and Gina could share them. Naturally, in spite of the typically upbeat tone of the 4th, this particular holiday is laced with memories. Also, since I have only a single, undated printed copy of the story, I am unsure of the date Nik wrote it. But given the text, I believe this story takes place at some point after Home Among the Dead but before Stone.

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Still More Gina Lee on AO3

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:59:58 GMT

I've posted most of Gina Lee today and tried to clean up my master fic post, which, naturally, insisted on adding its own cut tags whenever and wherever it wanted to. So my apologies for anyone receiving a giant post in their list today!

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More Gina Lee at AO3

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:49:50 GMT

Just recently posted more of the Gina Lee series, including Winter's Gift, The Long Way Down, Concussion, The Pencil Box, and Polly.

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Gina Lee Series Going up at AO3

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 03:42:43 GMT

I'm in the midst of posting the Gina Lee series (Dark Shadows 1966) to AO3. It's been requested of me to include the mysterious missing three stories, which are, I think: Shells by N.J. Nidiffe,Stone by N.J. Nidiffer, andWater by by me. Alas, there is no electronic copy of Stone, so unless I can track it down I'm going to have type it in. Which will be good typing practice, I think. And the story deserves it, as well.

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More On AO3 - Dark Shadows

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 00:37:43 GMT

I've just posted My Boy Willie at AO3, which I wrote way back when. It's nice to have things online on AO3, because it is easy to find and read what you want. But if you'd like the printed zine, published by Kathy Resch, then you can find it here. (And it's got a way cool cover!)

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In Love With AO3 - Stories Being Uploaded

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:52:28 GMT

I've had my A03 account for a while, but recently took the time to upload some stories there. There's nothing new, but it's nice to have most of them all in one place, and intensely readable! Recently posted are:

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Supernatural Episode Review: Repo Man

Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:20:27 GMT

My review of the Supernatural episode "Repo Man" is up at pinkraygun.com. Enjoy!

An excerpt:

"There are some other parallels to sleeping with demons and having truck with demons, but to me, that’s the main point: Sam feels he’s on his own on this one, and frankly, with as little as we’ve been getting about Sam, I anticipate that this close-ups of Sam in his turmoil are pretty much about all we’re going to get. There are only a handful of eps left this season, maybe five, and the writers have done this before:Big Buildup about Sam, and then, whamo, we get dumped off a cliff. Poor Sam. Surrounded by hellfire, only inches away from his brother on a hotel bed, and his Hand Jobs are no longer effective. What’s a guy to do?"

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Supernatural Episode Review: The Slice Girls

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:12:56 GMT

My review of the Supernatural episode, "The Slice Girls," is up at pinkraygun.com. Enjoy!

An excerpt:

"And, for the record, Dean is a bottom. When he had sex with Cassie, he bottomed. When had sex with the angel (which still gives me hives), he might have been on top, but he still bottomed. (I mean, hello? Angel?) And this time around, yeah, he starts out bottoming, and probably ended up that way as well. I mean look at his face during the sex scene, for crying out loud. He comes across as being all of 16 years old and certainly not in charge of what’s going on. Oh sure, you can argue that he’s a tender soul and wants the woman to feel safe and comfortable, but believe you me, any woman who goes to bed with a man who she does not know does not have any issues about safety. Dean’s a bottom, and that’s all there is to it."

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Click One Time to tell Obama to Veto PIPA and SOPA

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:57:04 GMT

It only takes one click to sign an online petition to tell Obama that we want him to Veto this stupid SOPA and PIPA bill:

I took this from demandprogress.org.
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But wait - there's more!!!

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:41:46 GMT

Here is the info from Dreamwidth Studios, also copied directly from their site, because I want to help spread the word. Dreamwidth Studios

Pending in the United States legislature are two bills, closely related, that are designed to grant broad, new powers to the government in the name of fighting piracy and theft on the Internet. These bills are known as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA, HR 3261, Wikipedia) and the PROTECT-IP Act (PIPA, S 968, Wikipedia). You've probably heard about them by now.

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STOP PIPA and SOPA and help LOLCATS!!!

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:40:30 GMT

What is PIPA? (I took this verbatim from ihttp://icanhascheezburger.com to help spread the word against this horrible idea.)

PIPA is a poorly envisioned Senate copyright enforcement bill that will censor our Internet and kill jobs in the rapidly growing Internet industry. This bill (and its House counterpart, SOPA) were designed by lobbyists and are being sped through Congress with virtually no debate. Almost every Internet company has strongly come out against PIPA.

Why does this matter to me?

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Supernatural Episode Review: Time After Time

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:04:14 GMT

My review for the Supernatural episode "Time After Time" is up at pinkraygun.com. Enjoy!

An excerpt:

"So here’s where I start to complain, you can stop reading now if you like. To anyone who reads my reviews, you already know what the complaint is, and that is the fact that Sam and Dean were separated for most of the ep. And not only that, but Dean gets to Time Travel, while Sam is forced to stay in the Grotty Squat on his own, and struggle to find Dean in amidst the strings and vibrations of the past. Why is it that Dean gets the spotlight, and has all the fun of meeting Eliot Ness, while Sam must stay at home (in the present) and never gets to go anywhere cool? And if the boys are apart, they can’t be seen relating to each other, which is the reason I started watching Show in the first place. I will continue to complain until I get my way."

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Supernatural Episode Review: Adventures in Babysitting

Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:05:09 GMT

My review for the Supernatural episode "Adventures in Babysitting" is up at pinkraygun.com. Enjoy!

An excerpt:

"Maybe Sam’s incompetence is to demonstrate how helpless he is without Bobby doing his research, but then, we already know that. Maybe it’s to demonstrate how helpless he is without Brother Dean, but then we already knew THAT too. So why does Show insist on this scenario over and over? Not that I mind the sight of Sam all tied up and ready to be sacrificed, but as big and as smart as he is, it sometimes gets a little silly to see him fail like that. Seems to me, at this point in Sam’s development, Show could be a bit more inventive and take risks with what Sam’s capable of. Oh, but this is Show, I forgot. Home of the insecure writer."

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Supernatural Episode Review: Death's Door

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:11:50 GMT

My review of the Supernatural episode "Death's Door" is up at pinkraygun.com. Enjoy!

An excerpt:

"Sam and Dean talk about death and about The Dad dying and other sad things. I thought what was most interesting was the lighting. The boys are standing next to a louvered window whose slats are half open. Thusly, across their faces, fall lots of natural light and lots of shadowed light. Which is not only atmospheric, but perhaps also bespeaks of the half-lit, half-shadowed nature of the passage between life and death. And it looks good on them."

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Delay in SPN Review for The Mentalists

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:08:01 GMT

Dear All - Due to the aftereffects of surgery (vicodin overload), I wasn't able to review The Mentalist this week. I'll be in a place where I can write this weekend, hopefully, and catch up.

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Supernatural Episode Review: Meet the New Boss

Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:40:54 GMT

My review for the Supernatural episode "Meet the New Boss" is up at pinkraygun.com. Enjoy!

An excerpt:

"So, if you had a brother with a record of LYING ABOUT HOW HE’S DOING, and who recently had a meltdown courtesy of the Prodigal God, and who has a tendency for dramatic collapses, weird fevers and visions, and whose hair has a tendency to overshadow everything else going on, wouldn’t you want to, oh, I don’t know, KEEP SAM CLOSE? Am I shouting? Or, as Mike TV asks, “Am I coming in clear?” Why on earth is Dean letting Sam spend so much time on his own, if he’s so damn worried?"

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Where Did the Monkier "Soap Angel" Come From, Anyway?

Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:48 GMT

I've been asked the following question a lot over the last week:" Where does the name "Soap Angel" come from, anyway?"

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Delay in Posting

Tue, 10 May 2011 11:31:34 GMT

Due to unforeseen circumstances (real life and whatnot), there will be a delay in posting. So instead of Tuesday AM, my review will post Wednesday AM. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

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Supernatural Episode Review: Mommy Dearest

Tue, 03 May 2011 12:57:41 GMT

My review of the Supernatural episode "Mommy, Dearest" is up at pinkraygun.com. Enjoy!

An excerpt:

"After the hoe-down hilarity of last week’s ep, this week’s ep was a whole lot of something that wasn’t anything like a hoe-down and nothing like anything I’d be watching twice, if I didn’t have to. I’m not saying it was terribly bad, but at every other turn in the plot, I kept asking, why are they doing that? or why is he saying that to him? Not to mention the fact that it was Dean, Dean, Dean, all day, all night, all Dean, 24/7, and there was, at the same time, a mighty DEARTH of Sam."

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A Picture of the Fun In Action

Tue, 03 May 2011 02:36:10 GMT

The bid is over a thousand now,and looks to keep going up. Bidder 413 really WANTS this meet and greet, I tell ya! (I'm looking forward to a little bidding war, which will only bring more funds for the foundation.) I've taken a picture and finally know how to upload things...( Read more... )

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You Gotta Love Jeffrey Dean Morgan, I Know I Do

Tue, 03 May 2011 02:22:41 GMT

Jeffrey Dean Morgan is auctioning off a lunch for a fan and her BFF in order to show his appreciation for all that fans have done by donating to the Brittany Foundation at www.donatejdm.org.

However, I registered on Ebay especially to bring you more details and to let you know that as of this posting, the big is at $960.00 and grows by the minute.

Here's the text which makes it sound SO enticing, and the guy's right, if you and a friend go in on it together (and lump your funds), then you get way more one-on-one time with JDM, instead of standing in line for hours with a thousand other fans. I wish I could bid, but the money being entered is already above my budget. Still, it's for a good cause, and I hope the winner has a GREAT TIME. : D
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Get yourself to Miami Florida, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan will have a hotel room booked and waiting for you and a friend. Get a good night's sleep, then Jeff will send a car service to bring you and your friend to the Magic City set for an exclusive set tour. Spend the morning watching him work, then he'll meet you and your friend for a sit-down lunch to chat about dogs and movies and whatever else suits your fancy. After more behind-the-scenes fun after lunch, Jeff will make sure to find you again to say goodbye before having the car service take you back to the hotel so you and your friend can relax and get some much needed rest before heading back home in the morning.

That sound like a good plan to you? Did to us, too, when JEFFREY SUGGESTED IT as the big auction item for this year's birthday drive. That's right. This is all Jeff's idea. He donated the whole package himself -- 2 nights lodging at a Miami hotel, car service to and from the Magic City set, an exclusive set tour so you can get the inside scoop on his new series, and a sit-down lunch with the auction winner and their guest so everyone can relax and chat, get to know each other a little.

Doesn't that sound like a whole lot more fun than standing around forever with a whole crowd somewhere he might be in hopes of maybe getting a quick photo with him or an autograph?

Well, it sounded like more fun to Jeff, too. He made this unique, special, generous offer not only to help raise money to save dogs for his birthday drive, but also to show his deep appreciation for the incredible support his fans have shown DonateJDM.org these past 3 years. We're always telling him how much it means to fans when they get a chance to chat with him for even a moment, so he decided the best way to say thank you to "the most awesome, generous fans in the world" (his words, not ours) was to offer one of those great fans who've shown him so much love this personal, unique insider view of himself and his new seires.

So here's your chance, people. Bid often and generously, because this awesome opportunity is the opportunity of a lifetime.

Travel to and from Miami will be the sole responsibility of the auction winner. The auction price includes 2 nights lodging at a hotel of Jeff's choosing, car service to and from the Magic City set, an exclusive tour of the Magic City set, and lunch with Jeff somewhere of Jeff's choosing ... all of those things for the auction winner and a friend (splitting the cost of the auction with a fellow fan is totally allowed and enthusiastically encouraged). Once Magic City's production schedule has been finalized, Jeff will pick three viable visit dates between August and October, 2011 (probably in September), and DonateJDM will email those dates to the auction winner to see which best matches their schedule. Details will be worked out via email with DonateJDM from there. Obviously, you'll want to bring a camera because not only will you have plenty of opportunities to take pictures of Jeff on-set, Jeff's also going to expect to take some pictures of you (!). And he'll be happy to autograph something special for you if you bring it along, too.

The Great Jeffrey Dean Morgan Birthday Auction is an entirely fan-run, wholly non-profit drive to raise money in honor of Jeff's birthday on April 22nd. All proceeds from this auction will benefit The Brittany Foundation, a non-profit charity of Jeff's choosing dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, care and placement of homeless dogs. Every dollar raised by this auction and/or donated through DonateJDM.org goes directly to the rescue of dogs in need and is 100% tax deductible."

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