agt_spooky | Back from my Supernatural weekend

Wow, sorry to have disappeared for several days, guys. I had every intention of posting yesterday, about

winchestmidwest, but instead I was laid flat with a horrible migraine for the entire day and evening. Ugh.

So anyway -

winchestmidwest. It was fun, but a different kind of fun than last year. I didn't recognize many faces from last year's event, so maybe that was the difference, a different crowd. We were all a bit crazy last time and the panel discussions quite lively. It was, to me anyway, a bit more subdued this time around.

I was by myself on Friday, as my roommates,

charityflint and

asyouleft couldn't make it until Saturday, and they missed a good discussion panel led by

katelennon, that kinda ended up being a wish list for season four.

I'd had a really long day at work on Friday, so when the panel ended and the Guitar Hero competition started up, I headed upstairs to enjoy the really awesome room I had to myself for the night. I wanted to take the 42" flat screen tv home with me! :-)

The next morning I was having breakfast when

mummyluvr314 sat at the table next to me and we chatted for a bit before

charityflint and

asyouleft showed up and we headed into the panel room.

Lots of panels on Saturday, and I enjoyed most of them, even though I felt I was definitely in the minority in the "misogeny" one (Sorry,

samazon13!) I just don't feel offended by the language used by Dean throughout the series, when directed toward women, mainly because he's insulting demons when he uses "bitch", etc. and not someone like Sarah or Cassie or Haley. But that's a whole can of worms that I'm not gonna open up! :-)

We had an interesting panel on the history of SPN fandom online (I didn't know that the

spnnewsletter was the first SPN related LJ community) and then we were treated to the premiere of the season finale of PWT which was funny beyond belief. :-) And

anteka even did a "behind the scenes" documentary on how she creates PWT.

My head was spinning with knowledge after

gonturan's demonology panel and then it was time for MY panel, on fanfiction, co-hosted with my buddy,

charityflint.

We had a small group, but we were definitely talkative *g* and the hour passed quickly as our topics flowed one into another. But the best part was after the panel, when Charity and I sat back down at our table with our friend

adelheide. We were talking about going for dinner when everyone still left in the room suddenly showed up at our table saying, "But we want to keep talking! Can we sit?" LOL! Next thing we knew, there had to be 12 of us squashed at the table and I had suddenly made a lot of new friends! (waves to

alphabet26,

wilde_moon and

mummyluvr314)

We all had such a fantastic time sitting there chatting about anything and everything SPN related and then we decided to move the party to the Mexican restaurant across the parking lot where I think we gave the manager heart failure when all 12 of us walked in. :-)

I only wish my fanfic panel had been earlier during the day on Saturday, so I could've gotten to know all my new friends sooner and spent more time with them.

After dinner it was time for the songvid show and holy cow, they showed mine first! It got some very nice applause so that made me happy. :-)

There was more Guitar Hero afterwards, since the hotel forbade us from doing karaoke (WTF??) so instead we sang along loudly to the GH songs! LOL!

Sunday morning was a panel on creating LJ icons, then an hour long panel on the music of SPN, put together with video clips by

gonturan, which was a lot of fun. :-)

And then it was time to say goodbye, unfortunately, as I couldn't stay for the ghost hunt that evening. All you guys that stayed - did you have a good time? Capture any ghosts? *bg*

So all in all a good weekend, mainly because I made new friends and spent three days wallowing in everything Supernatural. :-)

I haven't been on the computer since Friday and not only am I horribly behind in answering back comments, but there's just no way I'm getting caught up on my friends page, so if something totally awesome happened in fandom while I was away give me a shout in the comments. Thanks!

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Welcome back, Barb! I'd glad you had a wonderful time!

Lots of panels on Saturday, and I enjoyed most of them, even though I felt I was definitely in the minority in the "misogeny" one (Sorry, samazon13!) I just don't feel offended by the language used by Dean throughout the series, when directed toward women, mainly because he's insulting demons when he uses "bitch", etc. and not someone like Sarah or Cassie or Haley. But that's a whole can of worms that I'm not gonna open up! :-)

I just wanted to say that I agree with you here. I've seen this complaint a number of times and I really don't understand it, either.

so if something totally awesome happened in fandom while I was away give me a shout in the comments. Thanks!

Besides the Sera interview link I sent you earlier, two things:

1. A new site was opened to pay homage to Jared & Jensen's amazing friendship. I spent about 30 minutes last night reading about some of the wonderful quotes, stories, etc. found here:

http://www.twizzle-me.com/boys.php?about

I love these boys and their friendship!

2. Supernatural won or placed in a number of the award categories in the Amy Awards announced at zap2it.com - my favorite:

I Know You´re Fictional But Will You Marry Me Anyway Or Hottest Actor

Winner with 23.4% of the vote Jensen Ackles of Supernatural

And the rest:
Josh Holloway on Lost-22.6%
None of the Above -20.3%
Alex O'Loughlin on Moonlight - 15.6%
Taylor Kitsch on Friday Night Lights-10.4%
Jared Padalecki on Supernatural - 7.7%

I'm sorry Jared placed so low (OK, I can understand Josh Holloway and Taylor Kitsch, but please explain to me the appeal of Alex O'Loughlin), but I'm so glad Jensen won this well-deserved honor! You can see the rest of the award winners here:

http://blog.zap2it.com/tvgal/2008/06/unknow-star-non.html

Again, welcome back, Barb!

I just wanted to say that I agree with you here. I've seen this complaint a number of times and I really don't understand it, either.

I do agree that the amount of hate language has increased and if it went away I'd be fine with it, but in the meantime, as long as Dean isn't slapping some poor woman around who isn't an evil creature and is trying to kill him I'm just honestly not offended. [shrug] I just love my horndog, badass Dean. :-)

1. A new site was opened to pay homage to Jared & Jensen's amazing friendship

Oh, yeah! I'm on keepaofthecheez's friends list and heard all about it. I even contributed a video they were looking for. :-) I just registered myself over there last night, but haven't had time to really explore the site yet.

Winner with 23.4% of the vote Jensen Ackles of Supernatural

Yay!!! Totally, totally deserved. :-)

I'm sorry Jared placed so low

Gosh, me, too. Last??

but please explain to me the appeal of Alex O'Loughlin

I'm sorry to say, but I loved Moonlight and think Alex is pretty darn hot. *g*

Thanks for all the info, Deborah!

I do agree that the amount of hate language has increased and if it went away I'd be fine with it, but in the meantime, as long as Dean isn't slapping some poor woman around who isn't an evil creature and is trying to kill him I'm just honestly not offended. [shrug] I just love my horndog, badass Dean.

I totally agree. It never even occurred to me to be offended. (and I'm usually pretty sensitive to things like that) For Dean, it just seems totally in character and he only says things like that to demons, right? I can't imagine Dean saying anything like that to a real human woman; he wouldn't.

I suppose there is an argument to be made that the *show* does provide an opportunity for violence against women and images of "women as demon". (although I think I could argue it the other way too). But there's no way you could convince me that *Dean* himself is a misogynist.

For Dean, it just seems totally in character

Yeah, I agree, since he was set up like that from day one - the cocky, smart ass guy. Chris and I have always said that "bitch" is his favorite word and he sounds damn sexy saying it. ;-)

I can't imagine Dean saying anything like that to a real human woman; he wouldn't.

Oh gosh, no way, not ever. And if he did, that would truly be it for me. No, with the exception of calling Sam "bitch" in the pilot, it's always been directed at some sort of evil creature.

I suppose there is an argument to be made that the *show* does provide an opportunity for violence against women and images of "women as demon"

Yeah, that's true, but there's also the same amount of violence (if not moreso) against men, so I think it kinda equals out.

But there's no way you could convince me that *Dean* himself is a misogynist.

As long as he never crosses that line to using hate language against an innocent woman, I'm ok with his character as is.

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