power outages, mythbusters, zombies

[eruthros]

1. Things I hate: power outages. Especially power outages that were the result of a huge storm with big threatening clouds that made it dark inside even at six pm yesterday. Especially since I could find candles, but not matches, which required me to use one of thingswithwings lighters. And lighters are hard! They involve far too much thumb strength and all the bits are too small -- and as usual it took like ten tries to every one that made a flame, and then several attempts to manage to hold candle + lighter in the right positions. As a consequence, I dripped hot candle wax on my fingers, which reminds me a) that context is important for erotic/not erotic pain, b) that owww, drops from an inch are too close even for white paraffin, and c) that I somehow always manage to blister the knuckles I need to tape in order to type of COURSE. And I ran my hand under water and everything, geez.

2. So last night's Mythbusters (possibly 8x11? they need to have episode numbers on this show) is called "Top 25 Mythbusters Moments," and so I went "ugh, clip show" and nearly didn't watch it. Then I did anyway, because I didn't have anything else to watch tonight, and as it turned out I was glad that I had! Because it was pretty hilarious! Largely because it's not just a clip show -- they also do interviews, and some behind-the-scenes stuff, and some clips that haven't aired before. Plus the clips are very short, which makes it feel less clipshowy.

And I actually laughed out loud at a couple of points, so. Especially when Grant was doing Jamie's-moustache-in-various-situations.

Plus they do a segment on hilarious costumes, and a segment on how the Mythbusters producers always push their emotional buttons and weaknesses, and a segment on memetic mutation, and a segment on the ways in which Adam and Tory get hurt on the show.

3. chagrined and I were talking about death_bingo, and agreeing that it has a great premise, and then zie mentioned the possibility of deathfic postage stamps. And proposed one. So I chat-spitballed it, and have included it below the cut because zie asked me to.

chagrined: altho now I think about and lol about
chagrined: postage stamps and single line extras
chagrined: would they, like

eruthros: I think they didn't do them

chagrined: try to think of a death for a SINGLE CHARACTER that combined everything?
chagrined: like, shot from a cannon, then stampeded by an elephant, then burned alive, then become a zombie?

eruthros: actually, I just went and looked
eruthros: and they ttly did do postage stamps
eruthros: soooo I guess the answer is yes

chagrined: haaaaaa
chagrined: like alternately I guess you could have FOUR DIFFERENT CHARACTERS all die different ways
chagrined: they are both kind of ridonkulous tho
chagrined: tho the first one would be super lulzy

eruthros: I would ttly read the shot from a cannon and stampeded by an elephant and buried alive and turned into a zombie fic
eruthros: it would happen in a circus
eruthros: like, okay, instead of running away to become a lawyer at Stanford

chagrined: hahaha

eruthros: Sam Winchester runs away to join the circus when he's fifteen

chagrined: it's true that could all happen at a circus! lol

eruthros: And he's trained by the Great Whatsit
eruthros: who gets fired out of a cannon and shit

chagrined: hahaha

eruthros: and is like, Sam, dude, you have a hard head, this is ttly the job for you!

chagrined: XD XD XD

eruthros: (after Sam has spent some months sweeping out lion cages and whatevs)

chagrined: his epic forehead is perfect for the job

eruthros: maybe the Great Whatsit has been talking to him about how to do it and then he gets INJURED so Sam must take his place so the SHOW CAN GO ON
eruthros: and after that sometimes when the Great Whatsit is bored or drunk or whatevs, Sam does his routine for him
eruthros: in addition to the sweeping-lion-cages job -- he thought he was going to get to be in a trapeze act when he ran away, but the circus was like haha NO
eruthros: SO ANYWAY

chagrined: lolol

eruthros: this one time
eruthros: something goes hilariously wrong
eruthros: the cannon's sides are weak and shatter with the explosion or whatevs

chagrined: lolol
chagrined: they didn't use enough duct tape in their cannon :x

eruthros: and although it shoots Sam across the ring into the safety trampoline thing
eruthros: it spooks the elephants who are waiting to go on
eruthros: and they run around the ring
eruthros: trumpeting wildly!
eruthros: and getting more and more spooked by all the people trying to stop them! and the screams of the audience!
eruthros: until finally, the LEAD ELEPHANT with the MOST AWESOME GLITTERY HEADDRESS
eruthros: knocks Sam off of the safety trampoline thing and onto the ground, where it steps on him!

chagrined: XD XD XD XD XD

eruthros: and then all the OTHER elephants running BEHIND the lead elephant ALSO step on him

chagrined: oh dear
chagrined: ahahahah

eruthros: and a couple of them poo in a panicked fashion
eruthros: thus burying Sam under the dirt-and-sawdust-and-poo floor

chagrined: HAHA BURIED ALIVE

eruthros: of the circus arena

chagrined: I like it

eruthros: I read your thing at first as buried alive :)
eruthros: and I liked it better

chagrined: haha yeah I saw that

eruthros: AND THEN

chagrined: it works well, with the elephants

eruthros: the combination of hunter with weirdo powers + elephant dung + sawdust
eruthros: combines in the moment of Sam's death
eruthros: to turn him into an evil CIRCUS CLOWN ZOMBIE
eruthros: and he digs his way up and out of the sawdust

chagrined: ahahahahahaha

eruthros: and reveals his hideous circus clown zombie grin
eruthros: to the frightened audience

chagrined: I think this is the most beautiful postage stamp deathfic there could ever be

eruthros: who aren't sure if the whole thing is an ACT
eruthros: and applaud hesitantly
eruthros: and then Sam eats their brains.
eruthros: THE END.

chagrined: *SNORTS FOR REAL*
chagrined: HOW ARE YOU SO SHINY

eruthros: tho seriously
eruthros: I think a circus clown zombie would be the scariest thing ever
eruthros: and I don't know why we haven't had that zombie film yet.

chagrined: didn't they go to a carnival or something in Zombieland? I never actually saw that yet but I think it was in the trailers

eruthros: hahaha that is my favorite kind of fannish production! the spinning-a-ridiculous-yarn type.
eruthros: I haven't seen it either

chagrined: I THINK YOU SHOULD POST IT IN YOUR DW, HAHA

Comments

[chagrined]

Grant was doing Jamie's-moustache-in-various-situations.

OMG I NEED THIS IN MY LIFE!!!!

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY YOU POSTED IT, NOW I CAN LINK PPL HERE! :D :D :D ALTHO OH GOSH NOW MY FAIL ABOUT STILL NOT HAVING SEEN ZOMBIELAND IS OUT IN THE PUBLIC FOR ALL TO SEE! HAAAAAAAAA

[eruthros]

YOU TOTALLY NEED THAT IN YOUR LIFE. He was all "this is Jamie's moustache underwater" *hands* "this is Jamie's moustache when startled" *hands* *more emotions mimed* "but seriously, you can't air that or Jamie will kill me." And it was adorable.

[chagrined]

you can't air that or Jamie will kill me

SOMEONE NEEDS TO WRITE THE FIC WHERE GRANT GETS PUNISHED FOR THIS BEHAVIOR, TEE-HEE-HEE

[eruthros]

Listen I could totally ship Jamie/Grant. In addition to some build team ot3 and Jamie/Adam, obv.

[chagrined]

I think what you are saying here is, Mythbusters entire cast orgy? :D :D

[eruthros]

AGREE.

[toft]

AAAAAAAAAH I WANT THIS EPISODE YESTERDAY. My torrenting is failing me! WHY is it not working properly, WHY?

[chagrined]

Oh hey, did you see Grant's Twitter? They put the whole episode online! :D http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-top-25-moments-mythbusters-top-25-moments.html

[eruthros]

That is so unfair! Because it's pretty awesome.

[thingswithwings]

hahaha, that deathfic is LOLARIOUS. I especially like the part where Sam is a circus clown zombie. Because of the characterization. Fabulous work my friend.

Also omg I need to watch this episode of mythbusters like YESTERDAY. I do not know how I can achieve this but I shall try. How did you achieve it, btw? Did you break your vow or not torrenting things?

[eruthros]

Yes, I thought I really captured the essence of Sam Winchester in this AU. Now, if only I could remember how to spell his name...

Also, you really do need to watch this episode of Mythbsuters! Because it is like "here is a kinky montage" "here is a another kinky montage" "I guess we need to put some explosions in" "back to the kinky montages."

[thingswithwings]

hahaha, I know, I always want to spell it Wincester, too. But I think we know why that is.

Eeeeee kinky montage! I will have to try to download that.

[isagel]

I am now going to be late for work because I didn't expect that to be a long, epic tale when I clicked the cut tag, and then couldn't stop reading because I was laughing so hard I cried. <3

Sam´s zombie circus death was clearly what I needed this morning.

[eruthros]

Hurrah! I am glad to have entertained :)

[toft]

This is a totally beautiful and amazing story. The only thing missing, I have discovered (from my recent quasi-accidental foray into SPN and J2) is a bit where Sam fucks Dean in his virgin ass and Dean's eyes fill with agonized tears. Maybe he can do that in between the elephant trampling and the brain-eating.

[eruthros]

No, no, there can't be mid-circus fucking -- this is a story about how sad Sam is without Dean! Or vice versa! Sam runs away to find himself, but what he really finds is how much he needs love. And brains.

I guess they could have virgin-ass-agonized-tears sex afterwords, but I always worry about zombies losing body parts.

[toft]

Ew. Lol.

[fish_echo]

a) that context is important for erotic/not erotic pain, b) that owww, drops from an inch are too close even for white paraffin, and c) that I somehow always manage to blister the knuckles I need to tape in order to type of COURSE. And I ran my hand under water and everything, geez.

a) sadly, this is a truth! :(

b) here's an old hint from the days of gas ranges without flints: get a long noodle (e.g., spaghetti, linguine) and light the end of *it* and it sort of acts like a long match.

c) I had something to say here? But this pane has been open long enough that I don't know what it was... clearly what I had to say was lists are awesome?

d) I HATE LIGHTERS TOO! >:(

e) There is a death_bingo? There seem to be many bingos springing up on my circle/network right now like crocuses in spring.

f) dude, awesome story there! :) :)

g) clown zombies: BEST IDEA EVER!

[toft]

The Mythbusters clipshow was DELIGHTFUL. I loved it.