Lords of Kobol, hear my prayer...

++ I'm not subscribed to it, but I'm amused by everyone on Tumblr collectively losing their minds with the Dracula Daily email subscriptions. I had no idea it even existed until one day it was everywhere on my dash, everyone was talking about it, all at once. The last time I saw this kind of general fandom community was grabbed my the throat and collectively being fannish about something was with Welcome to Night Vale. Either way, I'm just glad that people are enjoying themselves.

++ Ncuti Gatwa has been announced as the Fourteenth Doctor. I'm not familiar with him or his work, but it seems that everyone is pleased by this casting choice. I'll miss Jodie as the Doctor, but she had a good, fantastic run.

++ Critical Role teamed up with Stephen Colbert for the second time to play some D&D for Red-Nose Day, and it just makes me so happy seeing other people I enjoy watching coming together. While only about an hour (which, yes, is quite short in comparison to the 3+ hours that CR often does per episode) it's somewhat a continuation of the first game that Matt ran with Stephen about two years ago, this time with some of the other cast involved, and it's worth watching simply to see Stephen bring in two swords from Lord of the Rings, everyone's reactions to it, and to see Sam Riegel flirt with Stephen in-character (or not? who knows) which someone compiled some of the scenes here. But really, it makes me smile. During the early days of CR Matt and the others often would share their wishes for what they could do with the show, often what guests they wanted to appear, and Stephen Colbert was one of them, and seeing their wishes come true as the years have gone on has been amazing to witness.

++ I don't really participate in Halloween like other people, except watch a horror movie marathon. But it sounds like many people had a lovely and safe Halloween, which is awesome. Already seen some amazing posts of costumes. So many Castiels, and zombies. But oddly no zombie!Castiels around, hmmm. ;p

++ VIDEO OF MISHA SINGING BOB DYLAN WITH HIS FATHER!!! ♥ ♥ ♥ BOB FRAKKING DYLAN, Y'ALL. FURTHER PROVING MY THEORY THAT MISHA COLLINS (AND HIS ENTIRE FAMILY IT SEEMS) ARE CYLONS. THIS IS JUST TRUTH, I WILL NOT BE CONVINCED OTHERWISE. IT WOULD HAVE SOLIDIFIED EVERYTHING HAD THEY SANG "ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER", BUT THIS IS GOOD TOO.

++ The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear seemed to have been an epic event (naturally, it is Jon Stewart and Stephan Colbert), drawing in over 200,000 people which had massive participation of the many awesome signs many of them were of Internet memes that had me loling so hard. But of course the best thing was Jon Stewart's speech. I wish I could have been there, although judging from the crowd I think I would have gotten claustrophobia. Nevertheless, all those who got to go I am still jealous.

Did you know that Dean/Castiel are now taking over the world by storm? MAJOR FUCKING WIN! \O/\O/\O/ I bow down to this person for creating that, seriously.

++ I still want to get invited to Misha's tea party, dammit. :(

++ I have this notion that Misha should appear on The Daily Show as himself and then go on The Colbert Report as his Twitter personality and just fuck with everyone while doing both. He interned for the White House before, he's already created his own separate Tea Party, he does charitable things. Why hasn't he been on either already? This needs to happen, y/y?

Firstly, a huge warm welcome to those friended from the Heroes Friending Meme. Looking foward to furthering our Heroes love and beyond, aelora, dousehere and mutinousmuse, and hopefully I don't frighten you away too much with my fannish obsessions and squeeage or slightly insane topics of discussion.

Stephen Colbert versus Rain(Bi) and makes his own Korean RNB music video. The hilarity speaks for itself.

Speaking of which, there seems to be some legal controversy regarding Rain's popularity as he's planning on touring and promoting himself in the U.S. Unfortunately for him, the legal issue stands when a rock band entitled "Rain" wants the Korean artist to change his name. Excuse me, but what the flippity-fuck? Now, I'm not really a fanatic over him but I do like his music and I think this whole legal battle is just idiotic and stupid. This reminds me of the whole "Wyrd Sisters" and "Weird Sisters" legal debate for the fourth HP film, just because a fictional band had the same name, just spelled differently. But this...this is just ridiculous. First off, they are two different genres with two entirely different audience attractions. The whole thing is just stupid, and it should've never been an issue in the first place. I don't want his name to change, and I doubt it'll be Bi or Rain(Bi) since many Americans are immature twats that'll stir up much trouble if that happened, so many are speculating that it'll be changed to his birth-given name, Jeong Ji Hoon. But Lord knows that'll be mispronounced if he does make it here in the States.

He shouldn't have to change his name, period. I can't think of him as anything else other than Rain or Bi (pronounced like the letter "B", which in Korean translates to "rain"). *le sigh*

Now I've gotten that out of the way, it's time for Week Two of hmd_tuesdays:

( I don't ask patients to lie, I just assume they all do. )