Fandom, don't disappoint me.

We've seen the .gif (not even really spoilery for S6).

Where's the fic?

These are starting to actively annoy me

Here you can see TV Guide's list of couples who should totally do it.

Here you can see Hollywood Life's list of the hottest vampire couples.

And look, it's not like I expect everyone to understand the strange ways of fandom, but these lists are at least partly intended to capture an internet audience and sell internet advertisements, and there is no way at this point for anyone even vaguely involved in online pop culture to not realize that on The Vampire Diaries, the biggest "will they/won't they" story isn't Damon/Elena, but Damon/Stefan. (At minimum, they might notice that TVP promo posters are essentially selling a Damon/Elena/Stefan threesome.) Or maybe they could have included other shows, like Serena and Blair from Gossip Girl, or Rizzoli and Isles.

As for hottest vampire romances? Sure, I'll give you Buffy/Angel and Buffy/Spike, but you'd have to be willfully blind to miss Angel/Spike.

That with this target audience, they can't come up with even a single non-heterosexual couple is just ... depressing.

Knock wood.

I ran the spyware scan and the malware scan, then I ran several very thorough virus scans using two different antivirus programs, and I haven't seen the popup windows .... recently.

*fingers crossed*

PSA

New issue of Transformative Works and Cultures is up!

Among the highlights - articles on disability representation in Glee and BSG, on Becky in Supernatural, and on fanfiction written about Earth 2 (Earth 2!!!).

Actually my favorite part

Of this 1996 clip of the GOP Senate nominee from Delaware is the fact that MTV chose to play "What if God was one of us" as the soundtrack:



Yes, I'm chatty Cathy today. Hi there.

Wait, seriously?

Superheroes in Court at Yale Show

The case of “The People vs. Superman” is not found in the hornbooks that are scoured by the nation’s law students. But if they had been youngsters in 1967, when Action Comics No. 359 first came out, they might have been amazed to see the Man of Steel in an unusual situation. Instead of zooming through the sky or confronting talkative archvillains, he is in a courtroom, sitting in the witness chair. A little girl is standing in front of the Man of Steel, pointing at him.

“That’s him!” she shouts. “He’s the man who killed my Daddy!”

If you missed that scene — or the one of the Hulk smashing up a courtroom just before sentencing in “The Incredible Hulk vs. Everybody” from 1972 — you can see them at Yale University, in the Lillian Goldman Law Library’s rare book exhibition gallery.

The show, “Superheroes in Court! Lawyers, Law and Comic Books,” provides images of superheroes in the dock, comic books about lawyers and examples of legal disputes and Congressional inquiries involving caped crusaders.

That's cool enough - but, what's this?

The exhibition also includes “Wolff & Byrd: Counselors of the Macabre.” The strip first appeared in The Brooklyn Paper in the late ’70s and later appeared in The National Law Journal. It chronicles the adventures of two lawyers in Brooklyn who deal with supernatural clients, including vampires who want legal protection against a certain teenage slayer, and issues like the property damage claims after a Hulk-like superhero goes berserk.

Seriously?

Edit: Oh, I see - the Vampire Slayer issue was written more recently as a Buffy parody. Still, I'm amused that a supernatural law firm with the name "Wolff" was envisioned in the 70s.

Covert Affairs, the first hour of the season finale

We should all be so frumpy and unattractive as Vivian.

That is all.

Well, hardly ever

Breaking: Christine O'Donnell has had sex