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So I'm all booked up for Asylum the Supernatural convention that Jared is attending next year in the UK. Thanks to a friend who booked in advance for me I have the incredibly low ticket number of 10! Really looking forward to this one - I go to a lot of conventions anyway (three so far this year, a Battlestar Galactica event this weekend and a Serenity con in September) but I am ridiculously excited at the prospect of meeting Jared! Is anyone else going to this? I would love to meet up with other fans out there - get a chance to put a face to a user name!

So how did I manage to miss that Ben Edlund has joined the writing team? I love that guy - his Smile Time episode of Angel was hilarious and his Jaynestown episode of Firefly was comic genius. I guess they've bought him in to handle the quirkier episodes. Which is promising because I confess I wasn't a fan of Hell House - the show's first attempt to do out and out comedy. The whole endeavour fell rather flat for me and the boys just seemed really uncomfortable in that episode - their laughter just felt very forced.

And finally a rec: Midnight at the Majestic by maygra.

Sam/Dean

Written for the 50 states challenge and set post Devil's Trap the story features a grief stricken Sam and Dean searching for echoes of the dead in Georgia. Highly atmospheric and rich with detail this story is a feast for the senses and the Sam/Dean characterisation is as superb as I'vecome to expect from maygra. Love the details of Dean staring down the gator and Sam protecting Dean and his grief from the ghosts he sees all around. And I love the ending - the one ghost that Sam can't see - but Dean can. Wonderful.