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This video is from way back in April of 2020. Yikes!
Decided to make a Black & White set of caps for this (along w/the usual color ones). Both sets are Hi-Res. Hope you enjoy!



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I know I keep posting SPN Con Panel videos, but gosh I miss the cons! Even though I couldn't go to them anymore even if Covid-19 hadn't happened, I miss our special times with the SPN cast. I hadn't seen the clips of Ruth, Alaina, and Brianna before! And of course, the resume-off w/Misha & Jensen never gets old! :D

Did anyone else get to watch this live yesterday? I thought I was going to miss it, but finally spotted where Misha was streaming it live on his youtube channel. So great to see Jensen & Jared there (in their respective Vancouver apartments, going thru their required quarantine before filming). Beards are still there and the flowing hair (loved the bit about them all riding the coattails of Jared's hair). Anyone else wonder if that was FB Beer Jensen was drinking? :P

There's a lot of caps here, but I did start with over 400. ;)



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An oldie but a goodie! My apologies if I've shared this video before.
A nearly full half hour with some of the SPN Family. Enjoy!

Sorry it's taken me forever to get these done. I initially made over 300 caps and got those sorted down to 202. While fixing the caps, I got caught up in adding different effects and color treatments - so much that I couldn't decide which I liked (so you're getting them all!). Then there were complications in uploading them all to SlickPic. Hopefully everything's working alright. Please let me know if there's any problems.



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I'd listen to any of these guys read me a bedtime story! *g*



:: Cap Size: 1280x720 :: Cap Total: 95 :: Sample Caps: 14
:: No hotlinking, please! :: Credit me, raloria when taking/using/re-posting :: Comments are LOVE! ♥

View all the caps on SlickPic HERE.
Download a zipped folder of all 95 Caps: EW SPN Cast Reads Caps by Raloria.zip - 49 MB

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The SPNFamily fell into shock on Friday with the posting of this video on Social Media from Jensen, Jared, & Misha, saying that Season 15 will be the end of the line for SPN.



I've gone through a gamut of emotions, as I'm sure we all have. It's a huge loss. One we all knew would happen one day, but perhaps not quite this soon. It's kind of funny to say the word "soon" in relation to a show that will have a 15 year run. I got to thinking who I was when SPN began and you know what? I can't even remember. This show has forever changed who I am. So what will I be now with it gone? That has been one of the many thoughts going through my head since Friday afternoon.

I've lost sleep, I've shed a few tears, I've feared what this will mean for me and my various homes online, including this journal. But now at the end of this long weekend, I've reached a state of acceptance with it all. After all, we still have the last few episodes of this season and a full 20 episodes for Season 15. A whole year before we really have to say goodbye to the show.

It's a testament to how messed up I've been all weekend that it's taken me this many days to even be able to make a post about this. And I've seen so many of the rest of you make posts already and I haven't even been able to read them. I just couldn't. I promise to go back and read and leave comments, now that I'm more emotionally stable. Goodness knows we all need to support one another now more than ever.

Admittedly, hearing the announcement was similar to learning the world was ending. Our, SPN world, is ending, so I guess it makes sense. Here I thought, "Oh, I'll be prepared for this day." Nope. No way. Not even close! My world turned upside down.

Do I keep capping? Yes. I'll finally catch-up...hopefully!
What about my LJ? Like I'm going anywhere? I think you're all stuck with me.
But the filming locations will come to an end, too. What about those? Again, a chance to catch up at last!

I've asked myself so many questions this weekend. Some I have answers to and others I'm still searching for. But I still have a year to figure it all out. That's something I've had to keep reminding myself of. It's sometimes easy to forget with all the emotions rolling around in my brain.

So what does it all come down to?
SPN has had an incredible run. We are so lucky to have 15 years of this amazing show! I remember back in the early years when we wondered every summer if the show would be coming back. And then it became this invincible thing where the network president loved it and guaranteed it would go as long as the Boys wanted it to. And well, here we are. It says a lot that we learned from the guys themselves and based on what I've read, we learned of their decision right after they told the crew the news. If there was ever any doubt to how they feel about the fans, well, there it is. They broke the news to us themselves. It wasn't some Tweet from a news outlet. Jensen & Jared have said over & over that we're a family, so they had to share the news with all of us. No doubt this is equally a rough time for all of them. So many lives affected - that whole cast & crew. I'm sure it was a difficult decision to make. But I respect that the guys want to spend more time with their families. They spend 9 months out of the year making SPN. That's a lot of missed time with little kids who are growing up so fast. They deserve this break at long last.

The conventions will continue. Less of them, but they'll go on. The SPNFamily will definitely go on and our many creative works will continue to be made in the years to come. The Winchesters will never truly die. Not now, not ever. We will keep them alive. Fanfic will be written, fanart will be made.

I'm not going to talk about all this show has given me right now: the inspiration, the friendships, the strength it's given me to keep going. For this isn't our goodbye. Not yet.
We can see the end of the tunnel, but there's still a few miles to go! Let's embrace these final 24 episodes and use this year to celebrate everything SPN is for each of us! ♥

John from 14x13 "Lebanon":
"All right. Near as I can tell, we have two choices.
We can think about what's coming.
Or we can be grateful for this time that we have together.
Now, me? I choose grateful.
So, to whatever brought us together, we owe you one. Amen."

Just testing some settings and effects in PhotoScape and I'm really not sure what I want to do with this cap set. Thought I'd let you all weigh in with your opinions.

You'll notice a slight color difference between the first group shot (Test01) and the other one (Test 06). I applied a Velvia Effect on Test06 - along with the color caps of Jensen. I sort of like it...'cause you can see the green of Jensen's eyes (hello!) but their skin tone is still off to me. I'm really liking the Black & White ones instead.

What do you all think?

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Our guys and kittens...what's not to love? *g*

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I watched the SPN panel live on Facebook on March 20th and initially that's all I was going to do. Then I thought, "Maybe I should be taking screencaps?". So after some scrambling w/my screencap app I began grabbing images. Probably missed the first 5 minutes or so, but it's not that much. Since I was capturing my entire computer screen, some cropping was required.

Now these aren't the greatest caps. I shrunk them down to 1080 pixels to maintain some quality and you will see all the little hearts and smilies from the livestream at the bottom of the caps. I considered cropping them out, but then we wouldn't have been able to see the cast's feet in some of the shots. So I kept them in. Actually, I think they're kind of cute. After all, we love our boys! ♥ :)

Btw, I had hoped to eventually cap from a Hi-Res video of the panel, but I don't think that's going to happen. The only good one I've seen (from Paley itself) is only 8 minutes long! So these caps will have to do. Hope you enjoy them.

Here's the full panel thx to brielle, in case you haven't seen it.


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