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More SpringFling!

2016-03-19T02:48:19Z

Oh my goodness! You'd think I wouldn't start new stories at 10:43 pm, but no. Here's another link for anyone who wants a good "fairies made them do it" story. Seriously, it's got amazing characterization, Sam and Dean and SamnDean, sex pollen, Baby, a bar, jealous Dean, boys in love, and hot hot hot. It also has my secret kink of giant finger bruises on Dean from guess who. Love it. Go, now, and read!

http://spnspringfling.livejournal.com/142021.html

A new story from SpringFling

2016-03-19T01:56:53Z

Haven't signed into LJ for ages, but I saw a rec on Twitter and hopped over to read a SpringFling J2 AU. It was wonderful! I even had to sign on so I could say yowza to the mystery writer. Go read!

http://spnspringfling.livejournal.com/153047.html#t4210391

Glasslogic makes an addition to Fortress!Verse for the 2014 SPNJ2BigBang

2014-09-04T02:03:58Z

Check out Glasslogic's journal!

Just a quick stop by LJ to post that Demon!Dean and Sam that never jumped in the pit are back for another round of ghost-hunting and saving the world, while trying to free the Angels of Hell, really!

http://glasslogic.livejournal.com/45283.html

If you haven't read any of the Fortress!Verse, run right over and get to it. It is a super collection of stories. I am hoping for another six chapter "timestamp" to keep me occupied during doctor visits.

It's Time for Round 3 of the Dragon Big Bang!

2014-06-11T01:13:27Z

I am so excited! I love dragon stories, and I love J2 or SamnDean dragon stories the best of all. This time you can do a big bang, minibang, art or record a podfic. Here's the link:

Come join the Dragon Big Bang! Sign ups start June 2nd!
Author Sign-ups | Artist Sign-ups

I hope there's tons of new dragon stories. I'll try to gather some favorites for a rec list of previous dragon stories and post soon. Cheers!

New JIB Con J2/Wincest Comment Fic

2014-06-02T03:52:41Z

Everyone should go and prompt/fill away! So much J2/Wincesty goodness at this con! It was glorious!

Twitter

2014-05-26T04:35:57Z

Memorial Day and JibCon#5

Just a quick stop by my LJ to say hi to everyone who is still LJ-only. I have been having fun on Twitter; DD is loving Tumblr. Still love to read and comment, but generally chatting is over at Twit-verse.

Happy Memorial Day! Such a huge thank you to anyone who has served in the Armed Forces. We are able to have things like freedom of speech because you have been out there keeping our freedoms free. Thank you for your service!

JibCon#5 ended today and it was epic. Jared led a Sam and Dean chant with the crowd. J2 were at the top of their game in cuteness. Loved hearing all about it and can't wait to see the vids when they post.

Still love the fanfics and BBs. Still love all my SPN friends here. Off to comment on the latest batch of stories.

Happy New Year, Fandom!

2014-01-04T17:43:16Z

I just wanted to post a quick Happy New Year wish and virtual hug to my fandom friends who mainly hang out here on LJ. Here's hoping that Doctor Who, Supernatural, Star Trek, and Sherlock all have an exciting year ahead!

Now that my daughter has gotten us into Tumblr and Twitter with her I'm not at LJ as much, except to read fic which has been linked by a rec or post elsewhere. I have run into some of you guys over on Tumblr and have had a lot of fun squeeing about our fandoms regularly, but quick notes and passing gifs around for squee aren't the same as immersing your mind in an extended universe which expands the bounds of your favorite show and challenges your mind.

IMO Tumblr fic suffers because of the format; LJ fic can just be.....more: more words; more art attached and interspersed; more ability to leave comments which become discussions, and not just "heart" things; more depth; and more connected stories which become a whole alternate world.

I think I owe LJ and my favorite LJ communities an apology! I get annoyed at the vagaries of LJ bugs and head to Tumblr in a huff, but then my daughter sends me what she and her friends think of as a huge and important Tumblr fanfic and it is what we have always considered a quick one-shot, sometimes approaching a comment fic. I sent her a copy of Big Pink's "Red" to read over Xmas break and she thought it was a SPN tie-in book I had purchased for her from Amazon. That certainly says a lot about where fic writing and expectations have moved.

So! I am sorry LJ! I repent heartily, my fandom friends who stay in the LJ world and participate in various communities! My resolution for 2014 is to come to LJ more often, although I have to say the intoxication of participating in fandom "as you are watching it" together with people in 96 countries is incredible. I am determined to come back to LJ and try to do my tiny best to keep the fanfic community active and alive. Long live long fanfics and long comments and long meta.

I am going to try and make some new friends this year, so if I send you a friend note it is because you seem interested in keeping interesting fanfiction coming, too! I hope we succeed. Happy New Year, fandom!

Day Two of Wincest OTP Eight Day Festival

2013-09-15T04:26:49Z

As we have more days of S/D, I am looking up a few more old, early season stories. This is so much fun! I miss early season Sam/Dean, before we got to the heaven and hell stuff. When it was two souls and lives wrapped like a ball of string traveling around a country we don't see much anymore. I miss the small towns and the strange monuments; I miss Dean wanting to see the Grand Canyon. I miss Sam's pink shirts.

Anyway, on to recs:

One of my all-time favorites!

Corvus Imbrifer's Strangers in Gilead http://corvus-imbrifer.livejournal.com/6014.html

Really long, no really really long. No S/D, but the focus on each other is there. This story got me through a year of chemotherapy appointments. Thank you Corvus Imbrifer!

Eight Days of Wincest Festival

2013-09-14T14:26:38Z

Check out the amazing fanworks!

Don't know if this will work because I have never posted a cut before, but here goes. I hope everyone contributes a thought or link or rec or anything. I am not a writer, but I will try to post recs for a few Sam/Dean fanworks that have really bowled me over. I just want to say a blanket thank you to everyone who has written for a Bang or made a vid or made an artwork. I try to post thank yous on individual pages, but just once I want to say thank you to everyone for days and days of fun. This is an awesome fandom.

So, here are links to a few of my very favorite stories in SPN fandom. I have read lots of stories, but seem to go back to these over and over and over. Enjoy!

Dictionary for a Dead Language by britomart_is http://britomart-is.livejournal.com/154955.html

Ascalon by candle_beck http://candle-beck.livejournal.com/121356.html

And, of course, the granddaddy of humongous S/D verses...The Beserker verse by leonidaslion http://archiveofourown.org/series/6238

And some not Sam/Dean just for good measure.

The Wellspring by scourgeofeurope http://scourgeofeurope.livejournal.com/38445.html

Fusion Verse by ratherastory http://ratherastory.livejournal.com/102813.html

Maybe I can put a few refs in each day of the festival. I hope so. Thanks, again, fanworks producers. You are my heroes!

Fic Rec

2012-05-10T12:20:07Z

Sonofabiscuit has written an excellent look at the inner workings of the mind of Robo!Sam; it is called "It's Just a Bootie Call". It also gives a really deep look into early S6 lost, grieving, shocked Dean. Packs quite a punch for a short story.

Warning, it was originally going to be for Blindfold so it is NC-17.

I am not great at setting up links, so I will just paste it in:

http://sonofabiscuit77.livejournal.com/52261.html#cutid1

Happy reading!

Really Out of Touch

2012-03-05T04:11:32Z

Just a note to catch up

Have been reading lots but RL has really kicked my behind. Have piles of story links to post so I remember them. Hope anyone who checks in is well. I am loving S7 of SPN, but it seems not everyone is so happy. I like the idea that it may all be a dream or hallucination or something. I like the angst and depression and I love Hallucifer. Hubby and Darling Dotter are also loving Show. We're having tons of fun. Hope Sam's breakdown isn't too bad, though, because Darling Dotter is a rabid Sam!girl. :-)

Heading toward Back to School

2011-08-18T16:08:05Z

I have been learning other new online stuff lately! Yay, me!

While Darling Dotter was away for a week she tasked me with watering her garden in her online house she has as part of her big magic world/quest game she plays (for hours on end it seems). I have had lots of fun visiting her world and watering her garden, which involves using magic spells to get rid of pests such as exploding gnats and impish gnomes before using magic to water provide sunlight, etc., to the plants. I also have to go to another of her houses and rub the magic lamp to get new money every day to pay for all the magic stuff.

It has been quite the learning experience. Some of her online friends saw her name as currently playing and they all popped in to say hi and ask if she wanted to go questing but I had to figure out how to talk to them and say that she wasn't here. So, in addition to online fan fiction and show forums I have now learned how to play a MMORPG (a bit).

I am becoming really conversant with some new things this year. It has really helped to alleviate some of the doom and gloom from all the medical, hospice and funeral-related stuff. A step to keeping up with DD and her friends as they head toward teenagerdom.

Thanks to everyone in fandom who has been nice, patient and polite with all my questions and missteps. Thanks, especially, to all the writers who so graciously let us share in their worlds. For someone who needs to be anywhere other than here sometimes, discovering online fandom has been heaven-sent.

I'll have some new fiction links and recs as soon as I finish all the Big Bang stories; some of them have been super and I want to be sure and keep track of those links.

Start of Summer

2011-06-17T15:33:02Z

More adventures in RL. Trying to learn how to post behind a cut so everyone isn't bombarded with a dissertation...

Woohoo! Ratherastory has a new installment in Fusion!Verse (http://ratherastory.livejournal.com/173965.html), which means it is a really good day for me. I love Sam'n'Dean settled down and trying to cope with the fallout of hunter lives and the cage; I just found out that this is called "curtain fic" which is a cute and descriptive name. I love Perry the dog; I love the neighbors. Wow, I really am fangirling to a scary level here. Anyway, read this verse if you haven't yet done so, it is great. I am from a small southern town and the mix of nosiness and sincere caring among (generally) nice people in a small community is really well captured.

I have given up on reading the anonymous posting boards pretty much. For a while it was fun and snarky and had info that I would never have found for myself, but then it sort of gets in mean cycles. I don't love everything about Show or every fan or every fic, but I found myself starting to *look* for bad things instead of just enjoying the fact that we still have Show and fanfic and passionate fans. Since I lived through the Star Trek drought in the seventies when the fans had almost nothing to keep us going, it was awful!, I want to just be happy and not nitpick everything in Show and fandom that isn't to my personal taste. That is really Pollyannaish, but there you go.....after more than 40 years of being a fan it is fun to just enjoy what I want and ignore what I don't. So, not so much on anon boards any longer.

RL has once again kicked my behind and if I ever get out from under the gloom and sickness of the past two years I will fall over from surprise. Wish me luck. I don't know if I will ever be ahead in work and life enough to really post/comment/keep up with everyone else. If you are one of my favorite authors, you may find my IP/name hanging around reading and not always commenting. I am trying to do better, but I just have so little time off from everything that I tend to read until I have no choice but to close down immediately and then I don't always get back to comment. I will try to do better!

A few of my other favorite authors have some new/new to me things up.  Glorious_spoon has a cute fic about Ten Inch Hero that I enjoyed (haven't seen the movie, but easily able to follow the fic). I am also diving deep into the backfile of rei_c's journal because the 5D5D verse and Knowledge of Dead Secrets is my go-to, read-it-1000-times verse. Rei_c, if you ever see this please know that your stories and ficlets got me through years of med treatments....hours of sitting were bearable because I could disappear into Sam, the Voodoo Messiah, and Dean, his other half. I wish I could be friends with your Kate; she is awesome, if foul-mouthed. :-)

The super kindness of zatnikatel, giving me Demon Seed glimpses, but tempting me to the dark side (D/C) has been amazing. She even reads my essay-level comments and replies. Sometimes I just don't have a lot of deep concrit of fic and just say dumb things about my kid and she lets it go. Thanks, it is nice to have a board friend. I am avidly waiting to see if scourgeofeurope ever regains the muse for tiny clones.  I have had so much fun reading that one and loving the way old JA modeling photos are used for illustrations.  It seems as if I am not the only one that RL has mauled lately, so best wishes that happiness and the muse await you, SoE. Another backfile I have been digging into is candle_beck's. There are piles of stories in several fandoms and scads of excellent writing. Love it.

Finally, I have discovered waldorph and the world of ST:reboot fiction (on AO3). Wow. Only Good for Heroes and A Beautiful(ly Illogical) Mind are fifty different kinds of awesome.  I especially bow to waldorph's Winona Kirk; a very brief, quotes only fic made me cry. Superb.

Anyway, enough blathering for today. Let's hope I can stay well enough to post in a week and not next quarter. Well, I can dream, can't I?

Sorry!

2011-04-27T12:53:09Z

I doubt anyone is keeping up with this since I haven't told anyone about it and I am not a writer/artist of any level of fandom..... but just in case, I wanted to write a quick sorry that I haven't kept up with my sojourn abroad in the world of fandom. It isn't because I am not loving SPN fandom as much as before, I am, but because we had a serious illness in the family and then my family member passed away.

I am trying to get back into fun stuff and perhaps even post some thoughts on S6 sometime. I am liking it overall, and crossing fingers for S7 to be approved.

I found a new story today by scourgeofeurope, Thunder Road, and Not the Ballad Thereof (http://scourgeofeurope.livejournal.com/56392.html), which is super. It really catches that minute in time when someone gets overcome by heat and frustration. I loved it.

I liked Frontierland, but felt they wasted some time getting into the Old West plot that could have been used to look at the ramifications of killing something that was a "monster" but just wanted to be left alone and not *be* a monster. In some of the old seasons, they would have really had a moment of thought about that, and here it was just sort of swept away in favor of laughs at the boys. I find I am loving RegrettableThings!Cas. Loving it.

Still addicted to the anonymous posting board. Wow, I can lose *hours* just reading all the wank and discussion. Sometimes it is stupendous and funny and my family has just learned to stop asking what I am reading. How does one explain it outside of the board? I would never actually post a comment because I would be afraid, be very afraid, of the feeding frenzy that might follow.

More later when life hasn't rolled over me like a wrecking ball.

Exploring SPN Fandom

2011-01-16T14:33:26Z

So, I have been clicking around and discovering more about the world of SPN Fandom. Wow. There are so many groups, writers, conventions (not fannish but behavior), and expectations for fans.

I have found that it is bad manners to read peoples' stories and not leave comments, so I have been trying to leave comments. The problem is that I don't know what to say because I am not a writer or even very well spoken. I have to ask someone if "good story, I liked it" is enough; some comments are so detailed. I have a few authors I have come to love and check their Masterposts regularly for any new tidbits.

I have discovered that I hate works in progress, even if I love the work, especially if I love the work, because I can't stand waiting for what happens next. I am too impatient and need to learn calm. Zatnikatel's "Shine" has been making me crazy because her story speaks to me as what could/should have happened at the end of S5, but didn't. I guess, totally apropos of nothing, that the extension of the show to S6 made them change some things and really threw the timing of the second half of the season off. While I love SPN more than anything in years, last year really sort of fizzled the apocalypse out and squandered some awesome setup.

I have discovered the anonymous SPN forums and...holy moly! There are people who feel so strongly about ships and pairings and the "real" feelings of fictional characters that they attack other people who don't feel the same way, in anonymous forums. I believe I am an enthusiastic fan, and have some strong feelings about how the SPN writers and show running group handle some things, but to attack another fan anonymously is a little too enthusiastic for me. It is like a drug, though, and you just can't stop reading. Some of the threads have made me laugh so much, so violently that my family wants to know what I am reading.....but how does one explain some of these discussions? It just isn't possible.

More later when RL isn't calling.

Some Recs

2010-12-09T15:39:29Z

I am sure that anyone (everyone? :-) who likes SPN fanfic has a humongous list of favorites. I have even been reading comments where people at SPNStoryfinders just refer requesters to a whole Delicious site with links to things they liked with the appropriate tags....wow, a whole site of links. Amazing.

When I started in fandom, and dinosaurs roamed the earth, we didn't even have enough stories to *have* a list of ones we liked. We just mailed the mimeo pages to each other. Has anyone here read the old ST:TOS book by early fans Marshak, Lichtenberg and Winston? They describe what most of my fan years were like. Things have really changed.....

So, since I have no idea how to work Delicious and I need to start collecting links to things I like, here goes; JIC you haven't read some of these, they are really good.

My #1 favorite is corvus_imbrifer's Strangers in Gilead http://corvus-imbrifer.livejournal.com/6014.html where Sam and Dean take a case that ends up sending them to the Old West, with horses, a Madam and a Sheriff that Sam Eliott was born to play.

debbiel66's We Mortals Be http://debbiel66.livejournal.com/10418.html has Wee!Chesters meet grown S4 Sam and Dean after both sets of boys anger some fairies.

britomart_is has a post-apocafic that is amazing and beautiful, somewhat slashy but not really graphic, called Dictionary for a Dead Language http://britomart-is.livejournal.com/154955.html.

A Dean/OMC longfic that fills up some of the bits when Sam was away, is glorious_spoon's We Drank a Thousand Times http://glorious-spoon.livejournal.com/18253.html. This one needs to come with a 10 tissue box warning.

Janissa11's Little Bottles http://janissa11.livejournal.com/tag/little%20bottles where, surprisingly, I really liked some RPF. Super story about JA/JP.

scourgeofeurope's Wellspring 'verse http://scourgeofeurope.livejournal.com/38445.html#cutid1 is a Dark Angel crossover. An entire series of Sam & Dean raising Ben and Alec, after the Manitcore escape, totally awesome.

lizadork's related Lacrimosa (WIP) http://lizadork.livejournal.com/tag/lacrimosa which has Icarus, a Sam-clone as well as the teeny Dean clones.

Finally, I recommend this to my friends who only like gen/mild het scenes, is parenthetical's January Girl http://archiveofourown.org/works/4740/chapters/6001, a Harry Potter crossover with Dean meeting Luna Lovegood (!) for a case.

Learning to Use LJ

2010-11-26T01:57:10Z

Happy Thanksgiving!

Just learning how to post and use LJ, not very comfortable with it all right now.....

Mostly I have been lurking around SPN and ST:TOS & ST:XI 2009 fic but I decided to try LJ for myself and de-lurk.

Many thanks to you lovely creative people who are imaginitive and have built expanded worlds out of gossamer and daydreams. It has been an annus horribilis for my family and keeping up with various 'verses has kept me in (mostly) one piece. So to all of you who write "I don't know *who* could be reading this" when you post your fic, well this last year it has been me and I thank you!

To anyone who remembers Coming Attractions, the Canadian film/TV info website, probably few and far between by now, I am the Bookworm who moderated the Jossverse board for years. RL kicked me in the behind, but I am back dipping my toe in the waters of fandom again. :-)