krisomniac

First, a rec.

I spent the early morning reading dotfic's The Syntax of Things, which I totally missed back in June, and its sequel A Better Fate than Wisdom. It picks up where season four left off and takes it to completely right places. It's Castiel/Dean, and makes it work with Jimmy, with dreams, with the distrust and complete openness that exists between them. At the same time, she manages to do more than justice to relationship between Sam and Dean at the core of everything.

Next, I started watching Dogma this evening. Good lord, I love that movie, and I would be such a happy fangirl if someone could find a way to crossover the two.

Third. I think I have mild acid reflux. This is new and unpleasant and might explain (along with the crazy schedule) why I've been losing weight recently? Not a lot, but disproportionate to the volume I've been eating.

HALOOO from VACATIONLAND!

1. Just about done with S3 of SGA, and I have a couple thinky thoughts. ( Spoilers? )

2. Go read lyra_wing's new installment to her Supernatural FBI-verse To Catch a Thief. It's awesomecakes.

3. I think I'm gonna go visit some friends in PA for the night, so meanwhile:

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

If you haven't yet, go check out Sleepwalking in the Land of Magnets and Memories, the spn_summergen piece written for ME!

After that most amazing and promising of titles, the story is perfect in its follow-through. Set post AHBL2, it tackles some of the toughest issues brought at the end of the season with clarity and carefully constructed setting and a perspective I hadn't even considered yet. Brilliant.

It's a lovely story of our boys coping the only way they know how, by throwing punches and hunting things, and trying to explain without actually saying a word.

It's love, in a nutshell. Go read. (and THANK YOU! to whomever wrote it! MUAH)

Guys, you RULE! Thank you all for the birthday wishes and Dei for the pressies, scowling_hermit for this beautiful bag, and in the long-standing tradition of making me swoon with awesome birthday stories (see: Fires of Bone and The Only People for Me are the Mad Ones) ignipes has done it again.

The Edge of the Known World, a sequel to Cartography in Empty Spaces -- my favorite 'verse going.

Besides having the coolest, cleverest title, it's everything you ever wanted in the story, Sam doing his best to take care of his big brother when neither is quite sure what Dean even needs, the Impala, lost memories, parking tickets, barbed wire, and the ring. I still don't have words. Just read it. And enjoy.

( other birthday ramblings )

Hope all your weekends are going well! I'm off to bake a cake and watch the Belmont. Post time is about 6:00 EST.

I got out of lab at 2:30 today (what a treat) and decided that, since I will be spending the entirety of the next two days-- fourteen hours each-- at school/work/hosting lectures/lecturers, I would skip my evening EVERYTHING, and putz around the house.
( 'Cause I was born a ramblin' woman. also cut for dr. who discussion )

If you haven't signed up for spn_summergen GO NOW.

spn_summergen

It's a fic exchange with some fantacular (is SO a word) prompt ideas. Also, the mods have given you free reign to explain what you do and don't want from it-- from people who hate green, leafy vegetable!fic to those who only want to write biblical crossovers. Seriously. I have no idea how they're going to match people up, but I'm fairly sure it's going to be a grand time.

so if you've never written for Supernatural before (yes, I am looking at YOU), are a seasoned veteran (that would be you), or know the show inside and out but rarely write (you know who i'm talking about now)-- GET TO IT!

It's gonna be a long summer waiting for S3. (Don't burst my bubble. There WILL be an s3.)

Fill it with spn_summergen

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And finally, today's wisdom from my surgery prof:

"Surgery is like making love; both require adequate exposure and gentle tissue handling."

hee!

Happy Birthday lyra_wing You make this fandom such cracked out fun. Seriously, kid, you're one in a million.

Also, The Black Donnellys premiere and new Heroes are on tonight, Lyra's birthday. Coincidence? I think not. I think it rather one more bit of proof that she's part of a secret universal conspiracy to spread the bro-loving. :D

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Now for the rec: If you haven't read lyra_wing's story Emeralds and Poppies, you haven't lived. And I say this with the authority of one who has. Several times.

It's a Supernatural, Jo-centric, Wizard of Oz crossover with Wincesty overtones, and to call it crack would both be utterly true and the greatest understatement since my grandmother called chocolate 'okay'.

Like all good crackfic, it's inspired by the gods of mischief and keeps you laughing the whole way through. But it's true to the characters and a brilliant look at Jo post-Born Under a Bad Sign (spoilers through that episode).

I can't recommend this story enough. The way the dream is not-a-dream and the two stories are woven together is mind-boggling in it's brilliance. I also, thanks to her, have discovered a little kink for only-not-really-heartless!Dean made out of tin.

Read it NOW!

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First off, if you haven't yet, get your bum over to her journal and read ignipes' stunning story for spn_vday: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere

It's a series of poignant and touching vignettes that flawlessly show the ways that Sam and Dean love each other. They love each other by jumping in front of the monster, by following when it's easier to stay, by brawling and hitting and sleeping in, by noticing the things that no one else does.

Weeks turn into months, months into years, and before long he stops counting the miles, but Sam never stops counting the things he learns about Dean.

Go. Read it. Now.

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I am in love with the codas that came out of Born Under a Bad Sign and plan to put together a master list for my own reading pleasure (and anyone else's whose interested). If you've read or written one, link it here! YaY!

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They finally closed the university, thanks to the snow. ( I stayed home to shovel the drive. Picspam )

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Brrr... Having trouble building a fire.

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Thank you so much for the virtual chocolates, obeetaybee. I've been chowing all day.

If you're here and if you have any passing interest in two boys called Sam and Dean, you'll likely have already seen this. But on the off chance you have not, let me take a moment to rec the latest heartbreaking and magical story by ignipes.

Cartography in Empty Spaces

Written for spn_christmas, it's the story of the two-year anniversary of Dean's death on Christmas Eve. Told from Sam's point of view, the emotions are as raw and barren as the wintry Nebraskan landscape she evokes so well. Told in three parts, something very unexpected happens, and Sam's left to deal with the consequences of Dean's amnesiac return.

Uttery different from the bos we see in canon, they're also pricelessly familiar.

Go. Read it. Now.

(And who else loves the fic in prolific?)


Two recs, one author. If you haven't yet, and even if you have, and you need to kill the hours before tonight's Oh my GOD, it's gonna be scary good episode, Go read:

Dust on my Shoes, nothing but Teardrops and The Kids are Alright by ignipes

Totally different feel and story and look into the Supernatural verse. I can't even decide which I like better; angsty boys taking care of each other, or Ellen--the most ass kicking woman this side of the Pacific.

Just read them. Now.

Just wanted to drop in to point out this story to anyone who hasn't read it yet.

Qanat by ignipes

The title refers to "a water management system used to provide a reliable supply of water to human settlements or for irrigation in hot, arid and semi-arid climates. The technology is known to have developed in ancient Persia, and then spread to other cultures, especially along the Silk Road as far east as China as well as by Arabic cultures as far west as Morocco and Spain." The story is so much more.

Yeah, she did it again. It's everything a Supernatural story should be; frightening and endearing, painful and cathartic.

It's a coda to Skin that touches on so many of the little things that happened in that episode; Dean's loss of his identity, Sam's intuition, a history of hunting in the sewers. Speaking of sewers, she does terrifying and gross like no one else in the fandom. And the scenes with Dean as a kid? are so spot on without being sappy or idealized that they just break your heart.