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The last of my recs! More delicious stuff. I was a lot more organized about reading this year than last year, and I thoroughly enjoyed reading all the things and looking at all the art. Yay. This fest remains my favorite fannish event of the year.

Erg, this got long.

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The Most Special, the Most Lonely - Sam/Kevin, R
Not my ship, but this comes far closer to convincing me than anything else I've seen so far. Set just after the finale, with Kevin feeling about how you'd expect, and Sam just needing some space, and them finding something in each other, maybe.

Hat Trick - Jared/Misha R
This is a horror/fantasy fic about a cursed hat shop. Yes. And it is both horrible and delightful. The author has a really deft touch, spooling out the story at just the right pace.

One More Miracle - J2, NC-17
Jared is the king of the land who has just secured his rightful throne, and Jensen is the right hand man who helped him secure it. I love this first of all for the worldbuilding, which is rich and fascinating even in the background, and second for the deep and equal relationship Jard and Jensen clearly have between them. A really neat vignette; I'd read a whole longfic set in this world.

My Rugged Heart - Sam/Dean/Jo, PG-13
This is a threesome-get-together fic featuring my fav SPN female character of all, but it's a get-together fic in which Sam isn't quite what he is in canon; his special abilities in canon have morphed to something stranger and more unpredictable here. And the eventual joy and affection between the three of them is just lovely.

Still Raining, Still Dreaming - Sam/Castiel, R
Post-8.23. Sam and Castiel, huddled in a cabin, talking past each other. Sam's fumbling to communicate; Castiel isn't even trying. A complicated, bitter, bracing piece of fic.

Better to Light a Candle - Sam/Castiel, PG
The softer, slightly sweet Sam/Castiel, also post-8.23. These are glimpses of friendship growing to something more, much to Sam's surprise - and a little dismay, maybe.

Nothing But Time - Ruby/Anna, R
4.09 wasn't the first time Ruby met Anna. I like what the other does here with Anna, showing that she always had sight beyond the strictly natural, and I also really like the Ruby characterization. Very nifty.

The Undone and The Divine - Ruby/Anna, ART
THE COLORS, oh my gosh. Watercolor, bright and vibrant, and the artist does some interesting contrasting things with Ruby and Anna's respective wings that are unlike I'm seen anywhere else (which is saying something - SPN fandom is extremely fond of its wings).

I would totally rec my gift fic here, except I already did yesterday when I got it, but you should absolutely read it, because it is delightful. And in other things:

Handprint on the Driver's Side - Sam/Jo, R
UGH, so good I am just beside myself. Jo runs across Sam shortly after 3.16. This isn't the first time I've seen this premise, but I think this might be my favorite execution of it. It's all sharp edges here, and kindness is unwelcome, and the characterization is so good. Maybe my favorite piece of the challenge so far.

Synergy - Sam/Dean/Jess, PG
In which Dean rescues Jess from the fire and then has to figure out where he fits in. The conclusion came a little quick, it felt like to me, but the rest was all delicious and hurty in the best ways.

Under Electric Candlelight - J2, NC-17
The core of this is porn, but it's the feelings at the edges that hit me right in the gut. I feel a lot for Jared and Jensen both, but mostly Jared, poor kid.

Unholy Trinity - ART, Naomi+Abaddon+Kali wallpaper
It's so pretty! I love the colors. But the composition is super neat, too, and I love the visual motifs attached to each character. I'm putting this as my desktop, as soon as I get bored of what I have.

We'll see if I manage to follow through and rec things all week, but for now, here are my favorites for the first few days (with the caveat that I read very little Sam/Dean and am unlikely to rec porn unless it's also got good character stuff I like).

Please note that all these are anonymous! Author reveals don't happen until later. Also, they're all under 2500 words.

It's Always Sunny in Area 51 - Dean+Cas, PG-13
Military/SF AU, in which Dean gets lost in the military complex known as Area 51 and runs into a nerdy scientist type with zero socials skills. Neat Dean+Sam dynamic, too, and the final image is great.

We Are Only Free Inside These Walls - Meg/Castiel, R
Every so often, Meg and Castiel play hookey from their respective duties and meet in the middle. A far future fic with some neat angel/demon ship aspects to it. Also, hairbrushing. I really like the interplay between them here.

Devil's Luck - Sam/Dean, PG-13
LADYHAWKE AU, YOU GUYS. From an OC demon's perspective in second person POV, which I realize will lose some people, but this is SO GREAT. It's dark but not too dark, the narrator voice is great, the slow unfolding of what's happening is great. For those concerned about the ship, it reads as basically gen expect for one line of implied Sam/Dean. It's great fun, y'all.

A Thin Veneer - J2, PG-13
FBI AU, in which Jared got stuck in white collar crimes years ago on account of freezing in action, and now is the one-man welcome wagon for the guy just coming out from deep undercover. This fic is mostly character, and very nicely done character work it is, too. The slow development of Jared's relationship with Jensen and the emotion of the finish really worked for me.

The Wall Between Us - ART, Dean+Cas, NSFW (gore)
Dean may or may not have acquired a pet komodo dragon in purgatory. One way or the other, the giant lizard in the picture no doubt explains why Dean is holding a corpse by its hair. Great composition, very dramatic lighting, this fic invites all sorts of stories to explain it.

When You Put It Like That - ART, Victor+Bela, SFW
Noir AU! W00t! Is he the world-weary cop doing what he can in a city full of scum? Is she the sticky-fingered moll who sometimes gifts him with information sometimes? They snark a lot, but neither of them ever mention that one incident when they got drunk together after a gunfight...

rarepairfest is running again. Nominations are now open here. I'm not doing this one; I think I've hit my quote of multi-fannish exchanges for the year. But the list of SPN nommed pairings is already quite something, and I look forward to reading ALLLL THE FIC.

1. Several vids to Adele's Rumor Has It, but especially a Dru video about Spuffy. ("She's half your age," "Just 'cause I said it don't mean that I meant it.")

2. ALLLL the RPF femslash roller derby AUs.

3. A Jared/Gen Dancing with the Stars AU where he's the celebrity something-or-other and she's the no-nonsense ballroom dance pro who puts him through his paces and warms up to him later.

* springfling is chugging along

* cherie_morte is calling us all to leave a comment today. And possibly also to mention what fanwork you commented on so others can view/comment, too!

* In that vein, today I commented on I might need you by signe_chan, which is the first Castiel/Garth fic I've ever seen. Castiel is a bit of a lost puppy in it, and Garth kind.

* There's been a lot of good discussion in my post about anonmemes, and one thing realization I've been having more clearly is how because an anon meme (or any similarly structured thing) is a neutral, communal space, I feel much less pressure interacting there. If I wrote a big meta post about whatever and posted it here, I'd then feel the need to interact with people about it; I'd be playing hostess to some extent. (This is because I'm mostly committed to answering every top-level comment made by anyone in my journal, but that's another issue.) On a comment meme, I don't; I can drop in and out as I please. And if it's anon, no one will even know who dropped in for one random comment and went away again! I am ninja commenter! So on the whole it requires much less energy than here.

(That said, please don't take away from this that I would rather people wouldn't comment on my LJ! Please do! It's just sometimes I choose not to post specifically because I can't deal with that social burden that day, especially if it's a meaty topic that'd need a lot of curating and engaging with.)

* I am amused that my Abaddon fic, written shortly after her first episode, is now pulling in new kudos. It's the very first Abaddon fic on AO3, after all!

* I'm still playing Fallen London. Possibly the most exciting thing that's happened to me all week was that I made quite a momentous discovery re: the identity of my main source of information for my Ambition (which is to bag a vake, aka Search for Flying Megafauna).

* The internet followed me into RL this week, although alas I do not have photographic evidence of it. There was a brief art installation at school this week, a big chalkboard on which people were supposed to write something they wanted to do before they died. Most things are about what you'd expect: "to marry X," "to run a bakery," "to eat a girl out." And then someone said, "to be Tumblr famous" and helpfully provided their Tumblr. And next to that, someone else wrote, "to see Destiel go canon."

YOU GUYS. RL MAKE-DESTIEL-CANON SHIPPERS.

* I watched the first three episodes of The Hour the other day (and am waiting for the second half of S1 to come from Netflix here soon). I like it! It's very stylish. I love Lyx, I mostly quite like Bel, and Freddie's an ass but also exactly the dark-haired, skinny, sensitive, brainy type I have such a weakness for. I was moderately grumpy about the disparity in activity in Freddie's and Bel's respective storylines in 1.03, and I can't say I like that particular element of Bel's plot at all, but otherwise I am well pleased.

(While individuals are welcome to link this around as they please, I ask that this please not be included in any newsletters or linkdumps. Also, I will probably flock this post in a couple of weeks, or sooner if discussion becomes uncivil.)

This is an anon meme appreciation post. Specifically, it is a post about the two anon memes that I've gotten familiar with, fail_fandomanon (pan-fannish) and spnanonhaven (SPN-specific), and why I love them.

( in defense of anon memes )

( things to like about anon memes )

Dear Panlexicon,

"Smugness" and "Autoeroticism" are not really even in the neighborhood of being synonyms.

Signed,
Me

from Brutti and likeadeuce:

have 115 works archived at AO3. Pick a number from 1 (the most recent) to 115 (the first thing I posted there), and I'll tell you three things I currently like about it.

Or, you know, three other things, if there's some other aspect of the story in question that you'd like to know about.

I'm a little bit boggled at how many names in the springfling sign-ups I recognize. Last year at this time I knew a bare handful of people, mostly from that one friending meme, and now 3/4 of the names on the sign-ups are familiar, even though I haven't directly interacted with a lot of them. And some of them I have and now enjoy very much! Yay fandom. <3

(BTW, it feels like it might be a spammy day. You have been forewarned.)

A link to meta (not by me) and discussion of same.

( Very vague finale/S8 spoilers )

On one hand, yay LJ being back; OTOH, BOOOOOO that significant numbers of comments seem to be missing or misplaced. Like, half the fills for my comment meme have disappeared. (If they don't reappear in a day or two, I might go in and repost them myself, since I have them all saved in my email? Or just notify the authors. IDK.) It sounds like some people's info - inbox messages, for example - is slowly coming back, so maybe there is hope?

Feeling extra glad I changed my LJ settings so that I'm sent copies of all my own comments (carefully filtered away in a folder so that I don't ever have to see them in my mail). Also glad for the back-up DW that I have purely for importing posts/comments into from LJ.

My show just had its finale and my main source of SPN discussion has been offline the entire evening due to Frank the Goat. >:(

(See Dean's Face of Angst above. He understands my pain.)

Suddenly I can't leave LJ comments.

1. stripysockette has written The Longer Hunt, an SPN story about Artemis which does a whole lot of the things I was hoping for from an Artemis story, including giving backstory for the relationships we saw in the ep and also moving her forward as a "goddess of hunters." It is fixit fic, basically, and very exciting. :D

2. At one of my anon memes there's a thread where people are trying to come up with ways to take unfortunate tropes and come up with ways they could be good. You know, tropes like mpreg and a/b/o. >:(

I have made a SPN/SPN RPF comment meme! here at LJ! Y'all should come prompt things so I have something to write and don't feel silly

This has been a hopping fannish week, y'all. Here, I think, is my very last bit of fannish news for a while: the most wonderful scarletscarlet, who previously drew me lots of bears for teensybang, has claimed me again for spn_j2_bigbang. (In theory summaries are anonymous, of course, but, as I suspected, apparently my summary was really super obvious to anyone who knows me.) She'll be illustrating the Gen/Jared a/b/o college AU that follows my other knottingverse fics and that I've wanted to write for a year and a half. YAY FOR FINALLY WRITING IT. Even though the existing draft is /o\ /o\ /o\

I am so tickled that I managed to finish a draft, you have no idea. I really, really wanted to participate again this year, and I'm so glad I'll be able to.

IT HAS BEGUN.

Title: Tea Parties
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Pairing: Dru/Buffybot
Words / Rating: 1300 words / PG-13
Spoilers: through 6.09 Smashed for background details
Summary: Dru has lost all her dollies, but she knows where to find a new one.

A/N: Written for brutti_ma_buoni for rarewomen. In her dear author letter Brutti basically dared me to write any two of her listed characters in the same fic, and this was the result. I meant for it to be gen, but it refused. Warning: I ended it with the most obvious pun imaginable, because I couldn't help myself. I AM ONLY A LITTLE BIT SORRY.

fic at AO3.