while with his gun the pagan angel rose to say

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Hi everyone! I hope this Saturday finds you well and happy. Here are some recs that we think you will enjoy...

Sam/Dean

This Thing of Ours
fleshflutter Sam/Dean | PG-13 | AU.
The Pilot - if the Winchester family business were organized crime rather than hunting the supernatural.
This AU is very elegantly realized, and written with great conviction and a very subtle attention to detail. Really compelling reading!

In Jerusalem Next Year
peripheralsight Sam/Dean | NC-17.
Sam's at Stanford: Dean comes to visit.
Engrossing and heart-wrenching, with one of the most vividly felt and convincing sex scenes you'll read anywhere.

Last Outpost of All That Is
gekizetsu Sam/Dean | NC-17 | AU future-fic.
The world is over, and it's a Winchester's lot in life to cope with anything - no matter what.
I always find post-apocalyptic stories interesting and intriguing: and this is a really, really good one. The end of the world is a scary vision, and the urgency of the Winchester relationship in that context is very nicely done.

J2

So Close to My Heart
audrarose JA/JP | NC-17 | AU.
Dr. Jared and single-dad Jensen in Seattle, with love and complications.
A nice, meaty, satisfying well-characterised and completely enjoyable J2 AU. Get yourself a nice cup of tea and settle in for a heart-warming and substantial story.

All my mini_nanowrimo peeps; please note that there's an important announcement on the comm. Anyone who has forgotten to post on a given day so far has a ONE TIME chance to recoup. If you would, spread the word.

Yesterday was a bad day and a bad day for writing. I made my word count, but I've been trying to do double or triple that every day and yesterday I wasn't even close.

On the other hand, the words I wrote were on Appetite, which pleases me. I don't want to let AKB stagnate all month (and there's no worry about that) but Appetite is really my focus. Or I would prefer it was my focus. I've been flitting between three different projects, really.

Started AKB 73 today. Writing for four year olds is HARD, yo.

I'm struggling with Appetite. I'm making new words, I don't hate the words I'm making (for the most part) but at the same time, I feel like I've lost some essential grasp of their characters that I had before and I feel like I lost the window into their world and I'm pressed against the wrong side of the glass, trying to peek through.

I'm doing this thing with my body right now where I feel like I don't know how to fit in it any more. I feel uncomfortable in whatever position I sit in and it's like I don't have any muscle memory for what my body "normally" likes to do, so I'm trying to fake it, but it's not working. It's really messing up my back and my neck and shoulders. And writing Appetite right now is a little like that. I'm HERE and I'm in the body, but I don't remember how it's supposed to move or sit or anything. There's no muscle memory.

...I suspect that made no sense to anyone but me. What can I say? I've had a rough week.

All my mini_nanowrimo peeps; please note that there's an important announcement on the comm. Anyone who has forgotten to post on a given day so far has a ONE TIME chance to recoup. If you would, spread the word.

Yesterday was a bad day and a bad day for writing. I made my word count, but I've been trying to do double or triple that every day and yesterday I wasn't even close.

On the other hand, the words I wrote were on Appetite, which pleases me. I don't want to let AKB stagnate all month (and there's no worry about that) but Appetite is really my focus. Or I would prefer it was my focus. I've been flitting between three different projects, really.

Started AKB 73 today. Writing for four year olds is HARD, yo.

I'm struggling with Appetite. I'm making new words, I don't hate the words I'm making (for the most part) but at the same time, I feel like I've lost some essential grasp of their characters that I had before and I feel like I lost the window into their world and I'm pressed against the wrong side of the glass, trying to peek through.

I'm doing this thing with my body right now where I feel like I don't know how to fit in it any more. I feel uncomfortable in whatever position I sit in and it's like I don't have any muscle memory for what my body "normally" likes to do, so I'm trying to fake it, but it's not working. It's really messing up my back and my neck and shoulders. And writing Appetite right now is a little like that. I'm HERE and I'm in the body, but I don't remember how it's supposed to move or sit or anything. There's no muscle memory.

...I suspect that made no sense to anyone but me. What can I say? I've had a rough week.

sunsetmog has declared Bandom Appreciation Day, airgiodslv has declared WIP Amnesty (with one of the most chilling stories I've read in a while), so I'm gonna get in on the act by declaring this my own personal Save the Bunnies Day.

For today and today only, I am willing to write a drabble, a snippet, or a page from one of the many bunnies I have thrown at you guys over the years. I can't make any promises about length - I might only get out a 100 words or I might take off and write the full story.

I've tried to keep track of all my many bandom bunnies through Delicious, but there are also some unsaved ones under my "bunny" tag on IJ. If I've talked about a bunny with you over email, those are fair game too (as long as you don't mind me referencing personal email correspondence). And, well, there's always the Black Parade AU, but I think the less said about that the better.

So CHOOSE. But CHOOSE WISELY. >>>:)

Supernatural 5.08 HDTV 720p (1280x720) XviD (codec) .avi (format) 622mb (filesize)
Download: megaupload, nakido (.zip file, 609mb)

(nakido link coming.. later done!)

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Art
Love ya, Jerk
bloopfish | G | Sam/Dean | Digital Drawing
This is my first serious art for the Supernatural fandom.
And it's utterly gorgeous. The stylized look of this is beautiful and works incredibly well, and the sweetness will leave you in a perfect happy place.

Dean - Comic/Manga style
dauntdraws | PG | Digital Drawing
Dean Winchester drawn in a grayscale comic style.
Gorgeous. This image is a fascinating blend between photo realistic and artistically stylized, and beautifully executed to boot. The lines are crisp and smooth, the composition is wonderful, and the expression on his face is Dean-style perfection.

Chibis: Let's go!
angelicfoodcake | PG | Dean/Castiel | Digital Drawing
Chibi Dean and Castiel
Completely adorable and beautifully done.

Facilis Descensus Averno
acerbus_instar | PG | Digital Drawing
Artses. SPN - Castiel.
Stunning combination of earthy colors and strong lines. The feathers are just gorgeous.

A New Beginning
cugami | PG | Dean/Castiel | Digital Art
This 4 page comic strip is the third and final installation of a series.
This series is just beautiful. The panels of Dean and Castiel's hands reaching towards each other is breathtaking.

Guys, can you send some prayers or good vibes or whatever the fuck my way? One of my childhood friends, who I've known since age 3, might have been at Fort Hood.

She's a nurse and I know she was heading down to Texas sometime soon to re-deploy - which means she might very well have been in the readiness center where the shooting took place.

I called her parents but they weren't answering their phone. I've emailed her sister, also a soldier. Haven't heard back yet.

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HET

Fire Ship
july_july_july | Dean/Jo | NC-17 | dub-con, character death
"I don't feel anything different."
Really dark and poignant. A great illustration of the way they fit together and break apart so nicely.

OTHER SLASH

All-in
maskedfangirl | Castiel/Patrick | NC-17 | Spoilers for 5x07
An angel and a warlock sit down for a friendly game of poker...that gets a little more than friendly.
A very nicely done coda to this episode that explores a vibrant and complex connection between these two characters.

I need a distraction to keep myself from going postal. All help is appreciated.

To that end, TWO memes (take your pick):

Pick a paragraph (or any passage less than 500 words) from any fanfic I've written, and comment to this post with that selection. I will then give you a DVD commentary on that snippet: what I was thinking when I wrote it, why I wrote it in the first place, what's going on in the character's heads, why I chose certain words, what this moment means in the context of the rest of the fic, lots of awful puns, and anything else that you'd expect to find on a DVD commentary track.

You can find all my fic on my LJ/IJ/DW under the "fanfic" tag, or tag for a specific fandom, OR you can go to my archive page: Love Is Just A Bloodsport OR

Ask me either a broad [writing-related] question (i.e 'who is your cruelest character?', 'what is your most optimistic story?') or a specific question/request ('what world does ___ come from?', 'tell me about ___') and I will answer you. Or you can ask meta- questions like 'what was the inspiration for creating ____?'

Pretty much ask me anything about my fic and I'll ramble at you a bit.

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Truth
bistokids | R
Confession in the most loving sense of the word. This draws the perfect picture of what's really felt.

All That We Need Is Too Close To Be Seen
maerhys | R
You build your walls for me to climb, a billion walls for me to climb.
A world of love and connection packed into what you'll forget is a small story. Gorgeous.

A Dancing Demon (Eh, Something Isn't Right There)
ctheb | light R
Sam gets cursed to dance. Dean realizes he's in love. Avada Kedavra is a real drink.
Simply wonderful for so many reasons. The author perfectly captures their voices and chemistry.

Bang, Bang (I Hit the Ground)
taelynhawker | PG
Dean protects what's his.
What begins as cute and snarky progresses to so much more with loads of tenderness built into it.

I made pot roast last night. I'm picking at the carcass today. You know you have made some damn fine beef if it tastes just as good COLD the next day. NOM NOM NOM.

Well, I did it. I signed up for yuletide. And though I was tempted to sign up for more fandoms and more characters (and there was some last minute switching around), I stuck to my plan. So that happened.

I had another woeful moment today when I saw an advert for a holiday exchange ficathon for a fandom that I'm tangentially interested in and realized that my pairing of choice is so wacky that it seems unfair to ask anyone to write it and, simultaenously, I have nearly zero interest in writing the preferred pairing(s) in the fandom. This pairing rare-pairs crap is hard, yo! Most of the time I don't care so much because I'm writing whatever makes me happy and so it doesn't matter what anyone else ships, but when I want to be all join-y and stuff, it's vexing. My heyoka nature in a nutshell. But, one less ficathon to tear my hair out about, right?

Tangential to THAT, I feel like there's enough interest that I'm going to go ahead with the JDM ficathon. I don't have any more details than "Yeah, let's do that!" but I figure I have all of December, at least, to figure that out. So...more news when I have it!

As you can see, I finished the AKB chapter. Wrote 1400+ words on that, once I hit my groove, which was kind of awesome. The problem with writing in existing files is that I never have any good grasp of how much I've written until I finish and do the math.

Didn't work on anything else, for obvious reasons. And I have yet to do any writing today, which is making me feel like the biggest slacker in the world. I'll have to rectify that posthaste.

I made pot roast last night. I'm picking at the carcass today. You know you have made some damn fine beef if it tastes just as good COLD the next day. NOM NOM NOM.

Well, I did it. I signed up for yuletide. And though I was tempted to sign up for more fandoms and more characters (and there was some last minute switching around), I stuck to my plan. So that happened.

I had another woeful moment today when I saw an advert for a holiday exchange ficathon for a fandom that I'm tangentially interested in and realized that my pairing of choice is so wacky that it seems unfair to ask anyone to write it and, simultaenously, I have nearly zero interest in writing the preferred pairing(s) in the fandom. This pairing rare-pairs crap is hard, yo! Most of the time I don't care so much because I'm writing whatever makes me happy and so it doesn't matter what anyone else ships, but when I want to be all join-y and stuff, it's vexing. My heyoka nature in a nutshell. But, one less ficathon to tear my hair out about, right?

Tangential to THAT, I feel like there's enough interest that I'm going to go ahead with the JDM ficathon. I don't have any more details than "Yeah, let's do that!" but I figure I have all of December, at least, to figure that out. So...more news when I have it!

As you can see, I finished the AKB chapter. Wrote 1400+ words on that, once I hit my groove, which was kind of awesome. The problem with writing in existing files is that I never have any good grasp of how much I've written until I finish and do the math.

Didn't work on anything else, for obvious reasons. And I have yet to do any writing today, which is making me feel like the biggest slacker in the world. I'll have to rectify that posthaste.

Fandom: CWRPS
Pairing: Jeff/Jensen, Jared/Jensen
Rating: Adult
Warnings: Slavefic AU. Sexual, mental and physical abuse of adults and minors. Dark themes, adult concepts and language.
Disclaimer: This is in no way a true story.
Word Count: 3,125
AN: Master list of previous chapters found here. Cast of characters can be found here. Banner by the lovely and generous bloodquartz. Podfic version read by the amazing superstitiousme (found here, courtesy of the very kind general_jinjur). And don't forget the other really awesome stories to be found at whatwekeep.

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( I don't know how many more shocks I can take today. )

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This Is The Ultimate
neros_violin | NC-17 | AU, graphic violence
Jensen is the UFC's Welterweight Champion, and the company's biggest star. He's also its most private. Jared is the writer assigned to help the public get to know him better. Jared is begrudgingly invited into Jensen's training camp, where Jensen is preparing for the biggest fight of his career, to get a better glimpse of his professional life. But Jared soon realizes he has a personal interest in Jensen. He's surprised when Jensen returns his feelings, and a real relationship begins to develop between them. It's torn apart when a devastating news story is leaked to the press, and Jensen shuts Jared out of his life. Jared watches from the sidelines as Jensen's career disintegrates in the passage of four five-minute rounds, and refuses to stay away. What they have, and the man Jensen doesn't realize he can be, are worth fighting for.
This is engaging and absolutely wonderful - to see how Jared manages to connect with Jensen, see how their relationship develops in such circumstances is amazing.

Man, the choruses are giving me problems. The snare goes ...2&......4....&2...3....4, the hi-hat pedal hits at 2 and 4, the eighth notes are on the bass drum, and the crashes change with each chorus. It's REALLY testing my four-way independent coordination: I find myself having to break it down and play two parts at once until my muscle memory kicks in, then trying to add a third part. That's going to be a long process. The good news is that once I get that down, the verses themselves are easy.

A word about muscle memory: essential. Even more so at higher levels of skill. Fast stuff like Green Day or My Chem, the drummer can't pause to breathe, let alone think about where hir limbs should be moving next. It has to be purely automatic. And sie has to have that same automatic memory for every single song in the set. It's not easy to say the least.

Apparently, I am too polite for my own good. Seriously, who knew?

[edit] omgheehe! There are little starlings in the atrium where I'm waiting, and one just perched on my hat! My hat which I am wearing! So cute!

And it did not poop on me, so bonus. :D

Originally posted at Dreamwidth here. Please comment there using OpenID or ask me for an invite code. :3

Because this awesomeness could not go unficced. (And yes, I'm 90% sure that Frank the Banana picked out Bandit's costume.) I'm not sure about the others so this is all guesswork.

So, sometimes I go and read my "stories no one will write for me" tag, to amuse (or inspire) myself with the things I've come up with. And I didn't even remember this one, but it caught my eye today:

Okay, so I don't know about this one, it's PURE CRACK. But. I want someone (not me!) to write the To Wong Foo-esque story where Steve Carlson and Chris Kane are the diva drag queens that take little Jensen Ackles under their wing and try to teach him to be fabulous. Steve could be Patrick Swayze's Vida and Chris could be Wesley Snipes' Noxeema. And Jared could be Bobby-Ray, the straight boy that falls in love with Chi-Chi Jensen. And either Chad or Rosenbaum could be Sheriff Dollard, haunted by the touch of Miss Vida's junk.

Except that, in keeping with my shifting interests, instead of Jared, I kind of want to make it Jeff, a grizzled widower who falls for the hopelessly crushing Jensen. Which would nicely combine with my desperate yearning for Drag-Torch-Singer!Jensen and Jeff, should I ever find the time and inclination to actually write this.

Still: happy place. *hums*

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Trine snippet: 263 words
Trine is a story that I've wanted to write for a while and I have yet to figure out how to make all the pieces work. It came from a dream and making the logic work has proved surprisingly difficult. The basic premise is a married couple separately fall in love with the same guy (who reciprocates both their feelings) and, when they find out about each other's crush, they decide to try and make it work as a threesome. The snippet I wrote doesn't actually involve ANY of the main plotline; it was something atmospheric that had been plucking at my attention, but I'm not happy with how the snippet turned out. I may give it another try today. Still, I wrote it, the words exist. I didn't delete it all in a fit of pique. So that counts.

AKB 72: 707 words.
Well, for all my brow clutching about which scene would be next, one scene came to the front and has basically demanded to be told. I think I'm still going to write the other scene, but I've been waiting for this chapter for a LONG TIME NOW and I'm glad to finally be writing it, even if I'm not sure I'm hitting all the mood/atmosphere notes I want.

Nothing on Appetite, which is mildly vexing, but it was still on my mind for much of the day, even if I didn't put down the verbiage. I think I'm in a prewriting mode with that, trying to mentally feel out the scene before I put fingers to keyboard. Yesterday was a difficult day. A lot of RL stress on pretty much all fronts. I'm both pleased and surprised at how much writing I managed to get done, for all of that.

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one day, they’ll be unstoppable
tigriswolf | PG
Future!fic, Sam and Dean and hellhound pups
135 words of fic that are so cute you'll be grinning like an idiot. Short, adorable, perfect!

The Five Ways Dean Did Not Become A Hunter
donutsweeper | G | AU
Dean was destined to become a hunter.
Vingettes, double-drabbles, opening salvos to five intriguing universes - call these what you will. But there's no denying that each one presents a fascinating and succinct character study.

Title: Joining In Ecstasy
By: Bridget McKennitt
Pairing: RPS - Jared Padalecki/Jensen Ackles
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: 806
Challenge: supernatural100's prompt wicked
Contains: No warnings in as far I know that can't be extrapolated from the header itself. Cheerleader!Jensen, Geek!Jared
Disclaimer: Any real person, location, or organization mentioned in the story below own themselves. This is only a fictional story meant for entertainment and not intended for profit or believing the real people mentioned are like this in real life.
Author's Notes: Prequel to Moving At Lightspeed Into Eternity.

Joining In Ecstasy