Okay, dudes. So I haven't read a whole lot of Big Bang fics outside of the ones that I've betaed. The fic I'm reccing here IS one of the ones that I've betaed, and you're welcome to think I'm biased all you want, since if you've been on my LJ at all you probably know that I think walkawayslowly is the awesomest girl around -- but nonetheless, I'm reccing Merrin's BB, because this fic is SO FRIGGIN' GOOD.

What Remains by walkawayslowly
Dean/Sam, Bobby, OMC/OFC (bear with me, people) | NC-17 | 39,500 words | post-S3 amnesia fic
This is the one where Dean loses his memory and himself, and Sam has to find both.

I should start by saying that I am INSANELY picky about Wincest these days, and that while there's a lot of lovely post-S3 fic out there that deals with Dean being in Hell, that's not anything I hugely want to read right now -- happily, this story is 100% post-Hell, and contains nothing but allusions to it! It's also amnesia fic with two fantastic POV characters (one who is Sam and one who is not) and, oh, really awesome first-time Wincest.

Also, I understand that a lot of people are wary of O.C.s, but seriously? PLEASE do not let the mention of original characters here turn you away from this story. It's pretty fucking amazing to get to watch the development of the Wincest both from inside the relationship and outside it.

Oh yeah, and Sam likes to be all angsty, but there's plenty of schmoop to balance that right out.

Seriously, GO. Read it. It's AWESOME.

Title: Treat Her Like a Lady
Author: causeways
Fandom: SPN
Rating: R
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Word Count: 6,042
Disclaimer: All characters, situations, etc. belong to Eric Kripke and others. Except for the demon poodle. The demon poodle is mine.
Summary: You can never tell when a conversation with a really smokin' woman is going to come back and bite you in the ass. Dean gets cursed into dating Sam.
Author's Notes: This is for walkawayslowly, since basically it is all her fault. Thanks to balefully and dark_reaction for reading this over and to memphis86 for betaing.

( Treat Her Like a Lady )

I'm really smart, yo. I uploaded five Cake albums for regala_electra this morning, and then I never posted the links.

Here! Have awesome music! All .zip files, all on MegaUpload.

Comfort Eagle

Fashion Nugget

Motorcade of Generosity

Pressure Chief

Prolonging the Magic

I can do tracklistings too if anyone wants them!

Anyway, I'm in San Diego, and it's lovely if a little bit cool and overcast. Today I learned that trying to play ultimate frisbee on the beach while hung-over is a poor choice. Surprising, isn't it? Also, that walkawayslowly kid, I really like her or something. I talked to her for an extraordinarily long time while drunk last night, which I figure is just repayment for that one time she drunk-dialed me and talked to me in Whale. ("Helloooooooooo, I aaaaaaaaaam druuuuuuuunk.")

Oh yeah, and spn_j2_bigbang summaries got revealed! theoret and I are behind this guy:

Title: Hey, It Could Happen

Summary: This is the story of how unicorns saved Sam and Dean. It's a little embarrassing. Dean would like to make very clear that he has absolutely not befriended the unicorns. Also, he totally doesn't have a thing for his brother.

YUP.

I really don't want to say a lot about these two fics because I don't want to give anything away, but first you should read:

Me and the Devil Blues by britomart_is
Sam/Dean | R | 2,200 words
It’s been nine months since the hellhounds dragged Dean into the Pit, and Sam drives along the coast highway with an empty passenger seat beside him. He hums along to Black Sabbath in the tape deck—Dean’s music, not his, but Sam learned to make concessions a long time ago.

And then you should REALLY REALLY REALLY read:

Burn My Body Down By the Highway Side by britomart_is
Sam/Dean | NC-17 | 3,500 words

That second one won't make a bit of sense without the first, and the first one is totally awesome, but the SECOND, omg, I can't even deal. Seriously, I don't want to say anything else at all. Just. SO GOOD.

OMFG. Okay so, reallycorking has been one of my favorite fanartists for approximately a gazillion years. She's been drawing pretty much exclusively (if not exclusively!) for HP for quite a while, but dudes, it's so damned awesome. And literally two nights ago I randomly spent a couple hours making walkawayslowly look at a bunch of RC's art (Merrin was all, "I CANNOT BELIEVE YOU ARE MAKING ME LOOK AT HP HET. And yet I cannot STOP.") like this, and this, and this, and OMFG THIS.

And then TONIGHT reallycorking posted SAM/DEAN FANART. Seriously, I DON'T THINK I COULD BE MORE EXCITED ABOUT THIS IF I TRIED. SO MUCH AWESOME. GO. LOOK.

Drunk!Sam and Dean

EEEEE.

The authors just got revealed over at the spn_gleeweek [guess the author competition], so I get to claim my story!

Title: In the Telling
Author: causeways
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Word Count: 1,391
Disclaimer: Belongs to Kripke, not to me!
Summary: After Sam gets him out of the deal, Dean fucks a lot of girls.
Author's Notes: Thanks to memphis86 for looking this over!

( In the Telling )

I sort of want to insert a long paragraph of blah about warnings and how I hate them (this is related because in spite of the fact that Dean sleeps with like a dozen girls in my spn_gleeweek fic I would never, ever warn for het in it), but I think I'll save that for another day.

Right now, I want to point you over to girlmostlikely's [accidental schmoop meme] where I got coerced into writing ~400 words of Sam/Dean, gruffness, the giver being more surprised than the receiver. Coerced, yup. Writing that was REALLY PAINFUL, let me just tell you. *g*

And speaking of the accidental schmoop meme and of the GtA competition, have some shortfic recs!

Jared/Jensen, off-season, missing each other by dontyouwaitup
PG | 565 words | from the accidental schmoop meme
I love the matter-of-fact-ness and also their banter SO MUCH.

Sam/Dean, taking a bath together by memphis86
R-ish | 556 words | from the accidental schmoop meme
My comment on this was something along the lines of, "I just made a happy noise so high-pitched that ONLY THE DOGS HEARD IT." First time Sam/Dean in a BATHTUB.

The lady of the right hand by fleshflutter
pre-series Dean-centric gen | PG-13 | 1,789 words | from spn_gleeweek
Dean's last night in New Orleans with that voodoo gig.
This is one of those fics that makes me wonder why I don't read more gen than I do. Or maybe it's just that fleshflutter's really awesome. Dean and a TOTALLY FANTASTIC original character.

Joie de Vivre by memphis86
Sam/Dean | PG-13 | 1,906 words | from spn_gleeweek
This is just a really cool short fic that TOTALLY MESSES WITH YOUR MIND. I'm a big fan of that. Sam in the South of France!

The Eyes Have It by __tiana__
Jared/Jensen | PG-13 | 1,200ish words
This isn't actually from either the accidental schmoop meme OR from the GtA entries, but it's short and also all about Jared realizing that there are 28374 pictures of Jensen staring at him like he is COMPLETELY IN LOVE WITH HIM, so I really don't see how this could not get included.

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I haven't actually read all of the spn_gleeweek fics yet, so there may be a part two to this after I get my act together. And now back to doing . . . whatever it is you do at your internship after you are already finished researching replacement refrigerator parts. Writing fic?? We shall see.

Title: we are only what we are (not what we would be)
Author: causeways
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Disclaimer: Supernatural is not mine. All characters, situations, etc. belong to Eric Kripke and others.
Summary: After the events of 3x11 'Mystery Spot', Sam and Dean have to find a way to move on with their lives.
Author's Notes: I have FAR too many people to thank for this fic to be able to ennumerate here -- you all know who you are. ♥ Special thanks to girlmostlikely for encouragement and for help with the title. I've been working on this for a really long time, you guys, so I hope you like it.

( we are only what we are (not what we would be) )

What with everyone frantically writing their Big Bangs, LJ seems to be sadly devoid of porn lately! Clearly this called for some Sam/Dean rimming.

Title: A Rose by Any Other Name (Would Be Just As Gay)
Author: causeways
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Word Count: 673
Disclaimer: All characters, situations, etc. belong to Eric Kripke and others.
Summary: Sam and Dean spend the night at a bed-and-breakfast. With rimming.
Author's Notes: girlmostlikely wanted rimming! So did Dean, even if he won't admit it. girlmostlikely is also behind the title.

(  A Rose by Any Other Name (Would Be Just As Gay) )

I thought I was kidding when I commented on the IF IT AIN'T CRACKED, DON'T FIC IT challenge post about writing this, but no, clearly I wasn't:

( Of all the things Dean might have expected to have happen to him in his life, being cursed into a bacterium in a Petri dish with Sam, who is also a bacterium? Yeah, that pretty much takes the cake.

"God," says this huge booming voice from somewhere above Dean. "Fucking bacteria. Just fucking reproduce already!"

"Dude, Sam," Dean says, "maybe that's it. Maybe we have to reproduce to get out of here." )

AHAHA ANYWAY.

Secret message to memphis86: I was just staring at the office photocopier and thinking: I sort of want the Nudist!Jared scenario to be a feature-length crack fic, in which there is Angst because Jared doesn't just photocopy his ass, he scans it in, and the .pdf of Jared's naked ass accidentally gets sent to a Very Important Client of Jensen's, and this VIC gets very upset about it all, and Jensen yells at Jared in a fit of pique and Jared thinks he's fired, and then eventually Jensen realizes that Jared (and his perfect ass) are more important than clients, and they have a lot of buttsex. Y/y?

Uh, there's really no excuse for this one. I mean it.

Title: The Seven Levels of the Candy Cane Forest
Author: causeways
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Sam/Dean (also a couple of peripheral other ones, but it REALLY depends on how hard you read into the innuendo)
Word Count: 2,750
Disclaimer: So utterly not mine that I can't even begin to say.
Summary: Raised by a craftsman and his wife, Sam undertakes a dangerous journey to the north to discover who he truly is--and meets someone unexpected when he gets there.
Author's Notes: This is about three parts fairy tale and eight parts rip-off of a rip-off of Elf. Yeah. Oh, and 97897424 parts crack. walkawayslowly, memphis86 and my truly fantastic internship are to blame for this, in approximately equal measure.

( The Seven Levels of the Candy Cane Forest )

Um. I might have been extremely bored at my internship earlier. That is my excuse for all of this. But anyway, shannon_doll is just getting into SPN, and I told her I'd give her some recs, SO:

( A big ol' list of recs. Nine SPN and six CW RPS. SPN recs are either AUs or do not contain spoilers past the end of S1 -- or at least, they shouldn't, if I did my job right! )

This was meant to be an entry about how freaking terrified I am of second semester of senior year, my thesis and its 2,500 pages of primary source material, etc., etc., but no one really wants to hear me whine, and anyway I would much rather talk about the fact that apparently I can MAKE THINGS HAPPEN WITH MY BRAIN.

Yesterday evening I was talking to belyste, and bemoaning the fact that I had never, ever seen 69ing porn in SPN or CW RPS fic. She said she'd seen it maybe once, but it was still incredibly rare.

WELL. Since then, people have posted not one but TWO awesome fics that involve 69ing!

So Close to My Heart by audrarose
Jared/Jensen | NC-17 | 15,900 words
Dr. Jared and single-dad Jensen in Seattle, with love and complications.

Junk in the Trunk by lazy_daze
Sam/Dean | NC-17 | 1,500 words
Sam and Dean got locked in a trunk. There is porn.

AMAZING. walkawayslowly then went, "Ooh, say, 'I wish Sheppard and McKay would make out on the next episode of SGA' out loud! MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN TOO." I hope this also works for my senior thesis! "My senior thesis will appear on my desk RIGHT NOW!"

Tragically, I suspect it only works for porn, but here's hoping I'm wrong.

I'm in a creative writing class this semester where the professor specifically said, "No genre fiction!" on the first day. I have a story (~10 double-spaced pages) due a week from Wednesday, and I so very badly want to turn in a story about a pair of cowboys falling in love in space, just to be ornery. It could be a VERY LITERARY story about cowboys falling in love in space! She is cramping my literary fiction genius.

One of these days memphis86 and I will totally get around to answering comments. Sigh. We are just apparently both lazy like really lazy things.

Anyway, things I'm intensely excited about:

• abouttwoboys posting starts in ten days! A week from Friday!
• Steve Carlson with notthequiettype and reallythateasy on Thursday!
• Speaking of Thursday! Those two boys on that TV show with the car? Yeah, I heard they get cursed into Sammypus and Deanigator, and they have EPIC SEA BATTLES. Dean makes a lot of seamen jokes, and Sam cries enormous tears of angst because he HATES having tentacles. And then they cling to each other lovingly and all is well with the world. That's totally what happens, you guys, I SWEAR.

Sometimes I rag on Virginia, and I ALWAYS rag on my local paper. It's a piece of crap. But let's recall the time the alligator got loose in Portsmouth, and now these two bits of genius. First:

Cause for pause: Theft of cats can go unpunished

And I quote:

Stealing a dog is a felony in Virginia. Cats, however, get no respect. Snatch one and you're unlikely to be charged.

A proposed law under review in the House of Delegates would change that, making the punishment for stealing a dog and a cat identical.

A brazen thief who tucked a kitten named Ernie under his shirt and ran out of the Richmond SPCA last year sparked the movement for what advocates have jokingly dubbed "Ernie's Law."

And second:

I had somehow completely missed the whole bumper nuts phenomenon until literally TODAY, when I saw them on a pickup truck that had four different REBEL YELL banners on it and a big ol' pair of bumper nuts dangling from a chain on its trailer hitch.

For those of you who are as yet uninitiated! ( photographic evidence )

You'd think I'd have seen those when I was in California, since the Inland Empire is totally down with shit like this, but no. Southern Virginia Beach is where it's at, apparently!

Anyway, as soon as we'd seen the truck with the bumper nuts on them, my mom goes, "Oh yeah, that was in the local paper this morning!"

Virginia bill would snip anatomical accessories off vehicles

I'm sad! They changed the headline from this morning. It ran in the hard-copy paper as, I could not make this up if I tried:

Bill sets out to neuter 'vulgar' auto displays.

Anyway, I think my favorite part of the article is:

"The serious response to this is that if these objects represent an idea, then they are protected by the First Amendment," said Kent Willis, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia "even if most people think they are vulgar or lewd."

Yeah, they totally represent an idea: "MAH TRUCK'S GOT BALLS!"

Oh, humanity. Never change.

Anyway! You guys who are working on abouttwoboys fics! How are they coming? You're all writing awesome epic things, am I right? Tell me about them!

I haven't recced anything in quite a while, have I? Well! Here's one.

The Larks, Still Bravely Singing by kajikia
Sam/Dean | NC-17 | 3,350 words | World War II AU
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it." – Robert E. Lee

You might have missed this part, since I haven't put it in bold yet, but I will now! World War II AU, you guys. WORLD WAR II AU. There is pretty much nothing in the universe I love more than war stories, and World War II stories above all others. I quite honestly don't know why I'm not all over Band of Brothers fandom, because I fucking LOVE that series. I've watched Saving Private Ryan eighty gazillion times. One of my top three favorite books is Once an Eagle, which you should all go read, because it is epic and amazing and starts in World War I and continues on from there and just. When bad things happened to those characters, I had to freaking put the book down and walk away for a while, I got that invested in it.

Anyway, the point here is that I love good war stories beyond belief, and I also love Sam and Dean, and THOSE TWO THINGS COMBINED are basically the awesomest ever, and I kind of want to fangirl kajikia ridiculously for writing this story. I don't just love it for the concept, okay. It's also FANTASTIC writing, and God, the Sam/Dean dynamic. SO GOOD. cathybites is so freaking lucky to get that for her spn_holidays fic. :D

And randomly, have a song! oh comely -- neutral milk hotel

One of my friends played this song for me about a year ago and said, "You're probably not going to like this, but it's the most-played song in my iTunes, and give it a chance, okay?" And I got about thirty seconds in and was like, "I LOVE THIS SONG A LOT." And it only gets better. Such weirdass lyrics, so much awesome.

I did it! I signed up for spn_j2_bigbang along with everyone and their mother. I've only looked at the first page or so of comments, but it looks like a lot of people are writing J2 this year. I sort of want to go back and sign up for SPN instead, just to be difficult, but I'm not doing it, because I already know exactly what I'm writing: lingering in the golden gleam sequel fic!

Uh, sorry if that kind of kills the point of the anonymous title-and-summary-posting in May? I'm the kid writing the "Jensen is gay and on Broadway and Jared is a big-shot actor who just got back from spending a month or so in an alternate universe where he was married to Jensen and had kids and now they are actually getting together in the real world" not!AU. Surprise!

I'm not going to be creating a Big Bang filter or anything like that, because come on now, fics that are upwards of 20K and I? We are tight. So I'm just kind of . . . not going to be talking about my Big Bang ahead of time, other than how I just told you what it is. If you're super curious about how it's going or something, you're welcome to ping me.

Oh! Speaking of fic, I posted some last night!

The World Gone Still
Sam/Dean | NC-17 | 4,083 words | written for spn_apocasmut
Dean could have stopped this thing if he'd been a little faster, a little less weak—but on the last day of Dean's year, when Sam shakes him awake at 3:30 in the morning and says he's figured it out, Dean finds himself incapable of forming the word 'no'.

It's a kind of an oddball fic for me, I'll be the first to say. I'm usually the one who needs to spell out EVERYTHING EVER, and I kind of tried to . . . not do that here. Anyway, I hadn't written Sam and Dean in ages! It was sort of fun to go back to them.

And now, back to cowriting Never Been Kissed J2 AUs with setissma and writing marry-or-die McShep for Ash and Crystal AND MERRIN, those pushy bitches. ♥

And it's officially January 14th! spn_apocasmut IS GO.

Title: The World Gone Still
Author: causeways
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Word Count: 4,083
Warnings: toeing of the non-con line, experimentation in style and point of view
Disclaimer: All characters, situations, etc. belong to Eric Kripke and others.
Summary: Dean could have stopped this thing if he'd been a little faster, a little less weak—but on the last day of Dean's year, when Sam shakes him awake at 3:30 in the morning and says he's figured it out, Dean finds himself incapable of forming the word 'no'.
Author's Notes: Written for spn_apocasmut for prompts which can be found here, since a couple of them are pictures and they're kind of big. Set sometime after all aired episodes of S3, but doesn't really contain spoilers for anything past 2x22 'All Hell Breaks Loose' Part Two. Huge thanks to anasuede and nomelon for betaing, and to memphis86 for consulting and general awesomeness.

( The World Gone Still )

I always feel a little bit bad for it, but I love Starbucks. If there were cute little local holes-in-the-wall in Virginia Beach, I'd totally go for them over Starbucks, but Virginia Beach, Virginia? Not exactly the quirkiest place in the universe. Starbucks down by the boardwalk it is!

Anyway! I am finally done with my spn_apocasmut. Anyone want to beta? It's just over 4,000 words of Sam and Dean fucking at the end of the world. Good times!

(Ahaha, that subject header is SUCH A LIE. I'm just quoting Gabe Saporta!)

Anyway! The saga of the wisdom teeth hasn't really been that much of a saga at all. Vicodin hasn't even been necessary, which is kind of sad, because how often do you legitimately get to be in possession of Vicodin? I'm super psyched, though: I'm allowed to eat solid foods again as of tomorrow! \o/ This means that the travesty that was tonight's dinner -- butternut squash, Kraft Mac & Cheese and apple juice (ALL OF WHICH WERE ORANGE) -- will hopefully never be repeated again. At least not until I am like, eighty, at which point I will probably be so senile that it will be helpful to have color-coded dinners: "It's Blue Foods night, so it must be Sunday!" I think my family is taking me to Outback tomorrow night to celebrate my return to chewing. I am going to order a BIG HONKING STEAK and it is going to be AWESOME.

Speaking of things that are awesome: abouttwoboys! setissma's and my wee little community is out in the world! Probably most of you have already heard about it already, since we both pimped it out yesterday, but just in case you missed it: SPN and CW RPS rewrites of romantic comedies! How can this be anything less than awesome? I suspect that it's probably going to be fairly J2-heavy, but SPN is totally encouraged too (as is het, if you want, but not gen, 'cause that kind of defeats the purpose of, y'know, romantic comedies), so wherever you fall on the spectrum, come write for us! Or at least come read all the awesome fic in a little more than a month. :D

So, randomly, I still owe at least seven of you holiday cards. :\ You're still going to get them! I swear! Just, uh. In the middle of January! But if I promised you a holiday card, I just wanted to let you know that I still haven't forgotten and I love you all, and uh, if you weren't originally on my list and want a January card with a ficlet in it? I will write one to you, too! Just email me your address, okay? [katjadee at gmail . com]

And omg, wendy, I have owed you porn in the mail since like. NOVEMBER. :( I'm on it, I promise!

Anyway! If I am not done with my spn_apocasmut by tomorrow at the latest, I might actually cry. I know exactly where I am going with this fic, even though where I am going is bizarre as hell; it's just taking me forever. It occurred to me that the last time I wrote straight-up non-genderswapped Sam/Dean? Was in motherfucking AUGUST. How weird is that, you guys? I've been in quasi-het-land and J2-land for that long. Clearly this needs fixin'.

If any of you guys have setissma on your flists, you might have seen where she posted about a potential romantic comedies community a couple of weeks ago. Y'know, that whole J2 / SPN movies rewrite thing that we all love so much, but just for romantic comedies. So like, if reel_spn and spn_harlequin had an assbaby joined forces!

WELL. It now exists!

abouttwoboys! abouttwoboys! abouttwoboys!

The intro post is here and the sign ups post is here. Sign ups will be running from right this very second through January 11th, so you've got a little bit of time, but for now we're only allowing two people per movie, so if you already know you want to rewrite Sleepless in Seattle, you might want to go ahead and sign up now.

You're also more than welcome to just go over there and suggest more movies we haven't thought of yet (because we're good but we're not perfect!), but we'd totally love it if you'd write for us! 1,000-word minimum, you guys. That's like, nothing. Fics will be due during the week of February 8-14, so hopefully we'll all have loads of romantic comedy-inspired J2 and SPN for Valentine's Day. Yaaay!

Anyway, go! Sign up! Tell everyone you know! *bounces*

Eee, you guys! persekore wrote an AU version of my post-AHBL fic Singing Stories for the Dead (Sam/Dean, PG-13, 1,866 words). You'll probably want to read my fic first, although I think persekore's fic could stand alone just fine too. Anyway, it's here:

Inasmuch As We Can Know. PG-13. 5,953 words. Sam knows he’s going crazy, because the noise is footsteps, and he’s already established that the figure swimming out of the darkness can’t be coming back.

Eeee!

Other fun things: I have finally acquired an external hard drive, so I don't have to PANIC about my 3 1/2-year-old iBook (and its 4.21 GB of available space) crashing and eating all of my music and stuff. \o/

Also? I am really stupidly in love with the J2 I'm working on right now. Like, ACTUALLY RETARDEDLY IN LOVE. It's based on The Family Man, with Nicholas Cage and Téa Leoni (and Don Cheadle!), which is all about REALIZATIONS OF EPIC LOVE and also dogs and babies. Which is not everyone in the universe's cup of tea (*clings to girlmostlikely*) but I do think it is an awesome, awesome movie to watch around the holidays -- and like so many things, it's made INFINITELY BETTER through the substitution of J2. Although speaking of the original actors, am I like the only person in the universe who doesn't completely hate Nicholas Cage? I don't love him, but I don't actually want to gouge my eyes out every time he comes on the screen, either. From what I hear from everyone I have mentioned this fic to (and also my RL friends), though, Nicholas Cage's very NAME fills lots of people with terrible, terrible rage. Am I really the only one ever who doesn't have a massive hate-on for him?

Anyway, yes, J2. It IS getting done before I leave for Chicago on the 28th, if not before Christmas. Hopefully before Christmas, although that is soon, you guys. How did that happen?

Oh! If you want me to spam you with the beginning of the J2 later, let me know and I will be happy to oblige. :D