6 posts tagged “ficrecs”
So Star Trek was shiny and lots of fun (although personally I would have liked a few more female characters who weren't just there to be love interests/sources of angst for the men; thankfully I am not the only one), but it made me wonder where I'd heard Simon Pegg do a Scottish accent before, and then I realized it was in one of my favourite Big Train sketches:
Oh yeah, and then there was the SPN finale which had
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DEAD
WOMEN EVERYWHERE! Slaughtered nuns and nurses stuffed in car boots and
Ruby killed in a disturbingly sexual way and Lilith wearing the
traditional SPN sacrificial white nightie! ARGH! And still I continue
to love this show even though it constantly makes me feel like a
traitor to my gender.
Stuff in no particular order:
- Dean's gleefully wanton destruction of property and subsequent completely unsubtle guilty expression when Castiel turns up. He is five. ♥
- I know EVERYONE'S said this, but: jacket clutching! ♥ ♥ ♥
- OH. SAM.
- In Sandman, when Lucifer left Hell, he buggered off to Australia and bummed around on a beach for a while, grudgingly admiring God's sunset work, and then he opened a nightclub in LA. Sort of want something like this to happen on SPN. Like, Lucifer's all, OH BUGGER THE APOCALYPSE FOR A GAME OF SOLDIERS I JUST WANT A HOLIDAY.
- I LOVE that Dean broke the first seal and Sam the last. And now they are equally matched in their guilt and self-doubt.
- I thought at first that it was the angels who had altered Dean's phone message, because they SO WOULD, but rewatching, Ruby's smirk when Sam listens to it seems to suggest otherwise. We are going to get some closure on that, aren't we? Sam is going to find out what Dean really said, yes? Fic, glorious as it is, will only satisfy me so much.
- I sort of want the spin-off Chuck and Castiel Show. Chuck would be going "Don't look at me like that, man. I can't write when you're looking at me like that. God I need a drink. Do you eat pizza? I think I have some leftover somewhere..." and Castiel would be all *headtilt*. Yeah, I dunno. Needs some work.
- It's interesting that Zachariah is constantly trying to lead Dean into temptation.
- God has left the building? Why is no one writing SPN/Preacher crossovers? They are PERFECT for one another. Fallen angels, absent Gods, Vietnam vet dads called John, Western themes, towns called Salvation, dog collars...
- I'm so sick of the word "bitch" being flung around. More creative, less gendered insults please! And doesn't Sam calling Ruby a bitch at the end just seem horribly... inadequate? Evil Counselors and Deceivers go to the 8TH CIRCLE OF HELL Sam!
- Part of me is gleeful that Ruby was playing the long con, the rest of me is pre-emptively wearied by the idea that this will allow the more misogynistic elements of fandom to feel justified in hating her. I've already seen too many icons taking pleasure in her demise.
- I do quite like the poetic justice of Ruby dying by her own knife, though.
- Extreme close-ups a-go-go! I liked the sense of claustrophobic tension this lent things, much like last season's finale. I also liked all the push focusing.
- Next season: Hugging! Flaming swords! Zacharia gets his! Apocalypse! Hugging!
There is entirely too much Supernatural fanfiction. Obviously, I have to read all of it. OBVIOUSLY.
Still, if I go to hell for voraciously reading Sam/Dean* at least I'll be in good company.
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* Honestly. My del.icio.us links have increased by something like 200% since June.
1. Is it just me or does anyone else take a perverse pleasure in constant painstaking refinement of the organisation of their del.icio.us links?
2. The Dark Knight is excellent, though mostly about as much fun as being stabbed in the face. The female characters once again get short shrift and I was so very happy to find Origin Story, a fanfic by Minim Calibre that she'd written in response to Jim Gordon's daughter (future BATGIRL for goodness sake) barely getting a look-in. Also, I like to imagine the Joker attends these:
3. The following is an annotated extract from an Amazon email I got the other day (I am probably far more amused by its unintentional accuracy than is strictly necessary):
4. Depeche Mode are made of win covered in awesomesauce. Never Let Me Down Again is an entirely perfect slice of '80s new romantic/synthpop/electronica/wossname, and it's totally about Dean and Sam Winchester. Oh yes it is.
5. Why don't they sell ginger beer on draught in pubs? It's much nicer than that hop-based stuff.
I have found Supernatural/A Series of Unfortunate Events crossover fanfiction!
MY LIFE IS NOW COMPLETE.
A couple of cool things from ElJayLand:
Over on 
scans_daily there's a preview of the forthcoming Buffy Season 8 comic.
Potentially this could be really good fun, especially since Joss Whedon
will be writing the first few issues and overseeing the rest. Not sure
yet whether I'll be tracking it down as soon as it comes out or not,
but that's more because I find individual comic issues too damn short
and prefer to read them when they're all collected together.
Meanwhile heave_ho is celebrating its second anniversary by airing The Hundred Worst Lines in the Caribbean. One hundred exquisite little gems of badfic awfulness: you will not read anything funnier today.
I don't usually make fanfic recommendations, because I don't read nearly as much fic as I'd like to these days, and the stuff I do read has normally been well rec'd already. That said, if you're not already, you should go and read mina_de_malfois.
It's not technically fanfiction, but a cleverly written satire of fandom. Being mostly a lurker in a limited number of fandoms, a lot of it goes over my head (which is where the handy footnotes come in), but I still know enough to be amused by the meta-ness of it all. Plus, it's just a good story.
And if you can't be bothered to read it, well then there's a podcast as well.
