I'm the lucky recipient of three very, very lovely gift fics.

- spn-j2-xmas: Several Fake Dates (And One Real One) by excoyote, Sam/Dean; this fic is everything my trans!Sam heart desires. ♥

- yuletide: Deviations: The End by anon, Deviations: The X-Files. Excellent glimpse into Scully and Samantha's relationship, with bonus Diana and a rather brilliant ending.

- merlin_holidays: ( Read more... )

I can't believe the amount of 'discussion' (read wank) that has suddenly sprung up over the term 'gencest' since the Gencest Bang was recently announced. I've been in the SPN fandom for eight years and counting, and have known the meaning of the term since the beginning.

The definition of "incest" from etymonline: from Latin incestum "unchastity, ( Read more... )

( mostly about the girls and not very spoilery )

Saw this and obviously had to think of Sam and Dean.

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This was a good, solid episode of Doctor Who. The TARDIS! ♥

I don't really have anything to say about SPN. I didn't expect to, given that 14.2 was written by the Terrible Duo. Onward.

Crossposted at https://asra.dreamwidth.org/141293.html.

Sam Winchester. That is all. ♥

I watched A Very English Scandal without reading the book first, and I'm kind of glad I did, because I don't think I want to read it after all. It's by Russell T Davies (and Eve Myles plays a character named Gwen, lol), with Hugh Grant as the politician who wants to get rid of his former lover, played by the always-incredible Ben Whishaw. Maybe ( Read more... )

Janice Pariat's The Nine-Chambered Heart is the sort of book that has my students in raptures and has me going... uhhh, what am I missing? It was a quick read, which does say a lot about the author's ability to engage the reader, and I also loved the premise: we see the protagonist through the points of view of nine characters she's been in sexual/ ( Read more... )

I've been wanting to do this for a while. I may not be terribly regular about it since classes start next week, and once students arrive they find ways of monopolising all my time. I'm always excited about books, but I'm particularly excited at the moment because Amazon says my copy of Michael Ondaatje's Warlight will arrive by June 1st. (I'll ( Read more... )

Ah, Wayward Sisters didn't get picked up. I'm kind of ambivalent about it. On the one hand, it would have been awesome to have a show with female leads set in the SPN universe. On the other, how much actual 'representation' do we get in a show about women that is conceptualised by white men? (I'm thinking about Rainbow Rowell saying that the female ( Read more... )