Recs from November (SPN, SPN RPS, Vids)
Vids: (SV, Heroes, SGA)
Cobrastyle by talitha78, SV. It's a vid that essentially celebrates Lex Luthor's sheer levels of awesome and hotness through the years. Nothing not to love.
Goodnight Moon by bradcpu, Heroes. Twisty narratives, really freaking cool editing. I can't remember the last time I've stared this hard at a vid.
What Goes Around by wistful_fever - Mohinder/Sylar to Justin Timberlake. She takes their precious few scenes and makes MAGIC. (And isagel, this could totally be inspirational. *coughs delicately*)
The Noose by meivocis. Summary: Paintings, precognition and Peter Petrelli... with a dash of Sylar for good measure.
This was absolutely *beautiful*. PETER, I LOVE YOU.
...*straightens* (Use the Stage6 link if the site link won't work.)
Pictures of You by greysssvu. Okay, this one caught me in a saptastic mood. What a freaking *cool* idea for a vid. Mohinder at 1 minute in slays me. (Though I do really wish there were a not-youtube link available.) And um, they also have a Peter/Elle vid to Within Temptation. Not that I like that pairing enough to be trying to write Peter and Elle in a swimming pool or anything.
Girlfriend, vid by nel_ani. I have posted of my love for this song and its jaunty, jaunty beat before, and I've even thought, you know, this would make GOOD VID.
But I often think songs would make good vids and no one shares my Vision. However, nel_ani WINS because she GETS HOW RODNEY WOULD MAKE SUCH A GOOD GIRLFRIEND FOR JOHN.
...anyway! Go! Watch! Bounce! Adorableness.
Supernatural
This November Life by dontyouwaitup. Post ABHL. Long, thoroughly engrossing, absolutely beautiful story.
To the End by esohpe - holy wow, did I love this. Featuring Evil!Sam.
And All the World Beneath by seperis - SPN/SGA/Lovecraft crossover. Crazily ambitious in scope and chock-full of destruction. *pleased*
Dean remembers Texas as blackland stretching in marker-thick strips of vivid brown and black, broken with the sprawling metroplexes of Dallas and San Antonio and Houston; farms spread with the yellow tops of maize waving in pre-autumn winds, threshers moving complacently through the fields with drowsy men in hats waving at the road. He remembers green and gold fields dotted with cows, half-year calves running on the outskirts of the herds. He remembers these were what he saw between jobs, lives being lived that had nothing to do with creeping twilight and sleeping only behind salt circles and ritual wards.
Who Here Would Choose (To Walk in Those Shoes) by philalethia - Angsty, funny and hot with a really gorgeous closing line.
Two Queens by belyste. Dean's getting pretty annoyed by everyone thinking he and his brother are gay. Adorableness.
Knight Moves by rivkat - I am not saying anything about this other than cool. (And possibly: awwwww.) (Note: This story has two sequels.)
SPN RPS
I haven't written an effusive rec in quite some time, so let's see if I can remember how. *stretches* I'm pretty sure all the hardcore J2 shippers have read this, but if you're more of a drive-by J2 fan like yours truly, or just a fan of really freaking well-written fic, this one's for you. I was up with esohpe's The Jared Padalecki Untitled Project until 6 a.m. this morning and it was the greatest RPS of my life. I was linked to this eons ago but it sort of got shuffled to the back of my mind, and then I was doing my thing where I'm randomly rereading Evil!Sam stories and was poking through her journal and remembered that this existed so I clicked. I thought it'd be a good story as I really liked her Evil!Sam story, but I didn't expect to be like, causing myself bodily harm with the mild flailing and having to squeak into my fist. (Yes, I have physical, violent reactions to good story, but I am a tough customer and you have to *earn it*.)
I like stories with longing and desire and *yearning*, and this story just had it in crazy spades. The build-up was everything I could have asked for, and I just can't remember being quite so satisfied with an entire story in some time.
The only thing *wrong* with this story is that there's no Jared POV, which I think I would sell unimportant bits of my soul for, but that is neither here nor there. (And don't get me wrong, having it purely Jensen narrative was the right choice for the story and the reveals along the way, but now that it's done with, I'm just saying. Jared during the chair scene or the party or the initial movie selection process would be - I'll stop now.) Moving on.
Also note: issaro also did a podcast of it, and podfic's just not really my thing but I can pretty confidently say that it'll rock. I know we were all enthralled listening to that calm, lovely voice reading WILDLY inappropriate and terrifying things that I found for her to read at slumberparty_, and if she can make that story bearable, she'll make this story even more beautiful.
In sum: this is the kind of story that can turn a girl into a tinhat. Guh.
Cobrastyle by talitha78, SV. It's a vid that essentially celebrates Lex Luthor's sheer levels of awesome and hotness through the years. Nothing not to love.
Goodnight Moon by bradcpu, Heroes. Twisty narratives, really freaking cool editing. I can't remember the last time I've stared this hard at a vid.
What Goes Around by wistful_fever - Mohinder/Sylar to Justin Timberlake. She takes their precious few scenes and makes MAGIC. (And isagel, this could totally be inspirational. *coughs delicately*)
The Noose by meivocis. Summary: Paintings, precognition and Peter Petrelli... with a dash of Sylar for good measure.
This was absolutely *beautiful*. PETER, I LOVE YOU.
...*straightens* (Use the Stage6 link if the site link won't work.)
Pictures of You by greysssvu. Okay, this one caught me in a saptastic mood. What a freaking *cool* idea for a vid. Mohinder at 1 minute in slays me. (Though I do really wish there were a not-youtube link available.) And um, they also have a Peter/Elle vid to Within Temptation. Not that I like that pairing enough to be trying to write Peter and Elle in a swimming pool or anything.
Girlfriend, vid by nel_ani. I have posted of my love for this song and its jaunty, jaunty beat before, and I've even thought, you know, this would make GOOD VID.
But I often think songs would make good vids and no one shares my Vision. However, nel_ani WINS because she GETS HOW RODNEY WOULD MAKE SUCH A GOOD GIRLFRIEND FOR JOHN.
...anyway! Go! Watch! Bounce! Adorableness.
Supernatural
This November Life by dontyouwaitup. Post ABHL. Long, thoroughly engrossing, absolutely beautiful story.
To the End by esohpe - holy wow, did I love this. Featuring Evil!Sam.
And All the World Beneath by seperis - SPN/SGA/Lovecraft crossover. Crazily ambitious in scope and chock-full of destruction. *pleased*
Dean remembers Texas as blackland stretching in marker-thick strips of vivid brown and black, broken with the sprawling metroplexes of Dallas and San Antonio and Houston; farms spread with the yellow tops of maize waving in pre-autumn winds, threshers moving complacently through the fields with drowsy men in hats waving at the road. He remembers green and gold fields dotted with cows, half-year calves running on the outskirts of the herds. He remembers these were what he saw between jobs, lives being lived that had nothing to do with creeping twilight and sleeping only behind salt circles and ritual wards.
Who Here Would Choose (To Walk in Those Shoes) by philalethia - Angsty, funny and hot with a really gorgeous closing line.
Two Queens by belyste. Dean's getting pretty annoyed by everyone thinking he and his brother are gay. Adorableness.
Knight Moves by rivkat - I am not saying anything about this other than cool. (And possibly: awwwww.) (Note: This story has two sequels.)
SPN RPS
I haven't written an effusive rec in quite some time, so let's see if I can remember how. *stretches* I'm pretty sure all the hardcore J2 shippers have read this, but if you're more of a drive-by J2 fan like yours truly, or just a fan of really freaking well-written fic, this one's for you. I was up with esohpe's The Jared Padalecki Untitled Project until 6 a.m. this morning and it was the greatest RPS of my life. I was linked to this eons ago but it sort of got shuffled to the back of my mind, and then I was doing my thing where I'm randomly rereading Evil!Sam stories and was poking through her journal and remembered that this existed so I clicked. I thought it'd be a good story as I really liked her Evil!Sam story, but I didn't expect to be like, causing myself bodily harm with the mild flailing and having to squeak into my fist. (Yes, I have physical, violent reactions to good story, but I am a tough customer and you have to *earn it*.)
I like stories with longing and desire and *yearning*, and this story just had it in crazy spades. The build-up was everything I could have asked for, and I just can't remember being quite so satisfied with an entire story in some time.
The only thing *wrong* with this story is that there's no Jared POV, which I think I would sell unimportant bits of my soul for, but that is neither here nor there. (And don't get me wrong, having it purely Jensen narrative was the right choice for the story and the reveals along the way, but now that it's done with, I'm just saying. Jared during the chair scene or the party or the initial movie selection process would be - I'll stop now.) Moving on.
Also note: issaro also did a podcast of it, and podfic's just not really my thing but I can pretty confidently say that it'll rock. I know we were all enthralled listening to that calm, lovely voice reading WILDLY inappropriate and terrifying things that I found for her to read at slumberparty_, and if she can make that story bearable, she'll make this story even more beautiful.
In sum: this is the kind of story that can turn a girl into a tinhat. Guh.