Lovey-dovey GIP, AtS/BtVS +SPN Fic Recs, and some scary Jensen Ackles obsession
Looky at this kickass icon that starcatsinging made to commemorate greenapricot and my codependent fannish love! Ahem. There is really nothing like friendships that start in fandom, but there is also really nothing like finding out that one of your good friends that you've known for years and years is secretly as obsessive of a fangirl as you are.
So. Today I had these big ambitions to get a lot of work done on my Faith/Dean project. That...did not happen. Instead I only managed to read fic, go grocery shopping, walk down by the lake, watch Supernatural (research!), and look at Jensen Ackles Fans until I felt a wee bit like a creepy stalker because there are baby pics and yearbook photos and schmoopy pics of his Playboy Playmate ex-girlfriend and stuff on there. They also have downloads of some TV movie he was in about Marilyn Monroe in which he and Dr. McDreamy from Grey's Anatomy have a threesome with Marilyn. And there is this shot where he's got his head in between her legs and is kissing the inside of her thigh and I thought, "someone should cap that!--I could use a 'Jenny goes down' icon." Oh Lord. Why exactly have I lost my mind? Oh yes,right, it was because of the PRETTY. You Tube also continues to be a land of crack as I found clips of JA on Days back in the day AND some bizarre french fanvid about Dean having a teensy daughter. And this made me especially uncomfortable because I LOVE the idea of Daddy!Dean. It's been documented.[/shame] Um, you guys are all really scared of me now, right?
I've been getting hit on a lot by random men on the street lately. But none have *actually* sexually harrassed me in a way that makes me feel uncomfortable or unsafe, and I'm usually pretty quick to be like, "WTF, get out of my face." There's just a lot of glances and "darlin'" and "sweetheart" and "How you doin'?" kind of shit. It's just sort of odd because I'm being such a hermit these last few days and then I wander out in the world and I'm somewhat confused that people are noticing my existence at all. Perhaps they can *tell* that I'm fresh meat or something? I don't know.
+++ Oh fallen angel, whisper something holy by niz4 is a Supernatural fic that goes AU from the pilot in which Sam sacrifics himself to the demon to save Jess. (That happens right off so it's not a big spoiler.) It's Dean/Jess, but mostly Dean and Jess. Rated R. Evocative, idiosyncratic language use. It isn't apoca!fic but it kinda tastes like it. And the way that they miss Sam is palpable and beautifully hurty. And it's one of those cool SPN fics that takes one of the female characters and makes them three dimensional. "It’s late at night and you stalk into this bar in this backwater town. The both of you glide side by side, and you are bright, sharp and lean - two sharks in a sea of fat minnows, making lethal smiles that are all teeth and bite."
+++ A Strange Piece of Paradise by alizarin_nyc is an AtS/SPN crossover featuring Gunn, Faith, Sam and Dean. Rated R. Faith/Gunn and Faith/Dean. More Faith/Dean than Faith/Gunn, but more Sam and Gunn bonding than either of the other two things. The Gunn voice is fabulous, just how a post-NFA Gunn should sound: strong yet tired and grieving with a splash of humor to make him him. When alizarin_nyc Gunn describes Faith, I want to dance a little dance: "She fought like a ballet dancer and she fucked like a boxer." And if you read it and like it, get on the train with me and encourage her to write the Faith/Dean sequel she's thinking of--I'm hoping that it will involve Faith/Dean text message sex, because CRACK. And also..because.
+++ Ten Things that Pull Apart and One That Holds Together by tkp. Buffy/Angel future!fic of a kind you've maybe not seen before. Rated PG13. OK, first of all, Words/tkp is totally an OTP for me. Secondly, she does something really interesting here, in that she fully explores the mundane difficulties that would arise if two such Alphas as Buffy and Angel were to actually have a real, domestic relationship, and she expresses those quotidian (ha! GRE word) things in a sparkling way that'll cut you to the quick. And yet, there's still this bright spot of passion. Because I think most of us know that in love, you can heart the crap out of someone and still have them irritate the hell out of you much of the time. To pull from chrisleeoctaves's FB on the fic, it's incredibly striking when tkp does things like juxtapose metaphysics with vacuuming.
+++Speaking of chrisleeoctaves, she posted Five Pairs of Lips that Buffy Never Kissed..and Five She Did today, and boy does it rock. Rated PG. 10 related drabbles that really get in deep with so many of Buffy's relationships. Kick ass last lines in all of them that work as punctuation, giving the fic as a whole a great sense of rhythm.
And hey, I just made four recs for things that are NOT porn. Because other people out there are apparently able to write awesome fanfic that grips you without the smut--unlike me lately. *g*
So. Today I had these big ambitions to get a lot of work done on my Faith/Dean project. That...did not happen. Instead I only managed to read fic, go grocery shopping, walk down by the lake, watch Supernatural (research!), and look at Jensen Ackles Fans until I felt a wee bit like a creepy stalker because there are baby pics and yearbook photos and schmoopy pics of his Playboy Playmate ex-girlfriend and stuff on there. They also have downloads of some TV movie he was in about Marilyn Monroe in which he and Dr. McDreamy from Grey's Anatomy have a threesome with Marilyn. And there is this shot where he's got his head in between her legs and is kissing the inside of her thigh and I thought, "someone should cap that!--I could use a 'Jenny goes down' icon." Oh Lord. Why exactly have I lost my mind? Oh yes,right, it was because of the PRETTY. You Tube also continues to be a land of crack as I found clips of JA on Days back in the day AND some bizarre french fanvid about Dean having a teensy daughter. And this made me especially uncomfortable because I LOVE the idea of Daddy!Dean. It's been documented.[/shame] Um, you guys are all really scared of me now, right?
I've been getting hit on a lot by random men on the street lately. But none have *actually* sexually harrassed me in a way that makes me feel uncomfortable or unsafe, and I'm usually pretty quick to be like, "WTF, get out of my face." There's just a lot of glances and "darlin'" and "sweetheart" and "How you doin'?" kind of shit. It's just sort of odd because I'm being such a hermit these last few days and then I wander out in the world and I'm somewhat confused that people are noticing my existence at all. Perhaps they can *tell* that I'm fresh meat or something? I don't know.
+++ Oh fallen angel, whisper something holy by niz4 is a Supernatural fic that goes AU from the pilot in which Sam sacrifics himself to the demon to save Jess. (That happens right off so it's not a big spoiler.) It's Dean/Jess, but mostly Dean and Jess. Rated R. Evocative, idiosyncratic language use. It isn't apoca!fic but it kinda tastes like it. And the way that they miss Sam is palpable and beautifully hurty. And it's one of those cool SPN fics that takes one of the female characters and makes them three dimensional. "It’s late at night and you stalk into this bar in this backwater town. The both of you glide side by side, and you are bright, sharp and lean - two sharks in a sea of fat minnows, making lethal smiles that are all teeth and bite."
+++ A Strange Piece of Paradise by alizarin_nyc is an AtS/SPN crossover featuring Gunn, Faith, Sam and Dean. Rated R. Faith/Gunn and Faith/Dean. More Faith/Dean than Faith/Gunn, but more Sam and Gunn bonding than either of the other two things. The Gunn voice is fabulous, just how a post-NFA Gunn should sound: strong yet tired and grieving with a splash of humor to make him him. When alizarin_nyc Gunn describes Faith, I want to dance a little dance: "She fought like a ballet dancer and she fucked like a boxer." And if you read it and like it, get on the train with me and encourage her to write the Faith/Dean sequel she's thinking of--I'm hoping that it will involve Faith/Dean text message sex, because CRACK. And also..because.
+++ Ten Things that Pull Apart and One That Holds Together by tkp. Buffy/Angel future!fic of a kind you've maybe not seen before. Rated PG13. OK, first of all, Words/tkp is totally an OTP for me. Secondly, she does something really interesting here, in that she fully explores the mundane difficulties that would arise if two such Alphas as Buffy and Angel were to actually have a real, domestic relationship, and she expresses those quotidian (ha! GRE word) things in a sparkling way that'll cut you to the quick. And yet, there's still this bright spot of passion. Because I think most of us know that in love, you can heart the crap out of someone and still have them irritate the hell out of you much of the time. To pull from chrisleeoctaves's FB on the fic, it's incredibly striking when tkp does things like juxtapose metaphysics with vacuuming.
+++Speaking of chrisleeoctaves, she posted Five Pairs of Lips that Buffy Never Kissed..and Five She Did today, and boy does it rock. Rated PG. 10 related drabbles that really get in deep with so many of Buffy's relationships. Kick ass last lines in all of them that work as punctuation, giving the fic as a whole a great sense of rhythm.
And hey, I just made four recs for things that are NOT porn. Because other people out there are apparently able to write awesome fanfic that grips you without the smut--unlike me lately. *g*