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Crossovering!

Sat, 30 Aug 2014 13:14:43 GMT

Hi! I have been lurking for weeks (months?), partly because I decided to finish my fic for this crossover exchange, instead of sensibly defaulting, and it ate up all the time I could reasonably devote to fandom (and wasn't really worth the effort, either). Anyway! The archive opened last night, and if you enjoy crossovers, you should check it out .

I received two lovely, really different, fics:

Rediscovery (3017 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Supernatural, X-Men (Movieverse)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, John Winchester, Bobby Singer, Impala
Additional Tags: mention of suicidal thoughts, Mutant!Dean
Series: Part 1 of Sentience and its Uses
Summary:

She'd always known that her human was special. After all, Baby knew him best. It just took the others a little while to figure it out.

I haven't had much to do with SPN fandom for a while, but I'm always so glad to read about Dean--and this story makes his mutant abilities make so much sense.

Diagnosis: Murder (231 words) by Anonymous
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: House M.D., Hannibal (TV)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Greg House, James Wilson (House M.D.), Hannibal Lecter
Additional Tags: crossovering treat
Summary:

Food and conversation.

I adored this snippet of (im)polite conversation, and wanted it to go on forever!

More soon about other stuff--hope you're all doing well!

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TV round-up (of the opinionated variety)

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:21:27 GMT

There is too much to watch on TV! Some things have already been regulated to the status of “okay, I’ll watch it with the boys if they feel like it after dinner” (sadly, this seems to mean that H50 and Elementary and Arrow are duking it out with Dr. Who, Alphas and Psych).

Here’s what’s rising above that at the moment (idiosyncratic, I admit):

Last Resort:

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Merlin: Yeah, who would’ve thought that Merlin would have such staying power? But I continue to really enjoy it on both the cheesy (shirtless knights, anyone?) and emotional fronts (stories of good leaders are my number one bullet proof kink).

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I blame tumblr for this

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Homeland: I’m not sure what’s going to happen now that the “is he or isn’t he?” question has been answered. But I don’t care, because I’m still mesmerized by Carrie, Saul and Brody (only halfway through 2x02 on this one)

I have also, thanks to garryowen’s persuasive abilities, been watching Wallander. I watched the third, most recent, series first, because it was streaming on PBS (yes, this is one of the simple pleasures of sad souls like me that Mitt Romney would take away). I usually associate Kenneth Branagh with bombast, but he’s lovely and restrained and vastly appealing in this—middle-aged and poignant and tough and smart (and a hot mess). Also: Sweden is beautiful. I’m making my way through S1 now, which is grimmer and shot with a lot of surprise!close-ups and surprise!blurriness which bug me, but still well worth watching, if you like your procedurals with a lot of angst.

And that's more than enough!

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Podfic! and Supernatural redux

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:15:58 GMT

electricmonk333 has done an wonderful podfic of “Two Boys from Kansas in King Uther’s Court”, my SPN/Merlin xover, for podficbigbang. At 36k, this is by far the longest thing I’ve ever written, and has more action scenes than the rest of my fics put together, but electricmonk333 has a beautiful voice and does a wonderful job of sustaining the pace of the fic over 3 hrs and 38 minutes (a better job than the pacing of the story actually deserves, tbh).

CLICK HERE to dl and to see the gorgeous cover art by helva2260.

As people always say, it is weird to listen to your own fic read by other people, but even though I sometimes wished I’d taken a red pencil to the fic before it was recorded (too many adverbs and epithets *facepalm*), I still laughed at an embarrassing number of my own jokes. Listening to the fic, which is set in SPN S1 and Merlin S1 (I even had to invent an extra knight for Camelot, as there were no knights in S1—can you believe it?), also reminded me of how much fun it had been to write SPN fic, which I haven’t thought about in a while.

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Inspired by that, I, perhaps foolishly, decided my sons were old enough to watch SPN—S1 at least.

Son #2 drifted away, but son #2 and I devoured the pilot and “Wendigo” in one sitting. Omigod the boys were cute in those days, weren’t they?

( cut for my son immediately taking sides in fandom’s oldest debate )
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In my own personal Lewis marathon: I have watched “Old Unhappy Far Off Things.” Feel free to share your views on
1) Your favorite lady guest star: Juliet Stevenson? Zoe Telford? Saskia Reeves?
2) Hathaway’s adorable devotion to his guv’nor
3) LFox’s S5 hair or
4) Other
In comments.

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I’ve run three times this week, and done two of my three 10k workouts (more on the other blog). Wondering when I’ll get the last one in, though, since the weather is supposed to be between 100-104F tomorrow through Tues. With a low of 75. Which means that if I run at 7am, it’ll already be 80. *wipes away anticipatory sweat*

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In conclusion: Why can’t I go see Magic Mike the minute it opens, people, why? I will be kid-free on Tues., though, and that is the first thing I’m gonna do, I tell you what. I need that movie like whoa.

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City of Iron, City of Tears (SPN/XNFC) 2/?

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:31:27 GMT

Title: City of Iron, City of Tears
Authors: calamitycrow and ariadnes_string
Fandoms: Supernatural/ X-Men First Class
Rating: PG for this part.
Warnings: none
Spoilers: Basically a mid-twentieth-century AU for early-season SPN and a kind of missing scene for XMFC.
Word Count: ~3.4K for this part.
Disclaimer: not ours, no profit.

Summary: The Second World War is over, but the Cold War is just heating up. In a divided Berlin, Capt. Dean Winchester of Army Intelligence and Agent Sam Winchester of the newly-formed CIA come up against forces even they have never imagined.

Part One

( City of Iron, City of Tears 2/? )

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City of Iron, City of Tears (SPN/XMFC) 1/?

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:46:14 GMT

calamitycrow and I have been working on this one for a while, and we've decided the time has come to give it a nudge out into the world.

Happy third night of Hanukah, folks!

Title: City of Iron, City of Tears
Authors: calamitycrow and ariadnes_string
Fandoms: Supernatural/ X-Men First Class
Rating: PG for this part (probably won't go higher than an R, if that).
Warnings: none
Spoilers: Basically a mid-twentieth-century AU for early-season SPN and a kind of missing scene for XMFC.
Word Count: ~5.3K for this part.
Disclaimer: not ours, no profit.

Summary: The Second World War is over, but the Cold War is just heating up. In a divided Berlin, Capt. Dean Winchester of Army Intelligence and Agent Sam Winchester of the newly-formed CIA come up against forces even they have never imagined.

( City of Iron, City of Tears (1) )

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Calling Bingo!

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:19:24 GMT

So, kinda by the skin of my teeth, I finished a line for kink_bingo

( card and thoughts under cut )

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Remember When Your Were My Girl? ( Dean/Meg, NC-17)

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:36:09 GMT

Not exactly what I meant to do today, but, look, SPN fic, for the first time since February. All thanks to the awesome feverish!Dean meme going on over at hoodie_time. Of course, it turned out to be kinky het porn, but there you go.

Title: Remember When Your Were My Girl?
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Dean/Meg
Spoilers: nothing past S5
Warnings: dub-con/non-con, gender play, pegging, crude language, fever!sex
Word count: ~1.2K
Disclaimer: Not mine, no profit.

a/n: for this prompt from vie_dangerouse: Dean has a high fever. Meg finds that it really, really turns her on. The heat reminds her of home, and things that she and Dean used to get up to down there.
a/n: also for the "gender play" square on my kink_bingo card.

Summary: “Why’d you leave us?" asks Meg. "Why’d you come out here where it’s cold?”

( remember when you were my girl? )

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In which I am seduced by landscape and costumes (aka: Jane Eyre, Game of Thrones and Supernatural)

Mon, 25 Apr 2011 15:04:25 GMT

Oh, y'all, I finally got to see Jane Eyre yesterday!

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Extremely short responses to the other things I watched over the weekend.

A Game of Thrones 1.1 (haven't seen 1.2 yet):

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Supernatual 6.18

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Is there new H50 tonight?

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'Forever Ain't That Long' (the Jordan remix)

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:52:36 GMT

Title: Forever Ain’t that Long (the Jordan remix)
Rating: R
Pairings: Dean/Dean, Dean/OFC.
Setting: End ‘verse AU.
Word Count: ~4K
Warnings: Along with the same person sex? Depression, permanent injury and vague suicidal ideation.
Beta: calamitycrow--thanks as always, bb!

a/n: This is a remix of wave_obscura’s Forever Ain’t That Long, done for the hoodie_time remix challenge. I hope you don’t mind the liberties I’ve taken with your awesome, fic, bb!

a/n: This feels like part of a fanfic version of “telephone.” “Forever” was originally written for a prompt on roque_clasique’s amazing birthday comment fic meme, which started almost exactly a year ago today (1/8/09). The prompt was: End ‘verse. 2009!Dean is busted-up hardcore and he only trusts 2014!Dean to help him get around and do everyday things.. wave_obscura says that “Forever” was “very much inspired by roque_clasique’s painfully awesome fic Asterisms with the same basic set up-- 2009!Dean never goes back to the past and they're still hunting down Lucifer.”

My fic uses that set up as well—and is very much in the shadow of its two amazing predecessors (plus, it uses some of the dialogue from “Forever”). I really don’t know what to think of this one, and I’m pretty anxious about posting it. Please, please read the rating, pairings and warnings before you begin!

Summary: Dean knew that look. He’d made it himself often enough, from the inside out. And, shit, if he’d ever thought he was on the down-low with that look, he was even stupider than he’d realized.

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a very small Lisa & Castiel ficlet for dotfic

Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:48:58 GMT

A very small and hastily-written Lisa & Castiel ficlet, for dotfic, who reminded me how nice it would be to see the two of them bonding (gen).

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Bingo!

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 15:36:13 GMT

Hey--I've completed my first fanfic bingo card ever! For hc_bingo --though apparently someone forgot to tell me it wasn't fever_dream_bingo, 'cause I seem to be kinda a one-trick pony like that *facepalm*

List of fills below the cut:
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"Make me down a pallet on your floor" (Dean/Lisa, Dean/Castiel, R)

Mon, 27 Dec 2010 04:03:23 GMT

Title: “Make me down a pallet on your floor”
Rating: R
Word Count: ~1.7K
Pairings: Dean/Castiel, Dean/Lisa
Spoilers: Through S5, but nothing at all about S6
Disclaimer: not mine, no profit.
a/n: for the last square on my hc_bingo diagonal line: “wings (always there).” I don’t think this is quite how the prompt is supposed to be used, but I hope it counts anyway.
More notes at the end.

Summary: With the perversity of fever, even as he lay there next to Lisa, Dean dreamt of Castiel.
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Insta-reaction for once: H50 1.12 (and not-so-instant: SPN 6.11)

Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:33:58 GMT

In which I am reduced to bullet points.

H50 1.12

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SPN 6.11

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Five Times Walter Bishop Met an Angel (and one that never happened) (Fringe/SPN fic--gen)

Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:13:40 GMT

Title: Five Times Walter Bishop Met an Angel, and one that never happened.
Fandoms: Fringe/Supernatural
Characters: Walter Bishop, Peter Bishop, Olivia Dunham, Dean Winchester, Castiel.
Pairings: none
Rating: pg-13 (for drug use)
Word Count: ~4.2K
Spoilers: through the middle of S5 for SPN (with two gratuitously quoted lines from S6); through S2 for Fringe. Specific spoilers for Fringe 2.16 (“Peter”) and 2.23 (“Over There, Pt. 2”) and SPN 5.04 (“The End”).
Warnings: recreational drug use.
Disclaimer: Fringe and Supernatural belong to their respective creators.
a/n: many thanks to dotfic for the extremely helpful beta! All remaining mistakes my own.
a/n: the main action of the story takes place between 5.02 and 5.04 for SPN, mid-S2 for Fringe.
a/n: quoted text, and one unmarked allusion from T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland and Little Gidding.
a/n: the idea that angels can move between alternate universes stolen from His Dark Materials, although that story has nothing to do with this one.
a/n: written for ozmissage at the multifandom xover_exchange and originally posted over there.

Summary: Castiel’s search for God brings him into Walter Bishop’s life—again.

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a day late and extremely short episode reations: H50 1.10; Merlin 3.11; SPN 6.09;.

Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:16:12 GMT

In which I chortle with many varieties of appreciation.

H50 1.10

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Merlin 3.11

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SPN 6.09

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In other news:

I actually saw HP 7 over the weekend. And despite having fifty pounds of five-year-old in my lap for most of the 2.5 hours, I really enjoyed it. I’m not much of a HP fan (though I’ve read most of them aloud to son #1), and this is the first of the movies I’ve seen in a movie theater, so I can’t really review it. But tell me what you thought, if you saw it.

Also, son #2 and I have been watching the BBC Robin Hood series from a few years ago on DVD. I’ve never seen it before, or heard much about it. It seems like Merlin, but with arrows (and no dragon). But we’re enjoying it. Is there stuff I should know about it?

HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO EVERYONE WHO CELEBRATES IT!

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Four Things John Winchester Learned to Appreciate about Lego....(SPN fic, gen)

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 00:47:03 GMT

This is a birthday fic for the wonderful, amazing calamitycrow, who gave me a prompt for Lego!fic with John and his boys months ago, and probably thought I'd forgotten all about it. Sorry it’s a little late, babe—and hope you enjoy it.

Title: Four Things John Winchester Learned to Appreciate about Lego (and one he would have if he’d only known).
Rating: PG (for a few swears)
Genre: pre-series, wee!chesters.
Spoilers: for 5.22.
Word Count: ~2.1K
Disclaimer: not mine, no profit.
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a day late and extremely short episode reations: SPN 6.06 and 6.07; Merlin 3.09

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 03:24:01 GMT

These yelling Monsters that with ceasless cry
Surround me

SPN 6.07
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Merlin 3.09

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Okay—I’ll come back for H50 Tues. or Wed.

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a day late and extremely short episode reations: Merlin 3.07; SPN 6.05; H50 1.06.

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:02:22 GMT

In which I continue to be easy to please.

Merlin 3.07
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SPN 6.05
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H50 1.06
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a day late and extremely short episode reations: Merlin 3.06; SPN 6.04; H50 1.05

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:26:06 GMT

In which TV is fun.

Merlin 3.06

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SPN 6.05

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H50 1.05
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I hear that Fringe is keeping the angst flag flying for us all, and I enjoyed 3.02. I meant to watch 3.03 on Friday, but got sidetracked by a dl of Benedict Cumberbatch, in all his gingery, posh, non-Sherlockian glory, hosting “Have I Got News for You.” Y’all know how I feel about the Cumber-voice, so you can imagine how much fun I had hearing him drawl-growl his way through words like “retaliatory” (which I now know has about a thousand more syllables in England than it does here—a fact about which I have no complaints). Except now I’m even more behind with Fringe.

But, I dunno, Benny, the competition is back in town—y’all saw the RDJ/JL set pics y/y? I may have to do a dueling Sherlock post soon.

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a day late and extremely short episode reations: Merlin 3.05; HI 5-0 1.04; SPN 6.03.

Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:29:37 GMT

Okay, the Merlin and H50 reactions got a little long this week--and the SPN one (I finally watched the ep tonight) is a little truncated. I think I need to go ponder everyone else's reviews to glean their wisdom.

Merlin 3.05
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H50 1.04
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SPN 6.03
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a day late and extremely short episode reations: Merlin 3.04; SPN 6.02; HI 5-0 1.03.

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:40:07 GMT

This week's TV, in which I am easy like Sunday morning, have all my buttons pushed, and have nothing particularly analytical to say. I mean, swords? babies? sharks? How am I supposed to be coherent about that?

Merlin 3.04
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SPN 6.02
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Hawaii Five-0
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I gather Fringe 3.02 was good, but it is languishing in my iTunes folder. And I did finally watch House 7.01, and, well, let's just say I haven't felt inspired to get a hold of the next few episodes....

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a day late and extremely short episode reations: HI 5-0 1.01; SPN 6.01; Fringe 3.01

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 23:13:51 GMT

So, I think I said I was going to watch less TV this week....Um, that turned out not to be so true.

Here, not in the order in which they aired, but in the order in which I watched them off itunes, are my reactions:

Hawaii Five-O 1.01:
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SPN 6.01:
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Fringe 3.01:

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House 7.01 is still languishing, and I'm waiting to watch Merlin 3.03 with my boys!

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Dean w/o Sam recs (plus 1 White Collar and 2 Sherlock)

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 14:11:08 GMT

Hi Folks:

My third rec post for spnroundtable is here: 5 fics featuring Dean w/o Sam--1 pre-series; 3 Stanford-era; one post-S3 AU (all but one are gen).

It was a really busy week, and I feel like I have a million White Collar and Sherlock fics I've been meaning to read open in tabs. Here are a couple of short things, though:

White Collar

We Protect Our Own by anon. (Found via jrosemary's wonderful White Collar Fixation blog) (GEN)

This is a fanfic trope--character X has previous experience of child pornography--that I usually steer well clear of--it can be such an easy excuse for gratuitous angst and magical-fixit h/c. But--it makes more sense for Neal than it does for many characters, and this piece is really nicely done--with an emphasis on procedure, and what it's like to live with difficult experiences, rather than making them magically go away. The interactions between Peter and Neal are perfectly IC.

Sherlock

Okay, I know there's a fandom preference for asexual!Sherlock--and there are plenty of reasons--both in canon and in BC's performance--for going with that. I've read a lot of great fic along those lines.

However, there is a kind of counter-current for a sexually greedy, toppy Sherlock, which I have to admit I enjoy the heck out of. Here are two short pieces that explore that characterization:

Innominate by accede (NC-17).

Covert groping at the Chinese Circus in 1.02. Beautifully written and blazing hot.

Timeline by entangled_now (NC-17)

Writing on the body. Gorgeous! (and if you haven't been reading entangled_now's Sherlock fic, may I suggest you start? The ratings range from pg to nc-17, and the character work is amazing!)

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Recs: 4 J2 h/c; 1 Sherlock; 1 White Collar (and Merlin)

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:24:10 GMT

Hi Folks:

My second spnroundtable rec post is here: this one is all J2 non-AU h/c (a seemingly specialized but actually vast subgenre--I'm sure I've left your favorites out!).

And since this seems a good place to share some other recs:

1. Two Pairs of Hands by chainsaw_poet (on AO3) (Sherlock, John, Mycroft--pg)
Even if you don't like malaria!fic as much as I do, this is a funny and sweet piece of h/c. (and if you do like malarial!Watson, it's a real treat to see it done for the 21st century!).

2. I've finally seen the summer White Collar finale (2.09). Dang, that was good! Let me see if I can sum up my feelings in a non-spoiler-y was:

* flail * Neal's hair * Peter's voice * Neal's smudges * bites nails until January *

I've read one gorgeous coda for the ep.:

In little rooms in buildings in the middle by lowriseflare (pg, gen)

3. I've also finally seen the Merlin S3 premiere. And, well....I enjoyed it, even though there seemed to be a lot of hooey mixed in with the good stuff. I have to say that as much as I adore Colin Morgan, and worry excessively about whether he's getting enough to eat, I am, as always, far more interested in Arthur. The Merlin story arc is too much of a will-he-won't-he (reveal his magic), either/or set-up. Whereas the Arthur story arc--will he (how will he) give up his prattishness and learn to be a great king?--makes room for actual character development.

I don't keep up with Merlin fic, but if you've read anything good, let me know!

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Out of Character (SPN: Smith & Wesson, gen)

Mon, 13 Sep 2010 02:40:10 GMT

More comment fic, y'all *facepalm* IDEK, the thing mad_serve has going, with its thousands of minor-illness prompts, is just pushing my buttons like nobody's business....

Title: Out of Character
Rating: pg-13 (for language); gen.
Word Count: ~1,400
Spoilers: for 4.17 and a tiny bit for 5.03
Disclaimer: Not mine, no profit.

a/n: written for this prompt
a/n: okay--this is kind of slashy gen--as close as I can probably come to Wincest...

Summary: Sam steered them into the farther reaches of the apartment, feeling that weird phase-shift he associated with his dreams of being someone else. Like this was something that other guy knew how to do. Even though Sam wouldn't have thought that guy had any time for looking after sick people, what with the ghost-chasing and vampire killing and all.

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