Lurker Central

Now that I've signed up for homebrewbingo (I know! But there's no deadline so it hardly even counts) I officially have Too Many Bingo Cards to wrangle. This is just a post to keep the active ones in one handy-dandy place. I will add to it as needed.:)

( Kink Bingo )

( H/C Bingo )

( Homebrew Bingo )

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Okay, I'll put some content in here after all.:) I got a comment on This Temporary Flesh and Bone noting that I've written a lot of wingfic (which I have!) and tend to mix up how Cas' wings look (which I do intentionally - part of the fun of not having a canonical standard for his wings means we can make them look however we want.) I've been meaning to tag my wingfics as such for a while, so while I'm doing that I thought it might be fun to list what I've done where. Or incredibly self-indulgent! It can be two things.

(I'm leaving out fics where Cas' wings are mentioned but not described in detail - in The Road From Sodom his wings are mentioned a lot as body language, but Uriel doesn't rhapsodize about them any more than he would Cas' arms, and Cas having wings is a big plot point in Somethings That Are Broken but the story's from his POV, so they're not a visual focal point.)

Wings: White and feathered, silky to the touch. (This was baby's very first Dean/Cas fic! I wrote it for the 2010 fandom_stocking.)

Shimmer and Shine: Feathers that glitter like diamonds and can only be seen reflected in a dream.

Black As Night: Iridescent black feathers, the black as an analogue to how his True Form wings were damaged in Hell.

Needle And Thread: Iridescent black again, this time because Cas had been badly injured when they manifested, with him able to shift the highlight colors (he changes them from a blue matching his eyes to a green matching Dean's.)

Learn Your Body Like A Nursery Rhyme In Braille: Multicolored light all blending together to make a white light to bright to look at, feathers simultaneously feeling soft and like a finely cut jewel.

This Temporary Flesh And Bone: Shadow made solid, the feathers soft and clingy like smoke.

Look, Up In The Sky: White and feathered again. (He's a winged alien superhero in this, so he has comic book-style angel wings.)

Outrun My Gun: Filigrees of light. (I didn't actually tag this one, since the wings are only there for a few seconds, but Dean remembering them is important. And they're pretty.:)

The Second Hand Unwinds: Bright light again, although them manifesting is not a good thing the two times it happens.

That should be all of them? I think that's all of them.

Today is August 16th, the 35th anniversary of the death of my most favorite of all musicians, Elvis Presley. To commemorate TCM is having an Elvis-athon, including Jailhouse Rock and Viva Las Vegas.




Two true facts about me!

1) Elvis was my first celebrity crush. (possibly only predated by my crush on Luis from Sesame Street. Luis/Maria is the first pairing I remember consciously shipping, long before I entered first grade and was all OTP about He-Man/Sorceress. I started young.:)

2) The first record (and yes, it was a record) I actually owned was an Elvis Presley Greatest Hits. I got it for either my 5th birthday or for Christmas that year (I just remember unwrapping it at my grandmother's house, not the occasion.) Whenever I would listen to it I would stare raptuously at Elvis' pretty picture on the cover. I don't know if this was the beginning of my weakness for dark-haired, blue-eyed men or merely the first manifestation of it.

Oh yay, now I only need a Maria Hill icon to complete the Agents of SHIELD set (of the major players, anyway, and I'd rather have comics!Hill icon anyway - not that I don't like movie Maria, but comics Maria, especially Director Hill version, is a boss.)

Anyway, this weekend was a giant lost cause writing wise; I didn't make my word count nor did I finish anything. Ugh. Ugh. Must do better tonight because the DCBB pressure. The pressure!

Also, someone needs to write a story where Nat and Clint infiltrate Comic-Con to score those vintage cards for Coulson. It could be a multi-year quest! His birthday's right around con time (July 8th, I believe) so his birthday gift each year could be new cards for his set (Clint would secretly plant them in his locker to avoid fraternization rumors, at least at first, and then it would just become a thing.)

(BTW, fandom, I love you but we need to have a discussion about Natasha's name and how yes, Coulson calls her Tasha but Clint calls her Nat. He calls her Nat all the time! If everyone's calling her Tasha it only makes me lose track of who's talking, especially when I'm trying to speed read fic on my phone during breaks at work. Think of me and my addled brain, gentle fandom! (And on a purely shipping perspective, that the two men in her life call her by the two separate sides of her name is part of what makes me so gooey about the three of them.))

Speaking of things that should be written, has anyone written the AU where in the hiatus before White Collar S4 Coulson recruits Neal for SHIELD? (possibly because Peter calls in a favor, because you know they were both classmates at Quantico before Fury waltzed in and seduced him away.)

Yes, fandom. Do these things. *nods*

I cannot adequately express how happy this existing makes me:



Ahem. As you were.

*omggatotsuomgyay*

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I'm retreating to my spoiler proof bunker now to write All The Words. Love your spoiler cuts and don't burn the internet down while I'm gone!

Hey, remember Bible Study, my fic where Dean and Cas have phone sex via the Bible?

It's currently sitting at precisely 666 hits at AO3.

(Sometimes it's the little things that get you through the day, y'know?:)

I finally saw Tangled! It was just as cute as everyone said it would be. I actually liked it a lot more than I did The Princess and the Frog (which I also liked! but I also thought it was a very careful movie, if that makes any sense? Like they made sure to hit all the Disney notes point by point. If the whole movie had been as cool and daring as the art deco scene and the "Friends on the Other Side" song it would have been a stronger movie. I digress.)

( cut for spoilers for the three people who still haven't seen it )

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I was looking up angel names today and came across this:

Elemiah – Angel of Inward Journeys
Traditionally believed to watch over and protect those who travel by water. Guides us to retrieve insights from our subconscious minds.

"Traveling my water" you say. (AND subconscious insights!) *files away for future use*

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So I finished my outline for my sncross_bigbang and, um...guys, should outlines be 1300 words? I think I'm doing this wrong. Now I'm trying to avoid the mistakes of my Outrun My Gun outline, where I'd write "Dean and Cas haunt Sam as he summons crossroad demons, goes hunting, etc." and that would mutate from one line in the outline to pages and pages and pages in reality, but I'm starting to get worried on just how long this is going to be.(!)

(For anyone not already bored to death, I "outline" by basically writing a one sentence or so summary of each scene. For example (not from anything): "Dean and Cas realize the room is trapped but can't get out of the way before ring of fire catches them both - they go back to back as the demons swarm in and then FIGHT." Sometimes a line or two of dialogue if I want to make sure I remember it.

This is a lot of scenes, is what I'm saying!)

*despairs of what the spn_j2_bigbang outline will look like.*

*starts working*

Hear me out: Santa is often described as a "jolly old elf" and he's boss of a whole gang of elves that make his toys, so it's safe to say he could be some flavor of fey. From what we've seen of fey on Supernatural, they're greedy, malicious, sneaky little things (so...y'know, they're pretty much fey) and in folklore even benevolent fey have their jerk moments. (I would be shocked if Gabriel didn't go by Puck at some point in his existence.) We don't know for sure what opinion fey have of angels, but if they're anything like everything else it's probably not good, especially if the angel they're dealing with is one working himself up into a truly impressive snit over some fey co-opting the identity of a saint.

Basically, what I'm saying is that I want fic where Sam and Dean have to save Cas from Santa Claus.

So...GISHWHES. Has anyone signed up? Because I can throw together an essay at the last minute with the best of them if I can be on your teams.

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Yesterday some kind soul filled in my Nick/Ellis L4D2 prompt on comment_fic and it made me so happy. I love my zombie hunting boys. I once plotted out a fic where the L4D world is actually the same as the 5.04!verse and the Four stumble on the aftermath of the fight at the Asylum, find Cas still breathing and nurse him back to health.

Then of course it all goes south when it comes out that Nick sold his soul years ago for a big score and the contract's come due. He knows it, Cas knows it just by looking at him and Nick tells Cas to look out for Ellis and those other two rubes. Obviously everyone's wrecked when Nick dies, especially Ellis, then Cas casually mentions that they could just go down to hell and get him back.

The only catch there is that Cas says they have to make a stop and drag someone else out of hell, too - some guy named Dean Winchester. Oh, and perform a ritual that will rip the devil out of his living host, one that can only be performed in hell. They're all up for that, right?

Then I realized that's a long, long story and only I would want to read it. *pets zombie hunters*

I can download Enochian as a font. Oh God bless the internet.

ETA: Enochian! I had to update OpenOffice after install for it to show up; check wordpad first to make sure it's in your system.

Now I have just have to figure out how to code so it'll show up on LJ.

So apparently whoever's in charge of the polls on the syfy.co.uk doesn't actually watch the shows, because Misha wound up on the Sexy Sci-fi Babes poll (and he is a sexy babe, just, um, not the way everyone else of that list is.:) Either that or whatever intern was in charge of putting that together was a fan and couldn't talk the powers that be into having three actors from Supernatural on the Sexy Hunks poll and slipped his name in hoping the editors wouldn't do a basic google search. And if so, it worked, so hey, good
job.


So obviously Misha got on twitter and exhorted everyone to help him win the poll to, and I quote, "send the internet into an exploding orgy of gender anarchy." Which I think we can all agree is a noble goal, right?

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Yesterday's question on the fanfic meme was about whether one prefers canon or fanon, and I realized that I didn't mention personal canon at all, because I do a lot of that. Sometimes personal canon shows up in fic but I have lots of background detail floating around my head that haven't found a way out yet.

As an example, here's five bits of personal canon I haven't yet used (but may in the future):

1) For a while John, Ellen and Bill had a nice poly thing going on, up until John realized he was starting to fall for Ellen and started to overthink everything, both out of guilt for feeling something like that for someone other than Mary and because he didn't realize that Bill's reaction would have been, "Well, of course you're in love with my wife. Who wouldn't fall in love with my wife? Now pass me another beer, would ya?" Then Bill died before they could resolve anything and John went on to torture himself about it for the rest of his life, wondering if he'd let Bill die because he wanted Ellen. This despite the clear fact that he would have set himself on fire if it could have saved Bill. (Look, Dean comes by some of his issues honestly.)

2) Castiel and Uriel were the two angels who visited Lot in Sodom.

3) The reason things came to a head when they did in 4.20 was because Uriel wasn't there to run interference anymore.

4) The reason it looks like Cas' clothes don't fit in 5.04 is because they're Dean's. It was just a matter of convenience for him to borrow Dean's stuff when his own clothes got ruined and he didn't have the mojo to fix them anymore, and Dean just never got around to getting Cas clothes of his own. And he refuses to admit that part of the reason for that is he likes seeing Cas walking around in his old clothes.

5) Another 2014 one: the real reason Cas started in with the heavy drugs, not just the painkiller and stims everyone took but the hard stuff, was because Lucifer found Cas fascinating and made a hobby of walking through his dreams the moment Cas was human enough to have them. And since Dean was destroyed over Sam saying yes in the first place, he felt he couldn't go to Dean with this, so he just sort of...dealt with it the best he could. Mostly by taking anything he could to keep from dreaming --- which of course didn't help things with Dean at all.

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Thirty Days of Fanfic

16 – Summaries – Do you like them or hate them? How do you come up with them, if you use them?

Summaries are torture. Torture. There's nothing worse than that feeling of having a fic all ready to post and realizing you have to come up with a summary.

( The Other Days )