The Here And Now

Be Awake by candle_beck
"Don't," Dean finally managed, sucking at air. "Fuckin'. Carry me."

Sam sat back on his heels, disbelief wiping his face for a second before his jaw tightened and his eyes flashed. He bent over Dean, baring his teeth and Dean flinched back but that was just a lizard brain thing, he was sure of it. He wasn't scared of Sam, for christ's sake.

"You passed out behind the wheel, you do not get a say."

Dean stared at him, appalled. "I would never."

Too funny. Read here by rogue_clasique

“Oh, oh my god,” Sam says behind him, makes a little retching noise. “I think I’m gonna be sick.”

“’S pretty big,” Dean whispers unnecessarily. They’re crouched behind a big forsythia bush in suburban Massachusetts, peering through the dining room windows as an eight-foot tall garbage heap on dinosaur claws serves cupcakes to two of the cutest damn kids Dean’s ever seen in his goddamn life. And they’re identical, down to their light-up My Little Pony Nikes and curly brown ponytails.

borrowing shamelessly from cesperanza

"Livejournal is going down tomorrow Tuesday 11/18 from 8 am pacific, 11 am eastern, for at least four hours and maybe more as they move their servers from SF to Montana.

Afraid you might go into LJ withdrawal? Let me suggest that you while away the hours on fanlore! Document a little piece of your fannish history----a list, a community, a vid, a story, a challenge, a fan who you think should be remembered for her contributions to fandom. It's easy to get an account (just check out the left sidebar) and anyone can play. There's a little editing cheatsheat on the left."

If you're looking to read fanfic that is not hosted on Livejournal, you can cruise the following places:

Supernatural - No Stairway Anthology

big_pink's Supernatural Fic is hosted here

killabeez's fic is hosted here (Supernatural, Highlander, Star Trek)

astolat's fic is hosted here (Supernatural, Stargate Atlantis and much more)

Supernatural archives here and here

and don't forget to use LJ Archive to backup your journals.

I'll be hanging out on my insanejournal account: morgandawn

Gen
Skimming Clouds & Breathing Fire - FIC: Tiger Boy 1/1 by pdragon76
Dean’s favoring his left side. John sees when his son’s cutting back through the front bar from the bathroom. Probably wouldn’t have noticed if he wasn’t looking for it. But when Dean sits again, he’s canted slightly to the left, and John knows he’s copped it harder than he let on back at the room. And it serves him right. It really does. That’s what you get when you’re a cocky little shit who veers off track at the speed of light to circle round on a black dog. Like the sonuvabitch knew where it was gonna break cover before the goddamn mutt did.

Winsister
vaingirlfic: Fic: Fire Took My Baby Away (Dean/Girl!Sam) (possible WIP??)
Decades after his mother and baby sister died in a fire of demonic origin Dean Winchester picks up a hitchhiker off the interstate.

Slash
People Livin' In Competition by ladyjaida
In Oasis Plains, Oklahoma, it’s not exactly the first time Dean’s slapped Sam’s ass. Hell, it’s not even the second. Dean thinks the first time mighta been on Sam’s first day of high school; anyway, Sam wasn’t able to get a date until they moved halfway through Sam’s junior year.

The Gay That It Is (Or: The Gayest Gen Story Ever) by gekizetsu
Inappropriate crack. Dean gets another ‘idea’, and the cliches run rampant. Flamingly rampant. PG-13 for boykissing.

I’ll Have What He’s Having by gekizetsu
The Harry Met Sally riff. Dean messes with Sam until Sam can’t take any more. Dean shouldn’t do that. Or maybe he should.

elise_509: Like a Rolling Thunder Chasing the Wind (Sam/Castiel)
The sound of the door slamming is a violent crash, shaking the ground underneath his feet. It makes him wince, makes him shudder.

4x01 Coda: Traded Your Worth for These Scars (Sam/Dean, NC-17) by thenyxie
Dean wonders how he can be Chosen when he feels like this. When he feels like this about Sam. Burning up, bodies sweat slicked, sliding skin to skin, whispered words and moans, fingers twined tight into fists made of both their hands. God may have pulled him out of Hell, but Dean knows he wouldn’t last the day without Sam.

As always my gen recs are here and my het recs are here. Previous spn recs are also here

I was chatting about long plotty case stories in Supernatural fandom with cofax7 this weekend. So once again here are two such case stories that I have mentioned here before:

*Joshua Tree by cofax7 (The Winchesters take a break from demon-hunting to help solve the mysterious death of a rock-climber in Joshua Tree National Park.)

*Beach Blanket Poltergeist by hansbekhart (Obviously, Dean and Sam have never made their way to Santa Cruz, California to put down rabid ghosts and stop up a hell mouth. We have a lot of ghost stories in the area, but as for actual ghosts? That depends on what you believe in.) *And then if you like both het and slash but are not into Wincest try this story that deals with Deans' life after Sam leaves for Staford. I think of this more as a character study with the sex supporting Dean's personal journey.

1300 Days by stele3 (GEN, includes both het/slash sex, but that isn't the story's focus. PG-13 to R for violence, sex, language, and drug use. Mentions of suicidal behavior) It hadn’t been four years, actually. Somewhere in the darkness of an Arizona back road, Sam piped up with a revelation: between that April day when he’d left them in the baking heat of the South Dakota Badlands, and the Halloween night when Dean had shown up unannounced at his door (through his door, actually), there had been exactly 1300 turns of the Earth. Dean grunted, and thanked every benevolent spirit he knew that the darkness of night hid his face. *If you want kickass original female characters,

stele3 has concluded her Amazing Incredible Adventures of Freakboy and Dykegirl (GEN - includes het/slash/femslash. PG-13 to NC-17 for language, sex, violence, drug use, bodyswap, genderswap, femslash, and dinosaurs.) This is not a 'het' or a slash story - although there is a lot of love between Dean and the OFC Kim. I really cannot classify it but it is one of the more original pieces of SPN fic.

*Speaking of original fic, I am enjoying traveller's In That Bright Land (Jensen, Jared, AU, Texas panhandle, summer 1936.) Like cofax7's Joshua Tree it has a wonderful sense of time and place that feels very fresh and unique. It is a WIP. *And last, if you're into het, take a moment to peruse vinylroad's Supernatural fic - her het is complex with a tilt towards the sad. Like most het in this fandom it sometimes weaves in and out of Wincest, but it pulls off a difficult balance between porny and character building. Catch her writing here most of this fic is now locked. As always my gen recs are here and my het recs are here. Previous spn recs are also here

cofax7  reminded me a few weeks ago that this novel was on my reading list. I am so glad I finally took the time to read it. Not just because it references one of my favorite books (To Kill A Mockingbird). This is a rare story that gives the original female character (did I mention this was het story?) and Sam and Dean all equal weight. They are well rounded characters and by chapter 4 I was sucked into the story and *needed* to keep reading to find out where it was going. We have Sam angst and Dean angst and love and sacrifice and hot sex and  damaged souls and hopeful redemption ...and.... go forth and read!

Mockingbird by hiyacynth(many many thousand words)
http://hiyacynth.livejournal.com/218645.html

Summary: Dean frowned and shook his head. Even if he wanted to, how could he start to explain what Sam was these days? He wasn't sure himself. He knew what Sam had been before the war. He had a pretty good idea of what Sam'd been during. And he knew Sam wasn't either of those things anymore.

(NOTE: Some of these recs are for same sex stories with mature themes, among them there may be stories and/or discussions of consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.

There has been way too little Supernatural content in this journal lately. But I am beta-ing a very intense SPN vid (oh Dean!) and it has fired me up again.

I thought I'd showcase a few of my favorite writers today. There are so many, so I am grabbing a few randomly. Today, two writers who challenge themselves, the readers, and their characters by asking: What if....? If you're looking for simple case stories or comfortable "Sam and Dean and the Impala and their epic love" tales, then these may not be writers for you (more on those later).

kroki_refur
Writes mainly gen with some slash tossed in for leavening. Her writing is solid, she takes time building both the world and the characters (very important when you deviate from canonical characterization or even conventionally accepted views of the characters). She also has written a few thoughtful AUs: among them: What if Sam grew up in a universe where Dean never existed? And then they meet? (There But For The Grace) What if Sam lives in two universes simultaneously? one in which Jess dies and one in which Jess lives? (Crow on the Cradle)

If you're not in the mood for something long, then try some of her shorter works: they are tight and well paced:
Lost and Found (Sam saves Dean -- but sometimes, things just aren't that simple.)
Blood and Wine Are Red (Eventually, one of those boys is going to get caught.)
Messing Around With Slim (You don't mess around Slim. It's really a bad idea.)

kroki_refur uses cut tags and offers clear and detailed warnings and ratings on all her fic.

BUT..... if there is on thing in her LJ to read, it is her Supernatural Ten Expressions. Every episode she picks the best expressions from the show and serves them up to us with hilarious captions. Go forth and laugh.


fleshflutter
Her fic tends towards more darker themes but is also well thought out and well written. I'll start, however, with a story that is not dark to illustrate her wide range:
The Firefly That Loved Metallica (Dean's soul tastes like candyfloss. It's like a little, warm cloud of spun sugar in Sam's mouth. ) it is sweet and poignant without sacrificing masculine characterization

In Nomine Patris Her Bobby/Dean story is not a pairing I'd necessarily read or believe: but the psychological exploration of Dean's character and his unresolved issues with self-worth and family roles really sells the story to me.

One of the best horror SPN stories I've ever read was written by fleshflutter. It is The Old Gods Return (she has written a small coda to this story but I cannot seem to find it)

and last, if you thought you could never to read an 'end of the world story' and like it - I challenge you to read Starting From Home

fleshflutter also uses cut tags and offers clear and detailed warnings and ratings on all her fic.

thanks to bittermint, I found out that our cable on demand is offering a few NBC pilots. Bionic Woman and The Journeyman (both sci-fi). I watched Bionic Woman - it wasn't too terrible, just offering the hints of what mind be some interesting twists. It was like an old Witchblade-Firefly-BSG reunion with many of our favorite actors playing smaller (and some larger) parts.

We hope to watch The Journeyman tonight.

And last, in honor of lyra_wing's rewrite of The Outsiders for the Supernatural universe (NC17, Wincest), I reread the book this week. It still makes me cry like a 16 year old girl. Considering a 16yr girl wrote it, I find this fitting.

(NOTE: Some of these recs are same sex stories involving adult themes, among them there may be stories and/or discussions of consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.)

I am such a sap for death stories and sacrifice. I really enjoyed this video. Oh Dean.

http://meivocis.livejournal.com/326483.html

Big Bang Recs
Swear By All Flowers by sweetestdrain  (Sam/Dean, R)
With the Baba Yaga myth as a backdrop this is a Sam and Dean who are messy and vulnerable and human and true.

Hunger of Old Mouths by plutogirl10  (Sam/Dean, R)
To quote killabeez:  "It's one of those slash-notslash stories, in that outside circumstances push the [slash] issue in a way that completely and totally works for me. It's like a have your cake and eat it too kind of story, and so satisfying in that regard, particularly for someone like me who loves the Wincest like burning, but also desperately needs to have it flow out of the characters as we see them on the show."

The Knuckles of Skinnybone Tree by hansbekhart (Sam/Dean, NC17)
Summary: John Winchester walks the badlands, lost on the Path of the Dead, when he meets two mysterious men: a pair of hunters chasing the same ghost that he is, who tell him that he's wound up more than twenty years in the future. They promise to get him back to his own time - back to his young children - but refuse to tell him anything about themselves. The three men find themselves entangled with the warring spirits of the land, but John is pursued by nightmares and caught up between the two hunters, who are keeping secrets that John doesn't understand.

And a bonus RPS story that blew me away this evening: 
Untitled Jared Padelecki Project (Jared/Jensen, R/NC17, RPS).
Well plotted, painful and  very intense. I loved watching this story unfold.It was like origami.
Summary: After Supernatural, Jensen and Jared aren't talking. But a film's a film and Jensen could really use the money.

NOTE: some of these links are to  same sex stories involving adult themes, among them consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.

Groundhog Day is one of my favorite movies. (nb: it is also one of the Dalai Lama's favorites. Or so I 've been told). So if you're in the mood for a bit of snark, a smidgen of angst and the tale of  Groundhog named Phil, then check it out.

Punxsutawney Sucks by big_pink

Summary: Six weeks after Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, people are mysteriously bursting into flame.
Rated: Gen-o-riffic. Fun, funny, moderate amounts of angst, but mostly a romp.

Excerpt:
They approached town from the north, saw the signs when they were still a fair distance out. Shit, how could you miss them? I am so going to have a field day with this, Dean thought, glancing at Sam in the passenger seat. “You’re only 10 miles from Punxsutawney, home of Phil!” he read softly, like he had children’s stories when Sam was little. And in the middle of the billboard, a painted image of a big bulky rodent on his hind legs, little forelegs held out almost zombie-like. Dean bit the inside of his mouth, hard. Poor Sammy. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

“Don’t,” Sam warned, as though Dean had subtitles. A little unnerving, that habit, actually.

Very lengthy, twisty (and sometimes complicated story) about the lengths Sam would go to protect Dean and to win peace for his family. Even if the first chapters confuse you, stick with it. Excellent secondary characters and well plotted.

Six of One by vee_fic 
(63,000 words)

Tagline: "I'm looking for somebody," said Sam. "Somebody named Sam Winchester?"

A fan has offered to do my volunteer requirements so I can submit my vids to MediaWest without attending. (Fans rock). [Poll #981249][Poll #981249]

I love this story. It felt like a dream.

Dust In The Wind by lyra_wing

It was like a sixth sense. Knowing when a change in the weather would come, knowing which way the dice would fall. As time passed, the sense grew stronger. Sam could tell immediately when someone was lying to him, Dean always got dealt the best hand in the deck, and sometimes, if they both wanted something enough... it'd just happen.

SPN Recs needed  for my friend GF  - she likes sensual, well written, with plot and drama.  Humor not as much the main ingredient as a side dish.  She has only seen season 1.   I'd like to start her out with a few het  recs (although she is not adverse to slash, she may not yet be on board with the Wincest)..

So far my thoughts are straying to
(stories have been moved here)
1300 Days by stele3
In The Company Of Demons by stele3

This may be a one off rec post, but if anyone else has any happy possession stories, I am all ears. this one made me ....howl....yes that's the word. (NOTE: Some of these recs are for same sex stories with mature themes, among them there may be stories and/or discussions of consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.)

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Sam looks up at him. The smile spreading across his face is the archetype of cat-with-cream smug.

Suddenly, Dean finds himself flipped into the bed with Sam sprawled over him nuzzling his neck.

"What're you doing?" he demands, squirming.

Sam pauses and looks up at him, slanted eyes lidded. "Marking you," he says, shifting so he can nuzzle behind Dean's ear.

There is way too much to love in this story. Need a pick-me-up? Hard day at work? Squirrels gnawing at your underwear?

Join Sam and Dean in their epic tale of the "Muscle of Love"
http://researchgrrrl.livejournal.com/66584.html

"Don't hit on the valkyries," Sam whispered furiously. "I'm serious, Dean. Just...don't."

I've been waiting for this series to end and it has. The concept is simple - snapshots of what happened to Dean during the 4 years (or 1300 days) he and Sam were apart. But that is like saying Hamlet is this play about some Danish prince.

This story takes the characters through emotional arcs and journeys, offers up some of the best original characters I've ever seen. It horrifies you, breaks your heart and leaves you swimming against an undertow of joy.

1300 Days by stele3

Start here: http://stele3.livejournal.com/14466.html

The conclusions are here:
http://stele3.livejournal.com/14839.html
http://stele3.livejournal.com/15042.html
http://stele3.livejournal.com/15119.html

"He had said nothing to Sam, because anything that needed saying, they already knew.

And the rest he could bear alone."