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twasadark recorded Bring Out Your Dead and it's prologue/prequel, The Future as B-Movie as podfics! You can download the files here. Thank you, twasadark!
This is one of those fics that never would've been written were it not for a commentfic prompt, and Uno and I are forever grateful tomaychorian for letting us take her prompt and run with it hard and fast, cackling maniacally. Croatpocalyptic road trip gen h/c, if you're into it. Plus vampires.
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I haven't watched SPN 7x18 yet, but I have some 7x17-related recs. I'll put them behind a cut for spoilers.
Pencils in Heaven byautumn_lilacs is gen with background Castiel/Daphne (and I really love the way she did the Cas/Daphne here, I WANT ALL THE CAS/DAPHNE) and it gives me all the :'DDDD feelings about Cas. Plus, the OC is wonderful. It's not a fix-it fic, but it is like a balm to my heart.
This Castiel&Lucifer meta by![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
crowleyshouseplant strikes me as a good exploration of Castiel's headspace and its new tenant at the end of the episode. Hell is other people who are secretly yourself. I agree with it except I don't think they character-assassinated Lucifer and I'm too grim to want a 'grip you tight' parallel, but everything else is a big yes, especially as an unreliable narrator POV. That is to say, I think this is more an exploration of Cas's reasoning at this point than the narrative's final word. Cas could've been a Satan figure once but that time has come and gone. The devil never tried to redeem himself, but Cas feels too guilty to see the difference.
Then there's this meta/ficthing bymoragmacpherson is a great blow-by-blow elucidation of Castiel's thought processes starting from when he gets his memories back. Speaking of which, WHAT A GREAT SCENE THAT WAS, HUH? Of course Cas remembers everything while he’s smiting demons because ANGELS ARE WARRIORS OF GOD, and for all that he has picked up other identities along the way, this has always been his purpose. If he remembers this one thing, he remembers what’s fundamental, and from there everything falls into place.
What makes me scream in a burst of emotions I don't really understand is how he snaps back to being the Winchesters’ self-appointed guardian so quickly. After remembering everything, he had a minute of self-loathing where he was all DON’T DEFEND ME!!, but then the trenchcoat came out and something clicked. Smiting the demons triggered Castiel’s purpose, but the trenchcoat triggered his choice. Smiting demons is angelic, sure, but the dirty trenchcoat belonged to the angel that Balthazar said was in YOU KNOW. Then Cas put it on and went forth because he wanted to do the right thing, always wanting to do the right thing though results may vary. In a way, I think Cas is still learning the difference between being right and being good. His need to be right has a history of making his punishments especially terrible, like how Godstiel smote the crap out of everything, but also how he didn’t hesitate to destroy himself to make amends to Sam. Cas is no stranger to sacrificing himself for his chosen cause. It's not what he loves that would destroy him, but love itself.
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I'm also into The Sopranos like a billion years too late. Damn, that shit is bleak, I can't take too much of it at a time. I can't help but wonder if it had had a fandom then like fandoms work now, what it'd be like. I bet there'd be a lot of Christopher apologism hahahaha DX. If the characters were younger and prettier, I bet there'd be slash up the wazoo. I am also watching the Sarah Connor Chronicles and am already dreading running out of episodes, MAN. It keeps giving me things I never knew I needed. why did they cancel this show.
But another thing about The Sopranos: they keep playing all the classic rock songs that SPN used in Tony's strip club. I get cognitive dissonance. Brother feelings? DENIED. JERSEY MOBSTER SKEEVINESS WHILE TOPLESS WOMEN GYRATE IN THE BACKGROUND.
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Also I am co-writing a Big Bang withzempasuchil. It's an S4 AU where Cas's vessel is Sam, and it's not gen.
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I'm 83 pages into Carlos Ruiz Zafon's "The Angel's Game" and I'm really loving his style, or at least the translation. The blurb had me at "dark gothic Barcelona", "pulp fiction writer", and something called "the Cemetery of Forgotten Books". It sounds foreboding and it gets pretty grim, but I am also delighted at the author's self-deprecating humor. Here's a short quote:
twasadark recorded Bring Out Your Dead and it's prologue/prequel, The Future as B-Movie as podfics! You can download the files here. Thank you, twasadark!This is one of those fics that never would've been written were it not for a commentfic prompt, and Uno and I are forever grateful to
maychorian for letting us take her prompt and run with it hard and fast, cackling maniacally. Croatpocalyptic road trip gen h/c, if you're into it. Plus vampires.+
I haven't watched SPN 7x18 yet, but I have some 7x17-related recs. I'll put them behind a cut for spoilers.
Pencils in Heaven by
autumn_lilacs is gen with background Castiel/Daphne (and I really love the way she did the Cas/Daphne here, I WANT ALL THE CAS/DAPHNE) and it gives me all the :'DDDD feelings about Cas. Plus, the OC is wonderful. It's not a fix-it fic, but it is like a balm to my heart.This Castiel&Lucifer meta by
crowleyshouseplant strikes me as a good exploration of Castiel's headspace and its new tenant at the end of the episode. Hell is other people who are secretly yourself. I agree with it except I don't think they character-assassinated Lucifer and I'm too grim to want a 'grip you tight' parallel, but everything else is a big yes, especially as an unreliable narrator POV. That is to say, I think this is more an exploration of Cas's reasoning at this point than the narrative's final word. Cas could've been a Satan figure once but that time has come and gone. The devil never tried to redeem himself, but Cas feels too guilty to see the difference.Then there's this meta/ficthing by
moragmacpherson is a great blow-by-blow elucidation of Castiel's thought processes starting from when he gets his memories back. Speaking of which, WHAT A GREAT SCENE THAT WAS, HUH? Of course Cas remembers everything while he’s smiting demons because ANGELS ARE WARRIORS OF GOD, and for all that he has picked up other identities along the way, this has always been his purpose. If he remembers this one thing, he remembers what’s fundamental, and from there everything falls into place.What makes me scream in a burst of emotions I don't really understand is how he snaps back to being the Winchesters’ self-appointed guardian so quickly. After remembering everything, he had a minute of self-loathing where he was all DON’T DEFEND ME!!, but then the trenchcoat came out and something clicked. Smiting the demons triggered Castiel’s purpose, but the trenchcoat triggered his choice. Smiting demons is angelic, sure, but the dirty trenchcoat belonged to the angel that Balthazar said was in YOU KNOW. Then Cas put it on and went forth because he wanted to do the right thing, always wanting to do the right thing though results may vary. In a way, I think Cas is still learning the difference between being right and being good. His need to be right has a history of making his punishments especially terrible, like how Godstiel smote the crap out of everything, but also how he didn’t hesitate to destroy himself to make amends to Sam. Cas is no stranger to sacrificing himself for his chosen cause. It's not what he loves that would destroy him, but love itself.
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I'm also into The Sopranos like a billion years too late. Damn, that shit is bleak, I can't take too much of it at a time. I can't help but wonder if it had had a fandom then like fandoms work now, what it'd be like. I bet there'd be a lot of Christopher apologism hahahaha DX. If the characters were younger and prettier, I bet there'd be slash up the wazoo. I am also watching the Sarah Connor Chronicles and am already dreading running out of episodes, MAN. It keeps giving me things I never knew I needed. why did they cancel this show.
But another thing about The Sopranos: they keep playing all the classic rock songs that SPN used in Tony's strip club. I get cognitive dissonance. Brother feelings? DENIED. JERSEY MOBSTER SKEEVINESS WHILE TOPLESS WOMEN GYRATE IN THE BACKGROUND.
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Also I am co-writing a Big Bang with
zempasuchil. It's an S4 AU where Cas's vessel is Sam, and it's not gen.+
I'm 83 pages into Carlos Ruiz Zafon's "The Angel's Game" and I'm really loving his style, or at least the translation. The blurb had me at "dark gothic Barcelona", "pulp fiction writer", and something called "the Cemetery of Forgotten Books". It sounds foreboding and it gets pretty grim, but I am also delighted at the author's self-deprecating humor. Here's a short quote:
Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency. Any journalist prone to florid prose would be sent off to write funeral notices for three weeks. If, after this penance, the culprit relapsed, Don Basilio would ship him off permanently to the 'House and Home' pages. We were all terrified of him, and he knew it.
"Did you call me, Don Basilio?" I ventured timidly.
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Because they hate sunshine, rainbows, and kittens. AND THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.
I will never stop being emotional and bitter re: TSCC's cancellation.
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