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I swear I have a post about - or at least inspired by - the finale rattling around in my head, I just never know where to start. So instead you get rec posts, which are more interesting anyway.

( Recs! Including one The Office fic. )

So that's my Memorial Day weekend gift to you! I think I won't have internet starting this afternoon, when I leave for my weekend getaway. You'll be spared a ridiculous "OMG LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR castielfest!" post, but this only means you're getting that post today.

OMG TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR castielfest SPREAD THE WORD OMG

Otherwise this will happen. Do you want that on your conscience?

Once upon a time, be_themoon made me a Supernatural primer, and now, animus_wyrmis, I do the same for you. Perhaps one day, you too will make a Supernatural primer for someone because, as fandom knows, crazy loves company. But yeah okay, Betsy's primer is still better, much more thorough, because mine isn't really a primer. It's more like a list of things I like. But hey, maybe with our powers combined, you are Captain Planet. Welcome to the monkey house, girl.

( spn i've watched that i'm delighted with )

In related news,



THREE (3!) MORE DAYS TO SIGN UP FOR castielfest??? HUP two three four TWO two three four LET'S GO LET'S GO \o/

I sat down to write my finale reaction post, then wrote episode tags instead. Oh well.

459 words for Lisa: ( incoherent with things unsaid )
270 words for Sam: ( this was his everyday )

That's all for now. FOR NOW.

The following showed up on Fuck Yeah Merlin and now my heart is equal parts LOL and :(


In other news of beautiful symmetry, castielfest has 42 members and 24 sign-ups thus far omg yay \o/

Does anyone else watch the Ghostfacers webisodes? I love them, but I can't help thinking that this must be what non-Supernatural fans see when they're watching Supernatural. XD

I am still digesting the finale, so in the meantime, walk this way:


castielfestcastielfestcastielfest

COME PLAY, GUYS. We've got some amazing prompts in the sign-up post already. And hey, even if you don't sign up as a participant, you can still be a betareader or a pinch hitter. A 'fest always needs those! I gotta extend a high five to smilla02 here for her great work on the graphics because omg, I am like <3 *___* <3 at the layout and banners, look at 'em. I am also thrilled to bits and pieces to see you guys already spreading the word on your journals! Thanks, dudes! omg i am so excitedddddd

Hey, Dreamwidthers, you too can participate! Quoth Casfest submission guidelines, "You can post the actual fic/art wherever you want - your own LJ, AO3, etc. – but just make sure your submission is publicly visible." So, y'know. Come on over!

It's been a bull market for SPN commentfic lately. Check out these profit margins.

Led Zeppelin Sucks
Sam Wesson, Dean Smith. PG. 494 words. Spoilers through 4x17. The AU of the AU where Sam and Dean actually do take to the road together and become full-time ghostbusters. I wrote this one ages ago for the first lines meme, but didn't post it because I thought I wanted to make it into a longer fic. But now I reckon I'll just write some other longerfic instead, if it comes to it.

Man's Worst Friend
A hellhound and his demon. PG. 407 words. 5x21 coda. Enabling fandom's current obsession with hugs, I wrote this one for the SPN cuddlememe off the prompt "Crowley cuddling with his hellhounds!!"

Down to the Filter
Sam, Dean. PG. 1797 words. This one's from ohsam's birthday commentfic meme, for the prompt "Sam starts smoking at Stanford, a slow but inexorable climb towards addiction. He tries halfheartedly to hide it from Dean after Jess dies, but Dean finds out pretty quickly and is shocked and appalled."


Oh hey, deancasbigbang! OH HEY, new Dawn Treader posterthings! DECEMBER, WHY SO FAR AWAY? Pevencest, remember when you and I used to hold hands and take long walks on the beach? What happened to those days? Oh, right, gay sorcerers. Then a vaguely sauntering apocalypse. Well, who's to say Uther and/or Peter can't hire the Witchfinders Winchester to smoke out a hag, hmm? Elsewhere in the space-time continuum, Susan tells Castiel to keep his chin up. We can make this work, my fandoms!

I just watched the first episode of Who #11 (my first Who!) and my reaction can be summed up as such: omg Amy Pond *___* <3 <3 <3

Casfest sign-ups open this weekend. WhoooOOoOOOoOoo's with me?!

CASTIELFEST:
-- is now a fanfic AND fanart exchange. \o/
-- needs YOUR help, artists! Can you spare some time to help us out by
------1) making a Castielfest comm header graphic,
------2) tweaking the layout of the Castielfest comm, AND/OR
------3) making 500x300-pixel Castielfest banners?
Because that would be great. DO IT FOR CAS, GUYS.

I also signed up for spnrarepairs. Sordid angel backstory and/or time-traveling incest will soon be mine! In other news, Sam's birthday commentfic party at ohsam is still chugging along nicely. I feel like I'm missing the point of 3W4DW because I keep on turning the conversation back to LJ.

It's been memetime o'clock here for ages, huh? This one's from smilla02, except I changed some things:
Comment with a link to an awesome song on YouTube, and I will:
1. Respond with something random about you.
2. Tell you which color you remind me of.
3. Tell you my first memory of you.
4. Tell you what animal you remind me of.
5. Ask you something I've always wondered about you.
6. Tell you who I ship you with.
7. Challenge you to post this on your journal.

Things that happen in chat when you're supposed to be sleeping: Castielfest, ya'll! Raise your hand if you'd be interested in a Castiel-centric fic exchange. Gen, slash, het, whatever -- as long as Cas is top-billing. We're thinking sign-ups begin a few days after the S5 finale airs, stay open for a week or so, then participants have a month to write at least 1000 words upon receiving their assignments. vikki has a poll here to gauge interest, and it would be awesome if you could fill it out and let us know your questions/concerns/disagreements/suggestions.

It's Three Weeks For Dreamwidth time, trying to generate more Dreamwidth activity to celebrate its 1-year anniversary, hence the cross-posting. If you, like me, are still like "Dreamwhat?", it might behoove us to check out stepps's Lonely Planet guide to Dreamwidth. And, here's something cool that DW-clicking did for me recently: ephemere's thoughts on Filipino identity and writing about other cultures led me to the post that sparked it ('No Foreigners Allowed' by Charles Tan), which in turn led me to the sidebar of Charles Tan's blog, which is stuffed full of links to Filipino speculative fiction fkdjsfklkjk AWESOME.


This old meme:
1 - Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 - I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 - You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 - You'll include this explanation.
5 - You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

maboheme asked me five fannish questions ( under the cut. )