all my keysmash are belong to you

Happy birthday, sweet aldehyde! May your day be filled with many wonders! I offer you a gift of Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman being pleased by your existence:


":D!" they said. (Later, Gary added, "\o/!")

And now, matters that are almost as important! You thought castielfest was dead? You thought wrong! It walks again, calling for your brains, if by 'brains' we mean 'commentfic/art impulses'. And that is exactly what we mean!



BECAUSE FUCK HELLATUS, THAT'S WHY. Go, go and prompt for all ships or no ships, any and all genres, prompt for tentacles, prompt for the war and the time between battles, prompt for the Chrysler building, prompt profound bonds, and profound bondage and dewy meatsuits and jumping on the bed.

Thirdly, I watched Friday the 13th hahahahahaha. WE CAN TURN THIS INTO A SASSY AU, YES? Look, the college kids are angels and Jason is Alastair.

[originally posted at http://whynot.dreamwidth.org/45072.html | comments]

And castielfest is DONE, baby, BOOM, baby, chyyyeeeaaahhh. Here is the masterlist, which consists of 11 fanarts and 83 fanfics HOLY MOTHER OF GOD. AH CASFEST, I remember when you were but a germ of an idea being batted around chat. Won't you look at you now! If you had cheeks, I'd pinch 'em!

For Casfest I received an excellent fic from gabby_silang called Elysium, which is everything I've always wanted from expat!Cas. It is rarefied and sharp, and I love it so. YOU SHOULD TOTALLY READ IT.

In other news, I sank further into the depths of the intertubes and got a tumblr. Same handle as my Twitter, that's right. Dunno what I'll do with it yet, but so far it's full of caves, deserts, and angels. By the way, explain to me how this is not Castiel/Anna fanart, unless it's Castiel/Claire fanart. Or Castiel/Scully.

While merrily tumblring, I stumbled across this and was like MUST FIND MOAR, and lo, I did! Kolmanskop, the abandoned diamond mining town in southern Namibia. In 1908, Zacharias Lewala found a diamond in the Namib Desert, and he showed it to his German supervisor August Staunch, who was like, "oh that's nice I guess," and mysteriously thereafter, a bunch of German miners settled in the area and began to exploit the land. The town declined by WW1 and was ultimately abandoned in 1954, after which the land began to reclaim it. The desert sifted in through the windows and doors, and settled where people used to. It's not that the sand fills up the silence; the desert brings silence with it.

Or it would, maybe, if Kolmanskop isn't now a tourist attraction. oh god I wanna go.

So yeah, I'm totally late to Kolmanskop appreciation hour, but here's a picspam to make up for it: ( 'You do not go into the desert to find identity, but to lose it.' --Edmond Jabes )

Speak up if you got a tumblr!

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1. Two days ago was Indonesia's 65th birthday, and you'd think it would be the perfect time to write more Indochesters, but the world instead decided that it was the perfect time for me to lose my housing HAHAHAHAHAHhdkjslf. I'm bunking with a friend for the time being, and I might be able to get my housing back, but just in case I can't... who in New York City needs a roommate ASAP? :D? :D??

2. eid_ka_chand/eid_fic is having its 2010 Eid Al-Fitr Challenge! I signed up last year wanting to write something about the Carpet and Abu from Aladdin, and then never wrote anything, ALAS. Maybe this year I'll actually write something about Muslim Indonesian Novaks? If, you know. If being homeless doesn't get in the way.

3. SPEAKINNA INDONESIA: Fantasy Fiesta 2010 omggg INDONESIAN-LANGUAGE FANTASY WRITING COMPETITION ♥______♥. Growing the movement at hoooome! If only my Indonesian weren't as in shambles as my housing situation!

4. help_pakistan recover from the floods of a few days ago. 20 million people have been displaced, 6 million of whom have yet to receive aid. Bidding begins on August 23. I am offering to make a mix. I reeeaally want some SPN vidders to sign up.

5. I have 8 Dreamwidth codes, so if you want one, comment with your email. First come first serve, I don't care who you are.

6. AND THERE IS STILL CASFEST TO SORT OUT LOLOLOL D:

7. Also I lost my cellphone.

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1. People have started posting to castielfest and it does a mod's heart good, it does. It's all coming together, guys! And now on a note that has nothing to do with the recent rash of drop-outs, you should maybe consider signing up to be a Casfest pinch-hitter. You don't need to be a Casfest participant to be a pinch-hitter.

2. WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY? DID YOU SAY YOU NEED MORE CRACK IN YOUR LIFE? I think that's what you said.

ANONYMOUS ROUND-ROBIN COMMENTFIC MEME

3. animus_wyrmis and I think ( Dean should get a dog. ) [originally posted at http://whynot.dreamwidth.org/29464.html | comments]

HOLY CRAP PORN. PORN EVERYWHERE. You gasped and moaned at blindfold_spn. You're getting wet for multifandom Porn Battle X. ARE YOU READY FOR spn_bitesized KINK MEME?


Bring the muthafuckin noise, as long as the noise is UHHHH YEAAAHHH HARDER FASTER.

Okay, guys, let's talk spoilers.

( S3 Merlin )

( S6 Poopernatural )

I wish I knew more Merlin spoilers!

HOKAY. Second draft of my spnrarepairs is at beta, and I am 1.5 scenes away from finishing my castielfest fic. SO CLOSE. Relatedly (or not), I really need to update my fic masterlist...

Speaking of which. I churned out this bit of absurdity for maychorian's birthday couple of weeks ago. The prompt was: "God mojoed Cas up just a leeetle too much when He rezzed him, and now Castiel makes flowers and candy appear everywhere he walks." So, y'know.

Taste the Rainbow | post-S5 | Lisa, Castiel, Dean, Ben | 717 words
"Ben, honey, tell these misguided souls what we Braedens think of Swedish Fish."

I'm pretty sure I wrote a more commentfic here and there, but I can't quite recall where and what of. Did I commentfic at you at some point? It was just here a minute ago...

[originally posted at http://whynot.dreamwidth.org/28155.html | comments]

I'm sitting on a few fanmixes right now. I recently amassed a wealth of music so I'm gonna sit on them some more, and hopefully serendipity will lead me to songs that even better explicate Dean/Alastair and Jimmy/Castiel &c.

I deem this Winchesters mix ready to go though! It spans S5, winks at S6, and is about as full of erotic codependency as you'd expect. I'm still trying to get the hang of this GIMP program, but I think we'll do okay, even if I still get a little misty for Photoshop sometimes.



( PUT YOUR LIGHTS ON | tracklist, graphics, download )

vikki has finished sorting castielfest prompts and is sending them out right now. My heart is full of capslock and keysmash and the XD emoticon, you don't even know.

[originally posted at http://whynot.dreamwidth.org/23774.html | comments]

This one goes out to my Narnia girls who are also Supernatural girls. There are more of us than I thought! Chuck and Aslan need to Have Words, and maybe Castiel once looked for God in Archenland.

Above Us Only Sky (The Golden Age Remix)
Supernatural. Anna. PG. 2005 words. A remix of Anna by soundingsea. Thank you to zempasuchil for betareading.
Set between 4.10 and 4.16. Anna falls back out of the wardrobe.

To be part of more than one world can't possibly be a sin. At the very least, it's an act of love.


SPEAKING OF NARNIA, The Wardrobe Door has been doing a good job posting photos from Dawn Treader filming. Georgie, grown so much! Just like Ben Barnes's facial hair. Remember when we were all D: when Dawn Treader got dropped?! Man. And now I guess Susan is in a scene!!

In other Narnia news, narniaexchange sign-ups start in a week. SPEAKING of fanwork exchanges, castielfest has 85 (EEEEIIIIIGHHHTYYYY FIIIiiIIiIiive) participants! omg joy and happiness. Thank you everyone who boosted the signal and signed up! Castravaganzaaaaaaaaa \o/

( Did you hear about that S3 Merlin spoiler? )

[originally posted at http://whynot.dreamwidth.org/22815.html | comments]