I guess I've got enough fanfic posted here now for this to count, yeah?

( Supernatural )

More fic to be added as I locate it. Somewhere in this LJ, I've also Harry Potter and Toon Titans stories, not to mention any fanfic that's up on my ff.net profile and not uploaded here yet. As always, if you see any mistakes, please let me know.

Title: Robbing Peter
Author: ginzai
Genre/Characters: Gen, hurt/comfort, John, Dean, Sam, Bobby
Word Count: ~5750
Timeline: Preseries. Dean is 19, Sam 15, and Adam ~8.

Warnings: ( Because the nature of the spoilers could give away a crucial plot point in the story, I've put them under a separate LJ cut. Though explicit references within the story are mild, it contains references to and discussions of many dark things. For specifics, please click on this cut. )

Notes: So several months ago, I wrote a short story where John's refusal to take action resulted in Dean having to take desperate measures in order to provide for himself and Sam while John was away. It was a prompt response to a specific set up and never really fit with what I saw John as doing if that scenario ever came up. When a similar sounding prompt came up recently, I wanted to try my hand at a more in character take. Hopefully, that's what has resulted.

Summary: John's attempt to catch a few stolen moments of peace wind up costing him far more than he can bear.

( The short hunt just seemed serendipitous. Like a sign from above. Later, John would think back on those words and want to throttle something. He was a Winchester. He should have known better than to believe that he could have something good without paying for it elsewhere. )

I'm going to try my hand at Big Bang this year. We'll see if I actually manage to finish the thing, but I've had an idea floating in my head for a story since last February. It should be fun and if I don't manage that one, then there's always that S2 AU...

Or that S4 story with Alistair that already has 8K words in it...

Or that other S2 AU...

Or the S1 Devil's Trap AU...

...Suffice to say, I've got a lot of options to choose from here. XD How much can we say about our plots ahead of time anyway?

Anyone reading this who has done Big Bang before and has advice to offer would be much, much welcome to do so. :)

Anyone out there interested in beta-ing a short Weechesters one shot or two? I've got two Sam POV pieces that I'm poking at, one of which was just written and the other was written last spring. The first outlines Sam's first (unofficial) official hunt (Sam at age nine or ten, Dean around thirteen-fourteen) and the second I just finished up for another comment_fic post with a prompt of "Supernatural, wee!Dean&Sam, Sam takes care of his big brother(and Dean never lets him know that a bandaid isn't enough)." Both involve a small dose of hurt!Dean (with a bit of hurt!Bobby in the first one for good measure) and both are completely gen.

If you're interested in helping out with one or both stories, please let me know?

Short fic. Ficlet fic. Prompt response to comment_fic fic, but fic none the less!

Title: (Because I'm Such A) Selfish Man
Author: ginzai
Genre: Gen, John POV, hurt!Dean, protective!Sam
Timeline: S1, about a month after Faith. Just pretend they went north, okay?
Rating: PG
Warnings: Bit of salty language. These are the Winchesters, after all.
Word Count: ~1200
Summary: John picks up the pieces. It's what he's always done. It's all he knows how to do.

Notes: Comment_fic prompt response originally posted at http://community.livejournal.com/comment_fic/114282.html?thread=24830570#t24830570. The prompt was "SPN/author's choice, Dean/anyone, someone finds Dean beaten and bloody after a hunt" and while I didn't catch that it was a prompt for a crossover in time, hopefully the result can still be enjoyed. :)


( Dad, Dean's gone missing. )

So it's been a bit, partially on account of me having generally been disappointed in recent SPN episodes and having not written very much as a result. (Drawn a good deal, oddly enough, but having no working scanner makes it difficult to share those.) I skipped 5x07 all together, but I watched last week's episode and was generally amused by it. Dean not so secretly watching Dr. Sexy, MD makes me grin, even though I want to write Dr. McSexy, MD, just for the sake of my Grey's continuum.

As a semi-meme though, I've a challenge for you! I've chosen my favorite fanvideos (at least for this moment in time - my favorite does tend to change from minute to minute) for three fandoms, which you can see below. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to post a comment with a favorite fanvideo of your own. Any fandom accepted, none shall be rejected. :D

Okay, mostly I was scanning MVs and generally being amused and wanting to be amused by other MVs that I might not have come across before.

In no particular order:

Supernatural: Always Keep An Edge On Your Knife



The thing about this video is that it's ridiculously catchy, even if it's not my normal preference in music, and the vidder actually managed to capture at least one scene from every episode between 1x01 and 4x14. Plus it just works out well, in a highly fun and amusing sort of way. It seems to get ABSOLUTELY NO LOVE, hence my need to promote it here.

NCIS: Hey Ya



This vid pretty accurately portrays why I like NCIS. It's quirky, fantastically timed, and does a great job of portraying all of the NCIS main characters, particularly Tony, Ziva, Gibbs, Abby, and McGee. Even if you don't watch NCIS, I recommend watching it simply for the win of some of the oneliners included.

Avatar: Fighting Dreamers



I don't watch a lot of anime these days, and while Avatar is very much not anime, it's very obviously inspired by anime and is, IMHO, the best kids show playing right now. The series itself is over, but Aang, Katara, Zuko, Toph, and Sokka are all still interesting and viable characters. Avatar also had the benefit of being the first show - cartoon, children's, or otherwise - in ages that I'd come across where the girls were just as badass and well developed as the boys. This vid makes me smile because it showcases that high level of badassery, from each of the involved characters while still maintaining the sense of glee that made Avatar so much fun to watch.

Extra special bonus mentions!

Buffy vs. Twilight:



Because it made me laugh. So very, very much.

Supernatural: Like A Boss



Same! Mix the Like A Boss video with Dean Smith and you have this vid. If you know Like A Boss, you know that it's full of wrong and this vid set to it matches every aspect of that while perfectly blending things with the Supernatural world.

Title: Best Served Cold
Author: ginzai
Genre: Gen, fluff
Characters: Sam, Dean
Spoilers: None past early S1
Word Count: ~2450
Summary: Sam gets sweet, sweet revenge.


( It's Dean jeering at Sam's bag of baby carrots that does it. )

Holy crap. I just tallied up my word count for writing this year and on this computer alone it's at just over 44,500 words. Which is, uh, much more than I'd anticipated. Only about half of that is actually polished up and in a form where anyone online has seen it, so it might not count but I'm inexplicably pleased regardless. And I've more over on my other machine, even. Not much more, under 5K in total, I'd imagine, but still! 44K! That's practically a Nanowrimo right there.

Not that I could do a Nanowrimo in a single month. I think I'd wind up killing myself.

I recognize that this isn't exactly all that impressive a tally for fandom in general, but I think I managed to write 6-7K tops between 2004-2008, so I'll take what I can get.

I need a new sketchbook. Somewhat to my bemusement, I discovered I'd used the last page on my current one yesterday, which was wicked annoying because La Bohème came on the classic movie channel and I really wanted to draw some of the people there. They're all just ridiculously pretty in that 1920's sort of way. Something about how stylized their faces all seemed to be, blurred almost and soft, and entirely too beautiful, just across the board.

I've recently discovered an extreme fondness for old, old movies. Who knew?

So, yeah. Definitely need a new sketchbook and I'm sort of inclined to start breaking out the watercolors again as well. I've no talent at all with oils (nor the patience), but I used to love messing around with watercolors.

Of course, the step after that will be to get a scanner (I've two, but neither seems to be working) and actually post some stuff on my DeviantArt account. How exciting will that be!

In fannish news, finished a story that I'm rather entirely leery about and want to poke at quite a bit before it's seen anywhere or by anyone. On the plus side, Weechesters with possessed!John and ass-kicking Sam! On the minus side, it feels gratuitous and clumsy and I don't think that my Dean voice is on target. Which is especially unfortunate, since it's in his POV. Just doesn't much work, you know?

( It doesn't help that I so loathed the most recent episode of Supernatural. )

So I think this is my favorite Sam!episode ever. Sammy!

So, the season five. I don't normally do episode reaction posts, preferring to get my squee on in meta-post comments, but these two episodes have quite pleased me and I want to jot out a few thoughts. I thought both of them were generally tightly plotted, brilliantly acted, and that the cinematography (particularly in 5x01) was just delightful.

So just some general thoughts to follow (spoilers, of course, abound):

( Bobby )
( Sam and Sam's addiction )
( Castiel 2.0 (and his Dean) )
( Dean's amulet )
( Dean and the distance between the brothers )

Title: Other People
Genre: Gen, set post the S4 finale.
Pairings or Characters: Sam, Dean, and some Castiel
Length: 2600 words, complete
Warnings: Salty language, references to Hell
Summary: Dean's time in Hell becomes unexpectedly useful when a new demonic threat rises.
Author's notes: Set post the finale but has no spoilers for S5! :) Information on Allocer and Stolas taken from Wikipedia and various websites on demonology. Originally posted here in response to a prompt on the spngenlove community.



( I always knew talk radio was evil. )

Title: To His Grim Idol
Genre: Hurt/comfort (entirely the aftermath) with protective!hurt!Sam and bitchy!hurt!Dean, extra emphasis on the hurt!Dean. Set roughly in S2.
Pairings or Characters: Dean and Sam, Sam's POV, gen
Length: 4750 words, complete
Warnings: Salty language, semi-graphic description of the effects of torture, mention of possible unconfirmed offscreen non-con
Summary: Following a week of captivity in the hands of a 3,000 year old cult, Sam and Dean manage to get to a motel room. Sam tries to patch his brother up, much to Dean's extreme displeasure.
Author's notes: A thousand thank yous to my betas! traciaknows, lapillus, and particularly muffaletta, who was awesome enough to go through line by line to let me know what worked, what didn't, and what desperately needed to be changed. You guys rock! Originally posted here in response to a prompt on the spnkink_meme community but the story itself is very much gen.


( I swear to God, Sam, if you don't get your hand the fuck off me, I will end you. )

Title: Flattery On This Icy Slope
Pairings or Characters: Dean's POV. Mild Alistair/Dean but nothing explicit.
Length: ~970 words
Warnings: Hell. Dark themes are a given.
Summary: It's a special day. Alistair decides to celebrate.
Notes: Title taken from Dante's Inferno.


( I've got a present for you, Dean. )

My local grocery has recently started to stock British candy, which is just kinda nifty. They've had some Arabic and Mexican varieties for a while and British digestives in three different flavors, but no British candy. Seeing them tonight, I had to purchase a sampling and try them out.

So, Smarties. Not just pressed bits of talcum powder and vaguely sour artificial flavor, apparently. No, instead they're chocolate covered with sugar coating and the best part is that there's no artificial colors or flavors involved. Seriously, not a one! They're colored with lemons and black carrots and radishes which can lead to interesting moments where the candy coating has a flavor that this American is not at all used to associating with chocolate. The lemon was particularly strong, but I kind of liked the hibiscus.

They also had a few other sorts that seemed interesting, but seriously, what's up with that "No Girls Allowed" one? And is that tied in somehow to the Smarties' "Girls Aloud" message on the inside of the cap?

I got a few other sorts as well, but so far have tried just the one. Publix apparently now also stocks Turkish Delight, but I've never trusted that much. Anything that's the official candy of the White Witch is probably a bit dodgy. I'm just saying.

This pointless post is brought to you by the Committee Of Folks Who Want You To Know That I Am Not Dead. Which is probably a random and stupid name for a committee, but what can you do. Also, I'm still writing and hopefully should have something new posted soon, but if anyone felt like tossing some ideas around, I'd be almost pathetically grateful. :)

So I think I need to rewatch S4. As in, all of it. From Lazarus to Lucifer and yes, that unfortunately includes Yellow Fever and ASS and CAIADB. There are just so many interesting themes and nuances that keep getting brought up and even each of the MOTW throwaway episodes does something to refer to the overall mytharc in some way or another, that it sort of necessitates a second run through.

( Cut to spare you pointless Sam and general S4 related ramblings. Also, to save your friends' lists because I can't be pithy to save my life, I swear. )

All of which is a lot of Sam thoughts from someone who is very much a Dean!girl, but what can you do? Dean's absolutely my favorite Winchester, partially because his logic typically makes such sense to me. I can follow each step he takes because it's often what I'd do myself. OTOH, trying to suss out what Sam was thinking and when is a a much more difficult exercise. Thankfully, I enjoy puzzles.

Well, there's that and also reading the beautiful Sam-centric story Wind Shear by the ever talented samidha, which is just a gloriously dark and gritty look into Sam's mind during the summer that Dean was dead. It very much makes me have thinky thoughts. Highly recommended, if you've not read it already.

So yeah, I think I am going to have to rewatch all of these episodes, if for no other reason than so that I can get properly into Sam's head space so I can write the follow up to Wisdom to the Mighty, Succour to the Brave. Even if it means rewatching Yellow Fever.

God give me strength.