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. )

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, 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: Ever So Humble
Rating: G
Genre and/or Pairing: Gen. Sam, Dean.
Spoilers: TWT, (probably sometime in S2)
Word Count: ~1100
Warnings: Schmoop. One extremely minor swear word.
Summary: Sam's sick after a hunt. Dean grudgingly makes him soup.

Notes: This was written for another SPN kink request, this time for "Sam/Dean: Sam loves Dean's cooking". I wrote the bit about Sam loving Dean's cooking, but not the Wincest - this is a gen piece in my mind, but readers are welcome to take it however they'd like.

My love of Dean's cooking was partially inspired by the epically wonderful Red Beans and Rice series by the amazingly talented janissa11, a pair of stories that if you haven't read, I recommend dropping everything to read now. They're simply perfect.

( Other people his age felt nostalgia for childhood pets, or favorite places to hang out, or television shows they had to watch every afternoon. For Sam, it was Dean's cooking. )

Title: Dirges In The Dark
Rating: PG-13
Genre and/or Pairing: Gen. Dean, Sam
Spoilers: TWT, mid S4
Word Count: ~1750
Warnings: A bit of language and a dash of violence
Summary: A hunt catches Dean off guard when he and Sam try to save a Seal. Written for a bondage & H/C prompt on the May 2009 SPN Kink Meme (for which I wrote gen, because I am lame.)

( It was stupid, really. A year of battles with angels and demons and cataclysmic nightmare creatures and you'd think that would mean the beings of this world wouldn't be able to touch them anymore. Wouldn't be that big of a threat. )