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. )

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.

I think I haven't updated this particular journal in nigh on two and a half years. Maybe more, at this point. It's been a long time, anyway. But this has always sort of been my writing and fandom journal and lately, well, I've been having more writing and fandom type thoughts. So in that vein, SPN finale coda fic, anyone?

Title: Wisdom to the Mighty, Succour to the Brave
Rating: PG-13
Genre and/or Pairing: Sam, Dean
Spoilers: Post 4.22 (spoilers for the finale)
Warnings: A bit of language
Summary: It's the end of the world as they know it, but Sam's not feeling fine. (Post the finale, the Brothers Winchester have a needed conversation and probably would do better with some alcohol.)

( Dean kept peering out the windows. Every few minutes he would return back in the same spot, glancing down and out at the highway as if expecting to see the armies of Hell - or perhaps Heaven - there and at the ready. )