Ok, don't everyone drop dead in shock, but I am actually recommending a Smallville story. I really haven't been reading SV stories for the past year or so, but this is by rivkat, who has never written anything I haven't completely loved, so I read it. Repent At Leisure (Clark/Lex) is a kind of variation on the "forced to marry" cliche: Clark has to undergo a Kryptonian bonding ceremony with Lex in order to save Lois's life. And if that's not enough to make you immediately go read it, this may be: Lex is running for president at the time, and Jon Stewart has quite a lot of completely hilarious things to say about this new development in the election.


Ok, now I really really am going to sleep.

RPS and SPN ( Read more... )

Oh, goddamn you, you stupid murder-mystery show, you are not supposed to make me cry this way. ( Read more... )

What do you get when you combine literary theory with Star Trek porn? An awesome piece of hilarity: Reading Against, Reading With: Mastering the Oppositional Discourse in Textual Healing (Sulu/Chekov, Spock/Uhura, Kirk/McCoy, Spock/Uhura/Kirk). The title is almost longer than the story itself, but if you've ever had any exposure to literary theory, you will love this.

One bigbang story and a few shorter ones. ( Read more... )

I took myself to see Up last weekend, and it was every bit as good as people say it is. ( Cut for slight spoilers )

And it became clear to me that I am truly a slasher at heart when I couldn't help thinking that the stork and the cloud-creator-thing in the short preceding Up were meant-to-be-together.

On the other hand, slash goggles only got me so far when I finally got to see Merlin last weekend. (I was surprised more people on my flist weren't talking about the U.S. premiere, but I guess everybody else is not on dialup and therefore downloaded it months ago?) ( Read more... )

I just wanted to thank everyone who sent me birthday wishes yesterday, especially talitha78 and roxymissrose and ciaan for the lovely virtual presents adorning my info page now, and tasabian for the sweet and fun picspam story she made for me.

A very happy birthday to my birthday twin, daisydumont. And many thanks to ciaan for the virtual birthday cake--that was very sweet of you.

For those of you in SPN/J2 fandom, 2 important questions:

1. Did the hot doctor that Sam sleeps with in "Sex in Violence" survive the episode or not? This came up in the context of a debate over whether or not everyone who sleeps with Sam ends up dying, and I can't actually remember what happened to her, but I thought she didn't die.

2. Why is it fanon that Chad Michael Murray is a douche? (Often a loveable one, to be sure)? Is this simply based on his predilection for sleeping with/marrying barely legal women, or is there something more than that?

Recs of the SPN/J2 variety ( Read more... )

Well, lately every day is SPN rec day here, so why should Friday be any different? A few more bigbang recs, including one potentially controversial one. ( Read more... )

I don't even think this is a bigbang story, but it is epic in both scope and length: leonidaslion's The Light of Munin. (Sam/Dean) This author is known for dark themes, and they are here aplenty--graphic torture, noncon, more graphic torture, character death (not Sam or Dean), and more noncon and graphic torture. If you can stand to read that, though, this is an amazing story set in a post-apocalyptic landscape, where Sam and Dean graphically experience the consequences of unleashing hell on earth. The worldbuilding in this is incredible; it's set thousands of years after Lucifer's rise, and the world has been completely transformed. There are basically no humans left alive, and the world is ruled by demons and toxic monsters. There is a whole separate demonic language and everything (complete with glossary).

And when fate finally has Sam and Dean stumble across each other again, they don't remember their pasts and they can't even communicate. Even without the memory of each other, they are ineluctably drawn together, but it is a real question as to whether they will simply end up destroying each other, or if any kind of happiness is possible now.

Don't everyone drop dead from shock or anything.

I adore Brimstone fic, even though I haven't ever been able to actually see the show--all you really need to know about it is the Ezekiel Stone is a cop who went to hell for killing his wife's rapist, and he has a chance to get out for good if he hunts down 113 escaped demons. Well, and it doesn't hurt to know that Zeke is played by Peter Horton (who for me is always "that cute guy from 30something") and the devil is played by John Glover (who you all know I worship. Umm, in the non-devil-worshipping way).

Anyway, lonelywalker writes excellent Brimstone fic, but her latest, Pandaemonium (Ezekiel/Lucifer) really blew me away with its fascinating depiction of hell and why souls end up torturing each other there.

but I bet all you spn_j2_bigbang readers will love me for it. I got tired of not knowing what particular stories were going to be posted when, since the master posting schedule on the comm doesn't give summaries, and the summaries don't seem to be arranged in any logical order (ie by date or alphabetical) other than the breakdown into gen SPN, slash SPN, and RPS. SO, I thought, I'll just make my own list of the authors by date and cut-and-paste the summaries. Easy peasy!

Ugh. Four hours later, I am wondering why I thought this was a brilliant idea, but it's done. It's a huge file (46 pages in word) so I posted it over on Dreamwidth here. I didn't proofread anything--literally I just cut-and-pasted the author summaries by date--but since it's all one file it's searchable, so if you absolutely need to know when the next Dean/Castiel story is going to be posted (July 2) or when the fantabulous-sounding Jedi AU is coming (June 17) or whether there are going to be any stories featuring the wonderful Victor Henrickson (yes! One June 26, one July 13 and one July 15, though everybody is still spelling his name differently), or what, exactly, the brilliant lazy_daze is writing about this year (a J2 Wimbledon AU), you can easily find it.

Doing this also made me realize (a) what a disappointing amount of het there is this year (dammit! I wanted more Sam/Ruby) and (b) there is an absolutely ridiculous number of J2 AUs to look forward to.

Hey, my Star Trek novel loving friends! Do you know about the new community on Dreamwidth, which I have no idea how to code for on LJ, treknovelfest? They're currently asking for prompts for a new challenge for stories written in one of the novel-verses; crossovers or reimaginings with the Reboot universe are also very acceptable. Go here to submit prompts. You have until June 21 (which I suspect is going to send me to reread several of my favorite novels so I can come up with good prompts).

Neon Showman by atimi (Jared/Jensen) This is Jared and Jensen's epic romance as seen by Chad Michael Murray, and it made me laugh so hard I think I injured myself. Highly, highly recommended for some of the funniest dialogue--and internal monologue--I've ever read. A sample quote behind the cut: ( Read more... )

Only one of these is actually bigbang, but the others are long enough they could be. The theme for today is sweet J2 AUs. ( Read more... )

So I take it whoever did the bigbang scheduling decided Friday was for angst? And since that was the theme, I decided to add another non-bigbang story that fit the theme to this rec set as well. ( Read more... )

The stories just keep on coming! ( Read more... )

Well, only half of today's stories have even been posted yet, but I had insomnia last night so I read the two that were, so this may be part one of two. Or I might not review the other two until tomorrow, who knows. ( Reviews behind the cut )
As I was saying to redteekal in the comments of an earlier post, I feel almost bad calling these reviews, since I'm basically just summarizing the plots of all the bigbang stories and then babbling about how much I liked them, with the occasional caveat about formatting or story elements that bugged me. But since I've been doing that, I almost feel like I should keep doing that, although I don't know what I will do when I start encountering stories I don't actually like. Advise me, oh wise flist!

Poll #1413876
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All

Do you think I should

(1) Not at ALL in reference to an actual story posted during last year's bigbang, or anything

Edited to add: oops, I see the strike command doesn't actually work in polls. Well, you can probably figure out from context that it should read "Nora, you are far too obsessed with people's opinion of you nice" in the poll options above.

Even more awesome bigbang recs--and one bonus non-bigbang rec (all CWRPS or SPN) behind the cut: ( Read more... )

Ooh, Bigbang is here! Yay! I'm not going to have time to do bigbang recs every single day, but since I took the day off (bad sinus headache), I had lots of time to read today. Just because my comments got long, ( SPN/J2 Bigbang recs behind the cut )