1. An art! By way of Doola, who sends me all manner of delicious things and for which I repay her with Jensen/Harley slash: Facilis Descensus Averno, G, Castiel, by acerbus_instar.

I will tell you honestly that I have been largely "MEH" about SPN art, with a couple of exceptions--Pondy did a couple of good pieces (although tends strongly toward the Wincest--which does not make her work less good, just less to my taste), obviously there's Pentapus's Castiel (SEE ICON I WANT TO PUT HIM IN MY POCKETS) but mostly, if there's great stuff out there, I haven't seen it*. Also, I hate the color orange.

Bearing both of those in mind: this Castiel piece is my new desktop background. I find it compelling.

2. A beta! Any takers for a little bit of Sam POV gen, angsting about Castiel and Dean and Winchester Trust Issues? It's about 500 words right now and will probably not end up longer than 1000. Just need someone to see if it's a) coherent and b) not overtly in contradiction to canon.



*If you know of great SPN art out there that I haven't seen? OMFG LINK ME ALREADY.

So... I'm making a rec? I think I even remember how to do this.

I'll start with this: Even if you're not in this fandom, this is a very very good story.

The story is Warlock, by aftertherain. It is nominally slash, Merlin/Arthur, although not explicitly so (the only touching at all takes place in shared dreams OH HEY THERE ARE SHARED DREAMS IN THIS FIC) and the focus is very much not on the romance so much as the relationship, which is... complicated.

The tl;dr version of why you should read this: Arthur discovers that Merlin is a sorcerer, has him imprisoned, uses him for a weapon, and sets him free. It is the story of how Arthur learns to become king and so much more than that.

( I'm having a hard time articulating why I loved this story without blathering on, so behind the cut: blather. )

...it seems like making recs used to be a lot shorter and less involved. Maybe I have forgotten how to do it.

Hey, this is what happens when I'm home from work, Sam's busy, Junie's trapped in the Traveling Circus of the Damned, and I've read everything on the internet! YOU GET SPAM.

Suck it up.

In today's installment of "Songs I Can't Stop Listening To Lately--" seriously, last night I bought this off iTunes and then listened to it on repeat for an hour--AN HOUR--Kings of Leon, "Sex on Fire."

The blame for this one falls on franticsga, who used it in the playlist for her Merlin modern-day AU club story, Inside Outright. Strongly recommended. Strongly NWS.

Because my brain feels the need to repurpose everything into a more angelic context these days, I'm just going to point out that this song would make an excellent soundtrack to an angsty, angry (Sam/)Dean/Castiel post-Lucifer Rising reunion fic.

IJS.

*puts it back on repeat, goes back to writing*

I cannot believe I had to be prompted by Captain Jack Harkness to do this... but I have a rec for you! And it does not suck, unlike Captain Hart's epic saga.

Doola has committed pornery, and per aeternitas blames me. All I did was beg a little, she's ridiculously easy.

The story is Supernatural RPS (Junie, you can't call it Padackles because it's a threesome, HA.) set after "the t-shirt con." If you don't know what that is, don't worry, there's video at her post. If you do know, you'll understand why that inspired her to write fic about Jared and Misha after the con.

It's Doola, so you've got some manhandling, some voyeurism/exhibitionism, some implied threesomeish action impending, and, I'm not even kidding, implied wingfic. But not like that.

All the World's a Stage, Jared/Misha(/Jensen), NC-17.

She has promised me a sequel. I intend to hold her to this.

It is time to stop sitting on my "I know something you don't know" chair and point you all to an amazingly ambitious, long-term, collaborative project.

The Pirate Mood Ring is a collection of drabbles of varying rating, pairing, and topic, each one prompted by one of LJ's 132 moods. There's something from each of us at Cultural Infidelities (er, that's fabu, the_stowaway, linaelyn, and myself, for those of you who don't know), and no doubt something for each of you.

The posts are organized in several ways, explained in the_stowaway's intro post, so depending on--yes, she's going to say it--what MOOD you're in, you can find whatever you're looking for.

Please enjoy--god knows we have.

WHAT THE SHIT IS THIS?
Subtitle: Gay cowboys on ice.

...no, I'm serious.

This is the kind of shit that vegetariansushi subjects me to.