illusion is hope born from fear

Hearing about how LJ's servers are being moved to Russia has made me kind of nostalgic for the old girl. So when I saw this challenge I thought, heck, let's try this out, for old time's sake.

FYI this is the last post I'll be crossposting to LJ. I'll be archiving my old posts here on DW and I'll move any comms over to DW that aren't already here. This is pretty much what we feared when SUP took over all those years ago. Fuck you, Russia. Me and my queer ass don't have to put up with your shit.

Anyway, let's get to the challenge.

Day 1

In your own space, post a rec for at least three fanworks that you have created. It can be your favorite fanworks that you've created, or fanworks you feel no one ever saw, or fanworks you say would define you as a creator.

I'm going to go with three (or so) fanworks that define me as a creator. For funsies.

The Burn My Sins Away series (HP): I've never been a hardcore Harry Potter fan, but these two stories helped me express exactly what I needed to express when I was writing them.

The More Than Just a Pretty Face series (SPN): This is me to a tee. Why yes, of course if I'm into something that's all about dudes I'm going to write an entire series of stories focused on some actual women. Plus it has baby's first porn, so that's fun and exciting.

Undertow (Narnia): I love this story. Period. Queen Susan at the height of the Golden Age, doing her duty.

Ruination Day (SPN): I've only ever made two vids (I've always planned on making more, but we'll see) and this one's the best. I made it for a friend's fic and it turned out really well.

The epic story of two assholes in love.

( I am intense, I am in need/I am in pain, I am in love )

How do the weeks go by so quickly? I feel like I just did one of these.

A lot of fic in the past few weeks came from deancasbigbang. The challenge ended last week and there's a full index of this year's stuff over at the community. I haven't had time to read it all, yet, so the interested should definitely check that out and see what I've missed.

Avatar: The Last Airbender
Imagine the Ocean--Book One by Damkianna
Hakoda found the boy in the ice eight days before Kya went into labor. Longfic, AU

X-Men: First Class
New Beautiful Things Come by singlecrow
Erik runs a kosher bakery. Charles comes in for baked goods. They play chess, eat meringues, people drop other people's keys down the toilet, and there's mutant performance art. AU, Charles/Erik

Supernatural
The Winchester Revision by proxydialogue
A recently de-deified Chuck, dying in Italy, decides to revise the story of Sam and Dean and Cas to give it the fairytale ending it deserves as a last hurrah before he goes. In a world with no monsters Dean Winchester goes to the University of Delaware for physics and engineering where a terrible twist of fate lands him in a Feminism and Literature class for one of his general electives. It is taught by a dark haired, blue-eyed professor named Castiel. Sam, meanwhile, is a boy genius who gets into college at sixteen and really is going to be a lawyer this time as soon as he finishes his English degree at UDel and gets into Stanford. But the more Chuck writes, the more he discovers about himself, his characters and the friends he will never see again; because some stories must be told. Longfic, quasi-AU, Dean/Cas

Without a Map by jaimeykay and twoskeletons
Set after 5x03 and before 5x04. Dean knows a thing or two about absent fathers, but he didn’t expect Castiel to ask him if he wanted to come along on the search for God. He also didn’t expect to say yes. Cue the two of them going around the world, from mountain peaks to bustling cities to subterranean caverns. They talk with prophets, angels, and deities, but they are running out of leads and running out of time. As the dead ends and red herrings pile up, so do their frustrations, testing their faith in each other and themselves. Longfic

The Incredible Tale of Dean Winchester and the Angel Who Fell From the Sky by ibroketuesday and xxamlaxx
Loose retelling of Gabriel García Márquez’s A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings, set in the Pacific Northwest of the late 1920s. Sam and Dean have retired young from hunting and moved to an island, and they're failing miserably in their attempt at being fishermen when a storm sends an angel crashing into their yard. Castiel is a feral creature with black wings and taloned feet, and though initially Dean regards him as a monster, the bond that develops between the two will set them against murderers, reveal a dark secret of angel society, and change both of them forever. Also, Castiel is naked the entire time. Longfic, AU

Ugh, I think it's going to be one of those weeks. I'm already tired and it's only Tuesday.

But! Enough of that! Onto more important things, like fic.

Supernatural
Harvester of Pain by cedarcliffe
When Dean Winchester was three years old and walking with undue confidence on unsteady feet, he tripped on the small set of stairs that led up to the narrow front porch of the only house he ever lived in for more than six months.

Faith and Deeds by teh_helenables
The Miltons own a haphazard produce store, and Mary Winchester is their most frequent customer. Dean/Cas

Props by scaramouche
Ten conversations Castiel and Dean had while under a curse, and one they had after the curse was broken. A fusion with Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Dean/Cas

The Sharp Edge of Earth by dotfic
Having sold his soul to save Sam's life, Dean finds himself in Hell at the mercy of the demon Alastair, who is intent on breaking him. As Dean takes refuge in his own mind to escape the torture, angels gather, ordered to undertake an unusual mission: rescue The Righteous Man from Hell. Meanwhile, Dean's defenses and his hope start to fail. He thinks no one is ever coming to save him.

He's wrong. Longfic

Here are a few of my favorite fics from last week.

Supernatural
Holding Hands with a God and A Graying Tower, Alone by the Sea by scaramouche
Dean is a superhero. Castiel is a mild-mannered reporter trying to get an interview. Dean/Cas

And Your Very Flesh Shall be a Great Poem by teh_helenables
The back-alley beating leaves Dean with scars. (Spoilers from 5.18, Point of No Return) Dean/Cas hurt/comfort

Farscape
In The Company of Ghosts by Kodiakkmaxe
Epic Farscape AU. Eventual John/Aeryn Super-long fic

X-Men: First Class
Only Young Men in Libraries by templemarker
Of the many things Raven had needed to learn upon coming to Xavier House, knowing when she was allowed to enter a room required the most adjustment.

Avatar the Last Airbender
Sun Blast Your Shadow by pearl_o
Zuko had assumed, somehow, that the hard part would be over.

Since I don't have the benefit of browsing my f-list and reading new fic during the week, I've started gathering it all up on the weekend and pdf-ing it so that I have something I can take to work with me. I've found that somehow limited access has made me appreciate fic more (and comment on it more, too). I thought you all might enjoy reading some of it yourselves.

Weekly Fic Recs

Chronicles of Narnia
Sing Down the Stars by snacky
Rilian returns to Narnia, and his story begins.

( More Under Here )

I might have, possibly, committed a vid. It's a look at the Winchesters, past and present, and the ways in which demons and angels have manipulated their lives so that they will fulfill some bullshit destiny. And we all know how well that turned out for everyone involved.

Hope you enjoy!

Title: Ruination Day
Song: Gillian Welch - Ruination Day, Part II
Summary: Regardless of who is fighting whom, the Winchesters will always get the short end of the stick.
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( They were one, they were two, they were three, they were four, they were five hundred miles from their home )