Whew! I'm not sure I covered all the possible terminology there. Anyway, just a heads-up in case you get a notification that I'm Not Paying Attention Anymore (via whatever service/notification mechanism that might be). I'm just shuffling stuff around between contacts, tracking mails and RSS feeds, so don't mind me. If you're actively posting, I'm ( Read more... )

Right, so. It's this one, and tomorrow's, and then a crapload of notes and ephemera and even!more!bookmarks distributed among several wrap-up and where-to-next posts, all coming to you on January 1st, if I don't have a hangover. It doesn't look like I will, because I'm surrounded on all sides by non-drinkers and drinking by myself always seems sad ( Read more... )

Oh good lord, I had such a hard time settling in to rec this. No second thoughts, or at least none in the traditional sense, it was just that at the last minute I lost track of why I wanted to talk about this one, so I went on an overlong trip down memory lane through all my Inception recs and still-unrecced bookmarks, which Pinboard tells me add ( Read more... )

This will be the last of the Sam/Dean recs in this project. It feels so weird to say so, not only because the project itself is coming to an end but because even now, I can think of at least five other major pieces of fanfiction featuring these two that I could also be talking about. And that's without even really looking. If I go back through the ( Read more... )

It figured I would end up swapping out at least one of these last ones, when it came down to it. As I said, it's been incredibly difficult talking about some of them all along, and the one I was going to talk about tonight just won't budge from the bubble of quiet contemplation I seem to have built around it. To be fair, it's a serious story ( Read more... )

You should know: I'm a geek by nature, training, and profession. One of the side-effects of this is that no matter what I'm doing, I'm always conscious of the instrumentation artifacts mess my projects generate. As I approach the end of this recs project, all kinds of stuff is emerging: my spreadsheets; my various bookmark systems; my scripts; my ( Read more... )

Way back at the beginning of this project, when I was counting to myself the number of fics I could name off the top of my head to include here, before I even started doing any research, this was the first candidate that came to my mind. It isn't so much that I've been procrastinating on its rec (although I have). It's that I'm terrified of talking ( Read more... )

With this rec here I'm finally caught up, in the sense I'm eliminating that deficit I've been dragging (and increasing, each time I've had to skip a day). Just in time, too, as tomorrow I must go back to work, the day after I've a house full of small children, and on Friday my eldest is coming by to leave her dog with me for a week. I'm not the ( Read more... )

The following story has the dubious honor of being the only piece of fanfiction I've actually handed out to non-fannish friends, and for a wide range of reasons. I've used it as an introduction to the concept of fanfiction. I've used it as an explanation of just What Supernatural Means To Me. I've used it as an example of a character that is ( Read more... )

[ETA: I apologize for the length of this post, geeze!] This is the one that's been the most difficult to try and rec, because it's a verse rather than one story, because pieces of it were written by different authors at different times, because some of the pieces match and some don't, because some of them I'm pretty sure didn't even mean to be ( Read more... )