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I never miss a chance to chew over things that don't bear the chewing, so why not subject my remix to the same process?

( Long maundering on own writing )

Below the cut you can feast your eyes on my hurt-comfort Bingo card. I say this every time and it's still true, I suck at hurt-comfort. I'm good at the hurt bit though, and there's a ton of things I can work with for once - some of which are made for Supernatural - abandonment issues! arrest! possession/mindcontrol! And that's just canon.
( My hc_bingo card )

I also have an experimental fan-works bingo card, which I am even less likely to make a bingo for. But trying is the backbone of achievement

...wait slam poetry?! I'm out

I've been wretchedly sick for the last few days. Caught a cold and while I was at home I was crawling around moaning for people to kill me, enough that I suspect my family at least, wanted to grant my wish. Anyway, I dragged myself out of what is rapidly becoming less of a room and more of a lair stuffed with tissues and strepsils, and all the way down to Aldi to buy wine. Because even though I loathe St Patrick's Day, I do like wine.

Came back, and I might as well have not gone as there was a  bottle of wine on the doorstep in a bag with my name on it. Puzzling. The paper inside solved the mystery, it was from an acquaintance thanking me for help with a project. All fine and dandy...except how do they know where I live? It's not information I hand out. Did they follow me home one day?

Apart from that, if anyone wants to give me better titles for either of these spn_masquerade fics before I upload to AO3, I will love you forever and give you a glass of wine. Both of them were subject to the 'string any words together quick' style of titling. The worst one off is the femslash Gen/Danneel fic currently called 'Dinner is Served' which the more I think about it, the grosser it becomes. I like a good pun as much as the next girl but that doesn't even work as a joke. girl!Jensen/Jared called 'Stranger in a Crowd' is less viscerally ugh but equally bland. So help a fic writer out before I have to resort to Auden for the 1188567th time.

I will never ever make it as a stockbroker. Playing on the stock market with virtual money gives me the shakes, the thought of actually chucking millions of pounds around terrifies me.

I am also not signing up for spn_reversebang even though I really want to and there's a gorgeous art prompt that is calling me. Must stay strong. I am however signed up for salt_burn_porn and excited about it.

Fic rec: I strongly recommend this DCBB fic Enfleurage by saltandbyrne. D/C generally isn't my jam but this is Sam/Dean/Castiel and it's beautiful. It's not only beautiful and an interesting Cas POV, but it has a great cast of supporting characters (Meg, Bela, Jo in particular) and a marvellous sensuousness to the description of the perfumes and all the other things that Cas can smell. Well worth the read.

Yuletide is here! There are so many good letters (check out the letters post here) and it's a very fun exchange.

hurt/comfort bingo is a go. I'm heavier on the hurt than I am on the comfort, not so big on the breaking though. Much more fond of characters who endure or laugh it all off. I'm using my prompt me icon because there's at least 10 squares where I'm looking at it and thinking I have no idea what on earth I can write.

Pick a person/ship for a square and I'll see what I can do. Feel free to customise it - example: Sam, allergies (fish and hummus) or a longer thought. Any source I've consumed. Only 'no' squares are prostitution and abuse.

Obvious disclaimer: It's possible I may not write them. I can guarantee it won't be because of the prompt, but because bingos are really hard to complete.

( My hc_bingo card )

In a sense everything I write is for myself, I wouldn't write it otherwise  - who has time for that? Then I really thought about it and realised that I totally have a story that is so self-indulgent and ridiculously, embarrassingly, clearly for myself, that I should pick it and weep over my bad taste.

Trial by Fire, Sam/Dean/Cas and all combos thereof, rated Hard R

This is my favourite fic that I've written, for exactly the self indulgence that I mentioned up above. In short, it's a season 8 divergent fic where, after Sam begins the trials, it riffs off the idea that he's being changed on a molecular level and separated from the rest of humanity as a precursor to the necessary act of closing hell. In this fic, it takes the form of Sam not being able to touch anybody without burning their skin, including through clothes. The only person exempt from this is Cas, who can touch Sam if he exerts the effort to. So touch deprivation, isolation, finding ways to bridge the gap all come into play. Writing a sex scene without penetration, and where two of the participants (Sam and Dean) can't touch each other, and for more than one reason was a challenge, and balancing the emotions between all three of them was even more difficult. At no point did I want Cas to be a proxy - he's not the conduit between them, he's a disrupting force. Also wooo chance to write Sassy! With bonus difficult emotions that neither of them can articulate. My jam, all of it is my jam.

With my other recs this meme I've been upfront with the bad bits to them, but I'm not going to bother listing the things that are wrong with this one (though there are plenty!) but I give a fair heads up that I couldn't find a beta for it and that my issues with commas are pretty awful, though I think I've caught the worst of them by now.

Day 1: Something Old

For Day 2: something new, I was torn between A Skewed Reflection (Sam has sex with a soulless Dean) and What Goes on Tour (Jensen joins Jared's band, they have sex - there may be a theme in my writing here.) In the end I picked What Goes on Tour because it feels like a story other people didn't like at all in the main.

I'm not entirely sure why but possibly the huge amount of amazing Band AUs already out there doesn't help. Since this is the self promotion meme though, I'll talk about what I did like about it. It's not as overtly meant to be funny as say Masturbation Science Theatre 3000 but it's my sort of humour and in the main the band and their activities are based in real life. I've never been a musician (got asked to leave my violin lessons for not being able to move past 'hot cross buns') but for someone who doesn't really enjoy much music, I've dated a number of musicians and been to a lot of live gigs. So, the backdrop was something I knew about, it was a chance to include Danneel and Gen, and man, I just really love wall-sex, public blowjobs, and fucking through clothes. I do wish I'd brought the setting (early 2000s) more clearly to life and that's definitely something it lacked for me.

( The Seven Days )

Stealing a meme created by snickfic because I keep meaning to post more and this seems like an excellent excuse. Starting it tomorrow.

The Days:

1. Something old
2. Something new - talk about a new fanwork of yours!
3. Something you made for someone else
4. Something you made just for yourself
5. Something for a large fandom/pairing/character
6. Something for a small fandom/pairing/character
7. Something you're just really proud of


Feel free to comment on the posts, in fact, please God do. Tell me about your day, share some recipes that can be made not using anything that might burn the house down or some life-hacks. (Antsy about these jobs not getting back yet? no clue what you mean.)

Also, because double utility is my thing, I have a music rec for other insomniacs. I listened to an hour of this before I went to sleep and it worked like a charm - got a solid six hours for the first time in ages. Glass Animals. Not sure what I'd call them - probably just indie/alternative/faintly rock. Samples: Pools and Exxus