Muse-o-rama

Go on, last part, wrap things up…

( Part 4/Things that Go Boom )
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What on earth are you waiting for?

( Part 3/Bump in the Night )

See? Next part, as promised!

( Part 2/The Old Switcheroo )
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OMG, yes, it's new fic. And it's complete. You won't have to wait around, except as I fiddle with the links, I suppose.

Summary: Sam and Dean get reacquainted over art films and sex and a cursed film theater.

What it is: A complete Season One fic in 4 parts, drama, humor, slightly cracky. I think I can still call this gen. Probably. Rated…PG-13? Maybe more? R seems excessive and yet?

Warning number one: This contains some naughty bits. I’m giving you fair warning, I hesitate to even describe what the hell this is –there’s tons of swearing and goofy boy banter and bonding. And probably bondage. And sex (eventually) with things that aren’t even, like human. It’s TENTACLE fic, God help me! A Sweet Charity contribution for extraonions, who has waited altogether too damn long for this. No need to feel squeamish about tentacleporn, girl! It’s great prompt. (Erhm, that said, you’ll likely find this suggestive rather than raunchy)

Warning number two: Hey, the first one wasn’t enough? This warning is about spoilers for movies that you may not have already seen. Those movies are: Le Retour de Martin Guerre, Spirited Away, Paprika/The Host, and Y Tu Mama Tambien. Some of these are my favorite movies EVER, so I really suggest that you see them.

Thanks to lemmypie for listening to me jabber on and on and on about movies, and to sasquashme for the cogent and gentle edits. Together, they make me make sense. Thanks once again to extraonions for her patience and her imagination.


( Part One/Melodrama )

Just nipping in quickly this Canada Day (yippee! Free poutine for everyone!) to recommend smilla02's lovely and haunting and hurting (and long, written for spn_j2_bigbang) piece, Ten in One. First off the bat, I have to confess that I got the chance to read and comment on it a couple of times while in process, but I honestly didn't add much, so I don't feel a twinge of guilt in reccing it. It's an AU season 4 fic, the first one I found totally believable, both in terms of how Dean coming back from Hell could happen and the very real consequences of that.


Here's how Smilla describes it:

Title: Ten in One
Genre: Gen. Drama. Angst. Case file.
Characters: Dean and Sam
Word Count: 36,000
Rating: R for language, violence, and adult situations.
Spoilers: up to and for 3.16.
Summary: A hiker's body is found mauled in the Oregon woods. While investigating, Sam and Dean stumble onto an itinerant sideshow, whose members are the primary target of the same creature killing across the American west. The case alone would be difficult enough, even if Sam and Dean didn't have to deal with the strained consequences of a trip to Hell and back.


So, if you're looking to curl up with a long, plotty read, perfect for summer, here's your chance.

Chapter Eight/Last Train to Glory

I ain’t a man of constant sorrow: Nebraska isn’t where Dean wanted to spend his last February on earth, but an angry Depression-era ghost complicates things
I ain’t seen trouble all day long: COMPLETE — Gen, Season 3, early February. Set in the Red ‘verse, this time with direct references to events (spoilers, even!) in Dazzleland and Fire in the Hole, but I think you’ll be able to follow along even if you haven’t read those ones. But maybe you’ll want to read them now! </hucksterism>
We are only passengers on the last train to glory: PG-13 for the cursing.
That will soon be long, long gone: A whole lotta thanks are due, and I’m afraid this is going to be longer than a screenwriter’s Oscar speech. Firstly, many, many thanks to all the folks that wished me a birthday happiness…I’ve been traveling around BC, so I wasn’t as on the ball as I might have been in showing my gratitude (I’m lookin’ at YOU, riverbella). Many people have been AWESOME at helping with the visuals, including meret and the always amazing, amazing smilla02for the awesome covers! Smilla and may7fic and catsbycat supplied me with iconage. sylvia_bond went above and beyond to provide me with site photographs of the locations I was talking about. extraonions? Next up, your Sweet Charity fic! As always, I don’t do this without the betas, sasquashme and lemmypie. They are, quite simply, Kings of the Road — I don’t leave home without them.

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( Read the Last Damn Chapter! )

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Here’s Part Two of Chapter 7/If Love Was a Train. Go on, it’s good for you!

( Read, go ahead, do it… )

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Chapter Seven/If Love Was a Train (Part One)

If love was a train: Nebraska isn’t where Dean wanted to spend his last February on earth, but an angry Depression-era ghost complicates things.
I think I would ride a slow one: WIP, will be 8 chapters — Gen, Season 3, after the Christmas ep, but before Mal-Mal (as I call that ep). Set in the Red ‘verse, which means some references may slide right on by you. I doubt you’ll notice.
One that would ride through the night/Making every stop: PG-13 for general foul language.
If love was a train/I would feel no pain and I would never get off: Thanks to sasquashme and lemmypie, who guide and prod. Usually with pointed sticks. Sometimes with pie.

Note: Part Two of this chapter follows -- see link at the end of this post!

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( Read Chapter Seven/If Love Was a Train, Part One )

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C’mon, c’mon, just read it. You know you waaaaaaaaaaaant to.

( Read part two of chapter 6 )

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Here’s Part Two…

( Clickity clack, clickity clack )


I am now preparing for the Next Big Snowfall because apparently Ottawa hasn't had enough snow this year. If I don't get groceries, I may be forced to eat my children. And they're kinda boney.

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Chapter Five/Heavy Machinery

Note: Will be posted in two parts.

Well I feel like an old hobo, I'm sad lonesome and blue: Nebraska isn’t where Dean wanted to spend his last February on earth, but an angry Depression-era ghost makes things complicated.
I was fair as the summer day now the summer days are through: WIP, will be 8 chapters — Gen, Season 3, between the Christmas Special and the witch one. In the Red ‘verse.
You pass through places and places pass through you: Rated PG-13 for baaaaaaaaaaaad language, grave desecration and shameless product placement.
But you carry 'em with you on the soles of your travellin' shoes: Many thanks always to lemmypie and sasquashme, who cheer and prod, who stick forks in me, who always make the story better. They work for you as much as me. This chapter’s discussion points included: American breakfast foods, restrooms vs. bathrooms and not repeating myself.

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( Read Chapter Five, Part One )

ETA: I promised her I'd do it, so fine: lemmypie, you were right, I was wrong. It WAS a cassette player, not a CD player. You rock, I suck. Happy?

Following up from my post about how much Javier Bardem and Jeffrey Dean Morgan look alike, and the discussion that ensued thereof, grrli has written a little fic entitled Brothers and it's about John and a hitherto unknown (by us, and I'm assuming, Dean and Sam) half-brother living at the Mexican border, played by a certain actor with a startling resemblance to John. JDM. Whatever.

It's a moody start to a brand new 'verse and smilla02 has even indulged my whim for icons. Sometimes, fandom makes me want to squeal like a three year old with cotton candy.

And, for my next trick…( Part II of Chapter 4 )

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Chapter Four/Nomad, Not Migrant

Note: This is a big chapter and will be posted in two parts.

Take a little walk to the edge of town: Nebraska isn’t where Dean wanted to spend his last February on earth, but an angry Depression-era ghost makes things complicated.

Go across the tracks/Where the viaduct looms: WIP, will be 8 chapters — we’re halfway there! This is one big gen-o-rama season three fic, peppered with violence, bad language and questionable plot developments. It follows canon if you have three quick shots of Jack and squint. If you’ve read Red or some of my other fics, you’ll recognize bits and pieces surfacing here. That said, you can read this without having read those.

Like a bird of doom/As it shifts and cracks: This whole chapter’s been a bird of doom. I always struggle with the middle chapters, finding my feet, as it were. This one, more than usual. Many thanks to sasquashme and lemmypie, as always, who never let me get away with shortcuts, who challenge me mercilessly to make them care.

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( Read Chapter Four, Part One )

I swear to god, one day soon, I'll post chapter four of the fic, but in the meantime (seriously, I'm working on it), IN THE MEANTIME, I have a diversion (don't I always? I'm like the pusher in the high school parking lot). I was having a discussion with catdancerz about what Supernatural would look like if it was an HBO product instead of a CW one, and we were having too much fun not to share.

So here it is: If Supernatural was produced and aired by a different network (choose a network! Animal Planet comes to mind! A porn channel! Home and Garden! Biography!), give us all a brief description of the resulting product.

Though I'd settle for HBO, truly I would, because then there would be appropriate levels of cursing.

Post here, post on your own LJ, whatever.

ETA: I'm told I ought to give an example or something. Okay, then, how about if it was REALLY produced by City-TV (OMG, your Canuck is showing, Big Pink!). Warning: Only Canadians will find this remotely funny.

First of all, it would be everywhere, and likely an ex-Much Music VJ would pop in from the corner to explain to everyone what was going on and perhaps ask Dean and/or Sam what they were doing while they were in the fucking middle of trying to get it done!

Then some skinny ex-model, ex-secretary from Moses Znaimer's staff would get a job on the show to add some T & A and...wait a minute. Has this already happened? An announcer would then tell the boys in a voice over what they were doing...as they were doing it!

Thankfully, there would be a helluva lot of American content at some point, likely in a bikini, and then a TTC streetcar would go by.

The End.

See? Easy peasy.

ETA 2: Will no one even briefly sketch out what happens when the boys go to Miami Ink?

Welcome to Part Two!

Thanks for waiting.

( Read Part Two here… )

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Chapter Three/Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind, Part One

Note: This is a big chapter (surprise!) and will be posted in two parts.

Driving that train: Nebraska isn’t where Dean wanted to spend his last February on earth, but an angry Depression-era ghost makes things complicated.

High on cocaine: WIP, will be eight chapters. Gen, PG-13, bucketsful of bad language, high creep factor, unwashed men. In case you haven’t figured it out, it’s a season 3 story, and it takes place inside the Red ‘verse which follows canon as much as I can be bothered to.

Casey Jones, you better watch your speed: What was it, sasquashme? Five drafts? Did this one go through five drafts? And many thanks to lemmypie for thinking about deep things like electricity, amongst others weighty matters.

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( Read Chapter Three, Part One )

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And, as promised, ( Chapter Two, Part II )

The New Deal
Chapter Two: Hoboville, Part I

I hear the train a comin': Nebraska isn’t where Dean wanted to spend his last February on earth, but an angry Depression-era ghost makes things complicated.

It's rollin’ round the bend: WIP, will be eight chapters. PG-13 due to cursing and whatnot. Gen-o-rama. As per usual, it's too big for one post, so it'll be in two parts...grrrrr.

And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don't know when: My mamma warned me about girls like these – lemmypie and sasquashme, who talked me down from one memorable blowout with the Scrivener application, rearranged the whole chapter and made me murder someone when I wasn’t intending on it.

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( Chapter Two: Hoboville, Part I )

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After much delay, moves, new jobs, blahblahblah, no more excuses, holy shit.  It's something...fresh.

The New Deal
Chapter One/Catching Out

Schedule: Nebraska isn’t where Dean wanted to spend his last February on earth, but an angry Depression-era ghost makes things complicated.
Track: WIP, will be eight chapters. Gen, PG-13, swearing, blood-letting, hobos.
Thanks: to the betas, as always: sasquashme  and lemmypie  . They elevate things like you wouldn’t believe. Also, to smilla02  for the beautiful icons and the amazing photomanip of the Stanford history department’s course syllabus.

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