On fandom

You know, I keep trying to deny that I am part of the SPN fandom because it kind of has a bad rep for being full of crazies

Oh, I'm not in the fandom. I just watch the show

Oh, I'm not really in the fandom. I just read the fic.

Yeah, I made a few icons but I'm not really in the fandom

Well, ok, I wrote a couple of Dean/Cas fics but I mostly lurk

Now that I've joined spnland I don't think I can really deny it anymore.

Witness my Team Castiel banner that I made to earn my team some points



Oh, and the current quiz they're running is effing hard!

Fic rec

Just one spn_j2_bigbang rec this week

Title: In Harm's Way
Author: gatorgrrrl
Summary: Jared Padalecki is living a quiet life in San Antonio until one day he is snatched off the street by two men. Enter Tom Delaney, CIA spy. Only that's not his real name. His real name is Jensen Ackles, and he needs Jared's help. Jensen and his team have been tracking a man named Alain Laurent, a terrorist disguised as a legitimate businessman. Only, they haven't been able to get close enough to him to gather any useful intelligence. They know that Laurent and his partner, Rafiq Abdul-Aziz, are planning something big -- and possibly explosive. They just don't know what and they don't know when. But they know that time is running out. That's where Jared comes in. With a little manipulation, Jensen convinces Jared to help. To use himself as bait to lure Laurent into revealing his secrets. But nothing is ever that simple. As Jensen and Jared become more than just professional colleagues, the stakes become even higher. And when their mission takes an unexpected turn, Jensen must decide between love and duty, with devastating consequences.
My comments: The author creates a very believable world with a bunch of original characters that feel three dimensional and real. I got totally sucked into the world she had created

Writer's Block: Investigations of a Female Nature

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Thursday Next from Jasper Fforde's Literary Crimes series of books.

Going to see him at a book festival on Sunday btw. WHEE!

More fic recs

Some non Big Bang related recs. I was in the mood for some J2 hurt/comfort last night so I trawled Delicious and found a few good ones that I hadn't read before

In From The Cold
Jared works in a free clinic. Jensen gets brought in by Jeff after he's been beaten up.
I wasn't sure if I was going to like this one but it just melted my heart.

Not Moving Mountains
Jensen gets sick. Jared looks after him.
I just love the way Jared drops everything so that Jensen isn't alone

Don't Fight With Your Pillow
Jensen breaks his arm, Jared is a mother hen, and everything ends in sex.
I think the summary says it all with this one. LOL!

Interesting things whilst planning a fic

The UK might have older buildings but you don't get stuff like this over here. That's like something straight out of a Tim Burton movie!

It's in Eureka, California if anyone was wondering. I'm tempted to have the boys stop there in my fic just so they can stay there *g*

On writing

For those not following me on Twitter yesterday I made the fatal error of reading over all of my rpf_big_bang. I almost wanted to cry because it's really not good. It doesn't flow very well at all and I think it's probably missing a lot of much needed description.

Today I felt better. I had to remind myself that this is only the first draft. My first drafts are never good and very rarely represent what the final product will look like. At this stage it's just about getting words down on the page and I've already made several editing notes for when I get done.

It did cheer me up to see that on July 1st there was a check-in at the comm and I'd only written 1600 words. As of today I am on 12700 so that's pretty good going in less than a month I think.

So I shall press on and hope I can turn it into something readable by posting day

*wibbles*

Fic rec

My darling lou_angel has written a beautiful Arthur reincarnation fic here

I still love my boys, even if I'm not posting about them much at the moment