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Supernatural. I requested Claire Novak, Pamela Barnes, Lisa Braeden, Mary Campbell Winchester, Jessica Moore.

So much Clairefic is centered around her reactions to the presence of Castiel or the absence of her father. I don't want that. I want Claire and her mother, or Claire and her friends, or Claire on her own. Or Claire leading the new religion that surely sprang up in the wake of 7x01, which, though Castiel-centered, is still something I'm longing to make someone write for me.

Pamela. We see her go from well-adjusted person with sight to well-adjusted person without sight. I want to see the transition. I want to see her reacting to ableist jackasses (preferably not Dean, we got that in canon). I want to see her proactive.

Lisa. She's a mother, she's a significant other, and we heard once in passing she's a yoga teacher. We have lots of fic where she's a mother and a significant other. I want to see the Lisa who's a yoga teacher. I want to see her hobbies, her religious beliefs or lack thereof, who she is when neither Ben nor Dean is on her mind.

Mary. She's a mother, she's a significant other, and she's a hunter. Who is she when none of those is at the forefront? Or give me more Mary-hunting fic, that works too.

Jess. She's a significant other, and for all canon is interested in her, that's all she is. Who is she when Sam's not around?


Supernatural RPF. I asked for Genevieve Cortese Padalecki, Adrianne Palicki, Alona Tal, Cindy Sampson.

Gen or low-rating femslash or high-rating femslash, AU or not, anything is shiny. Maybe Alona and Cindy, or Genevieve and Adrianne, bond over playing love interests to the same guy, or roleplay their characters' interactions. Genevieve/Adrianne sexytimes would make me very happy.

I wish I'd realized RPF was okay for this fest when I was nominating, so I could have nominated Danneel Harris Ackles.


Disney Princesses. I requested Mulan, Esmeralda, Pocahontas, Tiana, Jasmine.

Anything. Literally anything. Please do, however, do your research about the time period. Simply rewatching the movie in question does not count as research, because Disney got some things appallingly wrong. *eyes the entirety of Pocahontas*

Google is rolling out a new privacy policy. The only way to opt out is to delete all your Google accounts.

Under the new policy, you view a YouTube video you wouldn't want associated with your wallet-name Gmail, while logged in under your wallet-name Gmail? The two data points are LINKED FOREVERMORE.

I...I...cannot even. FIND ME A NEW EMAIL/RSS/CALENDAR SERVICE STAT.

(I am not entirely sure I am bailing. I have a lot of information in Google accounts and I'm not sure I trust Google to let me take it with me when I leave.)

Plunge Magazine, for stories about queer women, is looking for Kickstarter funding. *chips in*

Mom and Dad are upstairs talking about how everything they've heard about Girl Scouts the organization this year has been bad. And I know damn well they heard about whatsherface the trans girl in Girl Scouts.

I am so glad they don't know I'm genderqueer.

An analysis of the Megaupload indictment from someone who, though not a lawyer, has reason to be Very Familiar with the applicable law. In case anyone I read doesn't already read synecdochic.

Short form is, Megaupload is fucked, but Megaupload was stupid about several key factors, so other file sharing sites are not necessarily fucked. And existing law is perfectly adequate to deal with Megaupload's fuckery; there is no need for SOPA or PIPA.

Somebody is reading my stories on fanfiction.net. Starting with the really embarrassing early ones. I know this because those are the ones that this person has favorited.

On the bright side, I'm 4K into my 15K minimum for sncross_bigbang. On the dim side, my Law Office Management homework due tomorrow is not yet done.

Noooo I am not signing up for the queer_bigbang. Not. I have no ideas that would fit the theme. I am not good at long stories when I don't have a preexisting framework to work the story around, and y'all will surely be sick of me rewriting Supernatural, because I did that for Remix the other year and I did that for spn_j2_bigbang last year and I'm doing that for sncross_bigbang. Not not not.

...the differences between Supernatural as is and Supernatural if Sam had seen his boyfriend Brady die might be fascinating. I shall have to contemplate.

In your own space, share a favorite memory about fandom: the first time you got into fandom, the last time a fanwork touched your heart, crazy times with fangirls (whether on-line or off-line), a lovely comment you’ve received or have left for someone. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Make that crazy times with fans, online or off, and all I can think about is the group I was with for two years, three or maybe four if we count before chat.trycanta.com started up, the meetup with the amusement park, the guy I dated, the girl I roomed with and crushed on, and the way the whole damn thing crash-and-burned, in large part due to me screwing up. After crashing my initial try at a college career and being singularly unhelpful with my attempts to launch an actual career, but that was my fault too.

That was going on four years ago. I thought I was over this.

happy thoughts MUST THINK HAPPY THOUGHTS.

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spn_bitesized! Bitesized is awesome. Lots of little ficlets that hit you right in the gut. And I got a lovely comment from nonisland yesterday after I did an outtake from a story of same's. "Thank you for telling this story, for not letting it go untold." I think that means I did good. :)

In your own space, talk about a creator. Show us why you think they are amazing. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

whydoyouneedtoknow, aka Anne Walsh, and damkianna. Both are fabulous authors who hit my big fic kink: MOAR LADIES = MOAR AWESOME.

damkianna avoids killing or otherwise writing out canon female characters—one of her big projects, Flying Blossoms, is a bunch of Five Thingses that are either 'five women X's mother might have been' or 'five things X's mother might have done', and in every instance the mother in question is someone never or rarely seen in Avatar: the Last Airbender. And in Imagine the Ocean and Listen to the Earth, the Avatar Gang is populated by an ever-increasing number of canon female characters. Suki. Yue. There's also a friendly Fire Nation commander OFC, Yin. The central plot point of Imagine/Listen is that Katara is the Avatar; I am dying to see what happens when damkianna gets hold of The Legend of Korra.

Anne makes use of original female characters as well as canon female characters—not that damkianna doesn't, but damkianna's epic doesn't rely on the OFCs the way Anne's epic does. The Dangerverse is named for the OFC who sets everything in motion, Gertrude 'Danger' Granger, Hermione's twenty-years-older sister who has psychic abilities and who marries Remus and with his help kidnaps Harry from his more-abusive-than-canon relatives and frees Sirius from Azkaban so that Sirius can marry OFC #2, Aletha Freeman, Lily's best friend, and with her have a kid, OFC #3, Meghan. Remus, Sirius, Danger, and Aletha collectively raise Harry, Hermione, Meghan, and Draco Black—yes you heard that right; Narcissa gets a Crowning Moment of Awesome into the bargain. And from there the changes just sort of spiral.

Anne and damkianna are the two authors I tried but failed to imitate with my spn_j2_bigbang last year, and the authors I am trying and hopefully succeeding to imitate with my sncross_bigbang this year. (It helps that Anne wrote A Widow in Waiting, first of the Chronicles of Glenscar, which is the 'verse I'm crossing with Supernatural, and I have conned Anne into doing beta work for my Big Bang.)


I'll come back to day twelve.


In your own space, share a favorite piece of original canon (a TV episode, a song, a favourite interview, a book) and explain why you love it so much. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.

Supernatural 3x11 MYSTERY SPOT. This is the defining episode of Sam in seasons one through five. He goes utterly batshit crazy trying to save Dean, and when he thinks Dean is beyond saving, he shuts down into superhunter mode. I can't really explain my glee over this episode but it is beyond question my favorite of the series.