I'm dabbling in a crossover thingy involving Firefly, set after Serenity (the movie). My problem is this: I know I should leave canon alone and let Wash be dead. Does it cheapen the integrity of a crossover to make one of the crossed over fandoms AU? I don't know - in any case, the story will work with canon. But... I'm not sure I want it to :O I miss Wash! What do you think I should do? Keep it all canon and deal with the angst. Or let it go AU and bring our Wash back? Give me your vote.

Poll #1185399 Dilemma: Kill Him Off or Let Him Live?
Open to: All, results viewable to: All

Should I remain true to Serenity canon, and let dead Washes lie? Or futz with canon and bring our quirky pilot back to life?

From winterlive's journal:

1. Reply to this post, and I will pick four/five of your userpics.
2. Make a post and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon squee.

( Danny's Picks - Warning: Some AtS and SPN Discussion )

Interviews. I don't care if I'm giving them or receiving, I always feel like a total ass right after.

But luckily there are memes :p Which are fun and think-y without straining the brain.

Snagged from spastic_visions:

Name a character in one of my fandoms and I'll tell you three (or more) things about them from my personal canon.


Fandoms:

Star Trek: Voyager
Dark Angel
NCIS
Supernatural
Angel
Firefly
Torchwood
SeaQuest
The Faculty

Stolen from rionaleonhart:

So, zombies attack Mr Darcy's estate? Torchwood get stuck inside the Crystal Maze? Holmes and Watson investigate the mysterious singing epidemic at East High? Write me a few sentences of a properly nonsensical crossover in the comments.

'Cause I love stuff like this :) And because the only thing that is as fun as Winnie the Pooh/Silent Hill is creepy is Silent Hill/Jeeves & Wooster :p

(Link to what I wrote at her journal.)

This is sort of a crazy, catch-up post as I haven't posted in some days and a lot has happened in the meantime.

First, the fannish things, because they are more easily discussed:

WARNING: Spoilers behind every cut, including those for the movie Deception, Supernatural episodes 3x13 and 3x14, NCIS Season 5, and all of Torchwood.

1) My dearest Ewan.

Ewan McGregor. One of my truest loves. I maintain that I would listen to the man reading a grocery list - even pay to do so if the opportunity arose - and I have watched him portray everything from a trombone-playing plant worker to an indecently exposed rock star with a cocaine habit and too much eyeliner.

( All that being said... (Spoilers for Deception Ahead )

2) And how about those Winchester boys?

( 'It's uncanny how you managed to both honor his memory and grossly exploit the manner of his death.' )

3) Meanwhile, my NCIS squee...

( ...knows no bounds. )

4) And then there's Torchwood.

( 'I should have known right from the start//that you would go and break my heart...' )

Last, Real Life.

( Or the least random bit of this randomness. )

So. I've just heard Kripke's spoilers for the character casting in Season 4. And unlike some others, I am not altogether pleased.

( Here's why. )

I know this is not a popular opinion. Respond to it anyway :p Give me your (well reasoned and intelligent) thoughts. Give me your opposition or your support - even if only in a tastefully concise >:( or :D I'd like to see how the numbers add up on either side of the fan reaction to this decision.

God, as if I have any time for reading (*the Muse screams: WRITE!WRITE!WRITE!*) But these fics demanded it of me and I thought I'd share the joy/pain:

Under a Haystack

There's something primitively satisfying about seeing your favorite boys from fandom play daddy - this we know. So it should be no surprise that watching Sam protect an age-regressed Dean is just too awesome for words. And yet, I usually shy away from age-regression fics. I don't know if I've ever seen it done right before now - usually, when an authore de-ages a character... they lose the character. At least that's been my experience, but janissa11 totally captures Dean as I can imagine him being at 7. This is a wonderful, fun and touching read. I'd rec it to anyone.

Not Her Type

What a fun little ficlet :p Dean/Abby done just right. I'd love it if there was more of this!

Just Another Kid

And it makes perfect sense to me to follow up a crossover rec with this fic right here. Because crossovers are all about seeing things from different perspectives to me, and this fic - written from an outsider's POV - gives me the Winchesters from that perspective. Love it.

Horses, Freedom and Cheap Perfume

And while we're on the subject of different... An NCIS crossover with Chris Kane :p Gibbs hauls him as a murder suspect. Good things he's a close friend of Tony's. How can I even express my love of this idea without inappropriate gestures?

ETA: And I can't forget this...

A Fashionable Profit

Dean as a Calvin Klein model :D This would be fun on its own, but the interaction between John and Dean - and between John, Dean and Sam - and between the family and the outside world... That's what left me with a huge ass grin when I finished reading this fic.

"Look out the window to your right if you want to be scarred for life," Sam said.

"Please don't," Dean said, but of course, John did.

"Christ," John said. "What the hell are they doing putting that across from an elementary school?" Then he leaned down a little further, and saw the rest of the poster. "What the--Dean, that's you."

"Tell him what he wins," Sam said.

John glared at his younger son in the rearview mirror, but put the car in drive. "I'm not happy about this. I think me and Calvin Klein are gonna have to have a talk."

"You can't kill Calvin Klein," Dean said.

"I said talk," John said.

"When you say talk you mean kill," Dean said.


:D

Having been tagged by theferretgirl:

List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to

1.Bohemian Like You by Dandy Warhols

2.Stolen by Dashboard Confessional

3.Coming Undone by Korn

4.Hands Clean by Alanis Morisette

5.Letter to Me by Brad Paisley

6.Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace

7.The Scientist by Coldplay

These are very varied choices, I know! Also, I'm a little embarassed that my music tastes aren't particularly deep or trendy :p I just wrote down the last seven songs I listened to because I think they reflect the split personality-ness of my preferences :P I've got by Deathcab for Cutie and Coldplay cds right next to Johnette Napolitano and Jesus & the Mary Chain in my case - and right after that comes Linkin Park and Korn (with that one Marilyn Manson mix I don't tell anybody I have ;)

So, Yeah. There is me in music. And here are my seven tags to do this meme:

1001cranes dawnie1970 emeraldteal bitchygrrl shealynn88 spannertastic just_jimbo

Mostly because I'm a bad friend and haven't talked to some of you guys in way too long!

How much do I love crimsonquills' NCIS stuff? :p Oh so much. But her AUs are particularly fun. Here are my favs:

[ Crash Space ] [ Change of Pace ] [ Put Out to Pasture ] [ The Thrill of the Chase ] [ Yin and Yang ] [ Elements of Truth ] [ Skin Deep ]


And if that gets you into an NCIS-reading mood (like it did me) you ought to check out this list of recs.


In other news, I know I found a really cool Torchwood icon and saved it for if I saw the show and liked it. Now I don't know what I did with it and that is not good. Because Owen is the pretty, Jack and Gwen are fun (if a bit demented) and I want an icon to use when I discuss these things :p Also, I need to ask if I would be weird and uncultured in saying that British tv characters laugh an awful lot. Like, a creepy lot compared to the US programs I'm used to :p First episode of Dr. Who? Lots of laughing. The Doc and Rose laugh running from manequins. They laugh about ditching Rose's home time just a little while after she realizes her boyfriend didn't die a plastic-y death. Gwen is laughing with Jack just shortly after finding the Torchwood base. We Americans generally like to be all surly and suspicious when we meet one another - or at the very least, we like to be smart-asses and if we laugh there's a 50% chance we are a) lying, b) about to shoot you or c) all of the above.

Actually... maybe that just holds true for the American programs that I watch.

Also, British actresses get to look normal and still star in shows :) Gwen is so girl-next-door. She even has a little gap in her teeth :D British television rocks, I suppose is the conclusion I'm working up to. And I haven't even seen the Jeeves & Wooster dvds I've got in my Netflix queu.

This is not a good time to discover reasons to ship this particular femslash pairing - my fandom plate is more than full, it's practically glutinous.

But A/O is so pretty :) And it's the perfect answer to slashing up an otherwise subtext-less show, which is just awesome without it - don't get me wrong... But what show couldn't get more shiny with a little subtext? ;p

Also, I can't ship Benson/Stabler. It would be cute if not for Kathy, but I love the down-to-Earth-ness about Elliot and Kathy and ached while they went through their rift. I can't really see Elliot and Olivia together as a result of that.

There is a poll here pitting Jensen Ackles against David Boreanaz :P

I say we call in Alexis Denisof to do the judging. Who's with me?

*looks for hands*

I've got to give you this one gen rec today:

i thought the world was fragile by annabeth_fics

Dean dies on a Tuesday. And Sam's not so good with promises. And demons learn the downside to giving a Winchester one of those neat little mental switches Ava thought were so great.

Wow.

Here is one of two Wes/Gunn drabbles I promised 1000cranes.

Sorry for the wait, dear :)

Title: The Flavor of Love
(I don't know if I've just lost my ability to title things appropriately, or if I've been watching too much VH1 :p)
Rating: NC-17
Wordcount: around 500
Author's Note: Set sometime during mid-season 2.

( He'd probably thought that Wes's game would be as vanilla as Wes was British. )

[01] Boondock Saints Icons
[05] Scoobie Doo Icons
[59] Supernatural Icons 0_0 (includes several of Sebastian Spence)

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I just got an iMusic gift card... What songs should I look for? Give me your recommendations, peoples :) I haven't listened to any new music in... a while. Not outside of Disney tunes and nursery songs ;p

Also - on an unrelated note (I am such a geek for italicizing that)...

What are all the symbols you can insert into a livejournal post like the ♥ ?

Anybody know?

Strachey fans, help me out:

How unlike the novels are the Strachey movies? Initially, I'd heard good things about the books - but now I'm hearing disparaging comments as well. Before I go about buying all (what, seven?) of them... Has anyone else here read them? What did you think of the characterizations? I love our onscreen Don and Timmy so much :p I don't want my reading experience to color my appreciation of them in a negative way.

O. M. G. Ha!

I am a total geek for even getting excited about this... and it doesn't matter at all to anyone who isn't into both fandoms...

But I was looking through Sebastian Spence's IMDB profile (for nefarious, naughty-RPS-writing purposes) and realized why he looked so familiar to me! He was on Supernatural! Minus the suit and glasses, in jeans and a leather jacket...

Azazel's son is Donald Strachey's husband :D That is just hilarious to me.

ETA: Apparently, he was also in an episode of Dawson's Creek that Jensen Ackles guest-starred in... And he was on Dark Angel! Charlie! I can't believe I didn't catch that.

I have five drabbles, a DA ficathon fic, and a crossover missing a paragraph here - some tweaking there.

And after every line I write, I'm clicking on my ImageReady icon and playing with another icon for my tim_don_a_thon entry. Or writing another line in the Strachey!fic I've got going.

That's when I'm not giving up completely and popping Third Man Out back into the dvd. (Oh where, oh where, is my Shock to the System, nice postal man? WHERE?!)

I've joked about fandoms eating my brain, but - dear God - I had no idea what I was talking about! I love those pretty, married boys - oh, I do, I do!

And I love the pretty boys who play them. Why is it that hearing Sebastian Spence is straight makes me want to write Chad/Sebastian RPS so bad? And would I be completely twisted if I did? :p

So I saw 30 Days of Night. Josh Hartnett was hot, the movie was nicely disturbing and the gore was not without its purpose. All in all, I was quite pleased :) Enough to want to write a little something for it, but I've got so much else on my plate - I told myself I would restrain myself to the 20-minute-fic format so I don't eat into any valuable WIP time :p

And here is the result - judge gently but honestly! And hopefully enjoy ;)

Title: 30 Days After the Dawn (Two Alternate Endings to 30 Days of Night: A Set of Crossovers With Supernatural)
Author: nevcolleil
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Not mine.

( There's a reason we live out here. Because we're the only ones who can. )

I wish you all the luck of the Irish today (they've got enough to spread around). I could use a little myself... Was planning to make that Boondock Saints showing in San Antonio with my sister, but now we'll have to see. Car trouble may spell doom for our St. Patty's plans :p Darn you, my crappy busted timing belt! Darn you to heck!