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

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.

OMG, y'all :D I've gotta give one more rec tonight: Old Country. Ha! :D Sam and Dean become English barons by inheritance. In the Wizarding world. This is, like, everything my Supernatural-obsessed, HP-loving heart could ask for. Set post-Deathly Hallows and All Hell Breaks Loose.

If you don't think you want to read this, consider: Dean. An owl. The Impala.

*loves*

I got a bit of a surprise yesterday :p I went to visit my youngest sister and her fiancee(*hurrahs for fiancee - he is awesome* ;) and I discovered an interest in something I never thought I'd be interested in.

A video game.

I don't play them generally. I'll happily waste an hour with my children if they've won some video game time and want me to play Mario Bros. or such :p But the shoot-em-up, gory stuff? Na-ah.

However, my sister and her other half play them a lot. And one of those games is Devil May Cry.

Wow, guys. I admit - though I don't play games as a rule, and I don't condone violent games for children, I have often applauded the use of storytelling in modern-day video games and I am impressed by the quality of the video game graphics these days. Both those things come together in a game called Devil May Cry 3, which tells the story of a half-human/half-demon named Dante who hunts demons to avenge his mother's death (sound familiar?;) and has an (evil?) twin brother named Virgil. (You can find out more about the storyline here).

So I browsed around some DMC communities and guess what I found? Supernatural/Devil May Cry crossover :D Here they are, if you're interested:

Kind Connections and Wrong Way by rocknload Sam and Dean go to kill a monster. They end up buying him a drink instead.

Stupid Games by zaleho

Holy crap! I had this rec tagged to the end of my last post, but then I actually read through a bit more of the series. Collegebound by mute90. Sam & Lex at college together. This fic is art :D Read it.

*loves*

In the midst of reveling in MW!love the other day I found The Sentimental Conversation on YouTube - the first in a triptych of short films. Part 1 is Rex starring you-know-who. Strange, confusing - a little scary, to be honest - but Michael's gorgeous, so I am willing to face my fears ;) And make icons. Just a few are under the cut.

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Then I did a bit of reading in various fandoms. Jenwyn updated The Boy Disease (le squee!) and my Angel: After the Fall has finally come in (le double squee! ;) And I discovered this amazing crossover of Supernatural and X-Men that has me bouncing in my seat like my little boy on sugar :D

mute90's X-verse is so dramatic and edgy and suspenseful. It builds the story of the Winchesters in the X-men world just perfectly in a series of ficlets. I'd recommend it for anyone with even a cursory understanding of either fandom.

(You Papa!Winchester fans pay particular attention to Not Normal and Soldier Boys. They inspire that mixed reaction of Aw! and *shivers* that only John can pull off :) - being the simultaneously loveable and badass daddy that he is.)

And if you're interested in more SPN x-over goodies, check out And That Was That, Skywalker and Strangers.