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.