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Engaging casefile, set after Shadow, so there's still tension between the boys. Nicely done.

"And, man, that’s where you are. You’ve been here in Cicely, right, all these years, but you ain’t really been here, you’ve been trying to do everything but be here, and it’s finally catching up with you. Can only hit the snooze button so many times, you see what I’m saying? [...] Time to come out of the cave, brother. There’s a whole world out here for you to see." Joel can't sleep. Fantastic, gets the voices spot-on, and feels just like the show.

Because she didn't come here for the deal, for the money; he could never afford to pay what she charges. She came here to win, maybe, or out of sympathy. Pity. Or maybe just recognition. Understanding this far too well, the need to cling to anything when absolutely nothing is left. Fantastically painful, sharply beautiful Dean/Bela.

Say a friend gives you a mix CD but doesn't label the songs, leaving you with a series of...

Firing at ghosts was like firing at a trick of the eye. There was no moment of impact, and as soon as you hit there was nothing to say it had ever been there at all. Sometimes she felt like she'd live out this new life, alone on the road chasing ghost after ghost, and have nothing to show for it in the end. Ellen, making a life for herself on the road, hunting, after the Roadhouse burns down. Sharp, well-drawn look at her and Jo. Lovely.

"It's talking to me," the boy squeaked, "Racetrack, the alien is talking to me in Basic and I can understand it." / "Quit your joking, Apollo," the girl scoffed. Very cool, subtle, sad BSG/SW crossover. The Colonial fleet encounters Yoda.

"Your brother is lost beyond the usual ways of going, son of Adam. [...] I can see and hear this in your face and voice. Where has he gone? What fell magic took him from you?" In his quest to rescue Dean, Sam finds himself in Narnia. Lovely. And the sequel, Kings for a Little Time, in which Dean and Sam prepare to become Kings of Narnia.

They tease each other about how long it takes for them to get ready in the morning. Jared and Jensen, living together.

Dean says swimming hole and Sam thinks summer, sophomore year of high school, Dad working a job in Shenandoah. short, wistful scene set early in season one. you know I love nightswmming stories, and this one is lovely.

Tiger father begets tiger son. Good, sharp look at Dean through John's eyes, while Sam's at Stanford.

"I'm sensing the presence of unresolved clown issues in your subconscious." Hee! The boys are haunted by a clown. Good banter, and a nice wistful feeling at the end.

Sam blogs about how to survive the zombie apocalypse. Adorable.

Beautiful, bittersweet look at Sam and Dean preparing to spend a night in the car. Short, but packs a big emotional punch.

Brief but beautiful look at Dean and Jess at the end of the world (AU where Jess is his sister, so wincest, of a sort).

Lovely slice of normalcy for John and the boys as Sam starts kindergarten, and John keeps them in one place for the school year.

“Fuck that race shit, we’re all human beings, Sam,” Dean says, angry himself. “I’m not about to lower myself to their level, that’s all.” AU mashup with XMM, where Sam and Dean have mutant powers. Sam joins the Brotherhood and Dean ends up at Xavier's, and then the world ends. Could use a good line beta, but good use of the AU and the characters.

Xander and Dean bond while working at the Fabulous Ladies' Night Club. Short, funny, and a little sad. I can totally see Xander and Dean being BFF. *hearts* They could talk about regular guy stuff like girls and cars and grilling things and any monsters that came up were just metaphors and double entendres. It had been a long time since he’d had that. It was kind of, well, weird actually, but nice weird like bubble bath instead of bad weird like snot monsters.

fannish misogyny bingo card

fall 2008 tv schedule, with premiere dates

Dean's working as a lifeguard (swoon) while Sam's in soccer camp, and a case happens to find them. Lovely.

Kara babysits Hera. Adorable. Hee!

Sam's school gets taken over by crazed cultists - John and Dean infiltrate to save the day. Very cool, tense casefile - apparently it's a crossover with something else I am totally blanking on, and it's not necessary to know the other source to enjoy the story, though I'm sure it adds resonance if you do.

Bender ends up on Serenity. He spends some time with Jayne. Hee!

"I just wish it could be different sometimes," says Sam, and Dean doesn’t ask what he’s talking about, because he’s pretty sure he knows. // "It wouldn’t be different," he says, and he’s certain, more certain than he is of anything. Sam without visions would still be Sam. Nothing would change. Wonderful, heartbreaking and hopeful AU where Sam's visions start at a much younger age.

It would be easy to love Sam. And it would be hard. Because he isn’t Josh. heartbreaking and beautiful and hopeful at the end. I really like the slow, inevitable course of Sam and Donna's relationship, though I do feel terrible for Josh. A little British in places, but don't let that stop you from reading.

"Don't worry, Sam. I'm not going to let you fall." / "I know." Lovely story where Dean has a sekrit power, and uses it to keep his family safe.

An explanation of the Frankenstein Mix concept can be found here . Apologies for the insanely long hiatus. Right now, I am buried in verb tenses, so I inflict them on you all! The Track List A song that uses the present simple form (I live) A song that uses the past progressive form (I was living)…

Sweet yet heartbreaking story of a sick seven-year-old Dean, and how John deals with him. *sniffle*

absolutely stunning vid about the space program.

Iron Man vid to No Handlebars = AWESOME