recs and links

Sharp look at Elizabeth, looking back at her life when she's locked up.

Dean + Nirvana

Smart, heartbreaking twist on the myth for Sam and Dean, with a really good Sam-voice. A couple of Britishisms could be weeded out, but nothing too jarring. (Wincest)

Two FBI agents meet for a drink in a bar. Henriksen and Ellison and obssession. Really well done.

("The Wire": a guy goes up some stairs, and another guy takes a bullet to the head for being an a--hole, and these are the feel-good moments!)

The Wire made the argument, from its first season, that the modern world is becoming increasingly indifferent to individual catharsis and individual dignity, and human beings are worth less. Every day, human beings are worth less.

This interview with "The Wire" creator David Simon was conducted over two different days shortly before the 9th episode of the final season aired. (But after I had already seen the series finale.) We discuss several characters' final fates in...

Remix of Tessellation. Anders searches for Kara in the first weeks of the occupation. I really like how this hints at the revelations to come in the season 3 finale.

"I didn't know you had that much violence in you, Kara." Hard, violent look at Kara and Leoben during the four months of her imprisonment.

Maps of Sam and Dean's travels in seasons 1 and 2 via google maps.

"You wanted to know more about him,” she says. “Is that request still valid?" John asks Cameron about his future self. Fraught with all sorts of tension. (there are some problems with punctuating dialogue, but not enough to make me stop reading

A few links from my bookmarks that I find particularly useful. A couple of general sites first of all, which are handy for show specific information. Then some sites that are handy when researching casefile type stories, and finally some useful articles and posts on specific areas of the show -…

Hot, sad, inevitable Derek/Sarah.

Fiction which is not emotionally honest is artistically bankrupt. Memoir which is not factually honest is morally bankrupt. It is a writer’s moral and artistic obligation to tell the truth in the manner that is appropriate to the story they wish to tell

Hilarious take on the apocalypse, involving Sam, Dean, Bobby and some horsepersons of the apocalypse. Fusion with Good Omens (so, sadly, no Dean/Pepper, which I am still hoping someone will write for me). (Wincest)

Sharp, creepy, smart coda to "Demon Hand.' Derek can't stop cleaning the guns, and Cameron watches him, and they have a (really creepy yet hot) moment.

Fantastic story of a case Dean is working his senior year of high school, told from an outsider pov with a slow, suspenseful buildup to what's really happening. A really gripping read.

Lovely coda to the movie, picking up with Keith and Watts the morning after.

more BSG s4 promo pics. OMG ANDERS!

Lovely, understated, heartbreaking coda to Mystery Spot. Dean keeps switching out Sam's toothbrush. Sam doesn't respond well.

BSG 4 publicity stills.

Rusty has a break-up ritual. Danny helps him through it. Adorable.

I've been trying to explain. I'm not the Anya of this world. I'm from a parallel one. Anya hooks up with Gunn post-NFA. Perfect Anya voice, and Gunn's affectionate bemusement for her is adorable.

John tries to decide if it was all worth it. His sorrow is palpable. Heartbreaking and yet hopeful.

Ellen Harvelle runs into Sarah Connor at a gun show. Sharp and unsentimental look at the Connors (and Cameron) from an outside POV.

These are the stories that the Winchesters never told. Lovely, heartbreaking fairy-tale AU, inspired by The Crane Wife.

Warm, tender, comfortable post-ep for May the Best Man Win. "And you might remember that all those years ago? I chose you." / "You did, didn't you," Eric said. Lovely.