xaara

It's not winter any more in Wisconsin, which means it's spider season. While I love my semi-rural adopted state with all its corn fields and lakes and cranberries, I could do without the daily spider patrol. Of course, the cat helps out, but then I have to be worried that she'll eat something poisonous, and overall it's not so fun.

I feel like it would go faster if I could kill them instead of having to do a patented catch-and-release routine that returns them to their natural habitat, but I am incapable of killing anything that isn't a house centipede.

This is beside the point.

The point is that I am in love with this whole Castiel-centric commentfic festival right now, to the point where I have written one 1000-word thing one 1500-word thing (that is TOTALLY NOT RPF about Castiel protecting Misha Collins-one-of-the-66-seals) because why write a short thing when I could instead write 2500 words of UNREPENTANT CRACK?

Yeah, I thought so.

Also, lassiterfics posted a prompt that was four words long (to wit: "Intrepid investigative journalist AU!") and has spawned a rather long, rather serious, and still-developing story about Dean the reporter, Castiel his best friend/also reporter, Sam his brother who is a lawyer working a pro bono case on behalf of some residents of a housing development who are determined to reveal a coverup, and Uriel the Landlord. There's angst! There's drama! There's dashing romance! There's probably a very Bullitt car chase!

Someday, anyway.

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I am reposting both commentfics here in the interests of having everything I've written under my spn fic tag, but really you should not read them. Instead, you should go join the party and write more so I can read it and squee and abuse capslock.

( Chaos; Dean, Sam, Castiel (gen); PG-13 (language and gore); no spoilers )

( Gotta Break a Few Eggs; Misha, Castiel (gen); PG; no spoilers )

I started writing a few days ago, and, well, this happened.

Title: The Word
Author: xaara
Rating: R (violence & language), gen
Timeline: sometime mid-season 3 through 4.18
Characters: Chuck, Sera, OCs
Summary: All he can do is write.
A/N: I think some explanation of characters is in order. First, although I don't remember hearing a name for her, that odd half-blonde woman introduced as Chuck's publisher at the beginning of 4.18 is called Sera over at IMDB. It made no sense that she would be a publisher (what, she's got a printing press out on the back porch or something?), so I ignored that and made her an editor. Maybe working for a publisher. Second, at one point in that episode, Chuck says something like, "Phil put you up to this?" and looks at the house next door. Hence: Phil. Finally, I realize that parts of this don't quite jive with parts of "The Real Ghostbusters," but I'm really trying to will that episode into nonexistence. All right. Enough yammering.

( The Word )

The following story is the combination of:

1. Random shuffle on my Zen
2. Way too much Coleridge
3. Not much in the way of sleep for the past three days
4. Three straight hours of blue-book
5. The fact that I made it through all of this was that I sure as hell wasn't going to die just before a new episode of SPN aired.

So, with apologies to

1. Zeppelin, whose song (or at least its title) sort of inspired this
2. Annie Proulx, whose work, with the exception of The Shipping News, is rather amazing
3. The world at large

I present:

I Can't Quit You Baby
-or-
Supernatural, the Gay Cowboy Remix
-or-
Cursed!Sheep Fic, Which Is Almost as Cracktastic as Yakfucking, Except I Don't Think Anything Can Be as Cracktastic as Yackfucking

( I Can't Quit You Baby )

Title: Like This
Author: xaara
Rating/Pairing: PG, gen, crossover
Timeline: Stanford-era Dean, post-1.08 Tim. Yes, I realize these don't quite line up. Work with me here.
Characters: Dean Winchester, Tim Riggins
Summary: He's good at that, the not thinking. He sleeps carefully and forgets his dreams.
A/N:Remember how I said I wanted to either write or read Dean/Tim Riggins fic? Well, I couldn't find any. So I wrote something that, while not technically Dean/Tim, does have both characters.

( Like This )

A few things I'm playing with and will hopefully get more done on over the coming days:

( one of a few fairy tales )

( a snippet from the novel, some Albert backstory )

( one SPN fic of the um...Carmen? what exactly were you on? variety )

( one SPN case-file-y fic, tentatively titled Bed & Breakfast )

Title: I will bring you where no shadow stays
Author: xaara
Rating: R, mostly for language, gen
Timeline: post-series, no spoilers, really.
Characters: Sam & Dean
Summary: After they killed it, Sam didn’t see Dean for three months. He was sitting in an IHOP when Dean came back to him, pulled him together and apart and didn’t even say anything, just stole Sam’s hash browns.
A/N: Title kind of inspired by Paradise Lost (I will bring thee where no shadow staies), but the meaning is completely different out of context and out of the time period. So. Mostly I just stole the words.

( I will bring you where no shadow stays )

Title: When They Stop Building Roads
Author: xaara
Rating: PG
Timeline: Pre-series
Characters: Dean, Sam
Summary: You can tell a lot about a woman from the contents of her purse. You can tell a lot about your brother from the contents of his locker. Gen.
A/N: Written for spn_flashback challenge 109: Dean is cleaning out his locker at the end of the school year, or just because they're moving again. (I started this something like a month ago. And then forgot about it. Until tonight. Yeah, I'm good with deadlines. Title stolen from "Gravity" by Alison Krauss & Union Station.)

( When They Stop Building Roads )

Title: Swan Song
Author: xaara
Rating: PG, gen
Timeline: Pre-series
Characters: Dean, Sam
Summary: The road just before Christmas, just before Stanford. Just before.

( Swan Song )

Title: From the Ground (4/4)
Author: xaara
Rating: PG-13, gen
Timeline: AU (breaks from canon after Dead Man's Blood)
Summary: People have long since forsaken their belief in God. Only ghost stories remain.
Previous Parts: One | Two | Three
A/N: Apologies for the length of time between the previous part and this one. RL kind of hates me at the moment.

( From the Ground (4/4) )

Title: From the Ground (2/4)
Author: xaara
Rating: PG-13, gen
Timeline: AU (breaks from canon after Dead Man's Blood)
Summary: People have long since forsaken their belief in God. Only ghost stories remain.
Previous Parts: One

( From the Ground (2/4) )