everything but the girl

How did I utterly forget to post my spn_j2_xmas gift for gypsy_sunday?

(Oh, right, I went right from that to watching the last Tennant-episode of Doctor Who, and then into vidding to that DJ Earworm mashup...)


Headlights on Dark Roads: A Vid
Gift for:gypsy_sunday in spn_j2_xmas 2009
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: As Sam/Dean as a Supernatural episode
Music: Snow Patrol's Headlights on Dark Roads
Length: About 3.5 minutes

For once I want to be the car crash
Not always just the traffic jam.
Hit me hard enough to wake me
And lead me wild to your dark roads

So many thanks to sabaceanbabe for the beta, momebie for the song rec and gypsy_sunday for the prompt and inspration.

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Title: Wish Away
Gift Fic for bimosexual in spn_j2_xmas
Prompt: J2 AU set to the basic plotline of Ever After…cuz yes I am just that cool; or if unfamiliar with the movie any story in which one of the boys is the supposed wealthy/superior 'prince' type, and the other is the poor/inferior pauper but love conquers all and…what not)
Summary: An adaptation of an adaptation of an adaptation. Jared Padalecki contends with his stepfather, Lord Fredric Lehane, and tries to rescue the family business - but how will Prince Jensen change his life? AU
Part one of five - the next four parts should be posted over the next few weeks, and it should be complete by Valentine's Day.
Rating PG-13.
Pairing: Eventual Jared/Jensen
Disclaimers: Not mine, never happened, total AU, ideally transformative. Some lines in this chapter are taken directly from the script of Ever After. The title is from a line in "Ever Ever After" by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.

( Ever ever after? It may only be a wish away )

And yes, I know that this is a pretty insane time to post an SPN fic. Show has just aired in half the country and is about to air in the other half, and I want to take some time to rant about the evil bitch(es) who did the one thing you do not do to anyone in fandom - namely, send links to their fannish activity, includng art or fic (whether it's rated G or NC-17)) to their family or RL friends - or (does it even need to be said?) to their offices.

Whoever did this? You are evil. Someone did this to me years ago and it still makes me ill to think about it, to remember how it felt to sit in my office and worry that I was going to be fired because the law firm I worked for suddenly knew I wrote fanfic. I was lucky - there were no negative consequences. But that's a one in a million chance and almost no other workplace would be so kind.

Have not yet seen Show. Had a long meeting tonight, and may not get to see it until the morning. Please do not spoil me! Thanks!

I'm going to sign up to do the Disney half-marathon next January, and as a vidder for this year's spn_j2_bigbang. Holy commitments, Batman! Then, and only then, am I allowed to catch up on the last day and a half of LJ.

I'm in San Diego at the moment (flight yesterday was terrific, and I will never understand why Aaron's relatives insist on flying into San Diego when it always requires changing planes while coming from Maine or Miami, when flying into LA takes maybe a half hour more to get to his parents' house, including driving-time, but whatever...)

We are possibly going to Disney Land on Wednesday. Aaron wants to take me out for dinner for my birthday that night - what do those of you who go there regularly recommend? We were thinking the Wine-Trattoria, but the Mexican place at Downtown Disney looks good, too. Or is there something at one of the hotels? Anything similar to the California Grill at the Contemporary?

And for those of you who've been following the Apple teaser-posters, what do you think they're going to do? I saw a (whimsical) suggestion of anti-gravity ipods, but I'm hoping for a micro-laptop that feels lighter than air. The LA Times had an article about a shrine to ancient computers located up in Seattle. It looks fantastic - I really need to find a chance to make a pilgrimages to some Museum of Old Technology someday, because it's all just adorable. I also should probably have my artist-aunt make a display thing for my circa 1994 Newton, so I can put it in the living room, properly enshrined.


ETA: Okay, before I play catch-up, I checked spn_holidays first thing, as I've been doing for the last few weeks, to see if something was posted for me, and OH WOW, it was! Here is the gorgeous first section of a Harry Potter/Supernatural/Torchwood crossover from gestaltrose and I am over the moon with adoration for it! Squeethanks, this is the best way to start my birthday week!

ETA 2: Sweet Charity signup has been edited, because the amazing lithium_doll has added Chuck to the fandoms listed!