everything but the girl

14.5 hours! And then, SHOW!

Although in my case DH has a meeting and won't be home until a little after nine so I may be watching it on a smidge of delay. Better make sure the DVR is recording!

I'm relatively spoiler-free, and I don't want to be tempted to look today, so do me a favour?

Rec me things you've really enjoyed this summer - specifically, one or two things you did - meta, fic, vid, icons, squee are all fantastic and any genre/type is fine - and one or two things you particularly loved.

There was so much fantastic fic this summer, so much amazing art, so many clever vids and wow the icon-creation was stellar! SO obvioudly, it's hard to narrow it down, but here's two things I've re-read (and I'm leaving out poisontaster's Kept Boy WiP as it isn't finished yet and thus isn't technically a hiatus-creation, and setting aside veronamay's BigBang, Better Elsewhere, since I was semi-involved with the process):

A Loaded God Complex from spn_summergen by gwendolyngrace, wherein the demon-worshipping cult that John has been tracking chooses Sam’s Middle School as their target. But John doesn’t know that there’s already another investigator on the case. Medium crossover (but pre-series, so not necessary to know anything about Medium).

Into HIs Hand by drvsilla. Yes, this is the J2 AU set in the rodeo world. I read it on an airplane in June, and it kept me enthralled all the way through, which was utterly unexpected. I had no interest in rodeos and was completely unfamiliar with the world, but this story is just mind-grabbing and heart-aching and intense.

Did I just cheat and put four fics in? : blushes :

When I got my iPhone earlier this summer, I loaded all the vids I've ever made onto it - sometimes, you just want to watch something familiar - and out of everything in every fandom that I made this summer, the one I've watched most is Always Be Closing Night, my encapsulation of the finale of Dean's Deal, set to Intermission by the Scissor Sisters. I watched it again this morning, to get keyed up for S4 OMGOMGOMGSQUEE tonight and I'm still happy with the way it came out, which isn't always how I feel about my vids four months after the fact.

Speaking of "after the fact", deirdre_c knows that I was having issues as to whether my Pina Colada was SPN or J2; when I finished it back in July I was sure that it was SPN crack, but now I am thinking that it's more of a J2 story that just happens to use SPN clips. WIBBLE, I DO NOT KNOW! Maybe I should make a poll...


Meep, kids are up! And SHOW is soooooooooon.

So please, tell me what you especially liked during this hiatus, so I don't go off onto TWoP or the CW forum or that new SPN Spoilers comm and hunt S4 spoilers with a salt-loaded shotfun?

ETA: Speaking of SPN - ( HEEEEEEEE! )

1. Tonight's ep of Supernatural, which was ( guh ) (but gah at the bloody long wait)!

2. Dazzleland, by big_pink - she posted the last chapter today and it's amazing. Supernatural, set slightly after Crossroads. Mostly gen, smidge of het, psychological issues and heartbreaking degrees of angst! Yay!

3. If Heroes Were At Hogwarts icons by lay_of_luthien

4. The ruling in the COPPA case handed down today, in which the court ruled that parents have the obligation to protect their kids from adult content that they don't want them to see, and it's not the government's obligation to criminalize the existence of such material online. I haven't read the whole ruling but it's on the agenda for tomorrow - and I *can't wait* because I have a feeing, from some of the excerpts I've seen, there will be a reason to squee.

Obscenity, btw, is still illegal, but anything with scientific or artistic merit isn't obscene, under US law.