pyrebi: (Supernatural - zomg mini bang!)
My apologies for the exceedingly late posting, and for the quality of the finished product. Writing this was like pulling teeth, for reasons I can't quite figure out. You should go check out the artwork by [livejournal.com profile] amber1960 right over here. She's done quite a few lovely pieces and deserves your praise.

Beta thanks go to the fantastic [livejournal.com profile] sycophantastic and [livejournal.com profile] darkjediqueen, who both put up with a lot of stalling and whining from me every time this story didn't go the way I wanted it to.



Title: Scheherazade of the Super Eight
Author: [livejournal.com profile] pyrebi
Artist: [livejournal.com profile] amber1960
Pairing(s): Extremely mild Dean/Castiel.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 17k
Warnings: Fairytale-style madness and unrealistically quick fixes, forced imprisonment, general malice, one bout of non-lethal violence, offscreen deaths.
Notes: Goes massively AU after mid-s6; loosely based on the frame tale of One Thousand and One Nights.

Summary: Dean doesn't know why angels keep recruiting him for impossible tasks. But they do, and now he's apparently the last chance heaven has--not only against Raphael, but against a dangerously unhinged Castiel. Oh yeah, and he has to do it all from the confines of a 10'x16' motel room that doesn't even exist.

--


This is the story of a thousand stories. )
(part two)

GRAAAAAH

Jun. 1st, 2010 06:26 pm
pyrebi: (Supernatural - Herpes!)
I came to the library to work, thinking I'd do it better here than at home. LIES. Fuckin' Twitter.
pyrebi: (Supernatural - Omnishipper)
Let's recap my ships of the moment:

Dean/Castiel
I am going to create a Dean/Castiel fanmix. The first two songs on it will be Air Supply's "Making Love Out of Nothing At All" and Erasure's "Always." As I find other traumatizingly cheesy songs, I will add them. It will become my playlist for every crack story ever. (I am not sure why I am so convinced that their EPIC LOVE STORY is hilarious. They're both such dense bastards. Castiel's cold and Dean's ragey and both of them are kind of horrible and uncaring people to those around them, including each other. And yet I'm willing to overlook that, and the way that, although they seem to like each other in some sort of moderate way, there's nothing actually shippy about them other than the writers poking fun at the fanbase.  I don't know. I don't know. My logical mind is going "what? no. stop that, you're being stupid" at me, and then my fandom mind is being all "AHAHAHAHAHA DEAN/CAS 4EVA," and the latter's more fun, so. Plus, the DEEP DARK ANGST of their on-screen relationship annoys the hell outta me, so it's amusing to me to think of all of that ~drama~ carrying over to a romance.)

Transition note: I feel bad for enjoying both Dean/Cas and Jimmy/Amelia.

Jimmy/Amelia
So, the set-the-mood playlist I'm amassing to help me write the big hunter!Amelia/Jimmy fic for my het exchange assignment already contains three songs with "wolf" or "wolves" in their titles. This brings up two thoughts for me: a) wtf, self? what do wolves have to do with anything? and b) ...I have that many songs that talk about wolves? This whole thing makes no fucking sense to me. EDIT: Oh, I've just listened to them all again, and no, there's definitely a connection. In each song, the aforementioned wolves relate to angels in my head. (They are, by the way, "You're A Wolf" by Sea Wolf, "Wolves" by Josh Ritter, and "we are gods! we are wolves!" by Le Loup.)

Sam/Gabriel
No, shut up, this is hilarious. I don't even understand it. It's like this little subset of Dean/Cas shippers decided that if Dean got an angel boyfriend, Sammy should too. But the fics are delicious, and it's just my kind of awkward tongue-in-cheek romance.

MOTHERFUCKING ~*~SASSY~*~
Please see above, re: Sam/Gabriel. Plus, the girls who are producing this stuff are funny as hell. I also kinda blame by involvement with [livejournal.com profile] ontd_spnparty  for making me chortle at the thought of this ship.

Gabriel/Nancy
This is my own fault and I've whined about it enough. I just need to finish the damn fic so I can have it outta my head and it can be stillborn like any good ill-conceived monstrosity.

Dean/Lisa
Or, my only angst ship of the moment. I really liked this, too, before her wtf-reappearance in 5.17. It was, like, my canon-compliant happy ending ship. Now, I just feel like Dean's going to tear her apart. Nobody takes in a broken dude with more issues than an entire therapy group and is happy about it. I can't help but feel that he'll break her somehow, and she's gonna need to get rid of him, and then he'll be even more disillusioned, and AUGH. Fucking Show! WHY IS NO ONE EVER ALLOWED TO BE HAPPY?

-deep breath- Anyhow. Too many pairings. This summer is gonna be weird. I've never had so many currently-running ships. Usually it's just one at a time (Remus/Tonks, Chloe/Clark, Sam/Jess). So, uh. Yay SPN?
pyrebi: (Josh Ritter - Dogs or Whoever)
YOU GUYS.

THIS GOT PUBLISHED.

In Defense of Fanfiction

I don't even understand how, but it makes me thoroughly happy. It just showed up on my academic journal search, so our university must've just added this journal recently. It's basically everything we all say all the time, BUT NOW IT'S CITABLE. -thumbs up- I love it when I get to cite things instead of just "making them up."

Stay beautiful, fandom.
pyrebi: (Supernatural - Squicked)
(I have so much work to do, and all I wanna do is write fic. So I'm going to write this instead to soothe the urge until I can actually get some more time into my schedule.)

Can I just say the response to This Story Needs More Power Ballads is ridiculous? I am floored. -shakes head- And also that title was not just nonsense (although at 6:30am it was a lot that, too)--I have decided that my personal Dean/Castiel anthem is Air Supply's "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All." Yes. I hope that this will tell you everything you need to know about my take on the Dean/Cas ship. (Shorthand: earnest and corny and hilarious and embarrassingly addictive.) I do not even care that they are canonically harsh people. I can write fluff for the first time in forever, and it's fuckin' liberating. Thank you, Show.

Speaking of Dean/Castiel. I, uh, noticed there are definitely undertones of it in my big depressing hunter!Amelia fic that I didn't intentionally put there. I can't tell if I'm picking up Show's vibe of their relationship or if my shipper self is rearing its ugly head. Either way, I'm sorry, Amelia.

Also I might find myself writing Gabriel/Sam soon. -facepalm- But I feel like I'm jumping on that ship a little late, and that Gabe might be back soon and joss everything to hell, so first I'm gonna watch at least the next couple of eps. Then I might just have to try my hand at it, because I've been reading SO MANY awesome Gabe fics lately that I'm practically buzzing with love. Plus, Sam. Now that Show's being nice to him again and allowing him to act like an adult and not making him out to be some sort of monster (I'm sorry they were mean to you, behbeh Sammeh), I've found myself seriously interested in writing him more. I used to love writing Sam, but s3 and s4 kinda crushed that. Now, with 5.18, I'm practically foaming to get my paws back on his psyche. I missed that sasquatch. I'm tired of the Dean Angst Show. I liked Dean when he was the rough-and-tumble average Joe trying to hold things together for everybody else. Lately all he's doing to sobbing about his inner demons, and it's not compelling anymore. I swear to god he used to be clever. Not smart, maybe, but clever. What happened to that?

ANYWAY. Work now. Fic later. Bemused pleasure continually.

omg halp

Apr. 9th, 2010 04:48 pm
pyrebi: (Supernatural - Squicked)
I'm currently in the middle of writing THREE different prompts for the [livejournal.com profile] spn_het_love comment-fic meme, and there are like four more still calling to me. This is the best worst thing to ever happen to me!

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