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Hey, I'm not dead! And I return bearing fic—Bobby/Crowley fic! JUST WHAT YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED!

Title: A Bargain (The Best I Ever Had)
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Bobby/Crowley
Spoilers: Through 5x22
Warnings: Dub-con
Length: ~1,400 words
Summary: A response to a blindfold_spn prompt: Lilith told Sam that to seal a deal with her would require more than a kiss. What if the same were true for Crowley as well, and tongue isn't the only thing Bobby needed to use? Bonus points if a weird, consensual relationship ensues.

( A Bargain (The Best I Ever Had) )

I vented at poor tracy_loo_who about last night's SPN season finale, and I think that's all I'm gonna manage to say on the subject. The rest of my issues I'm going to have to work out through fic, which is more fun for everyone, I think. And pornier.

Speaking of, the reveals for deancastiel's Renegade Angels III went up earlier this week. I wrote two stories:

Title: If on a winter's night a fangirl
Pairings: Dean/Castiel & Chuck/Becky
Rating: R
Warnings: Crackishness; about the usual amount of blasphemy
Spoilers: Through 5x09
Length: ~12,300 words
Summary: “Chuck,” Becky said, slowly and carefully and very, very seriously. “I think someone is trying to communicate with us through the fanfic.”
Notes: For alek_sandros. In writing this story I owe many thanks to my betas, siriaeve and aesc, and deep apologies to Italo Calvino.

If on a winter's night a fangirl

Title: Creature of Habit
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Through 5x13
Length: ~5,500 words
Summary: The more you love someone, the more you want to kill them. Or: How Cas developed some bad habits, and Dean coped surprisingly well.
Notes: For misslucyjane, who asked for Dean and Castiel lying on the hood of the Impala at night, talking. Many thanks to my infinitely patient and wise betas, aesc, bauble, radiobroadcast, and siriaeve!

Creature of Habit

And while I'm pimping things out, I guess I'll use this space to remind everyone that I have a Twitter! That I am actually using now! It's mostly fannish stuff, book stuff, and random celebrity sightings. In other words, what this LJ would be if I ever actually updated it. *blush*

Wow. That was...quite a thing.

Seriously, though, it was great. I tweeted about it a lot here, which will have to do in place of a proper write-up because I have no brain left and I just want to lie on my couch and read The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest and think about having made eye contact with various people. Anyway, I really have nothing to add beyond, "OMG, why did all the merchandise suck?" (seriously, this post could easily be titled "I went to Creation's Supernatural Con and all I got was this lousy Star Trek mug"), and the important to reiterate fact that radiobroadcast, cacklebang, katmaxwell, poor_choices, and flightsofangels (briefly! hi!) are AWESOME.

ETA: If you want me to elaborate on anything specific, though, I'd be happy to do that. Though my answers may all devolve into "Misha/Jensen/whoever is preeeeetty."

In other news, bauble posted an interview with me (which is really more like a fun conversation between the two of us) that she did for rec_hymenated here. Feel free to ask questions! Now that I am back and not wandering around the LAX Marriott, I actually intend to answer them!

Thank you so much to everyone who gave me recipe tips! I have made several delicious things already, and purchased a garlic press. So—progress!

Thank you also for all the birthday wishes. :) You should all check out the hilarious card aesc made me, and read this wonderful, delicious Dean/Castiel fic by siriaeve. If you can think of any way to trick her into being in this fandom for reals, please do let me know.

Now, questions!

1. Are any of you going to the L.A. Creation Con next weekend? I am attending with radiobroadcast. This'll be my first single-show con, so I am an odd combination of excited and nervous. I'd love to meet up if any of you are going to be there!

2. I have been hesitant to mention this for no particular reason, but I am now the editor of my work's blog. It is mostly about books and book news and other fun book-related things. I feel that this would perhaps make a fun daily read for some of you? And, okay, honestly: I need more hits. My boss has started asking for analytics and I need more page views and comments and all of that. If any of you wouldn't mind—or might even enjoy!—wandering over there M-F (when I post) and checking it out, I would really appreciate it. Just, uh, don't mention fandom stuff. I am perhaps being foolish inviting the blending of these two worlds, but hey—fun book blog! Please check it out!

And now I am going to wander away again. Sigh. I swear some day I will have the time/inclination to do stuff with this journal again. Or at least—hopefully, maybe!—post some porn.

Ahh, when I can't seem to write fiction, it is nice to know that I can always fall back on getting my rant on.

( 11. The Group — Mary McCarthy ) Reading this book was a bit too much like being stuck at an interminable party full of people you don’t much like—and who make no secret of the fact that they freakin' hate you.

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( 12. Audition — Ryu Murakami ) Well played.

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( 13. Eight Days of Luke — Diana Wynne Jones ) You can see why Gaiman wanted to do something else with the material: something vaster; something that, even if it’s still imperfect, nevertheless has consequence.

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( 14. Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You — Peter Cameron ) Exploring James' lonely psyche will make you feel less so.

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( 15. Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words — Jay Rubin ) Murakami’s just this guy, you know? And that’s actually pretty awesome.

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( 16. My Summer on Earth — Tom Lombardi ) Life is cruel sometimes.

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( 17. First Contact — Evan Mandery )This is honestly very good, though. You should read it even if they won’t.

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( 18. The Lost City of Z — David Grann ) This is the kind of true-life story that even the best fiction would have a hard time rivaling.

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( 19. The Art of Racing in the Rain — Garth Stein )Whether or not this is a “man’s book,” it is definitely not a book for me.

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( 20. The Unfinished Angel — Sharon Creech ) I always liked it when things happened.

Total Reviews: 20/41

So last night, my roommate discovered mold growing all over the walls of her bedroom, and this morning we noticed that the wall of our kitchen that adjoins the bathroom (as her bedroom does) is bubbling and puckering. Obviously, we have a leak of some kind—gosh, I wonder if that could be connected to the hole in the bathroom ceiling we told the landlord about in December, which he just patched over without investigating the cause? So now we have to wait two days for anyone to fix it, and the job may be so extensive that we won't have anywhere to live while they repair. Oh, and also, this afternoon our neighbors got into a violent altercation and we had to call the cops on them. Happy Valentine's Day, us!

So here's some distraction booklog. SIGH.

( 1. Candide — Voltaire ) it would be nice if cravats came back. Cravats are hot.

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( 2. The Valley of Fear — Arthur Conan Doyle ) Doyle’s Holmes and Watson are like pizza and sex for George Carlin—even when they’re bad, they’re pretty good.

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( 3. The Liars’ Club — Mary Karr ) it’s not something I can examine or read with any pleasure.

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( 4. The Adventure of the Ectoplasmic Man — Daniel Stashower ) after Jude Law’s impeccable Watson from the new movie, I am feeling a tad spoiled.

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( 5. The Impostor’s Daughter — Laurie Sandell ) I never have to think about this stuff when I’m reading about fighting crime or blowing up spaceships.

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( 6. Sum — David Eagleman ) I guess happiness, or even hopefulness, aren’t intellectually stimulating enough.

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( 7. Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded — John Scalzi )I think Scalzi’s scathing sense of humor—which I enjoy—may be better taken in small doses than absorbed all at once like this.

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( 8. The Unwritten: Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity — Mike Carey ) one of the most electrifying graphic novels I've read in a long time.

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( 9. The Unnamed — Joshua Ferris ) “I will be wary of what Ferris does next.”

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( 10. The Checklist Manifesto — Atul Gawande ) I love how Gawande makes you think about systems, communication, and simple ways in which the world can be made better.

Total Reviews: 10/35

Better late than never: My favorite books of 2009 and a year of reading in review!

( Top Five Fiction )

( Top Five Graphic Novels )

( Top Five Young Adult )

( Top Five Nonfiction )

( Five Worst Books )

( And now some gratuitous statistics! )

But now it is a new year! A fresh start! Please rec me:

1. Awesome books by women!
2. Awesome books by POC!
3. Goofy-fun books with angels in ’em!

Obviously, any that are three-in-one would be amazing.