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Title: Rats
Summary/Prompt: Not surprisingly, from pkwench at the hoodie_time Dean-focused h/c comment-fic meme. Dean and Sam investigate a haunting at an abandoned hospital and get separated. Dean's overcome by the ghost of a dead anesthesiologist and the spook slips him a paralytic that renders him fully unable to move, but leaves him fully conscious. He can't move, he can't yell for Sam, he can't even tell if he's still breathing. But he can feel and he can hear. And what he hears is the mad little scrabble of claws on old tile. Then they come, rats. Maybe just a dozen or so, but to him, unable to move in the darkness, it feels like hundreds of them, crawling over him, little tails sliding over his cheeks and his tongue, one of them right up in his face, the whiskers tickling him. And, maybe they start to gnaw a bit and he keeps trying to shout for Sam to move a finger or a hand to swat them away. But? He can't. Hope Sam gets there soon. Bet Dean does too.Original prompt and my reply can be found here.
Warnings/Spoilers: No spoilers. Swearing. RATS.
Wordcount: 1,183
Neurotic Author's Note #1: I just whipped this up in about half an hour. No beta, no revision, nothing. Just Dean getting chewed on by rats.
Neurotic Author's Note #2: I swore I would work on other things this weekend, but APPARENTLY I can't resist pkwench's prompts any better than before. So.

( Rats )

So now with the Dean/Cas Big Bang draft done and sent in, and my summer_sam_love fic all written and ready to be posted on Monday, I just realized that I don't have another fic due for another three whole weeks!

This is exciting!

So of course now I feel like writing a whole bunch of other things. Which is silly, because starting in three weeks I have four fics due, one of which is another Big Bang (I know! I know!), although that one's not due for a month or so.

I swear to God, it's like crack. I can't leave it alone.

I'm also thinking of de-mothballing two old fics I wrote when I was just starting out in fandom. They're rough, but I have a soft spot for them because they're the first things I ever wrote in this fandom and they never got posted to my LJ. I think I should take ownership of them even if they're not as good as I'd like them to be. I'll probably post them tomorrow, maybe back-dated so I don't clutter up my flist.

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The rest of this post is me talking to myself about dates and stuff. You can skip it if you'd like.


I have to update my list of ongoing works, and then get my ducks in a row, fic-wise. Apart from the challenge obligations, I have a handful of fics that I'd like to write or continue in the meantime.

So, challenges and dates are, in the order in which they're due:

summer_sam_love: episode tag to "The Rapture," due September 11th. No wordcount limits.

deancastiel: Secret Angels IV fic exchange, due September 17th. Minimum 2,000 words, and I already have the premise and a rough plot in mind.

werewolfbigbang: 10,000 words, due September 25th. Already begun, although I'm not sure I want to keep what I have.

kamikazeremix: 1,000 words minimum, due September 27th. Read the fic I'm remixing, pretty sure I know what I'm doing with it.


What I'd like to write also:

1- At least a couple more chapters of RiD. Ideally, maybe one new chapter a week. Maybe I should pick a day of the week on which it posts and just stick to once a week, so it's not feast-or-famine for my poor readers.

2- I have an idea for a crack!fic that won't leave me alone. It's mpreg. IDEK. I think I have to write it and get it out of my system.

3- roque_clasique has kindly given me a prompt for my "Silent Night" verse, and I'd like to write it as a celebration of her finding accommodations and starting school and all that.

4- I owe peppervl a fic. Waiting on a prompt.

5- There are a couple of prompts over at the comment-fic meme going on at hoodie_time which have piqued my interest. One of them will be a quickie, but the other one may take a while.

So, yeah. Lots of projects, very little time. Story of my life! It's all good, really. The second list doesn't ALL have to get done right away. It's more of a wish list than anything else. :)

Hey, flist, it's nearly the weekend!

Know what that means? It means you should be writing crack!fic. Oh, yes it does! What better way to console ourselves during the hiatus? You know damned well Show is going to break our hearts come September, so let's have ourselves some fun first.

Crack!Fic: Hiatus' answer to the gag reel. :D


There are LOTS of awesome prompts, and a good ten really hilarious fics already written. Go have fun!

So, uh, yeah. I wrote unabashed crack. Not only is it crack, but it's got RPF in it AND turned vaguely slashy.

DON'T ASK, I CANNOT EXPLAIN THIS. It's the fault of lassiterfics, as usual, with a helping hand from hereare_mysins.

Title: Stonedhenge, aka My Title Is a Really Bad Pun
Summary: From a prompt by the lovely and talented and obviously really twisted hereare_mysins at lassiterfics Stonehenge Apocalypse/SPN commment-fic meme: CASTIEL/JIMMY/JACOB/FUTURE!CAS(/MISHA). Make it happen. Somehow. O_O *ded* Original prompt and my reply can be found here.
Wordcount: 1,696
Spoilers: Uh, minor ones for Stonehenge Apocalypse, and for SPN up to 5.04. You don't actually have to know the movie or the show to understand the story, though.
Warnings: Drug use (marijuana), and mild swearing. Men kissing men who look like each other. I don't even know.
Disclaimer: Yeah... if I had any claim of ownership, I think this fic right here would count as my forfeit for ALL ETERNITY. Please don't sue, there was NO harm intended here!
Neurotic Author's Note: This is crack. Not even fluffy pseudo-crack the way I've done a few times. No no. CRACK. Then it turned into SLASHY crack. I can't begin to explain this. It's best left alone.
Neurotic Author's Note #2: Written off-the-cuff, no beta, no revision, nothing. Just unrevised crack. Pirates Fangirls, ye be warned!

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( Stonedhenge )

HOLY CRAP WTF EVER THIS IS roque_clasique's FAULT.

I wrote something short enough to fit into one LJ comment box, over at the

The SPN CuddleCommentFic Meme

Title: Foam Hearts
Prompt: roque_clasique wanted: Sam comes into the stupid uptight coffee shop with the burgundy and gold furniture where I used to work this fall, and I make the most spectacular vanilla soy latte he's ever had -- foam like velvet, I swear. Cuddles happen. Original prompt and my response can be found here
Warnings: Holy crap, the SCHMOOP!
Wordcount: 611 (seriously, shortest thing I've written, ever that isn't a drabble)
Disclaimer: Sam isn't mine, and neither is roque_clasique. Both these things make me sad, because cuddles with them would be the most awesome thing ever.
Neurotic Author's Note: IDEK /o\ This is roque_clasique's fault. I wrote in the first person singular, for God's sake! That never happens!
Neurotic Author's Note #2: I wrote this off-the-cuff inside the comment box in the meme. I've never done that before. I cannot be held responsible for the quality of the prose.
Neurotic Author's Note #3: I have never worked in a coffee shop. I am totally making shit up, and had to Google how to make a vanilla soy latte. Yes, I researched for comment-fic. I know.


( Foam Hearts )

Okay, so today we have an Experiment In Fanfic™, in which ratherastory is going to run the risk of an epic fail, and start a WIP. I blame pkwench , because it's all because of her prompt at ohsam 's latest comment-fic meme, except it sort of dovetailed with the other idea I had a while back about Dean and Jess getting together to look for Sam, and I had to write the first part of the story just to get it down on paper, and the rest of it still needs to, umm, percolate. Or whatever.

Title: Roses in December
Prompt: From the ever-lovely and talented pkwench: Freshman semester at Stanford Sam gets tagged by a car while walking home from work, the library, whatever. His only emergency contact is one Bobby Singer who is attending a "business conference" in New Hampshire. However, he has the number of someone who might be a little closer to Sam and who can probably get there before the boy wakes up. You can totally go permanent injury with that if you like. :) Original prompt can be found here.
Summary: “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” J. M. Barrie. (Okay, not exactly a summary. That's what the prompt was for.)
Spoilers: This is a Season 1 AU, so none.
Wordcount: 3,736 (this section)
Warnings: So far? Not much. A bit of bad language. It's tame by my standards. Otherwise, it features smoking!Dean (just because) and gratuitous leg injury. You know, the usual. ;)
Disclaimer: Disclaiming disclaimer disclaims all that ought to be disclaimed. Furthermore, I disclaim.
Neurotic Author's Note: Okay, so I kind of took the prompt and, uh, did something totally different with it. I set it waaay after freshman year, and kind of went with something a little other than permanent injury, although I suppose it could be permanent, but I just don't know yet. So, uh, yeah. There you go. Sorry, pkwench.
Neurotic Author's Note #2: I don't actually know how long this thing is going to be. I'm still playing with it. It might resolve in just one more chapter, maybe five. Or it could get epic on me, I just don't know. My apologies in advance, because I'm not going to be following my usual rule of updating on a daily schedule until the fic is complete. It's going to be sporadic at best. *cringe*


( Chapter 1 )

Chapter 2

So mimblexwimble, upon seeing my previous post, came up with a brilliant idea. A comment-fic meme celebrating Sam's birthday!

Have at it, and spread the love!



pkwench, I know you ran out of juice last night, but I HAVE FAITH. \o/

The roll continues. This one is from ohsam.


Title: Dust Busters
Prompt: From a prompt by the lovely and talented pkwench: This is a bit silly, but ... Sam and Dean go undercover as Manly!Maids to investigate a haunting. Sadly, Sam has a dust allergy and just keeps sneezing. Gen, pls! Original prompt and my answer can be found here.
Spoilers: None. It's kind of generic in terms of setting. :)
Word Count: 2,740
Warnings: None. It's pretty light-hearted. It starts out a bit cracky, then gets serious, as is my wont, but compared to what I've been producing lately? It's cotton candy. Really, really fluffy. ;)
Disclaimer: Kripke is mean and won't let me have his toys. He says I keep breaking them.
Neurotic Authorial Disclaimer: I stand by what I said before. pkwench needs to stop prompting things. At this rate I'll be writing comment-fics for the rest of my life.
Neurotic Authorial Disclaimer #2: Uh, this is possibly the fluffiest fluff that ever fluffed. If you're looking for angst, try some of my other entries.


( Dust Busters )

From the multi-fandom horror comment-fic meme going on over at sharp_teeth.

Title: Voi ch'entrate
Prompt: From a prompt by the lovely and talented roque_clasique: Dean, Sam, whoever -- horror retelling of the Labyrinth myth. (not the Henson movie *g*). Original prompt can be found here.
Spoilers: None. Maybe a couple of really vague spoilers for Seasons 4-5, but if you blink you'll miss 'em.
Word Count: 2,924
Warnings: Gore, violence, creepy shit, bad language. The usual.
Disclaimer: Apparently leather restraints can be chewed through. Who knew? Next time I'll invest in metal. Maybe chain link.
Neurotic Authorial Disclaimer: Uh, God. I don't even know how to explain this. I saw the prompt and I liked it?
Neurotic Authorial Disclaimer #2: This doesn't bear much resemblance to the classic myth, except that there's a labyrinth and a monster, and there were sort of 14 victims except I never bother mentioning that in the story, so, uh, yeah. It's not exactly a minotaur. Sorry.
Random Author's Note: Title is taken from "The Inferno."


( Voi ch'entrate )