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Five Jobs that Never Got Finished by guede_mazaka

I found this one on crack_van (woohoo, an spn reccer finally showed up to work!). Five short stories about how badly things could have ended at any point for the Winchesters. the one for Straw Man was my favorite.

And then, top it of with Night of the Zombie PC if you need a little humor to lighten the mood. Title should be self explanatory!

Night Moves (NC17, het)

I'm not really capable of coherent thought here, but just trust me and go read, k?

So, here's the deal, alethialia asked for pimps to good SPN rec journals. I knew of a couple when I went and did a search a while back, so I decided to be a bit more thorough and actually make a post about it.

*This is not exhaustive, rather it is what I can easily determine from LJ search and then also the summaries off of several reccing the reccers lists. If I left off what you consider to be a penultimate SPN rec community, please comment with the appropriate link*

Of course, there's always crack_van, but for some reason, this hasn't been working well for SPN. Methinks the poltergeists keep kidnapping our drivers. Or it's a curse. Yep, that's it. It's the curse of the yellow eyed demon.

spn_themes is a themed rec community for SPN that strives to help you find good fic via themed posts (eg, Valentine's Day, J squared, etc). Looks fairly active with posts at least every month.

Then lali_lewicki provides her recs on sn_recs. Mostly gen and wee!chesters. Also, not updated very often.

37flavors hits a lot of fandoms, but it also does list several people who list rec communities on it's profile page. Looking through, I didn't find many that seemed to be Supernatural oriented and SPN only has 7 recs in the 37flavors as a whole.

37flavors pointed me to recsrainbow, a lists of various rec journals which is actually updated frequently it appears, listed the following: (Note, this isn't exhaustive list of those that are SPN recs, but rather the ones with the largest number of recs or ones who recced what seemed to be unique stories/genres to me)

Hallelujah, jackpot! fic_me_twice, a rec community by darkenedsakura and princess_dexter, actually has a whomping number of SN fanfic recs dating all the way back to September 2006. Just looking at the memories, it looks to be varied.

makesmewannadie does a lot of reccing and has done several SPN recs of varying lengths and different genres.

polyfandomrecs also has supernatural recs

reccer seems to have only wincest recs, but several of them.

rec_a_day only considers completed fics and doesn't have many SPN recs, but those it does have seem unique to me. Of course, I should qualify that statement by reminding everyone that I'm a hermit with regard to the SPN fandom generally.

alikcin has a few SPN recs as well as Dark Angel recs mixed in with the SPN.

Ooh, another big list: sareads has 68 SPN recs currently

Okay, that's what I've found so far. I hope that helps everyone.

**Of course, my own way of finding recs, is by stalking the memories of other authors. :) I'm so very glad that almost everyone besides me is all organized and shit.

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Thanks to hossgal for these catches:
barkley regularly recs fics (het and gen) and has a searchable rec page here

musesfool keeps a recs journal,unfitforsociety, and her SPN recs are here

Also, shrift and nestra host Polyamorous Recs, which has a supernatural section with a good selection of slash, het and gen stories. (no rpf, no wincest)

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Stumbled across this completely by accident: crack_impala (like crack_van, but all SPN, all the time). They have a schedule for when to see what recs:
* Monday: Gen Fiction.
* Tuesday: Real Person Fiction.
* Wednesday: Sam/Dean rated G through R.
* Thursday: Het and Other Slash.
* Friday: Vids/art/icons/misc.
* Saturday: Old Fic Feature.
* Sunday: Sam/Dean rated Hard R and NC-17.

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oxoniensis found spnroundtable which is a new community: It has themed recs twice a month, a person assigned to rec weekly for a month, and several people who guest rec regularly. There'll probably end up being some recs on other posts as well, the author/artist/vidder Q&A sessions, and the chat posts.

This serves as way of an apology for those afflicted by my previous rant....You will be glad to know ranting about it got it out of my system, I only hope your retinas aren't burned too badly as a result.

Anyways, on with the reccing!! (albeit with one caveat: techinically this is a WIP, though the individual chapters/sections stand well alone)

Everyonce in a while in fanfic, we come across THE story. You know the one. The one that you wish was a tv show itself because it's just that good. The characters are true to what they were in the show, but with growth, there's original characters that we fall in love with, and the plot speaks to us. Sometimes, we're lucky if we find one per several fandoms. Other times, our fandom is blessed with a surfeit of talent and we see several over many years.

Today, I managed to stumble upon one such fic. Even better (for me), it's a crossover fic -- Supernatural/Dark Angel (though your Dark Angel knowledge is not all that necessary to the reading -- you only get more colors and shadows if you know it.)

ladyjanelly is writing this Supernatural/Dark Angel crossover and it starts with Today's Tom Sawyer. It diverges from SPN around Devil's Trap and has Sam on the road alone when he runs across a young Ben (Dark Angel). Ladyjanelly's Sam is dead on perfect -- a little more cynical and hardened than our Sam, but he still has to help, even when he figures out that helping might mean trouble.

My Dark Angel memory is a little...okay, a lot fuzzy, so I won't comment so much on Ben other than to say that I fell in love with him from almost the first. he's real to Sam and Sam wants to protect him and that's all that matters.

Go and read...if you hate WIP, just read the first two "chapters", which stand alone well and are a complete story in and of themselves.

You know, it's never a good thing when your body starts yelling at your for sitting and doing something for four or five hours. Especially when you can remember it not quite doing that (or at least not complaining from quite so many joints) just a few years ago.

Still, thanks to adelheide reccing dodger_winslow's story, To Everything a Season (warning, WIP for those of you wierdos that refuse to read them -- supernatural fandom), I got sucked into a fanfic reading binge (well, do we still call it a binge when it's just one story?? LOL, albeit, epicly long story) this morning...which made me realize that for once I didn't have any cells or experiments waiting on me at work and nothing that needed to be done OMG THIS MINUTE and the only reason I was going to work was for the dentist...which is really just basically having me come in a second time for a separate little workup and different xrays to get more money from me in my opinion. So, since my nose decided to have a nosebleed that made it seem unwise to have hand pressure on my face while leaning backwards, I canceled that and played hooky and indulged in the fanfic binge.

And now my lower back and the tendons in one of my hips are asking me why I didn't move around more today. Siiigh, this getting old stuff never gets old does it? :P

Still, as tired as I've been all week, I think I needed it. Especially since B seems to be getting sick :P I've had enough colds this year, thanks!

Huh, thought there was more of a point to this post, but I can't find it anymore. *shrugs*

sgt_psycho has written one of the creepiest fics I've ever read: A Tragedy in Five Parts. Read it now, ( or follow under the cut for why you should read w/ possibility of spoilers )

kbk has made a list of metallicar fics

enjoy:)

you must read this crack fic

Seriously. One of the funniest things I've read in Supernatural so far.

Do not have any liquids near your computer. Really. In fact, move back as far as possible so you don't spit on the keyboard.

1300 days by stele3

Supernatural WIP. Dean POV, pre-series, when Sam leaves.

The first chapter is grab you by your guts good and makes me extremely excited to wait for more.stele nails Dean's character and gives a very compelling exploration of all three Winchester men.

I'm evil and hope there are 1299 chapters to go.

ETA..oh okay, just found the link for the other chapters cause apparently I'm dumb like that. In case anyone else suffers my affliction:
chapter 2
chapter 3 part1
chapter 3 part 2
chapter 4

It's finished -- for ease, I'm putting them all here since she doesn't have them in her memories. Note, some of those are multi post chapters so always hit "next entry" to see if there's another one.
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8 and prologue

go, read, shoo.

Currently this is a WIP, but I'm hooked so the rest of you need to suffer along with me:

Cast the first stone by nardasarmy

It's about sin eaters and a demon/spirit following the boys. nardasarmy does a wonderful job of fleshing out all the OCs and tantalizing you bit by bit with clues. I can't wait to see where the author takes it. To top off the plot and characters, the language is superb and the ease with which she uses it makes me jealous.

Go and read and wait with me for updates.

She has part 1 and two up currently.