Look what arrived yesterday at Casa Zee, courtesy of the super talented milly_gal who made this amazing piece.  I had to wait until today to give it to my daughter, because it was a gift for her. She LOVES her new 'Cas wings and tie' necklace. :D



Thanks Milly!  <3

Hello new friends from the recent friending meme! (And everyone else, of course!) As you've probably deduced by now I don't post all that often, however, today exciting things have happened!

Firstly, my spn_summergen gift was posted today and it is wonderful! I submitted my prompts early, before the season finale, so most of them were about how to deal with the Darkness.

My gifter gave me fabulous art, Queen of Queens with the summary: Billie is Death. In God’s absence she teams up with Rowena and several SPN-Alumni ghosts to help Sam and Dean stop Amara from unmaking reality.

If you haven't seen it already, please take a look. This artwork is stunning.


Secondly, I think everyone has probably seen the pimping for the new community started by akintay, spn_writing.

I volunteered to help mod and also stuck my hand up to do the first discussion post as akintay had done all the hard work of setting up the comm and doing the introductory posts. (With lots of background work being done by all the maintainers, of course!)

We posted our first discussion topic today. It is: How do you approach writing a fic? A nice, gentle, chatty topic to get into the swing of things, before we get into the real meat and bones of things with topics like plot and writing action scenes, writing sex scenes and characterisation!

We're really eager to tap into the massive pool of talent we have in our fandom so if there's a writing topic you'd really like to talk about, please volunteer to make a discussion post! 

Who is Big Banging this year?

I've seen a few posts from people lamenting their lack of progress, which is comforting to me as I've really struggled with my Big Bang this year. It has fought me every step of the way!

You wanted lighthearted and fun? Ha, says the muse I'm only gonna do serious and angsty this year! :(  I tell you, it's like the two of us are trying to control the one steering wheel, me trying to turn us down the fun path and the muse trying to turn us down the serious path.



Anyhoo, I'm currently sitting at 18,500 words and yesterday I took a pair of scissors to my outline, cut out a whole subplot, made over the main plot ever so slightly and now...I'm confident that I can finish a (very) rough draft by the deadline!


(Metrics visual snagged from firesign10...isn't it cool?)

How are all the rest of you Big Bangers feeling about your piece? Will you make deadline? Are your characters behaving themselves? Is your muse being fickle and annoying like mine?  And have all you artists got in mind the kind of piece you want to art for this year? Claims are fast approaching!

Eek! I just did something really naughty. I signed up for SPN Spring Fling again. And I really shouldn't have, what with spnmeanttobe and Big Bang to work on! I just...couldn't resist. It was so much fun last year.

So if anyone else is feeling naughty too...

SIGN UP HERE

A friend shared this on facebook and, as a fan of Phillip K Dick (my Big Bang this year was loosely based on Total Recall which is loosely based on PKD's We'll remember it for you wholesale) and slash, this amused me greatly. So I thought I'd share it. Librarians...be careful how you catalogue lest you greatly amuse those who are easily amused!

Oh boy! What a frenzy.

Thanks to a slight daylight savings time miscalculation on my part, SPN Reversebang Claims actually didn't open up until 2.00am here in Oz...fortunately I had a party to go to beforehand, so I haven't had to wait up too long for the post to open. And when it did...boy oh boy!

1.59am. I hit refresh. Claims not open.
2.00am. I hit refresh. Claims open. THERE ARE ALREADY 39 CLAIMS!!! I hit comment. I hit paste. (having already cleverly pre-copied my choices). Livejournal thinks and whirs.
2.01am. My claim is made. By now there have already been 73 claims made prior to mine.

I think I've gotten my first choice. I quickly scrolled through and...couldn't see that art number prior to my claim. Fingers crossed.

So much awesome art, but not everything sparks an idea. There were several pieces that I would happily frame and put on my wall, but I don't have a single story idea for them.

Anyhoo. That was Claims. Yeesh. I'm going to bed now!  Good luck everyone who's taking part! :D

I'm in Sri Lanka at the moment on a vacation with lots of extended family from all around the world. Sadly the wifi connection is dodgy as, so my online presence is very much pot luck right now.

It is gorgeous here though, so much to see and do, so I guess I should put the tablet down anyway!

I read this article about Fanfiction today: Flipping the script: 4 reasons fanfic is a feminist pursuit.


In honour of international fanworks day (which some of y'all are still having, but for me was yesterday) I thought I would share said article. It has some thoughtful and positive things to say about fanfiction and it also mentions one of my favourite tropes, race/ethnicity bending.


( Read more of my waffle and also see the fic recs... )

Saw this article on Facebook: 'How to win at Rock Paper Scissors with Science!'

The article's opening line? "Can’t agree on who should get that last slice of pie? 'Rock, Paper, Scissors!',"

I think it's fairly clear to us all that Sam has worked out this 'always win' method, but I think it's also equally clear to us all that DEAN always gets the last slice of pie. Am I right?



#Icanrelateeverythingtosupernatural