Where were you while we were getting high?

Still reading the must-reads recs at spnstoryfinders. I don't feel that strongly about "We Were Twenty" as some reccers do but it did introduce me to Philip Levine's beautiful poem "You Can Have It". Some people don't get how I can lose myself on the internet all day. (They are usually the same people who wonder where I found the things I forwarded them.) But the beauty about the internet is that, if you're curious, if you dig a little deeper on one thing, it'll lead you to another thing, or another take, and if you push on, you'll know a whole lot of random things which make it much easier to make connections for most anything, and leads you further to an exponentially increasing number of things to check out, try out or just let them blow your mind away.

Have just died reading this Rorschach one-lined porn...

Reading thenyxie's Ouroboros, I'm overwhelmed by the picture of Dean doing the Rose Tyler Time Vortex things. Seriously, how cool and how gorgeous would it be if Dean were the antichrist and get to do a glowing god-like trance thing?

I've just gone through all the SPN RPS podfics in the podfic archive and is making my way through the FPS podfics. They're like a short-cut for me now since I have no idea what the must-reads or hall-of-fame in this fandom are. Sometimes I just wish SPN fics are as easy to navigate as the SV fics were...

Watchmen
Yesterday I finished reading Watchmen in one go and I'm still overwhelmed by this graphic novel. I'll definitely buy this book as I'm quite sure I'll want to read it again. I can see how existentialism, the thought of that age, has affected it. I just wish I could fully feel the Cold War angst that's so fundamental to it - but I was too young in the 80s to have a lasting memory of what it must be like to have a nuclear war looming just over the horizon.

It's a pity only the IMAX version will be uncut. The only screening I can go to on weekdays is 9:30 pm but it'll be close to 12:30 am when it finishes and the IMAX cinema is over an hour away from my home :(

Supernatural RPS
Why did I wait so many years to dip into the SPN RPS fics? And why do I have hang-ups about AU fics again? It's amazing there are so many talented people in the SPN fandom. Not only are the meta great. There are some really great fics too. And in some really unexpected forms no less - like, housecat!Jared/hamster!Jensen slash. Never have interspecies(, non-human) love feel so hot and cute!

I love this book. It articulates exactly what I've wanted to say for a long time why I love TV so much more than film: Only with the length and the serial nature of TV can the complex, multi-layered stories I like be fully expressed. And it says that eloquently with examples of several genres too, and shows I've actually watched and loved, such as Queer as Folk, This Life and Cracker.

(...I know, it's a clear sign of procrastination when I'm posting so frequently.)

A very unscientific study which probably won't serve much purpose at all:
( Fan Fic Genre Stats )

( rambling about mpreg )

(Edited because motherhood instinct is not mother nature. Watching Euro 2008 in a different time zone is a serious hazard to my sanity.)

ETA: alchemia has posted a fascinating list of mainstream mpreg books and movies (among others). I better start looking for them.

ETA: Apparently Madeline on LJ had a post which mentioned the differences between mpreg fanfics and mainstream mpreg. It seems there's another book I need to add to my shopping list.

( Mpreg Meta List )

Harry Potter will be required reading for A-level English in England. When will our public exam include works of contemporary significance?