SPN insta-rec (before even reading it): Ignipes has posted a sequel to Cartography of Empty Spaces, here: [link]

Eeeee! I loved CoES so very much.

I second the insta-rec, having read it.

It's way cool.

Oh, my. I hadn't read CoES, but I just spent a nice lunch break doing so.

Oh oh oh, I loved CoES so much. Must go read sequel right now.

You do know there's a prequel to CoES, right?

She also did a commentary on CoES awhile back, which was fun.

You know, I was looking over that story, and I realized it's a classic h/c scenario from the X-Files. (I've read six or eight instantiations of that specific scenario, in fact. Not that space aliens ever happen on Supernatural.) And I also realized, there isn't much of that that I read any more: not h/c, not that classic attitude, not that tonal standoffishness. Is it my reading habits? Or is that kind of fiction relatively rare these days?

Is it my reading habits? Or is that kind of fiction relatively rare these days?

I don't think h/c is rare at all. Or ever has been. I don't read a lot of it, but if done well, like here, I can enjoy it. Yes, I'm emo too!

I guess I just haven't run across much of it in Supernatural, not of that sort. (It may be my eyeballs protecting me from myself.) It just reminded me so strongly of the old stuff, like 6-8 years old, that I was really surprised.

Strangers and the Strange Dead territory, you know? And a couple others whose titles I can't remember.

So, the show that has all the former X-Files writers/crew inspires fic that is reminiscent of X-Files fic?

Interesting.

Strangers and the Strange Dead territory, you know? And a couple others whose titles I can't remember.

Oh, yeah. And JET's story, "Night Giving Off Flames", very similar premise. And yet a very different story than "Strangers".

Oh, and what's that one by MD1016, the really famous relatively early one, with the rape scene in the middle of the street? You know the one I mean? People thought it was soooo romantic...

So I'm popping my head in here briefly.

I was trying to find a link to an LJ post from 2005. For those of you who are Harry Potter fans, I think this is that classic post linked all over the internet where garlandgraves argued pretty persuasively that Snape is a good guy?

Well, I had to go to the wayback machine to find the post because garlandgraves' account was deleted. So I found the person's new acct, but in trying to find out what occurred, I of course learned that LJ went on a deletion spree and I came here and read the last 100 posts to see what you all had to say about it.

Two things:

1) So, am I to conclude that all of garlandgraves' wonderful fic and that account with the marvelous HP posts (and other things) is just fucking gone?

2) Is there a way that I can email an LJ user? I have a long dormant lj account, so I can friend people, but I can't figure out how to email people. I just want to shoot garlandgraves an email about how much I appreciated her fanfic and HP posts and leave it at that.