That is why this whole discussion began with me venting here, in a general fanfiction thread where I sometimes come across people with similar opinions, and not with me barging into a thread on lj and bitching that they absolutely positively must change things now! Now!

Oh, totally understandable. It's just that, well, some of us have run newsletters or challenges in the past and/or are longtime fannish friends of some of the people running them now, which get us on the defensive side when structural change is mentioned as a desire.

The new gen-focus community just posted a huge list of Sam recs, btw. (I think they got something like 67 submissions?) It's looking like a good way to find stories I haven't seen before, and I give it a thumbs up to anyone looking for SPN to read. Well, gen SPN. Which is something like 95% of the SPN I read.

Which gen-focus community, Plei?

spngenlove, with possibly some combination of underscores I'm not recalling at the moment.

I like how spngenlove is grouping recs by genre and/or theme (e.g. "post-series Sam-centric").

Cool, thanks for the heads up.

Gen comm! YAY!

surfacing briefly from 3-day orgy of nonstop SPN RPF crackfic featuring a cast of assorted chefs, hookers, teachers, schoolboys, mermaids, spies and God knows what else.

Holy crap. Why has nobody written a CWRPS (or whatever the hell it's called) version of The Princess Bride OR Pirates of the Caribbean?

I have looked up Chad Michael Murray on Google and stared at him blankly, but I'm afraid every time he pops up as a character I see Owen Wilson.

In no way am I contemplating writing more RPS crackfic.

looks shifty

Why has nobody written a CWRPS (or whatever the hell it's called) version of The Princess Bride OR Pirates of the Caribbean?

I know I saw one where one of the Js was in the next PoTC.

I have not yet brought myself to read the mermaid crack, but I would so read those in a heartbeat.

The Mermaid crack was really quite charming - Splash, reworked. Although I think I'm much fonder of the Sabrina one.

In terms of crack RPF fic, have you read Chash's stuff [link] especially the Tractorbeam stories? [link]

She also wrote a Misha fic I think you might like [link]

On the non-rpf side, her Leverage stuff is quite good as well.