I'm weirdly fond of the one where Jensen sometimes turns into a cat.

That's a good one, as is the followup SGA crossover. (For never having watched the show, I've read an awful lot of SGA.)

I have just discovered the degree to which fic writers are not like normal people. I got into "The Thick of It", the very dark and cruel British political comedy starring Peter Capaldi as Malcolm Tucker. (The creator/showrunner moved on to create "Veep", if you know that.)

There are three major pairings with Malcolm (if you discount Rose Tyler and HOLY MOTHER OF GOD HOW DID THAT HAPPEN): Malcolm/Nicola (the politician he shepherds), Malcolm/Jamie (his right-hand man during one season), and Malcolm/Sam (his personal assistant).

Somebody put up a video of all Sam's appearances in the show. All of them. They clock in at 3 minutes and 4 seconds total, and most of them she doesn't have any lines.

Fans: we are crazycakes.

Could be worse. Mycroft and Lestrade, the biggest non-John and Sherlock pairing in BBC Sherlock, didn't even share a scene until S3, and even that was a blink and you'll miss it. I mean, the hell?

Never understood that ship, either, Plei and Sherlock fic is about all I read anymore. It irks the heck out of me when a fic spends as much, or more, time on the Mycroft/Lestrade as it does the Sherlock/John. I feel with the mutual antipathy between Sherlock and Mycroft on the show neither would want to share the spotlight.

::sneaks into thread::

I feel like someone should do an "entirely invented ship" ficathon. Clint/Coulson, Mycroft/Lestrade, Ori/anyone from the Hobbit...

Clint/Coulson is weirdly sort of sneaking into the comics, because... why?????????????????????????????????????????

Ahem.

Types of fanfic I apparently read, based on today and yesterday:

• Wow, this is amazing, and I am filled with a horrible combination of feels and envy. BRB, deleting everything I've ever written now.

• This is really well written, so why isn't it working for me? It's working for everyone else, damn it!

• You know, I thought this was great the first time I read it, in that other fandom, five years ago.

• This idea was so promising, and I am so sad the execution betrayed it.

• God, I want to be able to read this writer's native tongue.

• This story is awful. The porn, however, is really uncomfortably hot. Thank fuck for private bookmarks.

• Dear fucking lord, there is nothing about this that is good, why the hell am I still reading it, why?

• ACK, WHERE THE FUCK DID THIS STONY COME FROM, YOU FUCKING FUCK! THAT WASN'T IN THE FUCKING TAGS! MAKE IT FUCKING GO THE FUCK AWAY! I HATE YOU! EWW! EWW! EWW! (I may have a strong NOTP. Like, Angel/Cordy strong.)

I feel like someone should do an "entirely invented ship" ficathon. Clint/Coulson, Mycroft/Lestrade, Ori/anyone from the Hobbit...

Markham/Stackhouse, Lorne/Parrish...

On another topic, there's a page for ita at Fanlore, which is OTW's fandom history wiki. If anyone with information wanted to add it to the page, that would be great. Though they've already got some information about her art, which is great.

This story is awful. The porn, however, is really uncomfortably hot. Thank fuck for private bookmarks.

This one happens to me rather a lot. Clear history!

Markham/Stackhouse, Lorne/Parrish...

I feel like I have so many more examples but I am just spinning my wheels in the Hobbit for the forseeable future.

In the last three months, I have written:

• The Thick of It wingfic
• Mary Renault / TED talks mantisfuck voreworld.

My sense of shame: farther gone than Mae West's cherry.