I don't know if there's an official word count, but essentially it means "large ficathon with multi-chaptered stories and artwork". Right now SPN is in the middle of unveiling a general/RPF one (it will go on until August--there are about 300 authors) and there's a Dean/Cas one unveiling in October.

Apparently there was wank about one ship having its own big bang, but whatev. Chill out, fandom.

Ah, thank you, ita!

Oooh, boy, did I like "Where the World Begins". I think, maybe, I've had my fill of angsty, angry, shouty, fiercely and violently passionate stories. Although there was that in places. Foreheads touching is my new kink.

Oh, "Apocalypse Z" was fun! The appendix was especially nifty. And I recognized the quotes from the Zombie Survival Guide. (In my last job my manager kept a copy in his office. We agreed that the former EPA building up the road would be easy to fortify, but we suspect that any zombie outbreak could well emanate from there, so we were torn.)

I can't say I liked Where The World Begins, but I just read Last Chance (To Lose Control) and noticed a forehead touch, so have at 'em, Julie.

The appendix was especially nifty

It was! I wish there had been more art, though, with SPN characters in. Everything was nice and crisp and well done, and I wanted more.

Dean/Jess, Sam/Jess: The Only People For Me Are The Mad Ones, though I find I don't like stories in which Jess lives. It makes me realise that I'm a Sam/Sarah shipper, however that works out.

(Warning: No foreheads touching)

I have difficulty with the Dean/Jess concept. I have a hard time seeing it in any way other than a betrayal.

Not if he gets there first, which he does here.

I realise my problem with the Sam/Castiel upthread is that Castiel doesn't get treated like a real boy, especially by Dean. We're shown in so many ways that he's surreally bonded with Dean, mimicking him, etc, and then Dean just leaves him out there by the mistletoe for Sam, and it's more than a bit creepy and submissive.

And I'm not sure were to go with falling in love with the guy because he brought happiness back to your brother. There's a therapy minefield right there, but it's in character. Just wonder why the brother didn't get there first, is all.

Warning: No foreheads touching

::glares::

Dean/Jess, Sam/Jess: The Only People For Me Are The Mad Ones,

You know how sometimes you're reading a story, and kind of glossing over the spelling or grammar issues because you're enjoying it, and then something COMPLETELY RANDOM throws you out of it?

He makes his way through the musty stacks of the Robert Crown Library slowly, checking around every corner. He knows its stupid, that Sam could easily see him, but the lure of actually being close to his brother, not just watching him from two hundred feet away, is too much to resist. Dean finds his little brother tucked into a corner on the third floor, one of only four other people in the library at one a.m. on a Saturday. Good to know he hasn’t changed at all.

Crown is the law library at Stanford, so it's not a big undergrad hangout (and Dean didn't know until the pilot that Sam was thinking law school), it ain't musty, and it closes at 9:00 on Saturdays.