Does anyone know anything about the writer the0voice0from0above? I decided to hunt down a fic they'd written that I hadn't seen anything of recently, and all their stuff is gone from AO3. I thought it was just the difficulty of the title, AΩ, but I found a cached page that's all dead links.

Now I'm sad! It's been a bad week, it continues to be a bad week, and you know when a small thing takes on disproportionate importance?

Case. In. Point.

fucking fandom and their fucking lack of accountability to ME

Dammit, research has shown me that the disappeared writer was one of my favourites with AUs, even though the way I was plundering AO3 meant I wasn't paying attention to authors (and if I had, I could have read everything she wrote! but I have addressed that issue recently and independently). She wrote the enhanced healing D/C where Dean was a cage fighter paying of Sam's debt, and Cas was a doctor pulled into the underworld of cage fighting initially reluctantly. She wrote the one where the Welding School (Dean) moves into the same buildings as the ballet school (Cas). And at least one PWP I remember enjoying too...needless to say, the other cached summaries look interesting too.

Don't make that error, boys and girls! Explore the author's (or the artist's--someone went through and liked 15-20 of my pictures--tickled me pink to know someone took the time to go through everything) whole work. I need to make sure I read everything couchcarrot has written--that AU where Cas is the wacky next door neighbour and Dean has trouble coming out, but secrets of his own grabbed me hard.

Which reminds me--Juliebird, I know you read this author--she was on FF.NET mainly--she wrote an AU of *everything* and anything, and usually made all her premises...jollysnidge! I set up alerts on her LJ, which was scattershot at best with that one porn is illegal and Dean is straight (Cas is the model who becomes his porn star who becomes...) AU. Do you know if she's still writing? She was doing a lot of original work which cut down on her fic--I feel like a heel for never trying her original work, since her fic was pretty creative (I felt she did a good job of writing Cas' character into all sorts of disparate environments, which is the first place AUs (and not just AUs) fail). But she was scratching an OTP itch, and...yeah. Some people I'd try faster, but not novels at first. I'd need short stories to lure me in.

Ah, well. I haven't rec-ed much fic recently, because at first I was reading everything, and then I was reading much less.

I just got an alert on Familiarity, where Dean and Sam discover they are witches, and Cas and Gabe are their familiars (the S/G hasn't made me barf yet) and Dean is resistant to explore his more considerable power and Castiel is resultantly miserable, which reminded me I was enjoying it and was eager to know the next developments--right now it's 8 chapters of a WIP, so if you're WIP-allergic, now's not a good time.

Ink 'Til I'm Human is a short and introspective post-fall first time D/C piece. I'm liking a lot of the post fall D/C.

Halfway by anythingtoasted (pastrymisha on tumblr--my favourite new D/C follow) is post fall--it's complete. It's a slow and sad story of Cas's journey through (into?) becoming human. I was addicted to this after the first chapter I found on tumblr--it'll be much less fraught reading 8 complete chapters. I do and don't envy you if you do.

PWP: Pie Without Plot is a slow burn (not sure if they're together yet) D/C WIP which is some of the things I hate (they stop hunting and domesticate), but it's sweet, and good lord--the descriptions of pastries and other baked delights--it might be worth it just for those. If you don't ship D/C, 17 chapters in (I see they've written two more since I last looked) it could still be a fun read.

Together They Fight Crime is abandoned (no 2013 updates, anyway, but it's an interesting premise. All the people we know as angels are teenaged psychics, and they're herded and used and abused by the government. Dean's a hunter for the FBI. Paths cross, hurt/comfort (major whump) ensues. D/C, of course.

( continues...) I think I mentioned Decency and Desire before--it's a Regency romance WIP, with closeted Jo/Charlie as well as closeted D/C. It's a little too clever for its own good (or for mine) because she's saying stuff through Shakespeare that I just don't get (especially when it comes to Gabe's opinions), but I do like the Regency tone, and it seems well researched and true to the premise.

Grotesque is a D/C Beauty and the Beast. It kind of devolved into schmoopy, and she lost her grip on Castiel, but the first seven or so chapters were delicious--maybe it'll pick up again, or maybe just more naked sex everywhere. EITHER WAY.

Shit, which one is the baseball story--Dean's a pitcher, Cas is the...huh, how am I just seeing this now?...catcher, slow burn, more detail about baseball than I care about, but since it's character work through the sport, I get it. JESUS. Way to hide yourself by being too clever: Hey, baby. What's your sign?. WIP, maligns John (some of the others may too, it's just too FUCKING HARD TO AVOID) but at least she tagged it.

Okay, and I have a question, but too many people won't see it after all that.

Where is this Jared GIF from: [link] ? Is it Show gag reel? It's not ringing any bells. Or is it from one of his movies? He's definitely grown, but not all the way.

AO3 question. Is there a way to filter search results? I love a good AU but when I'm in the mood for non-AU I find them damn near impossible to unearth from the AU haystack there.

The filtering is pretty good, but it's only inclusive. So unless people have been tagging canon(ish) stories as such, I don't know how you could. Any tag you want, any text you want-bingo. What you don't want (like a minus-whatever-ship search) I think we're out of luck.

ita ! jollysnidge (alreadypainfullygone) hasn't updated in ages. Couchcarrot has also been slow, I love and miss her babushka author's notes. Exonorated is still unfinished.

I totally fell of the D/C bandwagon. Got tired of scrolling through groped by an angel and just seeing "Lyric from an Florence + the Machine Song part 78/?" and haven't tried the Ao3 well yet. Too many Avengers fics to read.

Purged journals make me sad.

That .gif is from New York Minute, the Olsen twins movie he was in. Poor dear.

Ahhh, no wonder I couldn't identify it other than not!Sam.

So cute, though. I've seen that .gif around forever. And I've never even seen the movie!