Read Any Good Fic Lately?

It's killa's Birthday and she sent us a present - spn insta-rec

Today is Killa's birthday and I've been noodling with a birthday message for her on and off all day because just saying happy birthday doesn't seem enough, although I do wish her a very happy birthday, but mostly I always want to say thank you to her. Thank you for being my friend, thank you for being so talented and generous, thank you for being so sweet and funny. I should thank her parents probably too. (Thank you Mom and Dad Killa, for bringing her into the world and sharing her with us.)

I love you much, Killa. I hope your birthday is wonderful.

And I don't feel I need to pull out examples of her talent and generosity and wonderfulness because she managed to do it herself by writing a story and giving it to us for her birthday. Carry Me over the Sky is a lovely, hurty Sam/Dean story covering a huge part of season 2, but specifically Crossroad Blues; about repercussions and obligation, about bitter words that can't be taken back and kinder ones you wish you could. It looks hard at the kind of pain Dean is in, but it also shows what happens when he looks up long enough to see that he's not alone in his pain. It also covers a point from IMTOD, that I feel has been largely overlooked both by the series and stories written since then -- that cut close but true.

I also want to rec technosage's 'Til I Feel All Your Pieces, which in some ways is similar to Killa's story but from a whole other direction, but they compliment each other perfectly. 'Til I Feel All Your has a kind of bittersweet meeting of minds, prompted by Sam's refusal to be anything but grateful that Dean is still alive and with him, no matter what. But Dean's a hard sell -- except denying Sam or Sam's love is a lot harder when he gets in your face about it. Sam/Dean, lovely and hot.

And now I'm going to go make a cup of coffee sent by an angel and toast my oh, so talented friends.

Labels: supernatural

posted by Maygra @ 6:02 PM