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A few more bigbang recs
I spent a lot of the holiday weekend catching up on the SPN bigbangs I hadn't read, but I'm not so much feeling the love these days. Only a few recs behind the cut:
Cross Creek (gen) by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
zoemathemata. One of the best gen casefiles I've read in a long, long time. This is set in early season 2; Sam and Dean are investigating what seems to be a regular haunted hotel, but there is something much more dangerous there. This had two extremely well-drawn OCs, a brother and sister whose relationship mirrored Sam and Dean's in interesting ways, and the author really captured Sam and Dean's season 2 dynamic and their characterizations.
Dictionary for a Dead Language (Sam/Dean) bybritomart. Goes AU before "The End," but assumes most of the events leading up to that: Sam said yes to Lucifer. Dean manages to defeat the devil, but is not sure he's ever going to get his brother back. Slow-building, lovely, and very satisfying-- well-written hurt/comfort with a side of first-time Sam/Dean.
Damaged Goods byinsane_songbird (Jared/Jensen). A gripping AU in which Jared is a cop who has been trying to track down a serial killer for years, and Jensen is the one victim who managed to escape him. The ending was maybe a wee bit over-the-top for me, but the romance was great and the detective part was well done. Warnings: animal harm, animal abuse in addition to, you know, rape and serial killing.
Named (Dean/Castiel) bymclachland. The premise of this makes it sound like total crackfic, and not the good kind, and frankly the penultimate ending does kind of hover around "bad crackland" material, but thank all the angels that gets fixed, because otherwise this is a pretty enjoyable story, if you like inventive theologies: Lucifer didn't precisely rise; instead he decided assasination of heavenly figures was a better way to go. Or so the Metatron tells us. But as Castiel, Dean, and Sam investigate, they find that all is not as it seems, and they've only got one week to stop the war between heaven and hell. A good Dean/Cas subplot and some excellent OCs (plus a tolerable Gabriel) make this pretty readable, despite the fact that I spend the first half of the story wanting to duct tape Dean's mouth shut and a fair bit of the second part headdesking. So, you know, I guess I'd call this a mixed review, but it at least engaged me all of the way through.
Cross Creek (gen) by
zoemathemata. One of the best gen casefiles I've read in a long, long time. This is set in early season 2; Sam and Dean are investigating what seems to be a regular haunted hotel, but there is something much more dangerous there. This had two extremely well-drawn OCs, a brother and sister whose relationship mirrored Sam and Dean's in interesting ways, and the author really captured Sam and Dean's season 2 dynamic and their characterizations.Dictionary for a Dead Language (Sam/Dean) by
britomart. Goes AU before "The End," but assumes most of the events leading up to that: Sam said yes to Lucifer. Dean manages to defeat the devil, but is not sure he's ever going to get his brother back. Slow-building, lovely, and very satisfying-- well-written hurt/comfort with a side of first-time Sam/Dean.Damaged Goods by
insane_songbird (Jared/Jensen). A gripping AU in which Jared is a cop who has been trying to track down a serial killer for years, and Jensen is the one victim who managed to escape him. The ending was maybe a wee bit over-the-top for me, but the romance was great and the detective part was well done. Warnings: animal harm, animal abuse in addition to, you know, rape and serial killing.Named (Dean/Castiel) by
mclachland. The premise of this makes it sound like total crackfic, and not the good kind, and frankly the penultimate ending does kind of hover around "bad crackland" material, but thank all the angels that gets fixed, because otherwise this is a pretty enjoyable story, if you like inventive theologies: Lucifer didn't precisely rise; instead he decided assasination of heavenly figures was a better way to go. Or so the Metatron tells us. But as Castiel, Dean, and Sam investigate, they find that all is not as it seems, and they've only got one week to stop the war between heaven and hell. A good Dean/Cas subplot and some excellent OCs (plus a tolerable Gabriel) make this pretty readable, despite the fact that I spend the first half of the story wanting to duct tape Dean's mouth shut and a fair bit of the second part headdesking. So, you know, I guess I'd call this a mixed review, but it at least engaged me all of the way through.
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I read Dictionary for a Dead Language, and liked it. Interesting in that it had a fix that wasn't quite a fix. I thought that was handled very well.
Is it me, or do some of these stories kind of rush towards an ending? It might just be me--I love my Steven King length stories. :)
I will definitely read Cross Creek when I finish all the Wincest. If you rec it, I'm sure that it will be well worth reading.
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It's true that a lot of these stories end abruptly--I assume because the author ran out of time. On the other hand, there are some stories that are 100,000 words that could easily be 20,000 without losing anything.
I'm not sure I'm your best source for WIncest recs. So many of the summaries from the Wincest stories this year have turned me off (usually by suggesting they're big angstfests) that I haven't been reading a lot of them. E.g. that one where Sam takes a vow of silence--my thoughts were (a) kroki_refur already did that so well; why would anyone try to do better? and (b)too angsty, DNW! I'm kind of a wimp about Sam and Dean sometime--if I don't know for sure there's a happy ending, I don't want to read it.
I was also struck by the ending of Dictionary for a Dead Language--that was not where I was expecting it to go, honestly. (And isn't it more dangerous for Sam to run a bar? I mean, constant strangers always in danger of recognizing him?)