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eloise_bright (Gen, PG) ~1650 words

God, this made me whimper. Everything about this fic is perfect - it's sweet and sharp and all the tiny details of how the boys interact are so spot on it's incredible. Hold on to your ovaries, girls. "Dean takes Daddy’s hand, and he’s real quiet, because Daddy says the babies are sleeping. They’re not, though. Some of the babies are crying pretty loud and Dean hopes that it’s not their baby, because he’s never gonna be able to sleep with that racket going on."

-Reap the Wild Wind by

maygra (Gen, PG) ~36,000 words

I've probably squeed relentlessly over this story to a lot of you over AIM or what have you, but it definitely deserves a proper rec. This one hurt, man, in such a fundamental way I can't even describe it. I read the entire thing in one sitting, ignoring everything else that popped up on my screen and literally throwing something at my father when he came and knocked on my room door. Maygra describes this fic as "sorta" a lot of things - deathfic, wingfic, au, futurefic - and, lemme tell you, seeing "deathfic" in the warning is usually enough to make me jam on my backspace key. But even if that's the case for you, too, don't let it stop you for this story. It's not like any other deathfic you have ever read. It'll hurt, at points - so much that you want to cry - but by the end, everything seems worth it. Absolutely gorgeous.

-High-Minded by

alethialia (Gen, PG-13) ~6,797 words

Ok, so after you're done with maygra's fic, come back and read this one, because you will pee your pants from joy. The author notes for this story say, "All information about shrooms and LSD is accurate. I might have taken some liberties with the actual trip, though. This is what I would consider crack, people. Which is nicely thematic, I must say," and, oh, that really explains it all. This is seriously the most fun I've had reading fic in months. Dean accidentally gets high. Sam deals really well.

-Money's Worth by

whereupon (Sam/Dean, PG-13) ~13,000 words

This knocked me on my ass. When I was reading this, I was talking to Sofie on AIM, and I think most of my reactions included the letters "afjwoghaojf" and were in all caps. I have never read a fic that deals so deeply and impeccably with Dean's grief over John's death. And on top of that, there is even a gorgeous, creepy plot that sucks you right in. Whereupon's writing style is stark and sparce, perfectly in tune with the subject matter, and it really hits you right where you live; even if you aren't usually a Sam/Dean fan, this is very light and almost secondary to their actual frightened, beautiful relationship. He can't do this forever. Post 2x05.

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I think there is seriously something wrong with me where I flat out refuse to read BNF's (like

maygra or

posiontaster) unless someone commands me and threatens my life (it only happened once for a deathfic by

ladyjaida and I will never listen to that girl again because I ended busting a tear duct I was crying so much). They just make me - well, mad isn't the right term. I hate saying jealous, but I am. I am extremely jealous and I am mad that I am jealous and I wish could write like that and I wish I were smart enough to have deep, underlying plots and know characters well and I am rambling and I am mad.

*sulks in a corner*

I know we've had this conversation a few times before, but, really, it bothers me that you're like this.

How else do you learn if not by reading something good and taking what you liked from it to use yourself? I sit there and I read maygra's fic, and I am moved - I don't sit there and think "God, no one's going to want to read my fic" or "how come I'm not this good?" What else do you read for if not to enjoy when something is done well?

I'm not a god writer by any stretch of the imagination, and I understand that it's more important to you than it is to me - that it's very, very important to you. But I recognize that in order to be better at this, I have to learn from the people I think are great. Why did I love maygra's fic? Why did it touch me like it did? What can I take away from that to add to my own writing?

I'm not trying to preach, so forgive me if it's coming off that way, but...*hands*

No, I know what you mean. Like, I read this fic once and it was just so rich in detail, so I tried that for myself. I'm not good with describing much, but it's not the simpleton sentences anymore. My teacher once told me that I write like a 25 yr old who IS good at writing. I took that compliment to heart and I repeated it for days because, for me, this is the most important thing in my life.

And it's not so much trying to ignore BNF's because they are BNF's for a reason, but the fandom in general. I sit here and write and all the while, I think "I should be writing poetry or working on my novel." My brother has said it jokingly but it makes sense: "You're not going to make a living writing your little Harry Potter stories."

I have learned from reading but even in literature, I don't read as much as I want to. I stick generally to authors that I know and don't branch out. It's something that I have to get out of because it's really making me mad. I guess another thing is that the BNF's in HP were fucking nuts and it's just imprinted into me. I was cut down by a lot of BNF's too, my stories rejected and whatnot. It took me a year to realize beta's aren't evil.

I am... yeah, no idea. It makes me sad. But I don't think I can overcome this pathetic little situation to read the stories.

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