| The Awesome Adventures of Andy and Ava, part four |
[Aug. 9th, 2007|09:14 pm] |
Title: The Awesome Adventures of Andy and Ava
Author: ![[info]](http://www.journalfen.net/img/userinfo.gif) kroki_refur
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Length: Not entirely relevant
Warnings: Crack of the first order, getting more random with every installment. And I still can't draw. Also? I think my handwriting might be getting worse...
Spoilers: Up to the end of season two
Pairings/characters: Andy, Ava. Gen.
Notes: Oh, fandom, sad in the face again? Hopefully this will cheer you up a little bit... Sloppy kisses for smidgy06 and willowandjensen for the awesome icons and especially to egelantier for the linguistic help.
Summary: He's a lovable stoner with an awesome van. She's a ditzy secretary with a heart of gold. Together, they fight crime!
Part One, Part Two, Part Three.
( The Awesome Adventures of Andy and Ava, part four ) |
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| It's like a DVD commentary! Or... something. |
[Aug. 6th, 2007|08:11 pm] |
The very lovely girlfan1979 has drawn my attention to this fic commentary challenge thingummy wotsit (am I confusing you with my technical jargon?), and although I profess to being slightly baffled by the whole thing, I would of course be totally delighted if anyone wanted to do one of my fics and I hereby grant blanket permission for folks to do so. And you don't have to be nice, either!
In other news, everything's kinda crazy round here, with the Beard leaving for the UK in three weeks and attempting to see EVERYONE IN THE WORLD before then, not to mention trying to record with the band and the general limited internet access due to the ongoing Night of the Living Dead Laptop situation, which is why I haven't been around a whole lot and probably won't be for a little while. So, you know, don't have too much fun in mý absence, or I'll totally pout. Or something. |
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| Christopher Lambert thinks you should apologise to his mule. |
[Aug. 5th, 2007|10:30 pm] |
So, everyone remember my laments in this post about the lack of cowboy-hatted Christopher Lambert? girlfan1979 managed to find a rare picture from his 1999 film Christopher Lambert and the Man Without a Face in which The Lambert does, indeed, herd cattle for a sumptuous three hours (the film is worth buying for the soundtrack alone, not to mention the twenty minute judo showdown with Mel Gibson!).
( see the glory! )
I'm sorry, guys, I know I've spoilt you for all cowboy movies now. How can anything match up? I blame teithiwr. |
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| Is that the sound of fandom imploding once again? |
[Aug. 4th, 2007|01:27 pm] |
1. Ugh. Just in general. *flaps hands*
2. Dear LiveJournal,
Whatever.
Indifferently yours,
Refur
3. Making this announcement again (will probably make it once more in the week, when more folks are around): here's me on Insane Journal, GreatestJournal and JournalFen. I've been looking into importing all my old entries and crossposting to all journals, but my laptop is currently held together with spit and a prayer, so I think I'll leave it until the new one arrives. In the meantime, I've been surfing around trying to find all of you and add you, but I'm not making a massive amount of headway. Thirty down, eleventy million to go. My policy there is the same as here: add me, you get added back. Anyone commenting here with their details will be added. I'm going to keep posting here, but it's good to have a back-up, you know?
4. If the sky does fall/they do come for the trade unionists/it turns out that we are all plugged into the matrix/Dubya gets made Grand Poobah of All the World, just remember this: it can only be a matter of time before the ferrets take over anyway. Seriously. They're plotting something big, yo.
5. I may not answer comments to this entry. See point no. 1 for my detailed and incisive reasoning. |
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| I think you should apologise to my mule. |
[Aug. 1st, 2007|06:01 pm] |
ailleann23 tagged me for the following meme:
(1) List 5 celebrities you would have sex with without even asking questions.
(2) Put all of them IN ORDER of your lust for them. (5 - 1, 1 is the hottest.)
(3) Say which movie/show/thing it was that hooked you.
(4) Supply photos for said people.
(5) Tag five people!
( my philosophical problems with the meme )
( my new, improved meme )
( right this way, folks! )
Disclaimer: I may not have been taking this meme entirely seriously. |
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| Supernatural fic rec |
[Jul. 31st, 2007|08:50 pm] |
So I was totally gonna write something this afternoon. And then I didn't. Why? Blame this:
Contact, by Deanish. A 'what might have been.' What if the demon had stayed in hibernation for just a little longer? Do not be put off by the fact it's on ff.net, this fic is sixty thousand words of pure awesome. It starts slow, but builds up to screaming tension, and manages to combine gripping plot and some excellent angst with an understated humour that made me giggle out loud enough that I was glad to be on my own in the flat. Not only that, but I adore the characterisation, particularly of John. If you like The Crow on the Cradle, you'll love this!
Wow, that's enough gushing from me! Don't forget to leave a review if you enjoy it! |
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| The Crow on the Cradle 16/? |
[Jul. 29th, 2007|06:37 pm] |
Title: The Crow on the Cradle 16/?
Author: kroki_refur
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG13
Spoilers: May have spoilers for all aired episodes. (Don't want to give anything away...)
Warnings: Language and violence. Gen.
Notes: AU. My Christmas birthday present for the wonderful estei. This is probably the chapter I'm most nervous about. Please do ask questions about anything that puzzles you -- it helps me to work out what I need to explain in future chapters!
Summary: On October 2, 2005, Sam Winchester walked out of the apartment he shared with his girlfriend Jess in the middle of the night and didn't come back.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
( He looks fine, is the first thing she thinks, and that doesn't make sense, that doesn't make any sense. ) |
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| Sunday, bloody Sunday... |
[Jul. 29th, 2007|06:04 pm] |
1. Am in a bad mood, mainly from the frustration of dealing with my laptop going so slowly. Have stolen the Beard's for a while, in the hope of getting something useful done.
2. This is me at the first impressions meme. Go and tell me what you thought of me when you met me! Don't forget to mention my poor personal hygiene and frightening table manners...
3. We're getting the band back together! AKA klai has finally returned from the Land of Perpetual Rain, and we've been rehearsing this week in the hope of getting some recording done before the Beard heads off for pastures new at the end of August. It's tragic! The end of an era! Buy your farewell tour t-shirts now!
4. Chapter sixteen of The Crow on the Cradle should be up sometime in the next couple of hours. It's a behemoth. Jesus.
5. I have nothing else to say right now. I'm gonna sit in the corner and grump. *grumps* |
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| Sam Winchester: the Wonder Years |
[Jul. 26th, 2007|08:07 pm] |
So, I know this is up on YouTube and all, but I happened to notice when visiting my mum last week that she had season seven of ER on DVD and, well, how could I resist...
( handy visuals for all those teen!chester fics that end up in hospital... )
Uh, I may have gone overboard on the screencaps a tiny bit.
Also, due to the immense fucked-upness of my laptop right now, I can't actually view this post, so if there's anything wrong with it, can someone please let me know? Thank you! |
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| The Measure of a Man 1/1, PG-13 |
[Jul. 25th, 2007|08:07 pm] |
Title: The Measure of a Man
Author: kroki_refur
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Length: About 1800 words
Warnings: None
Spoilers: Up to the end of season two
Pairings/characters: Sam, with a smattering of Dean and John. Gen.
Notes: Written for smilla02 for the spn_summergen challenge.
Summary: They're running out of time, and Sam's only got one idea left.
When Sam Winchester is five years old, he hides in a culvert. |
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| I'M BACK! AGAIN! |
[Jul. 24th, 2007|04:23 pm] |
1. HI FINLAND! HI! *waves like a lunatic*
2. Oh, Finland, it was so kind of you to try to ease the culture shock of transferring from the UK by raining heavily! So thoughtful! *swoons*
( in which Refur rambles on as she is wont to do ) |
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| The Awesome Adventures of Andy and Ava, Part Three |
[Jul. 17th, 2007|06:43 pm] |
Title: The Awesome Adventures of Andy and Ava
Author: kroki_refur
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Length: Not entirely relevant
Warnings: Crack of the first order. Also, I can't draw. I really, really can't. So when you come away from this going "Ow! My eyes!", don't say I didn't warn you. Also also? My handwriting sucks pretty bad.
Spoilers: Up to the end of season two
Pairings/characters: Andy, Ava. Gen.
Notes: This one's for buffyaddict13. How can there be sadface when there's Andy, huh? Huh? Also, still having issues with the internet, folks. Will answer comments whenever the internet god smiles upon me.
Summary: He's a lovable stoner with an awesome van. She's a ditzy secretary with a heart of gold. Together, they fight crime!
Part One, Part Two
( The Awesome Adventures of Andy and Ava, part three ) |
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| Make Do and Mend 1/1 |
[Jul. 16th, 2007|04:49 pm] |
Title: Make Do and Mend
Author: kroki_refur
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG-13
Length: about 3250 words
Warnings: Swearing?
Spoilers: None
Pairings/characters: Sam, Dean. Gen.
Notes: This might be a bit schmoopy. I can't even tell. I wrote it on a train between Basingstoke and Birmingham. That's my excuse, and I'm sticking to it.
Summary: It's amazing what can be fixed with a little ingenuity and a lot of determination.
( 'Let's get you fixed up,' says Dean, and Sam sits down and holds out his hand. ) |
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| YAY AWESOME GEN |
[Jul. 12th, 2007|08:13 pm] |
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Ahahaha, and having just posted insane AHBL Sam angst, I see that the spn_summergen authors have been revealed. SO, go and read Red Oak Day, by vee_fic, which has teen!Sam and an AWESOME Winchester family dynamic and UNICORNS and is BRILLIANT and was written for ME! Then read all the rest, which I haven't done yet because I'm lame. I have a fic there too, but I don't have time to advertise it now and it's kinda similar to the one I wrote today, so I'll post about it another day. |
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| Pour Away the Ocean 1/1 |
[Jul. 12th, 2007|08:04 pm] |
Title: Pour Away the Ocean 1/1
Author: kroki_refur
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: PG13
Pairing/Characters: Sam. Gen (although I suspect this may count as Sam/angst).
Length: About 1800 words.
Spoilers: Up to AHBL part II.
Warnings: Character death. OH MY GOD THE ANGST. I AM NOT KIDDING.
Notes: I wanted to write some schmoop for longhairedlady. Um. Oops. Also, I won't be able to answer comments until Monday at the earliest, so apologies for that.
Summary: Happy ever after isn't really the Winchester way.
( Pour Away the Ocean ) |
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| In which Refur is low-tech |
[Jul. 12th, 2007|05:09 pm] |
OK, guys, many thanks for all the sympathy and entertaining anecdotes in my last post -- I am now well-rested, having an awesome time at the Leeds International Medieval Congress, and still sans laptop. I've ordered a new one, but won't get it till I return to Finland on the 23rd, so in the meantime I'm stealing other people's machines when I get the chance. I probably won't be answering comments on the last couple of personal posts, so apologies for that, but I will try and answer all comments on fic and picspam posts eventually (although probably not until after the weekend, since I'm going to be in the wilds of Devon at a family wedding).
( some correspondence )
I doubt that I'll be replying to any comments on this post, but I miss you guys, so, you know, if you feel like commenting, please feel free! Not that I've really said anything interesting enough to comment on. I'm going to shut up now. |
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[Jul. 7th, 2007|07:52 pm] |
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Just a quick update: laptop does indeed appear to have gone to the great computer cluster in the sky. Therefore, I'm likely to have patchy internet access for the next couple of weeks, and probably won't be checking my flist or catching up on comments much. Apologies! |
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| The phrase that comes to mind is "well, that was a mission" |
[Jul. 6th, 2007|02:32 pm] |
You guuuuuuuys!
So, see, I hate to fly, and I was flying yesterday from Tampere, which is a couple of hours north of Helsinki and.... you know what, let me just give you a chronology:
1730 Finnish time: set off from office
18.06 catch train. Train is on time, because train is Finnish.
19.56 arrive Tampere.
20.15 catch bus to airport. Bus is on time, because bus is Finnish.
22.55 Catch flight. Flight is on time. It's not Finnish, but it's flying from Finland, and that totally counts.
23.30 (British time--from now on my body clock is two hours on from the actual time) arrive Stansted airport 15 minutes early. Breathe massive sigh of relief, and also think might catch early bus if get through passport control quickly.
23.45 Queue for passport control stretches from passport desks to OUTER MONGOLIA. Everyone in the WORLD wants to come to Britain in the middle of the night on a Thursday. WHY?
00.10 Miss early bus by five minutes. Bus is on time, because it HATES ME.
01.10 Catch last bus to Cambridge. Bus is late, because sod's law is a bitch. And it's British.
01.35 Ten miles from Cambridge, bus stops. Traffic jam. Whatever.
02.10 Bus driver announces lorry has jackknifed up ahead. We're not going anywhere.
02.15 (remember, for me it's four in the morning) attempt to sleep.
02.20 - 04.20 French guy and guy speaking Arabic conspire to fill two hours with loud mobile phone conversations. Fail to sleep.
04.30 Bus starts moving again.
05.00 Arrive Cambridge, only three hours late. Decide to give up on sleep and catch first train to mum's. Phone national rail enquiries, who tell me that first train is 06.46. Head for station.
05.30 Arrive at station to find first train is in fact 05.59. Am annoyed at national rail enquiries guy for being a LYING LIAR WHO LIES.
05.59 Train is announced to have been delayed by late arrival of preceding train. PEOPLE. IT IS SIX O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND THE TRAIN IS ALREADY DELAYED.
06.20 Train arrives. Get on.
06.29 Train driver announces train is being shot due to technical faults. No more train. Hold moment of silence, then get off train.
06.46 Catch second train. Suspect national rail enquiries guy was psychic.
11.00 arrive in hometown after changing trains mutliple times and continuing not to sleep. Attempt victory dance in rain.
11.30 Discover have brought continental laptop lead rather than British one. Attempt to find computer shop.
12.30 Find computer shop, buy lead.
13.00 Discover laptop screen has stopped working.
13.01 SHOOT EVERYONE OMFG.
Am currently scrounging mum's laptop. May fail to answer comments.
Dear caffeine,
Thank God for you.
With frank admiration,
Refur
Dear England,
Fuck you too.
No love,
Refur |
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| Happy fifth of July! |
[Jul. 5th, 2007|05:06 pm] |
1. Things I hate:
-packing
-travelling by plane
-catching busses from airport terminals after midnight
-that thing where albatrosses come and sit in your office and make shitloads of noise
Yeah, today's gonna be a doozy.
*insert further bitching here*
2. OK, now I've got that out of my system, hi folks! Hope you people in that big country with all the cowboys (what? I've totally seen them on TV) had a great celebrating-not-being-British-any-more day! Why don't we get a day like that, that's what I want to know. In case you missed it, there was more Andy and Ava shenanigans. I'm thinking this is turning into Ten Expressions for the hiatus. Also, it rained blood here in Finland. Trufax! The albatrosses told me so!
3. Dear academics,
I know it must be hard being as clever as you all clearly are, and I suppose I can't really expect you to manage to use non-italicised commas in lists of italicised items, but seriously, a single italicised comma inserted into the middle of a sentence with no italics in it? You're just messing with me now, aren't you? Man, I can't believe they pay me to do this shit sometimes.
Pedantically yours,
Refur
4. OK, I'm off to England for a couple of weeks. I understand they are well on their way to becoming a developed country, and do in fact have internet these days. I am sceptical. We shall see. |
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