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Before I get to it: am I being paranoid in thinking "When you click... links from Twitter.com or a Twitter application, Twitter will log that click. We hope to use this data to provide better and more relevant content to you over time. " means "we will data mine all your clicks for targeted ads"?

Anyway! Con was fun. People had told me Worldcon was like a big Swancon. And it is, including most of the same people. Seriously, just hanging about in hallways etc I kept bumping into people I know, plus (as I was told to expect) lots of expys who look like the people I know but are actually from the US or New Zealand etc.
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Title:Standing on a bridge
Creator: alias_sqbr
Fandom: Spiderman Movieverse
Summary: Little comic where Spiderman is Latino, drawn for Racebending Revenge challenge.

Title: Chapter 3 of "The Time Traveller's Guide to Creative Anachronism"
Creator: alias_sqbr
Fandom: Doctor Who
Summary: River/Amy, retroactively places the fic after "Cold Blood" and ties things up a bit more. Comes with art at the end! (Which I'm not linking since it spoils the fic)

Phew. Every now and then I try a different sort of engagement with fanworks fandom to see if it suits me, and based on Racebending Revenge plus another I tried I'd say that AUs definitely don't and challenges might not. Anyway, two recs:

Sam and Dean Winchestgopal: glockgirl continues her awesome "Sam and Dean are desi" Supernatural AU. She manages to sneak in some extra female characters too :)

Five Things People Might Have Read On The Psychic Paper (If Things Were Slightly Different) by Grey_Bard: Imagine, if you will, that the Eleventh Doctor was played by Paterson Joseph but otherwise identical. What might people see on his psychic paper?

Deep breaths Mary/Ellen, an AU where she told the yellow eyed demon no.
So good I can strongly rec it even to people who aren't generally into femslash (if you like femslash and clever interesting AUs and good characterisation then it's a must) I recommend reading the story then looking at the art, it's a bit spoilery.

But mainly I wanted to try out the "DW post has link to lj post" thing *points down* (those on lj can click the link to DW if you're curious, and then click back again to lj if you want :))

I really do like the way Dreamwidth keeps implementing all these cool new features that I'd always wanted.

This is a very weird fic for me (Swearing! Consent issues!), it's been sitting on my harddrive for like 2 months while I decided whether or not to post it but having finally finished Season 4 of SPN I decided that if nothing else it captured some of my issues with the show.

Title: Waking Up
Fandom: Buffy/Supernatural crossover
Info: Gen, M (swearing, sexual references), references to past non consensual sex (see premise) 2298 words
Summary: A crossover AU where Faith stayed in her coma from Season 3 of Buffy and became the body Ruby used in Season 4 of Supernatural.

I don't know that I deal with the subject matter very well, but it's one of those stories that once I finished it it was just done.

This is pretty much the conversation I had with Cam after reading the discussion around the comic Good fourth walls make good neighbor (where a fanfic writers partner freaks out at the idea of Sam/Dean slash after seeing the slasher character on Supernatural)

Except during the pause in panel 2 I added "Aside from laughing" :)

nb I have no interest in writing Echo/Priya. I do think Faith/Ruby has potential though.

I don't mean to minimise the experience of women who are forced to keep this sort of thing secret from their partners (or families or whatever) When I was working with kids I had paranoid fears that the fact that I was in fanfic fandom and thus in the general vicinity of what counts as child porn by Australian law (despite being heavily squicked by it and avoiding it as much as possible) would make me lose my working with children check.

Transcript:
Me: Honey, how would you feel if you found out I write Sam and Dean porn?

Cam: *Looks shocked and thoughtful*

Cam: But you hate Sam and Dean

Me: I love you

Cam: Now Echo and Priya, that I can see you writing

Only spoils the first few minutes or so, and of possible interest to geeky people who don't watch the show.
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I asked Cam which Season 4 Supernatural episodes I should watch, he sent me this, I thought it was as easy to save here as anywhere else and someone else might find it useful. First two by me since I'd seen them.
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First: I recently read "Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science" by Atul Gawande which was quite good. It's a book of essays on surgical error: what happens, how it happens, the consequences (both personal and wide ranging) and what can and has been done. He goes into the positives and negatives of the culture of medicine as well as telling more personal stories, it was really interesting and I reccomend it to anyone involved in medicine (especially surgeons!) though I don't know how similar the australian system is to the american.

Second, I watched season one of "Supernatural". I watched the first few episodes when it was on tv but found it a bit too scary and wasn't engaged by the monster-of-the-week format. Cam eventually got into it and told me there was an interesting plot later on, but I was still put off by the fact that the premise isn't my sort of thing: you know that nothing will happen which permamently changes the basic formula of two brothers alone, moving from place to place fighting bad stuff. So there's huge limitations on where Sam and Dean's lives and relationships can go, and there's no chance for a real ensemble cast with complex unpredictable plots, which is my Thing.
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