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Jul. 15th, 2010 04:01 pmI am married to the newest Assistant Professor of Learning Support/English at [redacted]!!!
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Yay, Josh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Jul. 15th, 2010
Happy Ending by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ashdoode; Spoilers for the finale
I have watched this vid at least ten times in the past two days. I can't get enough of it. It's brilliant and wonderful and it has like 15 comments which is criminal. (Please to be rectifying that, y'all.) The song choice is perfect: This is the way you left me. I'm not pretending. No hope, no love, no glory, no happy ending. This is the way that we love, like it's forever. Then live the rest of our life, but not together. I love the juxtaposition of joy and despair in this vid, the fast cuts between the fierce love and affection between them and the way they keep leaving each other. This hurts in that oh-so-good way of which I'm overly fond. And I love the ambiguity of the ending (much like the ambiguity of the episode's ending.)
100 Suns by dragonsofbadfaith; Spoilers for the finale
Another weeper. I really like the way the vidder has superimposed scenes to create this really cool collage effect. Again, excellent lyrics--the constant reiteration of "I believe in nothing" while we're seeing images that match the words is really, really powerful. Ultimately, it's not Mary on the Pedestal or the YED as he falls or the hope of heaven's saving grace, but "the beating of our hearts" that matters. *sniffles*
Grin and Bare It bybalefully; Big Bang; J2; Adult (read warnings in the masterpost before proceeding)
I really like this story. It's raw and gritty and the sex is just filthy hot. I didn't skip a single sex scene in this one because I didn't feel like I was reading the same old "one finger two finger three finger fuck" fic. The basic premise is that Jared is a stripper and Jensen is straight and repressing his attraction to Jared all while dealing with some pretty intense internalized homophobia that can be hard to read at times. I like this unflinching look at a Jensen who is, essentially, an afraid asshole, an insecure and cruel douchenozzle (to borrow from CMM's lexicon) who is forced to confront truths about himself that he finds dangerous and overwhelming. I think that part of the fic is handled really, really well. I find Jensen's ability to embrace his sexuality at the end of the fic a little implausible. I get that most everybody else comes to Big Bang for, well, a Big Bang of happiness at the end, and that's why we usually get the HEA in these stories. But I think the author did such a phenomenal and fantastic job of setting up this complicated and nuanced situation that I am disappointed that it just gets whitewashed over at the end. But hey, MMV. It's really well written and definitely worth your time.
ashdoode; Spoilers for the finaleI have watched this vid at least ten times in the past two days. I can't get enough of it. It's brilliant and wonderful and it has like 15 comments which is criminal. (Please to be rectifying that, y'all.) The song choice is perfect: This is the way you left me. I'm not pretending. No hope, no love, no glory, no happy ending. This is the way that we love, like it's forever. Then live the rest of our life, but not together. I love the juxtaposition of joy and despair in this vid, the fast cuts between the fierce love and affection between them and the way they keep leaving each other. This hurts in that oh-so-good way of which I'm overly fond. And I love the ambiguity of the ending (much like the ambiguity of the episode's ending.)
100 Suns by dragonsofbadfaith; Spoilers for the finale
Another weeper. I really like the way the vidder has superimposed scenes to create this really cool collage effect. Again, excellent lyrics--the constant reiteration of "I believe in nothing" while we're seeing images that match the words is really, really powerful. Ultimately, it's not Mary on the Pedestal or the YED as he falls or the hope of heaven's saving grace, but "the beating of our hearts" that matters. *sniffles*
Grin and Bare It by
balefully; Big Bang; J2; Adult (read warnings in the masterpost before proceeding)I really like this story. It's raw and gritty and the sex is just filthy hot. I didn't skip a single sex scene in this one because I didn't feel like I was reading the same old "one finger two finger three finger fuck" fic. The basic premise is that Jared is a stripper and Jensen is straight and repressing his attraction to Jared all while dealing with some pretty intense internalized homophobia that can be hard to read at times. I like this unflinching look at a Jensen who is, essentially, an afraid asshole, an insecure and cruel douchenozzle (to borrow from CMM's lexicon) who is forced to confront truths about himself that he finds dangerous and overwhelming. I think that part of the fic is handled really, really well. I find Jensen's ability to embrace his sexuality at the end of the fic a little implausible. I get that most everybody else comes to Big Bang for, well, a Big Bang of happiness at the end, and that's why we usually get the HEA in these stories. But I think the author did such a phenomenal and fantastic job of setting up this complicated and nuanced situation that I am disappointed that it just gets whitewashed over at the end. But hey, MMV. It's really well written and definitely worth your time.