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I can't express how much I love spn_summergen!!! Not only is it celebrating gen (which is my jam), but I always enjoy writing my entry, and then we get daily fics to help sooth the hiatus hell. And then, just to top it off, it would seem that every year the bar is raised, and the quality and variety of fanworks is just magical. I urge you to check out all the glorious 2018 entries - I promise you, they won't disappoint!

Every year my shortlist gets longer and crammed with goodies! In no order whatsoever, here's just 10 of my fic highlights from this years entries (I've tried to give you a taster of the wide variety available, or ones that I felt deserved more attention, or just made me squee) which will remain anonymous until reveals:

Scorched Earth
Those Who Can't Do...
Crossed Paths
Aces and Eights
These Are the Days of Miracle and Wonder (This is the Long Distance Call)
Saints Preserve Us
It's an Experience
Fledgling
Scenes from a Highway at the Edge of Night
Misplaced

I also used finchandsparrow's rec list here to help me narrow down my list, so pop over there too if you're hungry for more. I've already posted a squee rec for my gift fic, but I'll give it another shout out because it deserves it; Riptide.

It's a tough job narrowing down this list so please visit spn_summergen and praise the creators and mods with all the love and support they deserve. Huge congratulations to everyone involved in this challenge for yet another successful year!!! ♥

EDIT: for those of you who are hungry for more recs, marciaelena and amberdreams have also collated a few. Links are in the comments below.
                                                                                                                                  

Forgive me as I try (and probably fail) to contain my squee, but amberdreams and I have signed up to do a fic and art collab as part of this years spn_cinema! How exciting is that?! I've been wanting to work with her for ages, and now it's happening. For real.

I sort of twisted amberdreams's arm as she isn't familiar with the movie, but we've chosen A Quiet Place which is a wonderful movie that I'd recommend to anyone. It's a tense watch, but very well executed in every way. Here's the trailer to whet your appetite;



Anyway, I'd better get planning this fic, and bothering amberdreams with way too many emails ;)

So we're a week away from Birmingham and how did this happen? It's crept up on me like some kind of ninja! When I booked my tickets back in January it felt like ages away. And now it's one week. ONE WEEK!

Anyway I wanted to reach out to people who are going in the hope that I can meet as many of you as I can. I'll be arriving sometime on Friday, and will hopefully be attending the karaoke on the Friday night. I have preferred seating for Saturday and Sunday and I'm also going to the Saturday night concert.

On Saturday I'll be on Row X Seat 045
On Sunday I'll be on Row V Seat 037

If you're going (or you know someone who is!) please do drop me a line with seat numbers so I can pop over and say hi, or please do feel free to come over and say hello to me because I really want to meet you in person.

I'm still nervous and excited, and a little sick with said nerves and excitement. I really don't know what to expect, but I just want to make the best of the whole weekend and to just enjoy it. Take care and I hope to see some of your faces very soon ♥

                                                                                                                              

My oldest fandom friend and star beta harrigan, has written and posted a perfectly wonderful AUJ2 Winter Olympics speed skting fic, which you need to check out here! It's short but oh so sweet, and is told in a wonderfully thrilling format, and is full of spills and thrills. So please check it out and shower her with love!

Also, if you're watching the winter Olympics, have you been imagining your own AUJ2 fics and art?! Maybe J2 are in a team sport like curling, ice hockey, ice-skating or even the double luge? Maybe you like to see them pitted against each other in skeleton, snowboarding or skiing? I'd love you to fill those prompts or maybe even share a prompt. There's already a few prompts posted on harrigan's page which you can find here. I might have a tiny thing brewing myself, so please join in and spread the fun!!!

                                                                                                                          

My spnspringfling gift has been posted and it's a stunning beautiful and bittersweet fic that I would love you all read. Please check it out and shower the currently anon author with love. It's called Field of Stars in Bloom, and it's Sam and Dean (gen) with references to Sam/Jess.

I'm also going to do a rec list of just 10 of my favourites after posting has ended. This will be difficult, because as always with this challenge the quality is so high. In the meantime please check out spnspringfling because there really is something for everybody and they're all bite-sized but perfectly formed ♥

                                                                                                            

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My spnspringfling gift has been posted and it's beautiful, bittersweet and just a perfectly formed pocket-sized fic that I would love you all to read. It's Sam and Dean (gen) and it's called Promenade. Please check it out and shower the currently anon author with love.

Check it out here.

I'm also going to try and do a rec list (maybe 10 or 15) after posting has ended. This will be difficult, because as always with this challenge the quality is so high, but I'm just so excited about all the talent in our fandom ♥

                                               

\o/ When I first found out that the oh so talented becc_j had claimed one of my prompts for the ohsam five year anniversary challenge, I was beyond excited!!

She's now posted the most wonderfully bad ass and beautiful piece of art with Sam on a motorbike that I've ever seen! It's moody and delicious, a little bloody, but in the best and most awesome kind of way. Seriously, you need to check it out now. I mean it, stop reading this and go and shower her with all the praise in the world!!  

This way to Becc_j's awesome art!