on_verra

Don't mind me, I'm just here for the good reads!

I spent many years on LJ under a different user name, but the internet slowly became The Thing That Ate My Life, and I needed to take a big step back. So in April '08, I closed everything else and created this 'lurking journal' - really just for the purpose of reading other people. (In April '09, I also created a mirror journal on Dreadwidth, which is a site I support in any case!)

I'm acafannish, but not technically an acafan because I'm only tangentially involved with academia by profession, and I don't publish papers about fandom or whatever! I'm just generally interested in issues of gender & sexuality (among other things like technology, religion & psychology) and how they play out in horror, sci-fi & fantasy genres in film & tv, as well as other media and fan-produced fiction and meta.

My fandom of choice is SPN. ♥
To the point where it barely feels like a choice. I'm a slave to the rhythm!


I do watch other shows and might occasionally lurk in other fandoms, but mostly just when I've followed my favorite writers over from SPN. (I also do some non-LJ acafannish work on the Whedonverses, but don't follow the fandom per se.)

Need to know more about me? Just ask!

As on LJ, I will post exceedingly rarely and won't be commenting much. If I read you, I probably knew you from my old LJ, but not always. If I read you, please know that you bring great joy and intellect to my life and I wish I could repay the favor somehow. ♥♥♥

In lieu of adding people on LJ and DW, I do read most people via Google Reader! It doesn't display comments, which helps me to further avoid the temptation of getting too involved with comments and general social networking... though OH GOD do I miss it sometimes! ;D


ETA: I've transferred my old SPN S/D meta post here from my old account because of the number of people who wanted access to it. It's backdated to the original date it was posted before, with comments imported as screencaps. So there ya go.

LMAO, I just randomly got trolled on my old Wincest Meta post, by one LJ member deathlysunlight, who appears to be a sockpuppet. I deleted the comment from there, but it was far too hilarious not to post:


So does incest only bother you when it harms children???
How many parents excuse their selfish acts as some romantic 'forbidden love' nonsense?
I happen to know such parents...
My
aunt and uncle are related (they were cousins) and wanted to have
children...the family members warned them that their children will
suffer the consequence but they didn't care they went through with it
and now both their sons are deaf...and yes they, too, were children
once, children who suffer all their adult lives...

There are many, psychological and physical, reasons why incest is forbidden!!!
There are actually such things as 'kin detection mechanisms' in both humans and animals:
quote:
["Inbreeding
increases the likelihood that offspring are born with harmful genetic
mutations that negatively affect health and fertility. For this reason,
many species have evolved ways to spot close relatives and avoid mating
with them...."]

Source:

http://www.livescience.com/4363-kinship-detectors-prevent-incest-cases.html

To look at incest as sexually arousing (!) is just so wrong...
I
can't help but wander what it says about those who enjoy such stories
and those who write them can you really not imagine a non-sexual love
between relatives is your imagination that poor?
Why don't you create your own characters instead of forcing incest where there is none?
Are you only aroused by forbidden things?
If all people decided to accept homosexuality and it was no longer a taboo will it stop arousing you?!
If people then decided that eating slugs is taboo will you be aroused by watching it???
Next you'll be suggesting that such depraved acts as cannibalism and rape are the new 'taboos to break'
This is just so pathetic and it won't be any less pathetic if you'll delete this comment...

OMG DID YOU EVEN READ THE ORIGINAL POST?!?! Bwahahah. I stand corrected, Wincest is wrong. I have seen the light. WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!!

Sweet creamy jebus, I wrote another one.

Title: A Talent for Causing Things Pain
Author: On_Verra
Pairing & Characters: Sam/Dean, John, very brief mentions of Jim Murphy and Bobby
Rating: PG-13 (or possibly R for violent imagery)
Wordcount: ~4,070
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: I do not own the boys, and I make no money from this.
Warnings/Enticements: See pairing. Also, there is graphic dental injury, wee bits of angst and humor, and a whole lot of blood. But not in a kinky blood play way... exactly. It's hard to explain! Just gotta read on!
A/N So, I see this as slash, okay? But I'm kickin' it Old School, and others might consider it pre-slash with UST. Depends on how you define resolution ;)

I feel compelled to dedicate this to balefully:
This fic may not be what you were expecting based on my recent comments, but the title does indeed come from Little Shop of Horrors ;D

Thanks to lotrabc for the beta offer, but I wanna get this up before I leave the country in a few days! So this is unbeta'd. I hope you will like it anyway! And thanks also to linaerys for putting up with my email spammage yet again.

Here be the story:
( A Talent for Causing Things Pain )

Comments and recs appreciated.

Happy Holidays!


*Crossposted to DW and LJ*

Also posted in AO3.

Hi folks,

As you know I'm pretty quiet around here, but I've been working on something off and on for a while. Especially after Big Bang, and with everyone bracing themselves for the new season. I just really wanted to post this before S5 because I don't want the whole vibe of the thing to be jossed, even if only in my own brain.

And so, for my latest contribution to fandom, may I present:


(Cover by me; base Impala image from fanart by deny1984, used with permission)

Download .zip HERE at Megaupload.

Disclaimer: I own NOTHING. I make no money and mean no harm.

( Click for Tracklist, Dedication and Notes )

Next up, I will be posting fic. Yes, really. I mean, really. It is in beta. :D

Feel free to comment and/or rec if you like it, or if you hate it. Or want me to explain my choices. Whatever. :D



*Crossposted to DW and LJ*