My Becky Rec List (Of Doom)
So there’s this episode - and I haven’t watched it and no longer plan to, but apparently it ruined Becky for a lot of people. I’ve decided that those writers don’t own Becky. Becky is ours, because, as we said once upon a time, we ARE Becky. So they may get us wrong, but we know ourselves, and we know Becky… and Becky Rosen is fucking awesome.
However, when the writers try to drag us down
(like with Castiel cough cough)we crawl our way back up, and as a loyal fandom, what better way… than fic? Well, Becky would be proud, at least. So!The Becky is Awesome Rec List of 2011:
Restore from Saved Draft by twoskeletons - Sam and Dean steal Becky’s boyfriend because he sees the future, and Becky spends time with Dean’s boyfriend. Castiel writes fic and Becky realizes that Castiel is a Dean girl.
Your Apple Pie Suburban Hell Happily Ever After by tuesday - In which Becky and Dean search for Chuck and Sam, Castiel discovers a love of milkshakes, Sam regrets being a good Samaritan, and Lucifer is still entirely too interested in Sam’s body for Sam’s peace of mind.
Post-It Notes From The End of The World by electrumqueen - Becky takes care of an angel after the end of the world. “What about Dean?” she asks. | “Dean is with his son,” Castiel says, like it hurts. “It’s all about fathers and sons, isn’t it, in the end.”
Writing (And Other Things That Are Hard) by trinityofone - Face it, she thinks. You’re a redshirt. Redshirt redshirt redshirt. Crap. There’s nothing like realizing your life is a fandom, and you;re the expendable character. Actually, this fic isn’t about that.
If on a winter’s night a fangirl by trinityofone - God is the internet, or invented the internet… or something, and he speaks to Becky through fanfiction. Being a slash fangirl makes you WISE, okay.
Becky The Castiel Fangirl by shattered siren - It starts off with Becky being Becky… and I think it ends that way too. Chuck introduces Castiel, and Becky is slightly converted.
Becky Rosen’s Hellatus Survival Guide by dudeurfugly - Offers a Becky voice in times of hardship.
The Creator and The Fangirl by struthious - God on Becky, and why he lets her go.
Sweet Gay Fanfiction Saves The Day by alysian-fields - The angel looks up at her. “What is the function of these?” He gestured towards the stuffed animals. “I mean, what purpose do they serve? If you are worshipping them as false idols, I feel I should inform you that not only is it a sin, but… there is no god or demi-god of the purple hippo.”
Trouble In Paradise by amor-remanet - Less Becky and more God wanting to court her, I think.
Becky’s New OTP by Sailor Moonac - Sam grinned at Dean. “Not exactly. Apparently, since she’s dating Chuck, she has access to all of his unpublished material. You know, the stuff since you were raised from Hell. Since you met Cas.”
* Fic not bolded is fic not read. And also, it is very hard to find Becky fic. I think I’ll hunt for more when there isn’t exams the next day… Hmm.
I’d also like to recommend very highly The Fangirl Gospel which is a story about Rachel relaying The Winchester Gospel to Becky and Becky teaching her very own angel about being human and generally Rachel/Becky UST. It’s 90% hilarious meta and 10% SOUL-SUCKING TRAGEDY, and is very, very awesome.
She leans forwards to read what Becky’s written. “Is it truly necessary to spend so many paragraphs describing Sam’s chest?”
“It is so very necessary! Do I have to show you the picture again?”
“I don’t understand why Castiel would want to run his hands over it.”
“I’m opening the picture.”
Rachel sighs as Sam’s face fills up the computer screen, but it’s not quite the same exasperated huff she’s been making all day. “I still don’t understand,” she says and sounds for the first time as if she’d like to.
The Stanford MRI Lab hosted the world’s first ever “love competition”, in which contestants had five minutes to love someone as hard as they could while their brain activity was measured and compared.
behold, a cautionary tale:
so, once upon a few years ago, when i was naught but a wee bb sherlock holmes enthusiast, there was this place called the shkinkmeme, and i wiled away many an hour there! this, dear reader, was before the Rise of Mofftiss, so we were forced to content ourselves with fic and discussion based on the 2009 rdj/jude movie, the granada series, that film where gareth david-lloyd wears ill-fitting trousers and fights some sort of dinosaur, the literally hundreds of other available adaptations (watch the russian holmes series, it’s ace), the actual ACD canon, and the occasional discussion of duck penises (don’t google it, trust me). it was a golden age! not a particularly…pure…age, but a golden one nonetheless! fic was written! art was drawn! gif parties were had! all was wonderful!
BUT THEN, dear reader, things took a turn for the wank, for news was released that there was a new holmes adaptation on the horizon. and this new holmes adaptation, they said, was to be a modern version, set in present-day london. oh, how the shit did hit the fan! oh, how our sense of security was torn asunder! “a modern setting will never work!” people said. “this is an affront to the canon!” people said. “i’m appalled they’re even making this!” people said. “house is not the same thing!” people said. on and on the wank raged, until that modern adaptation was released; shortly after that, said modern adaptation had a massive fandom all its own, drawing countless people into the fantastic world of holmes and its staggering assortment of variations.
do i really even need to say that that modern adaptation was sherlock? sherlock, which is much beloved and possessed of many baftas, sherlock, which has spawned so much brilliant fic, sherlock, which is currently the favored holmes adaptation ‘round these parts? do i really even need to make that point?
imthestoryteller:philsoncoulip:
what was up with Andrew’s bowtie tonight.
it’s a regular necktie used as a bowtie. idek, andrew.
Chapter One of The Avengers vs. The Fourth Wall is up!
Summary:
In the spirit of Supernatural’s “The French Mistake”, the Avengers are transported to the set of Marvel’s film “The Avengers.” They’ve got to find a way to get back to the real world, but they have to make it through press panels, photoshoots, and prosthetics application first.
Hi-res pic: Andrew Scott arrives at the Arqiva British Academy Television Awards 2012 on May 27, 2012 in London.
Adorable!
Andrew Scott winning the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Bafta.
