topaz119 | me too!

I see by a quick skim of my flist that it is SPN's birthday and people are posting about their entry into fandom. I went back and looked, and on Marc 31, 2006, I posted this:

uncle. uncle. uncle.

Ok, fuck it. I give.

There's only so much I can take, and a flist that includes callsigns whimpering "jared padalecki half-naked in a towel. JARED padalecki half-naked in a towel. jared PADALECKI half-naked in a towel. jared padalecki HALF-naked in a towel. jared padalecki half-NAKED NAKED NAKED in a towel. jared padalecki half-naked in a motherfucking towel." followed by liz_w's "Speaking of WB shows, Jared Padelecki was MOSTLY NAKED on my TV last night" and unholyglee's open letter to Jared's hip bones, and I'm ONLY HUMAN.

Ok, A, send the tapes/downloads/whatever. This is me, caving.

What? I never said I wasn't shallow...

The flist leapt into action and I had burned episodes in my mailbox in a week and I managed to watch the entire season in time to see the S1 finale live. The first fic (J2 counts, right?) followed soon after, a PWP co-written with

without_me and then a second one, which ended up being a crossover with Angel also enabled by and co-written with

without_me. Then we dragged

withdiamonds into the madness and 4 Big Bangs (and 40-ish other stories) later, here we are, and whatever else, the rush of actually writing a Big Bang-length fic on my own is still one of the coolest things out there.