I've been fighting a nasty case of writer's block most of the year and the reading slump I've been in the last few months has made it even worse, so I was absolutely determined to read more fic this month than last month, because if I'm not writing AND I'm not reading, what am I even doing with my life? I asked some friends to throw links at me from their fandoms du jour to help out and in consequence I have read more Supernatural fic this month than I have since probably about 2008. 😄

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in October:( Supernatural, Supernatural/Leverage, Bad Buddy, The Eighth Sense, K-pop RPF )

Here are some of the fics I enjoyed in May:( MDZS, Moonlight Chicken, 1000 Stars, Bad Buddy, RPF )

pi did a BL-themed vidshow for the recent Fanworks Convention in Chicago and posted a playlist of the vids used in the show, which included a few premieres and a few good vids that were new to me.

I haven't watched all the vids from the show yet because there were a bunch from dramas I haven't watched yet but plan to, but for now I will enthusiastically second the recs for:

• You Drive Me Crazy (Semantic Error, Jaeyoung/Sangwoo)
• Matter To You (Cherry Magic, Kurosawa/Adachi)
• Stray Italian Greyhound (Kinnporsche, Kinn/Porsche) - premiere
• I Really Like You (Bad Buddy, Pat/Pran) - I recced this one a couple weeks ago along with another equally cute Pat/Pran vid set to the same song here

I was doubly excited about the Stray Italian Greyhound vid because it's set to the same song as my all-time favorite Wangxian fanvid and I always find it fun to compare how different vidders utilize the same song. helcinda, who did the Kinn/Porsche vid, had two Kinnporsche premieres during the convention and I also highly recommend the other, An Ocean, which was a stunning Porsche-centric character vid.

I don't have enough vids yet to do a proper Bad Buddy fanvid recs post, but these two Pat/Pran vids, both set to Carly Rae Jepsen's "I Really Like You", are excruciatingly cute and I simply had to share. I was grinning from ear to ear the whole time I was watching them.

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