what the hell, nothing else to do today (from snickfic)

[alexseanchai]

In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door.' Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (pics of fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.).

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[calliopes_pen]

Trick-or-treat!

[alexseanchai]

[neotoma]

trick or treat!

[alexseanchai]

Scene from early in the fic I am planning for NaNo (if I don't do the fantasy novel instead):


Rick had snuck in a small oil lantern somehow, which was sitting on the table by Mary's bed, filled with oil, provenance Rick wasn't saying. He wasn't explaining the candy next to the lantern, either. He'd painted designs on the wall with vinegar, after showing Dean (and John, who'd known, and Sammy, who couldn't understand) how to apply red cabbage juice to a vinegar design on paper to reveal Rick's sketch of the Impala. Mary didn't balk till Rick sliced open his forearm, but shut up when he pointed out that he'd tried various other inks up to and including blood acquired from a kosher butcher, none of which had worked for the purpose; it'd be tricky enough making the thing work when the person activating it wasn't the person who'd used their own blood to paint it and when the thing was painted quite small.

"Wait, Loki?" Mary asked when Rick got far enough into the ritual for her to identify its target. Rick held a finger to his lips, then pointed roughly where the symbol was painted in blood. John shifted in his seat, wanting, Mary thought, to put down Dean and Sammy and pick up a weapon that wasn't there.

Rick finished the summoning, waited for a five-count, snagged a Kit-Kat, stepped into the corridor, and threw. A yelp; he waved his hand in a beckoning gesture and stepped back into the room.

A white man followed him in, Kit-Kat in hand. Not short, exactly, but Rick towered over him; of course Rick had three or four inches on even John. "Hellooo," the man said, looking at Mary. "Trickster. Not healer."

"Eat your candy," Rick said.

The man, Loki, caught sight of the lit lantern. "Where did you get that?" he demanded.

"It isn't meant as a threat," Rick said. "I just want to make sure, without saying anything that unwelcome interested parties might overhear, that we understand each other."



The scene's gonna get rewritten. Probably. Maybe. This doesn't count as starting early, does it?

[neotoma]

Is Rick actually TimeTraveling!Sam?

I do like it when you write from Mary's POV -- you're really good at sketching out who she might have been.

[alexseanchai]

Yes indeed; Samuel Richard Winchester. (Not doing Dean Michael or Samuel Luke, not doing John or Eric as a middle name, which reduces me to picking from a hat. I think Dean's middle name is Charles.) Not sure how much past S7 this is or what if anything I'm including from S8, though.

[neotoma]

Ooo, definitely sounds interesting!

Let me know if you need an alpha or beta-reader.

[alexseanchai]

Thank you for the offer and I will keep it in mind!

[onyxlynx]

Trick or treat!

[alexseanchai]

Do embeds work in comments? I forget. Here is the link in case the embed does not work.



eta: that looks like a no.

[onyxlynx]

How did you know?

Thank you so much! I'll be singing that for the rest of the day!

(Embeds and marquees won't work in comments. Rats.)

[alexseanchai]

:-D (your profile says you follow rocknroll_n_blues_queens)

(Damn.)

[tptigger]

Trick or treat :)

[alexseanchai]

on kindle because gas overpressure or some shit. no basement till tomorrow sometime. guess where my computer is. cannot copy paste on the fugking touchscreen either. or type right. but do not despairtl. you will get your treat! some assembly required. saltine crackers. lay on cookie sheet. the kind with vertical edges not the kind that has flat edges. single layer crackers no spaces with fractional crackers filling in. melt butter or margarine. mix in sugar. not sure of proportions. will give them when i can upload the recipe scan and paste in link. soak saltines in buttersugar. scatter chocolate chips on top. lots. bake. temperature and time to follow. when chips are nicely melty apply spatula till evenly spread. refrigerate till all solid. cut in small pieces. easier along cracker boundaries. nom! is called cracker candy.

[alexseanchai]

I don't feel like editing the previous comment for coherence now that I've hijacked the playroom computer (keyboard I can touch-type on! screen bigger than my hand!), but cracker candy recipe, transcription on request though might take some time as I might not be doing my usual glued-to-computer for a couple days, depends how long it takes the gas to clear out. Apparently we did everything wrong, since we did not evacuate the house, we did not immediately call the gas company or 911 from a cell phone or a neighbor's house, we did turn things off...but nothing's exploded yet so we'll probably be fine as long as we don't go in the basement for a while and every so often I stick my head into the hurricane for a few minutes to clear my lungs on the assumption that I breathed considerable quantities of gas while I was sitting in the buildup not noticing the smell.

[tptigger]

Image seems to have gone AWOL, but no rush. Sounds yummy, though!

[alexseanchai]

Looks fine from here...

Eh. Transcription, since I'm at computer now anyway.

1 c butter or margarine
1 c sugar
unspecified quantity saltine crackers
1 6 oz bag chocolate chips

Place butter and sugar into a medium sized pot. Bring butter and sugar to a boil and boil one minute.

Lay saltine crackers in single layer on lightly greased cookie sheet covering bottom completely. Pour sugar mixture over crackers and bake in preheated oven at 400 deg F for 5 minutes. Take out of oven and pour one bag of chocolate chips over and quickly spread melting chocolate over entire surface of crackers. Put in fridge/freezer and chill until set. When set, remove from pan and break into desired size pieces and serve.

Variation: Try any variety of chips on the cracker candy. For instance, semi-sweet chocolate, milk chocolate, mint chocolate, peanut butter, or maybe even butterscotch. Then when you have finished spreading out the melting chocolate you may want to sprinkle some fancy sugar or decorations on it just for fun.

And it's from Just 24 Days to Christmas by MyLinda Butterworth, ISBN 1-890905-10-0. But it is not exactly a December-specific treat.

[pocochina]

Trick or treat!

[alexseanchai]

Damn you camera operator why are you so much more interested in the menfolk that you can't even give a scene like this more than half a second.

[pocochina]

gorgeous! <3

[lliira]

Trick or treat!

[alexseanchai]

backstory

but this is not necessarily a cheerful thing, so: self-photographer kitty!

[lliira]

Hah! Well, it cheered me up anyway :). Makes me feel not so alone. Also, I like her hat.

The kitty is adorable.

[anaraine]

Trick or Treat!

[alexseanchai]

I am not skilled with Photoshop, so I shall present two unaltered pictures and insist that they are two angles of the same scene:

[anaraine]

I— *jawdrops* I CAN GO FOR THIS. Hnngghhh. Gosh, sudden resurgent feelings for Sam/Jess. Thanks, bb! ♥

[alexseanchai]

:-D

[somnolentblue]

Trick or treat.

[alexseanchai]

I was gonna write you the first scene of the Supernatural NaNo project but three hours into NaNo my word count remains nil and I am getting yawny. Therefore I am treating you to library porn:

[somnolentblue]

*laughs* Nothng wrong with libraries!

(Although I want to *straighten* those books on the right upper tier. *iz a librarian*)