Mirror, Mirror was written for the 2009 Big Bang, and the artist who chose to illustrate my story is the very talented yuanhua.
Genre: RPS AU
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 29,477
Summary: Jensen Ackles is a well-respected photographer, courted by the media and the shiny people of Tinseltown. Sadly, he's getting bored with success and beginning to become self destructive. In an attempt to break Jensen out of his ennui, his friend, Steve Carlson, offers him a challenge. "Take the first person we meet when we leave the party and make them into a star before the year is over..."
Author's notes: I haven't ever written an AU before, so Mirror, Mirror marks a wonderfully freeing departure from reality. This is my take on Pygmalion, and is from an idea pitched by imogen_lily, for which I thank her.
Beta: marys_scribbles and splashpink, without whom this would have been far less entertaining.


Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Epilogue

Drawings by yuanhua. She has taken the 'cast list' from my story and made the most gorgeous set of posters for them. I am in awe. Please give her love for her beautiful artwork.


Find the artwork here

( Mirror, Mirror, Part 1 )

Part 2

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Part 3

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Part 5

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Epilogue

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June 26th! I get to post on June 26th!

I'm so excited.

Where to begin? First I got rid of my husband - always a complex task! He's gone off to England, and although I'm going myself in a couple of weeks, we won't really overlap anywhere, so I have a completely Russ-free month, except that he is bombarding me with emails demanding all kinds of things long distance. Thank you dear, I really didn't have anything to do until you assailed me with all your demands for service.

So the weekend was going to be a magnificent weekend of work - sorting out the spare room and divesting myself of years of clutter, and in fact I did a lot. My friend Cruella came over on Saturday and helped me throw things away, and we drank wine and grooved to Steve Carlson (but only on the inside.)

Sunday, I woke up feeling like a train hit me. Muscles ached, joints ached, throat was sore and head was stuffed full of something really slimy and green. I was supposed to go out to see a movie in the afternoon, but instead I sat and wished I was dead.

splashpink arrived bearing real tea and did my gardening for me. She's the most awesome thing that ever awesomed, and I love her. I moved a few boxes of crap around and discovered the floor of the spare bedroom. Bonus. Also, I burned a whole bunch of DVDs to send out to people before falling back into bed and dying.

Monday found me back at work, with a sign around my neck that says, "unclean!" I absolutely can't spare any time off at the moment. I need my vacation time for the UK, so just wear your all over body condom if you come near me.

Today, it's easing off a little, and my joints still ache like crazy, but the stuffiness and coughing are going away. I may make it through to the finale after all.

And I have to edit my big bang this week, so I can sign off on it. I have another bunny ripping holes in my brain and I want to get going on that.

Such a good Friday!

I've just sent off my first draft of Big Bang, so I'm in. There are things I have to tweak and edit and so on, but the story is done. Yay.

And the sun is shining, and I've set up my Dreamwidth journal, (thank you to the adorable splashpink) If you want to friend me. I am not going to abandon LJ, but Dreamwidth will be there if LJ spazzes out again, and because it's there, LJ will behave impeccably forever more!

Like I said, the sun is shining, and today I went to work without a jacket, wearing a summer top! Hooray. Maybe winter is over at last. It's been a while!

My colleague at work has been suffering from a really nasty cold, and I think I'm getting it now. Damn, although I can be thankful that it didn't hit when I was wrestling with Big Bang. And hopefully it'll be gone by the time I head for England at the end of the month.

Last night's show is still making me twitch. I may have things to say about it later, but for the moment I'm really just choked up about it. Poor boys... and I mean all three of them.