... so how are they spelling choked?

... so how are they spelling choked?

Brocken.

I also warned Cass that she may not want to read it right now.

For which I am very, very grateful. I would have gone straight in to the update and, to make matters potentially worse, I was with family this weekend. I just put it in a place to read later.

It's a brilliant story but I can't handle that part right now.

Chocked. Which, just always brings back Pat Roach trying to kill Indiana Jones with the wheel chocks from the plane in Raiders.

I keep seeing Twist And Shout referred to as the Dean/Castiel tearjerker, in that every pairing on every show has one. I haven't read it, and the weepy gushing doesn't pull me towards it (still shying from most of the Major Character Death tags, and their ilk). But I'm wondering if it is indeed fair to say most pairings have their equivalent to this fic-can you guys think of an equivalent sort of a thing for the slices of fics you read?

I think I'm now seeing "chocked" more than the rein/reign substitutions, not least of all because someone is forever letting out a "chocked sob" during the very emotional fucking.

Another thing which is a dearth of vocabulary more than anything else is "lathed the velvety skin with his tongue". Now, I know what a lathe is, and I've actually used one. I do not want anything near me that operates at that RPM, and unless it was a character I was determined to punish, not near any of their tender bits, either. The word these smiths are reaching for is probably "laved," which has the same root as lavish and lavabo and has to do with bathing, submerging, usually in liquid. Which...yeah, not so appealing, either. Tongue-bath is what I assume they're going for and really? Just as, or more, appealing, really.

"Nothing Left to Lose" is probably the big tearjerker in the Sheppard/McKay neighborhood of Stargate Atlantis. I know don't read it unless I'm feeling particularly mentally sturdy.

Rereading the summary for Twist and Shout fills me with despair. I cried, and was depressed and angry for days after finishing it.

I can't think of a big tear-jerker fic in bandom, but that's probably more a reflection of my reading habits than anything else.

There was that depressing Cobra Starship hookerfic, but that was more gloomy than tear-jerking.

The "got popular enough to become a cliche" one in Sherlock is Alone on the Water.

Julie, can you put the Twist And Shout plot in spoilerfont?