So, the movie opens on the 21st, which is a Friday. Is that our date night?

I'll be out of town - but I'll be home the next weekend!

Even though I'm not out that way, I may have to go see the movie the same night y'all do. Yes, I am a geek that way.

I'm glad people liked the story. I always feel so intimidated when I try to write something for this fandom.

It's possible I'm jonesing for more S1 stories, pre-demon stuff, with standard boggarts and ghosts and werewolves. And more backstory than we got, dammit.

Oh, hell yes. I'd love to know a lot more about Mary, and how she and John met, etc.

New 3.8 promo up at the CW website. . . it made me laugh.

Anne, that was gorgeous. I love what you did with the character.

I'd love to see more preseries stuff, too. More wee!Chesters, more of John raising the boys alone, John's first hunt, definitely more Bobby. Thank god for fanfic.

So I just made a meta-ey post about preserving the fourth wall with respect to actors and such.

I'm gonna be run out of fandom on a rail.

I found it unwanky and making of sense. But I could be overestimating Fandom's Sanity.

The original draft was rather more snarky about the SPN "respect" thing. Which still kind of makes me roll my eyes, even if it means well.

I think it was incredibly sensible and well-worded and sane, Suela.

Um, says the girl who never had a jot of interest in any actor's life before SPN ATE MY BRAIN. For real. For me, I think it's the fact that the two Js are so charming in interviews and at cons, and the genuine affection they have for each other. I'm also weak and easily swayed by excessive pretty, though.

I should clarify that and add that I'm much more interested in Sam and Dean (and Bobby and John and Ellen, et al) than I am in the actors who play them. At the same time, I've always had a certain behind-the-scenes kink. I love to hear what writers' processes and rituals are, where the idea for a particular novel sprung from; how Jerry Garcia learned to play the guitar with his missing finger, why he liked bluegrass and folk music, etc. So listening to the Js talk about developing their characters is interesting to me. Hearing them talk about tickling each other's feet and taking Thanksgiving-style naps after pizza is just gravy.

I agree very much with your first point, although I sense that the author of the original post you referenced meant something a little broader than respect actually equaling love.

True, although... I don't actually trust fandom at large to make that distinction.

Not to be blunt, but I don't trust ... fandom of a certain age? That's rude to say, I know, and probably untrue. But that starry-eyed thirteen-year-old girl mindset is not always logical, true.