Ack! Surprise wincest! So I'm reading this long AU fic, and I read the warnings, and there were even spoiler-barred warnings that I read, and then WHAM! Not cool, and for a throwaway paragraph, rather gratuitous.

And yet, I'm not aghast at the Castiel/Gabriel inappropriate behaviour. Maybe because Castiel is horrified, and Gabriel is just naturally inappropriate and enjoys mindfucking.

Snapfish isn't sending me the necessary 14 digit code I need to get the picture from my phone, so it looks like I won't be sharing my drunken sketches with y'all. Saves me the embarassment, at least.

One day I hope to get my skills back up to the point where rudimentary fanart might be sharable. I'm very much not there yet.

Five times Sam didn't catch a clue (and the time they finally out and told him). Cute! Not my normal favourite of Sam works out first, but plenty of Sam.

I just read that one yesterday! Cute, although I don't see Sam as that obtuse.

I also read a multi-chapter baseball/depression-era AU that I kinda liked [link] Dean and Sam are baseball players, John's the coach, and Castiel is the reporter following their games around. They're not totally in character, but I liked the story for itself--although my desire for serious whumpage never came to pass. I need some fic where I can wallow in the violence, and I've already exhausted strangeandcharm.

I was really really liking the baseball one, but then all the black players got lumped in as the monster of homophobia, and the ending fell a bit flat for me. I swear it could have been happier. Janitor? Seriously? So, about halfway through I couldn't tear myself away, and then it was a definite bookmarker, but by the end, not as sure.

Aw, the five times one is cute. Sam is a bit more obstuse than he should be, yeah, but it was well done enough for me to buy it.

Did anyone else watch the fireworks with "Knocking on Heaven's Door" playing in their head?

I found this fic through a rec post dotfic is hosting over on LJ. It's a Supernatural/Twin Peaks crossover that melds the feel of the two series very nicely.

I was crawling through back issues of spn newsletter on lj, still trying to track down that one fic that I mentioned earlier, when I came across another hustler!Dean story. Although since it was actually a case where he's being blackmailed into an exchange of services for services rather than an ongoing money-making enterprise, I'm not sure if it meets the definition. But just in case: Where A Man Can Be King by scribblinlenore.

It certainly implies a Dean that's traded before.

What's a revenant? Is it a blanket term, or is it a specific beastie we've never seen before? It comes up as something they test for, along with shapeshifter when someone comes back, but we've never seen them ID anything as a revenant. Does it just mean ghost or zombie?

I thought the Witnesses were revenants. Really amped-up, high-powered revenants. I could be wrong on that.

Parts of the soul retrieved from beyond, I believe, by an agent, and animated and given purpose by that agent. Not the entire personality.

Wiki says I'm partly right.