I read the clex BB, and eh. Weird. Maybe everything was explained in the bit I skipped, but I doubt it was enough to explain the strange deviations from canon. The initial premise that John and Mary remembered wasn't enough to support the accelerated timeline of the other stuff, and what was up with Sam having seizures? Did he even get fed demon blood? What was with the extra kids at Cold Oak? Why bother? It seemed like it went more AU than just that one point, and although I'm a big AU junkie, I was more looking for an exploration of ramifications of one point in time, not a much larger what if.

And the incest did seem quite pasted on, if it was that skippable. Sam makes only an offhand reference to it afterwards. Though Dean was appropriately obsessed, it seemed fairly brotherly.

I almost liked the Mary, but she did get a bit excessively competent during her pregnancy.

That's what I thought -- the concept was too big for the author, and she sort of fumbled and clunked through it. It could have been a decent story, I think, but it really wasn't.

From the comments on her post after the story it looked like someone asked her for Wincest. So totally grafted on and not organic.

And, like you said, the ending was a bit anti climactic. Thank you for navigating me around it. I was very curious about the execution.

No problem. I wasn't hopeful, though, because if it had grabbed me I would have gone back to read it carefully instead of skim through for the objectionable bits, and I really wasn't interested.

I would love to see more young Mary stories, though.

Work is really interfering with my fic reading. Sigh.

Having read all the applicable fic in the world is interfering with my fic reading.

Actually, I'm impressed I'm still finding stuff. I've read hundreds of stories over the past few months, and it's just one fandom and I'm avoiding one huge genre and one huge pairing. Sure, I've come up across a lot of crap, but I just checked and I've bookmarked 200+ stories.

I bumped into this on an open tab on my computer where I don't usually read fic. It's D/C slavefic for wimps, easy on the consensual issues, without totally pussying out. To High Places By Narrow Roads, by sansday.

Heh. This is relevant to some of us, for sure.

That story looks pretty good, ita. I may read an AU! Expect the world to end later.

Right click and save, for sure. I'm so addicted to those stupid GIFs, it's not even funny anymore.

I may read an AU! Expect the world to end later.

They are addictive! But the world doesn't end until you're reading a HS AU. Then it's over. God, I love those.

Oh god, high school AUs take me right to bandom. And my shame.

I could see a high school AU if it was our Dean and Cas shows up then, to save him from something, or to protect him, knowing his destiny. Which is not quite the same AU you mean, but I have my limits.

I just checked my bookmarks, and AU is one of my top ten tags. Only 21, including 2 vids, so it's actually less than I'd have thought. And the college AUs (I know, I know) equal the number of the HS ones.

I have my limits.

And what interesting limits they are.