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.

And what interesting limits they are.

I hope that's a good thing.

I hope that's a good thing.

It's a fascinating thing. I have AU issues, but they still fill something for me. I can't explain it. Just about everyone does Cas wrong, for instance (although I think the slavefic above does him plausibly right), but I still can't get enough.

I'm reading the slavefic now. It's my kind of AU because it at least hinges off the SPN world we know. It's not the best written thing in the world, but it's interesting, and I like both her portrayal of Cas and the issues around slavery, even if they have been softened by Dean's perspective (which avoids a lot of the messiest issues).

I'm having a hard time with Sam in this, though.

I just read a fic about a robot unicorn that shoots rainbows out it's ass. OMG.

which avoids a lot of the messiest issues

Yeah--totally not going to satisfy a proper slavefic kink. But it's my speed, because I have severe slavery issues. It's probably the closest thing I have to a trigger, although the printed word isn't as bad as visuals. Makes me anxious and stressy and irrationally teary if they are truly exercising the trope. NO idea why I started reading this--I was just flipping through open browser tabs and there it was. So I checked it out. Thank dog she wasn't hard core.

I'm having a hard time with Sam in this, though.

By the end I was okay, but he wasn't as awesome as I usually want. She does make it clear that he's a demon sympathiser and rescues them from abuse-- in the end that made him seem like a good person, since humans were evidently the worst beasties in this universe.