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.

He just didn't feel like Sam to me.

This is the only kind of slavefic I can read, where the master is conflicted and concerned, or it's newly freed slaves who are figuring out how to be free. Which is not much of a kink, I suppose, but there are two fics that I've read along those lines which are some of the best I've ever read of any kind. (One is RPS and one is bandom, sadly, or I'd rec them. Although you could absolutely read the bandom one as an original fantasy novel if you had no idea who was being written about.)