John's relatively innocent, but he was still a vet. Question is, did Mary suspect something supernatural was going down, or what?

Racebending AU where Mary was Korean. I'm a little taken out of it because they gender swapped Castiel for little reason I can determine. But I like the rest of the story. And my eyebrows raise a little at a comment of John's, and wonder if that's the author talking, or John off on his own.

I'd say yes, that she could have then remembered the warning about Yellow Eyes and the date, but mother-instincts overran the part about how things would be fine if she didn't interrupt.

Which doesn't quite fit with when they were investigating all the other nursery fires. With Mary, they end up making it look like it could have been avoided, but the rest, it's part of the M.O., the mothers, never the fathers, deliberately targeted. Did YED know that Mary would never keep her end of the bargain, and her on the ceiling was his plan all along, or did he like her ending so much that he based all subsequent demon-blood-taintings on her, OR, did he copy her death as a calling card to string Dean and Sam along?

Also, I've forgotten so many things: in Home, was Mary's spirit oblivionated?

I think it's mostly the maternal thing there -- she's upstairs, closer to the nursery, when she realizes the man she thought was John isn't, and that John is asleep way downstairs. I think most moms are going to charge in to save their babies at that point, whether you know anything about the supernatural or not.

I started a really good story last night without realizing it's a WIP. WOE.

Long fics are the bomb, randomly incrementally posted long fics are torture. And I weep for the ones I'm going to lose track of that would have been a pleasant or great read in the whole. Only a small percentage of them actually get tracked somehow so I remember to follow them through to fruition. It's always much simpler when someone does like Fay did with her Merlin fic and post it in predictable incremements.

I'm flakey, see, and can't be depended on to ensure my own enjoyment.

I just noticed there was a fandom_wank on the colour of Dean's hair. You blond people are still wrong, FWIW, but it's funny as hell to think it got that much bandwidth.

Artwise, I'm really startled to see it coloured blond, because semantic description aside, that's plain not what the pictures we look at look like. So why draw him that way? Also a decent amount of reddish-haired Sam, which is also not so. If it's a monochrome picture, I get hair looking light, I totally do. But when it's colour, no sense to me. Try matching the source material, not the descriptions of the source.

Fanfic-description-wise, I'm noticing Castiel-describers seem to be caught up in the long elegance of his fingers. I feel like a bad fan, because I never noticed this before. It's, like, Dean's eyes are green, Cas's are blue, Sam's really tall with big hands, Cas has long elegant fingers.

And only once in a blue moon does Dean have bow legs. C'mon, now, people. They're cute. You can talk about them too.

My problem is reading late at night. I apparently read the second part first (duh) and then found the first part this morning. And now I have no idea when or if she'll continue. Much WOE.

I'm willing to concede that there are pictures of JA from a few years ago where, in the right light, you can see he's dark blond. But Dean is NOT. He just isn't. So the fic that calls him "the blonde" a) is wrong, and b) is annoying because he's not a woman. And the art that's got him yellow-haired is jarring.

Dean's bow legs should get much more play. I love his bow legs.

I've been making sure to sign up for alerts to the wips that I do end up reading and liking, and so far the authors have been good about giving the wip it's own tag on LJ.

I've noticed the "long elegant fingers" too, and, while he doesn't have stubby sausage fingers, he doesn't exactly look like he was born to play the piano, either.

Salt'n'Pepa agree about Dean's legs:

Oooo, how you doin', baby?
No, not you
You, the bow-legged one,
(ha-ha) yeah
What's your name?
Damn, that sounds sexy

He's totally burnt into my mind for that song now.

Misha's hands are nice, but yeah, I don't get the description, or fixation. Is it that Cas needs to have a thing, beyond the endless, unbelievable blue eyes (because they are the biggest bluest eyes that ever did blue)? Dean's hands don't seem to get much description.

Don't get me started on Sam's hands. They get described too much, HOWEVER. So fucking hot.

With WIPs I've tended to be so irritated they ended that I haven't signed up for alerts, or they weren't tagged right. Only three or four are waiting for me.

I'm willing to concede that there are pictures of JA from a few years ago where, in the right light, you can see he's dark blond. But Dean is NOT. He just isn't.

You are so wrong. *g*

I'm thrown by anything that describes him as dark haired. Because it's clear that he's not (I'm willing to concede light-brown-with-blond-coloring, but not dark), even if the cinematography skews to washed out darkification of everything.

If anything, I would get a little rhapsodic about Cas's mouth. Because I really love the shape of it -- it's very different than Dean's, but really lovely and sensual in its own way. It's the widest of all three, meaning Dean, Sam, and Cas.

JP's hands are a total kink of mine. Not at all the prettiest man's hands I've ever seen, but they *are* big and there's something about those knobby knuckles that makes me a little incoherent. Mrph.

Oh, PLEI. We've reached stalemate!

Let's talk about their eyes instead!