I have a problem setting it in S4 because of what happens with Cas's faith, and his decision to stick with the angels until Lucifer Rising.

I think before that it would be have been too early for him -- too much of a distraction, a transgression -- if not for Dean.

My favorite thing is actually setting it in the future, post S5, which ... I have to do in my head.

I love the fics that have them sexing after 4x01. So on the ball. I can see it happening at a couple points in S4--between On The Head Of A Pin and The Rapture, for instance, resulting in the need for him being raptured. And of course, post smiting in 4x22 is another snogfest.

I do more heavy lifting than that just watching the show.

Ha!

If I were to posit that they were having sexy fun times during the show, there's no place where I could say "this is when they consummated". But they so broke up in Point of No Return, and fell into the awkwardness of "just friends/business associates" in Two Minutes to Midnight and Swan Song.

Man, when Cas is telling Dean that returning to Heaven seems like the right thing to do, he scrunches up his face like it pains him, or like it's bullshit. He freaking winces after he says that.

Dean and Cas are cars [link]

I've seen it all now.

(no worries, there's no car porn or impala babies).

Oh, dear god.

Also, what does it say about me that I started out being offended that Sam got to be human and Dean was a car?

I like my boys on an even playing field.

The Time Has Come to be Gone CM/SPN crossover. Not finished reading it, so no rec or anti-rec yet. However, they did get Dean's birthday wrong so far. Hmmph. Made him a Capricorn instead of an Aquarius.

The Hotch voice seems okay so far.

Dean and Cas are cars

That was ... cracky. Huh.

The CM story...not good. Clumsy Dean voice. They later actually call him an Aquarius, despite having given him my birthday, which is not. Clumsily betaed. Strange things with Canon--S4 CM with Reid on crutches after a DDR injury and a reference to Hotch having taken out Foyet with a lucky bullet? Hello? That's how you got him out of the S4 cliffhanger?

Very standard Dean in the box scenes, and Dean isn't as charming as he should be. Sam is 6'6", which seems a bit startling, and I'm trying to read about Henricksen at the same time I'm seeing Malik Whitfiled on Rizzoli & Isles. It's disconcerting. He'd forgive the boys!

Random beasties too.

Thanks for the nonrec and taking one for the team. I was about to try it and it's not my kind of story at all, clearly.