A lot of the problem I have with much of the gen I've read is that the monsters are stupid and the relationship between the brothers doesn't match the time period the fic is set in. I started reading K Hanna Korossy ferociously, for instance, but her boys never evolve. It was wack.

I just can't do Big Bangs unless I love them desperately because I can't read too much at once online. I did read one 120K story (not SPN) over two days, though, because it was so compelling.

I love long meaty stories, and want to read the BB that was mentioned here, but alas no time.

I am coming back sometime this weekend, probably Sat. morning and rereading the thread for the recs.

This is not the story for this crowd. With one major change--Sam's childhood is marred by renal failure. He needs a kidney, Dean donates--it's fairly canon compliant. Major character death, which I never read, but for some reason I did, and the payoff was pretty awesome. It's gen.

It affected me about as deeply as Ten Thousand Miles another gen story from Big Bang 2009, one that left me devastated, and distracted for days.

Um. I seem to be infected with bleak today. Sorry for shedding all over thread. Waiter! More glitter and unicorns!

That's the story I was complaining about. I just...I like more variety in my stories. I hated the narrowness of the characterisation. John was a douche, Dean was too good to be true, and Sam...well, I don't know how it ended, because I got tired of the unremitting bleakness, and decided I didn't even want him to be happy in the end, because the circumstances were still so dire.

And Bobby was barely there, and the Castiel characterisation was confusing and vague.

I liked that Castiel was confined to an ancillary role, and the story focused on the filial relationship. Yes, it was over-focused. So am I. I guess I relate that way.

I knew it was the wrong story for the room.

I wanted a story focussed on the boys. Those weren't my boys. It's hard to find a good non-Wincest story about thier devotion to each other that shows their ups and downs.

But...I love Dean. That wasn't Dean. He wasn't layered or funny or nuanced. He was Beth from Little Women, with a layer of super hero thrown on.

I love Sam. But I hated who he was at the start of the story, for no good narrative reason, as far as I could tell. Why was he such a whiner?

And the John was so unforgivable. Prick!John can make a story easily unredeemable for me.

The story didn't have to focus on Castiel. It just had to make his existence and relationship to Dean make sense and jibe with canon. It didn't. Bobby came closer, but it still wasn't great.

Here's a ridiculous question borne out of procrastination and this morning's "do not want": I'm watching the pilot and the house just went up in flames. When they show the firefighters putting it out, are those extras/bit actors? Or do they just get the local firehouse to come out? They were actually using the hoses and everything; are actors trained to do that for a minute of film?

Amy, they may cast for actors that already know that, maybe, like they'd cast for actors that can speak French or tap.

Supernatural: Anime trailer. I figured it's okay to link to since it has nothing plotty in it, but we need to decide what the spoiler rules around the anime will be. Come January 2011, anyway. Will it ever be whitefontable here? Is all the printed stuff off-limits?

Perhaps stuntmen?