I'm noticing a trend of people just throwing their fic out there unbeta'd, and they know it, and it feels so lazy, and yet even the ones that say they are are rife with typos, formatting errors, and wonky canon and mythology. Even that DA crossover had demons being killed with iron.

I have a temptation to email authors with corrections, and if I like the fic, sometimes I do. The New Orleans error just struck me as so sad, because it was such an earnest mistake, but so wrong!

And another author I liked misspelled Demian in a bunch of her fics, and I told her the error, but last time I looked? Still Damien. I don't get it.

I hate those mistakes, too. The boys never knew vampires were real until late in S1, and they had never faced a wendigo preseries, either.

Oh, that Dean/Bobby story where the author kept calling Bobby's wife Gloria! It's Karen. It's right there in the SuperWiki. Look. It. Up.

I'm sad at all the good fic I don't have time to read right now.

I'm also sad that I'm only catching up in here after conversations have shifted.

I did sneak in thunderhappens D/C big bang. It was great. I was disconcerted by Sam's absence until I figured out where in the S5 timeline the story took place. There were small details that really pleased me, like a popped collar being protection from potential vampires or other baddies.

Amy, I think you misunderstood an earlier comment of mine. It was my poor word choice, but I have not read and would like to read the story you spoke of that was so good but not appropriate for ita.

Oh, I'm sorry, ehab! I thought you said you'd read it. It's In Your Reflected Light, He Glows by runedgirl. So good.

Thanks for the link. I re-read my response and absolutely understood how it happened. Tricky words with multiple meanings and tenses.

Well, my reading comprehension isn't what it used to be either, believe me. I chalk it up to age, distraction, drugs, and being in the middle of moving right now.

I did sneak in thunderhappens D/C big bang

Which one was that? I'm trying to work out why I didn't read it. There was one by thunder_nari, but that was AU (the Novacest, IIRC).

I find myself drawn back to scaramouche's fic. I read it again last night. I'm in love with her Dean and her Cas. Especially her Cas, but her Dean was so...so...I love him. BOYS.

Why is Dean always an athlete in HS AUs, and Sam isn't? Yet canon Sam was a HS athlete. Not that I didn't love scaramouche's Sam (he was totally going to be in the GSA), but still. They could mix that up a bit.

Why is Dean always an athlete in HS AUs, and Sam isn't?

Because he's younger? The image in my head is from After School Special, so I see Sam becoming an athlete later, when *he's* a junior or senior and, you know, taller.

I almost loved Cas more in that fic, ita. He was so exactly based on where the writers took Cas, emotionally and psychologically in The End. And because it was his POV, there was simply much *more* of him, too.

Dean ... didn't feel as recognizable to me until about halfway through. But then I adored him.

when *he's* a junior or senior and, you know, taller.

But the trophy they find in Bad Day At Black Rock was from when he was 12. He was athletic from way back.

there was simply much *more* of him, too.

Yeah, he so needed a hug. And a shake. And sexing. Lots.

Dean didn't come into himself until halfway through, but that made sense too. And when he started to break through, he was so cute!

Okay, I need to stop wanting to have babies with that AU. I'm embarrassing myself.