ita, that maybe came across as pushy, and admittedly perhaps inspired a creepy desire to hunt down your mailing address and mail you a copy of the book. Just ignore me.

Ring of salt - barrier to demons and ghosts.

The very best of fanfic can transcend unfamiliarity with the source material. (Yahtzee's "Goodnight Moon" remains the most moving crossover story I've read despite my knowing nothing about Joan of Arcadia that couldn't be gleaned from the promos back when it was airing and holding The Day After Tomorrow in bemused contempt.) If it's really good, it should stand on its own merit without requiring background homework.

"Goodnight Moon" broke me in all the best ways, and my familiarity with the source material was on a par with Matt's.

Popping in here to rec all the stars I've loved. It's a very short (probably less than 1,000 words) but very evocative story about the legends that might spring up in the decades after the apocalypse.

The first crossroads demon was definitely my favorite.

Um, I'm sure everyone was dying to know that.

The last crossroads demon is my favourite. The first is my second favourite.

Julie, I'll add the movie to my Netflix queue. I'm in the middle of two books and innumerable fics, so the book itself will have to wait. But then I'll try the fic out.

Anne, I loved that story. The sort that makes me sad, but in a good way.

By last, do you mean "king of" or the guy Sam talked to? Because I forgot about him, darn it.

King of. He is the last demon we saw closing a deal at the crossroads, so I thought I'd count him.

Are you guys weird? Or do I just think you're weird?

I read these first time slash fics where the guy is "This is what it's like to be penetrated and possessed and just owned by another person!"

And I'm just thinking "What? When did all those terms become equivalent?"

I realise I feel sure that most people I know don't think that way, but I could just be projecting. Is that how you're supposed to feel, according to the "natural" way of things?

Wait, why are we weird?

I don't think "being penetrated" and "being possessed" mean anywhere near the same thing.

Wait, why are we weird?

Because I've been assuming you agree with me, but it seems to come up decently commonly in fic (along with the "I only read bottom!Dean because Dean would never top because he's not that sort of a person"--WTF???). And I feel isolated in that opinion right now.

I can see that for a guy, being penetrated would be like giving something up, but because it's a boundary that's being crossed, not something inherent in the act.

It really makes me mad, actually.

And now I wonder if men are running around thinking they have conquering peen, and no one told me about it.