Wow. Misha is a marvel. The smile on his face when he finishes is astonishing. If I weren't wheeled off on a gurney, I'd be dead.

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ETA: Jim Beaver's tweets on the topic have been hilarious.

::sigh:: Misha. How so rad?

I have an exchange program going on. The Wire for Supernatural. Watched episodes 3 and 4 of the Wire and 1-5 of Supernatural with bon bon. Interesting exchange of media. I'm totally impressed by The Wire, and I think she definitely likes the boys.

Though I think I'm bad to watch with, because I keep want to tell her stuff, but not spoil her. It's a fine line. I told her Dean dies more than a hundred times. I figured that mixed things up a bit.

Jim tweeted that Misha raised upwards of $90k.

jumblejim's threats of assassination and impending poverty were hilarious.

I kinda wish that there was actually someone lying in wait at the 80k mark with a super-soaker.

hamburger helper (what?)

I usually avoid mpreg fics like the plague, but it being scaramouche ("will you do the fandango?" --every single time I read that name!) and the description and author's notes were so intriguing that I gave it a shot, and I'm glad I did. Really interesting dynamics between Dean and Castiel, fascinating post-apocalyptic world, the interspersing of the flashbacks to eps we've seen with a different perspective and spin were brilliant. And the part I feared the most, the mpreg, was handled as delicately and non-crackily as I think is possible for the trope.

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I'm a big scaramouche fan, but I just can't get into that story. I don't know precisely what it is about mpreg…I find the premise enitrely baffling. I've clicked back into that a few times, and backed out pretty hastily each time.

I will say this for the mpreg, it's not physical. The soul is found in Cas' wings and he shapes the body like is done in Named. And it's told about as briefly as that.

Wow j- more than 90K? That is amazing.

Meanwhile - Amazon sent me a message that due to a change in release date I'm not getting my dvds 'til Thursday. What do you think: due to Labor Day?

That's weird, sumi -- I've been seeing ads on TNT saying they were coming out tomorrow. Unless I've got my dates wrong.

I read one mpreg by an author I loved, and it was about so much more than the actual pregnancy. Or, it was about the pregnancy, but it was about what it was like for a man to suddenly be labeled a "breeder," and the lack of agency over his body, as well as the relationship. It was amazing, because the author is, but it was also Wincest, so.

Just ... whenever I thought too hard about where the baby was growing, or going to emerge, I got seriously squicked. So I didn't, much. And she pretty much glossed over that part, too.

Yeah, there's no physical impregnation, or gestation. And the story's not about the being pregnant. And those three words are so misleading about what actually happened. But the kid and his origins are crucial to the story -and by origins I mean who his parents are, not how he grew out of Cas' left nostril. The connection between Dean and Cas, and the reason Cas stays gone.

I wonder if the same story could have been told if, say, Cas disappeared with Ben, or a baby born of Anna. Or if Cas had fathered a kid with a human woman. I think maybe the story could still stand if it was the latter, and Dean's connection to the kid just being that it's Cas' kid.