Wandersfound has always almost hit my buttons, but keeps falling short. Some of my kinks get a glancing blow, and then the follow-through or the actualization of them is so lacking. I actually rewrote her last multichapter fic in my head to better suit my needs, because it was almost there. This is one BB that didn't end up in my inbox for mysterious reasons.

I'm not sure how much leeway you have in the review, Cass. I seem to recall starting mine, but I don't remember if I finished it.

Sam, the sheriff of Hell, really?

She tried to play nice about it, but I was pouty anyway. I don't want any Hell in my Sammy, thanks.

My sister has been ragging on me to read and review Inception fic for her. I finally explained to her that my pairing was having a big bang, plus the volume of fic that appeared on the general SPN newsletter daily, and she was agog. And then I was agog, because I really read too much of this stuff. But even as I bitch, the quality of the stuff that is good is much better than what she'd settled for in her previous fandom (Brokeback Mountain). She's been impressed with the SPN stuff I've passed onto her.

I'm not actually seeing any apparent highschool fic in the DCBB. Maybe it was swingset or the newsletter?

Maybe it was the Secret Angels exchange.

I find myself just hoping that Scaramouche will write a sequel to her HS AU.

Seriously, Matt.

She said she didn't have enough for a sequel, but that she might do a first date timestamp. Want. Badly.

I'm not sure how much leeway you have in the review, Cass. I seem to recall starting mine, but I don't remember if I finished it.

I finally went over and looked at the actual form. There is a spot for content comments and one for service comments. Oh, I filled that form out and submitted it, yes, I did.

Oh, and What The Hell Am I Doing was ultimately anti-climactic. Way to get me worked up and wanting BDSM and, oh, a casefile resolution, and providing neither.

What bothers me in a lot of D/C fic is, just as the hot and heavy is about to start, we get thrown a "Dean has been suppressing this emotion/feeling" or a "the last time they tried this it didn't work out" (mostly the former) when for several thousand words I've been reading in the context of canon until told differently. You can do a lot of "show" and suddenly whip out the "Dean has always felt this way but didn't know it", but to not do that and then "tell" --it just doesn't work, narratively. And the worse affront is to suddenly whip out a previous encounter two sentences before the necessity for an NC-17 rating. Like, shouldn't I know this shit as your telling me all the other things Dean is feeling for and about Cas? Like the context that there was this whole other aborted initiative?

All that ranted, the first sexual encounter (please let there be more?!) in Destiny of a Hunter was hot. A bit different from the pack, which is always nice.