If Sam had died or taken off or whatever, the suicidal impulse might have risen its head a little more boldly.

Eh, Dean was messed up but still able to go on despite honestly believing his brother was rotting in the lowest depths of Hell as Lucifer & Michael's chewtoy. I think Veritas would have had to content herself with the do-it-yourself approach to meal preparation in his case.

I think also, with Dean and even Sam, nobody really knows them. They're not stationary enough to develop a broad spectrum of aquaintances and "I know your face if not your name" people who are familiar with them, even in the vaguest of ways. So unless Dean went out of his way to call the other two or five people still alive that he knows, it's only strangers vomiting truth about themselves, and that's only depressing for them. And Bobby's truth-binge was actually fairly innocuous, so maybe the curse gets diluted over the phone?

maybe the curse gets diluted over the phone?

Didn't seem dilute with Lisa.

But where Bobby said "why am I telling you this?", Lisa said "that came out more harshly than I meant," or something to that effect. She didn't tell him a truth she wasn't willing to tell, she just did it a little more bluntly.

Wait, there's going to be a Gabriel big bang? I hope it gets gatecrashed with Wincest and D/C /is petty.

I figure Lisa wouldn't necessarily have said all the stuff about Sam, had she not been enspelled. She might also have tried some sort of compromise.

I feel I should back off wishing stuff on the Gabriel big bang, but FOUR EPISODES. I don't get it, I really don't. People are barely bothering to resurrect him in the fic I'm bumping into these days--he's just there.

I know, I know, fic I don't read is no skin off my nose. But where's the Harvelle big bang?

But where's the Harvelle big bang?

Darn good question. Heck, a BB with stories that primarily focused on SPN secondary characters (e.g. anyone not Sam, Dean, Castiel, or Bobby) would be fascinating.

It would probably go over as well as the proverbial lead balloon, but it could still generate some interesting fic.

(ita, I don't know if you've read it or not, but I did write a BB-length Ellen backstory a while back.) t / self-pimping

If Ann hadn't self-pimped, I would have pimped, because her story is awesome.

That's on my to-read list, now, Anne.

I think they should have an outsider POV...well, okay, minibang. I wish people didn't hate OCs as much as they seem to.

Isn't there a het-bigbang? Perhaps that will be Harvelle-icious.