I think sometimes that fanfic writers learned to write by reading other badly spelled fic. It's "disdain" people! When you say "the distain or disgust he'd been afraid of", you do not mean "the to sully or disgust".

Working my way through the deancas_xmas exchange, not impressed so far.

ita, I don't know whether you saw, but she said she was thinking about putting the series together with some additional stuff into a book(let) sometime around the beginning of the new year. I think the very first one is still my fave. I'd love that one as a print to frame. So freakin' cute.

My sister grumpily acknowledged that she knows Misha's baby's name. There was a guest at the hotel we were staying at that had a baby that reminded me of him, so I rustled up the Hello Dali pic for her, and told her his name, and she stared at me flatly. She's so unamused by the whole SPN thing. It cracks me up.

I need to do a roundup of the deancas_xmas fics I like. I think it was stronger than secret angels, on average.

I'm coming into it way late (deancas_xmas) and am skipping all over the place. There was a cop AU that I really wanted to like, and I did, but I wanted it to be more. There was plot, but it still felt like PWP, even though the sex wasn't over-the-top.

I loved the cop AU, for instance. I liked the Cas especially, although I'm not fond of Cas having a twin.

I Disregard This Kind of Problem All The Time also struck me enough for me to bookmark it at the time.

one of the secret santas noted to their recipient that "they didn't understand why they were being paired together, since they had opposing squicks". Apparently, the author's squick was schmoop. Like, schmoop isn't my favorite thing, it equals PG PWP that feels even more non-canon than slash. I'll click on highermagic before I venture into schmoop, but I would never quantify it as a squick.

I wouldn't call it a squick but I can be pretty put off by some schmoop. Just because it feels so completely out of character to me. But same goes for a lot of stories. I just back button my way out as quickly as I can.

"Screw it, he thought, feeling his dark mood get even darker. Angrier. He’d never been one to get weepy and angsty; that was Sam’s job."

Uh, Sam's the angry one, and Dean's the one with the single perfect manly tears of pain. Of course, she later on goes on to describe Cas as an accountant, so she's not paying the most attention, but irritating.

Notably, Cas tastes like absolutely nothing in this fic.

Apparently, the author's squick was schmoop.

I can relate. I'll read torture stories or Wincest to the end if they're well-written, but as soon as a fic gives me the impression that its teenage author is drawing hearts around the character's names on her pink notebook it goes into the trash pile with all the RPF and pre-Castiel wingfic.

I'm still not dipping my toes in the Wincest even though I once swore Dean/Cas was all squick to me and now I can't get enough.