"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.

I'm generally against the Wincest, but there is a wonderful one called "The Incestuous Courtship of the AntiChrist's Bride" where Sam accidentally designates Dean as his consort because he's asked who he's closest to in the world.

Ack! Gateway-cest! And so sad after I just re-watched the one where they go to heaven and find out all of Sam's happy memories are Dean-less.

The one shallot roped me in with was "Under Hill." I still tend to pass over the tag in favor of Gen or Dean/Cas, but I'll occasionally look at one now if I see a rec that sounds interesting.

I've read a fair amount of schmoop, because people seem to be CRAZY. I don't back button out until Dean does something like pledge to be chaste out of love, or something. I don't get the schmoop urges, and curtainfic doesn't satisfy me at all.

My incest squick has proven pretty inviolate, although I'm down with All About Dean Dark Sassy. No dirty touching between the boys. I just can't go there.

They can be everything else in the world to each other--they should be. But I don't get crossing that physical line without compulsion, and under compulsion I can't imagine it being satisfying for me.

Hat pattern named for Cas.

And so sad after I just re-watched the one where they go to heaven and find out all of Sam's happy memories are Dean-less.

That episode doesn't make me sad any longer, it only irritates me since I have firmly planted myself in the "Zachariah manipulated everything that happened there" camp. Zachariah made the guys see what he wanted them to see in order to evoke the responses he wanted, and it worked. I'm sure those particular episodes were happy ones for Sam, but I really doubt they were Sam's happiest memories ever. And I really, truly, sincerely doubt that what we saw were Dean's happiest memories (really, seeing his Mommy arguing with his Daddy -- for a little boy that would by scary or sad). Surely some other Mary-related moment would come in higher. Or maybe the first time he got to drive, or being handed the keys to the Impala, or killing his first evil thing, or saving someone for the first time... The scene where Zachariah was fondling Mary was enough of a clue for me that he was directing everything that they were seeing there.

My gateway to wincest was the falling-down funny Bad Blood. Also astolat, and a rec from Matt.