I'm fully on the train that they're the most important people in each other's lives, and even that it might break them for meaningful relationships with other people (cf canon).

When I imagine them way in the future, post-series, I like to think of them training other hunters. That's usually as far as I go without subsiding into really gooey schmoop.

Although I did once fiddle with story in which they had bought a Christmas tree farm (an injury to Dean's leg prevented further hunting), and Sam was writing successful novels a la Stephen King, and they were raising the orphaned daughter of a vampire victim. See what I mean?

DON'T INJURE DEAN.

Why do people keep injuring Dean?

Seriously. I can't remember one story with Sam with a permanent injury that impairs him hunting, and tons of ones where Dean gets fucked up.

Christmas tree farm is delightfully random. I like it.

In my head he doesn't stop hunting unless he's forced to, and I think that might be why he gets injured so often in fic. Sorry?

Before S6 started, I was working on a post-Swan Song story where Sam came back from hell blind, though! Um, whoo?

I guess Sam gets a wife and kid and/or goes back to school fairly often, but you have to cripple Dean to keep him down. Yet? He got a woman and a kid and stopped hunting for a year.

Still, it squicks me. There's one chick, roque_clasique, who has a veritable fetish for it. Her smoking!Dean fetish? I totally get, though. I kinda wish they'd kept that from the original pilot.

If you want to put Cas in perspective.

fanon love: Jimmy. I don't know if this really counts.

He's so rich in fiction, and I feel his absence in canon. He's so fucking tragic in fanon. I love it when fic takes the time to show him back in his old life After. I love it when he shares his vessel with Cas and they argue. I love it when fanon acknowledges that he died and Doesn't That Suck?

But after humanizing him in The Rapture, in the rest of canon Jimmy is just a meatsuit to be forgotten. And I don't know if I would have reached that point of bitterness without fic pointing out the rife potential. Jimmy is lumped callously with all the other meatsuits ridden by demons, killed and dismissed with nary an eyelash batted or a speck of remorse for the human life lost.

so there's this picture on tumblr that's technically spoilery, but then again not really. so i know it probably doesn't belong here. should i post it in spoilers lite?

It's in Spoilers already, tiggy, if it's the one I think. It reveals the premise of the episode, and I didn't know if that was too much for lite.

Whitefont discussion of it there should be okay. It counts as "article."

ahhh...i don't go to Spoilers. i can handle the Lite, but not the whole shebang!

I'm rewatching Caged Heat. I like the division between Dean and Cas. Cas evidently believes that Robo!Sam is Sam, and that bringing the soul back will just add pain. Dean doesn't think that's Sam, and bringing the soul back will bring Sam back.

I'm surprised that little time has been spent talking about easing the suffering of the soul in the Cage. If Cas had suggested, for instance, freeing it to Heaven, or something. Because it seemed to be either reinstate it, or leave it to the hatebang.