At least I get the impression that Vicki is well-versed in dealing with Crazy...

I don't think her day to day crazy has anything on fangirls.

Cafe de labeill tends to spend most of her time schmooping the hell out of Dean and Cas. And she's good on it, even though the characters have little to do with what we see on the show, and most often aren't above the age of puberty. And sometimes she does this. As much as I like her chibis, I do wish she'd play in the grownup ball pit more often.

And daggomus prime has gone and drawn the pose I was going to use for my next D/C. So that's off the table. Curse her and her crazy talent.

eta: I love this photo. It gives me feelings. They are so pretty, and I love the muted palette. It's totally going into my reference file.

eta²: (I'm just going to keep editing this post--sorry if you already read it) Euclase Sam+Gabriel. She misses out on a key component of the pairing. Size kink.

I wish ... cafe de labeill had an easier name to spell. And I love it when she does stuff like that, because it's naughty. And fun.

That photo is incredible. It's clearly Jensen and Jared to me, not Sam and Dean. The lighting is really gorgeous.

She misses out on a key component of the pairing. Size kink.

Even Sam can't slouch that much. His head still needs to be way above Gabriel's. Lovely work, though.

His head still needs to be way above Gabriel's

And his legs should be going on forever.

However, his feet are massive. That's kinda weird.

Still, I should be so lucky to have that be my biggest problem.

Aargh! Why can't I remember everything in one go:

• Is Jimmy dead? Show your working.

A: Yes. Because bringing him back twice is cruel even for the God we've come to know and love. Also, it's easier to think of a slumped over vessel in cold storage than Jimmy waking up every time Castiel goes topside and trying to make his way either on his own or back to Amelia.

I would love, though, a fic where Cas leaves Jimmy behind with Sam and Dean every time he unvessels, and Jimmy understands it's stupid to try going back to Pontiac. Bonus points if Dean and Cas are in a relationship, for all the awkwardness that would incur. Maybe it's a chaste relationship, because of vessel rape issues.

It seems to me that if Jimmy hadn't been killed for good at the end of Season 4, we'd have seen some reference to his continued presence either in "The End" or toward the end of Season 5 when Castiel had fallen so far as to be mostly human.

My interpretation is that Castiel was granted an Anna-like dispensation along with his first resurrection, allowing him to manifest a familiar physical form without the need for a living vessel to squeeze himself into. So there wouldn't be an empty body lying around anywhere when he's on other planes of existence; he just creates it around himself as needed when appearing on earth.

we'd have seen some reference to his continued presence either in "The End" or toward the end of Season 5 when Castiel had fallen so far as to be mostly human

So the vessel craving in MBV doesn't count? Personally, I'm willing to chalk it up to muscle memory equivalent, but I've seen people cite it as evidence.

I'm willing to chalk it up to muscle memory equivalent

That's sort of what I thought. Also, I think his resurrection in Stull was a hard reset. If there was anything left of Jimmy before that, I don't think there is now.

I'm unsure what to think about the vessel when he's not using it, though.

Castiel didn't seem to be talking about the meat craving as an aspect of a still-present personality other than his own. If Jimmy were still rattling around in there I'd have thought he would make some reference to his failing powers resulting in less-than-total control of the shared body if that were the case.