I think he's simply that much older and more comfortable with this gig (and the fandom attached). He found a great friend, he fell in love and got married -- he's not a kid anymore. I don't think it's any more complicated than that, really.

I'm glad he figured out how to have fun with it.

I keep thinking that when you level up you can choose to increase your charisma but then I remember this isn't the gaming thread.

The dogs got to me too. And I love dogs. I'm rarely scared of them, even some times when maybe I should be. So seeing the fear in My Hero's eyes makes my heart hurt .

I am disproportionately irritated by art like this. Sentiment aside, how is that Gabriel? How is that his face? Height? Hair colour? What about that makes him Gabriel other than what you wrote?

Not that that other guy looks much like Cas.

But he passably looks like art fanon Cas, and is wearing something remotely resembling a beige trenchcoat.

Gabriel? Some tall, dark brown-haired blue-eyed guy? Richard Speight what?

It looks like Sam, not Gabriel.

Much more plausible. Not *good*, but plausible.

I hate when art doesn't do the height thing right. It's so much easier than the rest, in situations like that. I'm still bitching about euclase's otherwise brilliant Sam/Gabe. Too close!

And then the people with the size kink go in the opposite direction, and Gabe is like 5'5. Ah, well..

Artmetica has drawn again. D/C in the style of Phantom of the Opera. Sweet emotive piece, but not one of my favourites of hers. I'm still riding the high of her last stuff.

OMG, there was a dirty filthy RPS piece (I tend to look at all the art, even if the topic skeeves me, it seems. Just as long as there are no kids, scat, waterplay, or more edgy stuff) I need to link to (eta: by dephigravity) J2, playing with a toy. Man, she got the push and pull in that down well.

Daggomus prime has crossed to the dark side and done Wincest. Not linking because it wasn't that good. Practice, practice.

Petite madame has crossed to the other dark side and done more D/C. Not linking because it wasn't that good. Certainly not as good as her first one--fuck, her first two were smoking.

Aw, the Phantom one is sweet. Cas looks great there.

And the other is ... mrph.

(I tend to look at all the art, even if the topic skeeves me, it seems. Just as long as there are no kids, scat, waterplay, or more edgy stuff)

I've never even seen anything like that mentioned! Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, which is FINE with me. I think the most shocking, for me, have been manips, and some of them are completely the MY EYES MY EYES kind of thing.

wow that Phantom piece is gorgeous.

And the other is ... mrph.

Ain't it, though? I make that into two random guys, and SCORCHER.

Maybe I'm not looking in the right places, which is FINE with me. I think the most shocking, for me, have been manips

I haven't been into the kink art meme recently, but it did produce the one above, so obviously it's creating some fine work. I wonder if I have the balls to do more porn than I have. I realise I've only drawn Ruby's boobies. And that rhymes.

As for the manips. I've mentioned mythagowoods before. He's kind of a rite of passage--you really should go look at [link] but don't say you weren't warned. NSFW, NSFLife. The man has an overwhelming anus and colon fetish and he's a really talented manipper. He loves him some Sam, insides on the outsides.

I hate porny manips. It feels like puppeteering the actors, not the characters. So badly done, they're bad. Well done, they're invasive. Ick. DNW.

Prefer porny drawings. But even then, if they're too good or somehow something, they make me uneasy. My last one kinda weirded me out, and it was mostly clothed.

Leyla_lovely does some pretty raunchy stuff these days, Wincest mostly. Petite madame, as smallworld_inc, has some raunchier stuff, but all I remember properly is an uninflated dick. It was a great pic, though. She does Wincest mostly too. I can't think of anyone that does explicit D/C, for all the action we have on this ship.