Spectrum makes her WAY less likely to not follow the rules/instructions set out for online use. WAY less likely.

She's going to need to have it at some point (not Twitter, but social networking in general, and SHIT, I owe someone links for her teenager on the spectrum to read, and I suck and should do that), and before puberty with controls and guidelines is far better than later and on her own.

That may be true, but for me it's still a safety issue. I love Misha's pictures of West, too, but if I were him I wouldn't put them on the internet publicly.

Think about Rebecca Schaefer. She was hardly an A-level, worldwide celebrity, and she was murdered. All it takes is one psycho stalker fan.

Spectrum makes her WAY less likely to not follow the rules/instructions set out for online use. WAY less likely.

Have you read his feed? She's already broadly and publicly flouted his rules and regulations, and been pretty shameless about the whole thing. It started off out of control, and hasn't really stopped being a mild trainwreck since.

I think West is young enough that Misha's not sharing a person, not someone who is responding to this, and who can be used to get to him. He's just a cutesy pie anecdote for now.

Good god, why am I uo?

I agree. She's 10, an only child, motherless, and on the spectrum. Any two of the four of these characteristics is enough to bring out the naughty. I'm just breezing past Jim's tweets and praying people are being kind to her.

So the boys use iron to dispel ghosts a lot. What sort of iron do they carry around with them? I mean, sure Dean's got a crowbar, but do they take that inside on hunts? Chains? Pokers? How do they arm themselves ferrously? My plot bunny needs to know.

Iron filings in shot shells, iron-bladed knives, even something as simple as iron nails in your pockets, or tied by a cord as a temporary amulet kind of thing, bound to a fetish or a poppet. You can line the hem of a vest or jacket with iron filings, as well. Stealth-iron isn't hard to do.

Weapons are harder--iron's heavy, so lugging an iron-blade broadsword, not so handy. But yeah, prybars, tire irons, fireplace pokers, even shovels, all easy enough to do.

I vaguely remember (perhaps wrongly) from a C.J. Cherryh story where the steel weapons that were forged from iron were enough to hurt and wound and maybe even kill the fae.

Hey, I had a dream that I was in a Supernatural episode where somehow there was a flashback (ghosts. . maybe?) where we saw Giles' (I don't know why he was there - but wouldn't it ROCK?) - great, great whatever grandfather who was in an early 19th century British military uniform of some sort.

I don't think iron provides protection unless it's a sealed room, but it would be pretty easy to have all sorts of small iron implements one could use to temporarily dispel a ghost. A good old-fashioned iron wrench in someone's pocket wouldn't raise any eyebrows.

What's buckshot made of?