Campbell hideout.

Ooh!

In the story I linked to above, Amy, she mislabelled pretty badly. In her summary she states that Cas must take Sam as a vessel, and Dean realises he's in love with Cas during this time. She's careful to state nothing sexual happens when Cas is in Sam's body, and that she had someone with a huge incest squick read the story and check (obviously she is a Wincester, so doesn't have the reflex in place). However, in the story, Samstiel dry humps Dean until he (Samstiel) comes, and then Dean kisses him. Sam is unconscious for all of that, but it goes directly against what she repeatedly assures you doesn't happen. Which, really, isn't fair to the people that can't handle it. I was squicked, but not enough to ruin the story (it's clear where Dean's head is at the time), but I can see where it could throw other people for a total loop.

The anon meme is throwing a shit fit, because many of them came upon the story before she added an "Oops a commenter thinks this is sexual" comment to the end of the warning, and apparently twitter, etc, is blowing up with people saying anon commenters are jealous piss pots, etc.

Fact is, she labelled wrong, and when she fixed it, she didn't mea culpa at all. For some reason, she doesn't see what happened as sexual. It's not a "don't like, don't read" situation--it's a "didn't know, did read" one.

How is that not sexual?! Come on. That's stupid, and also surprising. I didn't picture her as someone who would be clueless.

People talk about fic on Twitter? Why do I keep being surprised by the internets?

People write fics on Twitter it would seem, the loathed (by me) Twitfics.

I'm mildly getting into it by someone who's saying "don't like, don't read" and also don't hate on ships, but that's totally not what it was. At least not at the beginning. It might have mutated and become ad hominem by now, but if it has, I have to lay some blame at the feet of her defenders.

Amy, you've made me want exactly this with Dean and a trenchcoat. But I know if I start drawing it, someone will have done it better and faster.

People write fics on Twitter it would seem, the loathed (by me) Twitfics.

Why? What does it matter what the medium is? I've read some of cloudyjenn's twitfics, and they read like any of other stories--they just got published somewhere else first, and broken into a million pieces.

Because. So there.

But seriously, I am a horrible snob about short fics. It's awful. If it's a oneshot less than a thousand words, I can't bring myself to click. Sure, if I take the two minutes to read and don't like, no skin off my back, but if read and like, and that's all she wrote, then I'm just left yearning for more. It's odd that I'm more willing to spend time figuring out that a long fic is awful or meh. But, I'm not logical. Seriously, I pay attention to word count and get excited at 10,000 to 30,000 words.

Having once lost a whole night to a D/C story that was about half a million words long, I find it's better for my sanity to stick to shorter unless I know the author.

Because I CANNOT seem to click the back button or stop reading, no matter how bad the train wreck.

If it all fits on one screen, it's probably too short for me to be happy, but I'll probably read it anyway. But otherwise I'm not picky. I mean, if it's over 1000 words, I'm good to go.

Aha! The person I was arguing with about the obstrinatrix thing agrees the initial point was legit. Good. She's an obstrinatrix stan, so that takes some doing.

For me, 5,000 to 6,000 words is a perfect length. But I'll happily read anything around 1,000. To read longer fic, it has to be an author I really know and love, or something that seems excellent in the opening paragraphs.

The mini bangs were actually fun this year, though.