It's not just Vaseline on the lens, it's emotive.

Also, I find that the further euclase strays from straight photo refs into her own composition, the dodgier it gets. Proportions, etc, seem to be off. She's awesome at replicating, not so much at creating.

In that one of the weeChesters it doesn't bother me, but I like a little bit of atmosphere in the background.

My favorite is still the chick whose name I can never remember. LaLaLettie on Tumblr now. Oh, cafe de labeill! Or something like that.

I'm not complaining about petite madame, to be clear--it's a strength that euclase doesn't have.

I think cafe de labeill is mad talented, but it seems that she's divorced herself pretty clearly from the show and any characterisations or accurate resemblances. She appeals to me with her sweetness and shippiness, but it's so rare she does badass Dean or Sam or Cas, and I miss that.

Yes, I demand everything of everyone. Why not?

Yeah, I know, it's all sort of cartoony sweetness now. But I just love her style. The art nouveau stuff is gorgeous.

Who the fuck decides to make a niche out of SPN and Art Nouveau? Seriously, who has that idea? Yet--it's fucking amazing. The way she can go on and on with a fabric detailing blows my mind.

It's completely weird, but I love it. I guess it's the same thing, for me, as people who want to write, like, an AU of Hitchhiker's Guide and put Sam and Dean in it. Or, like, make them pirates or something.

I think you can do AUs or fusions with varying level of success. The current Hitchhiker's D/C fusion I'm reading has nothing to do with most of SPN. Good Gabriel, decent 2014!Cas, no relevance to our Dean or Sam (the paranoid cyborg???).

It's a really pretty fusion, but increasingly I feel it has nothing to do with the show I love, and that it's celebrating Jensen and Misha teenaged faces than anything else.

I know, I've been guilty of some definite schmoop in my time, but I think to think there's Dean and Cas in it, other than just my struggles for likeness.

She goes back to the show sometimes, but it's pretty clear she's found a happy place away from some of the messy parts of it.

I like AUs where the core of the characters is still intact. Like the mafia soup kitchen fic. Dean was still so Dean, and Cas was so believably Cas (and other and inscrutable), that the different surroundings didn't pull me out of it.

Yeah, that's the ticket.

Damn, I miss that fic. God, I loved it.

When people go AU so they can unimpeded tell the storybook romance of a Hunter and his Angel then all my moorings are lost.

Translating the Winchesters into a Mafia family was very entertainingly done, and Sam was amazing.

I have gotten a strange attraction to pornstar AUs, which very rarely have any grounding in anything, but at least you can get the foreplay and conversation out of the way quickly.

Still, if Dean loves his brother deeply (but, ah, not that deeply), I can apparently swallow a lot.

(I just finished reading this straightshooter.com one for the second time. I am actually ashamed.)

Link?

I prefer hustler!Dean, but usually younger, and therefore there's no Castiel, and it's usually all angst, no porn.

Which seems horrible, written out like that.