He WORKS with Jared. Jesus.

And their work days are like sixteen frickin' hours long! It's not like he's calling Daneel or his family up and telling them he'd rather hang out with a buddy.

Seriously--with two sentences I feel like the time I spend defending the balance of fandom goes up in a puff of smoke.

Because only a few people have to be that intensely stupid to make us all look bad.

No one has *any* idea what the backstory is anyway, and the frontstory? Really pedantically obvious.

624 notes, and I didn't see a single comment on it before I stepped away for my mental health.

I am transfixed by this story

Man, I skipped that story soley based on the slash for Sam and Lucifer. Extra glad I did.

Finished the AU where Dean is a demon who answers Priest!Castiel's prayer. Well-written, except for how there were so many illogical plot points and inconsistencies and how quickly Demon!Dean got fluffy. What burned the most (Dean's mission was to damn Castiel's soul) was how, after a handjob (in church, during a service) and mutual BJ's, Cas asks if his soul has been damned, and the answer is "not until actual penetration". Okay, so in this 'verse homosexuality is a damnable sin, but only if you go all the way? You're not really gay unless...? Therefore, being totally gay is worthy of damning your soul to hell?

Honestly, I think letting a demon give you a handjob during church is a lot worse than having a consensual loving interlude with the person you love (yes, omg, how fast they both fall into acknowledging that they love each other!).

So much WTF?.

Trade Show was a decent AU. Terribly short, fluffy, but a breath of fresh air after months of meh.

We need a game to play during this hiatus. Which I realize is only two weeks long now, but still.

We did the quote-off and favorite episodes. Hmmm.

Random questions:

* Which episode made you cry the hardest?

* What's one bit of canon that drives you crazy? (Example: Sam only being at Stanford for two years.)

* If there's an eighth season, where do you think it will, or should, go?

Crying the hardest would be a tie between two episodes whose titles I always garble, so let me do the research: What Is and What Should Never Be and Dark Side of the Moon (the specific wording of the first gets me, and I keep debating whose lyrics actually won out for the second).

I cried multiple times during WIAWSNB, and I startled myself with how hard I cried during the fireworks scene in DSOTM. Of course I've cried during others, but those were the hardest, and they keep working.

Bit of canon I hate the most...I'm willing to take an override on the Stanford thing because the writer admits he fucked up. And so much of Stanford is messed up--his timing with the law degree, everything. That's just a big bundle of did no research. So I let it go.

I think I'm going to have to ponder it.

As for season 8, I'm happy with S6 and 7, for all their differences. Give me a sort of big bad, but *please* give me mostly brotherly harmony and synchronisation. If they have earnt anything over the series, I think that should be it--peace and trust in each other, as they continue to drive each other crazy. Dean sitting on being shattered inside right now and Sam not having told Dean that Lucy's back and yelling--I want them to get past that sort of shit except in more minor situations.

They should keep driving each other up the wall, but I'd like them to take stuff upon themselves as a team more, and a little less as an individual.

I just realised I want a single page listing all the SPN eps, so I can always double-check proper titles, but it would be really great if it weren't just a list, but maybe had a synopsis (although I know that) and guest characters (which I also know) and a representative screenshot...

I do have the spreadsheet, but I mean something really readily to hand. Which means I will have an Evernote document of some comprehensibility or another complete by the end of the week.

Which means I will have an Evernote document of some comprehensibility or another complete by the end of the week.

Which you will then share, I hope?

Cried hardest: Strangely, it's a tossup between the one where Ellen and Jo die and Swan Song, although I do cry during others (Bobby's death, WIaWSNB, Heart).

I should think about my answers to the others.

Fireworks scene in "Dark Side of the Moon" is the one that makes me mist up.

Canon driving me crazy would be a toss up between (1) Dean being able to kill Zachariah, (2) what the hell the alternate reality in "The French Mistake" was supposed to be, since it doesn't really fit into the show's cosmology, (3) what happened to the heavenly weapons that Cas spent 2/3 of Season 6 looking for and which were apparently dangerous enough to make Raphael back down, and (4) what good half the monster souls from Purgatory would have done Crowley since he clearly can't use them to amp up his personal power like Cas did and he supposedly has 6 billion or so human souls subject to his org chart already.

I have a lot of unanswered questions (like how was the special kids thing supposed to fit in with the Righteous Man prophecy anyway), but I don't think they properly answer your question, Amy. Dean killing Zach fits right in, since it seems to flow from killing The Whore, but just never got explained in addition to his eyes having been open and shit.

Okay, so I can't work out what I want to do for my list. Write synopses? Make a bullet point list? A table? Motherfucker.

I mean, I could do this:

01x01: Pilot
Dean reappears in Sam's life after 2 (4) years and pulls him out of his Stanford life to track down their father who's suddenly gone missing. The trail leads them to a Woman in White preying on unfaithful men. Sam returns to Stanford, but his girlfriend Jessica is killed in a fire on the ceiling of their shared apartment the same way his mother died when he was 6 months old, and Dean rescues him from the flames. They go back on the road.
Monster: Woman In White
Location(s): Stanford, Jericho
Writer: Eric Kripke

But I'd be there forever. I dunno.

Thinking about it, I decided it's the little inconsistencies that bug me most. Stuff like Stanford, even though Kripke admitted he just wasn't thinking. But also stuff like Sam being surprised in the pilot that Dean was working solo cases, when we learn in The Kids Are All Right that Dean was off on his own while Sam and John were working a case.

The big things that bug are leaving Jesse the antichrist kid as a hanging thread, Dean killing the Whore and Zachariah, and the special kids thing.

I realize I have no idea what I want from an eighth season other than boys being boys, and a decent big bad.

But I'd be there forever. I dunno.

Well, you know, idle hands ...