Absolutely, Dean's love for Lisa is nothing like his love for Sam, in intensity and history and all kinds of stuff. I appreciate that he genuinely liked and respected her (which doesn't always go hand in hand with love, and is just as important, to me), but I would be willing to say he was mostly *in love* with the idea of being in love, being in a relationship like that, since he never had been before, and hadn't really dared to want it since Cassie.

Peach pie:

I'm reading a Dean-gets-out-of-Purgatory fic now (which is killing me, by the way), and I have something to add to what I'd want to see wrt Dean is a BEARD. A real beard. Now, please.

OH MY GOD.

Tom Hardy has been revving me up for this moment for months, but if Cas and Dean have beards of Purgatory and Sam has a beard of too-distracted-looking-for-my-brother, I could die happy.

I'm surprised how many fics I've seen so far where Cas leaves Dean in Purgatory. I can see him being separated from Dean there in many scenarios, but if Leviathan can't leave Purgatory without help, and angels are less powerful, nevermind the overweening personal responsibility...it just doesn't make sense as a choice.

The Dean gets out of Purgatory fic I mentioned above. It's gen, it's not too long, it is a little graphic horror imagery-wise, and there's a character death ita won't like. But it's so good! BOYS.

I just looked to see who bought it, and please put major character death. But possibly I skimmed it wrong. My brain is swiss cheese right now. I think finding Wolfpack took too much out of me.

Did I read here that Show has 23 eps next season 2? So nice to net have back half worries or anything, I can't believe they're making vague 9? 9? noises. Fuck me, spank me, tie me up for Supernatural bukkake. We don't need to safe word.

Season Nine?!?! This is so surreal. I remember being grateful for season two.

Misha's bing commercial during SHOW had me grinning so ridiculously. He's just so cute and sweet and charming and cute.

Beards!! THIS.

Misha's commercial was great (and he was adorable). And then Ian Somerhaulder? had his, and wow, the contrast was amazing. At the end of Misha's, I wanted to get out and volunteer somewhere. At the end of Ian's, I thought he maybe wanted me to drool over him and watch TVD because for two seconds at the beginning of the commercial he might have been doing something altruistic.

Based on what I've seen of the two out of character, that probably maps pretty closely to their intent. Somerhalder long ago convinced me he's a self-absorbed douchebag.

Which doesn't inherently make the amount he loves her low, as much as ridic OTT Sam-love. And if she's not totally okay with that, they can't be okay, and it's another way in which he can't be himself.

I don't think the Sam-love is even necessarily over the top if you view it from the perspective that Dean was, in practice, one of Sam's parents and the primary caregiver for much of his life at that. Overprotective focus that seems beyond the pale from a brother is far more understandable from a surrogate mom.

But he is his brother. Him having been surrogate mom to Sam is where the OTT started, and it never stopped.

As for Ian Somerhalder, he's apparently extremely nice in real life. Cat-rescuing sweetheart and all that. Pretty much only seen good things about him, and not just from TVD fangirls or anything.