If all demons could just disappear, why do they smoke out then? See: Lilith when Sam was about to kill her, Azazel in John's body in the cabin, etc. In other words, if he can disappear and take the vessel with him, how come others can't?

I know it's not really productive to wonder, because there's probably zero logic or conscious thought behind it, but I always want things tied up neatly. Or neater, at least.

All the crossroads demons we've seen apparate, don't they? Or have we been assuming they travel back and forth to the crossroads, or are possessing someone nearby?

At least the first one we see, the one Dean traps in Crossroad Blues, smokes out and leaves the vessel there, completely confused about where she is.

But they all just show up, don't they? Is the assumption that they got there some way other than appearing when summoned? Or are you thinking it's the summoning that is making them travel?

And when they're not trapped, they just seem to not be there anymore, at least as far as I can think of.

I always had the impression that they possessed someone near the crossroads they were summoned to, but I don't know if the show actually supports that.

It would be a big gamble to have a set up that depended on someone wearing black to be within a couple minutes of every possible crossroad where someone might want to deal. I can see a few holes in that plan.

And isn't there an implication with the S7 crossroads deal episode that it's the same body that showed up each time? I admit up front that that's just an impression that I have not fact checked.

I'm gonna watch Crossroads Blues just because. And I might rewatch In My Time Of Dying, because I just argued for its omission as a top ten cliffhanger resolution. I feel like such a traitor. But the cliffhanger itself was unremarkable, even though Devil's Trap and IMTOD are both stellar episodes. I just don't think it makes it onto a resolution list for that reason. T-boned by an unexpected semi? Who hasn't that happened to?

This story isn't great D/C: [link] but it does have some interesting Robo!Dean. In fact, I think she writes him better that way. She is one that tends to the schmoop. But I haven't read much fic in which Dean loses his soul, set after the start of S6.

You ever read a fic and go "Huh. No confusion of narrative points of view. So they didn't make ever mistake."

Like, if I were doing an exercise to hit the top ten fic flaws, it might look something like whatever I just read. Punctuation, grammar, spelling, repetition, vocabulary errors..it was like a checklist of nos.

But the pov is solidly in Dean's head the whole time. So there's that.

I can't read fic that bad anymore. It just hurts.

I've I can see to the end of the story and I made the mistake of starting it, I usually finish it anyway, unless it messes with any of my bigger moral stances.

But, oh god, the heart does sing every time one's put together artfully. I know it's subjective and SPN is blessed with not just volume but talent, but good god--where the good writers at? Is it too much to expect at least one really well story a day...in my pairing?

Never mind. I can hear myself.