My interpretation was that Bobby knew a healer, and Sam hadn't needed one until then. That was a quantum shift in his affliction, and you don't necessarily get the Mayo clinic involved until you think it's really cancer.

My god, I'm really crap at watching Supernatural. I'm re-watching Defending Your Life, and I don't remember having seen the weird intermediate bit where they show a chemistry lab and mixing up the Sodiam Borate Power Clean and then the boys spritzing Leviathans. It's not in the episode, like, in its narrative. They show it after the ads, but before a title card, right in the final act.

Oh, and thank you Show--for not getting Dean past his guilt. I love how Sam stands up and satisfies the fandom trope of lawyering, and smoothly and plausibly walks Dean through the logic of his innocence and it doesn't matter. Dean will honestly forgive Jo for killing him, but he won't absolve himself of shit. That fic I was reading this morning wasn't a fangirl woobifying his guilt issues--he considers manning up to be admitting he's 90% not just unworthy, but "crap".

And, at the same time, they get Sam past a lot of his issues. They don't fix his shit, but they change him reasonably plausibly. Like, Dean comes back from Hell more guilty, and Sam comes back damaged but manages to process it. Even his "everything I did without a soul is my fault..." seems to be worked through well enough. So the growing up he did in season 5 is not wasted, but built upon.

Dean, on the other hand? Still kerfucked.

I wonder if the writers ever filled in the bits before the roadside beer-chugging and chinwagging. Do they ever segue conversationally to pulling over, drinking, and caring and sharing?

And the bits where they milked Jo's death--worked for me, even in repeat. I know it drove a fair amount of people away from the show, but I still think it was well done and noble. And sad as all holy fuck.

Also, Jensen is very pretty, and that Jared guy isn't doing badly for himself at all.

I finally got around to reading the soulless!Dean fic, and was weirded out for a couple of minutes as I realized I'd read the fic before. But my browser must have mid-read, because beyond part of the first chapter, I don't remember the rest.

I want to beat archie over the head. How dare he delve into RPF, let alone rare pair RPF on his return to fandom?! Dean & Cas 4ever!

Actually, it makes me hopeful that he's stretching his legs again on something non-familiar, and hopefully prepping and saving the good stuff for returning to his unreleased BB.

Julie, maybe half of it had been published? Because the setup felt familiar to me, but the ending came as a surprise. Well, less familiar.

Archie is just as lost to me if he's writing RPF as if he's not writing at all. I know precisely what I want from him, and he better pony up, dammit.

So you guys remember the slice of industrial cleaner warfare?

What RPF did he write, BTW?

ita, he's got three little fics out right now. One's a neat little fusion slice of (eventual) D/C AU involving The Matrix. There's a hot little piece of Jared/Misha that is a fresh take on the whole knotting kink. And the first comeback fic was a Jensen/Misha crimefighting/superhero ficlet that could possibly be more, that played with the idea of Twitter and hashtags as the bat symbol. The least/non-porny one was the actual D/C.

"fresh take on the whole knotting kink"? I...I don't even know. My boundaries, they are small.

I guess I'll go look for the D/C one.

I know I have a problem when every second movie makes me want a fusion, but Adventures of Priscilla Queen Of The Desert...I might be casting and recasting all morning at the ER. The drugs will no doubt help.

The knotting ... I've read a few, and this is quite quite different. The physical aspect is there, and there is a brief offhand allusion to other unsavory things for that trope. But there isn't actually any knotting going on, or "knothead" topping either.

So you guys remember the slice of industrial cleaner warfare?

I was watching, and I was confused as hell. I swear that wasn't included in the first airing.

But there isn't actually any knotting going on, or "knothead" topping either.

But ... how do you have no actual knotting in a knotting fic?

I don't understand how the physical aspect being there reconciling there being no knotting.

I swear that wasn't included in the first airing

Thank you. I'm usually watching live the first time, so I wouldn't have skipped over it, but I still don't remember it. It was pretty random chance that made me catch it this time around.