I was born on Sunday, which blasts the hell out of that theory.

Eh. Some of us think you're pretty bonny and blithe, even if it's a sort of bitteresque bonny and blithe.

Wow. I'm looking at Daggomus Prime's illos for the D/C circus AU, and...I don't like it. I really don't like it. I've never disliked any of her stuff strongly, but her attempt at a more painterly style for these fanarts seem to have lost much of what I liked of her stuff (such strong shapes, such great lines), and it doesn't feel to me like she's mastered the principles. The painting looks awkward, not harmonious.

And when I looked at the first figure on her banner piece, the question went through my mind--"Why is that man dressed like a ballerina?"

I'm out of the fanart loop these days, so I don't know if there's be a progression that ended her up here, or what. But I am disappointed. She's usually such an easy win for me--she's where I first got into the groove of fanart Winchesters not looking like Jensen and Jared, since she put so much character in that it was still Dean and Sam.

Not getting that vibe here.

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I hope the story is good, though.

When I first saw the art, I thought it was Dean in drag. Which, given part of the story, wasn't farfetched.

That's one point of the story that I'm hung up on, due to the vagueries.

So Dean got involved in a freak show that involved sex acts. Was he forced to sodomize other performers, or was he the one sodomized. It's hard to tell at the end (and I totally didn't get the Hershey reference until someone asked a question about it in the author's notes) and I'm not sure if it matters which.

But, my god did I hate Ruby to a violent death and was sad that that didn't actually happen.

But otherwise I was delighted at the fresh take on the way bits of canon were mapped into this 'verse. A little shaken, a little stirred. And I amazingly didn't hate Gabriel.

I found the story lacking in emotion (except for hatred--when she went season 4, she went very season 4--I'm picky about my season 4, and this wasn't it). It was a nice time spent in Dean's head, but Dean lacks so much perspective, and she didn't really cast all that much light...If you're going to be that deeply in someone's PoV, there has to still be some way to translate for Deanish, but I felt like she just left out the things that Dean didn't get. And then, was totally vague about things Dean did know.

I don't feel curious about that, all told. I just feel manipulated. The clues she left were too opaque for me.

I guess that first picture could be Dean in drag, having read the story, but that's not even good. The face is mannish, but those aren't the same person's arms on both sides of that poster.

All in all the entire package wasn't my thing.

Oh, and about the way Dean save Sam--you can kill a *liger* with knives described as small as those? I wasn't feeling that either.

Castiel season 4 is ridic hot.

Season 5 he got goofy and Misha also started nesting or something. I'm always taken aback and left breathless when I see him in a season 4 ep.

Misha nesting? I'm not sure what that means.

I did think that the liger death was too easy. Like, how deeply did those throwing knives penetrate. Then I had images of Bobby digging around to retrieve them, which was extra ooky.

The D/C aspect definitely took a long time coming. And I don't know if that's me wanting a fic to be all about a pairing once promised it in the header, and if that's unfair. Does the story stand on it's own, with a dash of romance at the end? Is it unbalanced? (I certainly felt that the Cas aspect was terribly light).

Misha nesting

I don't know either! Um, Misha getting comfy with married life and ready for a family (i.e. Misha's metabolism hitting adulthood and slowing the fuck down, I'm trying to be polite about weight gain. And not in the "he got fat!" sense, but the "he's settled and living a normal happy life without the stress of agents telling him he needs to look gaunt to get roles" way.

I feel bad. But. Hot. Season 4. Misha.

It wasn't much of a D/C story, so if it's touted as that I think it fails. If it's a story that also has D/C, then I think it achieves that unremarkably. But there's little reward in the relationship part of it--it's not a particularly interesting lead up, some of the reveals are kind of weird and random, and the final resolution of it felt anti-climactic to me.