Oh. man. I'm gonna have to mourn a little: [link]

Sometimes this stuff is a hoax, right?

If it's true: Well, fuck you very much Jeremy Carver. This would never have happened on Sera's watch. She knows what's key to show. What next? Baby's first racing stripe? Spoiler?

I'm still reading the world's longest Scientology article, and now I want to put together two recruiting photosets. One for Heaven, and one for hell. If I were any good, it'd be a vid, but a captioned photoset would be fine enough.

I've only really been thinking angels so far:

• "It's like being strapped to a comet" Jimmy Novak
• "Yes" Claire Novak
• Lots of humour in the garrison, assures Castiel (over picture of Uriel)
• Something about never having to worry about calories (shots of Castiel eating and drinking)
• Doing it for the babes--Balty menage-a-douze or Gabriel's...well, his anything

How else you you recruit for a vessel?

That shot from "The Third Man" where Cas jumps out a window, plunges several stories to squash a car, and then gets up unhurt?

Daw, misachan's BB was actually really good. Some nice mapping, whump that was actually not borne out of homophobia, and a fresh look at D/C highschool AUs. And John wasn't an asshole.

I'm rewatching bits of Shadow, and I noted two things, when John recalls that he and Sam had "one hell of a fight" the last time they saw each other, John doesn't apologize for that, for how they left things. The other thing was that, they so got lucky castin JDM as John. If they'd had anyone else who was unable to convey the warmth and love that JDM does, we'd all be Sir-haters.

Okay, so maybe I am reading it wrongly--TV Guide and sumi think Crowley sent Dean to Purgatory. Am I in the minority not thinking he did any sending? Where does that come from?

Maybe the implication is that he *knew* the Dick-killing stick would send someone who used it there? Otherwise, I'm with you -- the way he explained in the episode made it sound like an unexpected side effect.

Sits on the bench with ita ! and Amy. That is my read on it too.

Ditto here. I do think it's weird that using a divinely inspired weapon to kill a leviathan opened a physical gate to Purgatory and sucked in people standing nearby when killing other monsters and even the defeat of Mother-of-All didn't, but I don't think Crowley would have risked tampering with the weapon if he were able to.

Note that Crowley himself has never successfully opened a gate to Purgatory or been present at the opening of one, and everything he learned about doing so was information Cas obtained from Dr. Visnyak. I just don't think he'd have the means even if he had the motive.

ita !, according to a season 8 set pic (not spoilerly), the sideburns are still there.