I just had a random sadface feel about the boys wearing long sleeves so much because they grew up needing to hide scars and bruises from the general public.

I think a depressing case could be made for that, and exacerbated with the handprint, although I'm assuming that's gone now.

Like, when Dean discovered he was de-hymenated he got all heady about being shirtless and shit, because it wasn't going to be trouble.

Except it was, because people total rubbernecked at his Appolonian beauty.

Sometimes I feel like the most emo fangirl.

Only sometimes?

::runs away::

Dude, I am trying to work through my sudden overwhelming need for a Cyteen/Supernatural fusion. Don't mock. Nobody knows my pain.

It could be so good, though...

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Um, that's all on you, lady.

Seriously! There's emo artificial persons designed without the capacity for conflicting concepts or layered emotions...but there's this one azi who's more than his programming should allow...and who's gotten closer to a young human created in his father's image.

IT WOULD BE PERFECT.

Hmmm, I need to dig out my old C.J. Cherryh.

Just finished a terrible fic with so much promise. I forgave the badness at first, thinking maybe it was second-language issues. But! The plot holes! The spell check weirdness! The lack of reality! (they let the dude go when he was caught in the act of beating a kid, a kid who was not his, Because they couldn't prove he was guilty of a different crime. HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?? KIDNAPPING AND ABUSE! RED-HANDED!). And Dean doesn't show up until about 3/4 of the way into the story.

And then, after 20,000 words, there is suddenly romance. Bwuh?

I highly recommend CJ Cherryh if you like old school Asimov but with a bit more emotions. That same school of thinking, but "feminised". As in, humanised, because he was a cold fish theoretician a lot of the time.

And, not old. 80s. You know.

What fic was that, Julie? Sounds like one I missed, but I'm behind on my READ ALL THE D/C I had doing there for a while.

And, lord, was Sin With A Grin a waste of time and title.

Oh god, I'm glad my reading of Sin With a Grin was mostly skimming and skipping.

The fic that ticked me off was Jude.

C.J. Cherryh was my fave author in highschool. Downbelow Station, Faded Sun, Heavy Time, The Dreaming Tree (that last one always makes me ache). The Foreigner universe.

Sin with a Grin had no emotional resonance at all. Manufactured conflict, weird casework (FBI), wooden banter, but one great piece of spy fu that got me kinda hot and bothered. So many words, so few feels...

And what the hell was the title about? I'd rather an obviously obscure-to-me song lyric with brackets in and non-standard punctuation, really. Helps stop me from trying to work out the connection.