So, there was a D/C knotting fic where the author felt it necessary to make Dean and Cas brothers.

Really? Incest isn't just a roadblock to work around, but something desired by an author? Has fandom become so desensitized that it's not an obstacle, but a kink that is necessary to produce the drama in a story? Because, geez, what a boring story it would be with Dean going into heat and Cas knotting him. Let's add some spice, let's make them brothers.

Oh, and the Sir disservice extends to RPS, which, yes, I read, and 8* times out of 10, JDM is the evil evil villain of the piece when he is in it.

* stats are totally not based on actual facts, just the impression of the sh*t that I've read.

I want to tell JDM that this perception he has of the show ruining Sir's character--no, that's just the psychic bleedthough from the fanfic. Show actually had Sam saying he forgave Sir and loved him, and even without a soul named a child after him.

Some of the fans, on the other hand.

And, yeah, I saw the brother-knotting fic too. I checked the pairings, thought fine, dived in, screamed, backed out. Because even if it's fake brothers (unlike the totally true siblinghood of Sam and Dean) COME ON. I already step around the Wincestiel or the D/C with some S/D. Why you gotta smush it all together? If you can't make it hot with them unrelated, you're writing it wrong.

And I'm gonna keep being pouty about that, as flawed an argument as it might be.

Because I can see if Sam and Dean being brothers gives a kick that you like to Wincest. The tang of their relationship. But it's a relationship that's been created by the show, isn't it? I mean, just showing up and saying the word "brother" surely can't conjure up something similarly heady without the weight behind it...is the kink that easy?

I mean, at least as far as the story got, it seemed PWP. The author didn't give much brotherly history by the time I balked and fled. just said that they were brothers.

IO9 previews a SPN tie-in novel: [link]

There's a creepy guy who never posts without saying he writes tie-ins and cites the extra knowledge this gives him (hey, he met Jim Beaver at a con!), and thankfully this is by him, otherwise it would have been a clusterfuck of weird.

However, the bit where he fails to get a Carver Edlund reference is pretty awkward anyway.

Having flipped to that straight from a piece of fic, it's...pretty boring. Nothing happens, and no matter how many times he makes excuses for it...still, nothing really happens. Characters seem fine, but nothing I haven't seen in fic, you know? It's alright. Although...nothing happens.

I'm trying to decide where in S7 it goes--they know Frank, it's post the doppleganger spree, they're travelling with Bobby. I'll have to look at the episode list to be sure.

However, the bit where he fails to get a Carver Edlund reference is pretty awkward anyway.

Ahahahahaha! Oh, that's priceless.

I do not get the knotting fics. I just don't. Plei has "kindly" linked me to some in multiple fandoms, and the whole thing just makes me tilt my head and go "buh?".

Where did that whole AU concept come from, for one thing? Did some fic writer come up with it, and everyone glommed onto it? Or is there some sf/fantasy book that I've never heard about? I'm so confused.

It's really sad how he explains that there are writers on staff called Carver and Edlund, and the fan who'd mentioned it is all "ooookay, then". Ah, well.

It's not like all ficwriters have a lock on canon. I just read a Sam PoV fic which needed Ameripicking something awful (no arse, ever...just no), but this:

When someone comes back from the dead you have to shoot them with salt, douse them with holy water and cut them with iron. If they pass all of these tests you tie them to a chair and try to exercise the demon out of them just in case

HAVE YOU SEEN THE SHOW??? WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN? Like, how many shots at goal are you going to take and still not score? Okay--I'll give them the dousing with holy water, although I say drinking is the preferred answer. ½ point, then.

Jilli, don't ask me how I know this, but it started with, um, Harley/Jensen, and moved into werewolf fic. IDEK.

I do not get the knotting fics. I just don't. Plei has "kindly" linked me to some in multiple fandoms, and the whole thing just makes me tilt my head and go "buh?".

Did I send you Omegaverse in multiple fandoms, or just in Beeblock?

It's a guilty pleasure. I've got a thing for John Watson, Bad Ass Quiet Alpha. IT IS A THING.

I thought you had sent me multiple fandoms, but my brain may have shorted out from confusion.

I just got an email about GIWishes email. I guess they are doing it again

I think I'll enjoy the scavenger hunt from the sidelines this year. I did have fun with it last year, but it was a little frustrating not having the energy to contribute as much as I would have liked.