Tanya Huff's new (I think it's new. ish, anyway) novel has this little passage in it somewhere:

"I want to listen to something good!" He reached for the radio, but she was faster.

"Two things," she said, smacking his hand back. "One, if I'm behind the wheel we go by Winchester rules: driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole. And two..." The truck rocked up on two wheels as she took a sharp turn into the Fort Calgary parking lot. "...we're here."

I couldn't listen, but I looked: [link]

And it choked me up.

SO ADORABLE.

Too adorable for words. And that includes the original.

So tiny! And the watch and the ring and boots and the spiky hair! MY HEART.

Loved this most recent ep more than any other so far this season. I was really enjoying Benny's story, but I, too, had a terrible time understanding him sometimes. Loved the final scene with all the tension. I'm ready to wrap up all the looking back now. Tie it up, and let's move into some new action.

I must admit that now, when my inner forearm itches, I turn my wrist out and scratch it like Jensen (and that cutie pie) do. Every time. And I don't look, just like they don't.

Not only did I not have problems with understanding Benny, I didn't work out that people might have problems. I wonder if there were audio issues on some of the broadcasts.

I think it's our TV and crappy speakers. We have the same problems with DVDs where the score or the soundtrack is blaring but we can barely hear dialogue.

Benny just spoke pretty quickly, and pretty low. With the accent, I was lost a bunch of times.

Okay, this [link] came up on my dash, with the tag #Castiel defending the Winchesters in front of his brothers and I cannot stop laughing.

It's good to have something to laugh about today--it would have been full up with stress even without an election.

Someone (on IO9) said that Castle was the only show that was respectful of fans. I had a big misstep countering her, because I suggested Bones' Avatar episode (no more disrespectful than any they've done), and I think Show has done a lot of pro-us stuff (they shipped us with themselves, after all), and Community is the template for Nice To Fen.]

Are people on the side that Becky and the con-goers were a cumulative jab at us, or that it was fondly mixed (which is where I am--there are enough real fans who would not stop at kidnapping Sam, but would need to kill Dean TO BE SAFE, so I don't think there's a fandom leg to stand on...)?

I say fondly mixed.