I waded through a horrid BB that had a deaf Dean and John was abusive to Dean even when Mary was alive and Sam was sleeping with Becky. It was awful, I don't know why I stuck with it.

Scaramouche's was interesting and had a fresh twist (pulling a Cas who had just pulled Dean out of Hell but hadn't met him in Jimmy's body yet, and throwing him into the end of season 7).

Am currently reading one where everyone is a god or an angel or something, Cas hasn't showed up yet by chapter 3, but it's really good. There's a quiet unfurling to it.

I read a fic a couple weeks back, mostly on my phone, and I hadn't noticed the tags until I was home on the computer and finally noticed the warning for MAJOR CHARACTER DEATH!!!1! So by that point I had to finish it even though I didn't want to, and skimmed the rest of the fic, terrified about who was going to bite it. And . . . no one did, and I could only think that it was a canon character death that had occured earlier in the story. WHY YOU DO THIS TO ME?!

I really think canon character deaths are different. And I know that makes it seem like killing anyone is okay, but although I'm sad if Sam dies at Jake's hands after having spent some time with Dean (even without resurrection), it's a little less sad than dying of cancer or AIDS or something really random.

I feel like I've done the grunt work on that grieving already, and it''s a weirdly familiar place.

I actually commented on an IO9 review--first of the season--but I was going in there and if she didn't like it...I don't even...hmmph.

She liked it.

Rewatched the latest ep, and man, that actress who played the witch was just dog awful. She made the Mrs. Tran actress look like good (I like the character and her actions and motivations, but I just can't dig the *way* she's being sold). Also, the "I guess I'm just mercurial" line seemed like an attempt at self-aware Whedon humor, but fell flat and amateur in that particular actress's hands.

I can handle canon character deaths in fic for the most part, because, yeah, I've dealt with that grief. Especially if it's the final canon character death. But if it's, like you said, Sam stays dead after Cold Oak, then I'm a little uncomfortable, but not as much. But I still don't like it. That Pushing Daisies AU BB was on the line for me. Especially since, within the rules, it resulted in Bobby dying then and there as well.

I don't have any issue with Mrs. Tran, and I didn't think Delta was anything worth writing home for, but I thought her mercurial line was supposed to be flat.

I guess she struck me as a rookie mistake for both Trans--her negotiated trust, his teenaged interest in her ass, but no one who'd been in the game for ten minutes would have bought anything she was selling, and that's part of the reason she was both trivial and not sad for Crowley to dispose of. But I certainly never imagined she was given a line that was supposed to be "with her" funny.

Julie, did you find what you were looking for here:

I will now resume searching for the screengrab of Dean looking beautfully angsty about Cas.

OH, PICTURES: [link]

ISTG, that's a manip. Because someone clearly said "Grab me your favourite of each of the actors laughing, and slap them together in a picture with the car, which we always assume is laughing."

I mean, that's the only possible explanation.

Hey, is there a name for Team Free Will+car? Team Free Ride? I need to know.

I did not, ita !.

I finished that fic that I had said I was liking, and ended up slightly annoyed. It was one of those fics where Sam and Dean ARE Lucifer and Michael.

The Matrix fic was kinda nifty for a bit, but then ended in an uresolved place where Sam awakes from the Matrix and is still his Matrix-self and doesn't remember who he "really" is outside of the Matrix, whereas Dean doesn't remember any of his Matrix-self, his Show canon-self, and is instead some guy we and Sam don't know. It was quietly awful and needed much more exploring after that point. But, hey, Cas got a virtual Dean to play with inside the Matrix, and that's all we care about, right?

cheerios: found it! [link]

forgot about that website.

God, he's exquisite.

I don't think I'm going to read that Matrix story. Endings where Sam and Dean don't know each other are kind of the saddest ending in the world.

And I hope Carver understands that I don't mean that in any marginally positive sense.

Looking through the images of those scenes, I think I love [link] the most. It suitably captures the moment the best for me, and I can't even put words to everything that went through my mind (and heart!) at that moment. They both look kinda great here: [link] and this [link] choked me up again. But luckily I have this [link] to cheer me up. Bless.

That gif is hilarious.