Seriously--they hug and touch way less than I do with my family, and I'm regarded as stiff and aloof by our standards. I laughed because my sister thinks it's totally icky to even pretend you're dating your sibling (and we do definitely yell when people assume), but no one raised eyebrows at the cousins I pretended to date in order to get into clubs cheap or free.

And if our touching and feeling was on TV, I've no doubted we'd all be shipped into one big loosely related puppy pile.

I've never heard of gencest. The cool kids get all the new stuff before I do.

I suspect what they're looking for is an unhealthy, codependent, noookie-free relationship. Some sort of brotherly equiv of covert incest.

So, canon?

Sneak peek for next week: [link]

I'm trying to make head or tail of some of the muttering going on about this ep. I can't work out if they're talking about script that didn't make it to screen, or what...it's very weird.

Who knew we had 23 episodes this year too, and why didn't you tell me? Loudly?

My sister continues to amuse--she's enjoying Castiel's addition, and his "I am not a hammer" speech worked as designed. So did "I Know What You Did Last Summer" and Sam's mighty back--she can be averse to watching sex scenes, but so far sex with Sam has a willing audience.

Working as designed, indeed.

I thought you knew?

Nope. I knew last year, obviously, but I hadn't processed/noticed that it was happening again. Why did it happen again?

No idea. I just heard we would get 23 again and rejoiced. You know, alone. Obviously.

In general, I am leery of things that call themselves poetry amongst the throngs of fanwork, because there's rarely any way for them to satisfy me if they aren't good, because there's so little room to play with. But, on a D/C tip, I don't get why one is a poem and one a list, but here's Dean: [link] and here's Cas: [link]

The 23 ep thing, I...I am just slacking, clearly.

I don't care if it's an AU. Why are Castiel's hips swaying so much? He has boy hips, and you have to work extra to sway them, and HOW IS THAT IN CHARACTER?

I swear, I have really specific rules for feminisation, and clearly no one else can be trusted to do it right. If you explain you draw Cas like that because he's an engel without pre-existing requirements of gender, that doesn't explain why he has a wasp waist and he's so pigeon-toed. That is not a wardrobe choice.

Does Dean get femmed up a lot in Wincest? It seems that if D/C makes someone alpha/dominant/man-shaped it's Dean, leaving Misha playing a Cas that's very short, wide-hipped, demure, apple-cheeked and subordinate. But without playing those like it's a cool exploration, more like that's how they're seen--clearly AUs hinge on something being different, but there's an impression of what they are changing versus how they have the character imprinted.