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.

There seem to be two sides in Wincest -- one that believes Sam tops, and the other believes Dean does. Neither of them are really feminized, that I've seen, but I don't read stuff that seems really out of character at the start.

Since I'm consuming fic right now by just seeing what turns up for the pairing on AO3, I bump into a lot of summaries. And then there's the art--I'd say a subordinate Dean is less than one in five in fic, and feminised Dean (over Cas) very rare in the art that I bump into.

I keep forgetting that people a) care who tops or b) some people insist it's related to personality.