I see a difference between the factors you hinge the A in AU on, offshoots of those key factors, and just randomly made up stuff.

I read a recent D/C where Sam was Dean's cousin, not brother. Why, you ask? No freaking idea. They still spend typical amounts of time together, but nothing related to relatives. Sat there like a grain of sand in your eye, thinking grumpily of narrative developments that necessitate this, but no.

Those changes I don't dig, and there also are the ones that say the author was clear not paying attention.

In a hunt for reference pictures I stumbled on this: [link] Now I wonder how many other actors we aren't often seeing from head to toe, and who knows what they're sporting?

So, predictably, people are taking the J2 way too seriously: [link] I haven't seen that in the wild, thankfully. Just references to it.

Speaking of the crazy: Speak the truth, an exhaustive J2 archive

I love this:

This archive is done with the utmost respect for both parties

Yes, of course. Yet calling them cowards and/or liars, but respectfully? Because if they are bumping uglies and don't want to talk about it (former supported titillation, latter THEIR RIGHT) how is an entire "debunking" archive possibly respectful.

Anyway--once I got to the bit about the dogs, well. I know what Colin told me, and I take his word over theirs so I quit reading, since the purported inside source they base a lot of this on disagrees with Colin's conversations with Jared.

I'm afraid to ask, but curiosity is getting the better of me...

I'm reading it and I can feel the craxy getting on me.

I'm afraid to ask, but curiosity is getting the better of me

Suffice it to say, what he said to the press/fans about his dogs wasn't the truth. It was something much sadder, broke Jared's pet-loving heart, but if anyone tries to tell you they know the inside track and they stick even generally closely to the news about his dogs, they are bullshitting.

I had to stop reading. These people make the Kennedy assassination conspiracy theories look like nursery rhymes. It's really a little frightening.

I thought I'd closed that tab last night, but I flipped over and I'd left it about here:

Fans of the show are loyal. And, also as already noted, f-cking crazy. Some are convinced that the show's two leads are secret lovers. What is it with this secret lover business?

Because calling gossip fans crazy was so necessary for the context of the set pics she's posting.

LAINEY CALLED Y'ALL CRAZY BECAUSE YOU CRAZY AND POST CRAZY. OF COURSE THAT'S ON TOPIC. And Lainey is a shit-stirrer herself. It's why I stopped reading her.

Why would you write Anna/Crowley true love? Why would you leave the pairing above the fold alone to witness them cooing at each other, "My fiery dragon" ... "My dark side of the moon..."

Of *all* the characters on the show, you needed to name that mannequin Crowley and expect me to care about him?

It's not like it's a post-Sacrifice story or anything.

I boggle.

Dinosaur comics gets pretty close to SPN heaven: [link]