I pronounce vice shorter than vise. I get that not everyone does. But people who correct my pronunciation of "aluminium" can take a flying leap. I'm not saying the word they think I am, ergo no grounds for correction there. If I were saying "aluminum" I'd pronounce it right then.

I can't believe how Mottsy I felt when I first heard it, but how desperately in love I am now with Dean's foray into transvestitism. I love his brand of machismo, and how unapologetic any contradictions are.

Just missing the show...

Was reading one of those fics that's totally not going to live up to itself that has Cas tasked to seduce Dean, learn all his secrets (unspecified--he's just to learn them all) and then leave so he can be killed. So, the worldbuilding of the premise falls apart immediately, but stuff they harp on, like Dean's mansion being eight stories tall and Cas' next door only five, and I'm wondering who or where they're modelled after. What rooms are in an eight floor mansion for one? What possible motivation would a down-to-earth made-his-own-money Dean have to live in one?

Considering the Biltmore Mansion, at 5 floors, is the largest private home in America and is estimated at somewhere @ $350 million value, I'm going to assume the writer's sense of reality is firmly based on Disney cartoons.

ETA: For most actors I'd wonder what the hell the photographer and fashion designer were thinking, but in this case I'm not entirely sure it's a professional photo shoot rather than Misha just clowning around on his own: [link]

Read this NOW.

I am CRYING with laughter: [link]

OH, a few .gifs are mildly spoilerly if you haven't seen all the seasons.

Stix is owed a debt of gratitude for that link.

An IO9 poster with whom I have a very antagonistic history is now watching Supernatural. I have little to say because he's the kid of guy who can turn using his name too often into an offence (that wasn't me--he has history with a lot of posters) and I don't want to fight about Show.

He just dismissed Skin as not that interesting and...well, I hope he enjoys Bugs.

Even if you take the sex out of it, that episode has great mise en scene, has a monster that allows us to get into Winchester family issues, kills Dean as far as the world is concerned, great fodder for Jensen to work, gives Stanford Sam more dimension...Inna Gadda Da Vida...you don't brush off Skin, I'm just saying.

He did say he hopes they get a long term enemy soon. Oh, will that ever be satisfied.

I love new-to-me pictures: [link] Not sure how I'd missed it, but coolth.

Mmmm. Tasty.

I am bound and determined to bring my little sis over to the SPN side this summer. It's right up her alley. I plan a SPN sleepover with booze and, of course, pie.

I feel weird now that my sister has...she's all up to date, she thinks Cas makes a great thing better and Sam is the best Winchester ever, and Dean's lips are ridic, and the show should try keeping some of the great black characters, and, hell, she doesn't even hate John.

I...I don't know what to do next. I'm never going to get her to love Baby or give a flying fart about the music, but whatever her wiring will accept, she's accepted. I don't even have a "told you so" in me.

I was just reading a story and came to this line:

Sam's got a life to live, and Dean knows better than to assume that they'd be living together forever.

Can that really be one of the A parts in an AU? Are these still Winchesters? It's a period piece and there's a warning for major character death, and they're already hiding from society--I wonder if people are sitting down and planning to write the next Twist And Shout--because I haven't read the first one, and I don't need extras.

Petite Madame is going to illustrate that, BTW. She seems to have read it recently, been devastated, and now she's "practising" for it. Good lord, yes. Must get rid of those cobweb so her work is up to par. She's already way more comfortable with upset than I am--she embraces horror cheerfully, and had a short series of amputee!Dean that made me too sad to look at.

I just need to do my LetsDrawSPN. Anyone here doing that? I think they're realising what a bad choice that was--the Impala is now officially not a required part of the picture, and they're offering extensions. My variant might break the rules too much, since I add a new character and shove Cas into the background. Oops. They are still in the same order across the page, so I hope that's enough.

Boom! Cross LetsDrawSPN off the list. The tumblr SPNArtChallenge is doing video games, so apart from the highly peculiar Pac Man (and Lady Pac Man) crossover dreams I had last night, no can play.

I think the word "problematic" must be exhausted with all the use it's being put to, but...excusing Gabriel killing Sam because he wanted to spare Sam the pain he knew of losing a big brother, or saying "but Ruby loved him!" -- those are problematic, no? Those relationships are abusive in a way we don't have real world scope for, but I bet you most of these women consider themselves Social Justiticians, and maybe Edward is rapey to them to boot, and this Kickstarter PUA was a POS...but what's not bad about multiple murder or bringing on the apocalypse?

I mean, I think the alley beatdown was hot. I like what it represented in Dean and Castiel's relationship, both in canon and in fodder for shipping. But it's not healthy! I cannot defend or excuse it--just describe it. Good lord.