New season starts Tuesday, October 15th. Too damn long.

Colin Ford is in Under The Dome! I barely recognized him.

Dammit, I was wavering about watching it, and I think that news just tipped me off the fence.

God, Oct. 15 seems far off.

Colin Ford is adorable in Under the Dome! He is growing up, though. Big time.

WTH, checked in with the J2BB, and the first six fics seem to all have rape in their warnings. Do Not Want this trend.

Some people use fic to explore their own feelings about consent and gender issues, sexuality, child abuse, rape, etc. It may not sell popcorn, but if it sparks discussion, I think that's healthy.

There's plenty of fluff and PWP and meet-cute and chibis and HEA out there to satisfy a range of palates.

And some of us just have our kink buttons wired entirely wrong, and totes magotes blame VC Andrews.

Signed,

Look, I texted (from a keyboardless phone, which are hard to write on) someone non-con Wincest possession knifeplay fic during a meeting once, and don't even ask about the shit I keep in my drawers.

some of us just have our kink buttons wired entirely wrong

You're putting a value judgement there, if not for yourself, at least for the people who are reading this and coming to conclusions.

I don't want there to be a trend of non con because I want there to be a lot out there I can enjoy reading. Most non con is a big old no (many of the things that fall into dub con don't make a story unpalatable for me, but not all) for that.

I tried to read one about hooker Dean who was about to find his own Pretty Woman story with Cas, and I was willing to accept the English was one degree better than Babelfish (I haven't read anything this plainly Romance language in a while), but two savage rapes by Alistair in three chapters of a guy who only just worked out sex can be fun? That's someone else's story.

J2BB has already trended away from me, since J2 and Wincest are dominant. Hunting through gen or het or rarepairs for the good stuff is much harder work than I am usually up to, whereas I can sort D/C with my eyes closed. I was mostly angry about the artist claiming because I thought the process was unfair, not because I thought there was too much chance of me getting one of the three stories that looked interesting.

I still don't get the Sam/Dean AUs where they're not related. For me, that's the core of their characters -- they're brothers. If you're making them unrelated so you can write them fucking without guilt, then go write J2. Sam and Dean aren't Sam and Dean to me unless they're both Winchesters.

Sam and Dean are cousins is mighty perplexing to me. I'm always waiting for a parentage shoe to drop, but no...one shot, nothing more to learn.