Rediscovery: rewatching season 8 does not make me like the soft gel lens on the Sam/Amelia flashbacks any better. But more importantly, doesn't make me like the Sam/Amelia flashbacks any better period, except for the grace note that it doesn't work out in the end. Which makes me happy, but also makes it feel like a giant waste of time. Which I didn't feel about the Dean/Lisa scenes (though they were far fewer by eons and not flashbacky). I thought those were good building blocks to step on then step away from. The whole Amelia business just (still) feels like wasted space. It all just feels like a disservice to Jared/Sam and Amelia/her actress. I can't recall if anyone adequately fanwanked that entire storyline and the reason for its existence to my satisfaction (but probably not if I can't remember it). I'm starting to do large skips in my rewatch, because I can't recall any reason to recall Amelia and the soft focus at all.

Rachel Miner could use our love.

That makes me want to cry.

Qwertee some of you might dig:

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Things I like about this story that are relevant: the way she describes the ugliness of Cas' injury or Dean's life and mindset (PTSD!Cas, Hooker!Dean)

Things I dislike that are irrelevant: forgetting Dean and Jess share a birthday.

Shit! The "To Hell & Back World Tour" shirt has a companion: "No Rest For The Wicked" (I can't find a product page that's not the front page of the site, so that link will only be good today, 30th Sept, probably. But the pic [link] should be good for longer.

AND he's the guy that did the lovely "Winchester & Sons" shirt: [link] (hey, Amy!)

That's a great shirt. I love that it's the "Under" World tour.

Here are shirts for today [link]

One easy criterion for In Too Deep is if you have visceral reactions to new AUs. I grunted in y "rock and roll" barber's because at the same time I could see a 40 yr old Dean still muscular after a life of hard living looking normal on the surface as he clipped hair ("give me five minutes with some clippers"), surround my the more OTT obviously dyed Charlie and a tatted to the neck former hippie turned rocker Lisa.

Castiel comes in because he can't make his hair look normal, and when Dean convinces him how it looks best, that's a metaphor for XXX.

Or Dean Smith takes a recommendation from that irritating Gabriel guy who manages to get away with that hairstyle in the corporate environment and finds a tatted out Endverse-like Cas who gives him straight-razor shaves with warm cloths after and trims his hair with scissors every few days to have him looking just so. Indirectly, he's why Dean always wears those suspenders.

Grunted out loud, sitting there, watching an AU Ellen thank me for my tip, with Becky at the register.

You have got to look at the guy in the left of this [link] How can you just make that face? (The face on the right is remarkable in its own way, but I'm only inspired to draw one of them...)