BING BING BING!

How is it that I was looking at the Netflix listing for S8 and did not think to check that one? Thank you!

You're welcome! (It's not as though I can claim perfect recall -- this was entirely due to the clickability of IMDb.)

I got tired of *rolling over* the episode descriptions on Netflix, so I still owe you one.

A story is wobbly when Dean's the college-aged virgin and Cas isn't Endverse.

But so far, red wine has been served on ice in a flask, and Cas is clearly straight because he punched Bal out when he propositioned him, yet since Dean thinks Meg wouldn't do anal he guesses Cas must have learnt how to it in the week when he was raving about the (aforementioned) British student. During Dean's first time, he bears down on Castiel's virgin fingers.

This is all completely separate from 'I don't know if they can just go from there to that' issues with sex--it's been a long time since a story got me this far and then managed to slap me so hard upside the face with "I don't get out much *or* read *or* do research *or* re-read my own work". It's oddly alluring and yet quite unrewarding.

There is an ad on TV for something that may have to do with cars where the car is replaced by a really big baby, and I can do nothing but smile and wish I'd seen the SPN fanart first.

Or that I still do see it.

(Baby gets hosed down in the driveway, hits a hydrant, goes into the shop, etc)

Oh, I've seen that! Heh.

Is it too early to start a countdown?

DCBB likes so far: "Angle of Repose" 1920's mining AU! Great sense of place and time with the perfect dash of D/C and supernatural dread.

"C-S-T-L" scifi future with robots. I'm not yet finished, but I'm adoring how natural and subtle the magnetism between them is.

The first few days entries I don't even want to attempt, either because the summaries seem rather dark, or because they're over 100,000 words.

I have not watched the sneak peek yet: [link]

I haven't been to LJ in forever. However I have seen at least C-S-T-L on AO3, and a current story (Eventing AU) mentioned the DCBB so I was meaning to go look. Must get off ass.

The author whose disappearance I had been bemoaning who reappeared hadn't saved one of the stories she'd deleted, so she rewrote the first seven chapters. It's an interesting exercise to re-read. Someone ended up offering her what they'd saved, but she turned it down so she could go with her new angle. Alpha/beta/omega seems like it's everywhere in D/C right now, but I like her take on the mythos and her inclusions of what the wolf makes you do. Still wish omega didn't mean passive, but that's me and the genre, not me and the story.

eta: And apparently there are people messaging her for the original version telling her they don't like the new one as much. How classy!

I see alpha/beta/omega in the descriptions of stories everywhere too, and generally just back away. I'm not entirely sure I understand what it means, other than in the Teen Wolf way of the alpha being the person in control -- what is the difference between a beta and an omega?