S8 starts reairing on TNT this morning, for anyone who wants to record episodes they missed.

Scaramouche knocked it out of the park again, IMO, with octo!Dean (no bestiality/tentacle sex for those averse). What Has 8 Tentacles And Isn't Allowed To Eat Pie is one of those stories that's pretty tight Dean POV, and his is overly restricted at that by the plot, but everyone's transparent to the reader even if they aren't to him, and it's sweet but not offputtingly so.

I really really want to draw art for this, but her BB artist was kinda childlike and I'm not sure I want to get up in that. Maybe if I do the art just for her and not post it? Then it's her call.

Tahmoh Penikett is white? The actress who played the angel going all Misery on Castiel is really a man?

I know, right? I'm totally shocked to learn these things!

I hope someone corrected her on both counts, but especially Tahmoh Penikett.

Yeah, he takes more after his dad, but dude, how do you miss the part where he's First Nations?

[link] (Also, his sisters, who look more like their mother, are seriously smokin'.)

(I mean, damn.)

On first glance, without knowing his name, I would have guessed Penikett was white. And even knowing his name, I had no idea what his heritage was without looking it up.

One thing I don't get is Ezekiel's concern about Sam rejecting him after the fact. The dealings pretty much every angel we've seen have with their vessels clearly established that they only needed the initial consent to have access. That was even a plot point regarding Sam and Lucifer.

It came up a lot in his BSG and Dollhouse press, so fannish osmosis means that a lot of fannish people are aware of it, even without knowing WHY they're aware of it. (Not all, obviously, but a lot, and I'd expect a BNF into social justice would have known. I mean, he's not just First Nations, he's also the son of the Tony Penikett, activist, former Yukon government leader, and crusader for First Nations rights!)

(Of course, that would be assuming that a probably-US based BNF pays any attention at all to Canadian politics...)

(Which would be foolish.)

(But I'd still expect them to know he's First Nations.)

That's true. I never watched Dollhouse or BSG, though, so I had no clue except that his name seemed like something to explore.

He's gorgeous in any case. I wouldn't mind if Ezekiel stuck around for a bit.

I wasn't exactly sure about the idea of "ejection," either, Matt -- it seems to me like his consent was pretty dubious from the start, since he was saying yes to Dean. And I wasn't sure what was going on when he woke up in the car -- where was Ezekiel then?

I assume we'll find out next week, though.

Ezekiel is tucked away inside Sam where Sam won't notice it. As far as Sam's consent, maybe he can reject him because the consent was dodgy in the first place, Sam's not his real vessel, Sam can freeze an archangel in his tracks? Between those I think they have a shot at "I can't afford to tell Sam either" from his part.

This weekend I will make Sazekiel art. I realised that when I saw Dean/Cas/Ezekiel I was offended on Sam's part and I haven't even explored the ship at all yet!

I think if I were going to rail (this was team-free-will-fanart on tumbr, FTR, so large audience) about race I'd check the "funny" named guy before I turned on the microphone. But female-encased angel helped beat the shit out of Dean, one with more lines than the two generic white male angels the poster is presumably mad about, and HAEL. Also, could she possibly have done enough research to know who's cis without stumbling upon lineage?

It's the oppression cry of too many people, and now I know for sure just to look at the pictures on her tumblr and leave the rest alone.

castasteslike [link] doesn't seem mean to the authors, does it? l was thinking of making an A03 idand commenting on the stories l tag. Likely to be taken badly?

I don't think it's mean at all, and a note to the authors telling them their fic has been noted in a Tumblr would probably be appreciated.

Sazakiel interests me more than it should.