What is the BAU?

It's the Behavioural Analysis Unit, the team that's on Criminal Minds.

I've read some fic where young Sam (pre-Stanford) experimented with boys a little bit.

That I've seen very little of. I agree with your assessment of a lot of the Stanford stuff, and if I'm remembering the slut!Sam one, does he also do a strip tease in a later installment? I can't think of it and not tremble with laughter.

I've read a lot of fic where Dean has never had any experience with men, or his experience comes from hustling, but there's plenty of fic out there where Dean is sort of pansexual and, to be blunt, just plain easy.

My impression of numbers comes from AO3 where there are more Dean/OMC than Sam/OMC, and of course half a million Dean/Castiels. A much smaller amount of Sam/Castiel and a surprising (but still smaller) amount of Sam/Gabriel. In the D/Cs (AO3 and beyond) there are more man first times for Dean than I'd have expected. But I guess the idea of making Castiel his first guy is narratively attractive.

When I was first starting to consume I bumped into a lot of hustler!Dean stories, but not so many recently. I'm surprised there's not even a tag for that on AO3, since it seems so obvious. Hell, JA even mentioned it, didn't he?

Great. Now I need a Torchwood/SPN crossover with Captain Jack and Dean getting it on. Dammit.

Yes, later he strips. It's pretty amusing. Oh, and I think most of the fic I've read with Sam experimenting with boys in high school is the 'cesty kind. ::shifty eyes::

There's a Dean/Ronon out there by poisontaster, which I imagine is pretty yummy. That's Stargate, right? I never watched, but I did like to picture them together because Ronon is beautiful.

I'm still not sure JA meant sexual hustling instead of more elaborate cons, but points for him if he did. I don't remember seeing a lot of stories just about him hustling, though -- it seems to be a background element in other fic, and there for a reason.

I still want Dean/Jax from Sons of Anarchy. I figure I'm going to have to write that one myself.

I think most of the fic I've read with Sam experimenting with boys in high school is the 'cesty kind

Well, that goes a long way to explaining my blank spot.

I still want Dean/Jax from Sons of Anarchy. I figure I'm going to have to write that one myself.

You know, I bumped into that yesterday. Didn't read it, though. It was a threesome with a Friday Night Lights character too. It was on AO3, if memory serves. I can try look it up again when I get home.

I'm still not sure JA meant sexual hustling instead of more elaborate cons

Do you have a link to the famed interview?

That's Stargate, right?

Yeah, Stargate: Atlantis. They would be very pretty together. And kick ass.

It was a threesome with a Friday Night Lights character too.

See now, that's just silly.

Although there was a hot fic with Dean and Tim way back. I bet Perkins has it bookmarked.

I don't have a link that that interview. I just vaguely remember it. He might have meant that. I just ... wasn't sure he would really go there. And if I recall correctly, it was sort of a throwaway reference to hustling in general.

ita, have you read the Ben stories, by innie_darling? [link] (that is the start, but there are links at the bottom of each page, or you can get the Ben and Dean parts here: [link]

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Dean and Tim way back. I bet Perkins has it bookmarked.

Probably--let me look. Yep: [link]

I also have a crossover tag on Delicious--it's not all SPN, but most are: [link]

I found the interview, and yeah, it's nekkid hustling.

And who knows? Dean's a promiscuous kind of guy. Who knows how he drums up the funds they use?

Perkins, I have read the Ben stories, and they just kill me. Which they shouldn't because happy for Ben and Dean, but I am mostly preoccupied with Sam's revelation, and his reaction to it, and poor guy...

Oooh! I remembered wrong, obviously. Go, JA! Or something.

God, I had forgotten how good Dean and Tim were together. Woof.

I remember years ago reading part of a long AU Season 1 story wherein Sam was not just gay but flaming and working in the fashion industry (basically a taller version of Michael Urie's Ugly Betty character) when Dean showed up and pulled him back into the family business. I don't recall why I drifted away before finishing it, but the concept was hilarious.

That does sound pretty funny, Matt.

It just occurred to me (uh, as I was leaving BevMo after having spent a lot of money) that one way or another, there's a really confused liquor store owner out there. Because even if Cas somehow paid for what he drank, WEIRD.

I sort of imagine he tried to drink it *there* initially, too.

I remember years ago reading part of a long AU Season 1 story wherein Sam was not just gay but flaming and working in the fashion industry

There was one series of stories which were really intense, and ultimately too depressing for me. They all started the exact same way, with Dean going to get Sam at Stanford and finding him in five different districts of SF instead, hooked on five different *drugs,* some of them of the supernatural kind. Like, voodoo and letting the loa ride him was one, I think.

They all ended in Wincest, and they were just so grim and so graphic. Nicely researched! But ultimately not a fun read, even in the "I need the angst" way.