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.

My assumption was that Cas did indeed do his drinking in situ. He doesn't know any different. I mean, where else is he gonna go? Then he sat in a park for a while and stared at people creepily. Maybe even got approached by a policeman.

Man, Amy, that sounds rough. I don't know why I let depressing fics, even depressing summaries get to me. I just read one where Sam went off on his own to get his head straight and left Dean in pain, and I was way affected by it. It's a credit to the writing, but still. I need a "reset to canon" button, or an "apply liberal schmoop" button to undo the bad pain. Also, people need to stop putting fic that doesn't make me at least good sad where I can see it. Because I can't stop reading until it's too late.

a long AU Season 1 story wherein Sam was not just gay but flaming and working in the fashion industry

Matt, there is one story like that that I've read... the name is escaping me right now, but it does turn into Wincest. So if that's a turnoff for you that might be why you didn't finish reading it.

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.

Amy, they were rei_c's "Five District, Five Drugs" stories that you're talking about. You're right, the series of stories having to do with voodoo are really well researched but they're graphic and there's a lot of grimness there.

I think Sam was a hustler in one of them, too, and on some kind of other paranormal "drug," if I remember right, that was the Celtic variety of ... whatever it was. That brand of hustler!Sam just made me want to cry.

Of course, I've never forgotten it, even if I never finished them.

There was one hustler!Dean story that made me cry, too. But that was a good sort of bittersweet ache, I guess.

Also, people need to stop putting fic that doesn't make me at least good sad where I can see it. Because I can't stop reading until it's too late.

I've stopped reading anything that isn't by an author I like or trust, or recced by someone I like and trust. I got tired of, well, clutching my pearls at some of the things I was finding, and being generally annoyed by bad first-person and completely OOC portrayals and horrible spelling.

Hey, I just discovered my snobbery.