There's a difference between interpreting something and saying "now it's canon" though, and that's really what I'm reacting to.

Agreed.

Ten episodes from S1 would be: Pilot, Wendigo, Skin, Home, Asylum, Faith, Something Wicked, Provenance, Dead Man's Blood and Devil's Trap

They aren't necessarily my favorite ten eps of the first season but they are the ones that I'd rec to someone who hadn't been watching from the start and didn't want to watch them all.

Caveat Lector...

missyjack's Supernatural Season 1 recap [link]
1.10 The one where Sam shoots Dean
SAM (shoots Dean): I have issues with you.
DEAN: Yeah, I’m getting that.

missyjack's Supernatural Season 2 recap [link]
SERA GAMBLE: I like Sam the best when he’s on the verge of raping Jo…
FANGIRLS: (scribbles on back of envelope to hastily reconcile sexual arousal due to non-consensual, sexually violent scene with feminist sensibilities): Agree!

emland's "Epiphany" [link]
The One with the Knife

"spider bites on all your lovers" [link]
Demons don't do vanilla. NC-17 as all hell. So amazing.

vee_fic's "Six of One" [link]
"I'm looking for somebody," said Sam. "Somebody named Sam Winchester?"

stele3's "In the Company of Demons" [link]
I ... I have no words for this story. Ever. I've tried.

eloise_bright's "Conversational Winchester for Trolls" [link]
There's a troll, metaphorically constructed.

inkon's "Three times Sam Winchester wasn't possessed" [link]
"What happened to you?"
Dean's leaning against the wall, his clothes ripped and stained, dried blood streaked down his cheek. He shrugs. "Fell off a building."

ignipes' "Cartography in Empty Spaces" [link]
Dean has been gone for two years. On Christmas Day, an old friend brings him back to Sam's doorstep.

ignipes' "The Edge of the Known World" [link]
A prequel to Cartography in Empty Spaces

ignipes' "Go Down You Blood Red Roses" [link]
Another prequel to Cartography in Empty Spaces

ignipes' "Changes in Latitude" [link]
More in the Cartography 'verse

lithiumdoll's The Thousand Ways To Bleed [link]
"That's always the last thing you ask."

rahmi's "Secure the Blessing" [link]
Sam made a wish and Dean is going to kick his ass for that once Sammy is born

thebitchtrolls's "Rockabye" [link]
"Did you teach me to read with Spiderman comics?"
Dean looked up, startled. "There's another way?"

halfshellvenus' "Like Breathing, Only Deadly" [link]
This drabble is why I am thinking of having a competence!kink tag. There's no hesitation and it's gorgeous.

ultraviolet's "The Winchester Plot" [link]
“Big fucking deal,” Dean said. “You’re not god.”
Demon?
Dean cocked his gun.
“Do you think admitting that is wise, you sorry fucker?”
Mind your language or I’ll have to change the rating.
“Rating?” Sam asked.

innie_darling's "Sunshine State" [link]
Somehow Sam falls into step at Ben's side, watches him flash easy smiles at the girls who seem to come out of the woodwork just to greet him. They cross the quad, go past the high-rise dorms, and end up in the park.

killabeez's "Talismans" [locked] [link]
The bracelet showed up on Sam's wrist a couple days later. He never said a word about it -- it was just there one day, and he never took it off. Dad raised an eyebrow over it, but for whatever reason, let it go without comment. A month or so after that, w

hollimichele's "Accidents Will Happen" [link]
"Should we call the police?" Leslie offered.
"And tell them what? 'Hello, officer, there's a naked man in my basement who I summoned up with a Satanic ritual,' oh god, my parents (continued...)

( continues...) were right, I am toying with unholy forces--" Allie took another shaky puff

eighth_horizon's "the idea of an island" [link]
They were FBI. Hot undercover gay FBI guys looking for serial killers. Wow. This was definitely going in her LJ.

ignipes' "Toy Soldiers" [link]
"Bobby," Ellen said, "give me a little bit of credit for not being a fool. I heard what that kid said to Sam in the graveyard, and now it's got you searching through every damn book about demons written in three languages. What the hell did those boys do?

innie_darling's "Vocabulary" [link]
Given a week to define himself, Sam watches Dean.

big-pink's "Verbal" [link]
Dean talks. A lot. And it's horrible. The talking, not the story, the story is wonderful. But the talking is ouchy and you really want the Dean who says nothing back.

minim_calibre's "Marking Time" [link]
Dean is marking time.

marinarusalka's "I Saw the Thing Comin' out of the Sky" [link]
Crack, so much crack. Explaining why would ruin the punchline.

grnhairbryn's "Already Come True" [link] Angel Crossover
He stares at her like she's a mirage, a cold glass of water in the desert or a ghost from his past.

killabeez's "Days Like This" [locked] [link] Angel Crossover
A metrosexual maybe-vampire who went by the name of Angel and hunted monsters? California was messed up, man.

thisbone's "Riggins & Winchester" [link] FNL Crossover
Damn. The bathroom light made him look about forty, made the distance between him and the kid he'd just fucked in the next room look worse than it even was.
Dean arched his neck, shaking his head at the truly spectacular hickey the kid, Tim, had sucked on

lyra-wing's "Dust in the Wind" [link] American Gods Crossover
Seriously ftw. [This is where I want the Show to go with its Gaiman crush.]

lyra-wing's "Hits the Spot" [link] O11 Crossover
When Rusty Meets Dean...

I think I'm being too nitpicky about the word canon because

John drinks. Canon. John drinks too much. Canon but from a possibly a very unreliable narrator at the time. John was a less than stellar father. Pretty damn canon but subject to interpretation.

I would have said, "John drinks. Canon. John got drunk. Canon. John drank too much, canon only that Sam thinks so, but not canon that John did.

Aaaaand now I know how I'm spending the rest of the weekend. Thanks, Cass!

I am still the nicest.

Oh, you sweet deluded people. We all know *I'm* the nicest.

Five favorite gen SPN fics. Read all warnings: these aren't happy, cracky fics for the most part.

Woke Up New, by guns_and_butter

Snuffleupagus, by kellifer

Backseat Drivers, by wanttobeatree

Disambiguation, by fleshflutter

Let's Do the Time Warp Again, by fleshflutter

I am still the nicest.

We all know *I'm* the nicest.

Yeah, no.

Though some Lee Pace or Paget Brewster pictures might help push it towards ita.

Yeah, no.

Hmph. Who writes fic for you, missy, hmmm?

Hmmmmm