Thanks for all the fic recommendations, ita!
I've gone through most of the season 3 dvds now. (There were a few episodes where I got a few minutes in and decided to move on to the next.) Right now I have the season 3 finale to watch. But I'm waiting for the first season 4 dvd to get here before I ingest what I expect will be an angst fest. I figure I'll want to see the s4 premiere right away.
Mmm, I think Equinox may be one of my top fave C/D fics so far. Not so much with the sexing, more with the epic love and the intricacies and hint of (epic) plottiness.
So weird that I had come to the conclusion that if Castiel has to go, I maybe want him to have a Wesley Windham Pryce farewell, and then there was a fic that gave it to me (and I didn't realize it was fusion because I'm terrible about reading titles and notes and stuff.)
But he already died, and died for Dean, so that would just feels like a retread if Cas died for Dean (or even Sam, but basically the human race) again. Interesting and new story lines are better served by severe but not mortal injuries and a human existence for S6. Bobby was supposed to have died but for some major ass-pulling at the beginning of the season, and has been a sad, whiny, sometimes annoying and depressing in a not-fun-way dude for a while now, and while he could go back to being the gruff resource he used to be, I think it's time. It feels symmetrical, and I don't see any interesting storylines for him.
Then again, there was tons of potential for Cas, and they kinda blew it this season anyway. But if he's human in S6, they won't need to do stupid things to neuter that pesky deux ex machina that they seemed unable to work with (except for when the could)(hah! He's the gun/knife that can kill anything, except when it can't!).
All this time I was thinking curtain!fic was like an O Henry story where the wind blows and the curtain shields the lovers from the readers view, offering them privacy.
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that the new teen vampire show will be debuting at 9:00 on Thursday with the VD lead-in.
The what now? New teen vampire show? Based off what?
This Bitter Earth, another CM crossover. I love the textbook hoops every author jumps through to cross SPN over with a law enforcement, especially FBI show.
The Equinox story could easily have been creepy, but I think it avoided it very well.
I maybe want him to have a Wesley Windham Pryce farewell
Did you read A Hole In The World by Atelier?
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Did you read A Hole In The World by Atelier?
Yes!
Only just yesterday or the day before I realized that this was a wish of mine, and then later I was half-way through this fic and almost came to comment on it because it made me remember my wish, and only then did I notice the title, and realized the rememberance was because my wish had already been granted.
Not as good or as achey as the whole Illyria/Wesley story, but still pretty damned good.
Jilli, the name is supposed to be Changeling, or possibly Betwixt. Other than that, I haven't heard anything.
This is all a plot to make sure we never leave the house again, isn't it?
Finally saw the episode! So much goodness! The Bobby/Cas show! the Dean/Crowley show! Sammy in the warehouse! Cas in the hospital! Death schooling Dean on undoing Lucifer and pizza!
I'm trying to remember the deal on what happens if Dean or Sam agrees to become a vessel. Do they only give up property rights to their bodies, or are they also giving up their souls? I ask because if they're also signing off on their souls, then what Sam's proposing isn't only risky it seems catastrophically suicidal for him. We know he wasn't strong enough to hold off Meg when she possessed him, although he has gained strength through what he learned from Ruby since then. He was able to withstand whatever Lilith did at the end of "No Rest For the Wicked." But still, Lucifer.... Considering that Azazel was grooming Sam to lead the armies of hell, and demons were already lining up in battle for and against him, it might not be a very hospitable place for him. And knowing that despite everything that has happened God has forgiven him and granted him access to heaven, Sam might want to rethink sending his soul willingly into hell. Risking his corporeal body is one thing (relatively speaking, because I know there's a season 6 on the way) as long as he knows his soul will remain inviolate. But handing over his soul to Lucifer as well, that I would have to think twice about. Or three times. At the very least.
I am hoping that whatever last-minute plan they go with turns out to be a combined effort. There has been too much separation between them and this Apocalypse has caused so much damage to them that they need to solve it together. And I am really hoping that whatever last-ditch, seat-of-the pants miracle they come up with to pull it off proves that they are acting of their own volition and aren't just following in the footsteps of some millenia-old psychodrama that they were predestined to re-enact.