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[cantarina1]

1. Booked the hotel for Wincon. *flails a bit helplessly* This thing just got REAL. Exciting, but also a bit terrifying? Currently thinking about fridge rentals and looking up interesting things to do in Chicago on the Monday. And I may be cosplaying Amy Pond?

2. I really like this post by

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[yubsie]

I'm not sure whether it says something about SPN fandom or just my awareness of it... but it took me a moment to realize "Cassie" was not, in fact, a sex swapped Castiel. :p

[cantarina1]

It says things about both. Cassie is an incredibly infrequently written character :/

Also, LOL. One of my flisters frequently and loudly voices her opinion that Gina Torres would make an awesome Castiel. (I totally agree.)

[yubsie]

And sex swap seems to be popular in that fandom for some reason.

Heh, there is very little she wouldn't be awesome as.

[cantarina1]

Uh, because it's awesome? There was actually a really interesting Big Bang fic this year which took the trope and played with it, taking an always-a-woman-Deanna and making her a man. The story didn't pull any punches about what that would mean in the sort of working class hunting world and it made for really interesting reading.

It's been a while since I've tried to watch Cleo 2010, but I can only hope that she pulled the quality of the show up.

[yubsie]

Ooh, that sounds a lot better than the usual "I'm making one of them a girl because slash is icky" stuff. :p

I haven't seen that one. I'm not sure I want to. :p

[cantarina1]

Actually, that's pretty much never the case in the SPN (livejournal) fandom. I don't read a lot of Dean/Cas, but I figure the folks writing Wincest aren't really bothered by slash and the femmeslashers take lots and lots of advantage too (girl!Dean/Jo and girl!Sam/Jess are especially popular). It's hands-down the kinkiest fandom I've ever been in and the sexswap is almost always being done to meet a kink, explicitly sexual or not.