About this 'verse

When I saw Sam sneaking out behind a dumpster to drink demon blood, I said aloud "oh...he's an addict." And, dealing with a loved one with addiction, it completely seized me. I love the show as a whole, and I suppose I long for a family as loving and open as the one I've attempted to create below, trying to base it completely off ( Read more... )

The theory of denial was first researched seriously by Anna Freud. She classified denial as a mechanism of the immature mind, because it conflicts with the ability to learn from and cope with reality.

John felt a little ill-and not just from a little too much whiskey. Sammy was teething, and it turned his usually easy-going little boy into a cranky ( Read more... )

I do not believe in a fate that falls on people however they act;
but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
--Gautama SiddharthaJim had just passed the second to last pew when he heard it: the telltale shuffling inside the confessional. He sighed. During his twenty-plus years in the priesthood, he’d found homeless ( Read more... )

Dean’s whole body ached. Chest, ribs, arms, stomach, back. He couldn’t quite get his head around what had happened, but he knew his Dad was mad at him, in a way he’d never been, and he knew he hurt because of it.

Dean also knew something had gone wrong. And he didn’t just mean Mom-he’d known for ages that was bad, and not to speak of it in ( Read more... )