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1) arsenicjade's Love Meme. This is awesome. GO!

2) I have not watched the new TW ep yet, but executorvs just watched "Reset" and came in and said to me

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I can find Wincest occasionally hot but I mostly read it because it gives me the immediate connection between the characters even if it's through the shortcut of pairing them off. In other words, I read it primarily for the emotional pay-off - they hit the right sort of buttons.

And that makes sense. I used to read it a lot for just that reason - except that it really was ultimately unsatisfying because the shortcut never *quite* worked for me and the emotional pay-off was never really what I wanted. Like you say, it was just the closest thing available. (Though there are a few gen fics that did do what I wanted and there are a few wincest fics that I like, even if it never totally works for me, except for, like, once.) Also - I think I used to read it to hit the ust first time button too (bullet proof kink - as long as the writing is good, it trumps the incest!squick), but it could never really hit that button either because I always found it innately tragic, which . . . sort of negates the kink.

Interesting what you say about Buffyverse. I think you're completely right too and this:

Buffyverse being one's first fandom invalidates from the start the perspective of "oh noes, those two characters would never do each other omgwtf!!1eleventy is very true.

Thanks for the fic recs!

As for who I'd slash Dean with . . . there aren't really that many canon characters are there? That friend of his from "Sin City" who is now dead. Henrickson. Otherwise, crossovers! Jack Harkness! Gunn! (but then you have weird Gordon issues). Make someone up! I'd read Dean/OMC. (I don't actually know why I have such a burning desire for Dean/other slash - probably because I so rarely see it done well - but I really, really do).