AAOOO! Also, more SPN thoughts

[cofax7]

Squeee!

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[sasha_davidovna]

I was a little puzzled by the portrayal of John too, but I'm fanwanking it that he comes from a "grin and bear it" sort of ethos and we mostly see him interacting with strangers and Mary, who sees him almost as salvation, so we're not really getting anywhere near a complete picture of him. I also think the six-ish years between 1973 and Dean's birth leave plenty of room or PTSD (or whatever)-induced trouble in paradise. It's unusual, in my experience, for a couple from that sort of social class to wait so long to have kids, especially since Mary specifically said she wanted a family, unless there were problems of some kind.

[oracne]

MMMMM, beeeeeeeeeeeets.

[ratcreature]

And I'm pro-labor. Oy.

Sometimes keeping the solidarity up is hard. I'm always tested when the garbage people strike for longer than two weeks, or public transport, and supermarket strikes kind of suck too, though considering the awful pay and conditions in retail I have much sympathy there, so I'm not as annoyed even if it is inconvenient. Generally food production strikes suck, like a few months ago that dairy farmer strike here, the farmers were renegotiating prices and blocked dairies and stopped production (it was painful to watch them pour milk away)-- for a week or so I couldn't get milk or cream cheese in the supermarkets. Thankfully so far I've never been affected by doctor strikes where hospitals will only do absolutely necessary operations, that must suck. OTOH strikes wouldn't work if they didn't hurt and caused pressure. So I try to keep that in mind.

[cass404]

And the ratings make a clear distinction between sexual explicitness and type of story: i.e., [info]nestra's story Hankering is a slash story appropriate for general audiences. Good call, designers.

That is a great call.

I still want to see more fic in the Bob genre. Where romance or sex fits in the story but isn't the entire thing and also isn't sanitized out unrealistically either. You know, stories.

[la_perkins]

Where did you get FNL? WANT