Rat Creature's Journal

I just finished reading Lovesrain44's Big Bang story, Phantom Load (gen, Sam and Dean, set present day and pre-series, ca. 54,000 words), and though it kind of gutted me, it's a great story. While the story is gen there are explicit scenes of sexual abuse of a young Dean by an original character, and I think it's one of the most harrowing child abuse stories I've read in fandom. Not because it is particularly extreme or bleak, but because the way the memories are narrated, the details, and the past and the present, and Dean and Sam's POVs are woven together made it very real to me.

Also, even if you don't think you can stomach the story, you should take a look at Xterm's drawing, which is lovely and can stand on it's own as a picture of their childhood, even though looking at it again after reading there are added layers to the artwork.

Aaaah, I was so squicked by this ep, ( spoilers for SPN 3x15 )

( spoilers for SPN 3x13 Ghostfacers )

( spoilers for SPN 3x11 )

( spoilers for SPN 3x09 )

( spoilers for SPN 3x06 )

( spoilers for SPN 3x05 Bedtime Stories )

Arranged from the not-so-squeeful to the most squee... :)

( Journeyman 1x02 )

( the first two Moonlight episodes )

( Avatar the Last Airbender 3x02 and 3x03 )

( Supernatural 3x01! )

( SGA 4x02 )

Not exactly a reprieve from the comic posts, but it's about the Supernatural comics, so no people wearing their bright underwear on the outside! :D

Supernatural: Origins #1-3 (written by Peter Johnson, art by Matthew Dow Smith)

First, I like that the art doesn't try for photographic likeness, because that is really hard to pull off well in tv tie-in comics, i.e. far too often the likeness is mangled and/or the drawings look stiff. So I'm fine with the art being stylized. One major problem is though that the artist doesn't seem to be able to draw small children. Baby!Sam in particular just looks really, really odd. Also the coloring doesn't always work for me.

As for the story, ( cut for spoilers )