Because we have no other choice

I may be unreasonably excited that Groundhog's Day is falling on a Tuesday this year... :D



It was the heeeeeeeeeeeeat of the moment...

Oh, man, I'm usually quite confident in my writing, but the quality of the spnspringfling fics is turning out to be REALLY HIGH and I'm not sure mine is actually so great. D: I mean it's fine, I don't think it's bad or anything and certainly has its good points, but now I'm rather haunted by the fear that I should/could have done better. Well, hopefully it will be enjoyed...

In better news, my gift was posted and I fucking LOVE IT. An incredibly sweet, funny, perfectly in-character fic that gave me ALL THE FEELS and hit like a million of my buttons. I can't wait to find out who the author was. Check it out! (There are tons of other great fics, too, and some lovely art. I've been really enjoying seeing everyone's work.)

I was thinking about something that has not been (entirely) addressed in canon, and I'm wondering if anyone else has thoughts/ideas.

We know very little about nephilim from canon, despite Jack. They are supposed to become more powerful than the angel that sired them, they need their grace to keep their human and angel sides in balance, the human mother dies bearing them...Not a whole lot else. Which leads me to wonder a number of things:

-Can an angel in a female vessel become pregnant by a male human? If so, would the angel survive childbirth?
-Can two angels in vessels make a baby? If so, would it be a full angel? 3/4s angel? Still half-and-half because they were in vessels?
-Could nephilim help power Heaven, or does that only work with full angels?
-If they can help power Heaven, this really seems like an avenue that Heaven should explore to help with their dwindling numbers. Nephilim were seen as abominations in the past, but I get the sense that they've relaxed their stance on that, given how they came to collect Jack in season 13 (and I don't think were trying to kill him, unless I'm misremembering). And if they can only create a nephilim with a human woman who would die, I can't say I approve of that plan, but I can see how from their perspective, desperate times might call for desperate measures, for the sake of protecting the souls in Heaven.

I may explore these ideas in a Lucifer/Anael AU fic I've been wanting to write, where he actually listens to her and sticks around Heaven trying to fix things for more than five minutes...Would love to hear if anyone else has thoughts about this!

Work is just eating me alive this week. I keep trying to do some writing on my lunch break, or at least finally do another Snowflake Challenge entry, but I can't seem to find the inspiration to work on either of the two SPN Kink Bingo fics I've started or to settle on what to do instead. UGH. Hopefully I can do some writing tonight, if I'm not too drained.

In better news, I re-watched "About A Boy" yesterday. Man, I love that episode. I love watching Dylan Everett as young Dean. He imitates Jensen so perfectly that I never feel like I'm watching another actor play Dean. I feel like I'm watching Dean.

Also, even though I just re-watched that episode probably a yearish ago, I somehow completely forgot that Dean likes "Shake It Off" and of course that must be why Hillywood chose that song for their wonderful first parody. Though I love the Ghostbusters one probably even more, I love first one, too. I'm not crazy about Taylor Swift's version of the song, from what I've heard, but I think the cover in Hillywood's video is a great, fun pop song. (With the SPN lyrics just being icing on the cake!) And the visuals are of course delightful.

Sharing it here, in case anyone missed it somehow or wants to watch it again:



(For my money, Hilly Hindi does a great job capturing Dean's expressions, too. It's maybe broader than Dylan Everett because it's a parody, but there were a couple moments when I re-watched this recently that I was really struck by how well she did. Osric as Sam, too, although he's even broader. XD He cracks me up in the parodies.)