#chiops256

Thank you! I’ve just seen this and ahhh I didn’t know but I will def go check this fic out! I love anything that connects Cas to the stars!

Thank you so much! I am doing okay (kinda) and the heat has now thankfully abated. The political situation - eh, I’m burying my head because my anger at the world is only going to cause high blood pressure before i’m 40. 

Hi hi! And thank you, I’m doing pretty well!

I think I should start off by saying that my personal approach to canon is NEVER “the writers just forgot.” I always start from the baseline assumption that things that conflict with my notions or beliefs about past canon are either a) a puzzle to solve, or b) intentional and demonstrate either a clarification or extrapolation of past canon, or c) I actually mis-remembered past canon or evolved a headcanon that doesn’t actually fit and needs to be refined now that we have additional canon to clarify it.

First off, I don’t think it’s fair to compare Lucifer’s abilities with AU Michael’s, because Lucifer himself lampshaded the fact that AU Michael was wildly more powerful, in 13.07:

LUCIFER: Yeah, yeah. Look, you protected my son. He trusts you. If you can convince him to be on our team, I think the combined power of the three of us can drive Michael back. I'm telling you, this guy is not the same Michael that we knew. He's much more powerful.

So right there, from Lucifer’s own mouth, gives you enough to postulate that AU!Michael has abilities that outstrip the archangels from the regular universe. And this could potentially be one of them.

It’s also entirely possible that back in s12, Cas’s “these are not the droids you are looking for” tattoo functioned to conceal him from Lucifer, at least long enough to get him in the door. It’s also entirely possible that they were relying on Lucifer being more focused on his unborn child than on thinking this was some sort of setup. I mean, Lucifer also theoretically didn’t notice Crowley, Rowena, or the Winchesters were in the next room over waiting to pounce, either. I don’t think Lucifer was really at his best during his Destroy Dad’s Toys Road Trip back in s12.

Angels are neither omniscient nor omnipotent. Not that they can’t sense these things if they try to, but I think they do specifically need to try, you know? So some combination of “Cas was actively concealing himself” with “Lucifer was not actively looking for him” is just as plausible a scenario as anything else.

And when they were planning their invasion of Michael’s office in 14.09, where they knew Michael had essentially set a trap for all of them, they had to assume that Michael would be sitting there waiting for them in this way, which they specifically used to their advantage by sending Cas in as a diversion of sorts, hoping that Michael would be drawn to him like a moth to a flame, giving them a chance to sneak in.

The show right now:

OH GOSH THANK YOU!

Also I like your cat in your lil pic there. Please to administer pettings for me. :D

Aw, gosh! First of all, thank you! I hope you have a good day, too. :)

And oh boy, yes. I remember the posts about this from when it aired originally. There was some monumentally strenuous mental contortions going around to explain why Sam’s crush on Rio was so very very different from Dean’s “fanboying” about Gunner Lawless.

Like, don’t hurt yourselves, folks, it’s not that hard to wrap your head around it. :P

*cue the scars comparison scene and adjacent stroll through the bar wherein Dean essentially ignored all the scantily clad women and went directly to Gunner’s side to carry out a private conversation that had absolutely zero to do with the case*

http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/139979330895/1115-sam-dean-and-parallels

http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/139956609320/obsessionisaperfume-deanfightswithmonsters

*oh and while we’re here, cue the exact parallel to dreamhunter in 13.10*

*not to mention the numerous other parallels that issue us engraved invitations to interpret so many of Dean’s interactions with Gunner as “flirtatious” at the very least*

http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/147650116630/f-ckyeahfutbol-are-we-gonna-talk-about-the

(and a visual accompaniment) http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/140115506040/marilynmay-11x11-11x15

http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/140183830225/spn-11x15-doing-the-right-thing

http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/140099958020/because-i-see-nobody-mentioning-it-i-thought-one

http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/139983357685/larinah-remember-when-patroclus-died-and

http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/139956456230/ksenianovak-5x08-11x15-reblogging-this

http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/139951080570/jenmisheel-gunner-was-literally-waiting-for

http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/139944629280/eliciaforever-lmao-winjennster-our-age-is

http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/post/140068289930/interested-by-ppl-comparing-bidean-evidence

O_O

This makes me happy for multiple reasons!

1. YOU LIKED MY FIC!

2. YOU LIKED IT ENOUGH TO SEEK OUT THE SILLY SHOW THAT INSPIRED MY FIC!

3. YOU LIKED THAT SILLY SHOW TOO! YAY!

4. YOU LIKED ALL OF IT ENOUGH TO READ MY FIC AGAIN! WHEEEEEEE!

Hi, and thank you! I always appreciate plot bunnies, but I actually have ideas for four other stories in the Everything is Subtext ‘verse. Now that they’re comfortably financially set for a good long while, I was gonna have them do some things just for fun… The original goal of giving them loads of cash was to get Dean to cave and take Sam to *their* Paris so he and Cas can show him around, buy him cookies, even let him go up the Eiffel Tower if he wanted. :D

But the eventual finale of the series (if I ever get around to writing all the other things I need to do first) was this sort of “reunion” between all of them from both universes. They’ve all been on the To Be Written list since before I wrote In Jeopardy! (and I just looked it up because I couldn’t remember, but that was almost two years ago… I should probably consider going back and poking at these guys again…)

(and that’s the problem with writing, for me anyway. I can’t predict what idea will prompt a story to start writing itself in my head, and right now it’s in the middle of long fic that was never even ON the dumb To Be Written list before it started writing itself. So I can’t really say for sure when any of these will be written, but the idea and notes for them are all written)

But oh gosh, thank you! Thanks for liking my story enough to wish for more of it. :)