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That’s... a lot of Dean-centered blogs XD

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1) Of the fics you’ve written, which is your favorite and why?

This changes a lot, but I’m going to say “Your Visible Ghost” today, for the same reasons I went into in my earlier post. 

4) If you could change anything in “Via Negationis”, what would it be?

Ooh, good question! As you might expect, with that fic I tend to veer between ‘all of it’ and ‘none of it’. ;) Sometimes I wonder if Lucifer should have had some bigger, more nefarious plan than wanting to yell at his dad and being vaguely suicidal–or if something should have changed more visibly for Sam at the end of the story. But then, I’m not sure what, or how I’d work those things in if I were to change them…

10) What are some facts readers may not know about “Divine Madness”?

- Well, you already know this, but despite the username I’m no classicist, and the maenad storyline was totally inspired by that one season of True Blood and not any actual mythology. ;)

- TJ is named after the rock club where I misspent most of my teenage years, and in hindsight I realise I partly subconsciously based him on one of my old friends from that period.

But if it had been “just” Sam (i.e. if Cas had pulled out Sam with his soul in place), then Sam would have spent like an hour tops in the Cage - call me callous, but I dont think that would be enough to make someone “pop out of Hell wrong”.

Was it as quick as that? I know that in 6x01 Sam says he has been back for ‘almost the whole year’ but I guess I have always allowed a week or two in my mind for Cas to be miraculously restored and then to work out a plan. I suppose you’re right, though, if hell time worked for Sam the same way that it did for Dean then if successfully rescued he could potentially have endured a relatively short spell underneath (say Cas pulled him out after a week, Dean’s four months are forty years, Sam’s week would be two and a half years or so??). Two and a half years of torture might have an appreciable impact on somebody, though, even if it doesn’t touch forty (or 180, the approximate length of time Sam’s soul was under in actuality by that measure). 

However, I also wonder (and have seen discussed elsewhere) if Cage time operates differently from general Hell time. This would seem plausible given that Hell time works differently to regular time anyway - I guess I think of it like Inception, levels and levels and as you go deeper time expands so what’s a few minutes up top feels like longer the deeper you go. And the Cage is in the very deepest part of Hell. I think that idea about time is based mostly on what Sam says in 6x14 after his seizure:

SAM: So, how long was I out, again? DEAN: I'm telling you, like two or three minutes. Why, what'd it feel like to you? SAM: About a week, give or take.

In that case, even allowing for a super-speedy angel rescue, an hour in the Cage could feel like at least 30 weeks/7+ months, and a week would be like... sixty-four and a half years. 

But I guess this is all academic anyway, because Sam didn’t get rescued with his soul in place, and it wasn’t just trauma that was making him behave oddly, and so.

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