CLEARLY THEY ARE FUCKING #48208493

Holy crap, there is a The Borgias kink meme already: borgiaskink

You guys like things with incest subtext, right? Check this shit out. The blonde and the dude in purple are siblings. Watch this vid. Don't worry, the only thing it'd spoil you for is how often Lucrezia and Cesare find themselves on the verge of making out. SPOILER: VERY OFTEN.

Do you like powerful families full of hubris manipulating the world to suit their purposes? OF COURSE YOU DO. ALL THE BLOOD ON ALL THE HANDS. ALL THE REGRETTABLE THINGS. Look, Cesare never wanted to be a cardinal, but his dad Jeremy Irons has ambitions to be the Pope, so Cesare is the right-hand man organizing the assassins and bribes, and actually he is pretty good at it. His other talents include sleeping around and creeping on his sister. Watch The Borgias.

Speaking of Jeremy Irons being a Pope: whenever he speaks, I imagine it's Scar saying the lines. I'm sorry, Jeremy Irons, you will never not be Scar to me. Yeah, I make no claim to be watching this for historical accuracy. Meanwhile, here is a fic rec.

vicarius filii dei by marketchippie | The Borgias | Lucrezia/Cesare | PG13 | ~1775 words
SUCH GRACEFUL PROSE, THIS FIC. Furthermore, it's a well-known fact that incest is best carried out in a confessional booth.

WHY IS IT NOT MAY 6 YET

FEMALE CHARACTER TROPE FEST! \o/

And now, an SPN recs dump.

FIC: Three Postcards Written in: 1) Farmington, New Hampshire, 2) Oneida, Kentucky, & 3) Castle Rock, Washington by proxydialogue
Chuck, Cas, Dean, Sam, Bobby, Balthazar | PG13 | ~4000 words total
The tone reminds me of a folk tale, or at least a more whimsical story than fanfic or SPN tries to tell. The writer's use of third-person omniscient is refreshing and well-played.

FIC: The American Dream by tahirire | Jensen & Jared | R | ~4100 words
6x15 fic about Jared and Jensen in SPNverse, with lines like "how Dean felt for that missing year that never made it onto paper but somehow ended up lodged inside your soul."

ART: He's my brother by gikun | Cas and Balthazar | G
*___* is an acceptable review, right? Let's go with that. <3____<3, for good measure.

FIC: the hand that sews time by glorious_spoon | Dean/Castiel | NC17 | ~2200 words
Dean and Cas are rough, aware, and unable to quite get a grip on each other, oh shiiiiiip.

ART: manga!Winchesters by H_annex | Sam and Dean | G
Can anybody translate/transliterate that title from Japanese for me? Also, this is what anime!Dean should look like.

FIC & ART: Collecting Stamps at the End of the World by ksock | Dean, Sam, Cas | PG13 | ~2000 words
I feel like there was a time when this fic got recced everywhere, but I haven't recced it yet so I'm gonna rectify that even if it's jossed, because those postcards are awesome.

ART: Castiel paper cutting by ldhenson | Castiel | G
HOLY SHIT. IT'S LIKE THOSE SNOWFLAKES YOU CUT FROM PAPER BUT CASTIEL. AND AMAZING. Creativity, omg.

And now a non-SPN, non-fannish rec. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal has become one of my favorite webcomics. I mean, already they make awesome things like this, then they had to go make one about the Novaks. Hover your mouse over the red button below the comics.

( spoilery speculation for the rest of S6 )