Thank you for appreciating all the little details. They are so important, and I love it when people single them out. Specific, concrete, unique detail is what differentiates stories from each other and makes them vivid. The details are so important. So thank you.

And thank you for what you said about the daddykink. It was a fine line for me. It was important that John be not so much as an undertone, for Sam and Dean's sake (like you pointed out) as much as for us. But I also wanted to avoid judgment, both between Sam and Dean and between myself and my readers. Because I know that many people enjoy all sorts of themes in their erotica and literary porn. And this was a version of daddykink I could personally live with, that I hoped would not be upsetting to people who have lived through parental incest.