FIC: Personal Grooming for the Modern Man

[twasadark]

Title: Personal Grooming and the Modern Man
Author: Xina Marie Uhl (twasadark)
Genre: Gen, no pairing
Rating: PG-13
Words: About 1500
Summary: Dean gets whammied. Sam gets freaked.
Author’s Note: The idea for this was generated as I sat in the dentist’s chair, contemplating the nature of the word ‘grooming.’ Be ye warned. Beta'd by my best bud dysonrules

When Sam and Dean motored into Raleigh, North Carolina,

Comments

[spuffyduds.livejournal.com]

Heeeee! This was great fun. I can just picture Sam's horror at the licking, and and looked sorta like an angel, but might also have been an abominable snowman was a hootworthy line, as were many others. Yay you!

Geographical nitpick: Raleigh, North Carolina

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks so much for your kind words! And the correction of the state. Whoops! Will change it right away!

[suonguyen.livejournal.com]

LOL that was just too cute! :D

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-)

[lovetheguys.livejournal.com]

LMAO! That was pure, fun crack, and I enjoyed every word! Love, Robin

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I'm so happy you liked it!

[quellefromage.livejournal.com]

LOL...I can't reach it...but you can. FTW!!!

loved this. I've seen Dean turned into an actual cat before, but this is much funnier. Thanks for sharing.

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks! I'm so glad you liked it! And your icon is sooooo cute! :-)

[iamstealthyone.livejournal.com]

Very fun and funny story. :) I really enjoyed the narrative voice, as well as Dean’s predicament and Sam’s reaction.

Favorite lines:

Fredericka’s eyes narrowed. It wasn’t a pretty sight. In fact, very little about Fredericka was pretty.
LOL!

her eyelashes looked like tarantula legs.

Great analogy.

“Yet. And do we have to have this conversation in front of the witch?”

*snickers*

“I told you, I’m a sorceress,” Fredericka said.
“And I’m Batman.”

*g*

He must have missed something between this morning and the point within the last 90 minutes when Dean went irrevocably insane.

*snickers*

“No. Can’t reach.” He glanced at Sam, sizing him up. “But you could,” he said with a hopeful expression.

LOL! I can totally picture Sam’s mortified expression.

On the way out of Raleigh later that morning, though, Sam couldn’t resist cuing up a cassette tape of Ted Nugent’s “Cat Scratch Fever.”

Cute ending. :)

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanks, hon! I'm glad you got a chuckle out of this little bit of silliness. :-)

i looooooved

[(Anonymous)]

this is absolutely amazing!! the tomfoolery is greatly encouraged. and by the way i love your writing style you can form a nice image in the reader's head without making it too wordy.

Re: i looooooved

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the kind words! :-)

[junebugg-09.livejournal.com]

"Okay. That was a little strange."

I love the Sammy-logic here. In fact, I loved this fic in general. =]

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for reading and commenting!

[moriker.livejournal.com]

Wonderful! I love how Dean got owned by that witch, um, Sorceress and then acting all cute and cat-ish. Squee! And drinking 24 cans of budweisser to forget everything! I Need to try that one day lol.

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for letting me know. :-)

[smilla02.livejournal.com]

Ah-ah. So funny! I like the light tone of the story.

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I love to make someone smile. :-)

[feline-fury1.livejournal.com]

I liked this story. A lot. So I'm leaving you feedback to encourage you to keep on writing. You nailed the boys' voices, and I laughed out loud several times. Thanks for sharing this!

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

You laughed out loud? Awesome, dude! Makes my day. :-)

[contrary-lady.livejournal.com]

LMAO!! That was pretty funny!! I can so picture the look on Sam's face when he woke up to find Dean sniffing his shoe & then when Dean licked his forehead. :p

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon! :-)

[katikat.livejournal.com]

Mwahaha! That was funny! I loved the scene where Dean was rubbing his head against Sam's arm :D

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

So glad you liked it! :-)

[mlebayre.livejournal.com]

Oh...hehehheee....my..lolololol...gosh....that was just....purrfect!

Laura

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Purrfect - love it! :-)

Thanks for your kind words~

[faithintheboys.livejournal.com]

Aww, the idea of Dean as a cat is adorable! Hee, I love your description of Fredericka. So cute!

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

;-) Thanks, hon!

[indusnm.livejournal.com]

I had fun! So please write more tomfoolery ;)

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-)

[gidgetgal9.livejournal.com]

Very cute- loved it.

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon!

[elderwitty]

Consider this my official encouragement to continue on with this sort of "tomcat-foolery." I'd say I was sorry for that, but I didn't even _try_ to resist.

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Ha ha!! "Tom-cat" foolery - I love it!

Glad to see you made it over to LJ, btw!

Too dang funny, man!

[(Anonymous)]

Cracked up so bad, I snorted pop out my nose AND it made my SO get up off the sofa and come read too. HE cracked up and asked what else you'd written, so we're about to find out. Thanks from both of us for the laugh! :)

Re: Too dang funny, man!

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

LOL! I think this is the best compliment I've ever received! 'Note Me, Baby' is my other crack fic. Although most of them have some element of humor, except for 'The Watchman' and 'Refuge' as they are angst-fests.

Thanks for commenting - you made my day!

[cybel]

Very cute, and well written, though a couple of non-American phrases crept in (at least, they seem so from my part of the country): 'motored into' rather than 'drove into', and 'flipped a U' rather than 'made a U-turn'. Both related to driving--hmm.

Anyway, yes, by all means keep writing and, of course, podficcing what you write!

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Hey - thanks for dropping by and reading! Glad you enjoyed it. What part of the country are you in? "Motored into" and "flipped a U" must be Arizona things, cause that's where I'm from - lol!

Anyhow, I might have to podfic this one of these days ... have a bit of a list to go thru first though.

[(Anonymous)]

lol we all KNOW stuff like this has to happen occasionally....and I'm pretty sure it usually happens to Dean for reasons that are all too obvious. Love this story.

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-)

ok this is great and I love em all.

[(Anonymous)]

I spent way too much time reading all of your fan fic. (blame your best bud. for summoning me to your joint website, I do)

very nice in total
as to this short. heh . Very amusing.

The fact that it was on Sam's head (namely the spit) was an added amusement.
The slow addition of diffrent symptoms was nice. Things that at first could be explained away then wham that was not possible anymore.
You Have to have cats. or at least one.

thank you for posting your fan fic.

lionesspuma on DA

Re: ok this is great and I love em all.

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon! So glad you enjoyed it and my other fics. And yup, I have 2 cats ... how did you guess? LOL.

[lark_ascends]

*laughs rather hysterically* Fabulous mental image.

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :-)

[9thof9.livejournal.com]

*giggles

You should definitely write more of this tomfoolery. It was great.

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Thanks, hon!

BTW, your icon is made of YUM!

[eesia.livejournal.com]

LOL!
I love it!
The way you described Dean acting like cat is awesome.
*hugs*

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks! I'm so glad you got a kick out of it. :-)

[nomelon.livejournal.com]

Haha! Awesome. Thanks so much for leaving me the link (and passing on recs is never cause for psychohood. I've been known, on occasion, to comment on entries way older than that one) I loved this, Sam's freakout, Dean's embarrassment, the cuteness of Dean grooming himself and sniffing at Sam's shoe. The the manly manly beer as they repress, repress, repress. :D Thanks so much for the link.

[twasadark.livejournal.com]

LOL! Love your review! Thanks so much for reading this silly little bit. :-)