Oh, man, I just finished binge-reading that one last night. It took up a lot of time that I probably should have been doing much more "productive" things with, but I regret absolutely nothing. Was thinking I should probably give it a rec on my DW, too. Fantastic story, and the most utterly immersive fic-reading experience I've had in a long time.

I'm even more impressed with it, because it does a couple of things I normally hate. I mean, I could do a whole rant about why I think Crowley-was-Raphael is both illogical and unappealing, and in fact that initially put me off reading it. So glad I gave it another shot, though, because man, if you're going to use that idea, that is the way to do it, and the plot that gets woven around it totally justifies it. And while I still kind of have the urge to smack the author across the face a few times with the word "said" until they cry uncle and agree to replace all their conspicuously inappropriate dialog tags with it... Well, look, that's a pet peeve that's normally a back-button offense for me, but every single other thing about that fic was so damned good I hardly even cared. Which is astonishing for me.

I damned near came out of that thing thinking, "Well, S3 might be an anticlimax now." :)