1. One thing in SPN fanfic of late sends me into a frothing rage whenever I encounter it - the usage of "demon whore" for Ruby. While I prefer AUs in which she's truly on the Winchesters' side, I can accept and read canonish fic set post-episode 4x22. But this expression? What the fuck?!

Canon!Ruby has only ever had sex with one person (that we've seen, anyway), and that happened to be Sam. And even if she had slept with an entire soccer team, the fact that the body that would have done so wouldn't have been hers (and she wouldn't necessarily have experienced many of the sensations) makes the whole thing rather questionable, anyway. Ruby - the demon, the mass of amorphous black smoke, the crunchy filling inside the meat-suit - uses the body she's possessing like a tool, and that includes sex. No matter her past, now she's essentially genderless.

Despite that, I'm perfectly fine with an author (or her characters) calling her a "manipulative, traitorous bitch", a "fucking liar", etc., but "demon whore" insults me as a woman. Female villains aren't automatically "whores". A "whore" is (one of) the most demeaning and disrespectful term(s) for a female prostitute. Male villains don't get randomly called "cheap callboys", after all.

Writers, insult Ruby all you like (or have Dean insult her to his heart's content), but please, don't pull the "whore" card. Castiel using this expression to refer to her? Is even more disgusting and catapults me out of a story so fast my head spins.

2. In the new Batman movie!verse, the Gotham police department is abbreviated "GPD", not "GCPD". Watch the movies; in one of them, Jim Gordon wears tactical gear with the lettering "GPD" on his collar. "GCPD" is a falsehood that has been perpetrated by far too many writers recently. Watch your source material, goddammit, and don't rely on fanon to avoid doing research.

If "GCPD" is commonly used in the comic!verse, I apologize. My knowledge of the Bat!verse beyond the two most recent movies would fit into a thimble.

[Edit 25 Jul 2009: Evidently both abbreviations show up in the Nolan!verse, and "GCPD" is the one commonly used in the comics. That means "GPD" is out, and "GCPD" wins. Hmpf. Damned inconsistent movie!verse. Mea culpa.]