Fic Recs for Anti-Bullying Month!
It is Anti-Bullying Month. I wanted to write something from "The Faculty" fandom for this - a) I dipped like one toe in that fandom years back, b) I have been having the urge to write in that fandom again recently, and c) Casey is a good character to use for an anti-bullying fic - his ability to know which battles to fight (say for instance ones
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Also, I feel awkward responding to your rec, lest I sound like I'm all full of myself.
I know that feeling too - but I always try to think of it like replying to a comment on a fic. I sound like a dirty hippie in the middle of a lovefest, but writers love readers as much as readers love writers.
It's interesting how you recognized how when someone is being nice to you, you think it's a trick.
There are two specific moments that stand out in my head; the first time Dean approaches Cas and Cas thinks it is a trick, that Dean is in it with Alastair. And later when Cas asks Dean if they can be friends and Dean is so shocked by this, because he thought they already were friends.
In my school days, there was this one boy that ever stuck up for me, that ever asked me how things were going. I was so full of trust issues at the time that I didn't realize that we were friends. Reading your fic really brought that back into my head.
I know what you mean about the trust issues - nearly a decade after the fact, I started consciously trying to correct the damage done to me by the bullying, reciting a mantra in my head of "hold your head up, look people in the eyes," - not metaphorically, but literally holding my head and not being afraid to make eye contact.
Well, that was depressing, lol - but I think the point is, we are both awesome. Agreed?
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