thoughts on fic (pt. 2) + recs

[johnnypurple]

I am really crap at writing Dean Winchester. I love him as a character but I can't write him, I can't quite get my head around him. Why is this? (Discovered today while writing 4.03 response fic

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[johnnypurple]

I get the repression and the under-the-surface stuff, and I love writing it. Me too - but it's harder to write well, eh?! It's the old thing of: show, don't tell. But I find that hard with Dean - too much telling.

like putting one of those giant rooftop floodlights next to a flashlight with dodgy batteries. - where your issues are the floodlights right?! ;) *shmooshes you*

I think James is the most intellectual of the TG lads, but that doesn't mean he's the most in control/in touch with his emotions. I'd say prossibly, in RL, that's Richard (maybe?) - but then he always seems to be written as the simple puppy-dog enthusiastic one. Of course, I'm basing this on what-? The fact that I'm reading Hammond's book at the moment and the fact that James doesn't like to be touched by people. It's not much to go on. I guess that's why it's called Real Person Fiction. Maybe James is actually the most repressed. *shrug* Meh.

Hey hey, do you happen to know what kind of car ellen harvelle drives? Is it a truck? of course, maybe superwiki will tell me, but seeing as this fic is FOR YOU and all! ;-)

Also, what are your thoughts on... no, wait. I'm just going to write it. Just finished watching 'Aliens' and fighting with the demon known as plot. Also, how faithful I can be to both canons while still making such a crossover plausible. *sigh* This is why RPS is so much easier! But anyway, I will no doubt have wind-blown, set-in-space, alien-fighting dreams tonight. Instead of the extra-episode-at-the-end-of-Doctor-Who-season-4 dreams that i had last night.

[wolfy_writing]

Yes. Dean Winchester is clearly the one with tiny, intermittent flickers of actual personal problems. *smooshes back*

I definitely think fanon James is fanon. He does seem most likely to intellectualize about things, but he also has that strange ability to insist he doesn't like being touched (or doesn't like being touched by men), which clearly runs contrary to any video clip with him within ten feet of Richard Hammond ever. And I swear he had an interview where he talked about the good old days when the proper manly response to being told "I love you," by one of your male friends was punching them in the face.

Also, I saw him on Helicopter Heroes, where he was talking about hearing Richard's crash, and the whole "I had a bit of a...you know," thing didn't look like he was any good at talking about how he feels. It just hit that awful words-sticking-in-your-throat territory, and he had to go off in a slightly different direction to be able to say anything at all.

Richard...I haven't read the book. He is the one who drops casual "We all love each other, really" remarks into interviews (which, slash or no slash, had me going "We know!"), and even though he's brave to the point of recklessness, he's also the one most likely to admit to being scared. But he kind of contradicts himself and backtracks, like when he says something that indicates he really isn't fine in some way, and someone notices, he goes back and insists that he's completely fine, and whatever he said was misinterpreted and blown out of proportion. Not-fine is only acceptable if it's in the past.

He's also a bit of a worrier. This showed up most on Should I Worry About, particularly the drinking and job stress ones.

I have no idea what kind truck Ellen would drive. Part of me thinks Ford, because it's very American working-class, but part of me wants to go with either a Toyota Tacoma, or Toyota Tundra, because they're just about indestructible (a Tacoma's basically the same as a Hilux, and a Tundra was my mom's favorite car ever). It should be green.

[johnnypurple]

Your thinky thoughts are thinky. My tired brain can't really respond properly except to say: awwwwww, boys.

Actually, I do recall starting a fic in which James bottled everything up and failed completely to recognise and deal with his emotions. There was a bit of staring out of windows going on. I don't think there was going to be any sex in it either - and when I realised that, I stopped writing it. Heh. Gen fic - WTF?! Though maybe there could have been some punching in the face. That might have been fun.

Green, you reckon? I was going for red. A dusty red. Though now I don't think it'll actually be mentioned in the fic - the colour, that is. The truck might be important if that is where they are to have sex. I've started it now, but I don't know how to get them to the sex part. Maybe a bit of alien killing will put them in the mood. I know it always does me! ;-)