[Fic] holes - Dean, Sam, hurt/comfort, horror, weirdness, 6x22 coda

[kalliel]

Title: holes
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre: Gen, hurt/comfort (exhaustion/fever/pain/Hell - Dean; Hell - Sam), horror(?), 6x22 coda
Rating: G
Word-count: ~2100
Spoilers: 6x22 coda
Warnings: Gratuitous weirdness, incoherent narrators.
Summary: The Winchesters dig a hole.
Notes: For sistabro's prompt for hoodie_time's Writing Between the Lines challenge!

Comments

[dayadhvam_triad]

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

DEAN IS A HAM SANDWICH fuller 8DDD!

♥ ♥ ♥

[kalliel]

I'll have you know this is going on my list of Do Wants!!!!

[dayadhvam_triad]

I am so absurdly pleased by it! Also, clearly my priorities do not fall in line with the point of this fic since I keep thinking about the HAM SANDWICH CRACK and not the profundity of the visuals. But you know I love the big black box. \o/

[kalliel]

Dean's livid as a Christmas ham, pacing Bobby's kitchen with newfound purpose. The stress flush and red-eye tears have subsided in favor of pissant rage and well, Bobby figures the kid's got a point. This was just insulting.

In between mouthfuls of Latin, Dean rages. "When you said vegetable, I don't think that Sam being a--a--"

"Rutabaga," Bobby offers.

"--a motherfuckin' rutabaga was part of the damn plan

[borgmama1of5]

Intriguing format! Took a couple false starts until I understood the stylistic choices, but then it really worked. Bouncing Sam's mental incoherency off of Dean's physically caused confusion makes this beautifully complex. I especially love the glimpse into Sam's mind, what you wrote makes a lot of sense about how Sam would be slipping around the aftermath of what happened in 6.22.

Well done!

[kalliel]

I'm glad it ended up working out for you eventually--admittedly even when I went back to proofread I had to do it a couple of times, a couple different ways to figure out what had just happened. Dean was originally supposed to carry the lucid, coherent part of the narrative, but it appears he rejected that idea. XD

6x22 has left a lot of room for fandom exploration, and I'm definitely excited to see how fandom deals with everything over the summer.

Thank you for reading! Again, I'm glad you enjoyed this. :)

[rince1wind]

This was really a interesting way of working toward a way to understand the differences in Sam and Dean's experiences of hell.

On the meta front, as a reader, it's kind of delightful to see that, regardless of similarities and differences, the brothers are "on the same page."

[kalliel]

Yeah, I definitely think it'll be an interesting contrast for fandom to disseminate over the summer; I'm quite looking forward to it! And I'm glad you liked the juxtaposition of Sam and Dean's tellings here--on the same page! XD I think probably the most fun thing to play with was how disparate their thoughts or perceptions could be one moment, and then how totally in line they'd be the next, without them even knowing it.

Thank you for reading!

TITLING THINGS AFTER SHIA LABEOUF FILMS, OMG

[vie_dangerouse]

AHAHAHA THE TITLE!!!

Okay so honestly darling yesterday I was really not sure what was going to come out of this if anything but I did have faith in you and MAN. This time crunch thing seriously suits you.

"What was Hell like?" Sam asks, without preamble, without taking his eyes from the bleak asphalt snake before them. "For you. What was it like?"

Almost four years coming and Dean finally has to answer him. Dean draws in a breath that's too deep for the state of his intercostal muscles. He coughs.

He has to answer.

Four years, and he says: "Social."

Also, that stream-of-consciousness bit over on the far right- I'm in love with it. Also, this works so well as a 6.22 coda, which is not ever the timeline I would've guessed for it. In short, you are amazing. ♥

Re: TITLING THINGS AFTER SHIA LABEOUF FILMS, OMG

[kalliel]

I totally forgot about that book/movie! Goodness; if I'd made the connection I would have been sure to include some spiced peaches and sweet wild onions and rattlesnakes in this fic.

This, my dear, is what panicking into cray cray looks like. XP PANICKING A LOT.

Though I must admit, I'm particularly fond of the Hell exchange, however non-revelatory it ended up being. Though I've no doubt in my mind Dean's experience of Hell was indeed social, in more ways than one.

I'm glad that this worked for you, though. As you can imagine I have some basis for concern! Thank you for reading~ ♥

[istne_pieklo]

Honestly, I never know what to expect from your fics except pure AWESOMENESS! That one is true for all of them, but apart from that your stories are always so diverse and original and full of amazing imagery. This one? I can't even begin to describe it. The style is very cool, and I can't help thinking: now that's Sam in the aftermath of 6x22, not what they've shown us so far! I was disappointed by Sam's wall collapsing. Not scary at all))
Mem'ing this to reread over and over. <333

[kalliel]

LOL, BB, I totally think we just clicked on each other's stories at the same time, because I just finished reading yours (and true to expectation, it was fantastic, btw).

I'm glad that this worked for you; as you might imagine I am a bit concerned about how the stylization of this one particularly would go over. You're too nice! <3

Yeah, I was too. But then I remembered Dean and Hell and how little it actually came into the narrative explicitly and how much of a lasting impact it had in my mind in retrospect and I'm pretty convinced fandom will make it all better over the summer, heh. :P

Thank you for reading!

[istne_pieklo]

IKR)) I just saw your comment. I love such coincidences)))
Oddly enough, I worked out pretty quickly how to read this. When I first opened it and saw the stylization, I thought: Oh... cool! XDDD
Dean's hell seems different. Everyone knew it was all kinds of horrible but nobody kept repeating it. In Sam's case, it was sort of hammered into our heads that if the wall came down, it'd be soooo scary. But... uhm, where's the scary? XD Then again, I was far too preoccupied with Cas atm to care much. Now I think we're gonna have some lasting repercussions in season 7...
You should totally write more often. <333

[kalliel]

Figuring out the formatting was HELL. XP Secret: There's a part in the middle where Sam's dialogue on either side doesn't quite line up (Sam's side is a few lines ahead) and I was just like. :| Well, the Winchesters are sometimes out of sync. I'm calling it stylistic intention. And truth be told, upon actually reading it, I do like that bit better that way. XD

That's true; we got a lot of lead up for Sam that scared the shit out of me, it really did. What we've seen so far hasn't been that impressive in terms of what it's done to Sam. I'm sure we'll get a greater fallout as time presses onward, but we'll see what the writers are willing to do. They can't completely vegetablize Sam, that wouldn't be cool either.

I TOTALLY SHOULD WRITE MORE OFTEN. That is my major goal once uni lets out for the summer! I'm going to write all the fic.