better late than never, right?

[kat_lair]

So, a long time ago I did the meme where I asked people to...

Comment with a story I've written, and I will tell you one thing I knew, learned, or wondered about while writing the story that didn't make it onto the page.

And, um, I’m now getting to the answers. Ooopsies?

pushkin666  asked about Five Things about Hustler!Sam (Supernatural, hints of Dean/Sam, R)

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[zeitheist]

I am almost at 800 words! Only another 700 to go! Then I can bite the bullet and hand three of my four portfolios in tomorrow. Also: half-heartedly cleaning the house is cool. I haven't changed my sheets in a disgusting amount of time. Should probably do that tonight.

Robin may think they are friends but you can only be friends with someone once you see them as your equal and treat them that way too. - This. So much this. I can never work out if this is something the show deliberately keeps in the background, or if it's something accidental that we're picking up, but Much has never been shown as Robin's equal. I think that reading gives the Robin-Kate relationship a bit of a seedy undertone, because there's a suggestion that Robin doesn't respect Much enough to take his "claim" on Kate into account. I've always been a little bit discomforted by the lingering undertones of the master-servant relationship between Robin and Much, tbh, because it makes me uncomfortable that Robin doesn't seem to recognize him as a person. (I also suspect that Much isn't the only one clinging to the familiar framework of his old life, but that's another meta for another day).

And exactly what I was trying to say, only so much more succinct. - I think what you're trying to say is "... only with added swearing". (I may be more succinct, but I was also a lot less intellectual about it). I have to say, I love that Andy only ever uses his powers in Play Hearts, Kid to protect Ash - that wasn't even deliberate on my part, but it says a lot about what Ash means to Andy, that he's willing to do the unthinkable to protect him.

Aw, really? Thank you so much! ♥