FIC: The Chuck Writes Story - Afterword 5

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Title: The Chuck Writes Story: Afterword 5
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: gen. Chuck, Becky
Rating: PG-13 for themes
Length: Total fic: 30,000. This part: 2,000
Summary: Castiel is the new BNF in town. Lettered is amused.
A/N: Please see notes here.
Previous parts: The Chuck Writes Story part 1 and part 2 | Afterword | Afterword 2 | Afterword 3

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HOLY FUCK. I had a huge grin on my face while I was reading and then I got all teary and I don't even know what my emotions are doing. This is so epic and hilarious and clever and beautiful. You've put so much thought into every single little thing (CW? Thursdays? Everyone's writing styles? The anon dialogue?? And so many things, more than I can even, every single line, oh my goddd

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And the Cass vs Cas thing (I stand by both! Floss spelling rule exists, but has exceptions!)

And poking fun at Kripke's version

and Kripke leaving after Swan Song

AND EVERYTHING

I feel like my comment focused on the wrong things and is stupid. I'M SORRY. /waits for smarter people to comment better

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Dude, this is an epic comment of awesome! Thanks so much!

I got all teary

I'm glad you said this. Not that I'm glad you're sad. But some parts made me feel teary too, which I know is just so douchey if you're the one writing it, and I'm not even sure why it worked me up so much. Not like I was sad. Just fandom.

the little pang I first felt when I thought they were mocking us a little. I was surprised to find, while doing research for this fic, that many people hated the meta eps or thought they were making fun of us. I can understand that, but I don't think that's what they were doing at all. I do think you're right; that the creators of SPN don't necessarily know what this kind of fandom is all about, but . . . neither is fandom a whole, united as one. There are those who are ridiculous and those who are not ridiculous and those who laugh at those who are ridiculous and those who laugh at everything. I felt like the show approached fandom from the latter standpoint; i.e., they basically just pointed and said, "HOLY SHIT;

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I'm glad you said this. Not that I'm glad you're sad. But some parts made me feel teary too, which I know is just so douchey if you're the one writing it, and I'm not even sure why it worked me up so much. Not like I was sad. Just fandom.

That's it! I don't think I was sad either! Just very moved, on an intimate level. So feel as proud as you like :3

I was surprised to find, while doing research for this fic, that many people hated the meta eps or thought they were making fun of us.Aw, I don't hate the meta episodes at all. In fact I love them to pieces. I'm amazed the show went there, for all the reasons you said, and very glad they did. Now I realise it isn't 'them' and 'us' (aside from how they seem to mock the show and fanbase as one entity in that episode, as you said, there's no clear 'us' in the first place), and that it is all in love

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I was still feeling a lot of guilt and doubt myself over whether it was okay to ship it.

Don't worry. Incest is a game the whole family can play.

LOLOLOL my family always made jokes about it. When I first realized I liked daddy kink I was probably 16. I quickly went from there to realizing I liked ACTUAL DADDIES, which um, not like I feel that way about my dad, of course not. But I have a bunch of terrible crazy awful thoughts, and I think if I felt guilty about all of them I'd go stark raving. So I decided I can really only feel guilty about the way I act (which is plenty fuel enough!)

That said, I can totally understand the guilt and how the wincest bit might've felt like a dig. I'm sorry you get accused of that; that's awful. But I think the show did it as a loving poke.

And, trying to understand and convey the perceived intention of the author is a difficult responsibility fan translators can attempt to take on, but you can never be sure how close you really are, or how much you should care.I would think that would be

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I started writing fanfiction when I was in the second grade--I didn't know other people did it. I didn't know other people didn't do it. I didn't know what it was called; I just knew I had THOUGHTS I wanted to write. Fandom is very important to me.

My first experience was looking for episode summaries of anime online because I couldn't readily watch them, and getting confused by fanfiction. I wish urban dictionary existed back then. I regularly ended up in the middle of fic that disturbed kiddo!me because I couldn't read the summary discourse. Do you remember the citrus code? Or was that a Japanese-fandom thing? Oh man...

I mean, obviously the canon lends itself to this sort of exploration, but I think it's often possible to draw ourselves into fics or ask questions about canon and fandom through the text.Oh, of course! There are so many really clever and imaginative people out there. But, a little part of my glee in reading this was that this whole fic was technically in-universe and canon-based to a degree that to my knowledge is

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I do remember the citrus code; they used it a lot on HP fics. But I really have no idea what it meant.

this whole fic was technically in-universe

Oh yeah, definitely; I don't know any other fandom you could do that with.

I bet, like Chuck, you will make a bunch of friends really soon now ;D

hhahaha. Well. Chuck only got one friend. He did get a lot of attention by being epically wanky, though. The idea for this actually started out with Chuck wondering why he didn't get very many reviews, and then starting to write porn just so he could get comments.

I have nothing to give back to this fandom

That's not true! I think that discussion is just as important to fandom as fanworks. Also, I think dean_lives might've been my favorite character to create, and you're a lot more articulate than she usually was.

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Don't worry. Incest is a game the whole family can play.

*pratfall*

I think if I felt guilty about all of them I'd go stark raving. So I decided I can really only feel guilty about the way I act (which is plenty fuel enough!)

I aspire to get to the place you're at someday ;A;/

Seriously. It's hard for me to reconicle the sexual element with the fact that Supernatural's be-all-end-all value placed on family fulfils some fandom need, some kind of resonance or cuttingly deep relatability I didn't realise I was missing in series more based on friendship or romance or comrades or what have you. I used to think this one particular fic in another fandom was amazing because it actually made me cry. Now, I can't even count how many Supernatural fics have made me cry, they hit me in such a way.

I know theoretically it's fine to ship Sam and Dean, you know, the specific characters with their specific story... but it's hard to forget how many parallels there are to my whole life which my brothers themselves gleefully point out all the time,

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What the author intended or what other people get from it aren't nearly as important as what the text means to you.

I'm still deeply grateful to the people at the SPN wikia who painstakingly compile notes on all the intertextual and cultural references :P

They're about fandom, but their also about religion. And when you think about it . . . well, there are a lot of similarities between the two, in my humble opinion.Oh my god! So so so true!! You know, I didn't join the dots until you said that, but I remember my mum telling me something similar a long time ago. I remember being fourteen and complaining to her about a friend of mine who was a born again Christian, who talked about nothing else. My mum said to me, what about you and your Japanese cartoons, don't you shove those down your friends throats because you want to share with them how great it is? Doesn't everyone want to be connected to something bigger than themselves? Isn't that why you're always on the internet? Don't judge her way of fulfilling the same need you have.

OH ALSO

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Sorry for the spamming!

You're so well versed in fandom and stuff, so I'd be surprised if you hadn't, but I read this meta fic yesterday and thought of you.

Also, zimshan's journal is full of really cool meta on cinematography, the use of colour, music. And they have a meta rec tag on their delicious as well!

There's also a woman named Amanda on tumblr, who posts both essay-like meta and fic-like meta on lots of different topics, that I really love. If you look at the links on the sidebar of her blog 9091 there's a lot to see.

I hope you find at least one interesting or new thing in any of that!