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

Comments

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Replying to me so as not to hijack your conversation above - re the SPN fandom itself, I am kinda feeling something similar. It is SO HUGE for a n00b. I've been watching the show for five years or so, swept right into it from the start, but it's actually only been since S6 finished that I started actively seeking out the fandom side of things. It had always been a teensy part of my flist with the occasional person posting something awesome, and I'd always liked Wincest (A LOT), but, wow, I've kind of fallen head over heels into it.

And it's been around for ages. And there are complex events in its history. And there is SO MUCH stuff and it's so ACTIVE that it can be hard to find the kind of things that really and truly grab me in amidst the noise, but I'm slowly but surely finding consistently awesome writers (and trailing after them like a hopeful puppy), and occasionally getting sidetracked by 300k of slightly badfic-ish stuff with aspects I can't resist, sure, it's a problem... but, my god, where do you START in this fandom? And that's just for consuming, let alone posting/making.

FYI, it turns out that the big bangs are a pretty good place to begin, and Ao3's tags if one is willing to squint a bit and click away a lot after the first sentence, and there are rec comms which are great. Though again, one person's life-changing-story-of-amaze is another person's meh, so it's still all covered in caveats.

Blahblahblah. SPN fandom is kind of wonderful and a teeny bit scary, not least because of how intense the love seems to be :).

And there's something brilliant about being near/in/feeling all that excitement and joy.

Uh, I'm not sure where I was going when I started this comment, but apparently we've ended up with Beethoven's 9th.

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finding consistently awesome writers (and trailing after them like a hopeful puppy), and occasionally getting sidetracked by 300k of slightly badfic-ish stuff with aspects I can't resist, sure, it's a problem...

Hahahah boy howdy do I know that feeling.

my god, where do you START in this fandom? And that's just for consuming, let alone posting/making.

I used to always start by making, because way back when I didn't know fandom existed, and had to satisfy myself somehow. But now I've been in fandom so long, I know I can just get instant gratification if I Google: "Canon + desired ship + recs", so more and more I read first. But SPN is interesting because I've done a lot more "making" right off the bat than usual. Part of it is I don't even know how to search for the things I want, and part of it is that the searches I've done haven't turned up the stuff I want.

I don't even know what I want. Usually I want the characters I like to get together or get off or be happy, but I can't figure out any way to make anyone actually do any of those things except get off, which by itself just makes me so sad!

And there's something brilliant about being near/in/feeling all that excitement and joy.

Oh yeah. But here's the thing, too, is I'm kind of afraid to talk too much about it, because I don't want to hate the show. I watched BSG while it was airing and I got way to invested, and then the show didn't do what I wanted and I really resented it. I've since gone back and seen that while they did stuff differently than I wanted, they still did a bucketful of awesome, but it was hard to see at the time because I was so invested. I'm so invested no, but trying to remain cool. I really am!

I'm glad you're getting into it so deep at the same time. I have a partner in crime!