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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This was much fun. I confess, I found portions of the actual wank reports a little stressful, but that means you did them very well, because I also find real wank reports stressful. Yay for verisimilitude.

I think my favorite part was Afterword 4, once I started realizing that everyone was writing canon. And gah, Becky - "*lick lick lick*." OH BECKY. And her ellipses. And I loved Damien and Barnes and their story and their whole turnaround. Oh, and that Chuck's first major act in fandom was to defend Jess.

I'm still in it for the characters, in other words. You write 30k of fic-as-meta, and still what I care about are the characters. Oh, well.

BTW, you may or may not be aware that Sherwood Smith mentioned you in her group blog post this morning. Apparently you've got people coming in from outside reading this, although I have to say, I think a reader could only get the full effect of the fic if they're pretty deeply familiar with SPN canon.

Yeah. This was fabulous.

BTW, I'm a little lost in SPN fandom, too. I'm fortunate in that several of my BtVS friends had already gotten into the show when I started (and hey look! several more since! *g*), so I have people to talk about it and trade recs with. As far as I can tell, the best way to break in is find a little place to call home - one of the comms, maybe - and work your way out.

OTOH, it's not bad out here on the fringe, and much less wanky, which I prefer.

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I found portions of the actual wank reports a little stressful,

Oh man, sorry about that. I actually sorta freaked out when I wrote the Franz Eichel one; it felt really icky. Because, well, I'm a real person and my lj is not a real person but it's meant to represent one and then I made another lj and killed it and uh, I freaked out. Oops.

once I started realizing that everyone was writing canon.

Got that idea from my_daroga.

Oh, and that Chuck's first major act in fandom was to defend Jess.

I actually wish that I'd done more of that sort of thing; there was just so much to get to!

Sherwood Smith mentioned you in her group blog post

Thanks for pointing that out. That's pretty cool!

I think a reader could only get the full effect of the fic if they're pretty deeply familiar with SPN canon.

Yes, I think so too. However, I did write it with the idea that the fandom was also, well, fandom.

As far as I can tell, the best way to break in is find a little place to call home

You know, I think what my whole big problem is is that I keep expecting to find what I found in Buffy fandom. What I found in Buffy fandom was a whole lot of people who care about ships, but have total respect for other people's preferences, and lots of times will read outside their preferences if someone tells 'em it's good. They all liked super thinky, insightful stuff, and sat around gabbing about family structures and I dunno, echoed motifs, and some of them wrote experimental prose and poetry, and had really different and bizarre ideas about what it all meant, and didn't give a fuck about what fandom thought of them, and yet cared a lot about fandom, and each other, and recced each other all up and read new things despite being well, one of the last bastions of a dying fandom. Man. Buffy fandom. I dunno. It's not like all the people I stumbled onto were a circle closely knit unto each other, but I sure got damn lucky with the people I chose to associate with. I met you a bit later, but I'm glad I did :o)

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recced each other all up and read new things despite being well, one of the last bastions of a dying fandom

So you got into Buffy fandom after the show had already ended? I wonder if that made some of the difference.

I think working with a closed canon is a whole different kettle of fish - most folks are either here for the long haul or have just discovered the show by watching it all at once; the former have largely gotten over the big divisive arguments in the fandom (or retreated to where they no longer had to have them) and the latter don't know the history at all. Plus being fannish about a closed canon means there are no rude surprises coming (unless the creator of your show decides to authorized a comics series *facepalm*).

I dunno. I'm just blathering, here. :)

I met you a bit later, but I'm glad I did :o)

\o/

I think I originally found you because someone recced "Man's Best Friend" to me, several years ago.

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Oh, yeah, I totally got into BtVS after the canon was closed (ostensibly). I know that not all BtVS fandom is like the corner I found, and I also know that even that corner wasn't so lovely when canon was still open.

I dunno, though. HP canon is closed, and I'm still having trouble with the fandom (not with the people in it! just with feeling included). Then again, that's HP, which is a fucking monster fandom.

But yeah, maybe you're right.

I think I originally found you because someone recced "Man's Best Friend" to me, several years ago.

I thought that was it. I still plan on finishing that fic. It was fun.