My Creative Process
See super binary gender-essentialist Rule 63 fanart w/ long-haired, femme Dean, Cas, and Sam.
Think “Dean would dress way more butch” and “Cas … well, Cas would wear whatever Jenny Novak was wearing, just rumpled and carelessly, but still”
Start writing AU with Samantha Winchester and her militantly-in-the-closet trans brother.
Get annoyed with overwhelming whiteness of cast, plotholes in storyarc, start tweaking canon
Suddenly, it’s a week later and I’m writing character descriptions of Hank and Angela Chakravarthy-Wozniak, mixed-South Asian [their dad’s from India, their mom’s half Indonesian, half Polish, and kept her maiden name (Wozniak) which is why her kids’ names are hyphenated and sweet Jebus somebody shut me up I have so much backstory] siblings who find out that they’re two of the newest gods in the Hindu pantheon, but Judeo-Christian angels also have plans for them b/c they’re believed to be part of an apocalyptic prophecy, and plotbunny has evolved into plotBunnicula and holy crap I’ve kind of turned this into my own story!
I mean, yeah you can see how it started out as a cheap copy of existing material, but so did every Elizabethan play ever and also the Aeneid and Dante’s Inferno and Jane Eyre, so nyeah.