SPN fic: "Death's Other Kingdom"

[mona1347]

Title: Death's Other Kingdom
Author: mona1347
Word Count: 1,655
Rating/Warnings: This is horror. No porn (sorry! *dodges thrown stones*) but lots of violence and what can best be called "mind rape." The concept of Wincest is referenced but neither confirmed nor denied.
Spoilers: Through Devil's Trap, touching on Shadow and Scarecrow.

A/N: What the hell is

Comments

[iamthedirtgirl]

oh girl, take another bow because this was perfect. I would never in my life have believed I would want to read meg fic, but this is the story I would have picked if asked. Because like you in that last scene I connected into her. I went from hating the character (and really even the actress, though the more evil she got I liked her more)to feeling such sadness for her. She managed in just a few sentences to show us an entirely different person and that person made my heart cry for her and suddenly I wanted her to live. It was something to wonder about, I did, ya know, what she went through, what she was present for and what she wasn't. The fact that she thanked them telling so much. And then you wrote this and filled in some of those blanks. So effectively expressing the horror of not having control of your own body, of having to know you've killed and killed, of having to experience a rape, and being dying brutally and still going. You made it all so, ok I have no words for how you made this except good and damn and awesome.

The way she slowly disassociates from her own body was a brilliant move, because she is so tied to it at first and after a while she lets go because it has in a way possessed her in an entirely different way. The cutting and dying of the hair, such a great thing, women and identity are so often wrapped up in our hair and to use that as the beginning of the human Meg being turned over to this thing in her was incredibly insightful.

The way she taunts John was pretty slick and the thing about the drug, smooth, because I come from a pretty christian family and man I have heard so much about drugs being the "open door to possession like an invite" and have had to endure hours upon hours of crap over the meds I take for my medical condition leaving me open to attack. (um, yeah, anyway) so spot on in the way the charismatics see it and nice that you used it.

That verse! That verse was perfect for this story. OMG! I was wondering which portion of the poem would be a part of this and then I got to the end and it just meshed right up to it. I love that you could take a portion of a poem and turn it's original meaning and make it something entirely new and totally accurate to the circumstances. That's talent baby! Also, don't you just love that poetry has that wonderfully subjective nature that it can be used to do such things. Am so thrilled to have read this. I love your dark place. So much fun. SO interesting...but still, my attention was caught the other day while I was laughing my ass off over the selling of PT's soul for hustler Sam. Looking forward to that so very much.

[mona1347]

Oh honey, thank you so much!! It's a real shame I take so damn long to respond to these comments...

Oh man, you are so right - the more evil Meg got, the more I liked her :). And yes, the fact that real!Meg...the first thing she did was to thank Sam and Dean - that's why this fic got written.

I'm so glad the increasing dissociation worked! I didn't realize I was doing it until later drafts of the thing so I tried to punch it up a little and YAY, other people got it :D.

Heh, the drug thing... it had occurred to me that Sam & Dean said in Phantom Traveler that you can be either emotionally scattered (like Dean's panic) or have "an addiction" to be "wide open for demonic possession." Then I figured that they had to get "into" John somehow, because he's presumably learned to shield himself in some way. Not to mention that they probably interrogated him extensively before THE Demon possessed him in DT... it just made me think "truth serum!" and sent me to Wikipedia to look up the proper spelling of sodium pentothal and...yes. So it's so cool and interesting that you saw an charismatic christian "drugs are a gateway to the devil" parallel as well :D.

And YAY TS ELIOT!! I read that verse in your LJ and went "oh OH, that's the meg-fic I'm writing..." It just leapt out at me :).

The hustler-fic has been posted! I've noticed you haven't been around as much but when you do come back, let me know what you think!

*beams* As always, thanks so much :D.

[iamthedirtgirl]

yes. I kind of backed off of LJ. My own issues with anti-depressents (lack of) sent me into a tailspin and kinda put me in a bad place. really, really bad. I contacted my doc to get back on and am hoping to be feeling better(as in not wanting to die every second of the day) very soon. I did read the hustler fic(loved it) just wasn't up to feedback. Will go back and re read when my head is clear and give good feedback on all of your stuff. I haven't been reading as much fic, but have made sure to keep current with you and some others that I just love beyond words. take care hon. talk soon.

[mona1347]

Aw sweetie. I get that. You know I get that A LOT. I really hope all goes smoothly and you get back on the right meds ASAP. Take care, don't worry about feedback, just enjoy the fic and let it bring a little light. *hugs*

[iamthedirtgirl]

thanks hon. I knew you would understand. Am started on the med (don't know if it's right but will be seeing doc this week and he got me started on something to try and help until we get it figured)

But, this is kind of a funny and shows how much you mean it when you say you've fallen behind on your responses and that I am way more out of it that I thought. It was bugging me all night and so I went and looked and ya know what, I did leave feedback to Californication. (i um have a weakness for that album as well so you double whammy'd me there). So, Yay, when you get to that fic, you'll get some of my thoughts. And it did brighten my day to read. You always brighten my day. It's one of the reasons I still check out what's going on at lj, because when it's a good day you or one of my other fav people will have put something up that I know will make me smile whether it's a fic or a rant or whatever. A thought of the day...pics from the teen choice awards. (thanks for linking that)

Jensen and his "That's great" comment as he dropped his head because of the absurdity of what they were presenting. I love him and his lack of ability to hide his shame at being pimped.

Anyway, as for feed back, I think the Californication is the last I gave any on, so after that is what I will catch up on. And I need to read your shmoop. Haven't gotten to read that. *hugs* Take care.