people look right through her
Hee! Sera Gamble knows Dean/Impala is the true SPN OTP:
Just this morning I was talking to one of the other writers about how can we make an episode where the Metallicar is the main character. So, I love that car. It has so much personality at this point. It's been killed so many times. It's my fav. It's just so special. Dean lavishes - Dean puts so much attention in that car that could be going elsewhere. *laughs* So, it's infused with all kinds of special energy, that car. People worry a lot about what would happen if we got serious girlfriends for Sam and Dean, and I'm just like 'Dean has a serious girlfriend.'
from here (there are minor spoilers of the "X monster in Y episode" type, though most of them are in the first part of the interview, which is here, and they're whited out for those who don't want to know.)
You know she's already drafted an Impala-becomes-human episode, if she could just convince Kripke it's a good idea.
It's what makes the endings of ELaC and Fresh Blood so heartbreaking, because Dean really, truly LOVES that car in a way he'll never love anyone who isn't Sam or John, and the car symbolizes SO MANY things - to Dean, it's John and home and the freedom he doesn't otherwise have, and to Sam (and to us) it's also Dean and his emotional state, and in Fresh Blood Dean's willingly sharing with Sam the one thing that's been his since John died, not just sharing it the way John shared it with him, but also trusting Sam to look out for it after he's gone (also the way John did with him) and it just breaks my heart. Oh, Dean...
Huh. Do I not have a Dean/Impala=OTP tag? Well, I do now.
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So this week was pretty much a wash, writing-wise, as lack of sleep and then the holiday kind of killed my productivity, and I spent a lot of time reading badfic in Not My Fandom*. I am not normally a badfic reader - I don't really understand the joy other people take in it (or the joy they take in traumatizing perfectly innocent people who are on AIM with them by c&ping it into the window) - but I've discovered that when it's Not My Fandom and I'm not really attached, but it scratches an itch, i.e., I am familiar enough with the source to have a pairing preference but I don't really care enough about characterization to get upset when it's butchered in service of ... man, I don't even know, I just know I've spent a lot of time this week enthralled (for values of enthralled that include reading voraciously and yet also cackling in gleeful disbelief at how BAD it is, without tipping over into that OMGMYEYES territory, and thinking that even without comprehensive knowledge of the canon, I could do better) by fic that would normally have me hitting the back button. It's not the really ludicrously Summary Executions style badfic with poor spelling and no grammar - that I couldn't read at all - no, it's the kind of badfic where you can tell the writer really wants her pairing together, and really prefers one half of the pairing to the other, and after sixteen chapters of laughable and yet strangely compelling angst, full of epithets and head-hopping and uninspired prose, they finally, er, come together in an explosion of really awfully written sex, full of declarations of love and euphemisms for genitalia and also lots of use of the word "lover," which never ever fails to make me wince and laugh.
It helps that the character these authors love best is also the character I am most interested in, and that the character does the stoical pining thing pretty well. I never realized how much I missed stoical pining. Remus and Sirius pined so well, you know? And Rogue was, like, the queen of pining. But given my preferences in SPN, there isn't any stoical pining (at least not any I want to read). I mean, you can have the "Dean still thinks Sam wants to leave/have a normal life" thing (either in gen or in wincest), which hits some of the same buttons, but it's not quite the same, and also, I really don't want romance in SPN, and stoical pining is a primo romance trope.
Anyway. It's made me very grateful for all the good fic in the fandoms I love, and also the resources for finding fic in those fandoms, because being out in the wild has been dizzying, and a sharp reminder that there really is a huge pile of crap out there. To be completely fair, I did in fact find a handful of well-written, engaging stories, but there weren't many, and I exhausted that supply the first day.
*no, I'm not telling you what it is. it's not important.
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Now, I am going to have a piece of pie.
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Just this morning I was talking to one of the other writers about how can we make an episode where the Metallicar is the main character. So, I love that car. It has so much personality at this point. It's been killed so many times. It's my fav. It's just so special. Dean lavishes - Dean puts so much attention in that car that could be going elsewhere. *laughs* So, it's infused with all kinds of special energy, that car. People worry a lot about what would happen if we got serious girlfriends for Sam and Dean, and I'm just like 'Dean has a serious girlfriend.'
from here (there are minor spoilers of the "X monster in Y episode" type, though most of them are in the first part of the interview, which is here, and they're whited out for those who don't want to know.)
You know she's already drafted an Impala-becomes-human episode, if she could just convince Kripke it's a good idea.
It's what makes the endings of ELaC and Fresh Blood so heartbreaking, because Dean really, truly LOVES that car in a way he'll never love anyone who isn't Sam or John, and the car symbolizes SO MANY things - to Dean, it's John and home and the freedom he doesn't otherwise have, and to Sam (and to us) it's also Dean and his emotional state, and in Fresh Blood Dean's willingly sharing with Sam the one thing that's been his since John died, not just sharing it the way John shared it with him, but also trusting Sam to look out for it after he's gone (also the way John did with him) and it just breaks my heart. Oh, Dean...
Huh. Do I not have a Dean/Impala=OTP tag? Well, I do now.
***
So this week was pretty much a wash, writing-wise, as lack of sleep and then the holiday kind of killed my productivity, and I spent a lot of time reading badfic in Not My Fandom*. I am not normally a badfic reader - I don't really understand the joy other people take in it (or the joy they take in traumatizing perfectly innocent people who are on AIM with them by c&ping it into the window) - but I've discovered that when it's Not My Fandom and I'm not really attached, but it scratches an itch, i.e., I am familiar enough with the source to have a pairing preference but I don't really care enough about characterization to get upset when it's butchered in service of ... man, I don't even know, I just know I've spent a lot of time this week enthralled (for values of enthralled that include reading voraciously and yet also cackling in gleeful disbelief at how BAD it is, without tipping over into that OMGMYEYES territory, and thinking that even without comprehensive knowledge of the canon, I could do better) by fic that would normally have me hitting the back button. It's not the really ludicrously Summary Executions style badfic with poor spelling and no grammar - that I couldn't read at all - no, it's the kind of badfic where you can tell the writer really wants her pairing together, and really prefers one half of the pairing to the other, and after sixteen chapters of laughable and yet strangely compelling angst, full of epithets and head-hopping and uninspired prose, they finally, er, come together in an explosion of really awfully written sex, full of declarations of love and euphemisms for genitalia and also lots of use of the word "lover," which never ever fails to make me wince and laugh.
It helps that the character these authors love best is also the character I am most interested in, and that the character does the stoical pining thing pretty well. I never realized how much I missed stoical pining. Remus and Sirius pined so well, you know? And Rogue was, like, the queen of pining. But given my preferences in SPN, there isn't any stoical pining (at least not any I want to read). I mean, you can have the "Dean still thinks Sam wants to leave/have a normal life" thing (either in gen or in wincest), which hits some of the same buttons, but it's not quite the same, and also, I really don't want romance in SPN, and stoical pining is a primo romance trope.
Anyway. It's made me very grateful for all the good fic in the fandoms I love, and also the resources for finding fic in those fandoms, because being out in the wild has been dizzying, and a sharp reminder that there really is a huge pile of crap out there. To be completely fair, I did in fact find a handful of well-written, engaging stories, but there weren't many, and I exhausted that supply the first day.
*no, I'm not telling you what it is. it's not important.
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Now, I am going to have a piece of pie.
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