can't decide on which way to go
Okay, here's a question for you - how faithful do you feel something has to be to general mythology/urban legend/folklore etc.?
Like, when I write Buffy fic, I just make shit up - demons and monsters and magical whosiwhatsises, none of it comes from anywhere but my own head, same as stuff in HP that wasn't covered in the books. But with SPN, I try to always use ... say it with me now, "lore" of some sort, at least as a starting place.
But I have this story I want to write, and I am wrestling with the idea of how to do it, and how much I can fold/spindle/mutilate the myth I want to use to fit the story I want to tell, and how I would go about noting it, so that I didn't get a lot of comments going, "But no, Semele was Dionysus' mother*" or you know, something like that (er, this is not the Dean=Dionysus/Sam=Apollo story, though there may be one of those someday, if I don't just reinterpret The Bacchae instead). I tend to get comments like that fairly often, and I'm always like, "I know, but the story needed it go this way!" so I am wondering if maybe a generic "Playing fast and loose with mythology for story purposes" note may be the way to go. I mean, it's not like the show is wedded to a more "correct" version of the myths and monsters it uses.
Also, completely unrelatedly, except for the fact that it's about SPN, this radio station plays Boston several times a day, and it puts a big stupid smile on my face now. I mean, I've always liked Boston in a vague way, but now I am all, "DEAN! SAM! *heart*"
All of which is to say, NEW SHOW! IN APPROXIMATELY TWENTY EIGHT HOURS AND THIRTY FIVE MINUTES! EEEEEEEEEE!
*and okay, bad example, because sometimes Persephone is his mother, but you know what I mean.
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Like, when I write Buffy fic, I just make shit up - demons and monsters and magical whosiwhatsises, none of it comes from anywhere but my own head, same as stuff in HP that wasn't covered in the books. But with SPN, I try to always use ... say it with me now, "lore" of some sort, at least as a starting place.
But I have this story I want to write, and I am wrestling with the idea of how to do it, and how much I can fold/spindle/mutilate the myth I want to use to fit the story I want to tell, and how I would go about noting it, so that I didn't get a lot of comments going, "But no, Semele was Dionysus' mother*" or you know, something like that (er, this is not the Dean=Dionysus/Sam=Apollo story, though there may be one of those someday, if I don't just reinterpret The Bacchae instead). I tend to get comments like that fairly often, and I'm always like, "I know, but the story needed it go this way!" so I am wondering if maybe a generic "Playing fast and loose with mythology for story purposes" note may be the way to go. I mean, it's not like the show is wedded to a more "correct" version of the myths and monsters it uses.
Also, completely unrelatedly, except for the fact that it's about SPN, this radio station plays Boston several times a day, and it puts a big stupid smile on my face now. I mean, I've always liked Boston in a vague way, but now I am all, "DEAN! SAM! *heart*"
All of which is to say, NEW SHOW! IN APPROXIMATELY TWENTY EIGHT HOURS AND THIRTY FIVE MINUTES! EEEEEEEEEE!
*and okay, bad example, because sometimes Persephone is his mother, but you know what I mean.
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