focus on what matters most
This post about different modes of fan-PTB interaction by 
serrico is interesting. I am still thinking about it.
*deletes a long essay full of half-formed thoughts*
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why am I having such a hard time just sitting down to write? I like the ideas I'm having and the stories I'm working on, but I'm just not finding the focus to actually put words on paper, which is irritating to me. The words are there! I just can't be arsed to sit for more than five minutes at a time to type them.
Speaking of stories, after seeing the commercial for this week's Criminal Minds a couple of times, complete with Reid saying, "Someone drank her blood," I need someone to write the story of the BAU being called to Ilchester, MD to deal with the carnage, and Sam actually having to sit in an interrogation room and explain why exactly he killed and drank Cindy McClellan's blood. I'd like it to be from the POV of someone in the BAU and fairly unsympathetic to Sam (i.e., I don't want them to suddenly be confronted with proof the supernatural exists - I want them to walk away thinking Sam is a freakish homicidal sociopath who likes to kill women and has escalated to drinking their blood [like Dean apparently likes to skin them, wtf?], and one day, they'll lock him up).
I admit, the longer the show (SPN, I mean) goes without addressing this, the more irritated and focused on it I get. When the Meredith Grey analogue was lighting into Sam, I was struck by her resemblance to Cindy McClellan, and was hoping maybe Sam would be struck too - this is the thing I need to see Sam feel bad about (aside from choosing Ruby over Dean), this is the decision that should haunt him. He knew it was wrong and he did it anyway, and yes, he was manipulated into doing it and he thought it would save the world, but still, we need to see him confront the choice and deal with it. I mean, yes, another dead woman to feed the angst of a Winchester, and i understand why that's problematic, but Sam kidnapped and killed her and drank her blood rather than trying to exorcise her and save her life, and that is really hard for me to let go, extenuating circumstances notwithstanding. She deserves to be mentioned and atoned for, and I need to see Sam do that onscreen.
This, the voicemail, and Castiel's culpability [he knew what he was doing after all, unlike Sam and Dean] in setting Lucifer free are things I really need the show to address, but as weeks go on and they're left dangling, I am not holding out much hope.
Wow, that was cheerful, huh?
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In other news, I woke up this morning at 5:30 and was unable to get back to sleep (I went to bed around 1:30), so I got up, redid my Yuletide signup, read some fic, and went back to bed around 8 am and slept for three more hours. I feel good now, but man, what the hell is that?
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serrico is interesting. I am still thinking about it.
*deletes a long essay full of half-formed thoughts*
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why am I having such a hard time just sitting down to write? I like the ideas I'm having and the stories I'm working on, but I'm just not finding the focus to actually put words on paper, which is irritating to me. The words are there! I just can't be arsed to sit for more than five minutes at a time to type them.
Speaking of stories, after seeing the commercial for this week's Criminal Minds a couple of times, complete with Reid saying, "Someone drank her blood," I need someone to write the story of the BAU being called to Ilchester, MD to deal with the carnage, and Sam actually having to sit in an interrogation room and explain why exactly he killed and drank Cindy McClellan's blood. I'd like it to be from the POV of someone in the BAU and fairly unsympathetic to Sam (i.e., I don't want them to suddenly be confronted with proof the supernatural exists - I want them to walk away thinking Sam is a freakish homicidal sociopath who likes to kill women and has escalated to drinking their blood [like Dean apparently likes to skin them, wtf?], and one day, they'll lock him up).
I admit, the longer the show (SPN, I mean) goes without addressing this, the more irritated and focused on it I get. When the Meredith Grey analogue was lighting into Sam, I was struck by her resemblance to Cindy McClellan, and was hoping maybe Sam would be struck too - this is the thing I need to see Sam feel bad about (aside from choosing Ruby over Dean), this is the decision that should haunt him. He knew it was wrong and he did it anyway, and yes, he was manipulated into doing it and he thought it would save the world, but still, we need to see him confront the choice and deal with it. I mean, yes, another dead woman to feed the angst of a Winchester, and i understand why that's problematic, but Sam kidnapped and killed her and drank her blood rather than trying to exorcise her and save her life, and that is really hard for me to let go, extenuating circumstances notwithstanding. She deserves to be mentioned and atoned for, and I need to see Sam do that onscreen.
This, the voicemail, and Castiel's culpability [he knew what he was doing after all, unlike Sam and Dean] in setting Lucifer free are things I really need the show to address, but as weeks go on and they're left dangling, I am not holding out much hope.
Wow, that was cheerful, huh?
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In other news, I woke up this morning at 5:30 and was unable to get back to sleep (I went to bed around 1:30), so I got up, redid my Yuletide signup, read some fic, and went back to bed around 8 am and slept for three more hours. I feel good now, but man, what the hell is that?
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people have commented there.