kill your health and kill yourself and kill everything you love

[musesfool]

L'shana tovah and Happy Eid to those of you who are celebrating!

Today is the first Friday since May that I have to work a full day. Sigh. Woe.

I posted a story yesterday!

Rough and Tumble
Avatar: The Last Airbender; Ty Lee/Suki; adult; 1,225 words
Suki sees what Ty Lee has to offer.

I picked up this

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[dotfic]

Heh, I already did a cranky post about the Sam hate earlier this summer, but yeah this. I can understand disliking the writerly decision there. Or criticizing Sam for thinking that was a good idea, no matter how good intentioned he was. But the Sam hate and the ripping Sam a new one and dismissing him as heartless (seriously, where is that coming from? Even allowing it's a bad decision, heartlessness is not going to be at the core of that decision, that's not how either of the Winchesters roll, FOR FIVE SEASONS, they do misguided things out of love all the damn time) makes *no* sense to me and I suspect I've been seeing an entirely different version of Sam on my tv screen for the past 5 seasons than many people.

Hmph. Speaketh unto the hand, Sam haters.

[de_nugis]

I went and read your August post and now I have a fondness for you.

[dotfic]

Hee, thank you. I'm very attached to the version of Sam I've been seeing on my tv screen for five seasons.

[de_nugis]

He's fucked up and he fucks up. But he has never, not once, given up and lain down to let fate take its course. He makes disastrously wrong decisions and he gets up in the rubble and looks around and starts making new decisions. He gets hooked on vengeance, but he also learns how to forgive. He's not sure that he isn't what's wrong with the life of the people he loves the most. He tries to do good things even when he is convinced that he can't be good. Most of the things he's had faith in have at some point lost faith in him, and he's lost faith in himself for some good reasons, but he never seems to have lost the conviction that some kind of good outcome in the world is possible, even if he can't have it or achieve it. He's often wrong, but he's never not trying.

I was in the depths of despair this morning over spoilers, but I've decided to wait and see.

[dotfic]

That was beautiful. That sums it up for me very well. He's so determined and he wants to protect Dean and his need for control I think comes from fear -- if he gets off on power, it's because he wants to stop bad things from happening to people he loves, and he hates how his family's been jerked around and torn apart by evil things. He also saw a life that was more than just hunting, and leaving for Stanford wasn't selfish, he was making his way in the world, as one does.

I think all we can do with S6 is see how it plays out on-screen. Spoilers are tricksy! (So is that promo which is so blatantly edited to be all ~ambiguous oooh~ about Sam maybe being evil.)

[de_nugis]

Well, he does have the Hairflip of Doom. All he needs is the Tiara of Evil.

[dotfic]

Sam's hair is character in itself. It's, uh, very expressive hair! But it needs to be cut!

Now I'm picturing him in a tiara...okay, someone with better photoshop skills than me needs to get on that...

[musesfool]

I'm sure Dean would be happy to get him one from the nearest Hallmark.

[musesfool]

I can understand disliking the writerly decision there. Or criticizing Sam for thinking that was a good idea, no matter how good intentioned he was.

I can see both sides, but right now, as we discussed, I just feel like the writers don't ever let Sam learn anything, when it seems clear to me from last season that he did learn a lot, and this kind of unilateral decision-making and secret-keeping is something that he seemed to have moved past, but apparently not. Arrgh.

Speaketh unto the hand, Sam haters.

Indeed.