I've been thinking a lot lately about those in-between spaces that aren't exactly transformations of canon through fanworks but also aren't strictly interpretations of the canonical text. Individual fans and fan communities tend to be very conscious of what they bring to the show as well as what the show brings to them, and we have the terminology ( Read more... )

[I had some kind of brain glitch and thought this was chat week, when it should have been last week. Better late than never, though!]

Moving back to fandom for March, tell us about your favorite comms and challenges in the fandom. Specialized comms for smaller ships or secondary characters (did you know there is a Kevin comm? spn_kevin), reccing comms ( Read more... )

Greetings, all, and welcome to the February chat post. The introduction of the Bat Cave, with all the character and plot possibilities it opens up, has me thinking about Sam and Dean and the idea of home, and all the spaces that these two transient characters inhabit. For all its road trip format, Supernatural keeps coming back to the idea of homes ( Read more... )

Happy belated New Year to all, and welcome to the first chat post of 2013 ( Read more... )

Crack, schmoop, angst, fluff, darkfic. Curtain!fic, future!fic, kidfic, deathfic. Timestamps, codas, missing scenes. Hurt/comfort. Fixit fics. PWP, kinkfic, idfic. Five Times. Drabble, drawble, ficlet, longfic. Coffee Shop AU, etc. Apocafic. Preslash, gencest, first time, established relationship. Crossover, fusion ( Read more... )

Sorry I missed last month, folks! Real life has been difficult ( Read more... )

So, next month we'll be chatting about canon again, with a little bit of new canon to work with. But for today, the focus is back on fanworks, and specifically on collaboration ( Read more... )

I thought this month for the chat we might take off from canon a bit. And rather than fraying our nerves speculating about s8, let's talk about what hasn't been and (probably) never will be: characters who never meet or barely interact in canon, but whom you could imagine having potential, either in canon yet to come or in the endless AU ( Read more... )

For the July chat post, I thought we would turn to fanworks and talk about canon and you. Every transformative work emerges from a relationship with source canon, and that relationship can take many forms and go through many phases, differing enormously from person to person.

( cut for a spate of questions )

Greetings and a happy June to you. For this month’s chat post, the focus is on a central reality in Spn: death. There are plenty of directions the discussion could go. The mechanisms of the afterlife, the workings of ghosts, heaven, hell and purgatory, or Death with a capital D and his awesome taste in junk food -- all excellent paths for ( Read more... )