Forgive me for asking, and this is only the second thing of yours I've read, but is this your original work? I notice the reference to Traditional Scottish song; did you perhaps vary the original? I know I shouldn't need to know, but I do! It stilled my heart.
Oh, thank you for saying so, but not really Strictly speaking it's a 'filk' of the traditional song, so not remotely original. I merely adapted the lyrics to the situation. There was an Evil!Sam challenge, but poetry rarely makes the cut in the Supernatural fiction world.
I'm taking these slowly and really considering them because they're each the sort of gift one wants to enjoy the unwrapping of and not just rip through, yes?
Yes.
This is just breathtaking in its simplicity of form and absolutely insidious in the application of love tropes to Sam and Dean. In the original version, the color of the beloved's eyes is celebrated; here, it's grieved. In the original form, the poet embraces the hyperbolic ideals of love, such as loyalty, tenderness, beauty, passion. Here, you embrace those qualities most signifying Sam but you do so with the bitterest of rue, for if Sam's eyes are black, well, we all know the truth, then, don't we? And what makes this the most ironic of application of form and function is that the expected fidelity of the speaker is still adhered to in this case, despite knowing that Dean's fidelity to Sam in his current state is not only self-destructive but quite possibly murderous-by-accessory.
You're working your way backwards, and if I've improved over time, (and I hope I have) it may dampen your enthusiasm. But there's not that much left to work through.
So I heard this done as a club dance tune right around the time of 'Bad Sign', and it just happened. Uncharacteristically I did not, unconsciously perhaps, consider the identity of the speaker. It isn't Jo, because even with the vastly improved characerization they allowed Ms Tal to give us, BLECH. Nor would it be Sarah Blake, who is made of sterner stuff. Perhaps I was thinking of the legions of swooning fangirls who finally (finally) recognized what some of us had known all along: Padalecki has it. Who wouldn't come back from the dead just so he could kill them again
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Do one for Dean? *poke poke*
P.S. Is TWoP down, or am I freaking out?
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The original lyrics are various, the version I started with is here:
http://www.rampantscotland.com/songs/blsongs_blackcolour.htm
There's a modern tune that I heard on Sirius radio that got the thing into my head.
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/246608-01.htm
So you can dance to it, though it's a bit grim to sing along to.
So glad you noticed it!
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Yes.
This is just breathtaking in its simplicity of form and absolutely insidious in the application of love tropes to Sam and Dean. In the original version, the color of the beloved's eyes is celebrated; here, it's grieved. In the original form, the poet embraces the hyperbolic ideals of love, such as loyalty, tenderness, beauty, passion. Here, you embrace those qualities most signifying Sam but you do so with the bitterest of rue, for if Sam's eyes are black, well, we all know the truth, then, don't we? And what makes this the most ironic of application of form and function is that the expected fidelity of the speaker is still adhered to in this case, despite knowing that Dean's fidelity to Sam in his current state is not only self-destructive but quite possibly murderous-by-accessory.
You are ridiculously brilliant, luv. Bravo!
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So I heard this done as a club dance tune right around the time of 'Bad Sign', and it just happened. Uncharacteristically I did not, unconsciously perhaps, consider the identity of the speaker. It isn't Jo, because even with the vastly improved characerization they allowed Ms Tal to give us, BLECH. Nor would it be Sarah Blake, who is made of sterner stuff. Perhaps I was thinking of the legions of swooning fangirls who finally (finally) recognized what some of us had known all along: Padalecki has it. Who wouldn't come back from the dead just so he could kill them again ( ... )
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