Comments | freneticfloetry: Resistance is always futile with me.

freneticfloetry

Resistance is always futile with me.

May 30, 2007 10:45

Wasn't I just saying, not five entries ago, that I was in over my head?

Yeah, that was before the brilliance of spn_harlequin, which is going to be the best crack ever. My prompt is so delightfully cheesetastic that my fingers are itching to start it already. (Which begs the question - why is it always the crack!fic that bombards the brain?) Alas, it shall ( Read more... )

soapbox serenade, meta: supernatural, tv: torchwood, how sad am i?, fandom

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miniglik May 30 2007, 17:37:11 UTC

I find, in EVERY fandom I like gen 90% of the time. And it's sad, because I WANT to like the smut. But it's so often a Sue, even if it's a canon character. And that's ... boring and annoying.

Also, would Dean ever tell ANYONE he'd die without them? He doesn't say those things so much as prove them with actions. And more than that... his family is his everything (which, right now, is Sam, as you seem to be saying). So I'd have to believe that whatever woman it is has actually become part of the family before Dean's gonna be all dying to protect her. Even more, she (or he) has to be part of his world. Like you said, special. Not some random chick he met on a case, but someone intimately involved in their lives ( ... )

freneticfloetry May 30 2007, 18:09:16 UTC

I find, in EVERY fandom I like gen 90% of the time. And it's sad, because I WANT to like the smut. But it's so often a Sue, even if it's a canon character. And that's ... boring and annoying.

That's rapidly becoming true of me as well - I blame the ensemble show mentality. I used to be so pairing-oriented, but with massive casts (Heroes, LOST, Grey's and BSG come to mind) and huge arcs, I've become all about the gen. When I do crave a pairing now, for the most part, it's a crossover. Just to see what would happen. :)

Also, would Dean ever tell ANYONE he'd die without them? He doesn't say those things so much as prove them with actions.

Exactly. Exactly the point I thought I'd made, or was trying to make... You know how the air is thin on your soapbox, and the haze and atmosphere makes you kind of fuzzy on whatever message you originally wanted to get across? Yeah, that. Dean's so not the flowery words, "let me count the ways" type. He's the I love you, I swear - not that I'd ever, you know, tell you so, but let me prove it to you ( ... )

miniglik May 30 2007, 18:25:45 UTC

No, you totally made sense! I just use other people's journal entries for my own rants sometimes, I think. Even if I'm just repeating the other person's rant ( ... )

freneticfloetry May 30 2007, 19:08:05 UTC

No worries. I do it, too.

I could, ideally, have a female love interest for Dean that would equal (although not surpass) his family love and obligation. We just haven't seen her on the screen yet (at all), and I doubt some fic writer is going to do that in even 10,000 words. Because she'd have to not really BEAT his family love, but join in. She'd have to be part and parcel of his dad and Sam obligation.That's precisely the key, I think. And the reason why I get turned off by so many pairing depictions. Why must Dean love your random girl of choice with every fiber of his being? That makes it an either/or situation, for me. And in that case, Sam wins, no matter how spectacular the girl is. Ideally, it's about Dean equating what he feels for the girl in question with his familial bond - that's a whole other kind of intensity and obligation, and that's the kind of visceral, selfish but sacrificing, make-you-work-for-it love that Dean understands. That he can't deny ( ... )

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