Comments | halfshellvenus: SPN Poem: "Endless Highways" (PG)

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SPN Poem: "Endless Highways" (PG)

Aug 31, 2010 23:35

Title: Endless Highways
Author: HalfshellVenus
Characters: Sam, Dean (Poem, AU Future-Fic)
Rating: PG
Summary (post-Apocalypse AU): Where the universe is infinite, the end is never definite.
Author's Notes: For obeetaybee, who gave me the prompt in the title. Thank goodness she likes this, because it wasn't what either of us was expecting. For writers_choice, this is " ( Read more... )

my_fic, sn_slash, sn_gen, poem, birthday, writers_choice

Comments 15

calijirl5150 September 1 2010, 09:39:56 UTC

WOW - I'm usually not one for poetry, but I really enjoyed this. Actually loved the imagery it portrayed.

halfshellvenus September 1 2010, 17:54:42 UTC

Thank you! I never set out to write fandom poetry, but every once in awhile, the language makes the choice all by itself.

Thanks for taking a chance on it. :D

gunznammo2 September 1 2010, 12:19:55 UTC

Lovely, hon. Paints a stark picture of the road so far. Painful but our boys are together. Always.

halfshellvenus September 1 2010, 17:55:55 UTC

Together, in spite of everything (and who knew just how bad that "everything" was going to become?)-- that's the thing that has always drawn me to this show.

eponin10 September 1 2010, 13:14:38 UTC

Lovely. :) I'm a sucker for poetry.

Question? Are you going to wincon this year?

halfshellvenus September 1 2010, 17:56:58 UTC

Thank you! Nice to find some people that love poetry rather than flee from it. ;)

I'm signed up for wincon, and even have roommates. Now I just need to force myself to buy the plane tickets when I'm clearly never going to stop hating the flight choices!

Looks like you and Scarlett are going this year. :D

eponin10 September 1 2010, 17:59:26 UTC

We are! :) We're still looking for a fourth roommate, but I don't know that we're going to find anyone.

Yay! I'm glad you're going. It'll be good to see you again.

obeetaybee September 1 2010, 15:40:52 UTC

K-- I think it's absolutely perfect. Beautiful and haunting imagery, I love it! Thank you so much.

halfshellvenus September 1 2010, 17:59:57 UTC

Yayyyyy! That's so good to hear.

I had this whole idea in mind of what I wanted to write for this prompt, which is shown in the final paragraph. I just didn't expect to arrive there quite this way, but once the first few lines were written the poetry gene took over and did things its own way.

I'm so glad you like it-- your prompt was wonderful, and it inspired more than was ever going to fit in a structured drabble. ♥

tsuki_no_bara September 1 2010, 16:49:11 UTC

i think this is only the second spn fanpoem i've ever seen. nifty! it's kind of bleak, which makes sense, and i really like that it ends with the boys standing shoulder-to-shoulder to face their future head on.

halfshellvenus September 1 2010, 18:14:17 UTC

I checked back (and tagged stuff as I went), and I've actually written 3-4 depending on whether a person considers We Were Soldiers Once to be a poem. There's another I've read by desertport that I just loved: Mnemosyne's Garden

The bleakness is a given in a post-Apocalyptic setting (mourning for things lost, remembering those parts of the boys' lives they won't miss but which at least they understood). But given that there IS an "after," and that they two of them will find their place in it together, offers such quiet hope.

With the right person by your side, you can survive anything. To me, that's what this show has always been about. ♥