"In the Hunt: Unauthorized Essays on Supernatural"

[lady_ganesh]

A collection of essays about Supernatural that went to press before the debut of Season 3; therefore there's some Jossing.

Like meganbmoore, I think this essay would've been greatly improved by a better variety in the content. There was a lot of 'and we all know Supernatural is awesome, right?' attitude in the book, which made it feel far less like a

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[lady_ganesh]

YES EXACTLY THAT I was like foaming at the mouth for large sections of that essay.

On the upside, I will never read one of her books now and be disappointed by her shitty characterization! (I am not sure all her characterization is shitty but you get the idea.)

[lady_ganesh]

And sometimes people can be remarkably clueless about other people or things they like, so.

[meganbmoore]

EVIL WOMEN PERVERT THE PURE NATURE OF SAM AND DEAN'S MANLY AND PURE BOND, AND THAT PROVES THE SHOW IS STRONGLY FEMALE! HE REALLY SAID THE WORDS PERVERTS!!!

*salts and burns the essay*

I'd managed to foget the terrible "Supernatural helped us find twoo wuv and the cool guy got the uppity cold woman out of her shell with it!" one.

[lady_ganesh]

UGH. On both counts. There was like ten pages of that shitty fanfic.

[ryuutchi]

... I'm going to cry when I read this book. Or possibly laugh.

[meganbmoore]

(Oh Ruby. The part where you spent a couple minutes literally beating the *hem* out of Dean was the BEST PART of season 3.)

I think I did both.

[lady_ganesh]

Thanks for passing it along! I really did enjoy a few of the essays....

[lady_ganesh]

It really is the best thing about the book. I can have ryuutchi send it to you when she's done, if she still wants to read it?

[meganbmoore]

Women's work was my response (in a post, not making it) to Clifton's claim that evil women who "pervert" (HE ACTUALLY USED THAT WORD) the relationship between men equates to a strong and supposedly positive representation of feminine influence.

[lady_ganesh]

If you want in, you can probably get it after ryuutchi's through-- that's how I got my copy in the firstplace, as octopedingenue had a copy and both Megan and I asked for it!

[ranalore]

This is a woman who writes "Okay, it's hard to put a positive spin on that beyond the fact he's not the only father who's missed Christmas in the midst of fighting a war."

...Umm, wow. Okay, as someone who filled out the poll about ages and skewed them young and then mentioned the military aspect, I feel it behooves me to clarify my experiences, and why what John Winchester did with his kids was not okay. Recognizing that I only know what he did with his kids via fannish osmosis, so I may have details wrong

[lady_ganesh]

Yeah, it was clear your experience was not Dean and Sam's experience, I just didn't want to tip my hand too much.

And yeah, it's...it's so insulting on so many levels, isn't it? Your personal button is the military thing-- for obvious reasons-- my personal button is the YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME THAT ABUSED CHILDREN ARE HORRIBLE, THEREFORE DEAN AND SAM WERE PARENTED WELL ENOUGH (::kicks things::) and...I just. I cannot believe this woman is for real!

[ranalore]

my personal button is the YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME THAT ABUSED CHILDREN ARE HORRIBLE

Oh, man. YES. Because survivors of abuse don't have enough shit to deal with, please let us determine that if you're not a horrible person, you weren't really abused.

[lady_ganesh]

I once euphemistically referred to someone's background as 'a dysfunctional family' and they said 'oh, that phrase is so overused' and I just wanted to say OH FUCK YOU. Maybe it is, and maybe I just don't want to say HIS FAMILY WAS A COMPLETELY HIDEOUS FUCKJOB.