In which ratherastory is difficult and nit-picky

[ratherastory]

Everyone has their pet peeves, right? I have many.

The latest one to surface, and it's a recurring problem, but it's been twice in a couple of days now, and I'm officially peeved.

Vampires.

Vampires in pre-series stories.

Remember "Dead Man's Blood?" The boys and John are convinced vampires don't exist/are extinct right up until first season

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[liliaeth]

Oh yes, even worse, even the comics got that one wrong.

[cece_away]

It's funny. They didn't know about Rugaros either. What gets me is when I run across a Weechester story and the boys have cell phones or laptops. Um? Maybe after 96 if John could have afforded those $1000 monsters and wanted to be tied down to the limited coverage that would have followed him around in his name from state to state.

Sorry, that's just my pet peeve.

[ratherastory]

Right. Lord above.

The cell phone thing is at least canon: Dean has a cell phone of his own when he's around 17, according to "After School Special." No indication that Sam has one, though.

[katwoman76]

I think that just shows that the writer is one of the young ones, who doesn't really remember, that "everyone has a cellphone" is a pretty new concept.
For them it's probably normal to have these as little kids already and the idea that it wasn't always like that is something they can't even imagine.
But yes, that's not something that would make sense until the time where Sam was a teenager and Dean almost out of school.

[cece_away]

True. My son asked me once to explain exactly how we use to dial "one of those old phones with the circle things on top". It was fun explaining how we had to put our fingers in the circles and move the dial around then watch it rotate back and heaven forbid if we put it in the front number.

[bellatemple]

See, and I just twitch over vampires in general.

But also: YES.

[charis_kalos]

Might John not have known and kept the truth from the boys because he knew Dean would recklessly hunt the "funny vampires" if he found out?

(Asks quietly 'cos I wrote this plot as a 'Winchesters in Sunnydale' story.)

[ratherastory]

Could be, but Sam and Dean explicitly state that they thought vampires didn't exist. John replies that he didn't think so either -that he thought they were extinct.

A case can be made for John lying, but not for the boys encountering vampires at any point before Season 1.

[charis_kalos]

I had them encountering but John deliberately keeping the truth from them.

*runs away and hides*

[ratherastory]

Hee!

But if the Winchesters were in Sunnydale, I think it counts as AU. You're totally off the hook. ;)

[chiiyo86]

Lol, I have the exact same pet peeve. I've been annoyed by it in otherwise well-written stories, but I can't help it, it still bothers me.