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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[emmram]

See now that brings up a question from my side: before finding out that it was the YED that killed their mother, what did the boys think it was? Did they know abouy the yellow eyes, at least? For the life of me, I can't remember, and I don't feel like revisiting season 1.

I'm a canon-beast. I avoid pre-series fics like the plague.

[ratherastory]

They don't say anything about it, actually. It's always the "thing that killed Mom."

I am picky about my pre-series fic, but there's a lot of really well-written ones out there.

[katwoman76]

I know what you mean

[ratherastory]

Fanon is one thing (like the bed-closest-to-the-door thing, which is not canonically accurate but cute), but blatantly ignoring canon? Feh.

I don't know if it's my TV/computer, but Dean's eyes seem to me to be... bluish-green, like Sam's, although Sam's are bluer than Dean's. I have the hardest time describing them. I thought the colour was called "hazel," and I used it in fic, but subsequent research has proved me wrong on that count. Turns out "hazel" is something entirely different, and now my own fics make me twitchy when I re-read them. ;)

[katwoman76]

I think a lot of people use hazel for this weird blue/green/brown mix depending on mood/lighting. So I could kind of live with that - or at least claim I don't know bette, because I'm not a native speaker.
But blue...yeah, that's the color of their holy tax accountants eyes.
I do admit, that sometimes it's hard to see and lighting, tv-settings, clothes and everything have an influence as well.
With Dean I think it's more obvious. Sam's change color more, so it's not really that clear. But yeah, as far as I know - all the Winchester boys have a certain level of green in there (mixed with blue and/or brown to some degree).
But for sure not as clear blue eyes as Cas has.

[cece_away]

The thing is whether it is accurate or not, if it is overused, it becomes a cliche anyway. Hazel eyes, though I guess is correctenough, has become a SPN fanfic cliche. Be creative, writers. Call them mossy, swampy, foresty, jade, shadowed emerald, coffee-tinged, pond algae -- whatever.

I love when writers can come up with a different fresher way to describe things.

*ducking because I have used hazel eyes myself*