original by poisontaster

[spnremixfics]

Remix Title: Flicker
Remix Author: aynslee
Original Story: Where the Frightened Crawl
Original Author:poisontaster
Rating: R
Pairings: Sam/Dean
Summary: Dean fights for his connection to Sam.
Warnings: None

Comments

[poisontaster]

Oh, sweet merciful gods, HOW I LOVE THIS.

I really adore the way you turned the story inside out, making the mundane the dream and the apocalypse the reality. Just...that's so excellent, such a lovely, unexpected twist. I love the way you kept the sense of disorientation throughout, the ugly uncertainty of what's the dream and what's real.

I love all the little details--Live Free or Die Hard, and Chicago; I love the exquisite sensory details, like the taste of Nerds, or the smells of the bathroom. I love that you resisted the temptation to explain it all any more than the original, leaving the ends loose, trailing.

I the tenderness that Sam has with Dean here and that the conflict is more about 'what happened to Sam?' than it is Sam being cruel in the original. This is a wonderful, emotional story and it's a really brilliant remix. I'm so very pleased. Thank you so much!

[t_mystery01]

I saw the link on poisontaster's site and thought I would read both fics !!
I really liked both! Yours had such detail and I was not really sure what was dream and what was reality until the very end!! good job!!

[fannishliss]

I too came over from pt's rec and read both stories. It is indeed really cool how the old, mundane world is so terrifying to Dean without Sam -- like a fever dream when you are really sick and in pain. Waking up to the apocalypse world is a relief to Dean because Sammy's still there-- both stories really play on how much Dean has been scarred by Sam's departures, how he depends for his very sanity on Sam's presence in his life. you did a great job remixing a terrific story and spinning your own masterful variant on the theme -- i enjoyed reading!

[charlie_d_blue]

This was brilliant. The shell-shocked, almost childlike passivity of Dean without Sam captured both the heartbreak of such a situation and the sense of a dreamscape. Gorgeous detail, I absolutely loved it.

[dreamlittleyo]

Beautiful! I love the disjointed feel of the world before Dean wakes up, and how he doesn't quite believe it once he does. Lovely work!