Comments | subterrain: birthday ficlets: The Knifethrower/The Safehouse/Shreds and Tatters

subterrain

birthday ficlets: The Knifethrower/The Safehouse/Shreds and Tatters

Sep 03, 2007 19:02

opprobrium has the dubious honour of being the most entertaining, motivating, c-bomb-dropping degenerate I've ever met. She constantly questions, shocks and titillates, and without her I have no doubt I'd be spending my spare time playing the Sims 2 and reading canadian litmags like an asshat. She has a fearsome ability to motivate others to produce - and ( Read more... )

slash, x-over, fic, spn

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yourlibrarian September 4 2007, 02:43:39 UTC

What an interesting trio of pieces! Fascinating outside look at a possible S3, but I think the first intrigued me the most. I was thinking how not unlike their canon lives a life like that might have been for them.

subterrain September 4 2007, 22:12:20 UTC

Thanks for reading! I have to admit that it's also my favourite - I like the idea of an alternative life on the road, kind of an exacerbation of whatever dullness, absence of familiarity or normalcy appears in the show. Except without all the heroics and purpose.

yourlibrarian September 4 2007, 22:17:43 UTC

I think I said something to this effect in a meta I did about fic reading, but it seems to me the great advantage of the written form (and fanfic in particular) is the exploration of the mundane. Because in most stories (filmed or otherwise) to focus on the mundane is to lose your audience. Yet nothing is so relatable as the mundane (except perhaps, when tinged with cultural differences, in which case it can be intriguing). And it seems to me fanfic, especially shorter forms, do just that -- bring us closer to characters that fascinate us by focusing on those common experiences instead of the usual drama.

subterrain September 4 2007, 22:28:26 UTC

You know what? That is just so absolutely apt - I sometimes mourn how literature can't explore beauty the way painting does, or emotional depth the way music does (at least, not without wallowing in angst a la The Sorrows of Young Werther) - but you're right on the money with what writing CAN do. Wonderful.

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benvolio_daemon September 4 2007, 02:50:37 UTC

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All of these were amazing, but I cannot even express how awesome you are for writing a SPN/HDM crossover. Just. *flails*

subterrain September 4 2007, 22:14:31 UTC

Thank you! AND IT HAD TO BE DONE. It occurred to me that marine = wolf daemon and that was it for me. Eeeeee, little animals!

kickthebeat September 4 2007, 03:05:46 UTC

i have to be up for work in seven hours. :( asgaskjdg that last ficlet, HOW ARE YOU SO BRILLIANT. OUR MUTUAL FRIEND IS SO LUCKY. HAPPY BIRTHDAY opprobrium.

subterrain September 4 2007, 22:18:38 UTC

I AM SABOTAGING YOUR FUNCTIONALITY FOR DIRE PURPOSES OF MY OWN.

gretazreta September 4 2007, 03:12:56 UTC

HDM crossover FTW!
I think you TOTALLY nailed Dean's daemon, right on the button. I liked that a lot. The first two were also really lovely... the second broke my heart.
Great writing.

subterrain September 4 2007, 22:29:13 UTC

Oh, thanks! I'm really glad you think so. Bad 'dean is a fox' puns aside, I'm happy it worked.

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subterrain September 4 2007, 22:44:41 UTC

Alright, I have to tell you that I opened my Dean Winchester Orientation Exorcism Kit (Nova Scotia Edition) this morning before class and BAWLED. How did you know that peanut butter M&Ms are my absolute favourite? YOU JUST DID DIDN'T YOU. And ohhh, I'll make the best horse-dinosaur diorama this city has ever seen. YOU ARE WONDERFUL ( ... )