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saint and the dragon

Sep 19, 2006 18:52

Just so you know: it's crack. Very crack. Barely makes sense to me. :)

title: saint and the dragon
author: moveablehistory
rating: 14a
pairings: gen, can be read otherwise.
notes: For technosage, because I promised. Part of a large set of crack!fic - this is 500~ long so I figure it can stand on its own just fine.
summary: He's on horseback, but the horse is shaped like ( Read more... )

genre: crack, verse: made fast in truthful words, length: -1000, rating: 14a, style: experimental, -author's favourites-, fandom: supernatural

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belovedsnail September 20 2006, 01:42:40 UTC

hooooboy, here comes yet another comment where i'm already laughing at myself before even starting it.

first of all! you are reading my mind, which is neat. i was just going on and on to my mom today (my poor mom. she will regret ever getting curious about the show.) about how i want dream sequences on the show---not visions, dreams with things that don't make sense (but do) like Dean on an impala-horse and dragons. (have you ever read The Hero and the Crown by Robin McKinley? it's one of my favourite childrens' fantasy books ever, and this reminded me of it in the best possible way. gosh. dragons. i'm wagging my tail over here for sure.) so---whether or not this is a dream or not---you made the sort of strange imagery that i was thinking of work just beautifully. i just want to quote everything back at you like "and this bit worked, and so did that, and just the rhythm of the words here is so weird, all urgent and distant at once, which is all just as it should be, and i love the salt-lance and that John told them to wear ( ... )

moveablehistory September 20 2006, 01:57:28 UTC

I was really afraid of this one - so weird and convoluted and bizarre. I wrote it in my novel after 1900 class, while we were talking about the women knitting in black and I felt out of it, all dream and weird.

I haven't read The Hero and the Crown, but it's on my to-read list now.

Thank you thank you. ♥♥♥ and I'm so so pleased that you picked up on the fates reference - it was the first part written and everything else is about that. I'm so ridiciously pleased that you like it. ♥

heee. gosh♥

belovedsnail September 20 2006, 16:30:30 UTC

oh, i remember that feeling of sitting in class all bleary and detatched, and your mind just latches on to something and runs with it. i wrote so many mental-fics in classes and between my school and the subway stop. i'm glad you write yours down, because i love reading them.

also, i'm doing some poking around on Stanford's website (...i can't believe it's taken me like, eight months to get around to it, haha), and they've actually got a course listed (bafflingly, listed under art/art history) called "Cyborgs and Synthetic Humans," which reminded me fondly of your Stanford fic. ♥

moveablehistory September 20 2006, 16:41:28 UTC

Really? ♥ I have this sudden urge to take a look at their admissions pages. I wonder if they'll experience a rise in undergrad applications. :)

I'll keep writing them for you. ♥

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penelopeblack September 20 2006, 03:48:02 UTC

Omg, so awesome. Really interesting and great prose and great look at Sam and Dean's relationship. :)

moveablehistory September 20 2006, 04:21:13 UTC

Thanks - I was all scaredshy about it because of it's sheer weirdness, but I'm happy you like it. ♥

and ps., i adore your icon. :)

penelopeblack September 20 2006, 04:32:25 UTC

Lol, thank you. I adore it too. *g*

lunarwolfik September 20 2006, 04:15:06 UTC

Whoa.

It's like a weird drug trippy dream, except it has layers full of meaning and possibly foreshadowing and means so much more. The dream (concussion induced hallucination? almost dead foresight?) is haunting and remarkable, and frankly, would scare the crap out of me. And that? Makes it even more fantastic.

Plus, y'know, dragons.

moveablehistory September 20 2006, 04:27:44 UTC

Mmmmm. ♥

I thought a lot about fates, and vanquishing the dragon, and metaphors and such, because I wrote it in class and we were studing some early 1900 lit and that kind of class always makes me want to write things. Didn't mean to potentially scare the crap out of you, but *omgvictoryarms* nonetheless. \o/!!

(hee, definitely. ♥)

anakin415 September 20 2006, 11:36:31 UTC

the layers in this is wow

there is alot of things that you can see with Dean and how he looks at life and his work let alone what he feels about Sam.

Keep the crack coming LOL

moveablehistory September 20 2006, 16:43:05 UTC

hahaha, thanks. ♥

I'm not sure where all of it came from, but it's good to know it works. :D

And I will. :)

technosage September 20 2006, 21:22:01 UTC

Aiyeeee! I just found this and I'm so excited. I've read it briefly, but I want to read it again and again and then I'll come back and comment like it deserves.

But eeeeeeeeeeeeeee! so much love. ♥

moveablehistory September 21 2006, 02:57:31 UTC

YAY!!

I'm really interested in your opinion on this one. ♥

technosage September 26 2006, 08:10:15 UTC

He thinks he's in hell, because how far down can you fall, exactly? but it's bright and sunny, and a hint of a breeze, no sulphur or burning lakes of fire to be found.

Very Dean. Practical. I like.

He's on horseback, but the horse is shaped like the impala and his legs are spread impossibly wide.

So much love, especially for the image of Dean with his legs spread impossibly wide. And "crunching on virgins" is such a perfect phrase.

He has a lance, and he knows he's got to be fucking high on something because the weapon is made of salt, crystal and pure and he has half an inclination to lick it - taste if it's real.Hehehe. I love this. Also, the idea of Dean as a "red shirt" while possibly not what you intended makes me a little fearful for Dean, since red shirts always die. But he's learned, no red shirts, so he won't. Yay ( ... )

moveablehistory September 26 2006, 14:42:34 UTC

First, thank you. :D!!

And now to address your points ♥: I hadn't considered "red shirt" in the always-the-one-to-die kind of way, but I like that allusion. :)

I wanted to include that legs spread line because it's usually an image of femininity hypersexualized- I wanted to have that feminine image in mind in reference to Dean, underscoring his nurturer/caregiver role in his family. (also, in my fanon, he totally bottoms from the top. or whatever. heh.)

I'm kind of not sure why he didn't want to kill the dragon, either, but my initial guess was that the dragon hadn't done anything to him personally, and it hadn't made a move to hurt him. But it *was* crunching away, so Dean had to stop it. Definitely the good soldier, there. :)

I also wonder how many people picked up on that. It was very intentional on my part, and honestly I was going to have the virgin look Sam-ish but I decided I'd better not. :)

Okay, so, the you saved your brother. does it hurt? part:

She looks at him unseeing; knitting black yarn into socks or scarves ( ... )

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