sweetprince: (pwn you)
It's very true that every fanfic writer has their own take on what Sam and Dean are, what character space they embody, perhaps even what goals they are trying to accomplish. The thing about Supernatural is that we get really only two views of the characters, "Life during wartime" and "the goof troop" and even the goof troop episodes show Sam and Dean's life during wartime. So I think it's easy to give characters a lot of leeway in that sense. I even think that Sam-girls and Dean-girls view the characters on the show differently (oh, fuck it, I know this). However, I still think it's possible for us to identify what is out-of-character, and what is an in-character move.

Which is why when you write Supernatural AUs for movies or comics or books, not everything will work.

In which Lauren spends her time writing meta about this rather than studying for her finals. )
sweetprince: (red shoes)
I'm one of those authors (maybe this is just low brow of me) who doesn't really consider her fic to be finished if there isn't sexing of some kind. That person who wrote the epic Jonny/Reed F4 slash and cut it off with cuddling on the couch? Hell, I felt cockblocked. I think the only exception to this rule I have (in my own fic) was Stopped at the Crossroads because if I put buttsex in there it would've RUINED it. Or--I don't know--been really stilted. Who would I have observe it? Grandma? Yeah that's a real turn on.

Anyway, considering that I find porn so *cough* crucial to my writing, I guess it's just odd that I struggle with it. I find myself trying to find meaning and getting all poetic, when that's not necessarily what I want to read in the porny interlude of a fic. You, flist, learn me how you do this hot porn thing. I can't figure it out. I can't stop myself from the analysis and the memories and the thought behind every touch. Oh lord, I might as well pack it in and start writing for Celine Dion.

I know what the problem is though. I want so desperately not to sound cliche. I don't want it to just be the whole "stick it in and ride 'em cowboy" thing. I could probably do that, er the closest I got to that was the "library porn" story. Leaving that aside, God knows none of us want to sound trite, but I feel that in fic there are a couple of paths writers traditionally take or--as someone I know would say--the "tropes" of Wincest sex.

Lauren very intelligently analyzes cliche (mostly first time) sex scenarios in terms of Sam and Dean, heavily inspired by her writing seminar. Only don't tell her professor that. )

Basically this was all a way for me to procrastinate on writing that porny sequence I was hinting at. And possibly my Japanese homework. Actually me doing anything up to and including brushing my teeth is a way for me to procrastinate on my Japanese homework.
sweetprince: (married couple)
This has probably already been said, especially in the wake of all of the Sam Girl/Dean Girl fighting, which I still think is ridiculous. I mean I like Sam better, but that doesn’t mean he is better. Anyway, I guess the thing is that I get really really tired of fic writers and Dean apologists claiming that Sam is a worse more selfish brother because he went off to college. Most of us Sam girls probably already sit there and are like, what? Because clearly, we know that wanting something normal, and wanting something for yourself, does not necessarily mean wanting a life without your father and brother in it. If people think that’s the truth about Sam, I demand you show me the evidence. That’s why us Sam girls like Sam. He’s an intellectual.

But I digress, what I’m attempting to posit is that perhaps Sam’s choices were not the choices of the selfish brother, but those of the younger brother.

I’m writing my first real fandom meta, oh dear god )

So the point of this meta is to discuss, if you think I'm a ravening lunatic and that I have completely misinterpreted Dean and Sam and the entire shebang, please discuss.

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