Hey--thanks for reading! I'm totally fascinated by the relationship between fanon and canon, and glad someone else is! (the whole damaged!Dean phenomenon is so interesting, and even though I enthralled by hurt!Dean fic myself, I can't quite unpack the appeal--clearly it's some alchemy of role and actor, since it spills over into there being so much more hurt!Jensen fic...I read somewhere that the writers changed their tack on Dean sometime during S1 after seeing how good JA was with emotional vulnerability...).
And given my age group I wonder how many people can relate to this in their own lives.
That's interesting!
I appreciate that the show has been willing to do what they're doing with the brothers. Yeah--though I wrote this before 4.22, and am still trying to sort through the double-fake we were offered on the Winchester break-up...I do think that fanfiction has been wrestling with the darker undercurrents of the show this year--so much has just blocked its ears so to speak, and been simply consoling--though there have been some very good, less consolatory fics. I liked the two stories I discussed in this post because they seem to get around the consolatory-non-consolatory dilemma.
But it's really interesting the degree to which what goes on on TV influences characterization in fic. For instance, I think Sams have become much edgier, even in fic written about previous seasons, than they were in say S2 fic written during S2 (like this "Mystery Spot" tag--written in Fall 08, with a darker Sam than I think would have been written in Winter 08--pure spec., though, of course!).
In a happier and more direct relationship: in the tiny bit of post 4.22 fic I've read, the Winchesters seem to be having much more sex with each other than they have all year!
I read your post on fic types a few months ago, but just went back and looked at it again. So interesting! It would be interesting to go back to it and see what S4 has added to the mix. All the Smith/Wesson fic seems a version of "separated at birth," but Castiel/Dean--is that a new type of story, or a new version of an old type?
(I was thinking of posting this to Heavy Meta, but it has almost nothing to do with canon SPN...do you think it would be okay? Also feel I should warn the authors I discuss...)
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Date: 2009-05-18 02:40 am (UTC)That's interesting!
Yeah--though I wrote this before 4.22, and am still trying to sort through the double-fake we were offered on the Winchester break-up...I do think that fanfiction has been wrestling with the darker undercurrents of the show this year--so much has just blocked its ears so to speak, and been simply consoling--though there have been some very good, less consolatory fics. I liked the two stories I discussed in this post because they seem to get around the consolatory-non-consolatory dilemma.
But it's really interesting the degree to which what goes on on TV influences characterization in fic. For instance, I think Sams have become much edgier, even in fic written about previous seasons, than they were in say S2 fic written during S2 (like this "Mystery Spot" tag--written in Fall 08, with a darker Sam than I think would have been written in Winter 08--pure spec., though, of course!).
In a happier and more direct relationship: in the tiny bit of post 4.22 fic I've read, the Winchesters seem to be having much more sex with each other than they have all year!
I read your post on fic types a few months ago, but just went back and looked at it again. So interesting! It would be interesting to go back to it and see what S4 has added to the mix. All the Smith/Wesson fic seems a version of "separated at birth," but Castiel/Dean--is that a new type of story, or a new version of an old type?
(I was thinking of posting this to Heavy Meta, but it has almost nothing to do with canon SPN...do you think it would be okay? Also feel I should warn the authors I discuss...)