If I remember correctly from the Great Cilantro Debate of Ought Seven, you came down on the negative side, right? But you don't mind reading it when one of the characters has done the gender-switching thing?
I did, but because my reasons are character-based, rather than general squick based (and I could write ESSAYS on why, say, Connor/anyone or Simon/River works for me, but Sam/Dean causes me to flail and back away, because it's not that there isn't squick there, but it's very character and situation specific, and man, this parenthetical is almost an essay, so I'll stop now), that sort of switch/AU (I tend to stick to ones where one or both has always been a girl) provides me with enough of a remove from my interpretation of canon that I can be sold.
Or what SA said, except inverted. Though we both agree on the both girls part, I think.
And, yes, I think about this a lot.
Supernatural fandom, oh how it can surprise you.
Heh. Yeah.
I still can't believe I'm a mostly gen, casefile-type reader.
And a mostly gen writer with a side of tasteful het.
It's like they replaced me with someone else or something.
one could theoretically justify Sam wingfic and not have things be all hugs and puppies.
Well, I mean, if he turns out to be SATAN. He could barbecue the puppies! Hugs would be fatal!!
one could theoretically justify Sam wingfic and not have things be all hugs and puppies
There's one AU that has Sam
die and come back as a Reaper
.
So very not hugs and puppies. (Though it's leaning S/D as it goes, so...)
It's like they replaced me with someone else or something.
No sign of politician slash anywhere, tsk.
No sign of politician slash anywhere, tsk.
Now she's going to write one just to spite you.
Now she's going to write one just to spite you.
Depending on the politicians, I might read it. If Newt Gingrich shows up, she's on her own.
Depending on the politicians, I might read it. If Newt Gingrich shows up, she's on her own.
One day, I will finish that Gingrich/Clinton. I will.
I've read things here that I never expected to read.
Well, the thing is, I thought all my squick/unexpected barriers had been thoroughly thrashed by popslash. I mean, believe me when I say that *anything* that could possibly have been written has been written in popslash. We're talking more than one story where the main characters you know and love are serial killers, for example. Or cult leaders. Or samurais, or princes of nation-states, or love slaves, or love slave buys, etc etc. Wingfic, incestfic, genderswap, randomly becoming an animal, kinkfic of every shape, style and form, AUs of every type from publishing house to buskers to Tolkein characters--everything cracked out, I'm pretty sure I've read it in popslash. So the fact that I still *have* any squick barriers is what astonishes me. I mean, even being kind of not into the genderswap for SPN (well, except for both Dean and Sam as girls, as Plei notes) I'll still read it, because it's often very good fic. I just didn't expect to be slightly uncomfortable about it, which is strange, because I was never weird (or okay, only a little) about Simon/River.
However, in Heroes fandom recently I hit a brick wall of squick, which was again astonishing because I didn't think there were any of those left for me, and because if there were I didn't expect to read them. But as it turns out, Nathan/Claire fic is that squick barrier. Even by writers I like.
Oh, and Buffy/Dawn was one too. Thank christ no one writes that anymore.
I kind of feel like a war vet of squicktastic fic.
Hmmm, I just realized, one could theoretically justify Sam wingfic and not have things be all hugs and puppies.
Oh, and the one where Sam becomes a puppy.
Or the one where Sam raises a hellhound puppy.
that sort of switch/AU (I tend to stick to ones where one or both has always been a girl) provides me with enough of a remove from my interpretation of canon that I can be sold.
Yeah, I prefer different ways to get there but the Sam/Dean *has* to be enough of an AU or I just frown, tilt my head and don't get it. But AU it up for me? And I'll read it.
I kind of feel like a war vet of squicktastic fic.
Yep. I never understood that until this fandom, but now I get it.
