(Biting tongue in solidarity with 'Suela)

I like her John. I sometimes don't like her writing style.

So much agreement with Ailleann. There's no doubt she has a special love for John, and one almost as big for Dean. Which is why it was such a hoot her topic was Sam in In the Hunt.

I've been on a serious NCIS fic kick, lately, so I thought I'd share some reqs:

Tony-centric stories:

Angels and Heroes by kikkimax

The yearly reminder of an old case takes a new twist and Tony becomes the target for revenge. Warning for very adult situations and violence. No spoilers past season two.

Legends and Myths by kikkimax

The sequel to Angels and Heroes

Gibbs/Dinozzo slash:

Where Angels Fear to Tread by lisa-blue

It takes serious illness to bring Gibbs and Dinozzo together. Spoilers no later than season two. Hankie warning.

NCIS/Supernatural crossover:

NCIS and the Haunted Computer by Tassos

The computer did it. No specific spoilers, but set in NCIS season 2 and SPN post Folsom Prison Blues

Tim-centric:

The White Hat Sneakers by Tipper

When McGee and three other agency white hats are taken, the rest of the team will do whatever it takes to find him…er…them. Team story. Warning: this is not fluff. Spoilers: Nothing specific, just generally through Season Five (though occurring before Judgment Day), with one definite spoiler reference for “Stakeout.”

(Biting tongue in solidarity with 'Suela)

I fail at biting my tongue. I think her ideas are decent some of the time (though a little soppy for my taste) but my inner editor wants to strike about 2/3s of her words as unneccesary and take away her purple crayon.

She's a popular enough writer that I think she's hitting some kind of fannish pleasure button, but it's a button I don't appear to possess.

Meanwhile, if by some freak of chance Jilli has not yet happened across this Wednesday/Harmony story, she must read it now. It is OMG FABULOUS!

Bweeeee! Oh, that was great.

Wasn't it? I don't know why the idea didn't occur to me before! I LOVE that kind of crossover!

Ah, dear - clearly I'm out of step with you folks wrt Dodger Winslow's stories. Possibly I am an easier sell on stories from the POV of primary school teachers, because I had an awful lot of "OMG, yes! That!" and may have overidentified just a teeny bit with the whole thing. Um. Not that I have any awesome, damaged seven year olds I'd like to take away from their parents, of course. No siree Bob. Um.

Perspective is perhaps not my friend on this one.

Wasn't it? I don't know why the idea didn't occur to me before! I LOVE that kind of crossover!

I love the random Addams Family crossovers that people point me at. Okay, yes, I just love well-done Addams Family fic, but when ... Plei, I think? Pointed me at the Addams Family/My Chemical Romance crossover, I was making gleehands at the monitor for aaaaaages.

(Huh, I should go re-read that on the bus home.)

I appreciate and applaud Dodger's obvious love for her characters--after all, I love them too. She has a gift for characterisation, it's true, and I find myself nodding, or my heart hurting, with her vision of the characters.

For my taste, though, she often writes too deeply into characterisation or plot point, just plowing the same ground and not moving the story forward. That's my main problem with her writing.

I would love to take a machete to DW's work. Because there's good story there, but it's lost in the weeds too often.

I seem to recall a long story she was posting that started off with a target of 15 parts, and within a couple of months it was being posted as Part 35/?, which is just... no. You have got to have at least a clue how big a story is when you start it. I don't know how big it ended up, but it was clearly going to be at least 3 times the size it was originally estimated, which reads to me as someone who doesn't have much control over their writing process. And possibly easily distracted by the shiny.

She had a pretty interesting AU a couple years back, in which John got amnesia and ended up in a small town in Oregon, and I liked much of it (I mostly like her characterizations), but after a while she fell in love with all her OCs and it became an original story with the Winchesters as recurring characters, which wasn't what I was in the mood for. And the plot sloooooowwweeed to a crawl.

Ah. Well, okay, you folks have evidently read MUCH more of her stuff than I have. Fair enough.

Delurking over breakfast to say: the reason I don't care for Dodger Winslow is that in a anonymized ficathon I guessed which was her story immediately. Because it was the only one with a hinky social-class-and-parenting rant in the middle of it. Even if she were able to be concise, she has no shape of story. They're all bent and crooked as the ego-ideal expands to cram everything else into the corners.

Not surprisingly, her appearances on Fandom Wank and the rants she places within her stories read exactly the same way.