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.

Oh, hah, and guess who's in the first link on Fandom Wank right now. I had no idea.

I am reading centaur fic...

::scratches head::

And I think I'm enjoying it.

I'm about halfway through S1 of Dexter, and I need fic. I've read all the novels, and am surprised (but happy!) with how the show deviates from the novels. So now I want fic. Anyone have any recs?

Alas, no. But I just read Finding Nemo slash, and it was very good. Um. Just needed to share that with y'all.