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Consuela - Dec 15, 2009 6:58:14 pm PST #6385 of 10434

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

I think the nu!Kirk stuff is far more fresh in people's minds than the Krycek stuff, which is why Kirk is winning. Also, Tarsus IV! (Which is apparently fanon in the new fandom.)

I think there were no women because, hey, MANPAIN. Fans find manpain appealing, but womanpain NSM.

P.M. Marc - Dec 15, 2009 7:28:50 pm PST #6386 of 10434

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

I think there were no women because, hey, MANPAIN. Fans find manpain appealing, but womanpain NSM.

There was Parker.

I enjoy manpain over most womanpain, because most (not all, but most) womanpain hits too close to the bone. Hell, it's been the big block for me in writing any serious always-a-girl Winchester stories. Remove the XY layer of abstraction for me from the worst of it, and I go sympathetic fetal.

§ ita § - Dec 15, 2009 7:30:48 pm PST #6387 of 10434

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I can't even write the word womanpain with the same nonchalance I write I write manpain. There's a gravity that's just not as fun.

Does Faith have a bad fanon childhood?

P.M. Marc - Dec 15, 2009 7:32:14 pm PST #6388 of 10434

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Faith has a fanon bad childhood. She is one of the womanpain! exceptions in fandom such as I've noticed.

Morgana - Dec 15, 2009 7:33:50 pm PST #6389 of 10434

"I make mistakes, but I am on the side of Good," the Golux said, "by accident and happenchance.” – The 13 Clocks, James Thurber

Well, Faith had a bad canon childhood too, didn't she? At least according to her. She's not exactly a reliable narrator.

P.M. Marc - Dec 15, 2009 7:36:34 pm PST #6390 of 10434

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Most of the bad fanon childhoods have roots in canon. I mean, we know Pa Vecchio was up there with Wyndam-Pryce pere in terms of dicktasticness.

Faith's bad childhood gets a nod in canon, a stronger (more explicit) nod in some grey canon (official tie-in books), and a HUGE nod in fanon.

Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 16, 2009 5:43:54 am PST #6391 of 10434

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Canon was that Faith's mother was an alcoholic and left her unsupervised a lot, right?

erikaj - Dec 16, 2009 6:00:02 am PST #6392 of 10434

Always Anti-fascist!

I think so, yeah.

P.M. Marc - Dec 16, 2009 7:04:51 am PST #6393 of 10434

So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Also, dead!

§ ita § - Dec 16, 2009 8:42:24 am PST #6394 of 10434

Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I think there were no women because, hey, MANPAIN. Fans find manpain appealing, but womanpain NSM.

There was Parker

They've walked a strange and delicate line with Parker--her childhood pain has been played both for real sadness and for absolute hysterics. I think that helps her get on that list. Having herself buried alive by friends in order to get over claustrophobia? Blowing up her house? That's the kind of childhood trauma I can get behind. Starbuck is much more raw.

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