I get that sometimes villainy is determined by the plot you're following, but it wasn't done very well, and I think that choice of hooking Dean up with someone he didn't hook up with in canon is just as viable as not demonising (literally or figuratively) someone who was nothing but sympathetic in canon.

Other than that, it was clumsily written and not very rewarding. Writer went with Sarah as the ultimate Sam pairing instead of Jess which I thought was interesting. I haven't seen her around as much recently, and I miss her, but I am old school about canon nods, and I do kinda want her to be his second GF, not the only one in the story.

Beyond picking out what grades a writer is in, picking out who they hate is also an interesting (and easier) exercise. (And, wow, a lot of fans seem to really hate John/JDM).

And, wow, a lot of fans seem to really hate John/JDM

Oh, yeah. Waaay back in S2/3, I posted a bigass John Winchester defense post. I got more comments on that than on any other piece of show-related meta, ever.

It is my considered opinion, that if the reader can identify which character the author hates (not the narrator, the author), they're DOIN IT RONG.

I am now trying to reflect on any characters I hate and may be doing a disservice to. I'm writing off Balthazar because originally he was worse before I realized I was demonizing him because I couldn't stand the actor in his tweets. (No, not the character, and not the actor, who I found dead sexy in other shows, but the tweeter. Yeah, how f***ed up is that?).

I have to confess that some stories are written just so I can vent my spleen on how much I hate a character.

Some characters I think deserve that. Others it's a matter of "bwuh?"

Some characters that I despise, if in a a fic, I would just choose to emit their existence as the ultimate revenge. (Hi Becky, bye!)

Speaking of being unable to tell which fic is which, I really dislike it when fics either use some obscure song lyric as the summary, or the first sentence of the fic, and neither gives you anything substantial to hang onto the fic as a whole, or even onto the very first chapter.

I'm totally guilty of that. Of course, I also really only put in summaries because The Man makes me. So.

I mean, if I could sum it up, I probably wouldn't have written it. But that's me, and hey, it's not like I write much outside of Yuletide these days, and more's the pity.

Tonight's experience: That awkward moment when you figure out that the WiP that posted a new chapter was not the one you thought it was. Makes conversations between characters very confusing.

Ahahaha. I've had that problem.

Most of the time, it's because I'm flatviewing a kink meme, though.

(Seriously, I miss the fuck out of having the time to write. If I still had time to write, holy crap, there's a lot of half-finished things on my phone I'd dust off and finish.)

(Probably starting with a TARDIS POV story that has a document name of "The Conception of River Song.")

(Which I don't think would need a summary.)

It is my considered opinion, that if the reader can identify which character the author hates (not the narrator, the author), they're DOIN IT RONG.

Consuela is me. Nothing takes me out of the story faster than obviously visible author hatred toward a character, unless the character has zero redeeming values in canon. I don't like it even if I myself don't think much of the character. Particularly egregious is when an author demonizes a character who (by canon or by being fandom's favoured alterna-ship) stands in the way of her pairing, and it's super obvious that the hatred is born out of ship-wankage. Ugh.

Oh yeah. I mean, Lisa may not be the brightest bulb on the tree (after the first time Dean's enemies invaded my house, I'd have relocated myself and my kid to Vatican City or a cabin on one of those dry salt lake beds in Utah instead of taking a que sera, sera approach to home security), but she's always been depicted in the show as a good person and generally far more understanding of Dean's issues than you'd expect the average person to be.