Good idea.

Vaguely relatedly, those commercials for JDM's new movie totally read to me like some kind of genderswap fic brought to life film.

It does seem that, in any fandom where there's canonical abuse and abandonment, there's a subset of fandom determined to make it worse, not that I know these particular characters...

Obviously I'm okay with living in an alternate reality, because hey! I ship slash. But given that, some of the decisions people make...I'm all dude--I'm detached from canon and I can't get where you are. What show are you tuning into?

Sam and Dean don't need further woobification. They have a father that made some pretty bad decisions.

But he didn't just die in a deal to save his son's life, he crawled out of hell and saved it again after resisting a hundred odd years of torture.

So why do so many writers have him a drunk lush with a history of DUIs and leaving his kids without enough food to eat and only dying of cirrhosis if drunk driving doesn't get him first?

Good lord, people. What are you satisfying with your interpretation/alteration? I can't work it out.

I used to wonder that with Tim Bayliss stories, ita. Because it's canon that his Uncle George abused him sexually, and you could probably make the argument that he didn't have the warmest parents in the world, but some of the stuff that came from the knowledge...reads a little sick to me.

I saw Peter Wingfield today.

I'm temping at UVM- College of Medicine and he's currently a 2nd year med student. I was walking back to my office and passed through this lounge area((not really a lounge area, it's an open area with couches) and he was sitting on a couch, looked like he might be waiting for someone.

He's gone back to med school? That's the best thing EVER.

Yeah - here's a good article by a local paper [link]

I adore that he's going to med school. I mean, he's been characters I love but he's also this actual person and, hey, go follow your dream and have a real life. I am totally in support of that.

I think John is a great character. He's one of my favourites in terms of how messed up he is.

I thought, "like Batman!"

I think he had all the best intentions, but was rabidly monomaniacal in a very Batmanish way--he just didn't have to outsource orphans. He grew his own.

And then you mentioned it.

He made a lot of mistakes. A lot of them. But I don't see him as an overall bad guy. I think he was flawed as a father, sure. They weren't exactly the Brady's. But I still like the character of John and think he falls way further on the side of good.

Ha! There actually happened to be a vid in Nearly New show during Vividcon that was dedicated to Peter Wingfield, set to Live and Let Die: [link]

Not deep, but enjoyable nonetheless. And good on him that he's pursuing his other dreams.

ita, I still really have a thing for John Winchester. Some googling or delicious searches might find my John Winchester Defense Post off Doom... (I'm on the road using my phone or I would give you the l link directly...)

Also I wrote two stories which might be seen as John defenses...