Shrift--is SPN totally out of vogue at Vividcon? I was just going through some of the older DVDs, and there's a big dearth. Did all the Vivid-people never get into it, or fall out of it?
Unrelatedly, in one chapter this poor author revealed that she thought a) replacing a spark plug was expensive and would take installments to pay off and b) you have to pass the bar exam to get into law school. Not only do they not know life, they also don't know the show's canon. Even though the educational canon doesn't work properly, LSAT is named specifically. I am assuming the vegetable facts are correct, though.
This is why 13-year-olds should probably stick to writing My Little Pony fanfics.
How to Google and Not Suck At It should be, like, 5th grade curriculum.
1st google result shows how she could have extrapolated a spark plug problem into something a little more pricey, but "the spark plug"? Wow. Don't you usually know when you don't know?
No way to tell if some member of her family has or had one of those crappily engineered vehicles where you need an engine hoist to swap out the spark plugs then got shafted by the mechanic, I suppose?
Fall out, I suspect, ita !.
Do a percentage of people fall out of every fandom? I was a lifer with Buffy and Angel, and obviously continue to be for SPN, so for me that's the norm, if that makes sense. I never know whether people are drifting away from SPN because they don't like it anymore, or it's a natural drift.
He feels sick at the sight of that bright red liquid, Jared’s life, all over him and puts it back, gripping him hard as if it could keep Jared’s blood inside of him
YES, yes it could! Author, you almost got it! Just make Jensen grip him in the right, non-porny place, and he could actually keep the blood inside him!
This is almost the point in movies where I start bleating "stop clutching and shaking her and put pressure on the wound!". Yes, I blame Anakin for his mother's death because he
moved
her. Plot point based on bad medical training, it kills me )and almost got me kicked out of the movie theatre).
Fall out, I suspect, ita !.
Mentally, I have a S5 exodus with the Harvelle's death as the final (but far from first) inciting factor. Would that be when many of them fell out? Or later or earlier, or just general normal attrition like Amy mentions?
I'm in one of those moods where I think no one's case files are up to par, so I'm neck deep in AUs. What is your guys' general preference for AU characterisation? Bad guys stay bad, good guys stay good,
unless the author explains why not?
Clearly that's mine. I get that people honestly think John was a bad guy, and that's a separate issue. Lisa is almost in that boat, but when you write Anna or Gabriel happily dating Crowley, why, though? Aren't there enough names that you can slip someone else into those niches?
I also wonder about age or power hierarchies. When a top dog in the show is hired help in the AU, I expect there to be a point. But at least in the story I'm reading, there doesn't seem to be any point at all. If it's important to a character that they're older than whoever, shouldn't there be a reason why your AU has them not anymore? I mean, shouldn't every deviation from the canon framework specifically serve your story? Especially since the alternative is usually specifically distracting from it? Especially when there is a canon alternative bad guy/henchperson/younger substitute? Or the character could just be an OC?
(Also, 6'4 Viking-type Alexander Northman in your SPN story isn't cute or clever. IT'S DISTRACTING, BRUH.)
I don't get choices...
("He has a slight concussion, he'll probably be unconscious for a couple days, so let him sleep it off in your bedroom, and give him aspirin every four hours when he wakes up to address his headaches and double vision"--why not give him memory loss you resolve with another blow to his head? That's pretty much how far off you are right now)
He feels sick at the sight of that bright red liquid, Jared’s life, all over him and puts it back, gripping him hard as if it could keep Jared’s blood inside of him
What is the "it"?
The act of gripping, which I read as clutching some unwounded body part. And since the wound was in the torso, gripping would be kind of hard for stemming bloodflow, unless one is the Hulk.
