Popslash was ... what? N'SYNC and Backstreet and that era?

Yeah. Those were...I hung out with a member of 'NSYNC once, so the whole popslash thing makes me laugh extra hard. Not that I was a fan. He was at a party I was at, and I wanted to irritate the friend I was with. I didn't even know his name at first.

You know, Julie, I suspected you were working through that list. I read most of them last week (I'm on the Croatoan page now, and I have to pace myself). The crossover page was disappointing, because, hello, not D/C. Very random. The quality was quite erratic, but it's a monster list and I had a lot of fun.

You know, Julie, I suspected you were working through that list

I've been meaning to ask you if you were over there! It was getting to the point where you'd rec something and I had to repeatedly refrain from creepily exclaiming "I just finished that last night!"

Yeah, it's all inclusive, it seems. And too many WIPs to skip. I don't know why I started that VM fusionish fic. Probably desperation because I really like the student AU's as well.

I found it through tracyloowho's rec page, which I've almost all gobbled up (been avoiding the Lucifer fics and the endverse).

And too many WIPs to skip

Yes! I was trying to skip them, but kept messing up and slamming into a wall of frustration, especially when they were good. But it looks like she updates the list frequently, so I will be going back and looking often.

I found it through tracyloowho's rec page

She has great recs. That's where I got most of my start in finding D/C.

I read one girl!Dean fic and it was so so wrong. Why? It's no longer Dean. It's too much mental work to try and translate the actions and language to see if it maps in character. And, why would one want to remove the lovely visual of Jensen, or Misha? To overcome the homsexuality? So the author can better insert themselves into the story?

Julie, you are totally in my head today. I had to skip most of the genderfuck D/C stories. I fully believe that someone could do something subversive and challenging with it, but not the ones I tried. I'll wait for recs.

I've read one where Deanna gets pregnant and has an abortion (not a D/C story) that was interesting and did a good mapping to female, but mostly it's WHY????

Which is also how I feel about giving Sam and Dean a sister. DNW.

The kidverses didn't do as much for me as I'd hoped, but I'm going to try them again.

Mapping their characters onto girls, if they had grown up that way, is an interesting exercise for me, because (as I think Plei pointed out to me) a lot of things other than the obvious might have changed if Dean had been a girl, for instance.

But for the most part it's just intellectual for me. I want to read about the people I *know* not other versions of them.

Oh, and ita's comment reminds me why I run screaming from Wincest if one of them is a girl. Once there's the threat of pregnancy, not to mention the perceived power imbalance (and I say perceived, because I do know Sam will always be younger), I can't even look at it.

I really don't get the gender bending. That's definitely not my kink. I've tried a few and they do NOTHING for me.

I have liked some kidverse stuff okay - it comes down to how well the writer handles it.

Slavefic is not for me.

The gender switching should be more interesting than it's turned out to be. Maybe the good writers are doing Wincest, or something. The abortion fic I'm thinking of had them both female, and they were both pretty cool and mapped well.

Even outside of Wincest I'm fairly uncomfortable with just one of them being female. Not sure why.

Chick!Cas just doesn't interest me.

And something that bothers me quite irrationally--gay Dean. He needs to be bi. It's a thing. Even in AUs I don't like it much. Not sure why.

I can't make either one of them strictly gay because ... they're not. I don't know if it's the writer in me working with the source material or what, but they're clearly both into women on the show, so.

I guess AU is different, but we know how I feel about those, so.

Just finished a House cross-over, kinda hurty because it contains elements of pre-endverse, but I liked it [link]