I kinda think that as an amnesiac, you get a reset button. It's like the tree falling in the forest with no one there to hear.
Buffy: How was school today? Dawn: The usual. A big square building filled with boredom and despair.
Buffy: Just how I remember it.
'The Killer In Me'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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§ ita § - Jul 22, 2011 1:37:59 pm PDT #20672 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Juliebird - Jul 22, 2011 1:41:14 pm PDT #20673 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Okay, I get that --but did Dean, at that point, know that Cas was an amnesiac?
I don't think he did. And I don't think the reader did either.
§ ita § - Jul 22, 2011 1:43:40 pm PDT #20674 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Huh. I thought we did.
Adorable painting of the Js. Though I prefer to think of it as Sam and Dean, because I'd love to see Sam with that smile on his face.
Juliebird - Jul 22, 2011 1:50:13 pm PDT #20675 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Hey, I was reading on my blackberry at traffic lights, something may have been missed. There was no way in heck I was deliberately skimming this time!
§ ita § - Jul 22, 2011 3:18:11 pm PDT #20676 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Okay, I'm a sap. I liked it, and I'm glad it ended the way I thought it was, even though the name change was jarring. I'm really really glad it ended with a world where they were hunters, because it was just awkward wrong otherwise, even if they preferred it so.
Juliebird - Jul 22, 2011 10:55:05 pm PDT #20677 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
That was a great, satisfying ending, which not a lot of fics achieve (I'm still annoyed at the ending of Thursday's Child, with the cheetos, and that's my favorite longfic). I realized, just like in WIAWSNB, there's a boatload of people dying with Sam and Dean as nonhunters. And the subtle tonal shift of Dean 1 and Dean 2, Dean 2 was so much happier and content.
Juliebird - Jul 23, 2011 12:27:09 am PDT #20678 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Hair of the dog: is it wrong that my beef with a fic is that there are fireflies when lilacs are blooming? Because three months so did not pass between the two. Fic, get your flora and fauna right!
§ ita § - Jul 23, 2011 5:44:25 am PDT #20679 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I totally see why Sam didn't want his reality to change--but Dean was a bit aimless and very very normal in that life. It would have been nice to see Sam in the new reality. But at least we know Jess was still with him.
Fireflies are seasonal? I had no idea. I wonder if they're seasonal in Jamaica too.
Juliebird - Jul 23, 2011 6:57:28 am PDT #20680 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
They're always around, but their mating season when they glow is only a couple of months in the summer.
Amy - Jul 23, 2011 7:01:32 am PDT #20681 of 30002
Because books.
Yes! Summer is firefly season. They're weirdly aggressive this year, too -- they keep flying right into me. They were never hard to catch, but they didn't used to ask for it.