How is that not sexual?! Come on. That's stupid, and also surprising. I didn't picture her as someone who would be clueless.
People talk about fic on Twitter? Why do I keep being surprised by the internets?
I see your uhhhhhhhhhhh and raise you a gnyeh.
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Amy - Oct 03, 2011 1:56:06 pm PDT #22034 of 30002
Because books.
Juliebird - Oct 03, 2011 1:58:40 pm PDT #22035 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
People write fics on Twitter it would seem, the loathed (by me) Twitfics.
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2011 2:00:37 pm PDT #22036 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm mildly getting into it by someone who's saying "don't like, don't read" and also don't hate on ships, but that's totally not what it was. At least not at the beginning. It might have mutated and become ad hominem by now, but if it has, I have to lay some blame at the feet of her defenders.
Amy, you've made me want exactly this with Dean and a trenchcoat. But I know if I start drawing it, someone will have done it better and faster.
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2011 2:01:37 pm PDT #22037 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
People write fics on Twitter it would seem, the loathed (by me) Twitfics.
Why? What does it matter what the medium is? I've read some of cloudyjenn's twitfics, and they read like any of other stories--they just got published somewhere else first, and broken into a million pieces.
Juliebird - Oct 03, 2011 2:16:08 pm PDT #22038 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Because. So there.
But seriously, I am a horrible snob about short fics. It's awful. If it's a oneshot less than a thousand words, I can't bring myself to click. Sure, if I take the two minutes to read and don't like, no skin off my back, but if read and like, and that's all she wrote, then I'm just left yearning for more. It's odd that I'm more willing to spend time figuring out that a long fic is awful or meh. But, I'm not logical. Seriously, I pay attention to word count and get excited at 10,000 to 30,000 words.
P.M. Marc - Oct 03, 2011 2:37:15 pm PDT #22039 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Having once lost a whole night to a D/C story that was about half a million words long, I find it's better for my sanity to stick to shorter unless I know the author.
Because I CANNOT seem to click the back button or stop reading, no matter how bad the train wreck.
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2011 2:42:06 pm PDT #22040 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
If it all fits on one screen, it's probably too short for me to be happy, but I'll probably read it anyway. But otherwise I'm not picky. I mean, if it's over 1000 words, I'm good to go.
Aha! The person I was arguing with about the obstrinatrix thing agrees the initial point was legit. Good. She's an obstrinatrix stan, so that takes some doing.
Amy - Oct 03, 2011 2:56:10 pm PDT #22041 of 30002
Because books.
For me, 5,000 to 6,000 words is a perfect length. But I'll happily read anything around 1,000. To read longer fic, it has to be an author I really know and love, or something that seems excellent in the opening paragraphs.
The mini bangs were actually fun this year, though.
Juliebird - Oct 03, 2011 3:00:37 pm PDT #22042 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Yeah, frottage with Sam's body needs to be warned for, because the line between vessel and occupant is hazy, and we need to go with the most obvious and not assume that it's Cas [in Sam's body]. Which, hmm, takes me to an uncomfortable place with why Dean/Cas [in Jimmy's body] is okay. Is that another mutually agreed-upon ignored-can-of-worms.
But, I think it's less a vessel issue as it is a Sam/Dean issue. Because no matter how much it's Cas in Sam's body, and Sam is personally out of the equation, it's still Dean macking on his brother's body.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 03, 2011 3:37:36 pm PDT #22043 of 30002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Yeah, Dean maybe eventually getting over the fact that Cas' usual vessel mirrors his own plumbing I can buy, but possessing Sam would be an immediate relocation to You're Like A Brother To Me Land for the duration, IMHO.