Um, that's all on you, lady.
Anya Christina Emmanuella Jenkins. Twenty years old. Born on the fourth of July — and don't think there weren't jokes about that my whole life, mister, 'cause there were. 'Who's our little patriot?' they'd say, when I was younger and therefore smaller and shorter than I am now.
Anya ,'Potential'
Supernatural 2: Why is it our job to save everybody?
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Amy - Jul 12, 2012 12:52:42 pm PDT #25845 of 30002
Because books.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2012 12:57:13 pm PDT #25846 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Seriously! There's emo artificial persons designed without the capacity for conflicting concepts or layered emotions...but there's this one azi who's more than his programming should allow...and who's gotten closer to a young human created in his father's image.
IT WOULD BE PERFECT.
Juliebird - Jul 12, 2012 1:57:23 pm PDT #25847 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Hmmm, I need to dig out my old C.J. Cherryh.
Juliebird - Jul 12, 2012 2:05:08 pm PDT #25848 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Just finished a terrible fic with so much promise. I forgave the badness at first, thinking maybe it was second-language issues. But! The plot holes! The spell check weirdness! The lack of reality! (they let the dude go when he was caught in the act of beating a kid, a kid who was not his, Because they couldn't prove he was guilty of a different crime. HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?? KIDNAPPING AND ABUSE! RED-HANDED!). And Dean doesn't show up until about 3/4 of the way into the story.
And then, after 20,000 words, there is suddenly romance. Bwuh?
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2012 2:29:55 pm PDT #25849 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I highly recommend CJ Cherryh if you like old school Asimov but with a bit more emotions. That same school of thinking, but "feminised". As in, humanised, because he was a cold fish theoretician a lot of the time.
And, not old. 80s. You know.
What fic was that, Julie? Sounds like one I missed, but I'm behind on my READ ALL THE D/C I had doing there for a while.
And, lord, was Sin With A Grin a waste of time and title.
Juliebird - Jul 12, 2012 2:46:20 pm PDT #25850 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Oh god, I'm glad my reading of Sin With a Grin was mostly skimming and skipping.
The fic that ticked me off was Jude.
C.J. Cherryh was my fave author in highschool. Downbelow Station, Faded Sun, Heavy Time, The Dreaming Tree (that last one always makes me ache). The Foreigner universe.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2012 2:50:24 pm PDT #25851 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sin with a Grin had no emotional resonance at all. Manufactured conflict, weird casework (FBI), wooden banter, but one great piece of spy fu that got me kinda hot and bothered. So many words, so few feels...
And what the hell was the title about? I'd rather an obviously obscure-to-me song lyric with brackets in and non-standard punctuation, really. Helps stop me from trying to work out the connection.
Juliebird - Jul 12, 2012 2:56:46 pm PDT #25852 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
My biggest main issue with SwaG was that it sold itself as a cop AU, but spent a fuckton of time on fluff. Because of the skimming, I can't comment on the emotional resonance, but I'm sure you're spot-on.
Jude had lots of procedural, but made absolutely zero sense, plot-wise or emotionally.
§ ita § - Jul 12, 2012 3:22:24 pm PDT #25853 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The part where they rolled Dean into the case they failed to exercise any competence porn on his part (Sam and Cas were uber-agents, but Dean was...a grade school teacher who had fired a gun offscreen at some point).
I also find that I'm less and less in love with Mary living--I don't think her being alive affects the stories enough. I think the boys should be more different with a mother around, especially now that we know the Campbells are generations of hunters. We don't seem to get that Mary, nor any other Campbell-fu in the stories I'm reading (scaramouche's BB is a good exception).
Juliebird - Jul 12, 2012 3:31:06 pm PDT #25854 of 30002
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I honestly think that Mary living would change too much, just as WiaWNSB showed us. John doesn't become obsessed, Dean isn't forced to become Sam's primary caregiver, the boys aren't forced to live in each other's pocket. What makes the boys we know and love is gone.