Is Babar popular in America? I'm out of touch.
Evidently we need fic of him reading Babar to Sam to get him to sleep.
It's not like she blew me off. She just left with another guy, that's all.
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§ ita § - Apr 23, 2010 10:07:27 pm PDT #7919 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Cass - Apr 23, 2010 10:13:16 pm PDT #7920 of 30002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.
I totally grew up reading them.
And when I donated to an elephant rescue thing for my dad for Christmas and got him a tiny stuffed elephant, I suggested that he could give the toy to one of the kids because it was really more representational. He replied that, no, he was not giving up Babar.
My experience is that Babar is familiar here. And awesome. Totally awesome.
-t - Apr 23, 2010 10:14:34 pm PDT #7921 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Maybe he went and researched Babar after Sam, Interrupted and there are now books on Babar in their trunk.
I am considering accepting this explanation. It may do.
§ ita § - Apr 23, 2010 10:26:00 pm PDT #7922 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
In my fanon, they totally get Dean's stuffed Babar out of the house in Lawrence, and he clings to it, but since they sleep together (grey canon), Sammy appropriates it and they eventually tell each other Babar stories.
-t - Apr 23, 2010 10:27:31 pm PDT #7923 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Well, ok. That is too adorable to resist.
-t - Apr 23, 2010 10:37:25 pm PDT #7924 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Now that that's out of the way; I was almost able to reconcile myself to the way the gods were portrayed by thinking that in the SPN-verse angels are assholes and God is kind of a jerk, so that the rest of the gods are also more bloodthirsty and venal than our universe's versions kind of makes sense. And maybe Lucifer gets extra power from all the demons that believe in him (I assume there are more now that he is roaming around than there used to be). But I have to work pretty hard at it and I'm not really convinced.
Polter-Cow - Apr 23, 2010 10:49:34 pm PDT #7925 of 30002
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I don't remember Babar books. I know him from the cartoon.
Typo Boy - Apr 23, 2010 11:01:18 pm PDT #7926 of 30002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
I agree. If we take the American Gods version of how gods get their power, then I can see the Norse and Greek gods getting their asses whipped, because in spite of minor revivals those are essentially dead religions. But deities from big living religions like Hinduism? Even small living religions like Voodoo?
Marcia - Apr 24, 2010 4:02:50 am PDT #7927 of 30002
Kneel before Glod. ~Stephen Colbert
Or, more likely, he had read Babar, and that's where they got the name from and he was just lying.
I read somewhere the line Dean quoted about not having read any elephant books was actually a line from a Chevy Chase movie (maybe Fletch?) wherein Chase's character says that same line. So I think it was just another movie reference for Dean.
Amy - Apr 24, 2010 4:11:02 am PDT #7928 of 30002
Because books.
So Dean used the movie line because he's pop culture-y like that, but he also read Babar to Sam way back when. I like it.
Babar was awesome.