Jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezus. I can understand why you were so excited about these while you were writing them. Now I don't want to sleep when I'm the only one home, of course, because DUDE, CREEPY, but wow. These are what you get when you strip away the made-for-tv, the surviving-if-you're-the-star, and the teen-friendly sheen off the world of Supernatural. It's like you took the episode and held it up to the light and said "no, see, what you were looking at was cloudy. This is how it went."
I think number 3 hurt the most. At the end I wasn't sure which out of all of them I felt sorriest for.
I hope you're pimping this to every community around, dude.
har har. mainly i was excited because yay, i love fic writing! and also you know i've been champing at the bit to write spn meta, and that's essentially what this is, hah.
What a great observation.. (sorry, just poking my head in here). When all is said and done, Supernatural is still a show on the WB, for crying out loud, and so yes, Dean and Sam will never die, and there will always be a silver lining of some kind. But take that away and there is potential for some true darkness with these boys. This fic definitely found that.
Yay! Max fics! Have to say that my favorite is the first story because the Sam and Max interaction was great, plus we get Dean, left out and concerned. Great stuff.
*speechless* This is so gorgeously written, so haunting and painful and totally creepy in a good way. All the characters, their voices and interactions, are just wonderfully right, familiar and consistent with how the show depicts them but new and revealing at the same time. It's such a striking answer to some of the darker possibilities raised by "Nightmare," by Max in particular and his connection to Sam. #1 and #4 had these wonderfully unsettling interactions between those two, #2 and #5 almost hurt to consider, and I think #3 might have broken me a little bit. Great story. :)
AU is always tricky to keep the right characterisation (because with these kinda 5 things AUs, they aren't technically the *same*, so that complicates things...) but anyway, I am glad it worked so well!!
I'm very much consumed by issues Nightmare raised, so this was an opportunity to meta away about it, yep.
But seriously :) These were great.. gen fic for SPN is just awesome, and this was all lush and filled with possibility and probability.. I especially loved the one with wee Dean and Max.
2 made me hunch up and cry silently, it hurt so badly, I think largely because that is not an unlikely situation, they live so close to the edge and they get fucking lucky because yeah, it's TV, but just, Dean's so cocky and it could just go wrong at any minute and it's all just so damn fragile. That really drove that idea home, and damn, it hurt.
3 also made me feel like I'd been punched. Sammy died?? And Dean wanting so badly to protect Max and not understanding why they couldn't. And "you already have a brother" *whimpers*
And 5... oh God, 5 made me a MESS. Shaking and trying not to cry out loud because my brother's sleeping but..... again, the whole thing where they get so lucky all the time and they are one bad step away from DYING and oh God Sam's pain and aaaugh.
Basically, anything that can do that to me is brilliant. Really, really fantastic job... you tore my heart out and danced on it.
That was... painful. And I mean it as a compliment. Like what would happen if they didn't need to be the luckiest bastards ever all the time (because there's a show and neither of them can die without killing it), and in a way it all made more sense than what we saw happen. So sharp and painful that it left me very uneasy, too, and again, that's a compliment. Because not many stories manage to have such an impact on me. *bookmarks*
Thankyou for the lovely feedback. And yep, you identified the reasons i love this genre of story (the 5 things)... different paths, different branches, the uneasiness of things-that-weren't-but-could-be... oh, how i love fanfiction!
4 was just creepycreepy, 3 broke my heart a bit, 2 made me go "Dean you idiot!," 5 made me go "Sam you idiot!", and 1 made me go "well, yeah." All very different, all very seperately plausible, and possibly one of the best "5 things" ever. You are amazing, ma'am, and have you pimped this on communities? Because you totally should.
Creepy and painful and gorgeous. The sort of thing where after, you kind of wish you hadn't read it, but also can't stop yourself from going back to read it all again.
Holy crap. That was brilliant. I mean, really. You have a fascinating idea (five of 'em!) and you did a truly spectacular job with the execution. To be honest, the idea of Max haunting Sam like he does in part one makes almost too much sense. Great job with all of this.
Oh, I wish I could help. But I've read so many rec pages in the last week or two for SPN that I really haven't a clue which one gave me the link for this story. I am pretty much brand new to the fandom (haven't even seen season two yet, which is why I searched out stories at the latest written during the summer) and have been seeking out the good stuff. I've gone through the memories of reccing communities like 37flavors, recs, rec50, polyfandomrecs, seedy_recs, spn_recs, and crack_van so it could have been from any of those. But I've also been randomly checking out the memories of some SPN fans on my friendslist and seeing which are their favorite stories so I guess it could have been from a rec list they had saved in their memories. Sorry I can't be of more help!
i'm glad it's not night time, and that my partner is here with me, because . . . JEEPERS CREEPERS! and that last one made me CRY! I DON'T WANNA CRY! i'm glad YOU don't write the show, wench! *g*
i can't believe i've not read this before, for is is made of the same awesomepants that seems to constitute all your writing.
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I think number 3 hurt the most. At the end I wasn't sure which out of all of them I felt sorriest for.
I hope you're pimping this to every community around, dude.
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I know. #3 makes me sting too. *dork*
I am shy with communities. maybe more tomorrow.
OMG u read evrything i write!
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Sorry, I'll shush now *wanders off*
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thanks so much for commenting. I'm glad you enjoyed it :D
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Thanks so much for the feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed it!
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AU is always tricky to keep the right characterisation (because with these kinda 5 things AUs, they aren't technically the *same*, so that complicates things...) but anyway, I am glad it worked so well!!
I'm very much consumed by issues Nightmare raised, so this was an opportunity to meta away about it, yep.
Thanks again :) :)
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But seriously :) These were great.. gen fic for SPN is just awesome, and this was all lush and filled with possibility and probability.. I especially loved the one with wee Dean and Max.
Nice work, bro.
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I love the infinite possibilities of the SPNverse, it's such a glee to write.
Thank you for the feedback omg!
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3 also made me feel like I'd been punched. Sammy died?? And Dean wanting so badly to protect Max and not understanding why they couldn't. And "you already have a brother" *whimpers*
And 5... oh God, 5 made me a MESS. Shaking and trying not to cry out loud because my brother's sleeping but..... again, the whole thing where they get so lucky all the time and they are one bad step away from DYING and oh God Sam's pain and aaaugh.
Basically, anything that can do that to me is brilliant. Really, really fantastic job... you tore my heart out and danced on it.
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heart-dancing is my favourite hobby!
Thankyou for the lovely feedback... I really appreciate it. I'm very glad you enjoyed it this much!
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thankyou again :) oh how i love feedback!
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And yea, I posted it to
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Thanks for feedbacking!
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*dies*
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Number three is the one that always seems to give a kick in the guts to the dean fans, yup.
Thanks :)
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Holy crap. That was brilliant. I mean, really. You have a fascinating idea (five of 'em!) and you did a truly spectacular job with the execution. To be honest, the idea of Max haunting Sam like he does in part one makes almost too much sense. Great job with all of this.
*saves to memories*
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can i ask what rec page you came from? *is curious*
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Oh, I wish I could help. But I've read so many rec pages in the last week or two for SPN that I really haven't a clue which one gave me the link for this story. I am pretty much brand new to the fandom (haven't even seen season two yet, which is why I searched out stories at the latest written during the summer) and have been seeking out the good stuff. I've gone through the memories of reccing communities like
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i can't believe i've not read this before, for is is made of the same awesomepants that seems to constitute all your writing.
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I really hope John at least alerted Social Services.
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eh, John in that AU 'verse... not quite sure what he's capable of.