Snowflake Challenge Day 9

[brightly_lit]

I'm saving the responses to my last Snowflake Challenge entry to savor when I'm less stressed out, but :-D! In the meantime, I did this:

Day 9

In your own space, rec at least 3 fanworks you thought you wouldn't like (because they weren't your fandom or they pushed against your boundaries or you thought you just wouldn't be interested) but you ended up loving.


Two of these come from spn_summergen this last summer, where you're exposed to all kinds of fics you might otherwise not read. To wit:

"Headliners," by kalliel. Clocking in at just under 10k words, it's told from the perspective of the OC teenage stepson of an older, wacked-out Jo, who is obsessed with Dean's death, among other things. There's horror, there's biting commentary on the media (Leonardo diCaprio plays Dean in the film adaptation), there's meta references galore (Padalecki plays Sam!). Yes, that's right, it's long, it's mostly about OCs or, alternatively, a minor character who might not have been too popular with some fans (Jo), it's a deathfic of sorts, it's horror (really not my thing, though I can hang with the rest), it blurs the lines between reality and the world of SPN and then folds them over and crosses them back and forth until you don't know what world you're in anymore, and it is ALL DELICIOUS. I started it when it popped up on summergen last summer, thinking, "Eh, I don't have much time right now; I'll read until I'm not into it anymore," and I couldn't drag my eyes away until the very end. Leave it to kalliel to consistently surprise fandom with the wildly creative ideas she comes up with from this canon.

"Three Bullets," by chiiyo86. Seriously, I'm not into the apocalypse or deathfic, but here's another. It's written in the hard-to-do-right second person, from Dean's POV. It begins "The world ends on a Thursday. It is that sudden," and ends with Dean figuring out a way to use the last of the three bullets he's spent over the course of the fic to kill himself and Sam, together, because otherwise, Lucifer will be able to take Sam as his vessel (I DO, however, love a well-earned tragic ending). The fic is brutal, desolate, their lives unredeemed, but damn if it isn't a thing of beauty.

"Turncoat," by toratio. toratio blames me for this fic (which blame I happily accept), because every now and then we trade comments for an hour or three, during which we always seem to end up coming up with ideas for weird, dark, angsty porn fics--ideas which delight us but which, we generally assume, would be repellant to others (although, judging by the comments she got on this one, maybe we're wrong!). This one came of ship-naming Benedict Cumberbatch and Cas's trenchcoat "cumcoat." In the past, these conversations have never gone past the idea stage, but she actually wrote the fic, which turned out to be the first fic of hers I ever read. I knew it would be an angsty Dean-masturbating-with-Cas's-trenchcoat-when-he-thinks-Cas-is-dead fic--which to me is canon (I'm only being slightly tongue-in-cheek), though I've never seen such a fic before ... but to realize such an idea and keep it from being too gross, too weird, too OTT, too OOC, too cringey in general, would be quite a feat indeed, so as excited as I was to read her fic, I also read it with some trepidation, only to find it's GOOD. Really good. Yes, that's right: cumcoat as pornographic literary fiction. Mmm.

Comments

[alexisjane.livejournal.com]

I have actually made a slash!trenchcoat tag in honour of toratio's story, I thought it was so good.

...ideas for weird, dark, angsty porn fics--ideas which delight us but which, we generally assume, would be repellant to others...
I'm sorry, I didn't even think this was a thing? I can't believe you two have been keeping all this dirtybadwrong from us all this time! Don't let it happen again *waggles finger at you*

Thank you for the recs! I will def be taking a look : ) x

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

Haha, I know, right? Have they read some of the fic in this fandom. :)

[alexisjane.livejournal.com]

Haha! They clearly haven't read anything I've written! : ) x

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

hee, well, keep in mind the first word was weird. Like, "Wouldn't it be hot if Sam and Cas were geeking out talking about Latin and Enochian and it was turning them on and they started getting busy and then they got into a fight and it was sexytimes interruptus??" "OOH, YEAH, WRITE THAT."

[alexisjane.livejournal.com]

OMG that sounds awesome!! Seriously! You have to write that! I bet you real money someone has a sexytimes interruptus kink on here! Also I'm not opposed to a little Latin recitation myself ifyaknowwaddamean ; ) x

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Well, then, I guess we're just going to have to lean on toratio to start churning some of this stuff out! After all, I have it on good authority that it only takes her 20 minutes.

*sits back, waits 20 min, refreshes friends page*

[alexisjane.livejournal.com]

Whoop!
Can't wait! Looking forward to seeing a sexytimes-interruptus tag as much as anything.
I'll be expecting at least five by the end of the weekend : ) x

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

As I told tifaching above, I reeeeallly don't think the kind of ideas we come up with would be considered sexy to others, but if I'm wrong, maybe it'll make toratio buckle down and start writing these fics!

hee, slash!trenchcoat--I just can't believe it's not more of a thing already!

[tifaching.livejournal.com]

I LOVED Headliners. Fic that challenges me is fic I like.

Also...Three Bullets was gutwrenching but perfect.

[kalliel]

Awwww thank you! This makes me so happy: "Eh, I don't have much time right now; I'll read until I'm not into it anymore," and I couldn't drag my eyes away until the very end. I THINK MORE OFTEN THAN NOT MY THINGS LOSE THAT WAGER. I'm not being self-effacing; I'm really just stating a fact, aha. And I'm happy you enjoyed "Three Bullets", too; because everything about that fic is totally, totally my thing, even though I know that's not true of a lot of readers.

[brightly-lit.livejournal.com]

Well, your fic is just more challenging than most (see comment above yours), and if someone is reading for the boom chicka bow moment, well ... it's their loss. Glad it made you happy!

[chiiyo86.livejournal.com]

Aww, thanks for the rec! "Three bullets" is a fic that came pretty easily to me (NOT my usual fic writing experience) and I'm pretty fond of it even though it's not, um, the most cheerful thing, so I'm happy that other people enjoyed it too. "Headliners" is so deliciously weird - I wish I could come up with that kind of concepts!