Come remix and be remixed!

[citrus_java]

As balder12 pointed out convincingly, this is a fun challenge - basically, over your fic to be remixed, and if you feel like it, remix other participant's fic. Fun, easy, slashy, supernaturally (though other fandoms as well)! Go do it! It's my first time, you're likely to seem very savvy around me.

ETA: This forced me to actually update my master fic list. That is a thing that happened, IRL. Wow.

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Makes sense that it'd be both, of course.

but I get his loneliness, his desperation, his longing to be understood


Sweet....
And I get what you're saying about finding something you identify with .

But on the flip side, if I start to have trouble distinguishing a character from me, or from someone who wronged me in real life, then it's time to step away. There's both fic and meta out there that looks a lot like someone inflicting their anger toward a real person on a fictional character, or reliving their trauma through a fictional character, and while that can be fascinating at a psychological level, I think it rarely makes for good art.

I get that. Not sure where I stand on this for myself - I often use issues I have IRL for writing, though I'm still trying to learn to use writing to work through things IRL. It's a codependent relationship, and erotic, though perhaps not psychotic or irrational ;)
I believe it can make my writing better, but it can definitely make it worst in other respects. DK.
I suppose I need both as well .

Lately, though, I've been coming across more of the opposite, where Dean is an abusive asshole and Sam is the woobie without the strength to stand up to him.

Ahh, haven't read those... I'm glad fandom is finally acknowledging that Sam is dependent and very influenced by Dean, but that certainly doesn't make Dean a one-dimensional villain... The main awesomeness of SPN is the amazing, complex characters and their relationship...

And look, canon Dean is an asshole right now, and what he did to Sam in 9.01 was genuinely horrific and immoral, and his refusal to acknowledge that is a big part of why I'm angry enough at the character that I can't write him. But some fic reaches the point where it reframes everything Dean's ever done in the least sympathetic light possible, and I feel like that's not fair to Dean or Sam, and maybe more importantly sanding off the nuances of the characters doesn't make for an interesting take on canon.



Agreed, agreed, agreed.