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ratcreature) wrote2005-12-15 04:13 pm
ratcreature) wrote2005-12-15 04:13 pm
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about Supernatural fanfic...
I'm not feeling particularly fannish about Supernatural, but I have watched most episodes, thus while I was bored I looked around for Supernatural fanfic to read. I was mostly interested in gen, and while of course I knew that there's Sam/Dean slash I was actually surprised how common it is, from my first impressions even more widespread than gen (though I could be wrong about that). And I just don't get it. Personally I just have a hard time seeing Sam/Dean slash.
It's not that I'm particularly squicked by sibling incest, but the story has to somehow work harder to make that kind of thing work than other pairings. Not only because it has to make me buy that they would act on a sexual attraction despite incest taboos, that is similar in a way to other "relationship obstacles" in romance stories, but because it has to make me buy that there would be attraction in the first place. With most pairings I can buy that the author simply has a character feel attraction, inappropriate or not, and then the story goes from there, but for me (and I suspect most people) thinking about close family members with whom you grew up with, like your own siblings or parents and sex together is, well, sort of icky. Not just incestuous sex, but even the fact that your sibling or parent has sex with anyone, that's the kind of thing you don't want to contemplate in much detail. At least I don't, and I suspect I'm not alone in that.
I tried reading a couple of Sam/Dean stories, but they seemed to be much like regular slash in the way that it assumes that the reader buys the possibility for attraction between the guys in the first place. I don't quite get what makes this plausible for Sam/Dean shippers just from watching the series, and yet it seems very common. Which leaves me puzzled. I looked whether there was an essay on this pairing at![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
ship_manifesto to provide me with some insight, but there doesn't seem to be one yet. So does anyone know of any Supernatural meta that would explain to me where the Sam/Dean shippers are coming from?
It's not that I'm particularly squicked by sibling incest, but the story has to somehow work harder to make that kind of thing work than other pairings. Not only because it has to make me buy that they would act on a sexual attraction despite incest taboos, that is similar in a way to other "relationship obstacles" in romance stories, but because it has to make me buy that there would be attraction in the first place. With most pairings I can buy that the author simply has a character feel attraction, inappropriate or not, and then the story goes from there, but for me (and I suspect most people) thinking about close family members with whom you grew up with, like your own siblings or parents and sex together is, well, sort of icky. Not just incestuous sex, but even the fact that your sibling or parent has sex with anyone, that's the kind of thing you don't want to contemplate in much detail. At least I don't, and I suspect I'm not alone in that.
I tried reading a couple of Sam/Dean stories, but they seemed to be much like regular slash in the way that it assumes that the reader buys the possibility for attraction between the guys in the first place. I don't quite get what makes this plausible for Sam/Dean shippers just from watching the series, and yet it seems very common. Which leaves me puzzled. I looked whether there was an essay on this pairing at
ship_manifesto to provide me with some insight, but there doesn't seem to be one yet. So does anyone know of any Supernatural meta that would explain to me where the Sam/Dean shippers are coming from?
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But really, they just ping for me. Hard. Hard enough to write them, and I don't write for nearly as many fandoms as I read, not even half. I've tried to explain it and just got thoroughly worn out in the attempt and it's a bad time of the month for me to attempt anything requiring thought anyway and in the end all I can come up with is, I see it and I like it. I don't insist that it's there, in the way I've become convinced Alan Shore has deep unrequited love for Denny Crane, but I get enough on the screen that in my head, Sam and Dean are so doing it. Or were. Or could. Because I have a number of Sam'n'Deans in my head, as so often happens.
(BTW, Rat Creature, Te already mentioned this but I wanted to second it, bless you for asking this question without somehow implying pathology in us 'cest readers :))
Re: The bulb lights up when I flick the switch.
But yes, ping! It's the ping effect. And the wrestling, and the gay couple mistake, and the butt slap, and the eyeballing each other with total focus, and. The light just goes on, very brightly.
So love this show.
Re: The bulb lights up when I flick the switch.
And really some time in HP fandom tends to make you pretty open to unusual pairings and kinks. I mean, I read stories where a thirteen year old Harry has sex with his godfather Sirius while Sirius is in his dog animagus form (the story was quite good too), stories where an Draco fools around with his house-elf nanny as a kid, weird Death Eater torture/rape orgies, Weasley twincest, tentacle sex with the Giant Squid, people masturbating with the help of a transfigued object that's really a person only they don't know that it's not really a feather quill they're playing with...