Vid rec and fanfictions ramblings:blame HIATUS

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Dean and Sam are still able to make me tear up.

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I was thinking about my attitude towards fanfictions.
I have been mostly a lurker into the Buffy/Angel and the Battlestar Galactica ones, active in the Dark Angel fandom.
I have had a different attitude towards fanfictions. I totally read AU and preseries in DA, I was totally for canon in the others. I don't even know why...maybe because in DA I didn't have what I did want or maybe because I saw possibilities they decided not to explore.
With BSG, I mostly read canon and sometimes preseries fics. Maybe it's the only show that pretty much satisfied me with where they went. Yeah sure, I would have wanted another finale for my favorite characters, but it fitted and so...fanfictions fill the hole.
With SPN is not like this, even though I read ff (and I have read some very good altrnative verse which I enjoyed), I still think it's the show that has to give me the answers. I am totally canon with SPN and really, it amazes me how I am unable to enjoy AU or things that are too much different from canon. No matter how good is the writing. This bothers me because with the other fandom I didn't have this issue.
Weird :)))

Can I have DEAAAAAAN NOOOOOOWWWWWW????


CARDS!!!
Got cards from Silvia and Cristal...thank you lovelies :)))
Silvia we must share a brain...

Comments

[stjra.livejournal.com]

I read just about ANYTHING in all my fandoms, but love both canon and au in all of them.

I think I'm like that because I would run out of fics to damn quickly otherwise! LOL!

I never really got totally into BSG, have watch some of it but not all. I enjoyed it, just not riveted like my other shows. I love Doctor Who, Torchwood and have become very fond of Merlin! Haven't deleved into any of there fanfiction, well not much more than a fic or two here and there.

Other fandoms I read more thoroughly are Dark Angel, Smallville and some Stargate Atlantis. I haven't really delved into many others, but I like SPN cross overs with firefly (loved that show!), Buffy (especially love Dean/Buffy for some reason!)and Angel.

It does fascinate me what people will and won't read and how their tastes have changed over time and then what made them change. I'm noisy like that! LOL!

*Hugs*

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Mine are changed too...it's with SPN. I used to read pretty much everything, but with SPN it's different.

I am really careful about what I read. It's like ff spoil the show for me...dunno..

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I suppose the AU's I pick to read a generally the ones that have the characterisation just right and so it's almost like reading an alternate reality of supernatural kind of like WIAWSNB the Djinn episode. When I think about it most of the stuff that I read that is AU is spin off from particular points in the storyline that I love and like to think of the other ways it could have gone or points in the story that I think just didn't quite sit just right and the AU's explore the possibilities a bit.

I think my like for AUs came from reading fic where Dean was permanently injuried in some way and both of them had to adapt to the changes. I think one of the first times I read AU was associated with an AU of Devil's Trap, where Dean had to recover naturally from his injuries and John still died, but the characterisation was so good that I could really see it happening that way. Maybe if it had of sucked I may not have gotten into AU's at all.

What was the first AU of SPN that you read like? Was it well written or crappy?

Just wondering if what we read first of a particular fic genre shapes if we like it or not. Would make for an interesting thesis one day. :D

God I'm a nerd!! Could you tell?!?! :P

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That AU is the one I like too. I seem unable to read stories that goes to far from the general story.

I don't even remember, maybe something after Faith and I loved it.

I love you so much Ange :)

[stjra.livejournal.com]

*Grins and blushes*

Awww shucks, I love you too Val! :D