Can You Say Wow? I Knew That You Could

[lovesrain44]

This recently got posted at Fandom Secrets, which I check every day because it's so dang fun:



And I can say that I don't know when I have been as flattered as this.

Except for my friend amothea bugging me week in and week out, the stories never got a lot of feedback, so I really thought that the two of us were the only ones who liked them. That they were personal guilty pleasures only, and not....well, just not what people wanted. To find that there was at least one other person out there who also liked them, well.

I assure Anon, not at all pathetic, that I do have more stories in my head for this.

One thing I had to be sure of was to not back out of the contract I had set with myself, that John stayed John, and kept being the tough drill sergeant for the summer from hell. And that Dean and Sam remained true to the themselves in this era, somewhat at odds, not quite getting along. It's turned out to be harder than I had thought, to keep it edgy and mean. But I want to write them, I do. Writing Blue Skies took it out of me a bit, but the stories are most assuredly there. In my head.

Thank you again for the tremendous complement in being sad that there have been no updates in over a year. Over a year? I am sad too, now!

Edit: The stories did get a lot of feedback, and a lot of readers liked the darkness and the grit. I guess I always felt that since this verse was so personal to me that....oh, never mind. I'm not even sure what I'm saying now.  Foolish writer is foolish and should just write what feels good.

 

Comments

Re: Thread A

[charmedstrange1.livejournal.com]

As for the extra son, OMYGOD! No kidding. John was many things, but capricious and mercurial he was not. I remember that ep, thinking that it KILLED Dean to know that John had another boy that he showed more affection to than Dean.

OHMYGOD I'm so glad you agreeeee!!! I'm happy to know I'm not the only one who wanted to call bullshit on that whole thing. THANK YOU. :P

I like to think that early on in their time together, John was focused on making his sons hunters, but not so much on revenge on the thing that killed mom.

Yes, I can definitely see a time, during the lulls, when the focus and intent would have been to train the boys up so that they *themselves* would be safe, and that it wasn't all about revenge.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have had time for the training in Mentone. : D

AAAARRRGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!! XD

Thanks for the commiseration on my sucky week-- this one was better but about a 9.8 on the richter scale of stress-- but the hard part's over now! \0/ Hope yours gets way better soon too. And I'm glad this discussion was a bright spot to think about- it has been for me too!

As to the otter pops, Yes, I Sam definitely would appreciate them more if they were coming from John. :)
[Even though he *would* appreciate the gesture from Dean, he has more of an expectation that Dean will do something nice for him (some of the time, this summer notwithstanding), but no such expectation, or at least a lot smaller one, of this kind of gesture from Dad.]

Re: Thread A

[lovesrain44.livejournal.com]

Is there anyone out there who actually BOUGHT the extra Winchester boy? I could even see John having a child out of wedlock, but not him dishing out all that love. (Although, some would say, if he protected the boy from the hunting life, the boy might have been his only opportunity to have a normal life...My rebuttal would be that by that time, John would have no idea what a normal life was!)

9.8 on the richter scale? Man. And it's not even February yet! Hang in there, Show's on again and Sam and Dean are going to stop the apocalypse any minute now and get back to saving people and hunting things.

The Otter Pops will come from John, you're right, because it would mean more. The thing is, I've not figured out when and why yet. The boys have NO treats while in training, so would the pops come when training is over? I think they should come unexpectedly, out of no reason at all.