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.

 

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[charmedstrange1.livejournal.com]

Yeah, now, when we were all kids, sure, I remember some yelling (mostly between the kids, rarely from a parent) but it was of the "Get your tail down from there before you fall and break your neck!!" kind of yelling, or "Mama she's touching me!"-- that kind of thing that I think of as 'normal'. But I'd say by the time we were young teens-- what I consider 'old enough to know better'-- there wasn't any more of that. We were still passionate and boisterous and at times silly, but no angry yelling by then.

So yes, I think at least *some* yelling is routine-- we are none of us Stepford families after all. I think the differences may be in the amount and emotion behind it. I can see that being a very healthy thing to learn, really, how to move on from arguing like that. I didn't have much practice with that and I can admit, I have a hard time not holding a grudge if somebody hurts me. Like, for a looooong time. So, like you said with the Winchesters, who knows what lurks in the hearts, right? ;)

Sam loves his Dad, there's no denying that. And I enjoy giving him bits of what will help him - and then taking them away, bwaa haa haa!

I know ya do. :P