BEFORE I get into actually commenting on this wonderful fic, I feel like I need to take a moment to laugh hysterically, because we've now talked more than a couple times about braintwinning each other's fics in increasingly ridiculous ways (to say nothing of brain-twinning canon) and having now read this I just wanted to say that I find the degree to which we're twinning each other is either hilarious or brilliant or possibly both!
I'm not sure it's accurate to call it "braintwinning" when it's more like "you do everything I wish I could do," but let's go with that. :D
Because I too have unwritten post-9x23 fic that, aside from the twinship moments you've already pointed out between other things we've written, totally twins you on weirdly specific things here (demon names and summoning, Tracy Bell).
DID YOU KILL TRACY TOO????? Why are you not posting this? I need it!
I swear I didn't plagiarize! XDD Clearly we are soulmates. When's the wedding? Do they hold weddings for soulmates?
No, but we get to share the same Heaven. ;-) Meet at the Roadhouse?
As to canon, knowing that this was written previous to it and then Kripke'd by it, actually makes this a crazy interesting AU. Because there are all these similar elements (twinning each other to this bizarre degree), crafted in these subtle, but critically different ways, and it makes this feel like a psychically clairvoyant AU. I don't really know what to say on that beyond this, but I think it's pretty awesome.
It is SO bizarre to me. Once in 9.23, and one or twice in S10, there's been a line uttered that makes me jump and say, "I wrote that!" I feel like Metatron. Or maybe Chuck. But that's why I kind of rushed this out - it needs work, honestly, but I didn't see any point posting something that was just a half-twist away from canon, once canon had actually happened, you know? Also, I'm glad I stayed pretty unspoiled, because if I'd known how much I'd love Dean pursuing Sam through the bunker with a freaking hammer, I would have given up on my version altogether.
Anyway, first off, MY GOD woman, when Dean was talking about hunters who'd killed vampires, I nearly had a heart attack because I thought he was talking about Jody. SORRY TRACY, I LOVE YOU DEARLY BUT SEEING YOUR NAME INSTEAD WAS A WELCOME RELIEF. XD
Oh, I didn't even think about Jody! I was so invested in killing Tracy, my tunnel vision wouldn't let me see any other possibilities. (No, not really. I just liked the idea that she picked the wrong Winchester to have issues with.)
Castiel's line to Dean, too: I said you did the wrong things for the right reasons, and all you remembered was that you had the right reasons. You have forgotten that you did the wrong things." Which is so pithy and incisive and excellent, because it speaks both to that elision on Dean's part (over and over and over again), and also to the way fandom, as readers, has been framing what went down in S9--because I think a lot of fandom had a tendency to be pretty either/or about Castiel's original line, too. To return to that line here and insist on holding both pieces together is such a provocative/evocative move; I love it.
Thanks! I wanted to bring that back because I remember LOVING how Cas did that for Dean, to support him when he was at such a low point, but then being disappointed that he never, at any time, came back and said okay, now that a demon isn't sticking needles into your brother's brain, we need to talk about what you've done. And really, that was such a big theme for the season - how wrong were those things, how right were those reasons - that I hope is addressed in S10.
Fabulous work with this, bb. I enjoyed reading this so much. And as you've teased a possible sequel in the future, for the record I'd just like to say--in case it were not clear--that I am very much looking forward to that!!!
I do have a sequel planned, involving the Mark, and part of me wants to see what happens as we get into S10, and another part thinks I should go ahead and write it now and see how badly it becomes Kripke'd. So, again, am I Chuck or Metatron here? ;-) Thank you for your wonderful comment (even your comments are the kind of comments I'd like to write, you know).
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Date: 2014-10-24 01:17 pm (UTC)I'm not sure it's accurate to call it "braintwinning" when it's more like "you do everything I wish I could do," but let's go with that. :D
Because I too have unwritten post-9x23 fic that, aside from the twinship moments you've already pointed out between other things we've written, totally twins you on weirdly specific things here (demon names and summoning, Tracy Bell).
DID YOU KILL TRACY TOO????? Why are you not posting this? I need it!
I swear I didn't plagiarize! XDD Clearly we are soulmates. When's the wedding? Do they hold weddings for soulmates?
No, but we get to share the same Heaven. ;-) Meet at the Roadhouse?
As to canon, knowing that this was written previous to it and then Kripke'd by it, actually makes this a crazy interesting AU. Because there are all these similar elements (twinning each other to this bizarre degree), crafted in these subtle, but critically different ways, and it makes this feel like a psychically clairvoyant AU. I don't really know what to say on that beyond this, but I think it's pretty awesome.
It is SO bizarre to me. Once in 9.23, and one or twice in S10, there's been a line uttered that makes me jump and say, "I wrote that!" I feel like Metatron. Or maybe Chuck. But that's why I kind of rushed this out - it needs work, honestly, but I didn't see any point posting something that was just a half-twist away from canon, once canon had actually happened, you know? Also, I'm glad I stayed pretty unspoiled, because if I'd known how much I'd love Dean pursuing Sam through the bunker with a freaking hammer, I would have given up on my version altogether.
Anyway, first off, MY GOD woman, when Dean was talking about hunters who'd killed vampires, I nearly had a heart attack because I thought he was talking about Jody. SORRY TRACY, I LOVE YOU DEARLY BUT SEEING YOUR NAME INSTEAD WAS A WELCOME RELIEF. XD
Oh, I didn't even think about Jody! I was so invested in killing Tracy, my tunnel vision wouldn't let me see any other possibilities. (No, not really. I just liked the idea that she picked the wrong Winchester to have issues with.)
Castiel's line to Dean, too: I said you did the wrong things for the right reasons, and all you remembered was that you had the right reasons. You have forgotten that you did the wrong things." Which is so pithy and incisive and excellent, because it speaks both to that elision on Dean's part (over and over and over again), and also to the way fandom, as readers, has been framing what went down in S9--because I think a lot of fandom had a tendency to be pretty either/or about Castiel's original line, too. To return to that line here and insist on holding both pieces together is such a provocative/evocative move; I love it.
Thanks! I wanted to bring that back because I remember LOVING how Cas did that for Dean, to support him when he was at such a low point, but then being disappointed that he never, at any time, came back and said okay, now that a demon isn't sticking needles into your brother's brain, we need to talk about what you've done. And really, that was such a big theme for the season - how wrong were those things, how right were those reasons - that I hope is addressed in S10.
Fabulous work with this, bb. I enjoyed reading this so much. And as you've teased a possible sequel in the future, for the record I'd just like to say--in case it were not clear--that I am very much looking forward to that!!!
I do have a sequel planned, involving the Mark, and part of me wants to see what happens as we get into S10, and another part thinks I should go ahead and write it now and see how badly it becomes Kripke'd. So, again, am I Chuck or Metatron here? ;-) Thank you for your wonderful comment (even your comments are the kind of comments I'd like to write, you know).