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They’re just too fluffy for me. The few I’ve read never have anything happen in them. I need some kind of drama or I’m gonna lose interest fast. I am almost 1000% sure I will never write one.

@rosemoonweaver I was following someone that once reblogged a post and put in their tags that they didn’t understand why all fics weren’t just happy and fluffy because fanfic is a happy place in a sad world. Like, more power to you for your decision person – you read your fluff and happy endings, no skin off my teeth – but to me?

Fanfic is a happy place but it’s also a form of entertainment and I expect to be entertained, you know? Give me some drama and angst and a hopeful ending (or even a heartbreaking ending or cliffhanger – I just want to be intrigued!).

The only real “traditional” one I wrote was my Sam/Jess/Brady and I used it for RSCC anti-valentine’s day. It was like 1k of dull, boring, tooth rotting fluff that I still dislike because I feel like nothing happened.

If all fic was happy and fluffy I wouldn’t be reading or writing it tbh. I’m 100% with you there. I love a happy ending, but make it worth it. Give me some heartache, some mystery, some danger, just something.

I can only maintain interest in something fluffy for about 1.5k without feeling the need to have something else happen. I think that’s the perfect length for a slice of life fic, which is the perfect place for fluff for me. But I cannot maintain enthusiasm much longer than that.

lbr though, nothing actually happens in a coffee shop au ever. Unless you make the coffee shop like, idk, a cover for some kind of illegal outfit, it’s gonna be tooth rotting fluff.

Oh my god coffeeshop AU/mafia AU – this needs to be written.

Jimmy and Castiel Novak are a couple of sweet guys running a super cute coffee shop in the middle of the city. But what no one knows is that they’re using the coffeeshop as a cover for drug smuggling for the local mafia family. Detective Dean Winchester might be getting close to cracking the case – if those twins would just stop feeding him their delicious lattes and cakes…

Oh my god, yes, please! I need that!

Ahaha I would read the hell out of it, but I’ve never even considered writing a mafia fic before lol.

lol. It could be fun, though. You might enjoy it…

I’ve never had much interest in the mafia in general, I wouldn’t do it justice. Plus I’ve never really written dcj – Honestly there’s a ton of other authors that’d do it better – y’all are free to take the idea and run with it.

That’s fair. If you’re not interested writing a whole fic is probably not a good idea.

Just gonna throw this out there, though, but dcj shippers tend to be… excitable is a good word for it. If you ever did want to try your hand at it we’d be very appreciative. Just sayin’.

Yes! I didn’t mean to imply I’d never write it – I want to write DCJ sooooo badly. I’d just rather dip my toes in at first – I’m thinking of writing them for one of my kink bingo squares actually, I just need to decide which.

😀 *is very excited*

Now, I’m intrigued. Any particular ones you’re leaning towards?

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They’re just too fluffy for me. The few I’ve read never have anything happen in them. I need some kind of drama or I’m gonna lose interest fast. I am almost 1000% sure I will never write one.

@rosemoonweaver I was following someone that once reblogged a post and put in their tags that they didn’t understand why all fics weren’t just happy and fluffy because fanfic is a happy place in a sad world. Like, more power to you for your decision person – you read your fluff and happy endings, no skin off my teeth – but to me?

Fanfic is a happy place but it’s also a form of entertainment and I expect to be entertained, you know? Give me some drama and angst and a hopeful ending (or even a heartbreaking ending or cliffhanger – I just want to be intrigued!).

The only real “traditional” one I wrote was my Sam/Jess/Brady and I used it for RSCC anti-valentine’s day. It was like 1k of dull, boring, tooth rotting fluff that I still dislike because I feel like nothing happened.

If all fic was happy and fluffy I wouldn’t be reading or writing it tbh. I’m 100% with you there. I love a happy ending, but make it worth it. Give me some heartache, some mystery, some danger, just something.

I can only maintain interest in something fluffy for about 1.5k without feeling the need to have something else happen. I think that’s the perfect length for a slice of life fic, which is the perfect place for fluff for me. But I cannot maintain enthusiasm much longer than that.

lbr though, nothing actually happens in a coffee shop au ever. Unless you make the coffee shop like, idk, a cover for some kind of illegal outfit, it’s gonna be tooth rotting fluff.

Oh my god coffeeshop AU/mafia AU – this needs to be written.

Jimmy and Castiel Novak are a couple of sweet guys running a super cute coffee shop in the middle of the city. But what no one knows is that they’re using the coffeeshop as a cover for drug smuggling for the local mafia family. Detective Dean Winchester might be getting close to cracking the case – if those twins would just stop feeding him their delicious lattes and cakes…

Oh my god, yes, please! I need that!

Ahaha I would read the hell out of it, but I’ve never even considered writing a mafia fic before lol.

lol. It could be fun, though. You might enjoy it…

I’ve never had much interest in the mafia in general, I wouldn’t do it justice. Plus I’ve never really written dcj – Honestly there’s a ton of other authors that’d do it better – y’all are free to take the idea and run with it.

That’s fair. If you’re not interested writing a whole fic is probably not a good idea.

Just gonna throw this out there, though, but dcj shippers tend to be… excitable is a good word for it. If you ever did want to try your hand at it we’d be very appreciative. Just sayin’.

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They’re just too fluffy for me. The few I’ve read never have anything happen in them. I need some kind of drama or I’m gonna lose interest fast. I am almost 1000% sure I will never write one.

@rosemoonweaver I was following someone that once reblogged a post and put in their tags that they didn’t understand why all fics weren’t just happy and fluffy because fanfic is a happy place in a sad world. Like, more power to you for your decision person – you read your fluff and happy endings, no skin off my teeth – but to me?

Fanfic is a happy place but it’s also a form of entertainment and I expect to be entertained, you know? Give me some drama and angst and a hopeful ending (or even a heartbreaking ending or cliffhanger – I just want to be intrigued!).

The only real “traditional” one I wrote was my Sam/Jess/Brady and I used it for RSCC anti-valentine’s day. It was like 1k of dull, boring, tooth rotting fluff that I still dislike because I feel like nothing happened.

If all fic was happy and fluffy I wouldn’t be reading or writing it tbh. I’m 100% with you there. I love a happy ending, but make it worth it. Give me some heartache, some mystery, some danger, just something.

I can only maintain interest in something fluffy for about 1.5k without feeling the need to have something else happen. I think that’s the perfect length for a slice of life fic, which is the perfect place for fluff for me. But I cannot maintain enthusiasm much longer than that.

lbr though, nothing actually happens in a coffee shop au ever. Unless you make the coffee shop like, idk, a cover for some kind of illegal outfit, it’s gonna be tooth rotting fluff.

Oh my god coffeeshop AU/mafia AU – this needs to be written.

Jimmy and Castiel Novak are a couple of sweet guys running a super cute coffee shop in the middle of the city. But what no one knows is that they’re using the coffeeshop as a cover for drug smuggling for the local mafia family. Detective Dean Winchester might be getting close to cracking the case – if those twins would just stop feeding him their delicious lattes and cakes…

Oh my god, yes, please! I need that!

Ahaha I would read the hell out of it, but I’ve never even considered writing a mafia fic before lol.

lol. It could be fun, though. You might enjoy it…

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Both of those angst fics you talked about sound so interesting! I’d read the hell out of them. That vampire!Dean one is definitely my jam. The djinn one would hurt sooo much but definitely has a lot of potential you could play with!

Thank you!

I have them both on the list of things I potentially want to write someday, but I have no idea when that’s actually going to be. Maybe if I ever stop trying to write sequels for things lol.

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They’re just too fluffy for me. The few I’ve read never have anything happen in them. I need some kind of drama or I’m gonna lose interest fast. I am almost 1000% sure I will never write one.

@rosemoonweaver I was following someone that once reblogged a post and put in their tags that they didn’t understand why all fics weren’t just happy and fluffy because fanfic is a happy place in a sad world. Like, more power to you for your decision person – you read your fluff and happy endings, no skin off my teeth – but to me?

Fanfic is a happy place but it’s also a form of entertainment and I expect to be entertained, you know? Give me some drama and angst and a hopeful ending (or even a heartbreaking ending or cliffhanger – I just want to be intrigued!).

The only real “traditional” one I wrote was my Sam/Jess/Brady and I used it for RSCC anti-valentine’s day. It was like 1k of dull, boring, tooth rotting fluff that I still dislike because I feel like nothing happened.

If all fic was happy and fluffy I wouldn’t be reading or writing it tbh. I’m 100% with you there. I love a happy ending, but make it worth it. Give me some heartache, some mystery, some danger, just something.

I can only maintain interest in something fluffy for about 1.5k without feeling the need to have something else happen. I think that’s the perfect length for a slice of life fic, which is the perfect place for fluff for me. But I cannot maintain enthusiasm much longer than that.

lbr though, nothing actually happens in a coffee shop au ever. Unless you make the coffee shop like, idk, a cover for some kind of illegal outfit, it’s gonna be tooth rotting fluff.

K, Q, R if they haven’t been asked already?

K: What’s the angstiest idea you’ve ever come up with?
lol. Okay, I’m trying to think. I’ve come up with a few pretty angsty ones.

One would be a canon AU in which the vampire cure didn’t work and Dean was stuck as a vampire after season 6. Sam would argue that as a vampire, Dean could get into nests and figure out what the Alpha wants and why which is why Samuel wouldn’t kill him. After that it would be pretty much the same except Sam and Cas would go to Purgatory instead of Dean and Cas. The majority of the fic would be Dean, completely alone and starving because he’d be hunted and driven into cities where there’s not a lot of cattle or wildlife to feed off. Of course, that does have a happy ending because Sam and Cas would eventually show back up with Benny.

There was another idea I had that was a kinda coda to 12×23. After losing basically all of his friends in the finale, Dean would lose hope and decide djinn poison was a reasonable thing to cope with. Sam, on the other hand, would throw himself into research to try and find a way to fix things. It would be partially and exploration in how the two of them handle grief and hopelessness, and partially AU hopping because of the djinn poison. It would have an ambiguous ending, because after Sam finds out about what Dean’s doing he tries to stage and intervention and Dean gets pissed and runs off, only to get himself captured by a djinn. I would leave it unclear as to whether or not the final scenes were real or if they were Dean’s dying dreams.

Q: How do you feel about collaborations?
It totally depends on who and what. I’ve tried to do collabs in the past when I was writing original fic but they always fell through. I’d be open to it if I had the time and a partner I got along with really well.

R: Are there any writers (fanfic or otherwise) you consider an influence?
Kinda but not really. When I eventually finish my degree (it’s just electives at this point but my health isn’t great) it will be a degree in Creative Writing, so I’ve had “formal training” on how to write and that’s definitely had a big impact on my writing. I think Dan Mueller is probably the single person who’s had the biggest influence on my writing because I know him personally and he’s helped me a lot in learning to trust my gut when it comes to writing (and to cut down on filler junk).
In terms of fan writers, anyone I’ve read and talked to has had an impact on my writing. I never try to copy their style or tropes, but one of the great things about fanfic writing is that we have an opportunity to share ideas and inspire each other.

Thanks, Dean!

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I’m with you on the Nephilim baby. I don’t want him to be bad. I have a strong feeling he’s gonna bring Cas back (I actually have a theory of how the cold open of 13×01 is going to go and if I’m right I might scream), but I’d like him to be slightly confused, slightly awkward, semi-good guy. Kinda like cas was when he first came on the show. Not really knowing good v. evil aside from what he was told/ingrained in him, and has to learn from TFW how to control his powers.

(can’t find the reply on my dash so I gotta reply like this)

You’re probably right. Honestly, I’ll be pretty upset if he doesn’t just bring Cas back right away because that’s pretty much the easiest option. I am curious about your cold open theory, though.

I’d really like to see Jack develop like Cas did. I want him to be a little conflicted but in the end I want him to choose to be good. And I’d love if he and Sam could bond, too. They’ve got a lot of parallels in their stories already and we can go back to that whole “just because there’s something trying to put you on one side or the other doesn’t mean you have to be that way” thing that was really prominent in the first few seasons. I really love when Sam can inspire people to be better and choose their own paths.

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So I’ve had some time to think and I’ve decided…

Take care of yourself first, no matter what. The writing will still be there in the future, as will we. You come first in your life! *hugs* Feel better though, I hope this helps.

*hugs* Thank you 🙂
It should help to take some of the pressure off myself. I definitely need to get myself in order but the ideas and stories are still there. I’ll likely still do them, but not right now. I’ll give myself some time to recharge and readjust because that’s what most important.

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I had a realization today talking to someone about…

well, you do produce a hell of a lot of fic so it makes sense you don’t remember it all. i’ve got one or two fics that i remember really well but that’s because they’re close to my heart. half the time I don’t remember what I wrote the day before

@rosemoonweaver Thank God, I really thought I was losing my memory. It was so sharp when I was a teenager. I started to realize it when I got asked for a sequel to my Tanner fic – I couldn’t remember anything more than the piercing and who bottomed, despite remembering having done a ton of research for the fic itself, and it really hit me when I was talking to a friend last night about my Rare Ship from this month, the Dean/Ketch – it was only published a week or so ago and aside from the general vague – treasure hunters aztec gold thing – I could not remember details.

I feel ya. I kind of blame my mental illness for my lack of memory power but it could also be part of getting older and having more important things to remember.

When I was writing my DCJ bang I kept forgetting details like whether Cas or Jimmy initiated their relationship and how old Claire was. And now that Under the Surface is posted and finished I keep getting comments like ”I loved this conversation” or “Oh no, Alistair!” and I’m like …..I wrote that? When did I write that? Huh. Good job me.

And I probably couldn’t tell you how many pairings/polyships I’ve written or who was involved without looking at my ao3.

You aren’t being a baby or overdramatic at all. Emotions and feelings are real and they sometimes hurt, no matter what caused the hurt – fiction or reality, the emotion is still the same. You have a right to feel what you need to feel. hugs I’m sorry you’re hurting though, regardless, and I do hope you feel better soon.

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Thank you, Dean.

I’ll be honest, it kinda feels like the cherry on top of the shit sundae. I’ll be better with time, it’s just… not what I was expecting at all. I’ve had a rough… three years or so? I don’t even remember at this point. It’s a long ass story and fiction (particularly spn) has been something I could consistently look forward to.

It feels like losing a friend. Losing a lot of friends, really. I knew at least one of the characters was doomed and I had a feeling another would bite it too, but like… all of them? All of the recurring cast (save for Jody, Donna, and the girls) bites it or gets trapped? That’s what we get? It feels so bad, especially considering the way the season began.

@wanderingcas and I were talking and she thinks the reason Cas’s death, in particular, is so hard to swallow is because we’ve spent so much time in his head. I’ve written probably 50k through his eyes in the past year. I know him. He’s a part of me in some ways, because all writers put parts of their soul into their writing and I definitely put myself into him.

It sucks, you know?

I’ll just let myself feel it I suppose. I need to work on actually letting myself process anger and pain so I guess this is as good an opportunity as any.

I agree with you, the deaths stung even for me – I can’t even imagine if it had been a character I was deeply devoted to. I love Cas and Crowley, and Rowena was growing on me too, but I know some of my friends are as devoted to and invested in them as I am to Sam and Dean and was to Mick (and Ketch before they bastardized him).

I was discussing it with a friend in PM and we realized what made us so mad was the lack of care they gave them. Three characters that really were all fan favorites – I know some folks disliked Cas or Crowley or Rowena, but just as many liked and loved them. And they were all given 5 second deaths before the episode moved on. We weren’t allowed time to grieve. Sure, we have the hiatus, but that’s an after the fact grief. It didn’t do any of them justice.

You’re a good writer. And part of being a good writer is investment in your characters, so I understand where you’re coming from. It’s not being babyish or pathetic at all to want better than he (or they) got.

Processing emotions – especially powerful ones like anger and pain – it’s not easy. But it can be done. Sometimes we just need a little help and support along the way. *hugs*

(And for the topic of the fic – I know i love your stuff. I, for one, am eager to read it no matter what it is – as I know many of your friends are. You bust your ass writing for free, and you’re amazing for that.)

In regards to the point about not having time to grieve, I completely agree. The past four eps of the season have given us so much death and it was just a hell of a lot to digest. The dropped to the ground and then we moved on. Whenever anyone tells me everyone dies on spn and I should just get over it I always point to the early season deaths. Dean and Sam grieved John for half a season basically. Bobby got an entire episode to die. Jo and Ellen died as heroes. Hell, even Charlie (which was a dumb death) was given a hunter’s funeral. Crowely’s death is one I can deal with because he got to give a speach before he died. He went out like he lived and in the end, no one bested him but him. That was fitting. Rowean was a burn corpse. I was screaming “GET AWAY FROM THE RIFT” a second before Cas died. It wasn’t dignified. Cas was a hero, and he deserved to go out like one. (Of course, I know I’m biased. I love Cas. But I still think if even Crowley, who’s constantly switching sides, got a speech, Cas should’ve, too.) The deaths this season have been shock foder and it’s disheartening and enraging.

I knew Ketch was going to die, I was fine with that even if I preferred something else. (side note: they didn’t solve anything this season. Sure, they killed the invading BMoL but the organization still exists and can easily try again. They made a good dent in the hunter population and they still have all that info. That’s why they needed a turncoat.)I suspected Crowely’s time was up but everyone else was a shock.

It’s hard to handle when all my favorites (save Sam and Dean, ofc, ) are dead now. It stings something awful. I gotta deal with that, though. The emotions are there and I guess I just gotta figure out what to do with them. It almost makes me want to step away from the bangs I signed up for and work on a much darker fic for a while. I’ll have to think about it. But thank you (and everyone else) for offering your support. It means the world to me.

Thank you, for the compliments about my writing, btw. It’s cliche to say it’s a labor of love but it’s true. I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t love the characters and I suppose even if they’re gone now I shouldn’t allow anyone to take that from me. Canon be damned.