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To those who only track me on DW:

I wrote a (rather silly) post about Supernatual 7.01 which is actually having some fun discussions in it but which is, sadly, LJ-only BECAUSE THE DW CUT TAG AND DIV TAG REMAIN COMPLETELY UNMIXY THINGS FOR ME DESPITE CODING THE DAMN THINGS IN BY HAND AND SENDING IN MULTIPLE BUG REPORTS AND AFTER ALMOST A YEAR OF CODE-PUSHES!

Anyway, now that I have that off my chest, if you'd like, you can find that post here:

The Question

ETA:  jjhunter went and put entirely too much effort into recreating that post in a way that works on DW.  Here is, inshahallah, because she really put too much effort into this.




Upon rewatch with salientdreams*, we have come to the conclusion that, in light of the events in Supernatural 7.01, there is one unanswered question which everything else in the show hinges on ( Read more... )

Writing About Guns: Resources (meta and non-political)

Last night snickfic was kind enough to rec my SPN/Discworld crossover A Grand Sneer and had some lovely things to say about it (thanks, btw).  Being insecure, not having looked at it in, well, a long while, and wondering how I've grown as a writer since, I went back to see if I really had done some of the things in it that s/he'd mentioned.  I only got to the end of the first chapter before I face-palmed:

"Get back!" shouted Dean, pulling his pearl-handled automatic out of his belt and taking aim.

Oh, Self, you were so naive back then.  Semi-automatic, Dean's Colt m1911 is a semi-automatic, which is a whole other thing.  (This is why rereading your own work is always a dangerous thing).  Then again, it was my first Supernatural fic and as a writer I started out in two fandoms (Buffy and Doctor Who) whose canons are notoriously anti-gun (penalties range up to "being flayed alive onscreen" for villains who show up with them). So for a long time I didn't really need to know about guns, and not being the type who much cares for guns in the real world (I'm a knife/aluminum baseball bat kind of girl), I had little to no interest in researching them.  Leading me to write things like the above.  **Cringes**

( Bad Self. Research is always important. Especially when you start expanding into new fandoms )