Yes, I know. I do know what it is to love and lose and miss people etc. Thing is, you always lose people, it's part of life. And there's rarely, if ever, that *one single person* without whom your life will be truly forever empty and meaningless etc. What there is, is people - sometimes, one particular person - without whom, yes, you will be very unhappy for a while, maybe a long while, and whom you will probably always miss, yes. But - triteness alert! ;-) - life tends to go on. (Also, watching LoM without slash/romance goggles, I really didn't see Gene as *that* indispensable to Sam's continued mental and emotional wellbeing, no matter how well the two of them clicked.)
And I never said that that aspect of Sam's portrayal was not psychologically believable. I just always said and felt and still feel that it was glorified in a way that makes me very uncomfortable and vaguely angry, because it seems to affirm a view of life and happiness that is fundamentally non-conducive to real happiness. And so on. (Sorry. Kind of not in a position to have a real, proper discussion today, with the thesis still looming ominously.)
What kind of stories would I like to see written more of? Well, nothing new there, either. I'm predictable in my obsessions/fetishes...
1.) More stuff set in the present (and not just to focus on how bad everything is in the present - and yeah, I do realise that with canon as it is, that is kind of hard to do without going wildly AU. I guess I'd *like* to see more stuff that was wildly AU, in this regard.) 2.) More stuff that focuses on Sam dealing with stuff instead of just showing him mentally curling up in the magical 'place' (not meant in a geographical sense) he's found with Gene. 3.) Madness fic (I do know there has been some of that, even recently - I'm not saying that *none* of 'my' types of fic exists; it's all just relatively rare.) 4.) More slash that deals with a) the reality of being gay in the 70s; b) growing old together? (Hey, I'm one of those Hellblazer readers who want to see John Constantine progress to age 60+ instead of magically stopping to age like Batman or Superman. ;-) I'm interested in the psychology of ageing.) - And yes, I know there's been some of both of that, too. 5.) More fic that deals with the two-realities thing and other metaphysical stuff, including time travel, and the psychological side of all that. That really was a major draw of the show itself for me. 6.) Fic that deals with being dead. 7.) Recovery fic (preferably without too many melodramatic clichés), and other fic that brings the, IMO, pretty strong 'illness' subtext of LoM to the surface - and *not* always by whumping Sam in 1973, which seems to be the most popular way of dealing with that theme so far... Of course, recovery fic is quite AU, if it's not centered on some new injury or illness in 1973 but on Sam's canonical medical problems... because we all know that in canon he only recovers physically after the coma, and as for later, well, you don't usually recover from death. 8.) Crazy, 'high-concept' AU stuff, treated seriously and at length. 9.) Fic catering to various minor kinks of mine that I can't think of right now. ;-)
Mind you, I'm actually not *too* eager for the fandom to write lots of those types of stories just yet... I *am* currently writing various mixtures of 1.), 2.), 5.), 6.) and 7.), and I'd rather corner the market myself - if there is any market for this kind of thing. *g* - Kidding, obviously, but I do have this silly fear that someone else may write and finish one of 'my' scenarios before I manage to finish my own version - a somewhat natural fear, perhaps, for someone who takes as long to finish things as I do; someone *did* post a video to the song I was vidding before I managed to finish my own...
Well, and aside from the 'cornering the market' issue, I actually find it easier to motivate myself if there aren't already ten versions of each scenario around in the given fandom's fic corpus. I don't like feeling like I'm just retreading something that has been done a dozen times before.
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Date: 2009-02-14 12:12 am (UTC)Yes, I know. I do know what it is to love and lose and miss people etc. Thing is, you always lose people, it's part of life. And there's rarely, if ever, that *one single person* without whom your life will be truly forever empty and meaningless etc. What there is, is people - sometimes, one particular person - without whom, yes, you will be very unhappy for a while, maybe a long while, and whom you will probably always miss, yes. But - triteness alert! ;-) - life tends to go on. (Also, watching LoM without slash/romance goggles, I really didn't see Gene as *that* indispensable to Sam's continued mental and emotional wellbeing, no matter how well the two of them clicked.)
And I never said that that aspect of Sam's portrayal was not psychologically believable. I just always said and felt and still feel that it was glorified in a way that makes me very uncomfortable and vaguely angry, because it seems to affirm a view of life and happiness that is fundamentally non-conducive to real happiness. And so on. (Sorry. Kind of not in a position to have a real, proper discussion today, with the thesis still looming ominously.)
What kind of stories would I like to see written more of? Well, nothing new there, either. I'm predictable in my obsessions/fetishes...
1.) More stuff set in the present (and not just to focus on how bad everything is in the present - and yeah, I do realise that with canon as it is, that is kind of hard to do without going wildly AU. I guess I'd *like* to see more stuff that was wildly AU, in this regard.)
2.) More stuff that focuses on Sam dealing with stuff instead of just showing him mentally curling up in the magical 'place' (not meant in a geographical sense) he's found with Gene.
3.) Madness fic (I do know there has been some of that, even recently - I'm not saying that *none* of 'my' types of fic exists; it's all just relatively rare.)
4.) More slash that deals with a) the reality of being gay in the 70s; b) growing old together? (Hey, I'm one of those Hellblazer readers who want to see John Constantine progress to age 60+ instead of magically stopping to age like Batman or Superman. ;-) I'm interested in the psychology of ageing.) - And yes, I know there's been some of both of that, too.
5.) More fic that deals with the two-realities thing and other metaphysical stuff, including time travel, and the psychological side of all that. That really was a major draw of the show itself for me.
6.) Fic that deals with being dead.
7.) Recovery fic (preferably without too many melodramatic clichés), and other fic that brings the, IMO, pretty strong 'illness' subtext of LoM to the surface - and *not* always by whumping Sam in 1973, which seems to be the most popular way of dealing with that theme so far... Of course, recovery fic is quite AU, if it's not centered on some new injury or illness in 1973 but on Sam's canonical medical problems... because we all know that in canon he only recovers physically after the coma, and as for later, well, you don't usually recover from death.
8.) Crazy, 'high-concept' AU stuff, treated seriously and at length.
9.) Fic catering to various minor kinks of mine that I can't think of right now. ;-)
Mind you, I'm actually not *too* eager for the fandom to write lots of those types of stories just yet... I *am* currently writing various mixtures of 1.), 2.), 5.), 6.) and 7.), and I'd rather corner the market myself - if there is any market for this kind of thing. *g* - Kidding, obviously, but I do have this silly fear that someone else may write and finish one of 'my' scenarios before I manage to finish my own version - a somewhat natural fear, perhaps, for someone who takes as long to finish things as I do; someone *did* post a video to the song I was vidding before I managed to finish my own...
Well, and aside from the 'cornering the market' issue, I actually find it easier to motivate myself if there aren't already ten versions of each scenario around in the given fandom's fic corpus. I don't like feeling like I'm just retreading something that has been done a dozen times before.