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I’ve read so much wincest that I can now barely read gen, because the stories feel incomplete if Sam and Dean don’t sleep together.

*sigh*

Fandom corrupts.

I also can barely stand to read stories about Castiel, because pretty much every time he shows up in fic, it’s to edge Dean out of the way and hog attention for himself. While I enjoy Castiel in canon (and find him way more attractive than Sam), I only want to see him as a supporting character–he’s just not interesting enough to be at the center of a story. (To me. Obviously this is all totally subjective.) I’m still open to Dean/Castiel fic, but I’m increasingly cautious–as soon as the focus starts to center on Cas, I’m gone.

This is pretty much the opposite of what I expected when I jumped into SPN fanfic.

I’m bookmarking every decent SPN fic I read here and saving my favorites here, if, I don’t know, anyone is interested. I like longfic, plot, angst, dark humor, and Dean whumpage*; I don’t read AU or RPS and I’m mostly allergic to fluff.

* In the course of plot and involving action; for the love of god, get those illness/hospital/long-term disability stories far, far away from me.

Podfic, btw, is making my life far more pleasant. It kills the tedium of my hour and a half daily subway commute like nothing else. I’d like to try reading some myself, but the whole thing about figuring out what to read and getting the author’s permission is too stressful to deal with at the moment.

It’s lovely to hear all the different voices–fandom via computer is so removed, but having someone’s voice in your ear for hours is oddly intimate. It’s cool to hear the diversity of ages and accents in the various voices (although, man, the quality of reading really varies–some I’ve had to stop because the background noise or hiss was too loud, or because the reader was too fast or too slow, or there was some kind of weird echo that made me wonder if the reader had even previewed it before posting…). It also sheds a lot of light on the story–you really notice poor pacing or lack of narrative tension in a podfic, because you can’t just skim ahead. But it’s pretty awesome when everything comes together well–podfic can be so immersive in a way that reading online usually isn’t for me.

Anyway, I’m mostly busy with real life stress at the moment, but just wanted to post briefly. I am still reading everyone in my DW circle and LJ flist, though I don’t often have time to comment.

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