the fic satisfies my desire just to be around the characters. While the show feels more like being beaten around the head.
That's spot-on for me.
S4 I felt energized by the power of the story and felt tuned in with the writer's intentions towards Sam and Dean and my heart was in my throat almost every week. So it was brutal and melancholy, but kept hitting the sweet spot and I wrote a lot of ep codas.
Not this year; I find I can't write current mythology fanfic. Even my Dean/Castiel is set in a futurefic AU, or these little pockets of time when they are deliberately taking some down time. Last season I had worries any time I wrote a mytharc thing, of getting Jossed, but as I said, I felt very tuned into things last season and this season it feels murkier and I can't get a hold of it.
Not that I'm not curious where canon is headed, but it's not my id fanbrain happy zone.
I'm less tolerant of angst in fic, but for the same reasons as you said, because when canon is so miserable to them, I don't want fic laying it on thickly. I need the moments of grace.
It's made me lose my taste for h/c fic. The more they bleed in fic, the faster I hit the back button.
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That's spot-on for me.
S4 I felt energized by the power of the story and felt tuned in with the writer's intentions towards Sam and Dean and my heart was in my throat almost every week. So it was brutal and melancholy, but kept hitting the sweet spot and I wrote a lot of ep codas.
Not this year; I find I can't write current mythology fanfic. Even my Dean/Castiel is set in a futurefic AU, or these little pockets of time when they are deliberately taking some down time. Last season I had worries any time I wrote a mytharc thing, of getting Jossed, but as I said, I felt very tuned into things last season and this season it feels murkier and I can't get a hold of it.
Not that I'm not curious where canon is headed, but it's not my id fanbrain happy zone.
I'm less tolerant of angst in fic, but for the same reasons as you said, because when canon is so miserable to them, I don't want fic laying it on thickly. I need the moments of grace.
It's made me lose my taste for h/c fic. The more they bleed in fic, the faster I hit the back button.