~ For each Friday, pick a prompt (or more!) and post your fanwork(s) to tumblr (and optionally to the ao3 collection).
~ Make sure to mention @dadfuckerfest so we can share your wonderful work.
~ Open to all ratings, all types of fanworks, and all dads.
and the prompts:
12.05: fairytale / trial and error / outsider POV
12.12: alternate universes / fuck-ups / make-ups
12.19: confessions / long-distance / worth the wait
12.26: on the road / snowed-in / surprise!
01.02: Y2K / FREE SPACE*
FREE SPACE: for any work that doesn’t fit neatly within any of the other prompts!
Leave Dad a voicemail if you have any questions. He'll try very hard to answer.
wanting to explain that The Velocipastor is an elaborate homage to The Exorcist 1973, stylistic split screen editing style seen in the likes of Carrie 1976, terrible 70s exploitation movies and the rise of martial arts films in the 70s but my mind is going a mile a minute
hey ciel, ‘tis is i again! just went through on your rb about dean’s descent to The Hunter role is cyclical to the path mary went through, and how from that, he became the thing he mythologized; there is no mary other than dean, and i just! want to rip all my hair out!!
in your tags you were pondering about what does this say about motherhood.. so im wondering if you’ve gotten around that? 👀
also, completely unrelated ask: im curious on what your process of doing all these spn family meta looks like and how long does that take? i hv a background in psych so im really interested in character studies! how you do your analyses which always bounce between different eps/seasons yet still so articulate, structured and polished (it feels like they come from someone with a lit-major background)? and bc im not quite wired that way im always left amazed!! :)
omg hello! and wow hummm yeah that's a good question. i went back and looked at the post and i know what i was trying to imply but it's like, where in the world do i start with this 🤔 the topic of motherhood in supernatural is so idealized in its themes but also so far removed from the reality the characters live in that it's almost difficult to make commentary on what the show is saying about it. but when you apply this line of thought to motherhood as a concept, when you apply dean to it, it takes a pretty negative outlook on the mother—starkly different from the ideal the show often depicts more obviously.
and i think what i was trying to get at was this negativity: on the surface, the mother is a pure being, a madonna and a divine good. but the authentic mother, the one that is created through the process of motherhood—through responsibility and experience and fire—is not so. instead, it is violent and corrupted. if dean represents the mother (sam the father) then we can apply his relationship to evil to motherhood. while sam has something evil in him (john too is "good" until it is corrupted by a foreign influence), dean is something evil, which is why he can't escape the hunting life. and this attributes itself to the mother in almost a biblical way:
in genesis it is eve, the mother, who is corrupted by satan, and she brings her sin to adam to cause them both to fall. her sin is first—and then the mother is punished with born sin, with painful childbirth and the burden of blood. by contrast, the father is only sinful by proxy, because his sinful wife tempted him to evil.
and this is, through dean, recreated in supernatural.
so while supernatural says that motherhood is pure, is good, is divine, is ideal, it's not really how it behaves. because dean creates the authentic mother, always destined to fall to corruption and sin. dean creates the ideal he believes in, but even that can't escape the stains of the authentic mother, because to be mother is to be cruel and violent. dean by realizing his fate as a "natural born" hunter also realizes motherhood. i don't know, i think it's interesting!
as for your other question, i will answer that under this cut:
so i'm not sure if you can really call it a process, but as i've rewatched seasons 1-5 (i'm still on season 3, yes i suck) i've been taking notes on the show. i've posted them on my neocities actually!
i try to identify major themes of the episode and separate the notes under those headers. while my original intent was to identify incestuous theming in the show, my main focus has since shifted to the fate vs family theme (which does indeed encompass the incestuous theming in the show) and all that entails. so essentially i've accumulated a lot of data on the show and personal interpretations on how the show develops over time, down to even minuscule actions and reactions of the characters.
and then since i have that information already, i just occasionally get really passionate about something i noticed and simply must write a longform essay about it to elaborate my opinions lol
my background is actually in linguistics, not in lit or english, but my primary interest in fiction has always been in story structure and how people put stories together. i'm honestly not built for the average fandom culture because my fun is picking apart minute interactions to explore how they assist the overarching plot and what that plot is trying to say on a meta level through those interactions—rather than you know, blorbos and shipping and stuff. i like that well enough, but it's certainly not my focus and my interest in blorbos and shipping are driven by my interest in plots and their structure. basically i just like stories so much <3
and i think it's probably because i do have those notes already available to me that i am able to jump between episodes and seasons quickly, because writing stuff down helps you remember it better, and if i can't remember it i can always ctrl+f! i tend to take notes in some form or fashion whenever i get into a lore- or story-intensive series, for my own reference. it also helps when you go to make an argument and you have piles upon piles of evidence to support your stance—it is so satisfying to put it all together and go look! see! i'm onto something!!!!
but anyway i don't really think i'm doing anything special; i just take lots and lots of notes and really enjoy stories, at the end of the day :)
rules: rec three fics that aren’t usually recced (have low kudos/hits/comments, are old and aren’t really recced in lists you see anymore, are on livejournal, whatever) and then tag three buds to do the same
anodynity by zmediaoutlet — must-read revisit of 14.13 lebanon. takes what the show gave us (which we all agreed to nod and smile at) and makes sense of it and breaks your heart on the way
Raw Food Diet by @themegalosaurus — another set in 14.13, starring the episode's AUchesters, outlaw!dean and turtleneck!sam. sam meets up with dean while he's on the run to bring him food and money and have incredibly irresponsible, one-sidedly transactional sex. easily a favorite, this one sits heavy in my chest
Soulless Sex by @ameliacareful — quick little post-s6 fic, in which sam and dean remember soulless!sam. refreshingly winchester-coded coping mechanisms on display
ty for the tag @zmediaoutlet! passing it on to @weaksspot, @saintmarywinchester, @bvrialatsea
rules: rec three fics that aren’t usually recced (have low kudos/hits/comments, are old and aren’t really recced in lists you see anymore, are on livejournal, whatever) and then tag three buds to do the same
This Next Town by @nigeltde-fic -- a little Sam/Dean treat just after a first time, where Sam's eager to get back to Dean and maybe have a second time. Love the propulsion down the highway narrowing to the one thing Sam really wants.
JAR-3D by @homo-pink -- lovely J2 where a very shy shut-in Jensen gets satisfaction from the android boy of his dreams. Incredibly sweet and just a little fucked up. Not unpopular but it's from 2018 and I feel like it should have 10k hits and it's dumb that it doesn't!
in this change sought our bliss by De_Nugis -- a wincest fic from back in the good old days. Sort of curtain-ficcy for whatever that meant in 2012, but it's Dean after a car accident and Sam coming to see him in the hospital. Super precious.
Now! You folks should share fics too (of the gen/wincest/j2 variety): @vampirejohn, @samdeanjohn, @fictionallemons
[aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe, benjamin alire sáenz || shadow, supernatural || we are all welcome here, elizabeth berg|| all hell breaks loose, supernatural || my father’s house (springsteen on broadway), bruce springsteen || driver's seat, madds buckley]
giggling twirling my hair kicking my feet thinking about all the mental gymnastics bobby would have to do to justify fucking dean to himself. 1. it's safer this way - otherwise dean will just go and get it from some other old man who won't treat him right and that damn boy has no sense of self preservation - dean's at least safe with bobby. 2. it's a way to take care of him; making him come, giving him pleasure, doting on him, letting him have the kind of praise and sweet words that are only acceptable to be spoken aloud in a situation as secret as this, the only time dean would be open and vulnerable enough to listen. 3. if it's what he wants... 4. this life is rough. everyone needs an escape, and if it's not normal then... is anything else? 5. if bobby stops dean might tell his daddy and what possible good could come of that. that'd just hurt everyone.
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