Ask the Author: dontyouwaitup/winterweathered
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Author: dontyouwaitup/winterweathered |
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| Interviewee: | dontyouwaitup/winterweathered (Cam, and aflowerinrain) |
| Date(s): | December 10, 2007 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview and comments are here, Archived version |
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dontyouwaitup/winterweathered was interviewed for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
My first fandom ever was *NSYNC. I would say popslash, except I was twelve and there wasn't actually slash involved. I wrote some Mary-Sue type stories where Justin Timberlake fell in love with me a random gorgeous girl whose life was perfect. Then, one day when I was like thirteen or fourteen, I stumbled across a story in which Justin Timberlake and A.J. McLean (no seriously) have a threesome with some random girl, and suddenly I had DISCOVERED THE GAY.*NSYNC broke up and I was sad forever and got bored with the internet. Then, when I was a freshman in college, I was randomly googling and discovered that people wrote fan fiction for television shows, too!! I lurked in The O.C. for like, four or five months, reading Ryan/Seth fic. I created my livejournal (then aflowerinrain) in March of 2005, while I was home for Spring Break, and started friending random people. The first two stories I wrote (Girl Drowning and to hold a heart that quits) weren't slash stories - or really 'pairing' stories at all - more character studies. I finally posted my first slash story, The Complete Book of Questions, that August and the rest was history.
I really threw myself into fandom in the fall of 2005, mostly because I was really sick and really sad about some guy being a douche, so being at home on the computer was nice and comfy. Conveniently, that's when Supernatural started. I didn't care much for it at first, but I watched it because it was on after Gilmore Girls. I was still mostly in The O.C. and Veronica Mars fandoms, and had started to watch Queer as Folk. People who I friended because of Queer as Folk were the people who got me to pay more attention to Supernatural, actually...
Oh, and I'm sloooowly venturing into the RPS side of fandom. I love reading it, but when I was a kid a girl at my high school had a website where she wrote graphic RPF about my friends and I, and I still have traumatic flashbacks, so it's taking me a while to actually WRITE the RPS. I really love Jensen/Jared a lot though!
There are definitely a few people on my friendslist who are intrigued by the fact that they're brothers, and that's what attracted them to the pairing. For me, that's definitely not a reason I LIKE the pairing - if anything, the fact that they're brothers meant it took me a bit longer to find something about them as a pairing that I could click with. I've never really enjoyed an incest pairing before, and I don't know if I ever will again. Honestly, if there was a third really hot guy on the show who WASN'T a Winchester, I'd probably be all about pairing HIM with Sam or Dean.
I love the show, and I love the connection between the boys. I LOVE that Dean's whole life revolves around Sam and I love that Sam can try and try but he can't leave Dean behind. When I first started watching the show, I was still in my RPS-is-bad bubble, so without the Jared/Jensen pairing to go to it was all about Sam/Dean.
As a writer, I think the incest thing is an additional challenge, which can sometimes be a fun kind of challenge, and can sometimes make me totally scrap a story because I just can't get the characters past that particular roadblock.