Ask the Author: cherie morte
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Author: cherie morte |
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| Interviewee: | cherie morte |
| Date(s): | July 15, 2011 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview and comments are here, Archived version |
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cherie morte was interviewed for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
I'll start with a bit about me and my journey into fandom, I guess. Unless we're counting that time I spent all of middle school watching Lord of the Rings and squeeing over how in love the entire cast was to myself, my first fandom was Phantom of the Opera, which I got into in January 2005. I started writing fic when I was 14 (to disastrous results, though most of the evidence has been purged from the internet), fell out of fandom, and came back to it in early 2009 when I rediscovered the Harry Potter series. Then my best friend started talking my ear off about these two actors who were adorable together and their TV show. I allowed her to bully me into watching Supernatural in summer of 2009 (post-Season Four, for reference), even though I was sure I would never ship incest or enjoy a show that was all guts and ghosts all the time. Right, so. As you can see, that worked out. I ended up watching Season One at her place, then stealing the rest of her DVDs and devouring them in a weekend. My favorite thing about the Supernatural fandom from a writer's perspective is that you get two of the best fandoms I've ever seen in one package. When I need a break from Sam and Dean and the emotional rollercoaster of their daily life (seriously, the guys brush their teeth and it's tragic. It's my favorite thing about them, but it can be EXHAUSTING), I hop on over to Jared and Jensen's schmoop factory. There's also just SO MUCH here to play with—Supernatural has made me try reading and writing things I once assumed were just not for me, and I've often discovered I love them. I am, sometimes to my great regret, a bit mono-focused on pairings. Sam/Dean and Jared/Jensen are OTP for me, and it's hard to separate my interpretation of the characters from the way I see their relationships with each other. Any of you who know me, however, probably know that I have a major boner for threesomes. That's pretty much how I shake up my pairings; I LOVE to add another person and see how that person changes a pairing's dynamics.
A lot of people really dislike threesomes because they feel like it means one person is getting in the way of their OTP, I like them for the exact opposite reason, I feel it brings everyone closer together. It's not Dean protecting Sam all on his own anymore, it's Dean and Person B sharing that love of Sam, likewise, Sam finally can talk to someone about his feelings without making Dean get all emotionally constipated. There's more love because it's flowing back and forth between three people (the trick is, of course, that you have to sell all three legs of the triangle for this to work, otherwise it's just one person in the middle lucking out and the other two sacrificing for them).I've always loved group dynamics, so group dynamics that are basically gold to me. For all my adoration of erotic codependence, it can be nice to see people in love remembering that others exist and responding to friends/other partners as passionately as to each other. Threesomes help bring together a new, fresh pairing while preserving all the things about an OTP that I hold most dear. Not to say that pairings get boring, but after a year and a half of thinking "Jared and Jensen are like XYZ together," it's always refreshing to have another person come in and keep X and Z but maybe change Y a little.
I mentioned in one of my answers above that writing threesomes can sometimes be like observing a pairing from OPOV without actually being an outsider. I have a lot of thoughts about characters/pairings that characters would never have about themselves, but that someone coming into a relationship that is already established and observing it might believably have.
I'm kind of partial to m/m/f threesomes because they give the boys an excuse for a level of tenderness you just aren't going to see between two males most time. Not that I think women are delicate flowers or anything, but I think most male characters, particularly masculine men like Sam and Dean or Jared and Jensen.
Finally, the sex is maja. YEAH, THERE, I SAID IT. More places to stick things. ;)