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Ask the Author: sevenfists
| Interviews by Fans | |
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| Title: | Ask the Author: sevenfists |
| Interviewer: | |
| Interviewee: | sevenfists (Susan) |
| Date(s): | March 6, 2007 |
| Medium: | online |
| Fandom(s): | Supernatural |
| External Links: | interview is here, Archived version |
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sevenfists was interviewed for Supernatural Roundtable.
Some Excerpts
About me: I lurked in various fandoms starting in 1999, but I only began actively writing and participating about a year ago, when the charms of one Dean Winchester proved too much for me to resist. I write gen, het, and slash, and everything from genderswap to deathfic. Bestiality is where I draw the line. Also anything involving wings.
But seriously, the show gives us so many versions of Dean that I feel pretty comfortable with whatever characterization I choose. We get skeevy womanizer Dean, crying over his daddy Dean, making fun of Sammy Dean, enormously over-protective Dean, and basically any other Dean you can think of. Tall Tales is a great example, with the infamous peanut scene. But then we get, say, ELaC, and the car-beating scene of terrific emo. And then sometimes the writers throw in a "hey, Dean's not very bright!" joke. Either they can't make up their minds about him or they're making him faceted on purpose.
Uh, so yes! Honestly, I don't settle on a particular way of writing him before I start a story -- it just kind of happens, and then I finish it and think, "Huh, so he was pretty girly in that story. Oh well! *posts*"