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A Conviction of Angels
Vidder: affablyevil
Fandom: Supernatural
Warnings: Some visual spoilers up through season six. Violence, character death. Possible epilepsy warning.
Characters: Dean, Sam, Castiel, and loads and loads of other characters.
Summary: "This isn't the first planetary enema we've delivered." When Zachariah traps Sam and Dean in an alternate universe where they are not themselves, they seek help from an old friend they haven't met yet.

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( Notes and Stuff )

A picspam inspired by salientdreams's last week's. :D

I wanted to celebrate the 100th episode with a picspam, but unfortunately I got on that train way too late — in part because of the pain that international travel is, in part because I am just slow. Even so, happy 100th, show!

( one hundred frames for one hundred eps... )

"How deep can two actors' voices be?" - Jensen Ackles on Jeffery Dean Morgan and Fred Lehne, in the commentary on "In My Time of Dying"


Genderblended
"The return to biology as the ground of a specific feminine sexuality or meaning seems to defeat the feminist premise that biology is not destiny." - Judith Butler

As tired as I am of the gender complaints in Supernatural, I do find this genderswap exercise to be somewhat visually interesting.

Though I do take issue with the subject that "rehymenated" doesn't make sense canonically, since the entire point of that line was to argue against the concept that only females can be virgins.

While I find hypothetically casting new images for canonical characters to be pretty interesting (and I've had some fucked up extremely hot dreams about that version of Castiel) I would have to veto Katee Sackhoff for Dean, because 1) as a character I don't actually want to replace Dean with Kara Thrace — whose character I find to be extremely abrasive and not able to pull off that fantastic (masculine) vulnerability — 2) Dean being blond is an extreme pet peeve of mine (what is this, Smallville? Enough already!).

So I think "Dee" Winchester would look ( something more like this )

and oh hell might as well —
( Sam )

That being said, the greatest miracle of the show is the performative chemistry between the leads, and lassiterfics's point was in fact about recasting the show and starting from scratch which well, is not something I'm interested in watching. Ever.

Casting is not just about how an actor looks (okay okay sometimes it is BUT) but also how they act and also how they act against/with other people, which is where Supernatural struck gold. We've only got two main characters to view this narrative through, so part of what is compelling about the show besides the excellent production set design and camera work and all that "invisible" effort is watching these two brothers interact every episode — and that's 100% Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki — so "recasting" the show for the gender and remapped acting dynamics is not something that appeals to me. If you want to talk about what you think a character would look like when that inevitable witch's curse changes their genitals for some pointless, plot-related excuse or renegotiating the narrative through inversions, well. That's a more interesting mental exercise.

That being said, the "Rufio" picture and the "Ben" conception both make me laugh.

Oftentimes unfortunately I find that fanfiction handles genderbender dynamics extremely poorly; though I do believe pandarus still has written the best, most thoughtful version of a genderswap story of any fandom I've come across. The thing about fanfic is that people are often exploring concepts and politics, both in terms of gender and sexuality, through their writing, so it is often experimental and in large part the unconscious mores they've been carrying around are injected and propagated in their stories. And yeah sometimes it's examination and negotiation, and sometimes it's more problematic than they might be aware. Which is fine, free to be you and me and all that. Doesn't mean I want to spend my time reading the terrible ones.

And as far as discussing it, well. It's like someone saying "There are sexual politics going on in porn? Really? Well, whatever. I just want to get off, stop making me have to think about this." Everybody wants something different out of their fandom experience.

Jason Todd... Jason Teague...

Obviously, Jason Blood is next up. Jared can be Etrigan. You know, if Marvel doesn't snatch him up.