Big Bang/Exchange Fic Discussion #1

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Post your threads for Big Bangs and exchange fics here.

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SUBJECT: Title [Pairing, Rating] by AUTHOR
CONTENT: Art by whoever

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Comments

Re: DCBB: Bird of Paradise [Dean/Castiel, R] by trinityofone

[(Anonymous)]

It's not bad. I don't think trinityofone could write a bad fic if she deliberately tried, but that epilogue is completely pastede on. There's no relationship between Dean and Cas up to that point. Cas seems to like Dean as a person. He seems to help him out of shock that Dean isn't just a murderous mud-monkey as he's been taught to believe all humans are, but there's no hint of anything romantic between them. She should have cut the epilogue and kept it a gen fic.

The first part may be a bit confusing to people who haven't read the book. She doesn't explain a lot of the set-up until they're in the arena, and no motives (for why the angels are doing this) are given until the end, when she finally vaguely alludes to the fact that this is a world in which Michael's gang took-over a large chunk of the planet, presumably because the apocalypse happened earlier than it did in our timeline.

After the first part, though, I think knowing the books becomes a distraction, because so much is different, and it's hard to know when you're supposed to fill in information gaps with stuff from the book, and when you aren't. I didn't realize for example that the "girl with the blonde pigtails" was child!Lilith until the very end, because I was expecting her to be helpful like the little girl from Districk 4(?, I think) in the books.

I never did get used to the Jimmy=Cas thing either. Possibly because I've read a lot of fic with Jimmy in it. I had to keep reminding myself that it was Cas, and honestly, if it weren't a DCBB, I wouldn't have thought it was.

Re: DCBB: Bird of Paradise [Dean/Castiel, R] by trinityofone

[(Anonymous)]

Dean had been having sexual thoughts about Jimmy beforehand, and it seemed clear that Jimmy had realized that. There was also a fair amount of touching that I thought was the setup to eventual sexytimes.

I'm glad there wasn't much more, because, dude the world and your little brother is watching right now, but I felt she established Dean's attraction from his PoV from a little bit before the explosion, and it just gets more crystallized from there.

When it comes to Jimmy/Cas, staring==love, no?

I spent a lot of time at the start too trying to fit Hunger Games characters onto the SPN list of players. I could totally see Bobby as Hammitch, for instance. But I figured once Jo was in Peeta's place I shouldn't get too attached to any one for one. Still, took a while to wind down.

Re: DCBB: Bird of Paradise [Dean/Castiel, R] by trinityofone

[(Anonymous)]

It just felt like the entire story was gen to me, and then there's the epilogue and Dean/Cas are surprise in bed together.

As for the characters, I wasn't attached to any one-to-one view; I was trying to make sense of what was going on. She didn't give us a name for the blonde girl, so I didn't have her show personality to draw on the way I did with Ava or Meg or Alastair. Thus, I tried to draw from the book, which I'd been encouraged by the writing to do in the first part where much of the premise is only hinted at.