The Tyranny of Socks

A bit of repetition caught in my ear Thursday night, and I thought it was just about enough to hang a drabble on.


Title: Message
Author: Vanzetti
Spoilers for 2x14, Born under a Bad Sign
100 words
Rated PG

( Bobby calls them first, now... )

As an aside, I am amused to note that I played with the idea of ( I should cut this for spoilers, too, I think )

...by other people, anyway. I have no thoughts of my own, but I did have a lot of open tabs. So here are some further comments on the episode:


hossgal talks about Religion in the SPNverse, on the Winchesters and their different ways of relating to the Deity. Both boys, I think, make the mistake of over-personalizing their struggles, of seeing redemption (or grace) as something which is escaping them, and them alone, instead of being part of the human condition.

marinarusalka talks about Sam, Dean and belief, which I love for this particular line: Dean is not the type to be impressed by talk of "mysterious ways" or "God's master plan." As far as he's concerned, if there's a Cosmic Good out there, it's not doing it's damn job. Unlike Sam, who's looking for a loving redeemer, Dean is looking for a fellow smiter of evil. And unlike Sam, who still hopes, Dean is pretty much resigned to having to do all the smiting himself. But he's not happy about it.

dodger_winslow has a post on Sam, Dean and the concept of the true believer. I'm not sure I understand it, but I haven't had much time to think about it.

rez_lo points out that the real issue isn't faith but error: the false comfort of easy judgment and its potentially deadly consequences; how important it is to read the signs correctly, to question orthodoxy of all kinds, examine and re-examine appearances and assumptions, to get the killing and dying right.

elishavah thinks about the difference between religion and Religion, and the way Sam and Dean's beliefs and backgrounds figure in the larger SPN universe.

The posts I mentioned back on Friday are also good, and there are interesting comments on all these posts, as well.

( spoilers for Friday Night Lights )

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( and a few random thoughts about Supernatural, which are not really spoilery for anything )

This is not the meta I'm supposed to be writing, but it is something I've meant to write for a while.

I've said a few times that while Sam and Dean may well be Greek, John Winchester is a Roman through-and-through. And then I forget that other people might not know exactly what I mean by that, so here it is.

( husbands and wives )

( paternal power )

( war, duty and love )

So yes, a Roman through and through, or at least, a particular kind of Roman: the kind of Roman the Romans liked to think they were. No wonder I fell hard for the character.

So in case you missed it, cofax7 and I were playing with some ideas about a gender-swap (genderswitch?) AU, and wrote a couple snippets. Then she wrote another snippet, set a few years later. And last night I wrote this, which is part of how we get from A to B.

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( It starts with a phone call... )

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I've never been all that interested in AUs, but what I kind of like about this one is how changing one thing might change everything else -- obviously the relationships here aren't quite the same as the relationships we see in the show -- but the characters are still, at the core, who they always were.

New SPN! Croatoan! ( spoilers and profanity )

And on a mostly unrelated note that I hope will amuse a handful of you, I leave you with the following thought, because I have been re-reading McKillip. John Winchester and Mathom of An -- separated at birth?

I started my holiday shopping yesterday; the best thing so far was a leather overnight bag (or maybe gigantic handbag?) which I think my sister in law will be able to use as a briefcase of some kind. Or as an overnight bag. It was so nice (and such a good buy!) that I'm tempted to go back and buy one for myself, even though I have exactly zero need for a really nice large leather bag, and I already bought myself a skirt and sweater and cute little hat while I was supposedly shopping for gifts for other people. But it was so reasonable, too!

This kind of thing is why I suspect I'm not a good person. I'm paying for it with a horrible, horrible sore throat -- I'm in actual pain here, and just hope that it'll be better in time for me to lecture tomorrow. I think the cold is moving into my nose, which may be a sign of progress.

In the meantime, I have been reading crossovers, mostly so you don't have to. There was a link last week on sn_crossovers to a SPN/HP crossover with a premise I couldn't resist: ( it's a DADA story, and you only have three guesses )

I changed the channel just in time to see the ugliest ring in the world on Smallville. Enough of that. Let's go on to my preliminary comments on this week's SPN.

( Crossroad Blues )

Also, I have ER on in the background: has anyone else noticed that they're doing a subplot with Bloody Mary and children who fight demons? or something like that?

Thursday is finally here! Huzzah! And last night I dreamed about the show, as well: some kind of second-season AU where ( my dream has spoilers, I guess )