I Don't Think About Crossovers All The Time, I Swear.

[rionaleonhart]

I've only seen two episodes so far (episodes one and three, because ITV are weird and decided to skip the second one), but I am really enjoying Pushing Daisies! It is adorable and funny and full of character detail and I don't think I've ever seen anything for which 'quirky' was a more appropriate description. Also, its tone is a wonderfully bizarre blend of the morbid and the charming. And I was fully expecting Chuck's aunts to turn out to be Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker figures when they were first introduced, so I'm terribly glad they ended up being Aunt Sweet and Aunt Awesome instead.

Ned the Piemaker is totally one of the 'gifted' children from Supernatural, isn't he? Oh, man, an AU crossover version of 'All Hell Breaks Loose' could work so well. You can see it, can't you? Dean begs Ned to bring Sam back to life in exchange for him (Dean, not Ned; I don't think Dean would grab Ned by the collar and go SACRIFICE YOURSELF FOR MY BROTHER (although I am increasingly suspecting that Sam might)), and Ned is incredibly reluctant but eventually agrees, and he touches Sam, and then Sam and Dean have their final minute together and I'm sorry, did I say 'work so well'? I meant 'be so insanely heartbreaking'.

I suppose there could be someone else within proximity they didn't know about, and so they could die instead, but then Dean would be completely torn apart by guilt (because seriously, the number of people who have died so Dean could live? I can name three clear-cut 'either Dean or another person has to die' cases off the top of my head; another three cases of 'Dean is going to die, but something intervenes to save him and as a result someone else dies instead', and I have no doubt there are more. Dean's got some pretty big 'I am so not supposed to be alive' issues, which I think is part of the reason he sold his soul. Obviously he loves Sam more than anything, but I'm not sure whether he'd have taken that step if he didn't already believe he was supposed to be dead three times over).

ANYWAY. Long bracketed aside aside: Ned touches Sam. Sam and Dean spend what they think is their last minute together. (I can see Sam's face in my mind right now and it is the most heartbreaking thing I have ever seen in my life.) Bobby dies. NO WAIT NO I DIDN'T MEAN THAT I TAKE IT BACK oh, augh, it would be Bobby, wouldn't it? Because his being nearby would make sense, and because Things Go Wrong For The Winchesters, it is a fact, and so if Dean doesn't die it's definitely going to be someone they love. And Dean would be so devastated. It would be horrible.

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[rionaleonhart]

The Dean-or-another-person instances I'm thinking of are 'In My Time of Dying' (obviously) and the two from 'Faith' (all right, so only one actually dies in-episode, but it amounts to the same thing). In 'Scarecrow', Dean and the girl are tied up as the sacrifice, but because they're freed the scarecrow takes the aunt and uncle in their place. In 'Nightmare', Dean is supposed to die, but Sam intervenes and Max shoots himself instead. (Obviously, Dean's going to feel less guilty about the 'Scarecrow' and 'Nightmare' deaths, because they were all people who were trying to kill him, but still, for Dean be alive a lot of people have had to die.)

There was also Dean being tired, and not thinking he was allowed to stop otherwise.

Oh, yes. 'Croatoan' made it so painfully clear that Sam is the only reason Dean is keeping himself alive.

AND BOBBY IS AMAZING AND I HATE MYSELF FOR EVEN CONSIDERING HIS DEATH, AUGH.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

You're right, that is a lot. He might balance out the dead killers against the lives he's saved, but he clearly doesn't do the same thing for innocent people who die in his place. And that's a lot of dead people needed to keep him alive.

Croatoan fed into the whole annoying "DEAN AND THE REAPER GIRL TOTALLY DID IT BEFORE SHE WAS GOING TO TAKE HIM, AND IT NEEDS TO BE FICCED!" part of my brain (which, inconveniently enough, has taken to speaking in capslock). Because there's them being all chemistryful, Dean's emo manpain, that bit in Croatoan which made me want to reach through the television and hug Dean, and "What is and What Should Never Be", which made it clear why Dean doesn't see stopping as an option as long as he's alive.

Because it's pretty well canon that Dean finds death a somewhat-appealing way out of what he considers his responsibilities, and the stupid capslocky portion of my brain thinks that Dean's deathwish needs to be expressed in creepy porn.

Which is all irrelevant for a bit, at least. I'm on a major "original writing/subjecting innocent magazine editors to my stuff" tear, and will be off fanfic for several days.

[rionaleonhart]

I should probably be worried by the fact that my reaction to the suggestion that a character with a vague deathwish should have sex with a physical representation of death is 'well, that makes sense'. Oh, fandom, what have you done to me?

Good luck with your original fiction!

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

My other bizarrely literal plot bunny that involves more sex than I care to write is "The Doctor has sex with Time". As in Time is a person. And they dance. And they have sex. A lot. And it's a bunch of flashbacks set during Girl in the Fireplace, interspersed with him dancing and "dancing" with Reinette.

But I can't work out how eighteenth-century French courtesans would refer to her genitals. Or what the Doctor would call the genitals of eighteenth-century French courtesans. Or whether "her vortex" is still a hilariously bad euphemism if it just might be literally true.

Which is probably for the best.

Sadly, I don't think I can blame fandom for this.

[elfwhistletree.livejournal.com]

Some sort of flower metaphor would seem the obvious, if somewhat teeth-grinding choice.

And I'm not going to mention the "Total Perspective Vortex", oh no!