This long summer drags on and I realized I’m long overdue in featuring some of the best distractions in the Supernatural fandom. Fans are especially active over the summer, and with over a month to go until the season four premiere, there’s plenty of distraction. I also need a break this week from doing episode reviews and character metas. I love doing them, but my brain is Swiss cheese. Anyway, as usual, there’s tons to report, so here we go.
Fan Fiction in Overdrive
I’ve always been old school when it comes to fan fiction. I started writing over two years ago for the House fandom, and my approach followed the standard formula. Pick a ship (Chase and Cameron), write a fic, post on fanfic.net, and wait for the reviews to pour in. Okay, for my first ones, they didn’t exactly pour. Two or three trickled, and let me know how much my work sucked.
My stories drastically improved, so my big head thought that made me qualified to try the Supernatural universe. After all, I can quote every line from every episode and have character continuity down to a science. So far, I’ve done two and they have been the two most impossible writing projects I’ve ever taken on. Writing for this fandom requires special skills.
Summer is a time for fan fiction to blossom, and when examining the vast number of stories out there, I found fans that are doing far more than posting stories that they’ve obsessively researched and plotted out to kill a few summer afternoons. Some are taking the concept to new heights.
One fan project that I’ve followed most of the summer, and easily one of the largest scale fan ventures I’ve ever witnessed, is the Bust Dean Out Of Hell Brigade. I’ve had a lot of fun reading all they’ve done, but catching up with this active group has been quite a chore. Started on the Supernatural TV forums in June, the idea is simple. After hearing that hunters burn bodies of the dead, a bunch of fans banded together and decided burning Dean’s gorgeous body would not do. With some heavy research and obsessive preparation, they became determined to come up with a way to bust the much beloved older Winchester brother out of Hell. Thanks to a well organized leader, who’s earned the title “General Vampy”, this group runs like a full scale military operation that puts the US effort in Iraq to shame.
The group is now 75 people strong and each member has a task and a purpose. With a list of useful supplies, armaments, uniforms, amulets, and medical supplies required for their mission, they eagerly share their finds, and the thread now sits at 753 pages. There’s a special thread to post and review research material, including fanfics, info on books, movies, spells, exorcisms, crystals and gemstones, paranormal creatures, or just about anything designed to help get their hero out of the pit. The library of information about the supernatural presented here is staggering, and I hope it stays available in the future for the good of others once they succeed in their mission. Researching for this fandom is too hard otherwise. All the content is worthwhile for review, and quite fascinating if paranormal is your thing.
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