You know, I saw Jensen in a play a few months ago--he's even purtier in person, and I say that even though Sammy is my favorite. Give me a cerebral, guilt-ridden guy with long legs and I'm there every time:)
We are SO alike in this - I'm exactly the same way. Sammy's my favorite, but I adore Dean. The actor is incredible, and the chemistry between the two guys is so touching.
I feel like I'm about to do a Seinfeld imitation with he whole "not that there's anything wrong with that" kind of thing, but I mean it. I have absolutely no issues with anyone enjoying the Wincest, and I'll pick up a sign (do we have signs?) and walk a line defending anyone's rights to read and write what they enjoy, but I know for me it won't ever be my thing. I watch the show in a gen universe. But I still get to keep my "I Am a Big Old Slasher" union card:)
I can understand that - supporting someone's interest without being into it yourself, sure. I can't really even explain why Wincest works for me. When I first started reading slash. I didn't get it and I was thinking, "what in the world?" and "why?" but open-minded, just trying to see why people liked it. I honestly had no clue. I wonder if that sort of initial pondering about slash itself provided me with the easy leap I made to reading and enjoying Wincest, because slash is a fantasy thing for me and not something I needed to think was really *happening* within the boundaries of the show's canon or in the actor's lives, necessarily, but still something I adore and enjoy immensely as an take-off/growth that arose from the original. I think it's okay (and a huge relief to me because I have ALWAYS resented being boxed in or told what I'm supposed to like or dislike or approve or disapprove of) to have a disconnect between what you enjoy reading or fantasizing about vs. what your attitude might be about certain real life issues - it all gets too weighty for me to impose conditions on things that I need to be able to be really free with. Hope that makes sense?
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Re: You Gotta
Date: 2008-05-11 04:15 pm (UTC)We are SO alike in this - I'm exactly the same way. Sammy's my favorite, but I adore Dean. The actor is incredible, and the chemistry between the two guys is so touching.
I can understand that - supporting someone's interest without being into it yourself, sure. I can't really even explain why Wincest works for me. When I first started reading slash. I didn't get it and I was thinking, "what in the world?" and "why?" but open-minded, just trying to see why people liked it. I honestly had no clue. I wonder if that sort of initial pondering about slash itself provided me with the easy leap I made to reading and enjoying Wincest, because slash is a fantasy thing for me and not something I needed to think was really *happening* within the boundaries of the show's canon or in the actor's lives, necessarily, but still something I adore and enjoy immensely as an take-off/growth that arose from the original. I think it's okay (and a huge relief to me because I have ALWAYS resented being boxed in or told what I'm supposed to like or dislike or approve or disapprove of) to have a disconnect between what you enjoy reading or fantasizing about vs. what your attitude might be about certain real life issues - it all gets too weighty for me to impose conditions on things that I need to be able to be really free with. Hope that makes sense?