sPN fic: Red, Chapter 10/10

[big_pink]

Red, Chapter 10/Between Murder and Breakdown

Lore: Folktales belong to the people, words to me, canon to the Krip.

‘Ware: PG-13, Gen, heaps of cussing, gory as hell, featuring Deansicle and BigAngrySam. Based on Little Red Riding Hood, which was always about sex and violence, so there you go. COMPLETE.

Beta Love: Oh, I could gush torrents,

Comments

[northface11]

Jeez. I don't think I have words. You know how I feel about Dean-on-a-stick, and you left him hanging there for like half a chapter. And Sam, a force to be reckoned with. Fierce and protective, and vengeful. Making Dean scared of him. Also, that paragraph about the needle, for whatever reason, really got me. As I said, I'm not quite able to form full sentences.

P.S. It's snowing here! Four inches and counting!

[big_pink]

Okay, all you non-Canadians out there can just move along, because Northface11 and I have a bit of weather-talk to engage in.

Fuck, do you know how WARM it is here? OMG, what a weekend! I put up the Christmas lights and I wore a HOODIE. When do you ever wear a hoodie and no gloves in Ottawa in the last week of November? We should have a foot of snow, for pete's sake.

And Calgary is DAMN cold today, I hear. Brrr. For once, Ottawa doesn't suck.

Oh, and glad you liked the needle. I was going to give it more play, but it ultimately wasn't the point (point? get it?). And I love it when Sam gets all fierce and protective and in people's faces. Fun to write.

[northface11]

I think you stole our weather. Seriously. Hoodie?! As for me, I spent the morning shovelling snow, for my house and several neighbours, which I enjoy purely because I only have to do it about twice a year.

I hear in White Rock there's Ottawa's foot of snow. In Point Grey, we're at about half that.

[lemmealone]

I want to give you coherent, reasoned feedback but I CAN'T.

*flail*

I'm gibbering, with glee and wibble and relieved flop and TANYA and Sam IS scary and Dean is so flayed down to the bone I can't stand it. Except that I can. Never stop writing. Never ever EVER.

[big_pink]

Well, hello. Coherent feedback is never an issue. Feedback of any sort is lovely, just on its own. Nice to know that people are reading, and what's pushed their buttons and what makes them, er, flail and gibber. Thank you so much, too, for the rec over on your LJ. That's above and beyond.

I'm not going to STOP writing, but I should warn you that I actually don't have anything waiting in the wings. I have ideas, mind you, but I need to see which of the darlings puts its hand up first and says, 'pick me, pick me!'

But first of all, I may get drunk. Yes. Drunk.

[gillianinoz]

This story swallowed my entire day - I have been utterly immersed in it for hours.

I am full of admiration - almost speechless with it, so I hope you forgive my incoherent feedback. The story - spellbinding. Perfect characterisation. Truly truly evil and original monster.

And the flashbacks to the past - Heartbreaking. Brilliant ending - I so want to sit there with those three at that table. Tanya saved him - I'm so glad it didn't cost her her life.

I came here on a rec - I better backtrack and find out who recced it - I owe them a big sloppy kiss.

[big_pink]

JESUS. A whole day? All at once? You ARE a glutton for punishment, aren't you?

I'd like to be sitting at that table, too, but I needed to leave it right there, don't you think? Because what everyone will be able to come up with on their own, about what's said and revealed and what Sam makes of it all -- well, I think that's better than anything I could write.

But cheers, and thanks.

[gillianinoz]

but I needed to leave it right there, don't you think

Absolutely - and that's just what I mean. You leave me wanting more, curious about what might come next, and full of my own hopes and ideas as to where it might go.

Now that's good writing! ;-)

Thanks again - have a nice day!

[naga_battousai]

This story is just bliss for me. It's like drugs, I tell you. Gruesome end for the Wolf - I keep trying to recall what happened to him in the fairy tale but my brain isn't giving me anything but 'gutted'. Hmmph. And is the granny here a reflection of the Granny in the fairy tale?

And eh, Tanya being alive gives me all sorts of happy vibes. It's a great ending for the story, beginning and end tied together nicely.

[big_pink]

Hey. Very glad it did it for you.

As for the Wolf and how it meets its end...the story varies considerably. Someone else here mentions the variation where the Wolf falls in the river and drowns. Sometimes he's rehabilitated. But the one that I went with was the running until he died variation. Liked that one, seemed to fit the whole 'planter' mentality. The Granny is of course, another reflection of the granny in LRRH, but I think old people in general are given kinda short shrift in a lot of arenas, and I know a lot of Raging Grannies, and they are tough and strange and amazing. They seemed to fit right in here, even if I gave it my own take.

I was hoping to surprise people with Tanya being alive; it seemed a good way to tie things up, yes.

Cheers, and thanks for reading.

[anashi]

That was amazing. Very good read. Everything tied up nicely. It was well paced and thought out. Some of the best writing I've seen in this fandom.

[big_pink]

Jesus, thanks. I tend to write big and broad, and it's not to everyone's taste, certainly. AND it requires a bit of dedication on the part of the reader, to stick it through. So I'm glad you did and that it worked for you. Cheers.