I love the zombie mall trope. Very Dawn of the Dead. Fun fact: the mall where the original one was filmed was my local mall for a number of years. They even have a zombie museum in one of the stores. We're very proud.
So I was all *flail flail flail* and then SAM. Oh man. Tell me Dean gets back. I don't even care if he has drugs D:
The slow deterioration is such a guilty h/c pleasure of mine. I'm actually a huuuuge fan of your story "Fade," so there was much giddiness when I saw that you'd decided to play with this prompt! Thank you for the fill!
In my head, Dean does make it back. I kind of planned to have a big 'heroic!badass!Dean fights off zombies and makes it back in time to save the day' thing go on at the end but I'm working on a second draft of a fairly long story that has demanded my attention for the last couple of weeks and I knew that if I spent too much time on this, it would disrupt my train of thought and I'd have a hard time getting back in the right head space. But the prompt was brilliant, I couldn't pass it up!
Why oh why can't comment fic memes come along during those times that I'm staring at my book, tapping my pen against it thinking, 'What to write...? Mind blank...'
Yay! That was basically my headcanon, though I was having trouble deciding if he made it back in time with medicine or just...made it back in time. These comment memes, man, they just send my angst-o-meter into overload.
And I know how you feel about their timing! I've been cutting back on fic in general lately to work on original stuff, but I still owe people stories and I'm working on THOSE, and yet, there are a few prompts that I'm probably going to end up taking a crack at because they look so delicious...even though I really don't have the time. ><
I love this. It's deep and bleak yet still inspiring in that Dean still chooses to bank on the hope of a cure, even if the odds of Sam surviving are practically nil. Dean's quest and Ally's vigil are heart-wrenching.
I love how you handle the mystery of Sam's illness. It's impossible to even find out what it is, what to do, what to expect. Dean's errand for antibiotics (any antibiotics! No way to know which ones would work!) is probably doomed without some kind of diagnosis, and humanity is once again powerless and terrified in the face of pneumonia. You really bring home how much we all depend on Civilization just so we can have a life expectancy.
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I love the zombie mall trope. Very Dawn of the Dead. Fun fact: the mall where the original one was filmed was my local mall for a number of years. They even have a zombie museum in one of the stores. We're very proud.
So I was all *flail flail flail* and then SAM. Oh man. Tell me Dean gets back. I don't even care if he has drugs D:
The slow deterioration is such a guilty h/c pleasure of mine. I'm actually a huuuuge fan of your story "Fade," so there was much giddiness when I saw that you'd decided to play with this prompt! Thank you for the fill!
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In my head, Dean does make it back. I kind of planned to have a big 'heroic!badass!Dean fights off zombies and makes it back in time to save the day' thing go on at the end but I'm working on a second draft of a fairly long story that has demanded my attention for the last couple of weeks and I knew that if I spent too much time on this, it would disrupt my train of thought and I'd have a hard time getting back in the right head space. But the prompt was brilliant, I couldn't pass it up!
Why oh why can't comment fic memes come along during those times that I'm staring at my book, tapping my pen against it thinking, 'What to write...? Mind blank...'
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Yay! That was basically my headcanon, though I was having trouble deciding if he made it back in time with medicine or just...made it back in time. These comment memes, man, they just send my angst-o-meter into overload.
And I know how you feel about their timing! I've been cutting back on fic in general lately to work on original stuff, but I still owe people stories and I'm working on THOSE, and yet, there are a few prompts that I'm probably going to end up taking a crack at because they look so delicious...even though I really don't have the time. ><
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I love how you handle the mystery of Sam's illness. It's impossible to even find out what it is, what to do, what to expect. Dean's errand for antibiotics (any antibiotics! No way to know which ones would work!) is probably doomed without some kind of diagnosis, and humanity is once again powerless and terrified in the face of pneumonia. You really bring home how much we all depend on Civilization just so we can have a life expectancy.
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I'm really just thrilled that you enjoyed it so much! Thank you so much.
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