I meant the spnnewsletter.livejournal.com. Your fic was under the other slash category in one of the recent entries.
Dude, I am a huge fan of Sam/Lucifer, but I'm constantly disappointed by characterization in fic. I actually think it isn't necessarily out of character for Lucifer to get attached, no pun intended, to Sam, but a lot of writers soften him up, for lack of a better word, which is of course, ridiculous. It's frustrating. But every once in a while, someone writes the vibe between the two that I'm looking for. I think Sam is the one human that Lucifer actually has the ability to truly see as something other than a cockroach to be squashed or dismissed; I think he recognizes something of his own isolated self in Sam, he thinks they're both misunderstood. And if you use demented Lucifer logic, he's kind of right. All of that sounds like I'm humanizing him, which is ridiculous since he's, you know, psychotic and at least mostly evil. Which is often what happens in the bad Sam/Lucifer fic, like Lucifer is just some rebel bad boy, instead of THE DEVIL.
Maybe you just write him well because you identify with him. :P
I will be looking forward to any additions! But no pressure. I actually have some kind of weird prejudice against the phrase "'verse", when people use it, and I'm not sure why. I think with the mood you've got here, a string of short, interrelated, mostly plotless mood pieces, or interludes, whatever you want to call them, would work just fine. Some of my favorite fics to read are actually a bunch of brief, heavily atmospheric aus that an author has casually added to over time, so it's like a collection of pieces of candy you just wanna pop in your mouth one after the other, without a heavy plot to bog you down.
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Date: 2010-10-07 11:33 pm (UTC)Dude, I am a huge fan of Sam/Lucifer, but I'm constantly disappointed by characterization in fic. I actually think it isn't necessarily out of character for Lucifer to get attached, no pun intended, to Sam, but a lot of writers soften him up, for lack of a better word, which is of course, ridiculous. It's frustrating. But every once in a while, someone writes the vibe between the two that I'm looking for. I think Sam is the one human that Lucifer actually has the ability to truly see as something other than a cockroach to be squashed or dismissed; I think he recognizes something of his own isolated self in Sam, he thinks they're both misunderstood. And if you use demented Lucifer logic, he's kind of right. All of that sounds like I'm humanizing him, which is ridiculous since he's, you know, psychotic and at least mostly evil. Which is often what happens in the bad Sam/Lucifer fic, like Lucifer is just some rebel bad boy, instead of THE DEVIL.
Maybe you just write him well because you identify with him. :P
I will be looking forward to any additions! But no pressure. I actually have some kind of weird prejudice against the phrase "'verse", when people use it, and I'm not sure why. I think with the mood you've got here, a string of short, interrelated, mostly plotless mood pieces, or interludes, whatever you want to call them, would work just fine. Some of my favorite fics to read are actually a bunch of brief, heavily atmospheric aus that an author has casually added to over time, so it's like a collection of pieces of candy you just wanna pop in your mouth one after the other, without a heavy plot to bog you down.