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squee, flail, REC!! Many Windows by eighth-horizon (Second Sight)

Many Windows by b. stearns. Second Sight 'verse.

Brynwulf you will want to run to read this one.

One of the great pleasures I get in writing is when people let me play with their ideas, their situations. I like to think of fandom specifically as a whole collective force, people inspiring and being inspired by others, riffing off ideas, themes, occasionally characters or even whole universes. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't also love it when people riff off my ideas -- that inspiring someone else is a rush like no other. It's affirming and and flattering no matter the actual affect the story or art has on me.

But then there are the times that such fusion and expansion really punch me in the gut and make it hard to catch my breath.

Brynwulf asked me for a story such as this a while back, seeing the boys through other eyes in the Second sight verse. I tried on a couple of occasions but there are times when you are so deep in a verse, it's hard to see it from the outside. Brynwulf ended up having to do her own take on it in a comment story, but I really liked the idea, and so put it on my wishlist.

Many Windows makes me very happy. First, it takes an OC that I'm very fond of and gives her more depth, gives her a personality and purpose all her own. And then it takes that character and shows how she is as perceptive as Sam, that she can see through Dean even when he doesn't want her to, but mostly we see what she sees -- the affection and enduring love Dean and Sam have for each other that shows up not in big, dramatic ways, but quiet, passing, fleeting ones.

I'm utterly biased, I admit. I love eighth-horizon's stories and style of writing anyway, so that's not a stretch or a surprise.

It doesn't make my love for this very short peek through a window any less sincere.

posted by Maygra @ 9:48 AM