Pondering...

[ash48]

I wonder if Jared and Jensen ever see manips of themselves. There's some damn hot manips around of them together. I wonder what they think if they see them. *ponders*

My brain is off on a tangent of thoughts tonight.

So. Some ponderings..

Is Jimmy Novak dead? (I really want to know this one. Surely he has to be).

Has John actually ever said "suck it up" to one of his boys. I can't remember. (It's quoted in fic ALL THE TIME).

What happened to Dean's angel handprint (it's gone isn't it?)

Why do fanfic writers give the impala seat belts? (She doesn't have them.... does she?) That really bugs me...


Why isn't it the 23rd yet!?!?! For god's sake!! It's been FOREVER!! I'm over waiting!



(I don't expect these to be answered... they are mostly things I think about sometimes).

Also. I had this plan for a wee excitement vid before show started but I have run out of time. Instead it will be my ultimate recruiter vid (in that it will be about everything I love about this show) so I will wait and do it properly.

Comments

[bythedamned.livejournal.com]

oh hun, you scared me! because, yes, I do make the boys buckle up in the car, and i'm writing a story right now where Dean tells Sam to buckle up several times. And I hate getting that kind of stuff wrong.

BUT, this is what I know: seat belts are still sold for antique impalas, and this is labeled as the 1947-1976 model: http://www.impalas.com/1947-1976-chevy-seat-belt-black-chrome-lift-latch-buckle/sbl1.html (forgive my lack of imbedded links. I suck those)

And, more importantly, if you watch the featurette on the impala from the s2 DVDs (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puCWPjOZ-XY) from 0:29-0:30 you can see the seat belts crumpled against the seat. They're just lap belts, not the full shoulder 3-point belts like we have now (and I think it's fairly true that people hardly every wore them back when those cars were new) but they are there.

whew. *wipes brow* saved quite a bit of rewriting there :)

also: YAAAY! Show is almost back! *does Misha-type of happy dance* and lookin forward to your recruiting vid :P (dunno if I ever commented on how amazing the jared con footage one was either. soooo enjoyable. a definite mood-lifter.)

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Wheeeeeee! researched seat belts. \o/

Oh man. So. The boys chose not to put them on rather than them not being in the car.

Hmmmm *stroke chin*

I therefore submit that if you are writing fic the boys wouldn't put them on because they don't in the show. Or.. maybe Sam puts it on and Dean mocks him for it (as suggested by killabeez above).

The thing that bugs me is that seat belts are never seen or mentioned in the show so why are they in fic? Why do writers make a point about seat belts when the show doesn't?

And YAY Show IS almost back. \o/ And thanks! Glad you enjoyed the vid. Jared is my "happy dance".. :D

xx

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Yikes! My comment above sounds so negative. Writers can do what the hell they like!! :D There are never any hard and fast rules to the SPN universe..

/o\

[bythedamned.livejournal.com]

haha, you know, I was kinda giving you silent props for sticking to something so strongly when you're surrounded by so many crazy fangirls :P now, I happened to disagree... but still. all opinions are valid. *nod*

the opinion I'd offer is this: a) we never see them wearing them, but we never see them not wearing them (why? because there are no close-up crotch shots in the Impala :P what a sight that would be) and b) without seatbelts, they would have likely all died in 1x22. that crash was brutal.

but anyway, it feels like the point of your question is not whether they're really wearing them - we can all have our own head canon on that - but more why writers tend to point it out. I guess I'd say it helps set a tone. Of responsibility or the lack thereof (or, in some cases, caretaking). It's a small action that signifies the same thing for pretty much everyone (safety), and it's much less obnoxious to say that Sam told Dean to buckle up than to go on and on in an internal monologue about how Sam's concerned about Dean and has become super vigilant and nitpicky and keeps checking up on him and reminding him to look after himself.

Unless, of course, you hate seatbelts (eyes you meaningfully :P) in which case I can see how that'd ruin a fic :D My beta goes nuts whenever someone calls Dean blond, and I guess there could be a whole discussion on that, but it just doesn't raise my hackles like it does for her. We all have our things :)

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Hee, well... I don't hate seat belts. In fact, I feel very strongly that they should be worn. For some reason though when I come across a sentence in a fic mentioning that they are buckling up I keep thinking that I've never seen them do it (and I totally go with the fact that we have not seen them "not" do it either..) so I'm not sure why it's mentioned. (Unless for a point made in a story..)

I have to admit I thought the impala didn't have them. The fact that they do makes me feel better about people writing about them. But not if it's over the shoulder ones.... that's going too far.:)

Hee. Looks like a have a bee in my bonnet about seat belts. Not really. Just something that crosses my mind when I read about them. Same with the hot water always running out in motel rooms. Something that's written about a lot but I don't think we've ever had a scene where one boy is grumbling at the other for taking all the hot water. I might be wrong of course.

[bythedamned.livejournal.com]

I, for one, vote for more shower scenes in general :)

I know what you mean though. I realized I'd found myself completely convinced that Sam's favorite breakfast was pancakes until I realized that has NO TRUTH to it whatsoever. And yet I'd read it in so many fics...

I guess it just goes to show, some things are only true on the internet :P