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]

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