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A FIC IN TURMOIL CRIED OUT FOR A BETA
Title: If Heaven Sent You Downstream // Against Such Mighty Dreams
Characters: Dean/Castiel, Sam
Rating: PG13
A/N: I started this because I wanted to write a Filipino folk tale into SPN, but then 5x04 reared its dystopian head and I had to go there too. It takes place after Castiel spirits Dean away from the motel, and before Dean meets up with Sam. The title is from [either Trail of Dead's "Will You Smile Again" or Duncan Sheik's "Orpheus", depending].
Summary: Half casefic and half 5x04 episode tag in which Dean 1) investigates some disappearances in the mountains, and 2) finds it difficult to leave the future behind.
It's got doppelgangers! It's got mindfuckery! It's got fight scenes! It's 11,000 words. It's got kissing!
There are a lot of cool Filipino monsters to choose from, depending on what kind of neurosis I'd want the story to explore. I'm happy with the folk tale I chose, but man, check out the sigbin, which walks backwards with its head lowered between its hind legs and kills little children during Holy Week for their hearts, which it uses to make amulets. As nightmare fuel-y as that sounds, it apparently looks like a little kangaroo. D'aww. UNTIL IT DRINKS YOUR BLOOD.
I'm also fascinated by the santelmo, which is a telephone-gaming of St. Elmo's Fire. Sometimes it's just random bursts of fire, but sometimes it's a human-shaped fire creature, and it's traditionally an omen of heavenly intervention. So I mean, what part of that can't be used for SPN Heaven/Hell fic, fo' shiz? I mean, the thing in 1x09 is basically a santelmo, amirite.
While researching my monster, I came across this article called The Balut* in a Superhero's Underpants about the Filipino presence in comics and it fills me with such gleeeee, because: "If the Americans have their 'Easter eggs', we Filipinos have our 'balut eggs'. 'Balut eggs' are those moments when Filipinos (or something Pinoy) suddenly pops up in foreign movies, TV shows, novels and comic books." AHAHAHA AWESOME. Then it lists and illustrates instances of PINOY POWER in comics, and granted it's not always perfect, but you know how in one of
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rawles's many posts about Uhura, she was talking about still having "OMG A BLACK GIRL ON TV!" reactions even now? That's how I feel, except times a million, because no one is Southeast Asian on TV. It's like, you got your East Asians, you got your South Asians, but apparently nothing exists between Australia and China?*** For those not in the know, balut is fertilized duck egg i.e. there is already a fetus in the egg. You cook it and eat it! Personally, I don't think I would ever, ever eat one, but it's pretty popular in the Philippines, it's like street food. For some reason, Filipino-Americans FIXATE on it. Probably 'cos it's so crazy? I feel like every time I see something about about the Philippines made by Fil-Am, there is always ALWAYS Horrifying Balut Interlude time.
** Fo shiz, what is Asia? Why is it that Asian cultural societies in American colleges usually means East Asians, and like, the South Asians usually make their own cultural societies? Why are there no Arab or Uzbek peeps in the Asian cultural societies? ASIA?: the eternal question.
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excusemewhileiappropriate.
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I am so creeped out by these, this is legendary
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There's a lot of fetus-eating in Filipino folklore, I wonder why that is.
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I love how the sigbin drinks your blood THROUGH YOUR SHADOW. What. And HOW ABOUT THAT MANANANGGAL, EH?
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Manananfuckingfuckingomg.