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sophiap
R. Gen + John/Mary. ~117,000 words
This is a story that takes place before and between the lines of the Winchester Gospels. It starts in a hospital in Sioux Falls and with a landmine in Vietnam. It starts when two people inexplicably fall in love on the eve of the Great Depression and when a man kills himself at a California reservoir. It starts with a phone call from a man who knows too much, and with a memory of a murder that never happened. This is the story of how John Winchester learned the truth, piece by shattered piece, and how that truth did not set him free.
WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN WITH THIS FIC. Look, I have a terrible attention span for longfics, and this is easily the longest fic I have ever read with rapt attention from beginning to end. Also it is instantly on my list of Top 10 SPN Fics EVER. I put this on my AO3 rec list with a note just saying "IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW".
This fic takes on the ambitious project of connecting canon from all six seasons and connecting it to pre-series goings-on, namely John's quest for answers and revenge. Fandom has a tendency to sort itself into pre-S4 and S4-onwards factions, but this fic does a great job showing that, really, it is all the same story. The fic takes the dusty backroads feel I usually associate with hunter-centric fics and contextualizes it within the epic hellfire and metaphysical horror I associate with apocalypse/angel-centric fics. There's a lot of things in canon that I don't usually see mix in fanfic - Bill Harvelle, Anna's fall, Missouri, Chuck's books, John's time in Vietnam, Gabriel, beautiful and heartbreaking John/Mary that acknowledges the Cupid issue, etc. - and this story mixes them all in such a way that I'm just like CANNOT UNSEE, and omg so THIS is why it all happened the way it did. Heaven and Hell have been fucking around with them all for a damn long time.
Had I finished reading this before SOR shut down, I would've insta-recced it there too, and it would've been my first SOR insta-rec. Speaking of SOR, I recced stuff there that I didn't link to from my journal, so if you're curious about what else I've been enjoying in fandom, you can check under this tag.
sophiapR. Gen + John/Mary. ~117,000 words
This is a story that takes place before and between the lines of the Winchester Gospels. It starts in a hospital in Sioux Falls and with a landmine in Vietnam. It starts when two people inexplicably fall in love on the eve of the Great Depression and when a man kills himself at a California reservoir. It starts with a phone call from a man who knows too much, and with a memory of a murder that never happened. This is the story of how John Winchester learned the truth, piece by shattered piece, and how that truth did not set him free.
WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN WITH THIS FIC. Look, I have a terrible attention span for longfics, and this is easily the longest fic I have ever read with rapt attention from beginning to end. Also it is instantly on my list of Top 10 SPN Fics EVER. I put this on my AO3 rec list with a note just saying "IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW".
This fic takes on the ambitious project of connecting canon from all six seasons and connecting it to pre-series goings-on, namely John's quest for answers and revenge. Fandom has a tendency to sort itself into pre-S4 and S4-onwards factions, but this fic does a great job showing that, really, it is all the same story. The fic takes the dusty backroads feel I usually associate with hunter-centric fics and contextualizes it within the epic hellfire and metaphysical horror I associate with apocalypse/angel-centric fics. There's a lot of things in canon that I don't usually see mix in fanfic - Bill Harvelle, Anna's fall, Missouri, Chuck's books, John's time in Vietnam, Gabriel, beautiful and heartbreaking John/Mary that acknowledges the Cupid issue, etc. - and this story mixes them all in such a way that I'm just like CANNOT UNSEE, and omg so THIS is why it all happened the way it did. Heaven and Hell have been fucking around with them all for a damn long time.
Had I finished reading this before SOR shut down, I would've insta-recced it there too, and it would've been my first SOR insta-rec. Speaking of SOR, I recced stuff there that I didn't link to from my journal, so if you're curious about what else I've been enjoying in fandom, you can check under this tag.