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Hi! I'm trying to work my way through this CW rps thing that I blame on you guys--it's all your faults! I'm an innocent here.

Hope it works. I'm not all that good at the RPSing, even though it is fun. It's just, there's so little to hang it on, and for some reason, I reeeeelly hate watching interviews, they make me squirm. I did like that one a few years back with the whole SV cast. It was funny, informative and scripted to the most part. More like unreal life, the way I like it.

So, those of you who've written RPS seriously, how do you research for it? How do you decide what your characters are like? I'm deeply into reading the J2, in case you haven't noticed my ~~near incessant~~ mentioning of it, and some of them are quiet lovely, and some of them are Norman and Alfonso, but for the purposes of the story, the writer called them Jensen and Jared. Also...stop fucking Thomas up. I swear to God, don't make me come over there.

Anyhoo--being here doesn't mean I've fixed my SpN story so much as given up on it. What comes is what comes. I'm not going to sweat it. Not like I'm being tested on it, after all.

*cries in the coat closet*

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*snuggles you close and feeds you Snickerdoodles*

Um.

I've written exactly one J2 fic, and i didn't do 'research' at all, since it was pretty wildly AU, heh.

But, i guess, watch some vids of them and such and see what sort of person they're like. I mean - we only ever get the 'surface' person, anyway, so all the rest - Jared likes red sheets, Jensen is grumpy before coffee - is all made up, anyway.

If you think you have a sense of the person from interviews and behind-the-scenes and things, go for it. Otherwise, no worries, it's fake!!
:)
*twirls you*
*pats your back as you cough on cookie crumbs*

LOL From what I can make out, most of the RPS in SPN fandom is basically just writing fic with original characters, buy just putting the Jensen and Jared names in there for your audience. Honestly I don't get that into the fic when it's just a story of Jensen and Jared on set getting together or something like that, it's when it's totally AU that I enjoy it more, so really half the time I don't get why the names Jensen and Jared are being used. Especially when it's evil Jared the drug dealer, or Jensen the abused porn star and has no relevance whatsoever to the CW actor.

I still love that type of RPS though *looks shifty*, but I do find myself reading it more as original character type stuff, rather than it being an actual J2 ship.

*squish* (that's all I've got to offer, lol)

I don't write (RPS or otherwise) but I want to throw my two cents in about the subject. If you're story is mostly J2 please don't have Tom be mean/evil or dumb. Almost every J2-centric fic that I've read casts him either as a villain or as a total lunk head. And I don't think either one is correct or fair. And I would think the same thing even if I wasn't a total Tom girl.

*g*

I'm having the same problem with my new pet project. I have a J2 idea that I want to write, but where do I find the research. Yeah there's the con stuff and interviews, but it's not the same as sitting down with the DVDs of SpN and writing Sam or Dean. I just honestly don't know where to start to make the characters believable.

My!Sam and Dean are pouting over no updates on the SpN fic. They like your!Sam and Dean and wanted to read more about them. (Meaning they wanted me to be distracted so I'd quit telling them to get to work! LOL)

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I like stories that seem plausible - that's the naughty thrill of RPS for me. So I generally don't read AU's (except for stories like "You Keep me High" or the cute M/T future-fic that Lexalicious and Herohunter just wrote.)

I'm also amused by how Michael & Tom are characterized in J2 fic: comic relief couple or mustache twirling villains!

Can't wait to read your story!

Also...stop fucking Thomas up. I swear to God, don't make me come over there.

What are they doing to Tom? Should I get out the golf clubs? (Even when I'm most furious with Clark, I still love Tom.)