life in the subjunctive mode

I took a break off from working on my HBB story, mostly because I've been a stellar combination of lazy/busy with work, but it turns out that that was a good thing. I reorganized the playlist for the story yesterday, which actually helped me (a) tighten up the plot structure and arcs, and (b) gave me a kick in the pants to actually sit down and write some more. I've even got a title - tentatively called Collateral Damages, but after the aforementioned reorganization, I'm tempted to switch it to Baptized by Fire because that's the closing track of the playlist and it fits on both a lyrical and a thematic level (and, of course, the name is incredibly apropos of this particular character and how she starts her character arc in my story.)

This is going to be my miscellaneous meta post for Jess's characterization.

I see Jess as fiercely protective of her and hers, but not particularly nurturing. When someone she loves is hurt in any way, or wronged, she is quick to go straight to the source of the injury, and only afterwards will she remember to treat the wounds. This applies to physical, mental, and emotional injuries as well, so it’s not always a bonus, but it’s how she works.

Seeing as there's only a few days before writing starts, I made a ... um ... rather extensive playlist for the story which I have outlined. I don't even know how much of it I'm going to be able to write, or how long it's going to be, only that even if I try to keep it as short as possible, it will still be waaaaaaaaaaay over 15K, so that'll be fun. I did separate it into two parts, though so if I end up being overwhelmed by the prospect of finishing the draft before the deadline, I can always split it up and just write the first half as a standalone story. That'd work, although I think the second half is cooler.

Anyway, here's a playlist to set the tone for what I'm going to write.

( it is a variegated playlist to say the least )

Inspired by this post.

I am going to keep Mary dead, only because if she did live, then this would be a totally different story, and we probably wouldn't get to meet any of the other characters anyway. So. Going off of that assumption, here is my outline for how Supernatural would go if it didn't kill off every woman every black character everyone, starting with Jess, and also trying to make the pacing of the arc plot more consistent because jesus mother of fuck that was awful the first five seasons. Format:

[episode in the rewrite] -- [canon episode referenced]
Summary of the things that would change about that episode as a result of people not dying.

( season one, six eps so far )