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I'm hoping to have a short, sweet 4th of July wincest story posted tonight or tomorrow morning. Let's see if the Muse keeps cooperating today. :-)

Supernatural fic: The Rockets' Red Glare (Sam/Dean) 1/1

Title: The Rockets’ Red Glare
Author: agt_spooky
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 1,615
Warnings: Wincest
Spoilers: None
Disclaimer: I don’t own them, more’s the pity. Just borrowing!

Summary: Growing distant from one another as one hunt turns into another, never having time for just themselves, Sam’s childhood memory of the 4th of July is just what he and Dean need to reconnect.

( He kisses you until you’re lightheaded, dizzy like on the Zipper so many years ago, then he pulls back, and you see everything you mean to him shining out of his green eyes. And you know your eyes are telling him the same thing right back. )

TV Guide's Matt Roush talks about Supernatural

Many thanks to my good friend sen1995 for this heads up!

Matt Roush over at TVGuidemagazine.com talked about Supernatural in his column this week:

Question: I just recently started following you on Twitter, and I see that you've finally begun to catch up on Supernatural. I'm a big fan of the show and feel that it is one of those hidden gems on the Thursday night schedule many people miss out on, so it makes me very happy to know that you're investing the time to get up to speed on the show. That said, I'm really curious to hear how you are enjoying it. Do you now see why the show has such a devoted following? I love the characters, the monster-of-the-week is often well-crafted (and can be downright freaky!), there's a good mix of scares and humor, and the on-going story arcs have got me deeply invested in catching the next episode. I feel that the show has gotten stronger in its storytelling over the seasons, and the mythology has been able to move beyond the initial mystery behind the murder of the Winchesters' mother which jump-started the series. So, what are your thoughts? If you are having a good time with the show, just wait until you get to season 4. You won't be disappointed!—Brodie L

Matt Roush: Hey, thanks for the Twitter plug. Backstory here: I’ve always known what was good and appealing about Supernatural, which under most circumstances is right up this horror fan’s alley. I followed it pretty closely during the first season, but when it moved to Thursday, I began falling hopelessly behind. My job requires I watch a broad range of programming, and much of the top tier airs in direct competition with Supernatural (the No. 1 procedural following a top-rated reality competition, vs. the top-rated medical soap vs. Emmy-winning comedies, and so on), and when it came to catching up, it still fell behind shows like Battlestar Galactica and a ton of other things. It’s not as if TV Guide Magazine was ignoring Supernatural (we cover it a lot), it was just something I couldn’t find time for. And since I’ve been playing serious catch-up on DVD since the regular season ended, I’m still beating myself up for not having caught some of the more outstanding episodes when they first aired. (I was making really good progress on this summer project on my vacation until I came home to the tidal wave of high-profile celebrity deaths. Hope to find time during the July 4 break to keep going.) I am thoroughly caught up in the brothers’ story now and have become once again a great admirer of Eric Kripke’s enthusiasm for turning horror conventions on their head (the gruesomeness of the faux-cheery Christmas episode in season 3 knocked me out). With Fringe and FlashForward and The Mentalist (among others) joining an already overstuffed Thursday line-up, I can’t guarantee I’ll be watching Supernatural in real time next season. I’m not, after all, a sci-fi/fantasy/horror columnist; I have to prioritize, and on Thursdays, the big hits come first. But my goal is to at least stay current with it and include it as often as possible in my commentaries on the most entertaining shows out there. Supernatural obviously deserves that much attention.

Snippet of interview with former SPN writer, Raelle Tucker

I just read this article, an interview with former Supernatural writer Raelle Tucker (currently writing for True Blood), where she talks about SPN, and why she left the show:

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Writing For The Genre
Raelle landed in the supernatural writing genre by accident. She and her writing partner had been offered several jobs and after looking at all of them, they decided that Supernatural was the one “with legs”, so they accepted that. Raelle recalls that she had to do a lot of catching up to write for the show.

“It did not come naturally, at all. We’d sit in the writer’s room and Eric Kripke would reference all these things that were foreign to me. It was like he was speaking Chinese!” She realized that it was not a good fit for her, so ultimately she decided to leave Supernatural and pursue something that she could “put more of my life into”. Raelle remembers that the decision was very difficult, especially with no other jobs lined up, but she knew “it was absolutely the right thing to do. ”

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I'm honestly stunned by her statement that SPN wasn't a good fit for her, because look at the episodes she wrote (or co-wrote with Sera Gamble). Nearly all are amongst fan favorites!

Dead in the Water
Faith
Nightmare
Salvation
Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things
Hunted
Roadkill
What is and What Should Never Be


I truly, truly miss Raelle and IMO, she was the stronger of the two writers between her and Sera. And her last episode, WIAWSNB, was amazing and heartbreaking. If she had to leave SPN, she went out on top. :-)