In which ratherastory is difficult and nit-picky

[ratherastory]

Everyone has their pet peeves, right? I have many.

The latest one to surface, and it's a recurring problem, but it's been twice in a couple of days now, and I'm officially peeved.

Vampires.

Vampires in pre-series stories.

Remember "Dead Man's Blood?" The boys and John are convinced vampires don't exist/are extinct right up until first season.

Even well-written stories get on my nerves, unless they're explicitly stated to be AU.

It's marring my enjoyment of those fics, which is really too bad. I need to learn to overlook it when they're well-written, I guess. But still. Gnarr.

Comments

[alexseanchai]

I have about five posts to fanficrants complaining about exactly those. And I could post to canonrants shredding the SPN comics for continuity issues including but not limited to those. (No WAY was Lilith out of hell before 2x22. But she's in the comics. Which are all set preseries.)

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Lilith? Before 2.22? Raaaandooom. Also, patently untrue. There is plenty in canon to demonstrate that.

Feh.

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I blinked at the journal when it was published. The comics I always sort of took as canon-lite, but as it has turned out they ended up meshing better than it seemed they would when they first came out. Like I remember being all confused that these strange people were watching Sam, but then - 5.20 happened. So I don't know.

Still doesn't mean the boys would have a cognizant memory of brushing with a demon. And DEFINITELY not vampires.

It's been a while since I read Rising Son - I thought the succubus was A Lilith, like - all succubus are daughters of Lilith? (I suppose in s6 terms she'd be their alpha.) I never got the impression it was LILITH Lilith. Hm. Maybe I'll look at it again...

*digs through bookshelves*

[alexseanchai]

I had not thought of that one. Guess I need to reread too.

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

I did a lot of research on Lilith for a fic way back when, so I may have been explaining it to myself through the definition of succubus. Still, I know those darn comics are around here SOMEWHERE ... *digs through bookshelves*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succubus - Similar to a vampire, succubi also known as Lilith and the Lilin (Jewish) and Belili (Sumerian) draw energy from men to sustain themselves.