It's true about the multiple levels of fail. I love how she kept obsessing over the 6'5" guy's hugeness - JARED is 6'5". And fandom has noted more than once that, for example, when he has a kiss scene with a girl and he has his hand on her face his hand is generally AS BIG AS HER HEAD. He holds basketballs like normal people hold softballs! He makes Jensen "no really he's over six foot" Ackles look short! Etc.
Now, yes, fandom has dwelt occasionally on the whole Jared Padalecki Is A Giant Seriously thing, but that only means that she'd get a pass on all the comments on the black dude's giantness if there were similar comments about Jared's giantness. It would just be a wow, she is obsessed with the hugeness of these dudes, sort of thing. (And it is very rare for fandom Jared Is A Giant obsession to be marked in fic, as far as I know, so much as just in occasional picspams.)
And that would STILL leave the REST of it...
On to general meta: That's a point, I guess. It especially applies to when the characters are non-local, which I wasn't really thinking about. The thing about the local apocalypse is the idea that while the rest of the world may go on as normal, that doesn't matter all that much if *your* world is destroyed.
But it's not like I've ever written that story - the one genuinely post-apocalyptic universe I've created (since the initial Veterans setting was my idea, for a short story that ended up getting rewritten by Jen as the last third-ish of the long version) pretty much toasted the whole world. The parts that didn't get wiped out are under serious threat, etc.
But I think it could be an interesting, character-centric story.
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Now, yes, fandom has dwelt occasionally on the whole Jared Padalecki Is A Giant Seriously thing, but that only means that she'd get a pass on all the comments on the black dude's giantness if there were similar comments about Jared's giantness. It would just be a wow, she is obsessed with the hugeness of these dudes, sort of thing. (And it is very rare for fandom Jared Is A Giant obsession to be marked in fic, as far as I know, so much as just in occasional picspams.)
And that would STILL leave the REST of it...
On to general meta: That's a point, I guess. It especially applies to when the characters are non-local, which I wasn't really thinking about. The thing about the local apocalypse is the idea that while the rest of the world may go on as normal, that doesn't matter all that much if *your* world is destroyed.
But it's not like I've ever written that story - the one genuinely post-apocalyptic universe I've created (since the initial Veterans setting was my idea, for a short story that ended up getting rewritten by Jen as the last third-ish of the long version) pretty much toasted the whole world. The parts that didn't get wiped out are under serious threat, etc.
But I think it could be an interesting, character-centric story.