SPN/Kerouac?

[ht_murray]

I've heard On The Road by Jack Kerouac mentioed many times as the origin of Sam and Dean (or Sal and Dean, in the book.) So, I went ahead and got the unabridged version on audiobook. I've been listening to it for a few days now. Wasn't it generally interpreted that Sal was in love with Dean? I know I read some references to that somewhere? Anyway, I can totally get that.

Does anyone know if anyone's written a Sam and Dean as Sal and Dean wincest adaptation? Because I could totally go for that.

Maybe as a summer project. LOL. Like I need a summer project. :/

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[darkmerrick.livejournal.com]

When I read it, I definitely got the sense that Sal was in love with Dean.

IS THERE? *waits with you*

[maboheme.livejournal.com]

Yep, that book is epically slashy, and by literary interpretations not just my own. The subtext was HUGE,. Sal was definitely in love with Dean. It's actually based on Kerouac's relationship with Beat Generation icon Neal Cassidy. Man you can slash the Beats all over the place. It's something like: William Burroughs was in love with Allen Ginsberg, but Ginsberg was in love with Jack Kerouac, but Kerouac was in love with Neal Cassady and on and on and on. Cassady and Ginsberg ended up being lovers, lol, but I don't know if Kerouac and Cassady ever hooked up, lol.

I'm pretty sure I read some Sam/Dean takes on On the Road early in fandom. I have a sort of On the Road-ish project I'm cowriting for the summer with someone. It's not an adaptation of the book, but it is an homage to it in some ways: http://community.livejournal.com/thelongestroad/

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