SUPERNATURAL POST 5x19 FIX-IT MEME

[tiptoe39]

I would hereby like to declare an official

SPN 5x19 Fix-It Meme!

Here's how to do it:

1) Post a comment with some possibility for how to bring our Gabriel back.

2) Give other people's prompts your rendering in commentfic.

3) Clap your hands really loudly and say "I DO BELIEVE IN ARCHANGELS."

4) Pimp subtly so you don't spoil your flist:

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Comments

[flowerslilac.livejournal.com]

I DO BELIEVE IN ARCHANGELS.

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

Ganesh attended the conference in Indiana at Kali's request. She was confident in her own abilities, of course, but even the most certain to succeed of ventures is never hurt by asking Ganesh's blessing upon the doer and the deed. Barely two minutes after Lucifer struck Ganesh down, a young woman named for Ganesh's mother lit an incense stick before an ivory statue of a man with an elephant's head. Parvati's unshakable belief that her prayer would bring Ganesh's assistance with the math test Parvati was about to begin studying for (one of many tests she would need to pass with a high grade if she wanted to be accepted into an American medical school), that Ganesh was real enough to bless her undertaking, summoned a flicker of Ganesh back into the world.

A woman named Christina lay in a hospital bed in New Orleans, a heart monitor beeping too slowly. Her partner Marie, kept from Christina's side by the late hour, instead focused her attention on a bottle of rum, offering to Baron Samedi.

Odin, Mercury, Baldr, Zao Shen: one by one, believers recalled the existence of each of the gods who had died, and in so doing, recalled these gods to existence.

A sleepless girl in Florida opened her Bible to her favorite story, the one from which her mother had named her Gabrielle.

Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth—

[trobadora]

Oh. Oh. This is wonderful. ♥

I'm not 100% sure why, but out of all the post-5.19 fic I've read in the last couple of days, this is the one that made me bawl like a baby. Great job! *g*

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

*blush*

Kali's speech against Western ethnocentrism was so on the money that I couldn't let the episode end with its implicit assertion that Western ethnocentrism is right, I think is where most of this came from.

Glad you enjoyed!

[trobadora]

I loved Kali's speech, and I can't believe they gave her that and then undermined it. :(

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

This is the same show that devoted an episode to How Racist We're Not and didn't have two characters of color talking to each other at any point in the episode, never mind talking to each other about anything other than a white person. In fact not a single season one episode definitely passed the race Bechdel test--the nearest we get is Missouri and her customer in Home, which is probably a race-Bechdel pass, but if the customer's wife is white (which is unlikely, since most couples are not interracial, but possible), then the whole season fails. (Don't know about other seasons offhand, as they haven't gotten onto Characters Count Wiki yet. ...fuck I can't remember whether this episode passes the race Bechdel. I don't think it does--didn't Ganesh only get a line after the elephant bit, and wasn't Zao Shen only talking to one of the white guys?) So the fail this episode is entirely believable in context.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU. Because Gabriel is definitely not the only one who needs to be brought back!

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

:) Glad you enjoyed!

[neotoma.livejournal.com]

OOoooo. That's *nifty*!

Some of them are going to come back quicker than others (not that many people pray to Odin, but Ganesh has a billion worshippers...), but Gabriel is going to come back pretty fast, considering how important he is in Islam and Orthodox Christianity...

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed!

[tiptoe39.livejournal.com]

Oh, this was the prompt I should have left -- yes, yes, their power comes from belief, their life does too. <3

Massive amounts of love for this.

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

:-D Glad you enjoyed!

(rereading the original post, I'm not entirely sure it was meant as a prompt. but WHO CARES.)

[funkyinfishnet.livejournal.com]

Very awesome. I love this idea. It really made me smile :) A great way to bring the gods back. Nicely done.

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed!

[starpiper.livejournal.com]

Is it too dorky to admit that I cheered upon reading this? The thought of believers bringing back life to the dead gods and Gabriel put a huge smile on my face. :D

[elliemurasaki.livejournal.com]

Not at all! Glad you enjoyed!