This was just my own personal thoughts on what I felt on the subject and why bottom!Jared/Sam just doesn't work for me specifically. That's just my thought on it. No fiction I have read has ever really convinced me of Jared/Sam being a predominant bottom and I guess a big part of that comes from aggressive/dominant alpha characteristics I see in Jared and Sam while I see Jensen and Dean as being very submissive and even quite reserved/meek/shy.
These are all archetypes persay we don't really know them we can only glimpse what we know of them from cons, pictures, gag reels, interviews and other such things.
As to the bottom Jared fics I have read they seem to either go in one or two ways. They just somehow say that Jared wants to be dominated but don't go in depth in why he wants to be dominated or why he wants to bottom. They just write it as typical which I admitted above doesn't really work for me as a reader.
Or the writer diminishes Jared into a weakling by removing all of his personal strengths like his physical muscles, his out going personality or limit him in some other way to where Jared has to be the weaker/subservient character and I ask myself what's the point? Because this character doesn't even remotely resemble Jared, he at most is just a name and a body used to write original fiction, which is fine but what's the point of using J2? The audience? The exposure? I don't know. That leaves me with a very bad experience because it just reinforces that Jared is the top more or less because they had to diminish him in some way (by either taking away his personality traits, altering his physical body, etc.) in order to let Jensen top in the first place. They either ignore the more aggressive aspects of Jared's personality or they alter them in order to fit with a more dominant, controlling Jensen (which I personally don't see but for me that isn't even the biggest problem).
I personally find from what I read in bottom Jensen fics, Jensen's personality is for the most part in tact. He is grumpy, always needs his coffee, isn't a morning person, is a sarcastic smart ass, shy, a little ornery but still all in all a good caring person underneath the grit. So I can't say I ever felt that Jensen was short changed in the bottom Jensen fics I have read. I feel this isn't the case with bottom Jared fics from what I have seen. But I admit that I am bias. But from what I have seen a lot of bottom!Jared fics seem to go out of their way to lower Jared in some way or form of importance, be it socially (slave, sex worker, poor college student) while in some way or form pushing Jensen up in order to give him reasons to top Jensen is usually found to be a rich white collar worker and in generally is always seen as being above Jared in bottom!Jared fics, which makes me think that it's the writers way of giving an excuse to let Jensen be the top. There is seemingly no equality in their relationships.
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Date: 2011-07-26 12:10 pm (UTC)These are all archetypes persay we don't really know them we can only glimpse what we know of them from cons, pictures, gag reels, interviews and other such things.
As to the bottom Jared fics I have read they seem to either go in one or two ways. They just somehow say that Jared wants to be dominated but don't go in depth in why he wants to be dominated or why he wants to bottom. They just write it as typical which I admitted above doesn't really work for me as a reader.
Or the writer diminishes Jared into a weakling by removing all of his personal strengths like his physical muscles, his out going personality or limit him in some other way to where Jared has to be the weaker/subservient character and I ask myself what's the point? Because this character doesn't even remotely resemble Jared, he at most is just a name and a body used to write original fiction, which is fine but what's the point of using J2? The audience? The exposure? I don't know. That leaves me with a very bad experience because it just reinforces that Jared is the top more or less because they had to diminish him in some way (by either taking away his personality traits, altering his physical body, etc.) in order to let Jensen top in the first place. They either ignore the more aggressive aspects of Jared's personality or they alter them in order to fit with a more dominant, controlling Jensen (which I personally don't see but for me that isn't even the biggest problem).
I personally find from what I read in bottom Jensen fics, Jensen's personality is for the most part in tact. He is grumpy, always needs his coffee, isn't a morning person, is a sarcastic smart ass, shy, a little ornery but still all in all a good caring person underneath the grit. So I can't say I ever felt that Jensen was short changed in the bottom Jensen fics I have read. I feel this isn't the case with bottom Jared fics from what I have seen. But I admit that I am bias. But from what I have seen a lot of bottom!Jared fics seem to go out of their way to lower Jared in some way or form of importance, be it socially (slave, sex worker, poor college student) while in some way or form pushing Jensen up in order to give him reasons to top Jensen is usually found to be a rich white collar worker and in generally is always seen as being above Jared in bottom!Jared fics, which makes me think that it's the writers way of giving an excuse to let Jensen be the top. There is seemingly no equality in their relationships.