Supernatural Fanfic: A Sartorial Challenge

[caffienekitty]

Title: A Sartorial Challenge
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters: Dean, Sam
Rating/Warning: GEN, PG, CONVERSATION. Random.
Word Count: 300 words
Disclaimer: Not mine.
A/N: All blackcat333_99's fault.


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A Sartorial Challenge
by CaffieneKitty
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Timeline: Sometime in early to mid Season 1
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"It's a shirt, Sam. Who cares if it's plaid or stripes?"

"People who don't want to look like a lumberjack care."

"Plaid's cheaper."

"No, they aren't. The packaged shirts are all the same price, plaid and striped and solid."

"Packaged shirts? Dude. You want to go gear up at a Banana Republic, you can do it on your own dime. Way better value from second hand stores. Who's gonna pay twenty bucks for stripes when you can get plaid for a buck?"

"I would."

"College dork."

"Whatever. Look. What about FBI gigs? Have you ever seen a suit with a plaid shirt?"

"No, Sam, that's why there are separate shirts to go with the suit gigs."

"So stripes for suits, plaid for everything else?"

"Nope. Not so cheap for suits, cheap as dirt for everything else."

"But what about plaid?"

"Used plaid is cheap and plentiful, particularly on the west coast. Also tears better for bandaging and is usually more absorbent. You know what our clothes go through on a hunt, Sam. A packaged shirt would run screaming for the nearest dry cleaner."

"...run screaming? Really?"

"You know what I mean. Those packaged shirts are designed for people sitting around in offices. Not hunters."

"Plaid shirts aren't exactly designed for hunting either, Dean. Not our kind of hunting."

"You said it before, Sam. Lumberjacks."

"...what?"

"Plaid shirts - the real kind, not the preppy kind - are designed for lumberjacks."

"How are lumberjacks anything like our kind of hunters?"

"C'mon, Sammy! Thrashing around in the woods with a chainsaw? Maybe getting chased by a bear? Close enough to hunting to count."

"...I think your view of the forest industry is a little distorted, Dean."

"Woods. Chainsaws. Bears. My case is freaking rested."

"Fine. Can we at least stop at a Starbucks for a coffee while we're in Washington State?"

"I keep telling you Sam, they don't sell coffee at Starbucks. They sell froo-froo flavored water for twice the price of a loaf of-"

"Never mind!"

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(that's it.)

Conversations Index

Comments

[rieyll.livejournal.com]

Oh, I miss this. :) Loved it.

[caffienekitty]

Banter is fun indeed.

[blackcat333-99.livejournal.com]

I am laughing so hard I have tears in my eyes!!! Perfect!!! Dean's case for the merits of plaid is based on practicality of bandaging and blood absorbency! LMAO!!! You win.

[caffienekitty]

Glad you liked it, you instigator you. XD

[blackcat333-99.livejournal.com]

Hee! I should feel so ashamed. But I don't. Yay me!! And yay you! We all win! Lol.

[cordelia-gray.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[caffienekitty]

:-D

[charis-kalos.livejournal.com]

I love this!

[caffienekitty]

Thanks!

[bellatemple]

Bwa! This is adorable.

Oh, flannel. You help a man run from bears. What can't you do?

[caffienekitty]

Flannel will save EVERYONE!

[bellatemple]

And then it will rule the world!

[caffienekitty]

All part of the insidious plan. Bwahahahaha!

[bellatemple]

*gasp!* Alethialia was right!

[caffienekitty]

OMG SHE SO WAS! I love that fic, but I'd forgotten about the plaid plot. XD

[bellatemple]

So had I until just that moment!

[saberivojo.livejournal.com]

Also tears better for bandaging and is usually more absorbent.

I love this! Nothing like buying a shirt based on it's potential bandaging/blood absorbency!

[caffienekitty]

Doesn't everyone?

[saberivojo.livejournal.com]

You are not right. :)

[caffienekitty]

But I should be! XD

[tahirire.livejournal.com]

"...I think your view of the forest industry is a little distorted, Dean."

Bwahahaha! *rotlf*

I AGREE WITH YOU, SAMMY!

[caffienekitty]

Just a bit, yeah.

[embroiderama]

"...I think your view of the forest industry is a little distorted, Dean."

Heeeee! I love how they're both so serious about this topic.

[caffienekitty]

It's plaid! How can anyone not be serious about plaid!

[ficwriter1966.livejournal.com]

Dude! You wrote SPN!

This is awesome. A plaid button-down with a suit - I love it. You go, Dean - start your own trends!

[caffienekitty]

Once in a while it happens. I've been pretty blocked from all sides lately and have a few things to write that I owe from auctions, so it's been driving me nuts.

[borgmama1of5.livejournal.com]

:)

[caffienekitty]

;-D

[tigriswolf]

Aww, boys. *snuggles them* This is so cute.

(Query: how did you get your header single-spaced? I can't figure out how to get the extra space out of my journal.)

[caffienekitty]

I use the HTML editor and include the HTML codes for bold, italics etc while writing. The Rich Text editor is useless and tends to mangle things frequently.

[tigriswolf]

I'll try that; it just seems annoying to have go through the text and italize the stuff that needs it.

[caffienekitty]

I've gotten in the habit of doing it as I type, and it's second nature now. Just put < i > at the start of the italic word or section and < /i > after (or b's for bold (and don't put the spaces in, obviously) and Preview to make sure you haven't missed closing tags. It takes me about the same amount of time as highlight and ctrl-i, I don't even think about it anymore. I don't know if Word or other processor programs might do some weird things too, though, (I use a plain text editor,) so beware.

[tigriswolf]

How do I make a cut in HTML?

[caffienekitty]

< lj-cut text="what you want the cut to say goes here" > and then < /lj-cut > at the end of the cut section. Again, without the spaces. And a username tag (to get it to link to the person) is < lj name=name >. What else might come up... centering is < center > [text] < /center >, small text is < small > [text] < /small >, big text is < big > [text] < /big >, all without the spaces.

Any html tags you need to know, ask, and if I don't know them myself, I will find them for you. :-)

[tigriswolf]

Thank you!

[saberivojo.livejournal.com]

I find myself going back again and again manually deleting spaces.

It works only randomly and after a million tries.

[tigriswolf]

Yeah, that hasn't worked for me at all.

[ciaranbochna.livejournal.com]

I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay....damn you!!! Lmao awesome. I guess I know what to use my plaid flannel pj bottoms for when they wear out (I shall see how absorbent Roots fabric is;)

[caffienekitty]

Flannel is very absorbent. Sorry about the earworm. XD

[ciaranbochna.livejournal.com]

As earworms go, I can live with it--long as I don't sing it aloud at work;)

[caffienekitty]

Better that than the Python song I had earwormed a while back. "Sit On My Face." I tried to assuage it by humming the tune. Buuuut a third of the office is originally from Britain, so the humming generated a few odd looks.

[ciaranbochna.livejournal.com]

Oh dear gods..lol I only have one brit where I work, so I should probably watch it then..lol

[irismay42.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAH! So that's why they wear plaid all the time! (Particularly liked the bandages and absorbency part!)

[caffienekitty]

Pragmatism is the Winchester watchword.

[samalander-dawn.livejournal.com]

I love this so very hard :D
lordy I can see this argument :)

'gave all of my dough for a thimble of joe....' :)

(Mum loves it too :) )

[caffienekitty]

"...full of foam and cinnamon brown'o"

Glad you did!

[silver-gull.livejournal.com]

Pah! Starbucks doesn't sell water. They sell hot, coffee-flavoured milkshakes.

[caffienekitty]

And cold coffee-flavored milkshakes too! I suspect Dean was only willing to try their 'just a plain, regular coffee, dammit!', though, and has not gotten within sipping distance of their more ornate caffeine perversions.