Internet Readalong: Community Awareness Edition

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A heads up, folks - there's a fresh round of racefail going on over at the SPN/J2 Big Bang, centered around the fic Caught Between the Earth and Sky by gatorgrrrl. We're not talking minor fail, either. We're talking:

Warnings/Spoilers: angst, bad words, m/m sex, non-graphic death of children

Summary: The setting is Haiti, post-earthquake. Jensen Ackles is an American doctor who's running from his past, trying to make up for his mistakes in this broken place and live up to the promise he made to his brother half a lifetime ago. Jared Padalecki is a naive photojournalist who's hiding from himself, hoping to find one more story in a place already forgotten by the rest of the world. When he learns about all the good things Jensen and his friend, Haitian nurse Abraham Joseph, are doing around the ravaged country, he thinks he's found his story. Jensen, of course, thinks otherwise. But Jared is nothing if not persistent, and when circumstances work to throw them together, he quickly learns that Dr. Jensen Ackles is more than just a story and that sometimes, stories can become personal.

And it gets worse from there.

* bossymarmalade waded through the story and posted the really choice bits here.

* The fic's spnpermanon thread is here.

* amazonziti has an extensive link roundup and commentary here.

* cofax7 has a couple more links here, with discussion in the comments.

This is fucked up, y'all. It's racist, exploitative, compassionless and NOT OKAY. Also NOT OKAY is the way noone - not her artist, not her beta, not her pre-readers, not a good chunk of her reader-readers - noticed anything was wrong. What the hell, people.