Commentary: Novel-Length SPN RPS (as read by someone who knows nothing about the fandom)

When I asked for novel-length fic recs, I got two things: dine recommended "Lust Over Pendle" (I tried, really, and I made it farther than I ever have before, but I just couldn't get into it.) and norwich36 pointed me at her recs from the Big Bang, which, as best as I can determine without doing any actual research (like, say, clicking a link to it), is a novel-length SPN and SPN RPF fest/challenge. I find myself weirdly reluctant to read the FPF. I keep thinking that I have such a no-spoilers policy (I wouldn't even read the inside flap of the last three HP books), and what if I want to watch SPN someday? I will have been spoiled! (Yes, this is silly, and I will probably go back and read all of those next.) Instead, I've worked my way through the RPF. Below is what I thought about the things I did read. I will forewarn you that these are (a) spoilery and (b) somewhat on the snarky side (because I have a bad attitude, and I'm hypercritical when it's not my fandom).

General Observations
First: I continue to stand behind my claim that fan fic doesn't teach you to write description. Despite reading 14 Jared/Jensen stories and even with occasionally going to IMDb to remind myself what they look like, I don't have a good picture of them in my head. The only characters I can really see are Chris and Chad (who I knew something about before) and Sandy (because I discovered partway through this that the real Sandy looks nothing like I imagined from the first story I read).

Second: I didn't find the sex in most of these very hot. There's only one that has some really hot sex, and it's also more than a little twisted. (Er. I'm not sure if that says more about the fic or about me.) I'm not sure if it's because I can't get a handle on what they look like (see the above paragraph) or if it's because I don't have a strong emotional attachment to the fandom (except that I fell for the romance in many of them) or if it's because norwich36 and I have different tastes.

Question: Characteristic of the fandom or selection bias?
As I write this paragraph, I've read four of these stories. They are all third person limited to Jared. Is this the way most of the fandom is, or is it a selection bias issue in that this is what norwich36 likes to read?

After writing the aforementioned paragraph, I started keeping a tally:

POV tally:
Third Jared: 6
Alternating Third Jared/Third Jensen: 2
Alternating Third Jared/Third Jensen/Epistles: 1
Third Jensen: 3
Third Omniscient: 1
Alternating Third Jared/Third Jensen/Occasional Third Other: 1

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