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I haven't managed to finish my own

spn_joystick fill, but at least I did finish this one for

sw0rdy 's most excellent re-visioning of Five Nights at Freddy's...Hence the banner!
(story link HERE!)

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Taking a leaf out of

big_heart_june's lexicon - go read this right the fuck now!

The World Has Lost its Wonder.

Warnings: violence, strong language, angst-like-whoa, horror, non linear narrative
Author's Notes: I used a couple of prompts- the Richard Siken one, which I thought was beautiful, and the prompt about Dean and reapers. I hope you like this. Thanks, K, for the quick beta!
Summary: Sam and Dean are on a bloody, meandering road-trip post the Darkness. In a murderous world, the only way to get by is murder--and the only way it's going to end is in blood

Weirdly, I hadn't been looking for my gift-fic up till now, because for some obscure reason, I thought it had been posted right near the start. No idea why I thought that, but I suppose it saved me being disappointed up until now, doesn't it!! So it was a lovely surprise to see my name there, and an even better surprise to find my summergen author has written me the perfect fic. It just hits so many of my buttons it's unreal.

Thank you dear Anon. I have a couple of ideas as to who you might be, but as I'm notoriously bad at this guessing game I'll just sit back and wait for the reveals!

I thought I'd do a quick rec post for

spn_j2_bigbang too, as I've managed to read a few so far, and just finished this one today -

Five stars for Deja Vu by

zara_zee. A Space AU that cleverly mixes SPN and RPF in a cracking adventure story. Great work building and back story, lots of tension, lots of twists and the best kind of satisfying ending where Good Prevails. Oh and the art by

riverofwind is fantastic too!

This one couldn't be more different than zara_zee's space adventure - Twenty-One Days by ju4jen. I liked this one mostly because of the setting on the Isles of Scilly - the writer creates a real sense of place that is absolutely true to those tiny islands, and gives us a completely believable reason for Jared to be living there.

I also enjoyed this J2 love story by a newbie - Come What Come May by theshyauthor - one for all you incurable romantics.

And finally from my current list (though there may be others I've missed out) there's Astatine by

zubeneschamali - it's a sequel to Palladium which gave me an excuse to re-read that one first, of course. You know with zuben you are assured of a cracking story and great world building and this won't disappoint. The art for this one, by

necrora, is also brill.

My second

spn_j2_bigbang art post is for a pretty epic fic by

winchesterpooja - The Song of the Ravens. I don't use the word epic lightly - pooja's taken on creating an AU after episode 3.15, and an alternate of season 4, with the added twist of the boys being separated. To retell a whole season in a completely new way was no mean task, and I'm looking forward to reading the whole fic uninterrupted as we've both been working up to the wire on this one!
Click on the banner to read the story on AO3

Summary: With barely two weeks remaining for Dean to go to Hell, Sam isn't coping, and Dean is hell-bent on making it all seem like small consequence. After all this, a mysterious string of deaths, and a subsequent case in Texas was all they needed to hammer in the final nail in the coffin. Interfering with this case proves detrimental to Sam and Dean, as they're left looking for each other in ways that they never expected, against odds that they can't even begin to imagine.

Will they find each other in time, or will the circumstances of their separation become an advantage to other evil forces?

The rest of the art:

( Lots of art under the cut! )

spn_bigpretzel have a fic'n'art exchange going on, and I had the pleasure of arting for

thursdaysisters's wacky cracky tale of sumptuous weirdness - A Home for Scared Rabbits. Read it HERE!

Teaser

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Go read this awesome creeptastic SPN ficlet by the talented

steeplechasers right away...well, you might want to read it while it's still daylight, I dunno...
but if you like horror, you love this!

Title: midwif
Genre: Horror
Pairing/Characters: Eve, a midwife
Rating: M
Word Count: 2500
Warnings: Graphic descriptions of childbirth/pregnancy/female genitalia. Gore.
Summary: She's delivered hundreds--backwards babies, twisted cords, torn bodies, blood, urine, shit, sweat--she's seen it all. Until Eve.

Spread the word, boost the signal - new gaming challenge coming soon!
With four sexy as hell banners by the talented

chomaisky

Also, to whet your appetite even further,

thursdaysisters has written a short macabre Mark of Cain game... you really need to check it out!
Dead Man in the Freezer

So excited to be doing something different (even though I'm still drawing Jensen, kinda). So I was lucky enough to snaffle the multitalented

dollarformyname's most excellent story, Past Today, written for the little known

darkangel_bb. So now you know about it, you have to check it out, am I right? Story Master Post is HERE

The story summary goes like this: Terminal City was abandoned after an attack five years ago, survivors scattered to fend for themselves. Alec's been on his own for a while now, trying to forget what he lost, but then Ben shows up to make him remember in all the wrong ways. After an armed robbery and a city-wide manhunt that results in high-speed chases, gunshot wounds, more dead transgenics, and a hostage situation or two, Alec tracks Ben down to thank him properly.
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This is powerful stuff - I had to rec it!
Summary: "You can strip me down to bones and guts and blood, Sam, but you won't find anything new in here."
Warnings for extreme dub con, bottom!Sam

And we'll fly, and we'll fall, and we'll burn

Trojie

I finally got round to reading the talented

indiachick's little sci fi ficlet and now I want to share it with everyone, because it's just perfectly lovely.
Go read it right now, it's only 1000 words and won't take you five minutes, but I guarantee it will leave you wanting more.
Andromeda of the Space Age

Woo hoo! My first spnj2 art masterpost has arrived! This was my pinch hit for the lovely

rockstarpeach. It's a J2 romance with hooker Jensen and adorably dorky Jared, and who could resist that premise? Not me...
So you can read the story here or on the teaser, and see the art in situ. There are no spoilers for the story in this set, unless you count a bedroom scene which you know is inevitable, right?
Teaser

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3. Something you made for someone else

When I decided to do this meme I hadn't thought it would be so hard! Today is difficult, not so much because I haven't made things for other people, I love doing that, but because now I have to somehow choose something I made that is meaningful, or else why post about it?

After some consideration, I think I'll point to this fic I wrote last year. It's called Legacy and was written for

counteragent.
I picked this one two reasons - a) because it was posted anonymously and got some really lovely feedback, and it's kind of awesome to know people who wouldn't normally bother reading my fics not only read this one but liked it - and b) because

SPN_SUMMERGEN is made of awesome, and is coming round again right now, so this is timely!

So. I had several wonderful creations made for my birthday that I need to point y'all to, in case you missed them.
First was

chomaisky's yummy art of Demon!Dean with cake
Then we have ficlets from

de_nugis with Demon!Dean discovering some of the drawbacks of living in a warded building...

tifaching - Challenge. An adorable Kitten!Dean story to add to her collection.

dolnmoon wrote me this (literally!) sweet Sam'n'Dean ficlet - Cake

dizzojay who not only wrote me a perfect hurt!Dean ficlet but made me a banner too!

jj1564 did a Jensen/Dean picspam plus a song for me and

big_heart_june, - check them out here!

I haven't missed anything else, have I? Poke me if I have.
I am a very lucky duck. Thank you all!

Now back to my spn_j2 BB artings...

So much going on at the moment that is good and happy-making - but no picture today as I didn't have my camera handy. Instead I offer you a little scene that greeted me on exiting my house at lunch time. In the Easter holidays the museum across the road is busy with lots of exciting things for kids, so when I was walking down the street there was a family skipping up the hill. Little Bro was lagging behind Big Bro and Mum pushing the tripper, shouting
"Knock knock!"
Mum obliged. "Who's there?"
"Cow!"
"Okay, cow who?"
Little Bro with tones of great scorn "Cows don't go WHO, Cows go MOO!"

Well, it put a smile on my face.

As has Springfling. I've already had my gift, which of course everyone should go and read forthwith. HERE. It's got Sam and Dean and androids, and somehow manages to give an AU for Seasons 1-3 (ish) in SPACE, folks, in less than 2500 words. It's fecking ace, chaps and chapesses.

And there is so much loveliness being posted over there, I haven't seen half of it yet, but here are a few recs
First THIS tragic dark maimed Dean/Jensen with tender winged Sam/Jared which is just crying out for a fic
Then there's THIS tantalising superhero/batmaneque ficlet that left me begging for more, and THIS first time wincest with hurts so good...
And THIS which is hot like whoa! Jensen as Jared's bodyguard with plot twists and scorching sex, and there are more, but I don't have time to rec them all here. Go and explore for yourself!

And there's a new episode tonight so tomorrow is download time. Huzzah!

If you like innovative 3rd party POVs and totally perverted disturbing stories told beautifully - you have to read Antibody by homo_pink...

I should be working so of course I am allowing myself to be distracted by stuff - this was well worth the distraction though. The art is really cool, creating a great atmosphere and starting point for this excellent dark fic. Not just your standard hurt!Dean this. Nope this is twisty and hurty goodness by Artist:

mosija and Author:

cheesewithmy

Fic Title: One need not be a Chamber - Go check out the art and read it now...

eggnogged wrote this lovely fic called White Out for de_nugis and I liked it. A lot. So I made a picture, and a PDF, here.

Resources: Google images for the crow and the snowy background, snow brushes from Brushking. Click on the image for wallpaper size.
And a watercolourish version done in Corel Painter.

Which I like better. Oh well.

eggnogged wrote this lovely fic called White Out for de_nugis and I liked it. A lot. So I made a picture, and a PDF, here.

Resources: Google images for the crow and the snowy background, snow brushes from Brushking. Click on the image for wallpaper size.
And a watercolourish version done in Corel Painter.

Which I like better. Oh well.

Just had to rec this spn_J2 BB fic - I wasn't going to read it and I'm not sure why I started it now, but I'm really glad I did because it is a really well written, sensitive handling of a touchy subject.

Originally posted by

sa_kun at My name is Sam -- [Masterpost]

Title: My name is Sam
Author:

sa_kun
Fandom: Supernatural
Characters: Dean, Sam, Bobby
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 29k
Summary: In which Sam is Sam, not Sammy, and Dean finds out there is more to life than hunting. Also? Dean joins the Air Force (maybe, sort of) and Sam is wicked smart (oh, yeah: Dad's gone).
Disclaimer: I do not own.
Author's Notes: Believe it or not, but this whole thing started with the one stray thought: huh, Dean'd look totally badass with a P-90 and a tac-vest. Then I put that thought on hold, because this whole idea with why Sam wanted people to call him Sam not Sammy sort of crowded out every single other piece of inspiration I had. And whaddya know? Turns out, it was the same fucking plot bunny (not that Dean is actually in a tac-vest at any point during this story, but that's what filling-in-the-blanks on your own is for).

Part One | Part Two | Part Three

On AO3.

sa_kun at My name is Sam -- [Masterpost]

Title: My name is Sam
Author:

Part One | Part Two | Part Three

On AO3.

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Entries tagged with fic rec

Five Nights - SPN joystick art masterpost

Summergen fic rec

More recs!

The Song of the Ravens - spn_j2 big bang art masterpost

Spn_bigpretzel - A Home for Scared Rabbits - Art

Fic rec!

Pimping!

Dark Angel Big Bang art masterpost

Fic rec - Demon!Dean

And we'll fly, and we'll fall, and we'll burn

Trojie

Calling fellow sci fi lovers - fic rec ahoy!

Glittering Prizes - spn_j2 Big Bang art masterpost

Self promotion meme - Day 3

Birthday gifts to share

100 Days of Happiness - Day 35

Insta-rec - fic

Insta art and fic rec - spn_reversebang

White Out - fic rec and art