Blood will Flow

i'm feeling rather sleepy and putting it down to the course of antibiotics I'm on for my tooth implant. I don't think of dentistry as surgery but the info sheet the dentist gave me talks about post surgery actions so I suppose it was. Over an hour of jaw achingly unpleasant drilling and bone strengthening... yeah, I wouldn't particularly choose to do this again for fun. LOL

Anyway, art-wise, I've been doing birthday art for my friend Lois, who's into foxes big time, but also loves the esoteric and Green Men. So I thought I'd combine the two for her card, and did some watercolours for her.
Here's the fox sketch

and here's the finished watercolour.

I actually managed to resist adding linework when I'd done with the watercolours, which makes a change. 😁

These are my Roman Szmal colours, and I really like them. I'd definitely recommend these for anyone looking at starting watercolours - they are great quality, but also exceedingly good value for money. They are Polish and handmade with honey as a binder, so some pans are quite sticky, but that also makes them very easy to activate. The colours are all rich and a lot of them are single pigments which is good. They also have some gorgeous granulating mixed pigment colours. All the paints are full pans, and I think in the US they are even cheaper than in the UK - you can buy them via Jackson's art supplies, or in Europe there's a Spanish seller, Artemiranda, whose prices were comparable. They work out about half the cost of brands like Daniel Smith but all the reviews I've seen from expert watercolourists say the quality is just as good, and the range of colours to choose from is really good too.

It's only 3 years late... but finally here's the art I promised you way back in the dark ages. This is a scene from your exciting adventure story, The Battle of the Nations, my dear dean_hugs_sammy xxx!
I hope you like it!
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So many birthdays, so little time and I know I've been really bad at gifting lately, but I couldn't miss my spn_reversebang co-mod's birthday now, could I?

A very small ficlet offering for you, dear quickreaver. Hope it hits a spot.


A Bang or a Whimper?

The world ends on a Wednesday. It does it quietly, and Dean’s the only one who notices. He shrugs, throws his battered duffel into the back seat of the Impala and drives.

That’s how it goes, that’s how Dean goes, every time.

It’s not that he doesn’t care. He cares a lot. About the people he meets and those he doesn’t; he cares that they are going to suffer and die, he hates that there’s nothing he can do about it. But - and here’s the thing that defines Dean Winchester, whatever the universe he’s in – those people, however deserving; the good, bad and the ugly? Those people aren’t Sam. None of them are his brother, and when it comes down to the nitty gritty of his life, that’s all that Dean can focus on.

So when the apocalypse comes Dean leaves, every time, because he hasn’t found Sam yet, and he can’t stop until he does.

~0~0~0~

Sam follows a trail of stars. He eats sparingly, only drinks enough water to maintain functionality; doesn’t waste precious time on anything but the basics that allow him to keep moving. Anything else is insignificant because it isn’t Dean.

Dean’s out there, somewhere, and Sam’s going to find him, worlds be damned.

And they are.

Eternally damned.

~0~0~0~



AN: Coincidentally, this also fills a genprompt_bingo prompt to end the world in the first paragraph.

Many happies my lovely friend, chomaisky - you wanted more Nightwing and he somehow turned into Sam (or Jared).
Teaser

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I wanted to do more fills for ohsam Sammy's birthday celebration, but so far this is it, and it didn't work how I'd wanted it to. Never mind hey!
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Net Asset Value

Title: Net Asset Value
Words: ~9000
Pairings: Jared/Jensen, brief Jeff/Jensen
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: A flashback death happens. Unbetaed!
Summary:  The Firm calls them assets, and treats them accordingly. The asset known as Michael Godson, whose real name is Jensen Ackles, thinks he understands the game, right up to the moment he realises he’s about to be liquidated in the only way the Firm knows.

Happy birthday zara_zee!!! Hope you like this...
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He exists in the silence that’s waiting for the world to end.

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Dear blackrabbit42 I hope you are having a better day than Sam and Dean...( pic inside the cut! )
Bunny Happies to you!

Many Happies to one of my favourite Interweb peeps - dear quickreaver - you are a lovely lady, and I hope maybe one day I can give you a real hug.

Birthday Sam( art under the cut )