Blood will Flow

I had the great pleasure of working with coragyps on her chilly but heartwarming Wincestiel story, Ice Fatigue. You can read it here on AO3 (story link will be live soon). It's a beautifully written Cas POV, with my fave kind of Cas - the slightly bemused, alien yet vulnerable angel, dealing with feelings for two confusing and fustrating humans. My Sam gals will enjoy it too, methinks.

The scene I've ilustrated is right at the start and fortunately I'm not giving anything away if I tell you things do get better (and warmer) for Castiel after this bad beginning! 😂
Cover:

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And there you have it. I won't bore you with the details of all the researching for underwater ice diving or other references - just take my word for it - there was research aplenty. 

I love me a sci fi AU, and this is a very cool SPN one! It was a great pleasure to work with ghoulsnhalos on this. Story link HERE!


I did two main pics for this, I don't think either are spoilery.

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The weather finally let up long enough for me to varnish Giraffic Park, one coat. It took ages to dry though, this sunshine only lasted a couple of hours this afternoon. Plus the light wa so bad this morning I missed patches all over the damn place! Hopefully the second coat will cover it all when I do it tomorrow. In my defense, it was a bit wobbly up the step ladder on that slope.

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It was nice to have something fun to art for - so cheers to kcscribbler for the adorable de-aging fic written for zelda_addict in the spn_bigpretzel Spring Fic Exchange! (And for the reminder that we were posting today!)
Story link coming very soon.

The art is slightly spoilery for an incident in the fic, so be warned. I should probably warn for flashing images and arachnophobes beware too...
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Title: Sam I Am
Author: amberdreams
Artist: quickreaver
Words: ~12k
Rating: NC17
Warnings: mental illness, hallucinations, a dash of incest, angst
Characters: Sam/Dean, Castiel, Meg, OCs
Summary: An alternative to the Born Again Identity. Here Castiel doesn’t immediately think of the idea of transferring Sam’s madness onto himself. As a result, Sam's brain is still fried. He escapes from the Westville asylum wing by himself, steals a car and drives until he runs out of road in Idaho. In the parking lot of a motel in a small town, Sam finds a kind of peace for a while.

Acknowledgements: All the thanks and love to my betas, ameliacareful and firesign10, they made this fic so much better! Many thanks also to the sammybigbang mods for creating and wrangling this challenge. You are awesome, chaps!
The art is by quickreaver so you know it's going to rock, right? Well, what are you waiting for - go and check out the ART MASTERPOST HERE.
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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

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I thought I might as well post progress - why not, hey?
I've added Cole, Abaddon and Rowena. Cain and Crowley next!
Abaddon detail

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War amongst the rebels

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SPN100 Drabble Challenge: word count 100
Challenge word:  mad
Warnings: None
Summary: Castiel is carrying more than souls inside him, there are darker things contributing to his God delusion.

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Red mist descends. Everything is red – crimson, carmine, alizarin – blood. Who’d have thought madness would look as beautiful as this; like a hundred glowing sunsets across the sedimentary layers of the Grand Canyon.

Ironic, really, when its origins lie in the molten tar-blackness of the thousands of leviathans that squirm inside him.

Red clears to crystal blue. Finally Castiel can see the destruction he’s wrought – dark shadowed wings burnt into grass no longer fresh and green.

He waits for the horror that never comes; then after a moment, he smiles.

God looks on his creation and it is good.

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 This next one is part of a set of six, all by different writers - you can read the set on fanfic.net.


Donut Fear
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SPN100 Drabble Challenge: word count 100
Challenge word:  mad
Warnings:
Summary: Sheriffs Mills and Hanscomb join the Winchesters, Castiel and Crowley on a haunted train.

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The train whistle screeches as they enter a tunnel.

Donna’s not scared. Nope. She can cope with a simple ghost hunt, you betcha. It’s no worse than dealing with Joe Wiggins when he gets drunk on a Saturday night.

She follows Jody’s lead, searching the carriage for anything this ghost might be attached to. She doesn’t know what happened to the Winchesters, but the tense set of Jody’s shoulders speaks volumes.

Guess they shouldn’t have made the ghost mad. She’d been close to shoving Dean’s over-protective ass off the train herself, mind.

Not until after he’d shared his donuts though.

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It has come to my attention that I forgot to post this stray spn_summergen fic after the reveals - so here it is, my third fill. Orignally posted here, and thank you again if you already left a comment over there.

Title: The lone and level sands stretch far away
Recipient: reapertownusa
Words:~2800
Rating: R for swearing
Warnings: Torture
Characters: Dean, Sam, Lucifer, Castiel
Summary: Dean wakes up in a bad place and things rapidly go downhill from there. Set during some unspecified period in Season 5.
Prompts: Kind of a mishmash of 3 of reapertownusa's prompts - she asked for hostage!Dean; hurt/comfort with Dean being on the receiving end; and anything to do with Dean's post Hell PTSD.


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