Blood will Flow

Something about tsuki_no_bara's fic summaries must appeal to me because once again her story was top of my pick list, and I was lucky enough to snag it too!

Story link HERE!

I usually do a banner but left it too late this time, so I'll jump straight in with the main picture. I won't say too much because the images by themselves aren't spoilery but if I explain, they will be and I want everyone to enjoy reading the fic first.

Here's Jensen, sitting on his bed on the stage of the abandoned theatre.( Read more... )

spn_j2_bigbang number 2! This time it's for anniespinkhouse's sweet J2 love story with an AU twist!

Link to fic: AO3 LJ or on the banner.


The art is mildly spoilery, in that it tells you something about one character's job, and the other illustrates a scene in the fic - but I don't think they are going to mean anything to you unless you read the story, so they won't give away anything major!

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I snaffled this one because the summary was so intriguing and was chuffed to bits when I saw the author was dimeliora and even more chuffed when I read it. I had all these ideas to draw, got the banner idea down on paper then sat back thinking I had ages to do the rest. WRONG!! So basically this is not only a rush job it's essentially incomplete, and dimeliora would be entitled to kick my posterior instead of being so nice and patient. So I promise, there will be more art for this story, hopefully by the end of the week. MORE ART HERE!

Banner (uncoloured because a) I suck and failed to traditionally colour it as intended, and b) my bamboo tablet has conked out somewhere on the journey back from the Isle of Man! Dammit! So no emergency digital colouring).
Story link HERE

In a massive panic last night I drew one of the scenes that was on my list to do - this really doesn't do justice to either the image in my head or the image created by dimeliora's words, but it's better than having a massive hole where some art should be!
Here's Dean with Mary in the cellar - you will need to read the story to find out what's going on here...( Read more... )

I haven't done this for a while but for my own reference if nothing else, here's some BB recs so far...
zara_zee's Gladiator, A Love Story
riyku's Fair Winds and Following Seas
clefink's Muse FM
cherie_morte's Shipwreck Between Your Ribs
But as I'm sure everyone was going to read those anyway given that they are all such awesome BB veterans, so how about one possibly less well known
shadow_cat's Untitled Superheroes - that is a pretty damn good superhero romp and I enjoyed it a lot.

Non BB recs - El Dorado by nigeltide. I'm in the middle of this one at the moment and it is really very good. It's an SPN western AU and creates a wonderful sense of the period. Sam and Dean are apparently unrelated and become acquainted early in the fic, and the story so far is a slow burn, watching their relationship develop from Dean's POV. I'm waiting to see if it turns out they are brothers, though so far it looks like it could go either way. Well worth a read!

And a late addition from summergen Children of the Ressurrection
It's a perfectly lovely outsider POV set in season 8, and the outsiders are so well drawn you are pulled into their story quite happily. Winchesters are a bonus!

I'm so happy to have snaffled this fic, it sounds so cool - I mean, ghost ponies? Lost Jensen? *bounces*

So dear Author, contact me whenever you are ready because I'm dead excited to read the draft!

Many happies to the lovely wendy , long may you continue Banging for the pleasure of all!
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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.

For the first of my two art fills for the marvellous spn_j2_bigbang,I was lucky enough to snag spnloverja's murder mystery/thriller Touched by Death. I love me a good mystery!
You can read it here (or click on the banner).

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Am I allowed to say - I couldn't be happier?

SPN Sam/Dean-35
Title: the end of travel
Author: de_nugis
Artist: amber1960

I just hope de_nugis is not going to be too disappointed LOL!

And the deadline for drafts is my birthday.....hee hee!  (Now I'm wondering why I thought that was funny).

Ok this is my second SPN_J2 Big Bang art post and this time it was baby dragons instead of fairies.  Yep, I know how to pick 'em.
The story is by charlies_dragon (appropriately enough) and there is a PDF (including the art) that you can download here.
It's a pre-series fic and Dean is hunting alone while Sam is at Stanford...

So onto the pics.  I don't think there is anything really spoilery in them that you wouldn't have got from reading the summary over on the BB page.
First the cover

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