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I was chuffed to partner up with

amypond45 on this year's

spn_meanttobe. As always, a great story.
Link to fic AO3 | LJ

I don't have much to post this time, as I forgot to record any in progress stuff. Just the one picture, from the dramatic start of Jensen's story. Never fear, this is meanttobe, after all - happy endings guaranteed!

2021 meanttobe slightly green

Pencil, a touch of fineliner and watercolour.

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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Yes, I managed to miss the first day of

snowflake_challenge! Not a great start, but not to worry, because combining days 1 and 2 actually makes sense. Day 1 was:

In your own space, talk about your Happy Place—the things that give you joy, calms you or keeps you sane.

My answer to that one is - right here is my happy place. Online, on my sites where I can have conversations with like-minded people about the show that I love, whether it's debating the direction Supernatural is taking or celebrating all the things that made it so addictive; whether it's about ships or kinks or gen fic vs gencest vs any kind of 'cest. Where I can make art and share it, and admire the fantastic talents that this fandom (and other fandoms) is so rich with. Where I can read imaginative, adventurous, thrilling, moving and sexy stories written by some great writers, and where I can post my own stories and get feedback that gives me the motivation to keep creating.

Which brings me nicely to Day 2.

Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create.

Here goes:

I'm reccing this because I re-read it just this week, and it moved me just as much as it did the first time I read it. Close to the Sun in Lonely Lands by de_nugis. And no, I don't love this just because it was written for some of my reversebang art. It's awesome because it dissects Dean and Sam so beautifully into their component parts. Here's Dean the single focused, Sam-dedicated, big brother who doesn't know how to let go, and will go to extreme lengths to preserve Sam's life. And here's Sam - logical, exasperated, insightful and clever - finding a way to resolve their situation. It's fanfic gold.
This one is one I only discovered very recently, though it was written back in 2007. Battering Ram by astolat. A future!Fic, set in a dystopian, post apocalyptic world, and the summary pretty much explains why it's so good. This imagery permeates the fic and it's so grimly beautiful I want to hold this story in my heart forever. I'm gonna hit the highway like a battering ram/On a silver black phantom bike/When the metal is hot and the engine is hungry/And we're all about to see the light.
This isn't a single fic but a whole series by the same author - again, not new, but excellently done. I have a real weakness for Dark Angel's Alec, and minxmix writes him so well. But then she went and wrote a wonderful crossover AU, where Alec is Sam's son and it's just fabulous. All the SPN characters are totally in character, and the melding of the two worlds is fab. I'd recommend starting with With a Bang and take it from there.

I could add more but it's bed time so rather than miss another day, I'm posting!

Crossposts: https://amberdreams.livejournal.com/603014.html

Finally getting round to Day 3, which was to make 3 recs for fanworks. So very tough after some 10 years in fandom to narrow it down to only three! So this is, by necessity, a somewhat random selection, taken from my most recent bookmarks on AO3.

NB, just because they are my recent bookmarks doesn't mean they are all recent fics!!

1. Memory is a Fickle Siren Song by

sleepypercy.

Official summary: Sam’s trying to pretend he’s getting by, that he doesn’t feel guilty for walking out on his family to go to college, when Dean shows up with no memory of who he is or that they’re even brothers.

This was my gift in this year's snj2xmas exchange and beautifully combines at least three tropes that I love - amnesia, first times and Stanford era. It is sad, funny and the happy ending is only happy in the Winchester sense. I.e. kind of angsty! If you're still catching up on the fills over there, make sure you read this one!

2. Cartography of Empty Spaces by ignipes.

Official summary: "Nobody is looking," she tells him. "The world has already forgotten you."
This is a series, and most folk will probably have read these a long time ago, as they were written back in 2007. But I only discovered this author recently and so I'm busy catching up with her back catalogue. This particular set of stories features a Dean who is very damaged (torture and amnesia), and deals with both Sam and Dean coping with the aftermath of the trauma Dean's suffered. In some ways this is the post Hell scenario we never got from the show (without Dean actually having been to the Biblical version of Hell).

This writer is the author Kali Wallace, who has now published two novels. I've just started reading the first of these too, Shallow Graves. Thanks to

tsuki_no_bara for the heads up about these!

3. Mirror, Mirror by nomelon.

Another old one, from 2010, but it's so good... Official summary: A dark tale of the lengths Sam will go to to save Dean.

And that's pretty much it. Set in the gloriously angsty days of Season 3, it's an alternative view of Sam's efforts to save Dean from Hell, and has a lovely twist at the end. I do love me some dark Sam.

I feel now I should also do a separate art rec post - which reminds me, I was doing those a while back. Maybe I should revive them.

Ok, by the time I post this it will be more than a day late for Fanfic Appreciation Day, but I don't think that really matters - if a fic is good it's not going to lose its lustre if I rec it late!

frozen_delight started this and I stole it from

anactoria. Got to say, making a rec post against these criteria is HARD! Picking just one for each category? Nigh on impossible. Regardless, here's the list, followed by my recs.

Share and play...

1. an old fic (posted at least three years ago)

2. a new fic (posted within the last six months)

3. a fic you wish had gotten more attention (less than 50 kudos on AO3 or less than 30 comments on LJ)

4. a genfic

5. a fic focused on a female character

6. a fic which made you see a character in a new light

7. a fic which made you ship something

8. a fic which inspired you to write

9. a fic with a particularly memorable line

10. ??? (Excited to see what categories you come up with!)

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My second art for spn_j2_bigbang is for anactoria's beautifully atmospheric Via Negationis.
I have to apologise to her for being less than prolific - I hadn't realised just how much I rely on last minute races to the finish until this week hit with GISHHWES at the same time and I just ran out of time. So sorry I didn't do any more art for this one, because the fic is awesome.
Click HERE or on the banner to read the fic

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You have to read this tiny but powerful fic that explores the aftermath of Mary's resurrection. Prepare to be punched right in the feels!
Acting as Mom by ameliacareful. The link takes you to AO3.

I've got two art posts to make for the spncasefic challenge, plus my own fic! So here's the first of the three, my art for stagepageandscreen's story The Best Things in Life are Free. Read it HERE on AO3!
Part case, part fairy tale, there are kind of spoilers in one of the art pieces (for characters that feature in the story - so don't cross that line if you'd rather know nothing at all about the case before reading).

Here's a close up/detail from the banner( Hey! Guess what? Image-heavy post... :D )

Art Title: Living tattoo
Prompt Number: E3001
Artist:

amberdreams

Fic Title: The Age of Foolishness
Author:

de_nugis
Fic Link(s): LJ | AO3

My second RB art was claimed by

de_nugis (again! How did I get so lucky?) and she's written such a charming story...I can't wait to read the finished article.

I admit, I'm not that happy with the art I did for this - I don't think it does the story justice, but it is what it is.
First, the banner

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Time for some Kevin love with the

kevinbb postings starting. I was lucky enough to land Prodigal_anon's Sussing for Truffles story, which not only stars the lovely Kevin Tran, but also features Gabriel and Sam. It's a rather awesome AU where ressurections have happened (yay!) and eveyone is working out what to do next.
Click on the banner to go read the fic, it's well worth a shufty!

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No last minute panic here, nope. Me and cherie_morte paired up to deliver a J2 version of Gounod's Faust for spnopera. cherie is posting a bit later on, I'm posting now because I'm going out later. STORY LINK COMING SOON!

The prompt was Faust (by Gounod): Trading his soul to the devil Méphistophélès, Faust transforms back into a handsome young man and the two go off in search of beautiful women and adventure.

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Partly for me, and partly for anyone who hasn't started

spn_summergen yet, here's a few of my favourite things so far...

Over the Rainbow - A French Mistake AU where Sam and Dean get stuck and have to live as Jared and Jensen a bit longer. I love all the possibilities the French Mistake threw up, and this fic delivers quite an emotional punch on so many different levels while also not stinting on the sheer comedy of Sam and Dean at a Creation Convention...

The Rose-Colored Glasses of Life - Told through three different POVs, a curtain fic with a difference that had a cumulative slow build in breaking my heart.

"We had an agreement, Giant!" - fab Rowena art - say no more!

Feed the Blood Garden - try this for the novelty of a gaming story and come away with a really cool creepy horror story.

Now Say hello - Another era/trope/whatever you want to call it that I have a real fondness for - Dean all alone after Sam's gone to Stanford. This one is heartwrenching in the best possible way.

and finally, another art piece which is aptly titled Haunted by Another Life - dark and sad and creepy. And Dean and Alastair, which is always made of win.

It's actually hard picking out highlights because as always, the standard is so high...

Here I am again! Art spamming you with

spn_bigpretzel nonsense - but we all need some more fun in our lives, right?

firesign10's charming (and I mean in the literal sense --- poor Sammy) ficlet, Of Radishes and Dreams, is the perfect antidote to downheartedness. Go read it forthwith!
And here's the banner art - yup, I'm afraid there are more BUTTS!
Teaser

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Art number two for this year's

spn_bigpretzel's fic'n'art exchange. This one is for

zelda_addict's fic Adventures in Deansitting which you can read HERE. The recipient is

absenthe_wrae, so I hope they like it!

It's just a banner, but here are a couple of details/teasers
First - baby!Dean

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My first art post for

spn_meanttobe. Yay for all the romance! Check out

firesign10 yummy rich young Jared and bodyguard Jensen HERE - because who could resist such a delicious combo? I know I couldn't....

banner

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I'm very slowly catching up on my reading and have to point y'all to this poignant ficlet written for me by

twisted_slinky. It was for

spnspiration's April Fool's challenge, and I'm ony sorry I have taken so long to get round to finding it and reading it, because it's just lovely.

Title: Go Fly a Kite, Sam Winchester
Author: twisted_slinky
Summary: Kevin has happy memories. That's not the problem. 1st Person POV.
Prompt: Sam & Kevin, "fly that kite, boys"

Here it is, my final spn_reversebang for this year! It's been a bit of a struggle to get this one done - both for me and for my lovely author souslelys. It was fated from the start I think. I threw the original prompt piece together at the last minute because I suddenly had this idea about an invisible man type story, and what fun that could be. Then poor souslelys had work and studying and exams, so it's all been a rush to finish. So I've only just done one more piece to go with the story, which I got done today...
But we got there in the end! It's all good...right? :D
Now you need to go and read the story as one of the pics is a bit spoilery!

LINK to story HERE or click on the banner

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spn_reversebang number 2 - did you all hear me squealing with delight when I saw one of my entries had been claimed by de_nugis AGAIN?! Two RBBs in a row - woot!
You will want to read this story more than once, I promise. Click on the banner to savour the deliciousness. Or HERE

So - to the artings. (NB alternate art link on AO3)

This was the original prompt and starting point for the story

I left it completely open as to whether Sam knew what was going on in his hair or not, and how those little critters got there. And what they might be!

This became a divider, but this represents the first time Sam encounters the creatures.
Poor Dean isn't sure what to make of it all...

Some detail from the pics

This idea was blatantly stolen from Harry Potter's Mischief Managed Map...

And the process part:
The original picture of Sam was drawn partly in pencil and partly in PS6, which was a tactical error because I never quite managed to blend the two parts properly. Basically the hair and the critters were in pencil, photographed then added to the rest of Sam in PS. The background is a photo of a Celtic gold-plated disc, from Auvers-sur-Oise, with a texture applied to give it those subtle colours.
The map was constructed from a plan of UIC Campus which I stretched and distorted using GIMP because I haven't worked out how to do that in PS yet, then laid over a texture called papyrus from www.wallpedes.com. I used that one in the jar of creatures divider too, because it it so lovely. I drew the footprints and the scrolls and wrote on those in PS, and I drew the wee dragon in pencil on paper and photographed him to add him to the overall pic. Dean, and the critters in the jars, were drawn in biro on paper then photographed, and the jar was a Soviet mayonnaise jar photo I found on an image search. Ta da!

The drawings:

My first post for

sammybigbang (fic comes next with the marvellous chomaisky). I had SO much fun with this one - when I saw the summary was recreating Hercules labours in an SPN story, I was in!
So I was very happy to snag the prompt and get to work with lan_ri. You can go and read her story via HERE on tumblr, or click on the banner to go straight to AO3.

Be aware - there are spoilers in the art (but not so much if you already know your Labours of Herakles/Hercules!)
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A very Happy Birthday to my lovely GISHWHES team captain and all round fabulous person dean_hugs_sammy. She has recently joined LJ and is posting all her stories on here and on AO3 after years on clunky old fanfiction.net - which means - tah dah! ART!
Teasers!

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Entries tagged with fanfic rec

Meanttobe art post for amypond45 - The Homecoming

Happy Birthday Elisa!

Snowflake Days 1 & 2

Snowflake Day 3 - recs

Fanfic appreciation meme!

Via Negationis - SPN_J2BB Masterpost

Season 11 finale coda - Insta Rec!

Casefic art masterpost for The Best Things in Life are Free

The Age of Foolishness - Reverse Bang Art Masterpost

Sussing for Truffles Kevin Big Bang - Art masterpost

Forever and a Day - spnopera art post

Summergen recs so far

Spn_bigpretzel - Of Radishes and Dreams - Art

Spn_bigpretzel - Adventures in Deansitting - Art

Guardian of my Heart - spn_meanttobe art masterpost

Fic rec!

Reversebang #3 The Invisible Men

A Tenancy - RBB Art Masterpost for de_nugis

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Birthday art for dean_hugs_sammy!!

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