stripytights | Entries tagged with supernatural

I'm terrible at signing up for exchanges, I dither for ages and fret about the thought of having to write a letter. So for once, what I've written, thanks to taking up some pinch hits outstrips the number of what I've received. In reverse chronological exchange order therefore:

Relationshipping

What I got: In medias res (always in the middle of something), The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley/Theo, Summary: Shirley and Theo avoid a touchy subject (or not).

What I thought: That feeling when you get the rarepair incest femslash fic you've been hoping for :___: angry, sharp and pointy Crain sisters, with a kiss that takes place while someone has their hands buried (literally) in someone else's chest.

What I gave: The Preservation of the World, Ginger Snaps, Brigitte/Ginger, Summary: no joke, I just realised while typing this up...that I forgot to put a summary on AO3. In brief, AU from the end - Ginger and Brigitte live in the woods together.
What I thought: I've been waiting ages to write a fic for Ginger Snaps, and this is a Stripy special - plenty of shitty jokes to go around!

Two pinch hits written respectively for the SAME (Short August Medieval Exchange) flash exchange and the Stephen King exchange

SAME: he today that sheds his blood with me, A Knight's Tale, Will/ Edward the Black Prince, Summary: The Black Prince can always count on William to rise to his challenge.
What I thought: This was a ton of fun to write. It involves blowjobs, stupid banter between Will and his friends and my personal favourite thing: single combat

King of Exchanges, fears that I may cease to be, The Long Walk, Ray Garraty/Peter McVries, Summary: Olson breaks the line. McVries and Garraty run.
What I thought: just about the fastest I've written a fic this year, thanks pinch hit deadline! A pleasure though.

My New Years Resolution fic, written merely one year late

friend like that, who needs an enemy, LA Confidential, Bud White/Edmund Exley, Summary: “Two dead Santas and a heroin epidemic,” Exley says, thumbing through a little crisp book now. “The things Christmas is made of.”
What I thought: How my immensely kind and patient beta did not storm across a sea to throw me out a window when writing this is beyond me. Thank you

Remix Revival Madness

What I got: Blood Alliances (a Heart Blood remix), Supernatural, Dean/Benny, Summary: Benny's thought about it in the course of their journey through the vast forested landscape of Purgatory.
What I thought: This was a remix of my Dean/Benny fic which involved Dean thoroughly topping Benny in Purgatory, and I am pleased as hell that my remixer kept the spirit of that while creating an amazing story. Loved it.

Trick or Treat (I was lucky enough to get three fics!)

What I got: Tomatoes, lettuce and a burger, Supernatural, gen, Summary: Dean is making Sam a burger, something is off.
What I thought: delicious creepy little horror fic - just perfect for a Halloween trick
What I got: Fox-Fire, The Terror, Crozier/Fitzjames, Summary: “I like my little Fox very much,” Francis said with half-a-smile. “It has always done well by me.”
What I thought: I love these two so much, and this was a delightful byplay between them complete with rescue
What I got: The Litany of Hatred, The Favourite, Abigail/Sarah, Summary: A beast stalks the palace. Sarah tells Abigail about it.
What I thought: My favourite messed up couple, this is subtle and vicious with an amazing turn of phrase

What I gave: Bird on a Wire, Top Gun, Iceman/Maverick, Summary: Hiding in plain sight is tough, but Maverick considers himself a master of disguise.
What I thought: One day I will write the Iceman/Mav fic of my dreams, but until then, I enjoyed getting a little snippet of them out there even though I wished it could have been longer.

Fic in a Box (didn't sign up, so this was just a pinch hit)

What I wrote: death, the abyss from where no traveler is permitted to return, Hannibal, Alana Bloom/Beverly Katz, Summary: “You know,” Alana says, mostly a non-sequitur. “You aren’t the first. Is that comforting?” / Beverly pauses over the milk, some people maintain a jug, she sticks to the carton. “Not the first to come back?” she says./ “I was thinking, not the first to die,” Alana replies.

What I thought: I am amused that my first Hannibal fic is so a) so late and b) explicit femslash, but honestly writing someone crawling back out of a grave and having to phone the bank to unfreeze their account is apparently the height of my ambitions

Non-exchange (yes it exists)

a separate moral universe, Supernatural, Sam/Dean, Summary: What Is And What Should Never Be AU. Dean is Sam’s no good big brother who flunked out of school, steals their mom’s silver to pay off his gambling debts, and is drunk more often than not. And he fucks Sam like no one else ever does. / Motels inhabit a separate moral universe is what that world's Stoppard might've said, but didn't.
What I thought: This was a super fun exercise actually - this is very specifically the djinn version of Sam and Dean who we saw from that episode, but I hope bits of real Sam and Dean come through as well. OK, honestly, it's just porn.

If there's one thing that remains consistent across time and space, it's that I love me some recs.

So here are a few of my favourites so far from what I've perused of the SPN-Masquerade, while they still remain anon. I'm working through the pinboard so I haven't even had near a chance to look at everything. This was a marvellously productive round with some lovely fanworks. It's also got me writing for the first time in an extremely long time, so I'm looking forward to cleaning up and posting a couple of things.

ART

https://spn-masquerade.livejournal.com/10986.html?thread=4308970#t4308970 - Jared in stockings and thigh highs, doesn't need much more of a description than that but deserves one. Absolutely lovely, and there's a superb hard/soft theme going on between the muscle and the lingerie. More than worth a click.

https://spn-masquerade.livejournal.com/10986.html?thread=4065258#t4065258 - WITCH SAM. I love everything about this, the detailing of the grimoire, the hair, the tattoos, this is gorgeous!

https://spn-masquerade.livejournal.com/10986.html?thread=4106986#t4106986 - cheerleader Jared. This is just everything, especially the pigtails, the legs, and the totally ridiculous costume.

https://spn-masquerade.livejournal.com/10986.html?thread=4240874#t4240874 - Danneel/Gen. I am just in love with Gen here in particular, the little arch of the foot, the hair, the look on her face, and also the colours of the whole piece.

https://spn-masquerade.livejournal.com/10986.html?thread=4285930#t4285930 - look this has otters in it, I'm already gone. So incredibly cute, and the otter is the star of the show!

FIC

https://spn-masquerade.livejournal.com/10986.html?thread=4340970#t4340970 - Sam/Castiel, tie-kink - I think this is one of my favourite fics I've read so far this year, let alone in this round. Cas's viewpoint is bleakly, fascinatingly off-kilter, and Sam is perfect. There's just so much to dissect that it's one to read a couple of times over. Just really awesome work all round.

https://spn-masquerade.livejournal.com/10986.html?thread=4251882#t4251882 - Apocalypse, Sam/Dean, and in the space of one comment box this played merry havoc with my emotions, plus a final line that kills

https://spn-masquerade.livejournal.com/10986.html?thread=4196330#t4196330 - Sam & Dean, deeply unnerving and with more than a little fridge horror to it. There's a reason Sam keeps getting sick. Going to remember this one.

https://spn-masquerade.livejournal.com/10986.html?thread=4316650#t4316650 - super cute J2 fic where Jared rescues dinosaurs, Jensen is a literal fairy and this entire thing happens in space. Funny, cute and hot as well.

https://spn-masquerade.livejournal.com/10986.html?thread=4306154#t4351722 - Dean/Sam medical kink with Sam cleaning up Dean's abrasions, with some lovely sensual touches and a lot of quiet tenderness as well as kink

Title: Once dwelt in that annihilated place.
Giftee: marciaelena
Gifter: stripytights
Characters/Pairings: Sam/Dean
Rating: R for sexual content
Word Count: 5,500
Summary: The world is empty and all Sam and Dean have ever had left is each other. Title is from Horace Smith's Ozymandis, the story referenced in text is by Bradbury. Written for spn-j2-xmas

AO3

Title: The Edges Between
Rating: T
Content: incest, mentions of suicide
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Notes: apologies for the lateness, thanks for the great prompts. I riffed off your fondness for truth spells and dysfunction.

Summary: Sam’s spent a lot of time soulless and more time than he cares to think about hiding from his greatest fear.
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I finally got round to reading some of the fics - I didn't even get to my gift until late. So I went on a commenting spree and also a mini reccing spree. I'm not close to done yet, especially with the longer fics, and some of the art. Please do comment on the things that you enjoy.

First off, this is the lovely gift that I got from

sophiap. Two of my highlighted likes were: Medieval AU (which is a concept I am far too invested in, and I mean really invested in) and Sam's face, and this delivers in spades. There's a whole story behind that image that leaves me intrigued, and also wanting to know exactly which supernatural event (or french attack) has Sam looking so tired and grim. Leave the artist some love :D

My own fic was the aptly named oh sea-starved, hungry sea (Sam/Dean) which was my attempt to articulate how post s6 Sam and Dean might alternately reconcile some of the problems they just won't talk about

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This year was the least productive I have ever been for Yuletide thanks to being ill. I ended up defaulting, though frankly my recipient was the sockiest sock that could ever be imagined so my guilt was lessened (they didn't go to pinch hit so they'd defaulted as well). However to alleviate the guilt that still hung around, I did a last, last minute pinch hit for someone with a great letter for a fandom that I love. Given the time frame and travelling on Christmas Eve, I'd have loved to have done so much more, but I'm not disappointed with what I made, all things considered.

Yuletide

As Much As You Get, Give. (1783 words) by StripySock
Fandom: The Fast and the Furious (2001)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Relationships: Brian O'Conner/Dominic Toretto
Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Different First Meeting, Alternate Universe, First Meeting
Summary:

Doesn't matter where they begin. All it matters is that they end in the same place.

spn_j2_xmas

My full rec post including my lovely gift will be up later today once posting has completely finished.

Title: O sea-starved, hungry sea

Fandom: Supernatural

Rating: NC-17

Pairing: Sam/Dean

Length: 8.3K

Content notes: sex, mentions of background characters death

Author notes: written for

quickreaver for

spn_j2_xmas. Set in alternate s7 after the events of s6

Summary: A case with a selkie turns into far more than the Winchesters had ever anticipated. Sam has to resist the urge of the sea, Dean's got to live with what might have to be done to hold him back from it.

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Title: O sea-starved, hungry sea
Fandom: Supernatural
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Length: 8.3K
Content notes: sex, mentions of background characters death
Author notes: written for

quickreaver for

spn_j2_xmas . You had amazing prompts, and there were so many fics I wanted to write, but this is the one that happened. Many thanks to

tebtosca for the extension. Title owed to Yeats. Thanks to

sleepypercy for their beta, much appreciated. Set in an alternate s7, after the events of s6.

Summary: A case with a selkie turns into far more than the Winchesters had ever anticipated. Sam has to resist the urge of the sea, Dean's got to live with what might have to be done to hold him back from it.

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1. I wrote fic! Fluffy, short , slightly PWPy J2 where Jensen covers weddings for gossip rags, and Jared snaps photos to accompany it. Can be found here

2. I was lucky enough to claim a really really fantastic artist for RBB. There were so many amazing choices, and I was just about fast enough to get one of them. I'm looking forward immensely to this one. I'm not sure if we can mention names yet, so I won't.

3. Milly_gal made a gorgeous graphic as a Halloween treat (definitely not trick!) to go with The Intuitive Art of Touch (Dean Smith shaving Sam Wesson in intimate ways).

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4. I am miserably failing to watch new SPN at the moment, due to time issues, and also reluctance to squash my fannish hopes.

5. Yuletide is kicking me hard already, but I feel like the end result may be okay.

6. I would like to change my LJ style, but the world of themes confuses me. I would like something super simple, clean and neat, and even better would be one that defaults to a page=light setting when you click on a link/cut, and one that has a better default font. If anyone has any recommendations or thoughts, I'd appreciate hearing them,

I haven't had a chance to read all I wanted to, but I'm anxious to get a few recs up before anon period comes to an end! So here's a sample of things I've enjoyed.

Art

Mad Max style, J2, (by quickreaver also found here) This is a perfect meld of Mad Max and J2, and the colouring works so well, plus the hair choices and proportions. Lovely.

The Boy with the Broken Halo, (also by quickreaver and found here) Sam, this is amazing and it really bounces off an unusual prompt in an interesting way - the Sam is so recognisably Sam, and yet so changed and confident and alive that it's a real question-poser in terms of how this Sam evolved.

fire fighter Jensen, (by dephigravity and also found here) super adorable picture of Jensen + puppy, with a look on his face that is even cuter than the puppy.

Steampunk Masquerade, J2, (by amber1960 and found here) lovely details - not just with the faces but the clockwork bodyparts, Jared's ponytail, the watch, the tongue and all the rest, as well as telling a real story.

Fic

Exceed His Grasp, Sam/Dean, This is beautiful and really gets across not just the physicality between them, but also the awareness of the divide - the final two lines are real killers.

two-legged muscle pickers, Sam/Cas, (by de_nugis and also found here) probably the most creative fill of the round for me - the true form sex is interesting and subtle, and the whole story feels layered and purposeful, and I very much enjoy Sam in it.

This Gentle Sin, Sam/Dean (by saltandbyrne and can be found here) this is incredibly hot - the visual imagery and the way it's used, and Dean's reactions to Sam's reactions, as well as the little hints of the compromises they have to make is awesome.

Dimples, J2 I love the affection and hotness of their established relationship, and I think we all love the dimples, so match made in heaven.

Catch Hell, Sam/Dean, (by indiachick and can be found here) I'm not much of a one for serial killer fic, but this has a finesse and a beauty to it that I appreciated very much - especially the brotherly edge, and the subtle interplay between them.

shaving, hair washing, Sam/Dean (by laughable lament and can be found here) two of my favourite things, and I really liked the relationship painted here and the neat way around their feelings - the unacknowledged weight of them, and the rising potential of more.

What have I missed/what do you recommend?

Title: Situational Failure (The Chicken Soup Remix)
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Sam/Castiel
Rating: T possibly bordering M
Content notes: Frottage, sickness,
Length: 2.5K
Notes: written as a remix of

mako_lies's Blanket fic which can be found here

Summary:

There is a fear in Cas that if he lets Sam make himself at home in all of the places that Dean had declined to fill, he will lose the ability to ever refuse it again.

Or: Sam is sick, Cas is failing, and Dean is nowhere to be found.

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Thank you to the people who volunteered to beta - I appreciate it a ton. I've been remiss in getting in touch, partially because I accidentally almost ate a peanut. Which doesn't sound a big deal, but I'm pretty deathly allergic when it comes to peanuts, so I've spent more time than I care to think of drinking gallons of water, brushing my teeth over and over, and hoping that I don't get a delayed reaction. Which all sounds rather dramatic, only my epi-pen is now out of date, so given where we were at the time it would have been a two hour drive to the hospital. I don't count myself cheap enough to prefer to die rather than buy one, but it rather felt like that. Tomorrow I'm buying one, because I don't think I can cope with that amount of terror over again.

Keeping an eye on myself still just in case, but I haven't swollen up like an over ripe fruit so I'm probably okay.

In other more cheerful and less death defying news (I swear my life is lurching from one crisis to another), I have to advertise this because it is terrific.

badbastion podficced the fic that I wrote for last year's Sam/Dean MiniBang (The One Left Behind), and it is amazing. I rarely listen to podfic although I've enjoyed specific podfics by specific podficcers. This absolutely changed my mind though on seeking more out. Badbastion has such a wonderful voice, soothing and with exactly the right emphasis. I really recommend any podfics that she's done, just based on this one. And not only that,

milly_gal did a gorgeous cover to it as well - which got everything I wanted to get across about the story - the mood, Sam and Dean together, John the overarching influence, and which really works with both the podfic and the fic.

You can find the masterpost for it here, with both

badbastion's podfic and

milly_gal's artwork!

A second rec (yes, before I've listened to it) for

applegeuse's podfic of Last Outpost of All There Is, because a) applegeuse and b) Last Outpost of All There Is which is one of my fav fics ever.

Third

spn_masquerade reveal, and my favourite of the four. Many many thanks to

riyku for betaing, much appreciated. As always any mistakes that remain are my own.

Title: The Intuitive Art of Touch
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Dean Smith/Sam Wesson (Sam/Dean)
Rating: NC-17
Length: 4572 words
Content notes: shaving, unknowing incest
A/N: written for this prompt at

spn_masquerade

Summary: The look that Dean’s giving him isn’t a look that belongs to Dean Smith, vice president of marketing. It’s older and darker, and Sam’s seen it before, quite literally in his dreams.

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Second bunch of recs (still in the anon period, go me!)

I haven’t actually read nearly as much as I’d like - I’m saving a few of the longer fills for next week. But here are a few things I couldn’t not mention first. As always I've linked to the prompt thread so check all kinks.

Also, as always, anything you think I should read, please stick it in the comments, I'd be grateful!

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First batch of masquerade recs, I probably won’t get to the second before the anon period has finished.

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Please do rec me things in the comments - I'd appreciate it!

My original plan for this was a fandom manifesto about the things I love about SPN. I wrote enough of it to be worth posting but then I had a better idea. SPN (and SPN RPF) is for me a) the show - which means enough to me that I get a little bit sappy and b) the fanworks created which I love.

So while I still want to do that fandom manifesto (it'll be up on the 24th), I realised I'd also like to do a more personalised project. So I went through my flist and picked a fanwork by each person who does fanwork. Mostly they're Sam/Dean and J2 but there's some very notable exceptions included. A few people I found it difficult - not because they're not fantastic creators but because I'm a total wuss in this fandom so any one reading this feels like the piece de resistance of their oeuvre has not been represented, that may be why! Blame my non-Elizabeth-the-1st-stomach.

There's a few non-SPN folk on my flist and in those cases I've picked a favourite fan-work by them that's non SPN. There's also a few folk no longer in the fandom and I hope they don't mind me including their past works.

It's done alphabetically of course!

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Title: Falling Further

Fandom: Supernatural

Pairing: Dean/Sam (minor)

Rating: PG-13

Warnings: brief mention of suicide ideation.

Notes: written for the_green_bird for spnj2xmas. I used your likes for ‘boyking Sam’ and ‘soulmates’ and I hope you enjoy!

Summary: Dean starts hallucinating where this will inevitably end while Sam works to save him. Set post 09x10 so spoilers for the hiatus episode.

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On the first day of Christmas, there's an Abaddon ficlet involving pears for

cassiopeia7. Underneath the cut for mentions of gore, torture and Abaddon being a dick.

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December meme? Oh you mean that December meme? I joke, I've mostly kept up with doing the entries so I'll start posting tomorrow. Before that though, it's recs time.

I posted some previous minibang recs here and I have two more!

Behold, A Pale Horse -

cherie_morte. This is a love story right at its core, beautiful, dark and riddled with hopeless sadness and yet at the end of it all, that intense sense of love and inevitability that always traces Sam and Dean's footsteps. I don't think I've read anything quite like it in a long time (do heed the warnings). I wholeheartedly recommend reading it.

Edges -

glovered. This is also heart-touching but in a completely different way. Sam's stretched thin and fading connection with his brother, the slipperiness of the understanding between them, the sadness of Brady in the background and that crushing knowledge of what waits for them all - the title is perfect, because even when there's light in the story there's the future waiting. It was a fantastic mix between the two.

Other fic

see -

steeplechasers. True forms. Clever true forms combined with crystal sharp description, and a sense of loss and loneliness in how Dean feels towards Castiel's true form and the changes it goes through. Love it.

You'll No Longer Burn - songlin. I can count on one hand the number of times I've read genderswapped Dean and liked it, and this is one of those times and possibly the only het fic veresion. There's something unapologetically harsh about this conception of Dean and how their family dynamic would be even more messed up that really worked for me, although the story is mostly sex.

To the Devil his Due by

monicawoe Wonderfully disturbing Endverse, with all the touches of survival and hope at the beginning, fading into a deeper darker Lucifer and the Sam he's taking back.

What I Wouldn't Do - dollylux Gen/Danneel femslash. With a wonderful sense of place - an absolutely loving portrait of a neighbourhood and a mood, and a great sense of physicality between them, something that seems to go missing in a lot of femslash. I really liked this a lot.

Art

Art for

cherie_morte's SDMB by quickreaver, found here. It's stunning, the colouring used in particular, but also the posing of Sam at the end, like some marble statue carved perfectly, and the one of him with blood running down his lip that's giving me strong Art Deco vibes in the construction of Sam's hair, and yeah pretty much all of them. I rarely rec art because I lack art vocab to describe it but these are all perfect.

"...so darkness I became." -

cassiopeia7. Okay, I am always going to be a sucker for Pieta style SPN art, and this is no exception, and then to follow it up with Demon eyed Sam crying was perfect, a real sense of story across the two images ( a story I would love to read) and the look on Sam's face in each is heartbreaking. Plus bonus Bela, which I am always appreciative of - especially one again with a story behind her and a magnificently creepy hand. I do love a piece of art with a palpable sense of narrative to it.

Vid rec

Crazy - by justmep. Demon Dean, the song works perfectly in conjunction with the voiceover clips, and yeah, I did love some Demon Dean and this was just really good. I've watched it about ten times now I think.

I'm going to get started on my December meme tonight but I can't resist posting early with a rec for my

spn_j2_xmas gift because it's awesome. Take a ton of my favourite things (post-apocalyptic/Sam'n'Dean/alternate ends/stoic warriors) and put them into a giant blender and you basically have my gift. It's hopeful and has a great show feel to it and I recommend it absolutely. Thank you so much

amberdreams for really starting the holiday season off with a bang, you're terrific.

Title: Second Verse, Same as the First
Author:

amberdreams
Characters: Sam Winchester, Lucifer, Dean Winchester, Risa, Chuck, Cas
Word count: ~5800
Rating: Gen R
Warnings: Character deaths and resurrections as per canon. Kind of.
Summary: The End AU. In this version, there is no trip to the future for Past!Dean. Sam said yes, Dean said no, and though Dean found the Colt, his attempt to kill Lucifer with it failed. So now Dean is going to try Plan B, and lead a small team to face Lucifer again. The story is told from Risa’s point of view.

Find it here, read and love

Title: One More Coal
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Length: 2.5K
Content: blowjob, rough sex, rimming
Notes: for the prompt 'do I know you?' from

etoile_etiolee written in about two hours so apologies if there's any mistakes - please do let me know.

Summary: Season 9 Dean accidentally meets Stanford-Sam. He probably won't forgive himself for what he does but that's never stopped him.

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