blue_bells

» Title: The Federal Hunters' Project, a WPA Initiative / (Read on AO3)
» Artist: bellatemple / ART POST
» Pairing(s)/Character(s): Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, John Winchester, Ellen Harvelle, Jo Harvelle, Pamela Barnes, Rufus Turner, Bela Talbot, Chuck Shurley
» Warnings: Violence, mild gore, language
» Spoilers: Seasons 1 - 5
» Summary: Real evil exists, America, but evil, like any corporation, can be managed.
» Author's Notes: Written for the spn_reversebang 2011 challenge. There aren't enough thanks that I can offer to my artist who, in spite of every possible hiccup along the way, never gave me grief. Thank you, bellatemple, for the faith, the patience and for the opportunity to write this story for you. ♥

I also have to thank the mods of spn_reversebang who assisted me along the way and supported us with their flexibility when other commitments threatened to derail this entire challenge. You were so gracious, mods, many thanks.



/ ART POST /

( SPN_Reversebang 2011: The Federal Hunters' Project, a WPA Initiative )

The f-locked art preview for spn_reversebang opened yesterday on September 26 and will remain locked until Thursday, September 29, when authors can stake their claims.

I highly recommend everyone go over to have a gander (you must be a member of the comm to view the art posts) because they are beautiful, and if you're participating, you want to be ready with your top three choices (with back-up options) to post as a comment in the correct format. Details for how to claim are here.

There is an amazing stock of choices over there and I loved seeing the diversity of styles and ideas.

I think my brain has overloaded for the year on drama and justifying how people who should not be together somehow fall in love (XD), so it was the gen prompts that spoke to me strongest. And then the crack. Of course, some of the couple art also dragged me in, so it's safe to say that I have many, many choices, and my only hope is that whoever gets stuck with me is easy-going yet explicit with what they hope for in a story.

The mods already said it, but it's worth reiterating: when claiming, be considerate and empathetic of the artists who will read the comments. It can be agonising waiting to be claimed. Nobody needs to be crushed by reading such things as "All the good ones are gone" or "Well, it wasn't my first or fifth choice, but is #blah still free?"

Being creative is difficult enough without putting yourself out there in such a public forum as a big bang challenge. We're all still learning. We'll all still have a long way to go. Be considerate. We only succeed by persevering with practice, practice, practice, but a little encouragement and a lot less negativity go a long way.

Above all else, keep an open mind. You might be surprised at what you find.

» Title: Somewhere to Begin (read on: PDF | AO3 | LJ)
» Author: _bluebells
» Artist: chosenfire28
» Beta: ladyknightanka, mishaphappens
» Genre: Supernatural Other Slash
» Pairing(s)/Character(s): Michael/Adam, Dean/Castiel, Lucifer/Sam/Gabriel, Raphael/Balthazar, Bobby
» Warnings: NC-17/R for violence, torture, gore, dub-con, angelcest, language, alcohol, and character death
» Spoilers: All seasons, AU from Season 5 finale
» Word Count: 96,000w
» Summary: Adam Milligan was just another casualty of the engine of the Apocalypse. After Michael breaks them out of the Cage, Adam is accidentally thrown into the future where peace has finally settled by strange circumstances. With his memories sealed to protect his sanity, Adam learns the censored, Apocalypse-free version of the life he's forged with a suite of archangels, a crabby adopted Uncle, and brothers he never knew he had, but this has all happened before and will happen again.



Art by the wonderful and gifted chosenfire28 | ART MASTERPOST


Somewhere to Begin

Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3 / Part 4 / Part 5

Part 6 / Part 7 / Part 8 / Part 9 / Part 10

DOWNLOAD as PDF (updated 19-09-2011)

Timestamp: Genesis 1:31 (Michael/Adam, PG-13)

( Notes, thanks, and acknowledgments )

( Somewhere to Begin, a brief rationale or Why, oh why, would anyone ever want to do this? And who is this Adam kid, anyway? )

( Somewhere to Begin: the FANMIX )

» Title: Somewhere to Begin - Part X (MASTERPOST)
» Author: _bluebells
» Artist: chosenfire28
» Beta: ladyknightanka, mishaphappens
» Pairing(s)/Character(s): Michael/Adam, Dean/Castiel, Lucifer/Sam/Gabriel, Raphael/Balthazar, Bobby and others
» Warnings: NC-17/R for violence, torture, gore, dub-con, angelcest, language, alcohol, and character death
» Spoilers: All seasons, AU from Season 5 finale
» Summary: Adam Milligan was just another casualty of the engine of the Apocalypse. After Michael breaks them out of the Cage, Adam is accidentally thrown into the future where peace has finally settled by strange circumstances. With his memories sealed to protect his sanity, Adam learns the censored, Apocalypse-free version of the life he's forged with a suite of archangels, a crabby adopted Uncle, and brothers he never knew he had, but this has all happened before and will happen again.

PREVIOUS

( Somewhere to Begin - PART X )

» Title: Somewhere to Begin - Part VIII (MASTERPOST)
» Author: _bluebells
» Artist: chosenfire28
» Beta: ladyknightanka, mishaphappens
» Pairing(s)/Character(s): Michael/Adam, Dean/Castiel, Lucifer/Sam/Gabriel, Raphael/Balthazar, Bobby and others
» Warnings: NC-17/R for violence, torture, gore, dub-con, angelcest, language, alcohol, and character death
» Spoilers: All seasons, AU from Season 5 finale
» Summary: Adam Milligan was just another casualty of the engine of the apocalypse. After Michael breaks them out of the Cage, Adam is accidentally thrown into the future where peace has finally settled by strange circumstances. With his memories sealed to protect his sanity, Adam learns the censored, Apocalypse-free version of the life he's forged with a suite of archangels, a crabby adopted Uncle, and brothers he never knew he had, but this has all happened before and will happen again.

PREVIOUS / NEXT

( Somewhere to Begin - PART VIII )

» Title: Somewhere to Begin - Part VI (MASTERPOST)
» Author: _bluebells
» Artist: chosenfire28
» Beta: ladyknightanka, mishaphappens
» Pairing(s)/Character(s): Michael/Adam, Dean/Castiel, Lucifer/Sam/Gabriel, Raphael/Balthazar, Bobby and others
» Warnings: NC-17/R for violence, torture, gore, dub-con, angelcest, language, alcohol, and character death
» Spoilers: All seasons, AU from Season 5 finale
» Summary: Adam Milligan was just another casualty of the engine of the apocalypse. After Michael breaks them out of the Cage, Adam is accidentally thrown into the future where peace has finally settled by strange circumstances. With his memories sealed to protect his sanity, Adam learns the censored, Apocalypse-free version of the life he's forged with a suite of archangels, a crabby adopted Uncle, and brothers he never knew he had, but this has all happened before and will happen again.

PREVIOUS / NEXT

( Somewhere to Begin - PART VI )

» Title: Somewhere to Begin - Part IV (MASTERPOST)
» Author: _bluebells
» Artist: chosenfire28
» Beta: ladyknightanka, mishaphappens
» Pairing(s)/Character(s): Michael/Adam, Dean/Castiel, Lucifer/Sam/Gabriel, Raphael/Balthazar, Bobby and others
» Warnings: NC-17/R for violence, torture, gore, dub-con, angelcest, language, alcohol, and character death
» Spoilers: All seasons, AU from Season 5 finale
» Summary: Adam Milligan was just another casualty of the engine of the apocalypse. After Michael breaks them out of the Cage, Adam is accidentally thrown into the future where peace has finally settled by strange circumstances. With his memories sealed to protect his sanity, Adam learns the censored, Apocalypse-free version of the life he's forged with a suite of archangels, a crabby adopted Uncle, and brothers he never knew he had, but this has all happened before and will happen again.

PREVIOUS / NEXT

( Somewhere to Begin - PART IV )

» Title: Somewhere to Begin - Part II (MASTERPOST)
» Author: _bluebells
» Artist: chosenfire28
» Beta: ladyknightanka, mishaphappens
» Pairing(s)/Character(s): Michael/Adam, Dean/Castiel, Lucifer/Sam/Gabriel, Raphael/Balthazar, Bobby and others
» Warnings: NC-17/R for violence, torture, gore, dub-con, angelcest, language, alcohol, and character death
» Spoilers: All seasons, AU from Season 5 finale
» Summary: Adam Milligan was just another casualty of the engine of the Apocalypse. After Michael breaks them out of the Cage, Adam is accidentally thrown into the future where peace has finally settled by strange circumstances. With his memories sealed to protect his sanity, Adam learns the censored, Apocalypse-free version of the life he's forged with a suite of archangels, a crabby adopted Uncle, and brothers he never knew he had, but this has all happened before and will happen again.

PREVIOUS / NEXT

( Somewhere to Begin - PART II )

Borrowed from every snowflake and their friend this week:

THREE SENTENCE AU MEME
Give me pairings (or characters). Give me an AU setting. I will write you a three-sentence fic.

I will also finally be responding to comments and getting down to work on the draft of xmenbigbang this morning. I have a week (and a clear outline, thankfully). Stranger miracles have happened. ;P

The story will follow the Brotherhood after the end of X-Men: First Class with background Charles/Erik, Erik/Raven, Azazel/Riptide, and Alex/Hank/Sean, but they're incidental to the story.

What are people's opinions on listing background character relationships when the movement is primarily gen?


Three Sentence AU Meme Round-Up To-Date:
For zekkass: SPN, (Dean/)Castiel/Gabriel [PG]; MIB!AU, they’re the Men in Black (at Immigration Intake)
For morganoconner: SPN, Dean/Gabriel [PG]; College!AU, Gabriel is a professor and Dean is both his friend and student
For synnerxx: SPN, Gabriel/Michael/Lucifer/Raphael [PG]; Gabriel owns a candy shop
For roachstar: Castle; Ryan/Esposito, Castle/Beckett [PG]; High School!AU, Rick Castle is the new kid on the block and he's paying attention
For nights_fang: SPN, Lucifer/Adam/Michael [NC-17]; College!AU, Michael has a grudge against Dean, but he also has a plan
For cashay: SPN, Michael/Adam/Sam/Lucifer [PG]; Prison!AU, Maybe being in jail doesn't suck all that much
For ladyknightanka: SPN, Michael/Adam [PG]; High School!AU & Detective!AU, Adam wants to ask his brother's partner to the prom
For nights_fang: SPN, Lucifer/Adam [PG]; Teacher/Student!AU; Adam is not the model student they said he'd be
For nights_fang: SPN; Adam, Zachariah [PG]; Mafia!AU, "They started on you when you were ten."
For zekkass: SPN; younger-vessel!Zachariah/Dean [PG]; Office!AU, the first time they met
For zekkass: SPN; Gabriel, Raphael [PG]; CandyShop!AU (cont.), They try to teach Raphael not to terrify the customers

And one more for the road?



This is a reverse of the usual Big Bang challenge. Each artist wishing to participate creates one piece of art that will be posted anonymously to be claimed by an author. Authors are then expected to write a short fic (minimum of 3,000 words) based on the art they chose.