alyndra

comic-drawn Cas, Sam, and Dean of Supernatural stand in a spooky graveyard wielding fence-spikes

:el-dritch: adjective - eerie, strange or unnatural, especially in a way that inspires fear.

Give us your horror tropes, Lovecraftian monsters, and Gothic scenes. Whatever scares you most, this is the place to write and art about it! Writers must produce a horror-themed fic of at least 5k words. Artists will then claim stories and produce one piece of art (or more, for the 15k track) for that story.

Full disclosure: I co-mod this challenge and am not at all unbiased, but it is also objectively awesome. (True fact.) Writer and artist sign-ups are open, but writer sign-ups close soon, on June 30th. Artist sign-ups will stay open until July 21st.

This is our second round after a great first year. We run equally on

spneldritchbang and

spneldritchbang , and also interact on

spneldritchbang, our new Discord, and here on

spneldritchbang. Nobody's required to be on any one platform to participate. Please review the 2019 schedule and our FAQ and rules, and then:

Sign up on this form

You should receive an email confirming your sign-up within a day or so.

Thanks to sketchydean for her amazing banner art ♥♥♥

I love this challenge. Yes, I'm a latecomer, but even in my first heady weeks and months of consuming all the SPN fanfic I was behind on after stubbornly resisting the fandom for eight years, I kept seeing "This fic was written for Summergen." "Written for Summergen…"

From the second summer hiatus of the show to the last (and beyond!) the Supernatural Gen Fanworks Exchange is a classic. Sign-ups are open till the 19th this year!

Title: America's Most Wanted
Author:

alyndra
Artist:

oh-cassie
Wordcount: 11k
Rating: Teen
Characters/Pairing: Sam/Amelia, Outsider PoV through OCs
Summary: The FBI notice one Sam Winchester seems to have bought a house in Texas with widowed veterinarian Amelia Richardson. They investigate, but after some hinky adventures in surveillance and very confusing cat-and-mouse games, the Winchesters’ case makes less sense than ever.
Warnings: Sam and Amelia get kinky but only offscreen, various people brandish guns and swear a lot

Art Masterpost on Tumblr || Fic on AO3

In honor of some delightful fics being posted in the past few days by some excellent people, which I have actually had time to read for once, I have concatenated a rec list, brought to you by how I only just now noticed the “Share” button on AO3 fics. I haven’t gotten around to doing a sticky ‘about me’ type post, so for now I’ll just say that I enjoy both gen and kinky fics, and anything NSFW (which this post will be) gets access-locked—I’ll start it out public and then flock it after a few days. Feel free to ask if you’d like access!

Gen: Supernatural

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Mostly Wincest

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Other Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Road to El Dorado, Ballad of Tam Lin

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Supernatural is an excellent canon for crossing over with, well, practically any other canon. It's about two guys driving around investigating strange phenomena. You don't have to worry about including a huge cast, or getting them to wander into places and universes they don't belong, or letting them come off as regular crazy guys to a non-magical universe -- they're used to all that.

Crossover fic

One such story I really enjoyed was Cross Cases by

yopumpkinhead, which is a Dresden Files/SPN crossover so excellent I had to read the entire excellent book series on account of being addicted to this fic when it was a WIP. (Yes, sometimes I do fandom backwards. Don't judge me.)

I was therefore DELIGHTED when I spotted yopumpkinhead/

fallintosanity on the fandom Puerto Rico charity auction, and promptly commissioned a fic with great delight --

Me: Please write a crossover! SPN! Raksura! *vague handwavey flailing*

fallintosanity: ...So, if this story wants to expand far beyond the commissioned wordcount, are you cool waiting extra time for a longer story?

Me: (my secret hopes and dreams are coming true) ~~YEESSSS I mean~~ I'm cool with that, sure!

13 MONTHS LATER: This glorious fic is posted and it is 41k of beautiful wacky funny shenanigans of exactly the type you would expect when alien communal shapeshifting polyamorous dragon-people drop through a universe-rift into Sam and Dean's world. Everybody bonds over ripping Leviathan heads off.

The Distant Sky (40946 words) by fallintosanity
Chapters: 11/11
Fandom: Supernatural, Books of the Raksura - Martha Wells
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Characters: Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, Moon (Books of the Raksura), Malachite (Books of the Raksura), Kethel (Books of the Raksura), Stone (Books of the Raksura), Chime (Books of the Raksura), First (Books of the Raksura), Jade (Books of the Raksura), Merit (Books of the Raksura), Lithe (Books of the Raksura), Consolation (Books of the Raksura), Rise (Books of the Raksura)
Additional Tags: Crossover, Canon-Typical Violence, Angst
Summary:
Moon is supposed to be avoiding Consolation, but a mishap during a visit to Opal Night puts Consolation in danger. Moon and Malachite have to navigate a city stranger than anything either of them have ever seen to rescue her.
Sam and Dean, newly reunited after Dean's miraculous return from Purgatory, investigate reports of mysterious disapperances and cattle theft near Cleveland. But the case turns out to be far more complex than they thought when an enemy they believed dead resurfaces, and they must ally with strange and dangerous creatures to protect all of Cleveland from their common enemy.

Crossover art

All this talk of crossovers ties in REALLY WELL with my

spn_j2_xmas gift from

kuwlshadow, who funnily enough ALSO chose my vague flaily CROSSOVERS prompt and made THREE (3) illustrations of different SPN 'What if?' crossovers! Sam and Dean in front of Judge Judy, Sam and Dean on an adventure with Buffy, and Sam and Dean confronted by the Walking Dead cast!

Layouts

So go be sure to check out all of the above, and then maybe also admire some very pretty Dreamwidth layouts and styles made by

rosecarmine here at

myrtillenne. I tell you, I did not think anything could tempt me into giving up my simple purple swirly theme, but the second one down is making me seriously reconsider.

Three things make a post! (For those new to Dreamwidth, you can use any number in this phrase. However many things you have is the exact right number for you to make a post with. Let's call this creative math skills - math skills for creative types!)

I wanted to start a good resource for SPN fandom to find old and new communities, and collect relevant feeds in one place! In no particular order and without further ado:

COMMUNITIES:

(I might have sorted a few wrong, let me know; this is still pretty rough!)

Dreamwidth native/primary:

episodic_supernatural

spn_icons

supernatural

thedestiel

destielfic

destielart

allfordestiel

genspn

supernatural_meta

supernaturalfic

gabrielbigbang

DW communities with tumblr equivalents:

allspnships

deanwbigbang

spncc

spn_crowley

tfwbigbang

weekendwritingmarathon

spncoldesthits

LJ clones:

spn_betas

spn_j2_fic

wincest

spn_bigpretzel

spn_darkside

thewincestdiaries

spn_spanking

evilsam_spn

j2_crack

spn_on_parade

spnlittlebro

spn_indulge

spn_napowrimo

wincest_reverse

wincestbigbang

Communities with more active lj comms (subscribe to feed):

spn_reversebang/

spnreversebang_feed

spnj2xmas/

spn_j2_xmas_feed

spn_gen/

spn_gen_feed

spnstoryfinders/

spnstoryfinders_feed

spn_summergen/

spn_summergen_feed

deancastiel/

deancastiel_feed

all_spn/

all_spn_feed

spn_springfling,

quicky_bang,

spneldritchbang,

spn_kink_meme

Inactive for years (this does not mean you can't still post there):

spn_batcave

spn_bitesized

supernatural_women

spn_rps

threeweeks_supernatural

jo_sam

gabrielsam

spnmysteryyears

dean_layla

FEEDS:

Feeds are useful if you want things posted on another blog, a certain AO3 tag, or a comic like xkcd to appear on your reading page. Most existing feeds tend to be LJ journals, but you can make them for tumblrs or whatever you want. If there's anything anyone would like me to make for them, I'm happy to help! Feed FAQ

spn_newsletter_feed,

spn_j2_bigbang_feed,

omgspnbb_feed,

cas_whump_feed,

crack_impala_feed,

deancasxmas_feed,

purgatory_spn_feed,

sam_castiel_feed,

sn_fic_feed,

sn_slash_feed,

spn_brotherlove_feed,

spn_morseomes_feed,

team_free_love_feed,

tfwbigbang_lj_feed,

wincest_feed,

wincestielbb13_feed,

hoodie_time_feed,

spn_ontheset_feed,

spn_sceneit_feed,

supernatural_tv_feed,

supernaturalvid_feed,

spn_masquerade_feed,

spn_meanttobe_feed

AO3 tag feeds:

ao3_destiel_feed,

wincest_ao3_feed,

ezekiel_ao3_feed,

ao3_j2_feed,

wincestiel_ao3_feed,

sam_castiel_ao3_feed

I've filed a Support request for these already:

spn_j2_bigbang_feed, wincest_ao3_feed (duplicates) Fixed, thanks DW!

TWITTER:

misha_collins_feed (now updating!)

I'm SURE this is still incomplete! What am I missing? Comment here with whatever you've got and I'll add it, or if someone wants to take a stab at organizing these better than I've done, here's the raw html so you can play without having to re-code everything. Feel free to share and repost wherever you think it might be useful!

<h2>COMMUNITIES:</h2> (I might have sorted a few wrong, let me know; this is still pretty rough!)

<b>Dreamwidth native/primary:</b>

<b>DW communities with tumblr equivalents:</b>

<b>LJ clones:</b>

<b>Communities with more active lj comms (subscribe to feed):</b>

<b>Inactive for years (this does not mean you can't still post there):</b>

<h2>FEEDS:</h2> Feeds are useful if you want things posted on another blog, a certain AO3 tag, or a comic like xkcd to appear on your reading page. Most existing feeds tend to be LJ journals, but you can make them for tumblrs or whatever you want. <a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/support/faqbrowse?faqid=27">Feed FAQ</a>

<b>AO3 tag feeds:</b>

<b>I've filed a Support request for these already:</b>

<user name=spn_j2_bigbang_feed>, <user name=spnj2bb_feed> (duplicates)
<user name=wincest_ao3_feed>, <user name=ao3_wincest_feed> (duplicates)
<user name=misha_collins_feed> (not updating)

Crossposting in

supernatural

It's been a while since my original post describing in words what I was doing with my giant list of Big Bang-style challenges in the Supernatural fandom. So here's a whole bunch more stuff I have to tell the world about organizing SPN fanworks challenges into a bunch of little data cells. Since my post over a year ago, I added another tab for all the rest of the fic challenges that are still In Supernatural fandom. This did not happen all at once because it's a big-ass project, and while I'm fairly sure that the list of bangs is fairly complete (I might be missing one or two, <I>maybe</I>) there are so many more other challenges in such a wide variety out there, I really may never get them all. So by all means, come tell me what I'm missing: you can comment directly into the spreadsheet itself, reply here, look me up on any other social media site you spot me on, it's all good and I don't bite. If there's a reason it wasn't included, at least I can tell you what it is.

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I also want to shoutout to

wetsammy for helping me out with this project a lot, telling me about new bangs and helping organize the ones I had. And thanks also to

Superwiki who not only runs the best damn wiki, but also encouraged me to put my collected knowledge into a wiki page all about the Big Bang, and for telling all of Twitter to come check it out!

Finally, welcome to Dreamwidth, everyone discovering or rediscovering it due to Tumblr's recent meltdown. Best of luck and I hope you enjoy finding your way around!

At long last, I get to post the tiger fic I've been cackling over all fall!

Title: A Tigrefying Tail
Artist: Kuwlshadow
Author: Alyndra
Category: Gen
Rating: G
Summary: For reasons that don't need exploring at this juncture, Jared Padalecki is transformed into a tiger on the set of Supernatural.
Shenanigans ensue.
Tiger_Kuwlshadow preview.jpg

Art: Livejournal
Story: AO3

Artist:

marietwist (@sketchydean) ♥

Fic Title: Small Problems
Fandom/Genre: SPN, fluffy humor
Characters: Dean and Sam Winchester
Rating: PG (swearing)
Word Count: 11k
Summary: "I hate witches."
~Dean Winchester, 3x09 Malleus Maleficarum

Art Link: tumblr
Fic Links: AO3 || FF.N

ZOMG. You know me, the one who can't hit a deadline to save her life and procrastinates like it's a religious calling?

NOT ANYMORE.

I have turned over a new leaf. ( Read more... ) Wish me luck!

ETA: I did it, I signed up for Holly Polly, and now I'm eyeing the Gencest Bang and Holiday Mixtape — someone stop me this is getting out of hand! LOL, but here's my list of upcoming dates.

This should have gone up MONTHS AGO but attention everybody: RUN DO NOT WALK to check out the glorious SPN/Firefly crossover that

tifaching wrote me for

spn_j2_xmas!

Title: Big Damn Heroes
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Genre: Crossover with the series Firefly
Rating: PG 13
Word count: 7283
Summary: There's some difference of opinion on whether Sam and Dean are heroes. The crew of the Firefly comes to think they are.

This is an entirely delightful meeting of awesome characters across space and time, everybody gets to shine, and the voices are everything Firefly. It made me so happy to read, and then I was out of the country for a month and got back and life swamped me, or I'd've recced it long since, but do yourself a favor and check it out!

Title: Not Dead Yet
Gifter: Alyndra
Pairing/Characters: Jess/Sam
Word count/Medium: 3.8k
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Jess gets kicked from the apocalyse-world to this one. Who is Sam Winchester?
Spoilers: through the end of Season 12; no Season 13 material is used.
Notes: Written for SPN-J2-Xmas on Livejournal, for madebyme_x who said she liked Sam/Jess, AUs, apocalypse, happy endings, domestic feels, outsider POV, the Impala, the Bunker, and Stanford Era, among other things! And then I never even got to the actual prompts, but I hope you like it anyway, and can forgive me its lateness and that there's a much longer fic shining through the seams here than is written!

ETA: And I hadn't even noticed that SHE'D ALREADY WRITTEN SAM MEETING APOCALYPSE!JESS! Check it out! It's delightful and makes a neat opposite to this one!

Thanks to dugindeep for uber-last-minute heroism in betaing for me, you're a life-saver!

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Art: S2032: Wish I Didn't Know Now What I Didn't Know Then
Artist:

cassiopeia7

Fic Title: Hey Jude (Refrain)
Author:

alyndra
Fandom/Genre: SPN, time-travel adventure, family
Pairing(s): Gencest (also John/Mary)
Rating: PG (swearing, propositioning)
Word Count: 12.5k
Warnings: slight wincest. highlight: (underaged Dean comes on to Sam without knowing who he is, Sam is a responsible adult about it)
Summary: How can Mary ever catch up with everything she's missed in her boys' lives? Sam finds their grandfather's time travel spell in the Men of Letters library.

Of course no one would use such a thing without a very good reason.

Author's notes: Set in early Season 12 and in 1994. Written for the 2017

spn_reversebang (

spn_reversebang), and I amazed myself by writing a fic this long in not much over a month!

All the amazing praise in the world to my artist for this collaboration,

cassiopeia7, who went above and beyond: her initial art prompt was inspiring from the first second I saw it, she was a joy to work with, and then she created even more wonderful art for the story! Go love her!

Also thanks to

akintay for excellent last-minute betaing, quite a few things would make significantly less sense without her aid!

Bonus thanks to

dancing_adrift for playing sounding board as I flailed around in the early stages of plotting it all out, and consistently cheering me on as the word count went up and up!

Art: LJ
Fic: AO3 | or click the cut under the banner!
LJ post for commenting
ETA: If "slight Wincest" makes you uncomfortable, you may prefer the lightly edited version at ff.n (rated K+ rather than Teen; think PG vs PG-15)

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I went looking for all the Supernatural Big Bang challenges I could find. Here are the best resources I used to compile my list!

Multifandom:

https://bigbangindex.livejournal.com/profile -Multifandom LJ community; list in profile.

http://bigbangindex.dreamwidth.org/ - Multifandom DW community; list tagged “admin: index post.”

http://strina.dreamwidth.org/410079.html -Updated list by mod of the DW comm, included big, reverse, & a few mini; current, defunct, and deleted; and (readers sit up!) masterlists for each round for each challenge! Almost entirely challenges on LJ/DW.

http://wendy.livejournal.com/1910947.html?page=2 -Wendy is the mod for by far the longest-running and biggest SPN Bang out there! Her list is multifandom, LJ only, big bangs only. It also includes comms which were never active.

https://archiveofourown.org/tags/Big%20Bang%20Challenge
-Browse tags for challenges! Once you’re in the Works of a tag, you can look for if it says “Collections: 1″ in between “Chapters:” and “Comments:” under a story. This is honestly easier than trying to search for a collection in the first place. Mods, take note: prominently link to your AO3 collection so people can find it!

https://thebigbangblogproject.tumblr.com/ -Multifandom collaborative effort on Tumblr! Has Google Doc sheets for several fandoms, challenges both lj-based and tumblr-based, go help!

Supernatural Only:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CpU-KDDeTQ6K4XoHyYhgWKJgVVfQWRkmP1sO5-A2TiY/edit#gid=0 -Supernatural Doc from the Big Bang Blog Project (above). Mind you check the tags on the bottom, the first list you see is not all there is!

https://www.reddit.com/r/fandomnatural/comments/4ze79r/i_have_an_updated_and_fairly_thorough_list_of/ -Reddit thread, SPN specific: scroll down for more links.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11Ds_yPi47bs_Bz6CJSvV1L72QXVHUXCMSmBOsZpcZXs/edit -List of Dean/Cas friendly challenges (not just bangs) run by the mod of the Dean/Cas Big Bang.

http://deanicanfixthat.tumblr.com/post/153192756651/supernatural-bangschallenges-masterpost -Supernatural bangs and other challenges, current only (active in the past year as of 2016).

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Fanfic_challenges_%26_exchanges -Good overview of different challenge types with non-exhaustive examples within SPN. A few years out of date; updating it with current information is next on my to-do list!

Hope this is useful. Without all the hard work done by everybody who worked on these lists, I couldn’t have gotten anywhere close to what I was able to do with mine!

Ever wonder how many big-bang-style challenges Supernatural fandom really has?

Various people have compiled various lists and posted them in various places. Trust me, I have a list of these lists. Everyone also defines the parameters of their search a little differently. Personally, I chose to look for past and present SPN Bang challenges, and then I made a spreadsheet with info about each bang. There are 70+ entries on it.

I included big bangs, mini bangs, reverse bangs, and the herculean mega bang. I did not include other kinds of fic challenges, such as gift exchanges, flashfic or drabble communities. What makes a bang a bang? ( Read more... )

My Google Spreadsheet of SPN Big (and otherwise) Bang Challenges!

Anyone can comment directly into the document or contact me with additional information or suggestions! Feel free to link to this from anywhere you like as well. ~~Note that there are a couple new challenges with author sign-ups closing TODAY, August 31!~~

ETA: Fun with filters! The awesome thing about speadsheets is that you can sort all the data any way you like! Here’s a quick rundown of possibly-useful information.

Even if you don’t have editing privileges on a Google Doc, you can still sort columns. It won’t permanently change the doc or impact the way others are seeing it if they’re viewing it at the same time as you. All you do is mouse over the top of a column where it says “A” (I don't think it's possible from a phone) and a little arrow will appear for you to click on. So if you’re an artist, feel free to sort by ‘artist signups,’ or if you just like reading everything as soon as it comes out, sort by ‘posting starts.’ The default way I have the Doc sorted is first I sort by ‘status,’ then by ‘writing signups,’ then by ‘latest round.’ This means that the doc will be sorted primarily by the year of the latest round, then by the month writers should sign up in, then by status.

I renamed challenges which haven’t yet gone a round from “new” to “virgin,” not just for amusement, but so we could have an alphabetical list: Closed, Deleted, Dormant, Hiatus, Polling, Ongoing, Virgin. Is that not sweet? You can sort by that, or alphabetically by name, etc. Play around, have fun, and when you’d like to go back to the standard view, just ‘X’ out of the dark gray filter bar.

Title: Desert Driven
Fandom/Genre: SPN, angst, AU
Pairing: Sam/Amy
Rating: G
Word Count: 9,500
Warnings: DIY surgery, child endangerment
Summary: Sam's been growing horns since he was a baby. His family tries to keep him undiscovered and safe, from hunters and humans alike, but will Sam allowed be allowed to grow up neither monster or normal?
Notes: I got to work with the lovely and talented

lennelle for the

spn_reversebang. She drew gorgeous artwork of Sam with horns, and I got to write a story based on it!

Also thanks to

dragonflybeach for answering my car questions, and

gatorgurl94 for beta duty!

AO3 | FF.N

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I've done very little the past month that I've meant to get done, but one thing that I really oughtn't have let slide this long is to squee about the lovely, wonderful

spn_j2_xmas gift that

dugindeep made for me!!! She wrote a deliciously happy Jensen/Jared/Danneel/Genevieve turn-taking free-for-all, and I adore it to the utmost! Go admire it here!

I should also mention, I've been avoiding writing challenges almost the entire time I've been in fandom due to feeling like I could never succeed at them, but this was a really positive and fun first experience at signing up and doing one, and not only am I doing a second one now, I'm optimistic I'll be signing up for more in the future, yay!

The Misadventure(s) of Sam
For

milly_gal, my first time participating in the

spn_j2_xmas!

Wordcount: 4,300
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: alcohol and motor vehicles, swearing, bit of kinky talk at the end
Season: set vaguely mid-10—post demon!Dean, Mark of Cain still on Dean

Pairing/Genre: Sam/Dean…I've never written wincest before: do people still say ‘preslash?’ I thought I'd dibble my toes with some gencest, but it's not really gen anymore after my lovely beta

dancing_adrift told me to write it properly, now!

Prompt: Sam's jealous of Dean's relationship with Crowley and tries to prove he's just as 'dark'.

Bonus: Jared/Misha behind-the-scenes outtake ficlet: I sent Milly a Jared/Misha question through the mod, but then the Sam prompt ran away with me, so—enjoy 169 words!

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Bonus Jared/Misha silliness:

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So excited about reversebang claims today!

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I'm gonna be a little snarky. Here we go.

All last season (after Charlie's death, tbh) I had a resolution to either skip or turn my emotions and my brain off for all episodes written by Bucklemming. I did not manage to skip any but resolving to have the lowest possible expectations at all times was immensely helpful and I highly recommend it. (I did not entirely succeed at not getting pissed off at all, but it was a very manageable level mostly confined to the midseason finale and the half-dozen fix-its required for 11x21.)

On a related note, they said on an episode commentary once that they each write half of each episode, and guys, I have started reliably picking up on the two distinct voices. One of these is actually a reasonably competent writer. The other is not. I will leave it for the reader to speculate which is which, since I don't know for sure.

But the first half of this ep was clearly badly written. I will admit it caught me a little off-gaurd, since they customarily do the third episode of each season. So without further ado: things which I would have been upset about had I chosen to bother to be upset about anything after seeing the "Written by…" credit, A Non-Exhaustive List:

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SPN Eldritch Bang (Come Play With Us)

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It's Summergen time!

Sam Winchester Big Bang Fic: America's Most Wanted

Recs Ahoy!

Gen: Supernatural

Mostly Wincest

Other Fandoms: Miraculous Ladybug, Road to El Dorado, Ballad of Tam Lin

Raksura/Supernatural crossover rec and other SPN crossover fun

Crossover fic

Crossover art

Layouts

List of Supernatural communities and feeds on Dreamwidth

COMMUNITIES:

FEEDS:

More nattering about my spreadsheet

Fic: A Tigrefying Tail

Fic: Small Problems

All the challenges I am currently doing

Rec: Big Damn Heroes

Fic: Not Dead Yet

SPN_Reversebang Fic: Hey, Jude (Refrain)

Bibliography: List of Lists

Multifandom:

Supernatural Only:

Supernatural Big (and Otherwise) Bang Challenges: The Spreadsheet!

Fic: Desert Driven (Sam/Amy)

Belated xmas squee

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Reversebang!

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