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Thank you so much and without further ado, here they are!
FIC001
Title: When it Rains, it Pours
Rating: T
Word count: 5-7kish
Background Ship(s): N/A
Summary: As part of Chuck's "reliving of his greatest hits," Sam starts having his painful visions again. He doesn’t want to believe it, but the nightmares keep coming true and now, Sam’s beginning to worry it’s not just visions. During their last hunt, Sam could have sworn that the machete he was reaching for threw itself. Dean didn’t seem to notice anything but later that night, Sam finds a small trail of blood coming from his nose.
He needs to tell Dean--he knows that. But Dean’s been struggling a lot between Chuck and losing Jack and his rocky relationship with Cas... Sam was his only constant right now. He’ll just have to keep a handle on it until they can take care of Chuck.
Warnings: Self-Esteem Issues, Blood and Injury, Self-Destructive Behavior
Visually enticing scenes or details for artist:
-Dean trying to wake up Sam, who’s thrashing in his sleep from a painful vision.
-Sam staring at himself in the mirror, horrified at the trail of blood under his nose.
-Dean knocking on the bathroom door while Sam desperately tries to keep his powers at bay on the other side.
-Dean trying to confront Sam only for the latter to (discreetly/accidentally using his powers) break his glass. He's clearly in pain, but he brushes off a vaguely freaked Dean and rushes off to his room.
-Vision of Dean trying to help a hurt Sam only to be blasted into a wall and cracking his head.
-Sam huddled in a corner after a bad hunt. He recognizes the scene from his vision of Dean dying and can feel his power responding to his pain. He's terrified he won't be able to control it and blood is starting to trickle down his face.
-Sam's powers redirecting and blasting himself into a wall as Dean tries to administer first aid.
-Sam bandaged in bed and Dean asleep in a chair next to him. Specific injuries are tbd (and flexible based on artist's preference) but there's a thick one around his head.
-In general: Lots of concerned Dean and stressed/hurt Sam. Several migraines, nightmares, and panic attacks.
Any additional information you might want artists to know: Stuff can be adjusted/added to! Don't feel like you'd need to stick too hard with any of the details here. Time permitting, I could also add some smaller scenes if you have an image in mind that seems like it would fit well in the story. Excited to work with you!
FIC002
Title: Lend a Hand
Rating: T (May contain moderate violence, coarse language or suggestive material/adult themes.)
Word count: 35,000 (approx. - it may be more.)
Background Ship(s): none
Summary: Sam and Dean tackle a case despite the fact that Dean is suffering the effects of a curse. When Sam goes missing, the brothers must find their way back to each other before it’s too late.
Warnings: Show level violence, some swearing
Visually enticing scenes or details for artist: 1.) Winchesters fighting a monster with machetes. Monster has the head and neck of a snake, furry, bear-like body, limbs scaly with eagle-like three talons for hands, tail like an alligator.
2.) Motel room - A worried Sam researches while Dean suffers in agony on a bed nearby.
3.) Sam and Dean standing at the side of a rural road. Sam has his hands around Dean's bare forearm and they are staring at each other.
4.) Number 273 Daisy Street - Nice two story suburban house with light blue siding in a normal subdivision. House isn't spooky at all even though it makes people disappear.
5.) Sam is trapped in a windowless underground room with only the light from his phone for illumination.
6.) Dirty (as in with dirt on him) Sam huddled worriedly over an unconscious Dean.
Any additional information you might want artists to know: Not that I can think of.
FIC003
Title: Something To Remember
Rating: General
Word count: 6,801
Background Ship(s): None
Summary: After John leaves on yet another hunt, Dean is left to deal with a sullen Sam as his brother turns sixteen. He does his best to give Sam a birthday to remember.
Warnings: Birthdays, Jobs, Dub-Con (not between Sam and Dean), Motels, Schools, Driving, Birthday Presents, Birthday Cakes, Diners, Angry Sam, Sullen Sam, Exasperated Dean
Visually enticing scenes or details for artist:Dean sitting on a motel bed with his elbows on his knees and cradling his head in his hands. Dean watching Sam, who’s clutching his backpack strap, walking toward him and the Impala, Dean stocking grocery shelves, Sam and Dean sitting in a booth eating, Sam seeing the birthday surprise Dean put together for him, anything the artist envisions
FIC004
Title: Take My Hand (Take My Whole Life, Too)
Rating: T
Word count: 3k
Background Ship(s): None
Summary: The deputy turned back to them, taking the handcuffs from Rawlins, and looped a metal cuff around one of each of their wrists.
With a clink, Sam and Dean were handcuffed together.
“Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me,” Dean groaned.
Or, Sam and Dean get handcuffed together during a hunt. With a werewolf on their tail and a proximity to each other they haven’t had since they were kids, their unstable relationship is put to the test and their trust in each other is pushed to the limit.
Set sometime after 5x16 and before 5x20. Samulet fix-it.
Warnings: Canon-typical violence
Visually enticing scenes or details for artist:
1) Sam and Dean hiding behind a large tree, holding hands while handcuffed together, shoulder-to-shoulder, hiding from a werewolf in the distance (a middle-aged schoolteacher).
2) Sam and Dean, bloody after a fight, still cuffed together, staring at the Samulet laying on the ground after it fell out of Sam’s pocket. Sam looks nervous, Dean’s eyes are wide and his expression looks like it did when he saw the Samulet in 11x20.
3) Dean wearing the amulet and smiling at Sam as Sam smiles back, standing just in front of him, foreheads almost touching.
Any additional information you might want artists to know: The story takes place at night (and the beginning of dawn at the end), and it’s a small detail, but Sam’s left hand and Dean’s right hand are the two that have been cuffed together.FIC005
Title: Small steps towards a future
Rating: Gen
Word count: 3000-4000
Background Ship(s): None
Summary: Taking place towards the end of season 7. Sam and Dean manages to send all the Leviathans back to Purgatory and with them follows every other supernatural creature on earth. With nothing left to hunt the brothers stand without a clear purpose and have to decide how they’re going to live their lives.
Warnings: No warnings apply
Visually enticing scenes or details for artist: Sam and Dean creating a home together, Dean taking care of Baby, Sam finally getting a dog.
Any additional information you might want artists to know: This is a pretty introspective fic, with the boys reflecting on what they want in life. Mostly domestic scenes. (Also, I’m not 100% sure of the title yet, so that might change.) Aditionally, this fic is inspired by another fic. I don't know if that's relevant information but I'm mentioning it here just in case. FIC006
Title: Space Between
Rating: Teen and Up (for language beyond show)
Word count: (tbd)
Background Ship(s): None
Summary: (Set immediately after 10x3) With Dean's black eyes removed, the boys deal with the fallout of the last few days. It's not like this is the first time Dean's tried to kill Sam, or the first time Sam's been on edge around his brother. They've done this before. Surely this awkwardness won't cause any problems, right?
Warnings: Canon-typical violence, slightly beyond canon-typical swearing, drinking?
Visually enticing scenes or details for artist: Dream-setting of Dean actually cracking Sam's skull open with a hammer; Sam sitting alone in the Bunker library, drunk; several driving scenes; MOTW that I'm intentionally keeping vague so I don't have to do research, described as "Queen Frostine from CandyLand if she were an ugly old hag and got hit by a truck; Sam falling off a dock and into a frozen lake and getting rescued by Dean; brothers cuddling (mostly naked) on the front seat of the Impala under a blanket
Any additional information you might want artists to know: Sam is in a sling the whole time, except for the last scene, so that might make drawing slightly awkward? FIC007
Title: Valtari
Rating: Mature
Word count: 5K (For now), I think it could reach 10K
Background Ship(s): None
Summary: This is the summary of the whole story. Before being defeated, Chuck returns Sam's visions only to upset the Winchesters once last time. They don't realize about it until Sam watches Dean die in a barn full of clown bodies. When Sam has this vision, Dean gets scared and thinks that Sam might die, so he decides to spend more time with Sam at night, you know, keeping an eye on him. Eventually, it becomes their status quo and they sleep in the same bed, just to be more sure that Sam will be okay. Sam, of course, saves Dean from what could be his last day on earth. Then life happens, you know domestic Winchesters. But Sam has a vision of Donna and Judy (I haven't written this yet, I'm thinking about whether to add it or change it to another one). Then comes the vision of Miracle's last day with them. Then and finally, Sam has a vision of them lying on top of the Impala gazing up at the stars and looking at the future that awaits them together. Sometime later, when Dean is 85 years old, they decide that their time has come and they want to leave both peacefully and together—so they won't be away from each other any longer than necessary. In the epilogue, we would see two playful souls doing mischief all over the heaven.
Warnings: MCD, Blood, Suicide.
Visually enticing scenes or details for artists: Adult Sam and Dean (maybe in their 50s) lying on the Impala's hood gazing up at the stars. There could be a reflection of them or a constellation imitating their faces in the stars. With a melancholic/happy-ish tone.
Any additional information you might want artists to know:
-- If you think the scene I want is too ambitious, you can suggest another one.
-- The MCD is because at the end they both die together peacefully and under their own conditions—I do not hate the finale, I loved it.
-- It isn't a dark fic, but it contains a little bit of horror (just a tiny atom of it). It's a happy fic, except for them dying at the end, but they would go together <3
-- In the summary, I just pointed out the important scenes, but it will be more about their, now, ordinary life. Of course, the fic could change a little but not that much.
-- "Valtari" means steamroller and steamroller could mean a powerful force that easily defeats anything opposing it. As a verb, it means to use great force either to make someone do something or something to make it happen or be successful. And I'd like to think that fits this story and Sam and Dean.FIC008
Title: Twin FlameRating: Teen
Word count: 3.5-4.5k
Background Ship(s): none
Summary:Lebanon AU featuring Kale!Sam and Criminal!Dean. The brothers reunite after years apart, and Sam tries to cling to what he has and avoid going back to the hunting lifestyle.
Warnings: N/A
Visually enticing scenes or details for artist: Dean and Sam fighting with emotional intensity, with Dean holding Sam by the collar and Sam holding Dean by the wrist ; Sam pouring gasoline all over his bedroom while Dean watches ; Sam's mansion on fire in the background as Sam and Dean drive away in the Impala together into the night
Any additional information you might want artists to know: This one straddles the gencest-weirdcest line a bit! Lots of soft moments such as cuddling, cooking together(ish... Dean cooks while Sam watches), fantasizing about their lives together, etc. It's basically a platonic getting-together-with-your-ex fic with lots of tension and drama and love.
We'll see everybody on Saturday, June 10, 12:00PM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT-4) when artist claims open!
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Edit: As of 8:25PM 6/10/2023 all fics have been claimed! Thank you so much to the authors and artists who're making this happen. We'll send out emails matching authors to their artists tomorrow. xoxoxo
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