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people: Enjoying their hearteyed JenMish content

me: BUT IF HOLDING PHONE WHAT IN POCKET

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The Mark of Cain

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Son of the Morning

First art piece posted on tumblr! Let’s goooo, I’m working on some more so I’ll be posting more fanart soon. Anyways I love Sam so much.

Some WIPs of this piece below the cut ⬇️

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The Fallen Angel

Yaaaayy Cas art!

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I'm so happy to share this!

When a chance came up to pinch hit for Destiel AU Reverse Big Bang, @daffodilsonaprettystring's Hadestown-inspired Destiel art was absolutely impossible to say no to!

If time had been on our side, I think this art could easily have inspired me to 100k. As it is, I really hope folks enjoy what we came up with - 20k of Greek-mythology-musical-inspired angst with a very happy ending, and truly amazing, colorful and soulful art of magical tattoo artist Dean and his magical florist love, Castiel.

"Come Home With Me"

Author: @MalMuses Artist: @daffodilsonaprettystring

Rating: Teen and Up Archive warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Length: 20,000 words Tags: Hadestown AU, Magic-based Dystopia, Magical Tattoo Artist Dean, Magical Florist Castiel, Angst with a Happy Ending Relationships: Dean/Castiel, Possible Sabriel ("Never Confirmed But If You Squint" Sabriel)

Summary: In a struggling, rusty city alongside the River Styx, jaded magical tattoo artist Dean meets passionate, hopeful florist Castiel. Over the river lies Avarice, the City of Greed. For some, it’s a curse; for others, a way out.

Dean already lost his brother to the powerful demi-gods who fill Avarice with souls. When his fear and cynicism pushes Castiel over the bridge too, will he find the hope he needs to bring him home?

Link to Fic | Link to Art

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My art master post for the beautiful gorgeous Hadestown AU “Come Home With Me” by @malmuses for the @destielaureversebb !!!

While this is not the first bang I’ve posted for, this was the first bang I ever joined, and that Hadestown art with Cas all bloody is one of my favorite things I think I’ve ever drawn. I am obsessed with my art and I am OBSESSED with the story MalMuses created using it as inspiration!!

Go read it immediately it deserves all the kudos 👏👏👏

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okay but there is something disquieting about this urge to cast fan writers as altruists. they give us all this for free!! well, no.

they’re sharing

it’s a key difference in perception. fic isn’t given. it’s shared. it’s part of a fandom community— in which readers are also an integral part.

it’s probably inevitable mission creep from the increasingly transactional nature of the internet and fandom-as-consumerism, which was always gonna happen after corps worked out how much bank there is to make from those weirdo fan people

but like. fandom is sharing. i think we’ve lost that somewhere.

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A Fish Out Of Water

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Ship: Destiel

Site: ao3

Word Count: 64.9k

Completed/Ongoing: Completed

Brief Summary: AU in which Cas is a merman, and Dean saves him

Trigger Warnings: Mentioned forced prostitution, explicit sex scenes, NSFW

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Available now on AO3!

After over a year of fake marriage and months of real dating, it’s time for…a book tour?

Castiel’s carefully laid plans for a novel release (and for romance) go wildly off the rails thanks to his brother and sister-in-law.

Part 3 of the Russian!Verse.

I totally thought I was done with these two. Silly me. As soon as someone I owed a prompt to mentioned this, I jumped at the chance. This fic is part of a series, so folks who haven't come across it before might want to start here.

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We're curing HIV.

I ... I don't have words for how much that hits me like a blow to the sternum, every single time.

Every single time.

I never thought we'd be here, but here we are.

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A wonderful, generous artist, votes4xon, read my recent Destiel fanfic, A Sorcery of Starlight, and was inspired to create additional fanart! Thank you! 😍

ASOS is already blessed with several gorgeous pieces of art by unfamiliar-reference, so to honor that and comply with the bang rules I won't be embedding this piece - but it deserves to be shared!

The piece is votes4xon's interpretation of Castiel from quite late on in the fic, so to avoid spoilers, I'll tuck it under a break.

Thank you, votes4xon!

votes4xon additional fanart here

original story by MalMuses and art by unfamiliar-reference here

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**TW: SA**

Given all the hints and headcanons around Dean’s violations in hell, this post is breaking my brain because it indicates that in that case, Alastair took the time to put his jeans back on and zip him up afterwards.

Even the evilest of torture demons does not ignore aftercare, it seems

it’s so funny how deans soul had jeans they were like the jeans stays ON while he’s tortured in hell

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Well fucks? Get to it!

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I'm FREEE I'm FREEE I can talk about this project wheeeeeeee! Okay so there's a fic and all that I wrote, that's fun, but more importantly: THIS ART MADE ME FERAL.

Genuinely, it captures the feeling of the story SO WELL. @unfamiliar-reference is lovely and incredibly talented. Thank you for working with me!

“A Sorcery of Starlight” 

Author: @malmuses Artist: @unfamiliar-reference

Rating: Explicit Archive warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Length: 64,373 words Tags: Gothic Romantasy, Historical Fantasy, Schmoopy Horror, Creature Fic, Hidden Identities Relationships: Dean/Castiel, Minor Charlie/Anna

Summary: After uncovering a salacious scandal with a stableboy, Dean Winchester’s father declares he must marry or be sent to an asylum. Dean has always been a good son and heir, but the thought of a loveless marriage is too much; he runs away to hide as a servant in Novak Abbey, a mysterious noble house on the outskirts of the remote town of Udolpho. Hidden behind the crumbling walls, Dean tends to a reclusive family that—according to the spooked locals—are burdened by a dark, unknown curse.

The handsome, intense Lord Castiel Shurley, nephew to the cruel Earl, evokes in Dean a magnetic attraction he struggles to deny. But, between Dean’s hidden identity and a curse that may be far more than local legend, the path to happiness seems dim and twisted. Deep in the woods, Dean must untangle truths from tall tales. He will have to risk far more than his reputation to find the love he deserves—and to survive the inhabitants of Novak Abbey.

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It was genuinely such an honor to get to write something so closely entwined with this gorgeous art. Its giving EVERYTHING. Thank you so much @unfamiliar-reference for your time, your patience, and sharing your talents next to my little story!

A Sorcery of Starlight masterpost for the Destiel AU Reverse Big Bang

Go read the beautiful story @malmuses created full of magic, mystery and love. Gothic Destiel for you! She knows how to capture your imagination with every dialogue and every description of the somber location.

Many thanks also to the moderators of the @destielaureversebb for your kindness, this was a fun first "bang" (❁´◡`❁).

Link to fic : AO3

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Does anyone even fucking care about him