#dtoa

[fluffsnake]

waste of some perfectly good coffee

[bobwess]

AMA (Down to Agincourt addition) I am once again bored, so here are some more (aka many) questions. As that anon from last year who asked for the elevator pitch, I am so glad I did and gave DtA another shot!!! When did you first start reading it?

When did you first realize how hooked you where with DtA? Was it from moment one? Was there a spesific scene?

Fav of the original side characters?

Fav the original main characters?

Coolest concept that DtA introduced into the SPN world?

If there could be a in-depth prequel written for any of the characters, who's past would you be the most interested in exploring?

If you had to, what would you ranking be of the books?

How many times have you read it all the way through?

What bit of foreshadowing (if any) did you miss the first time around that really jumped out at you on a reread?

Did reading DtA help inspire your own The End fic?

What of the many burning questions currently unanswered do you want answered first?

What's the most interesting non-SPN related fact that DtA taught you?

If normal SPN team free will read/watch/found out about the DtA what do you think their reactions would be?

What's a scene/interaction that still scratches the brain itch?

Have you read The Forever King spin-off series? If so, what are your thoughts?

Yes!! Muahahahaha. Changing the order a bit.

Coolest concept that DtA introduced into the SPN world?

The Winchester House, everything about it, and its entire relationship to Nate. 

The complex rules and magical constraints/potential of metaphysical contamination.

Honorable mention: Lucifer’s plans with the Gods.

But also actually: The Winchester House.

What bit of foreshadowing (if any) did you miss the first time around that really jumped out at you on a reread?

(spoilers) 

The set up for the church paradox. 

Cas, post fall, fever dream, almost dying locked in that cabin bedroom, the unnamed goddess calling him in spirit yet somehow physically into that Church.

Dean, post infection, fever dream, almost dying locked in that cabin bedroom, Cas accidentally calling him in spirit yet somehow physically into that Church. 

All of time and space converging. Dean is the impossible, he was never supposed to be in this universe, Cas accidentally binding them together with those sigils, allowing Cas to connect with Dean in the first place, and also making Dean invisible to Lucifer while he’s physically in that cabin, which he technically is, thus allowing him to shield Lia and thus her able to get him into that church where he and Cas manage to do something and erase the kids' (and both of their) minds. 

There is so much meat there, and every time you re-read there is more. There is so much cool foreshadowing with ALL the players involved, and I literally put together another thread in that during EVERY read-through. 

Someone once asked me my thoughts on what we know happened in the church and it got to 19 pages in google before I had to cut it off pending another re-read of book 4. 

Fav of the original side characters?

I can not separate Nate and the Winchester House, so--

Fav the original main characters?

Vera by a slim margin over Joe.

When did you first start reading it?

It’s hard to remember just because the last three years are a fuzzy mess, but I’m pretty sure I started reading it late 2021/early 2022. I am a fast reader so I demolished it VERY fast. 

When did you first realize how hooked you where with DtA? Was it from moment one? Was there a specific scene? 

After Cas and Dean started properly working together in book 1 I was pretty on board, but once they told Chuck and started their trips into Kansas City, that was when it really settled in and I knew I was about to read the entire thing.

If there could be a in-depth prequel written for any of the characters, who's past would you be the most interested in exploring?

Joe or Teresa. Honestly though I’d really like to see the case Dean worked down by the border. 

If you had to, what would you ranking be of the books?

This is a slim AF margin too, because they’re all so good. But I think it’d be 3,1,4,2 So “A Thousand Lights in Space” “Map of the World” “Game of God” “It’s the Stars That Lie” But it's real neck and neck for the last three.

How many times have you read it all the way through?

Books one and two I have read cover to cover 6 or 7 times, three I probably read a couple more. Book four I’ve actually only read completely cover to cover once, but I have read a lot of it out of order a couple more times. I’m trying to get my fics to a bit more of a stable point so I can re-read it again in case I go off the rails hyper-fixation on it again. I’ll probably read it twice in a row when I read it this next time.

Did reading DtA help inspire your own The End fic?

No, it hindered it greatly. The world building in DtA is very contrary to the plot I have for my endverse fic, and it took a while for my brain to reset and be like “Nope, this is what I’m doing, put that out of your mind.” If I hadn’t read DtA, you’d already have my Endverse fic, because I started writing it before reading that, and had to stop work for straight up like a year. 

What of the many burning questions currently unanswered do you want answered first?

WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED INSIDE THE DAMN CHURCH!?!?!?

What's the most interesting non-SPN related fact that DtA taught you?

Graphene and everything about it.

If normal SPN team free will read/watch/found out about the DtA what do you think their reactions would be?

I think none of them would have any idea what to do with it. Cas would therefore not have much outward expression, Sam would be incredibly awkward and only a little insulted he isn’t in it, and Dean would be 10/10 defensive AF. 

What's a scene/interaction that still scratches the brain itch?

The Winchester Hou- Cas accidentally calling Dean when he’s using Allison as a conduit for the kids in Ichabod, and subsequently their interactions after Cas figures out what happened. 

Close seconds are Cas and Dean’s interaction after Dean gets bit in the courtyard, Cas searching Kansas City with his mind after Dean touched The Ick™. 

And yes actually the retelling of Nate’s interactions with The Winchester House.

Have you read The Forever King spin-off series? If so, what are your thoughts?

I have not read it yet, I must at some point. I know I’ll like it.

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Also I'm glad my pitch worked and you ended up giving it another go!!

[teresaofichabod]

Part 2 of bookbinding 'DTA'.

It's the stars that lie by seperis.

All the design is the same like my previous part. I love how the silver shines in the sun. The cover is based on some art I found here on tumblr.

[s13e05]

my interests include cross stitching and down to agincourt

[moon-mac]

In our lord's year 2023, I'm reading the masterpiece Down to Agincourt by @seperis for the first time. I'm so god damn in love with these characters so here are my castings so far

Alicia (Alycia Debnan-Carey):

Amanda (Mackenzie Davis):

Vera (KiKi Layne):

Alison (Sarah Wayne Callies):

Teresa (Danay Garcia):

[daikikazuko]

Another DTOA from a discord event owo oc belongs to @/H on discord I'm not sure if they have an online profile anywhere 🥲

[castielchitaqua]

dta people i have a BIG question please interact

[campchitaquamemories]

You are towering and terrible, raw power unconstrained, crackling lightning and thunder over the vastness of eternity. As you have always been, as you should always be.

Your thousand eyes begin to close, one by one.

You pretend you can still see.

[stevebuckytea]

LISTEN TO ME.

CASTIEL. CASSIEL QAFSIEL KAZIEL. THE KARMA AND THE BALANCE. CAS. CASTIEL GABRIEL SINGER OF CHITAQUA.

[downtoagincourt]

Hello! I was wondering if you have any recommendations re: who I could reach out to for getting a physical copies of the DTA books and/or access to PDFs for it? All I've been able to find is a broken link to a masterpost (so close yet so far :(( ) Thank you so much!!

Hello patrol team member! The best thing would be to get on a DTA server on Discord, or the server for @renegadepublishing; but you could also check with Chitaqua lieutenant and MVP @liapher, who knows a thing or two about getting toilet paper around here, if you know what we mean. These are our oblique suggestions. Many patrol members bind their own! Good luck, friend—

[aztrove]

31.03.2024 badge mockup for a dtoa. for @/joehawley. on discord.

[bobwess]

I'm not saying I reluctantly read Down to Agincourt and loved it so much more than the source material it sent me down a rabbit hole of obsession that completely derailed my youtube posting schedule in a way I have never recovered from but I'm not not saying that either.

[teresaofichabod]

I finally did it!

First part of my handbound 'Down to agincourt' books is done.

Now some design stuff!

Cover: The cover I made on CANVA. And printed it on blue paper that I than put silver foil on.

Pic 1: you can see the shimmer of the foil & Pic 2: is my test cover that I printed.

Text: the actual text is all set in Times New Roman 12.

Text: the title of the book is in Checkpoint Charlie 36

Text: the chapter titles are in Border Line 18

Text: the days and dates are in Take Cover 12

Pic 1: title. Pic 2: chapter title and dates

Some random design pics xD

[s13e05]

hello dta enjoyers, please look at this insane map of the town of ichabod with key locations, by friendly neighborhood cartographer noviembre. she has another HUGE map including the wall, a little joe (beloved) pov fic, and cas' pov of lights 13 - all are located here.

(she gave me permission to post this god bless)

[scalectr]

Lovely Plumpkin I drew for Oxies dtoa event,,,

[bedlund]

liveblogging on @dtoa . If anyone cares