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It's been a week now since the finale aired, and I've gone from finding it more-or-less acceptable to more-or-less loathing it. Dean dying so suddenly (and in such an ignominious way to boot) and leaving Sam spits in the face not only of the S15 arc of escaping Chuck's hamster wheel but also, I think, of the last few seasons to boot. If this finale had aired after S10, coming off the MoC storyline and the Gadreel bullshit, I think I would have found Dean's easy acceptance of death and Sam's easy acceptance of a "normal" life much easier to swallow. But in the last few seasons, Dean hasn't had a death wish, and instead of yearning for a normal life a la "After School Special," Sam has been the one stressing the importance of them being together and dying together. He definitely doesn't yearn for any type of normal that doesn't also include Dean. As someone who faithfully watched every ep of S12-S15, the finale feels like a slap in the face.

Thoughts on Destiel and the ending I would have preferred )
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I was so devastated by the SPN finale that I wrote and posted fic last Saturday for the first time in over four years. It's 2,500 words of me working out my SAM-WINCHESTER-FUCKING-DESERVED-BETTER feelings. I cried multiple times while writing it.

For context, S15 established early on that characters who have been to Hell, such as both Sam and Dean, are not allowed into Heaven. I therefore have MANY NOT-NICE FEELINGS toward the writers about the fact that Dean was so at peace with dying and Sam was able to let him go. I also have many feeilngs about the fact that Sam was left ALONE after losing his mom, Cas, Jack, AND Dean...

Title: Carry On: Coda
Summary: Sam prays for answers, because Heaven can’t take souls that have been to Hell.
Word Count: 2.5K
Warnings: Suicide ideation

Sam prays.

To Jack, first, as he carries Dean’s body out of the barn.

Jack, please, bring him back. Please bring him back.

To Amara, as he parks the Impala in the bunker’s garage and trembles in the driver’s seat, wondering if he has the strength to carry Dean’s body inside again (he’d do it in a heartbeat if it meant history would repeat itself; if Dean woke up with black eyes and Sam had to chase him down and cure him again that would be fine, it would be fine).

Amara, please, bring him back. I’m sorry we lied to you. I’m sorry we tried to kill you. I know we don’t deserve it, but please, please, please bring him back.

To Chuck even, in drunk desperation, and then hates himself a little afterward.

Chuck, if you have any powers left, please, please bring him back. We’ll be your favorites again, we’ll do anything you want, we’ll fight whatever apocalypse you throw at us, I promise.

But no one answers. Dean’s body stays cold and dead, and Sam can’t bring himself to carry him inside after all. The bunker already doesn’t feel like home anymore, but Sam can’t taint it any further. He won’t smooth out Dean’s rumpled bedsheets and blanket to lay a corpse on it. He leaves Dean in the car, with Baby, and the next day, he finds a crossroads.

Continued on AO3

gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
Gosh it's been ages since I've gotten to use that kind of subject line! :D

After literally months of waiting, I finally got to post my fic for the SPN Rare Pair Big Bang today!

Title: Wait For It
Ship: Dean Winchester/Bela Talbot
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Off-screen attempted suicide; non-explicit references to canonical rape/sexual abuse re: Bela’s backstory; assumes Bela was the First Seal, so non-explicit references to Dean torturing her
Setting: Post-series AU
Summary: Dean never claimed that curing Bela Talbot was a well-thought-out plan, but falling for her afterward definitely wasn’t part of it. Or, five times Dean and Bela don’t say “I love you” (and one time they do).
On Ao3

This fic takes place in my Bela/Dean + Sam/Gen AU but is the first chronologically. I already said this on my flaily I-finished-my-draft post a few months ago, but this story has been in my head for literally YEARS, so it was such an amazing feeling to finally actually write it down. *happy sigh*

Even if you have zero interest in the fic, maybe consider checking out my partner's art cause it's shiny? :)
gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
This is a tiny 1,200 ficlet- tbh more like a vignette or a timestamp than an actual ficlet with a narrative of its own- that I wrote during NaNo this year.  I can't post the WIP snippets I really want to because in theory they're part of my RPBB (which I doubt I'll actually complete in time, also tbh), but this is an id-dy, entirely self-indulgent Sam + Bela scene in my Bela/Dean post-series AU (that I've posted several fics from).  It takes place anywhere between 6 months to a year after Bela and Dean officially start dating.

"Sam? Can I talk to you for a minute?" )
gryfndor_godess: (Dean/Bela)
A NSFW headcanon meme is going around Tumblr, and it instantly made me think of Bela and Dean, and since I definitely have opinions, I figured why the hell not do it.  It was a very fun break from noveling.

Perfect icon is perfect )
gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
AAAAAHHHHH I'M SO HAPPY ABOUT TONIGHT'S EPISODE.

I THINK IT'S MY FAVORITE ENDING OF ANY SPN EPISODE EXCEPT FOR MAYBE #200.

DYLAN EVERETT (AKA young!Dean) IS SUCH A JOY.  He's Colin Ford levels of good.  He's Dean's Colin Ford.

Spoilers (mostly vague ones) )
gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
I wrote flash fic!  I hardly ever do that!  But Kelsey gave me an awesome prompt on Tumblr for a meme where a friend writes the first line and then you write five more (spoiler alert, I wrote a lot more than 5 sentences).  So the first sentence, "He danced the way...feel like a normal girl." was written by [livejournal.com profile] kwritten.

Title: Passing Through
Pairing: Claire Novak/Ben Braeden

He danced the way he told jokes, more like your middle-aged father than the secret boyfriend you snuck in your window, and she thought if she put her feet on top of his he’d twirl her away, maybe even make her feel like a normal girl.

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gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
[livejournal.com profile] lynzie914 asked for my favorite Bela scene(s)/episode, and I was only too happy to oblige.  Beware: Here there be flailing.

FLAIL! FLAIL! FLAIL! )

WIP Meme!

Sep. 14th, 2014 01:06 pm
gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
I'm technically working on original fic these days, but I felt like doing this meme anyway because I'm in a good mood because (a) otherwise these tidbits might never see the light of day, (b) I would still love to eventually finish them, and (c) calling them WIP instead of abandoned probably improves their prospects.  The problem is that with the exception of the first, all of these would be well over 10K if I actually wrote them, so I have a hard time justifying the time it would take away from original fic.  /O\  Hopefully if I checked this post a year from now I'd have made progress on at least one of them, though...


Blockquote html is not working, woe )
gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
IDK how much I'll write before losing steam on this, but I'm feeling inspired so:

NB: These posts (if I end up doing more than one) are going to be more like rambling diary entries than actual reports.  Sadly, since it has been four months, I don't actually remember a lot of what was said in the panels, and while some of my notes are understandable, some say, "Under the Sea, Gabe, Matt as back-up.  Chuck, something w/alcohol.  What If God Was One of Us."  Which, WTF??  So, yes, these are iddy diary entries with my impressions and flailing, not reports.


So this is mostly babbling about prep for the con and then a teensy bit of Friday )
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Meta I posted on Tumblr last night that was inspired by this gifset, or Why S10 Is The Perfect Time To Bring Back Bela Talbot:

Everyone is thoroughly spoiled already about Dean right? )

Thinking of all the delicious narrative potential here and how it's going to be wasted makes me want to cry.

ETA: I just got the following message on Tumblr:
          Hi, could you maybe tag your anti John Winchester posts (like the one about Bela in the Bela talbot tag) with something, like anti john? thanks.

And just, wow.  I understand not tagging character hate, and I even understand tagging "anti-characters" if it's a major part of a post, but tagging "anti" in regards to a solitary reference to abusive behavior that is canonical?  Just, wow.

All I can say is, I just reblogged some really excellent meta on "Bad Boys" about how the bruises on Dean's arms were probably made by John, and I tagged it "John Winchester" because it's fucking meta, and meta = / = hate, and if you think I'm going to go out of my way to protect the poor woobie feelings of apologists who identify as "pro john" (as this person's blog says), you are sadly mistaken.


/End rant, which I did here because I'm not going to respond to this person, 30% because I believe in taking the high ground and 70% because I am actually too appalled to even begin to know how to respond.

gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
Title: Begin Again
Summary: A Knight of Hell is on the warpath.  The Queen of Hell and a hunter seek the First Blade.  The year is 3014.
Characters: Dean Winchester, Bela Talbot, OFC
Relationships: Bela/Dean (UST)
Additional Tags: Cain!Dean, Mark of Cain, References to Major Character Death, POV Original Female Character
Word Count: 13,215
Rating: PG-13
Link: AO3
gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
But first, 2 quick thoughts-

1. Christine Baranski as fem!Cain in genderswapped!SPN Y/Y?  WANT.  My other S8/S9 gender swaps include:
-Tricia Helfer as Gadreel (originally I was going to make her Bartholomew, but he didn’t last long enough to deserve Helfer)
-Martha Plimpton as Metatron
-Alan Tudyk as Abaddon
-Eric Stoltz as Naomi

2. I actually really miss Bobby.  I never thought I’d say that, but at least he wouldn’t be afraid to give Dean the kick in the ass he deserves.

Theory! With spoilers, of course )
gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
Title: Too Late, Too Little
Summary: Dean wants more than Bela’s friendship, but he can’t ask for that, not on February 15th.  6,000 words.
Characters/Ships: Bela Talbot, Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Castiel, pre-Bela/Dean, offscreen Megstiel
Rating: PG-13
A/N: This fic takes place in my post-series Bela/Dean, Gen/Sam AU that includes Morning Routine, Man of Steel, and Rain Day, but it’s the first chronologically.  This AU assumes that Bela came back as a demon and the boys cured her.  This particular fic is half schmoop, half angst, and 100% domestic.
Also on AO3.


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gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
Title: Rain Day
Summary: Some early mornings are worth waking up for.
Pairing: Sam Winchester/Genevieve Cortese
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 2,400
A/N: Because I have a hard time shipping Sam with anyone who doesn’t look like Genevieve Cortese, I like to pretend that the comatose girl whose body Ruby used had a twin sister.  Sam sees said twin, assumes she’s Ruby, tries to kill her, gets knifed for the trouble, and then falls for her, because he’s a little messed up like that, poor boy.  This snapshot takes places in the same Bela/Dean post-canon AU as “Morning Routine” and “Man of Steel” (but it’s not necessary to read those first) and was inspired by this post from Tumblr:

note to self don’t think about your otp curled up together in bed, legs and arms all tangled together between blankets to fight off the cold and listening to the sound of rain and each other’s breathing, faces buried in tangles of hair or against the other’s chest/neck and pressing little kisses against their cheek or their shoulder or their neck and mumbling about how lucky they are to have the other because you will get feelings and then cry


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gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
Over two months ago, I fell in love with a potential a/b/o verse, and I started scribbling down sentences whenever I could (literally, I was writing in a notebook at red lights during my commute).  It was only ever supposed to be a lark, a short, “Things I Am Not Actually Writing” post.  It turned into 5,500 words.  It is still something that I Am Not Actually Writing, although I do hope to dabble in the verse again at some point.  Maybe even try my hand at a/b/o sex.  *wibbles*  But for the moment it’s good to finally be done with it because that leaves me with just two short fics to write on my plate (and one thing that’s just for fun), and then I’ll possibly be done with fandom for a while.  Not because I want to be done with fandom, but I have to focus on studying.  Seems like the time for it, too, since it’s hard to feel creatively inspired when canon is prohibitively depressing.

So here’s the A/B/O Thing I’m Not Actually Writing, starring Gen and other familiar faces.  No spoilers past "Jus in Bello."  :D
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­­When the other woman burst into the bathroom and Gen smelled alpha, she smiled, because unlike popular rag-mags, Gen did not believe that every other alfemale was out to steal her (hypothetical) omega, and in fact, she was pretty sure that ladies who were considered freaks of nature in large swathes of the country should look out for each other.

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gryfndor_godess: (Bela Talbot)
Gen Teensybang Fic Masterpost
Title: Silent Night
Author: [livejournal.com profile] gryfndor_godess
Artist: [livejournal.com profile] sagetan
Fandom: SPN
Pairings: Ruby & Bela, Ruby/Sam, Ruby/Lilith, Bela/Dean, Ruby & Dean
Word count: 9,300
Rating: R
Genre: AU-S3/S4
Contents: Warnings for references to past mpreg (this fic takes place in S4, but in S3 Dean was pregnant with Bela’s baby) and references to Bela’s abusive childhood.
Summary: Babysitting Dean and Bela’s brat after they went to Hell was so never in Ruby’s plan, but with them out of the pit now, efforts to free Lucifer are finally back on track, if a few months behind schedule.  There are still occasional blips, though, like the boys deciding to batten down the hatches on little Mary Winchester’s half-birthday.  Fortunately, while Sam and Dean wallow in their paranoia that history’s going to repeat itself, Ruby and Bela have each other, not to mention lots of wine.

A/N: This fic takes place in an AU in which Dean became pregnant with Bela’s baby in S3.  They traded the Colt for an extension on Dean’s contract so that he could live until the baby was born in August; he was rescued by the angels at the end of October, so the S4 arc timeline is pushed back by a month.  “Silent Night” is a companion piece to “Waiting Game,” which takes place while Dean and Bela are still in Hell and Mary is in Sam and Ruby’s care; however, it’s not necessary to read “Waiting Game” first.

A/N 2: This fic is split into two posts only because it's too long to fit into one; there's no break between the "chapters."  Second post is here.

Thank you to the mods of [livejournal.com profile] genteensybang for running the show and inspiring so much Gen/Ruby creativity.
Thank you to [livejournal.com profile] smells_corrupt, my wonderful beta partner-in-crime!  ♥
And thank you to my artist partner-in-crime [livejournal.com profile] sagetan, who drew the most beautiful Ruby, Bela, and Sam a girl could hope for.  Go see for yourself and shower her with adoration.


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