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Master List of Fic
Incomplete list, I'm gradually adding to it when I get a moment. And due to the original post getting too long, I've had to split it up! So you will find:
SPN Gen Part 1 - long fic HERE
SPN Gen Part 2 - short fic HERE
SPN Slash HERE
RPF HERE


Drabbles and other things I don't post many drabbles on here, because I've written too many! The nearly complete set can be found HERE on FF.net, but I sometimes post the odd one here, so: A trio of Season 8/9 drabbles It Burns my Heart Origin .

Master List of Arts - the masterlist is very much a work in progress right now, but while I'm constructing it, you can find some of my more polished art on deviantart. Bonus Sam and Dean as baby racoons Here

New addition - Recs!

2018 Summergen recs  ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Things to Do List - wherein I try and keep track.
2016 Things to Do List
2017 To Do List 2017 To Do List (Sept onwards) - LJ / DW 2018 To Do list
2019 To Do List
2020 To Do List
2021 To Do List
2022 To Do List
2023 To Do List

2024 To Do List
2025 To Do List
2026 To Do List

Fun coding stuff Here and security stuff

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It's time for my fave boy's Bang! I snagged two great stories and this is the first of them, a really insightful look into Dean's psyche via a series of flashbacks by the talented need_more_meta. My first time working with them and hopefully not my last.
So with no more ado - the banner. Click on it to go to the story on AO3.

needmoremeta banner

And the main picture

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Here we go again...

Fandom Challenges


  • Sam/Jared Reverse Bang - schedule here, art due Jan 11 2026. 2 pics submitted

  • DeanWinchester BB - schedule here Posting starts in Feb

  • Eldrich Reverse Bang - deadline 15th Jan 2 pics submitted

  • SPNJ2 BB - schedule here. Claims preview 6th May, claims on 19th May.


Sculpture Trails

  • To paint!
  • Glasgow Scotties - Maggi Mac. Leuchie North Berwick lighthouse - Shine a Light on Scotland
  •  
  • Awaiting decisions - Tayside Bears x2, Dartford Bears x2

  • Shortlisted - Plymouth lighthouses (don't know which design/s)

  • Shortlisted - Herschelephant for Slough & Winsor

  • SELECTED - Glasgow Scottie dog, Maggie Macdonald

  • Shortlisted - Harlow lion, Ozzie

  • Portsmouth Lions - Peter Sellers one shortlisted awaiting decision

  • Brighton Bookbenches - 3 Designs due 4th Jan Submitted

  • Harlow & Epping Lions - 2 Designs due 5th Jan Submitted

  • Newcastle Peter Rabbit - 2 designs due 13th Feb

Travel and other stuff

  • Portrait course

  • Italian

  • Urban Sketching (monthly, when around Norwich/Shrewsbury)

  • Dead Ringers in Norwich

  • Edinburgh for the High Life

  • Nottingham Ice Hockey Playoffs

  • JIB16

  • Purcon10

  • Venice Italian School

  • Orvieto & Assisi

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Herewith my art for SamandDean76's story - an adorable meet-cute J2, with a twist.
You can find the story on AO3 here, or click on the banner.
2025 SPNAU

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[livejournal.com profile] fireheart13 / [livejournal.com profile] firesign10 was a lovely person who I worked with many times in various bangs over the years. She'd gone on to publish her own stories in real life as Ellis Colton, and was vocal in her opposition to mysogny, homophobia and the anti LBGTQ+ stances of the far right.

The world needed more people like her, and it's a tragedy that she's gone.

Honour her memory and go read some of her stories. AO3 | LJ | DW
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[livejournal.com profile] j2_reversebang number 2! The lovely MorganaDW pulled out all the stops and was working until the last minute on this epic - a true hero!
Story link: AO3
Summary: Once upon a time, Jared Padalecki was a young, happy, open man who, despite a horrifying childhood incident and many family issues, still enjoyed his life. That was until a random trip to Monte Carlo introduced him to the best and the worst of life.
Five years later, after watching someone he loved sacrifice himself to keep him safe, he was a private man who kept to himself in his home in the hills of Monterey.
When rumors surface that the man who had cost Jared so much might be alive and closing in, he hatches a plan to learn the truth, unaware that someone else is also watching over him.

Banner
Morgana J2RB banner


The prompt art
J2 reverse2 draft
The art is a mix of traditional pencil drawing and then digital colouring. I had thought to re-draw it all, because there were inaccuracies that were (are still!) bugging me, but alas, I was too disorganised and the deadline crept up on me.
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I'm so looking forward to reading catnipster69's fic, it sounds right up my street! Both my authors for this RB have been beavering away right to the wire so reading the stories is going to be such fun.
Story links AO3 | Tumblr

In the meantime, here's the art.
Jax's Bar banner

The Prompt pic
2025 J2 reverse Jax Bar final
Watercolour and a bit of fineliner. I put little visuals in there so someone could run with a space or futuristic/post apocalypse world if they wanted, or keep it in this world, whatever direction they fancied. I love to see how an image sparks something for someone else!
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From barn to bridge...
2025 Now it's Perfect
Watercolour boys for 2025's Now It's Perfect.
Check out the collection on AO3.

I really must remember to post here! I keep forgetting...
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From barn to bridge...
2025 Now it's Perfect
Watercolour boys for 2025's Now It's Perfect.
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How very unexpected and kind! Fatima_O on AO3 has made a very thoughtful and thought-provoking gift for me out of the blue - so I'm urging y'all to go and leave her some love!

It's a really cool and beautiful mixed media art of Sam and Dean, based on a few lines from a poem:

They are forgiven as they forgive all those dark wounds and deep.

Their beds are made on the Lap of Time and they lie down and sleep.

They are forgiven as they forgive all those old wounds that bleed.

They shut their eyes from their worshippers; they sleep till the world has need.


The Sack of the Gods — Rudyard Kipling

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How very unexpected and kind! Fatima_O on AO3 has made a very thoughtful and thought-provoking gift for me out of the blue - so I'm urging y'all to go and leave her some love!

It's a really cool and beautiful mixed media art of Sam and Dean, based on a few lines from a poem:

They are forgiven as they forgive all those dark wounds and deep.

Their beds are made on the Lap of Time and they lie down and sleep.

They are forgiven as they forgive all those old wounds that bleed.

They shut their eyes from their worshippers; they sleep till the world has need.


The Sack of the Gods — Rudyard Kipling

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It's me and [livejournal.com profile] amypond45 again, folks! The dynamic duo... LOL  Read the story here on AO3.

Actually I was not very dynamic this time and only managed a single piece of art, but for once it's one I really like quite a lot.

It's a bit spoilery for a scene in the story so you might want to read the fic first.

Hopefully you will all recognise this setting from the show! I was delighted to have the chance to draw one of my all time favourite scenes - I think that whole sequence in Lazarus Rising is so beautifully shot.Read more... )
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A new partner in crime for this year's [livejournal.com profile] spneldritchbang and a delightfully angsty and creepy story by EnTeSelene. Perfect for the season!

Click on the Banner for the story on AO3
Title banner with lettering made from splatted ink blots reading "Soul Eater". On the left is a barely visible silhouette of Dean Winchester. Sub text reads "An SPN Eldritch Bang Offering, Story by EnTeSelene, Art by Amberdreams

Key to Dean's part of the story is the risky business of catching out trains, so I had to try something around that
Night time scene with a red freight train coming diagonally towards the viewer, lights blazing. Halfway down the train a negative white sihouette of a man is jumping onto the train, seemingly chased by a roiling mass of dark  tendrils. Painting is violets
The night time background with the train was done with oil sticks, mixed with linseed oil and moved around with a paintbrush with variable success. Dean and the inky Soul Eater were added using digital layers.

And the image of Dean, alone, being menaced by the soul eater was also something I had to try
Blue pencil drawing of Dean Winchester seated on the ground hugging his knees surrounded by an inky blot-darkness which is inside and outside of him

Now the rambling part 😂

There are actually loads of images that I was inspired by in the story, but alas, deadlines and other things always mean options have to be narrowed down, and those two main images were my favourites from the start.
So first was the searching for suitable references (American freight trains, anyone?) and some sketching to work out the concepts.


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For Dean's sitting position I was using this behind the scenes photo from the finale, but on reflection, I changed it so Dean was looking down - both because it mirrored his feelings of despair, but also because in the story he's trying to avoid eye contact to contain the monster.
SPN Finale behind the scenes photo of Jensen sitting on a pebble beach with a bleached dead treeroot system framing his figure
I made a silhouette of Dean leaping onto the train, which I then used in negative digitally on the oil painting of the train, and again in the banner.
I wanted the soul eater to be something organic looking, so I had a very messy time with a pipette and a straw, splashing india ink and blowing it to create some inky messes to use - and they appear in every picture.
All the [pictures are traditional media which I then played with digitally to combine the different elements. So seated Dean was drawn separately with a Derwent blu-ink coloured pencil, and the Soul Eater was an ink blot page which was added digitally.

Dean Winchester in ink-blue Derwent drawing pencil, seated on the ground hugging his knees

white page with a large ink blot that has been blown so there are large and small chaotic tendrils in randomw directions
Hmm - Blue Dean and the Inkblots could be a 1960s band name...
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My second Time travel bang, this time with the lovely Masoena. The moment I saw the prompt included travel to ancient Egypt, I had to snaffle it!!

Click on the banner to read the story of Sam's misadventures on AO3
Painted scene of the pyramids being constructed with buildings and palm trees in the foreground. Overlaying the background picture are pictograms forming the words "Lost in Eygpt". In a more ordinary font it says "By Masoena with art by Amberdreams"

This next scene could be a little spoilery, but only if I tell you what's happening - otherwise, hopefully it's a big fat teaser to tempt you to read the fic!Read more... )
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Time travel is one of my all time favourite tropes and I was lucky to snap two lovely authors for this challenge! Here's the first of the two, Back to the Beginning by [livejournal.com profile] jdl71 - a n interesting journey for Sam into Dean's psyche as well as their past.
Story link here or click on the banner.

a battered red truck drives towards a Kansas State sign with sunflowers. In the truck you can see Sam and the driver.

The main art
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New to Dreamwidth, calling all writers!
@fan_writers comm - for meta about writing

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Another year, another fab [livejournal.com profile] spn_j2_bigbang collaboration! I've worked with Tammyrenh before, and as always it was a pleasure.
You can read the story on AO3 HERE (or click on the banner).

Banner/cover art
2025 Tammy scan banner cover
The following is spoilery for the story (though it's an early scene)
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Main picture - a dramatic rescue!

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We put in an offer as a consortium from our Marvel artists discord group, Marvel Art Party, and Bulkyphrase put in the winning bid.
They asked for Okoye (or a couple of other characters) in a role swap/what if scenario, and kindly allowed me to try out Okoye as the Winter Soldier.

I've represented her as a fairly traditional Russian-version Winter Soldier, but tried to add some echoes of her Wakandan origins in the background and in her hair.

2024 MTH Okoye Winter Soldier
All done in a single terracotta Holbein pencil.

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My first SWJP BB and I had the absolute pleasure of working with TeacupUnicorn on one of my favourite tropes - a crossing over of alternate universes. Many thanks to Teacup for the great story, and to the mods of the SamWin Jarpad Big Bang for all their hard work spreading the Sam love.

Click HERE or on the banner to read the story!
2025 Teacup banner

Technically there's a single image, but as you will see later, it's actually two stitched together.
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