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Title: Birds of Passage
Author: neotoma
Artist:cashay
Genre/Pairing: (slash & drama), Sam/Gabriel/Vessel
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~61,000
Warnings/Spoilers: gore/animal sacrifice, gore, implied past abuse, gore/torture, homophobia/transphobia, set post-S5 SPN/ S1 Jericho

Summary: Lucifer is back in his Cage, but one averted Apocalypse doesn't mean much in the face of another, more human one. Sam Winchester, the Archangel Gabriel, and a man millennia out of his own time have wandered into a small Kansas town, where they get to deal with tree thieves, suspicious sheriffs, shady characters, political in-fighting, looming starvation, and the occasional pagan deity passing through. It's just one damn thing on top of another after The End of the World. [Crossover with JERICHO (tv series)]



( Part 4: blood in the service of the lord of hosts )

Title: Birds of Passage
Author: neotoma
Artist:cashay
Genre/Pairing: (slash & drama), Sam/Gabriel/Vessel
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~61,000
Warnings/Spoilers: gore/animal sacrifice, gore, implied past abuse, gore/torture, homophobia/transphobia, set post-S5 SPN/ S1 Jericho

Summary: Lucifer is back in his Cage, but one averted Apocalypse doesn't mean much in the face of another, more human one. Sam Winchester, the Archangel Gabriel, and a man millennia out of his own time have wandered into a small Kansas town, where they get to deal with tree thieves, suspicious sheriffs, shady characters, political in-fighting, looming starvation, and the occasional pagan deity passing through. It's just one damn thing on top of another after The End of the World. [Crossover with JERICHO (tv series)]



( Part Two: Strange dances long undone )

Title: Birds of Passage
Author: neotoma
Artist:cashay
Genre/Pairing: (slash & drama)
Rating: NC-17
Word count: ~61,000
Warnings/Spoilers: gore/animal sacrifice, gore, implied past abuse, gore/torture, homophobia/transphobia, set post-S5 SPN/ S1 Jericho

Summary: Lucifer is back in his Cage, but one averted Apocalypse doesn't mean much in the face of another, more human one. Sam Winchester, the Archangel Gabriel, and a man millennia out of his own time have wandered into a small Kansas town, where they get to deal with tree thieves, suspicious sheriffs, shady characters, political in-fighting, looming starvation, and the occasional pagan deity passing through. It's just one damn thing on top of another after The End of the World. [Crossover with JERICHO (tv series)]






( Prologue – I will lay my burden in the cradle of your grace )

40K words for my draft for the Gabriel Big Bang -- though I still dislike the working title. I have 2 days to come up with one I like better, or I'm just going to have to go with 'Wayward Son', which is hardly an original title for a SPN fic, even a crossover fic.

And possibly I need to find a beta who is into the second fandom, since both me and my alpha reader got into the series in the course of me writing this monster...

One of the things that I got from the CON.txt procrastinator's panel (oh yeah, I definitely needed to be there) is that it's okay to post fragments.

So, congratulations everyone, you get a fragment today.

This is from "Son of Laufey", the Gabriel backstory that I've been working on -- since SPN let me play in one of my oldest fandoms (aka Norse mythology), I'm just running with it.

( Gabriel is fascinated by the baby. It's tiny and fluffy, and he helped Angrboda create it, though she's done most of the work. He holds it to his chest and marvels at the soft feel of the newborn's fur and flesh. 933 words )

Should I use the thorn -- þ -- and eth -- ð -- when I use Norse names and words, or is it easier to read if the names are transliterated as long as I'm consistent?

I think I'm going to write a follow-up, probably two, to We Sat Down and Wept.

Jörmungandr and Fenrisulf want to talk to me. Neither of them is reassuring, you know? The Migard Serpent has *plans* to break the Doom of the Gods if the Winchesters manage to avert *their* Destinies by averting the Apocalypse ... and the Wolf wants revenge, and he wants it *bloody*.

They're kind of scary, because they've both got aspects of their father ( spoilers for SPN ep 5.19 Hammer of the Gods  ) I might wind up writing the story of how he became the Trickster, got married a couple of times, had kids, and walked away when it fell apart because of 'Destiny' yet again -- I could get a lot of interesting things out of the differences between Asgard and Heaven...

I have a story that's in-progress, but semi-stalled, and two *serious* bunnies nipping at my heels. This is not fun...

The WIP is 20000 words and it will be annoying if I stall out now. I just need to complete it, which means applying butt to chair tonight and tomorrow and writing. Especially because I think part of my block was Castiel, and given how BAMF he's been in recent episodes, I think I've got a better idea on how to handle him.

The Vessel-fic bunny has split into two -- the prologue (working title 'Troll Killing for Fun and Profit', which is hellava lot cheerier than the actual plot) is all about how a 10th century hay-farmer got to the point where he said yes to Gabriel when Gabriel wanted to hijack his body and run away from home in it. It's got trolls, witches, seers, Vikings and a lot of snark, and more anthropological detail about pre-Christian Iceland than most people will notice -- and the main bunny, which is Sam trying to figure out what actually went down in Detroit when he only remembers bits and pieces. Sam gets to deal with Dean's inability to be around normal people, Jimmy's desire to never see them ever again, and Hrafn's utter inability to fit into a society that frown on manslaughter as a method of dispute settlement.

The second bunny is a Band of Brothers crossover/fusion thingie, which I'm trying to kill dead because I don't write RPF.

In Supernatural, we've seen two of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( who aren't on horses anymore... )

So, it stands to reason that Death and Pestilience (or Conquest, I'm not quite sure which version of the White Horseman they're going to use on the show -- heck, they might decided to use the Anti-Christ interpretations, which means Jesse!) are going to drive expensive American-brand cars of some sort, possibly with horse names... what might they be?

I'm kind of loving the idea that at least one of the Horsemen drives a Pinto (probably Death, given the bad reputation of that car), but since I'm not up on classic or luxury cars, I wouldn't mind some suggestions.

I'm also trying to decide if angels in armor -- as Michael is constantly being shown to wear in the paintings that they putting the background of episodes -- wear helmets or not. It would appear not, but if the angels are wearing armor, why not helmets?