Masterpost: Sam Winchester's Guide to Blood Magic, or How the Rockies Were Made

[badbastion]

Fic title: Sam Winchester's Guide to Blood Magic, or How the Rockies Were Made

Author name: badbastion and thursdaysisters
Artist name: sophiap
Genre: Wincest, horror, action/adventure, mystery
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 45,716
Podfic length: 4:43:00
Warnings: constantly shifting POV, violence, gore, h/c, explicit sometimes rough sex, surreal elements, creepy children, action/adventure, case!fic, horror, liberal use of Cthulhu mythos
Summary: The Apocalypse occurred in 2009 when Sam and Dean accidentally unsealed Lucifer's Cage. Or did it? Dean finds a battered journal recounting events he doesn't remember, Sam finds out that H. P. Lovecraft was a prophet, and this starts them on a path of mystery and mayhem that has them scouring secret government facilities and traveling to Arkham itself to find the answers of this past that never was.

They find the answers, how they averted the Deep Ones' Apocalypse, how they destroyed Cthulhu himself and raised mountain ranges, how they once were together, as they fight robots and monsters and men and their own emerging memories and desires. Sam must fulfill Prophecy and become a Deep God in his own right before they can put things to rest.

Set in (slightly alternate) Season 9 without mention of the MoC, and assuming the Lovecraft episode never existed.

Link to fic: Part 1 On LJ On AO3
Link to art: here
Link to podfic: here

Big huge thanks to firesign10 and missyjack for being such thorough, thoughtful and insightful betas, and to adelheide and amberdreams for reading this over. They did a wonderful job, and all remaining mistakes are our own. Also a huge thank you to sophiap, who was not only enthusistic and fantastic to work with, but also did not only two beautiful full pieces of art, but gorgeous chapter headers for all 22 (!!) of our chapters. You all made this a really exciting bigbang to work on! :D

Comments

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

Oh honey that artwork is GORGEOUS, it makes me wanna read your story so bad! Well done to you and Thursday for getting it done! :D ♥

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Thank you, I love the art so much! i hope you enjoy the story :) :)

[milly-gal.livejournal.com]

I'm absolutely sure I will :D

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the mention, but I ended up being totally useless to you! Which does however mean I get to read this fresh now so there is that... :D

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

You offered, and you read some of it, so that makes you important to it :) I hope you enjoy it! :D

[amberdreams.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the mention, but I ended up being totally useless to you! Which does however mean I get to read this fresh now so there is that... :D

[missyjack.livejournal.com]

Sorry excited to see this posted. And with a podfic too! Can't wait to re-read this wonderful tale.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

yay! Thanks so much for helping us out! :D

[runedgirl.livejournal.com]

Oooooh can't wait to read this!!!

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

I really hope you enjoy it! :)

[applegeuse.livejournal.com]

This is so awesome! :D!!!! What an awesome concept for a story. AND. How cool is it that you guys podficced it and released it as the same time as the fic?!?!?! Answer: incredibly cool!!

Would you like me to combine the files into an m4b for you? (And if so, it's okay if I use sophiap's art as the cover?)

[thursdaysisters.livejournal.com]

Yeah go for it! Send it to sistersofthursday at gee male dot com and then I can upload it to the podfic site :-D Glad you liked the story, not everyone goes for pulp action sexventures :-D