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All of those options are good! It can be where they first meet, a first date spot, a sexy encounter, or even a location mentioned in a flashback! We're pretty open to how creatively people use the prompts, it can even be a location that the two characters talk about visiting together but don't actually go to. (though that's a bit hard to do with the Under the bed prompt haha!) And yes, established relationships are totally fine as well for submission!

Title:  Wing and a Prayer Artist:  JDL71 / JLD71 Author:  samisadeangirl / genevra1676 Rating:  Explicit Warnings/Spoilers:  POV 1st Person, Azazel’s Special Children, Sam Winchester’s Demonic Powers, Dean Winchester Has Powers, Winged Dean Winchester, Canon-Typical Violence, Established Relationship, Bottom Dean Winchester/Top Sam Winchester, Hand Jobs, Frottage, Anal Sex Summary:  Sam begins to notice something unusual about his brother, that Dean seems to share the same immunity to certain demonic influences that he does–even though Dean clearly doesn’t fit the profile of one of the Special Children. Sam eventually learns that he isn’t the only one with the Yellow Eyed Demon’s blood running through his veins, but for Dean, that takes on a different manifestation …

Yes, her career seems to have taken off to the point where doing the Wayward bitches spinoff would have been a step down.

Not only is her hair color better, but she got rid of the extensions as well.

Welcome, bienvenue! It is always wonderful when people find this page; I love it so much.

I'm about half asleep so if I miss something we can chat more tomorrow, here or 1 on 1. I'm here to help however I can!

Easy answer to the Monthlies is they're at the bottom of the Hard Mode tab of the spreadsheet. They're probably minimized, iirc. If you still can't find them, I'll make sure to update the downloadable version -- sometimes weird things happen, eh?

Yes you can definitely get a Participant badge, for sure! Submission deadline is the last day of January so you can sneak a few more fics in there if you wish! ;D

We have new badges this year (I aim for new ones every year) and, in addition to the awesome ones @saganarojanaolt makes, I'm going to try to make some pretty but basic badges for some 'special and secret' bonus prizes. Should be fun!!

A tip: You don't need to submit a reading log alongside the spreadsheet (and with that, I only check task completion numbers vs. numbers of tasks claimed done).

And another tip! You can use fics you've read throughout ALL of 2022, especially with the help of AO3's History/Marked For Later list. Or your memory. Some people are that awesome, hehehe.

Another: You can use the same fic for different tasks unless the description of the task explicitly states you cannot. Like the "read x 5k+ fics' and 'read x 20k fics' --- those need to be different. There aren't too many instances of that, though, so that's good.

This year's challenge was a little ambitious, but 2023 will be where I learn from my... not mistakes necessarily, but choices. That's a good word. So it should be a bit easier to complete!

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BTW @amoreanonyname and @topsambottomdean, you both seem willing to take what Dean said while under the spectre’s control as gospel.  Does that mean that we should also believe what Sam said and did while under Dr. Ellicott’s influence in 1.10 Asylum as literal truth?  Sam actually shot Dean and would’ve killed him if Dean had given him a loaded gun, not just threatened him, but we excuse what happened as purely the ghost’s fault.  So why not here?

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There is a big difference in what they say and what they do being under some  influence (it really doesn't matter what kind of). And apparently because of it there is a confusion.

3 episodes come to my mind to start:

1.10 Asylum

4.14 Sex and Violence

8.06 Southern Comfort

I don’t pay much attention to what they do being under the influence, basically because they just want to KILL each other. Plain and simple. Sam would have killed Dean, if he had bullets in Asylum, Dean would have killed Sam, if he hadn’t been stopped by Bobby in Sex and Violence and Dean would shot Sam, if he hadn’t been stopped by Garth in Southern Comfort. Period.

But we do know for sure that they don’t want to kill each other in a normal state (and if this happened, the one who would have survived would immediately have resurrected the deceased one if he survived the psychotrauma of soulmate killing in general, of course, lol) and in this moment this confusion appears:

if we cannot believe what they do under the influence, why should we believe what they say under the influence?

Because. =) Because the writers use these conversations as a kind of truth serum.

Because Winchesters are not the kind of guys who, at the first tension, are ready to talk heart to heart with each other. They are silent about what bothers them, they lie that everyhing is OK and suppress the anger and pain. Because they are tough guys and all these snotty revelations and psychological nonsense are not about them. But the viewer SHOULD know what is boiling in them, what they really care about. Therefore, the writers use conversations under some influence as truth serum. In all 3 episodes I made reference to, everything that the brothers said to each other is truth, this is pain, anger and frustration, all the crap that bothers them.

And although they almost always say afterwards that they don’t remember what they said or didn’t mean it, it’s still true.

In Asylum:

SAM: I am normal. I’m just telling the truth for the first time. I mean, why are we even here? ’Cause you’re following Dad’s orders like a good little solider? Because you always do what he says without question? Are you that desperate for his approval?

And literally in the next episode 1.11 Scarecrow absolutely normal Sam said exactly the same things to Dean that he said under the influence.

SAM: I don’t understand the blind faith you have in the man. I mean, it’s like you don’t even question him.

DEAN: Yeah, it’s called being a good son!

And Sam becomes so angry (same as in Asylum) that he leaves Dean in the middle of the night and walk away.

Same with Sex and Violence

DEAN: Well, I don't know when it happened. Maybe when I was in hell. Maybe when I was staring right at you. But the Sam I knew, he's gone. And it's not the demon blood or the psychic crap. It's the little stuff. The lies. The secrets. The phone calls to Ruby for one.

SAM: So I need your say-so to make a phone call?

DEAN: That's the point. You're hiding things from me. What else aren't you telling me? ...

SAM: You're too busy sitting around feeling sorry for yourself. Whining about all the souls you tortured in hell. Boo hoo.

and Southern Comfort

DEAN: Well, let's go through some of Sammy's greatest hits. Drinking demon blood, check. Being in cahoots with Ruby. Not telling me that you lost your soul. Or how about running around with Samuel for a whole year, letting me think that you were dead while you're doing all kinds of crazy.

Well, someone will say that there are problems with this

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Something that bugs me about a lot of weecest fics is when they turn Sam into some kind of slutty lolita. How is that even remotely in-character for the Sam we know in canon?

John did love his sons, and he had good intentions. But it's canon that he neglected them, let them (at least Dean) go hungry, and forced Dean to take on adult duties and raise Sam too young, all because he was more focused on revenge than being a father. Neither boys would be half as much of a mess now if he'd done his damn job as a parent.

He didn’t let anybody go hungry: when he left them alone, they did have food or money to buy food, as proven by the fact that in Something Wicked Dean literally threw away a whole plate of pasta (or whatever it was) because Sam wanted Lucky Charms instead. If he had been starving, he would have eaten it instead of throwing it away.