fic: how the mighty fall (in love) - masterpost
Fic title: how the mighty fall (in love)
Author name: cosmo-naught
Artist name: takiai5jalka
Genre: vaguely gory tragicomedy with bonus angst and wincest!
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 25,000
Warnings: slightly grisly, but pretty much on-par with the show. lots of language, including colloquialisms for sex workers. there’s passing mention of Sam/Ruby, Dean/Lisa, and Sam/Amelia-no more than a few lines each.
Summary: So picture this: it’s 2007, Dean just sold his soul, and the brothers Winchester are hunting what they think is a vengeful spirit when Dean gets kidnapped, and they realize just how deep their codependence runs. In the aftermath, Sam and Dean deal with things the only way they know how (i.e very poorly). Then Dean goes to hell, things get messy, Sam thinks Dean's forgotten all about their night together…couple that with a case that ends up spanning half a decade, the most epic crossroads in the nation, a smattering of reoccurring characters, and you’ve got yourself a story for the ages.
A/N: i signed up for the spn_j2_bigbang planning to write an entirely different story, but then FOB came back and, lo and behold, one of their songs had a lyric that matched the title of an unfinished story that i’d begun drafting when i first started watching the show. i took it as a sign.
prologue | one | two | three | four | five | six | epilogue
deleted scenes | endnotes | art masterpost
AO3 | PDF
Acknowledgements:
this thing took so long and went through so many rewrites and edits, it’s not even funny. i had a LOT of help, and as a result, these acknowledgements are going to be freaking long. anyway.
a huge, huge THANK YOU to my initial beta sailoreyes67, who showered me with love and put up with my uncanny knack for sending her things to beta at the last minute. i was all set to give up on this story because i couldn't get it to work in terms of what time period it would be set in, and then you came up with the totally insane idea to set this fic in s2 and make it stretch through to s8. i can’t thank you enough for that moment of pure, inspired, genius. i’m sorry you couldn’t give this story a more thorough read the last time around, but i’m so glad you were a part of it.
to my darling takiai5jalka: I LOVE THE ART. THANK YOU SO MUCH. you are the sweetest ever, and possess an incredible amount of patience-thank you, too, for tolerating my inability to finalize a story <3 you were a joy to collaborate with! i love talking to you and geeking out over authors together (: and i still can’t believe how fast you read! it’s a gift, for real.
i’d also like to pepper hugs and kisses on the entirety of the email handholding group for the early stages. those sprints totally saved my life. special thanks go to clex_monkie89 who helped me get into the headspace of a (fairly important) character.
i would not have found a backup beta without afattribble, who gave a much-needed signal boost. and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to alienass for stepping in when you did. without you, i wouldn’t be able to post this. sweetheart, you are the best.
and i am forever grateful to sleepypercy, whose insight is generally brilliant and always helpful and who was wonderfully gracious enough to let me pick her brain and send her things to read.
last but certainly not least: a round of undying applause for wendy and thehighwaywoman, who run this thing like the seasoned pros they are and made my first-ever bigbang awesome.
Author name: cosmo-naught
Artist name: takiai5jalka
Genre: vaguely gory tragicomedy with bonus angst and wincest!
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Word count: 25,000
Warnings: slightly grisly, but pretty much on-par with the show. lots of language, including colloquialisms for sex workers. there’s passing mention of Sam/Ruby, Dean/Lisa, and Sam/Amelia-no more than a few lines each.
Summary: So picture this: it’s 2007, Dean just sold his soul, and the brothers Winchester are hunting what they think is a vengeful spirit when Dean gets kidnapped, and they realize just how deep their codependence runs. In the aftermath, Sam and Dean deal with things the only way they know how (i.e very poorly). Then Dean goes to hell, things get messy, Sam thinks Dean's forgotten all about their night together…couple that with a case that ends up spanning half a decade, the most epic crossroads in the nation, a smattering of reoccurring characters, and you’ve got yourself a story for the ages.
A/N: i signed up for the spn_j2_bigbang planning to write an entirely different story, but then FOB came back and, lo and behold, one of their songs had a lyric that matched the title of an unfinished story that i’d begun drafting when i first started watching the show. i took it as a sign.
prologue | one | two | three | four | five | six | epilogue
deleted scenes | endnotes | art masterpost
AO3 | PDF
Acknowledgements:
this thing took so long and went through so many rewrites and edits, it’s not even funny. i had a LOT of help, and as a result, these acknowledgements are going to be freaking long. anyway.
a huge, huge THANK YOU to my initial beta sailoreyes67, who showered me with love and put up with my uncanny knack for sending her things to beta at the last minute. i was all set to give up on this story because i couldn't get it to work in terms of what time period it would be set in, and then you came up with the totally insane idea to set this fic in s2 and make it stretch through to s8. i can’t thank you enough for that moment of pure, inspired, genius. i’m sorry you couldn’t give this story a more thorough read the last time around, but i’m so glad you were a part of it.
to my darling takiai5jalka: I LOVE THE ART. THANK YOU SO MUCH. you are the sweetest ever, and possess an incredible amount of patience-thank you, too, for tolerating my inability to finalize a story <3 you were a joy to collaborate with! i love talking to you and geeking out over authors together (: and i still can’t believe how fast you read! it’s a gift, for real.
i’d also like to pepper hugs and kisses on the entirety of the email handholding group for the early stages. those sprints totally saved my life. special thanks go to clex_monkie89 who helped me get into the headspace of a (fairly important) character.
i would not have found a backup beta without afattribble, who gave a much-needed signal boost. and THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to alienass for stepping in when you did. without you, i wouldn’t be able to post this. sweetheart, you are the best.
and i am forever grateful to sleepypercy, whose insight is generally brilliant and always helpful and who was wonderfully gracious enough to let me pick her brain and send her things to read.
last but certainly not least: a round of undying applause for wendy and thehighwaywoman, who run this thing like the seasoned pros they are and made my first-ever bigbang awesome.