Art commission for aalll my SPN AU multiverse stories! <3
By the amazingly talented midnightsilvers Isn't it fabulous? :D Please go and check out more of their art, because it is simply divine. They work on any-and-everything SPN flavoured, so there is something to suit everyone, regardless of ship or rating preferences. Even if you don't know the fandom, you can still enjoy the beautiful artwork.
This collage represents all the Deans (and a lot of the Sams) from my thirteen canon-adjacent AU series, which I've been invested in since I started writing again. They revolve around a central Sam, the key person in every Dean's life, wonderfully imagined by MidnightSilver with those illuminating rays that chase away the shadows. Now that I've worked out the technical issues, I'll make a second post with the individual (larger) portraits, so I can link them to ao3, and you can check them out in style!
You can find all the fanfic series here on ao3, grouped around short flavour pieces or vignettes which lead on to longer stories and other related works in each AU. (Note that they are all still a work in progress, so some series have more content than others.) Below, I've put a short explanation for each portrait around the collage, linking to the correct vignette.
Fair warning to readers: my writing is Wincest oriented, so even in platonic series, there's a marked tendency towards 'Gencest' (over-familiar co-dependence) and by the time they're finished, any series may veer towards Sam/Dean. Most works (even in the Wincest AUs) aren't sexually explicit, and all of the vignettes linked here are rated at or below PG-13, but heed the tags and ratings if you want to avoid the more graphic stories. I do warn for specific content so you can read around those scenes and still enjoy the story, as not everyone likes porn with their slash!
From top left going clockwise, the art shows:
1. Dean with Ka, a sky goddess who has taken a personal interest in the cocky hunter, in Sky Verse (a Gen-het pairing).
2. Dean and Sam as werewolves, a new kind which can shift fully during the full moon, in Wolf Verse.
3. Vampire Dean (from S6E05) carefully drinking Sam's blood, in Fang Verse.
4. Sam being Dean's security blanket after Michael-induced trauma, in Xanax Verse.
5. Omega!Dean just after Sam has given him his mating bite, in Omega Verse.
6. Dean as a XX, afab woman - still a sassy, kickass hunter with daddy/brother issues, in Deanna Verse.
7. Dean and Sam with their animal soul-familiars, in Familiar Verse. Lena is a coyote, Pua is a ring-tailed cat or cacomistle.
8. Saving people, haunting things: the Winchester afterlife, avoiding Billie and the Empty in Ghost Verse.
9. Dean sacrificing himself as the lockdown vessel for a very scary and insane Michael in Vessel Verse.
10. Dean and Sam together after he finds another way to resurrect Sam in the s2 finale and avoids going to Hell, in Isis Verse. The foundation story of this series, 'The Winchester Myth' was also illustrated by MidnightSilver for last year's SPN Big Bang!
11. Demon!Dean alone and grieving after the s10 finale, with the shadow of Sam's memory, in Mark Verse because he said 'yes' to Death.
12. Dean in his new birthday collar, from a story in Bound Verse. This AU is about consensual bondage (collaring) as a method of dealing with trauma.
13. Dean in his half sealion merman form, that Sam gave him to save him from Hell in Sea Verse. A PWP interlude, 'Anatomy Lesson' (explicit Wincest) was also illustrated by MidnightSilver!
The basic concept for this piece is something I've imagined for a while, but I'm a writer, not an artist. I finally decided to take the plunge with my 2021 Christmas money and commissioned MidnightSilver. I knew they would be perfect for the job, but they exceeded my expectations and blew me away, like they do every time! They are (imo) one of the best artists in this fandom; I love the sheer amount of detail they can squeeze into the simplest sketches, the depth of facial expression, and the way they can somehow turn monochrome into liquid light that shines right off the page. They have a knack for interpreting my favourite details from my writing, so that it's as if we share a muse! Thank you, my friend, for this beautiful, awesome piece which encapsulates so much of my treasured imagination. You are a star!