So, who's up for Gabriel Big Bang 2016?
Authors this way to sign up, artists over here, support folks over here.
But first, make sure to cast your eyes on the rules, schedule, and instructions!
And yes, we're on dreamwidth now - since last year's tumblr version was more stressful than it needed to be, and tumblr has made itself even less viable as a social platform since, hoorah. So dreamwidth it is. If you don't have a dreamwidth account, it isn't absolutely necessary to create one, as you can mostly participate via OpenID.
Come and have fun!
Guess what time of year it is? That's right - time to agonise over whether to sign up for yet another fic challenge! But this isn't just any old big bang (if there is such a thing) - this one is centred on everybody's favourite archangel-cum-trickster, who would definitely be sniggering right now over the fact that I said cum even though he was around long before Latin was invented and knows perfectly well that cum means with, Gabriel!
So where is Gabriel right now? Did he really die - is he in Purgatory, or does he need to be reconstituted from his various component atoms, possibly with the help of a certain Indian goddess who still has his blood? Or has he been shirking any kind of moral responsibility and hiding out on a beach somewhere all this time, stubbornly not listening to any of the assorted sounds of chaos created by Winchester and angel and Leviathan around the world? Or does Metatron have him trapped after all, because he foolishly believes he can out-trick the Trickster?
Or is he in an AU? Serving pina colada tofu to the cast and crew of SPN over lunch? Pretending to be married to his best friend for plot reasons? Stuck with a motley assortment of characters in a train that's broken down in the middle of nowhere, with something trying to get in from outside? A demon god or dragon or powerful but lazy sorcerer in a fantasy world, who suddenly finds himself confronted by a fiercely stubborn human knight demanding to know what Gabriel did with his brother? Or did one of them just text the wrong number while drunk, and now they just keep right on texting?
WRITE ALL THE THINGS you know you want to.
Do please note one important thing: this challenge is no longer being run from LJ. We're now based at tumblr, over here. Important announcements will still appear on this comm, and since the sign-ups are done by google docs you don't need a tumblr, but it will be simpler if you do. Plus, then you get to chatter with other participants in the #gbb2015 tag!
Minimum requirements are 15k words for authors and one 500x500px piece of art (or 1-minute fanvid) for artists. Fic drafts are due mid-March and posting starts towards the end of April, so those of you signed up for DCBB or the lovely Sabriel big bang, there shouldn't be too much of a clash there.
FAQs, rules, and timeline are over here. To sign up as an author, please fill out this form, and this one for artists.
Sign-ups begin: September 14, 2014
Writer sign-ups end: November 23, 2014
First check-in: January 6, 2015
Second check-in/post a snippet: February 1, 2015
Completed drafts and summaries due: March 15, 2015
Art sign-ups end: March 17, 2015
Art claims: March 18, 2015
Art drafts due: April 19, 2015
Posting begins on: April 26, 2015
If you've got any concerns or questions about the process feel free to comment on this post, but this is not where you sign up. :)
And that's a wrap!
Thanks, everybody, for another wonderful year. Happy reading, and well done all!
[“Flux”: 16k, PG, gen, luorescence & sl_walker.]
Title: Flux
Author: 
luorescence (luorescence on tumblr)
Artist: sl_walker (sl_walker on tumblr)
Pairing: Gen, though with mentions of Gabriel/Ezekiel
Word count: 16k
Rating: PG
Genres and tropes: Norse mythology, Loki story.
Summary: Gabriel has been out of Heaven for five years now and living a fairly good life in the Nord Kingdom since, the Host just don’t know it yet. The universe hates him, though, and decides to make him cross paths with Balthazar, one of the few that would be able to see through his disguise. It goes without saying he needs a new vessel fast, one nobody will recognize - and he’s been told Loki’s the only one who can/will help.
[“Broken Mirrors”: 26k, NC17, Gabriel/Sam, velocitym1 & captain_d_leet.]
Title: Broken Mirrors
Author: velocitym1 (litrastoriesandsounds on tumblr, litra on AO3)
Artist: captain_d_leet (captain_d_leet on tumblr)
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel
Word count: 26k
Rating: NC17
Genres and tropes: Hurt/comfort, fix-it
Summary: Gabriel has been stuck in that DVD the whole time and it isn’t until Sam watches through to the end that he escapes. Only by then Sam is all alone, and with Dean and Cas fallen victim to exploding Dick, he breaks down. Gabriel knows about loss, and knows that being alone is one of the worst things in the world when you really need a shoulder to cry on. Healing is rarely easy and never fast.
[“Luck”: 32k, NC17, Gabriel/Balthazar, write_rewrite & burdenedbones.]
Title: Luck
Author: write_rewrite (hopiecat on tumblr)
Artist: burdenedbones (aiulbones on tumblr)
Pairing: Gabriel/Balthazar
Word count: 32k
Rating: NC17
Genres and tropes: Historical AU (WWI)
Summary: Gabriel Novak counts on his luck to get him through all the hard roads, and it’s never failed him yet. He manages to get out of Dodge quick enough to put his past behind him, and for a while, lives in England with relative peace. Then the war swings around, and Gabriel’s in the midst of the fighting, the marching, the bloodshed and the dead, and he starts to think that, maybe, being lucky isn’t the great gift he thought it’d be.
[“A Thin Thread”: 16k, PG, Sam/Gabriel, kdheart, scherziato, & thette.]
Title: A Thin Thread
Author: kdheart (kd-heart on tumblr)
Artists: scherziato (drawsshits on tumblr) and thette (thette on tumblr)
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel, Dean/Castiel(/Benny)
Word count: 16k
Rating: PG
Genres and tropes: Purgatory fic, soul bond
Summary: Stuck in Purgatory after his death, Gabriel discovers he still has a connection to the world of the living - Sam Winchester. After Purgatory, the most boring and unchanging place next to Heaven gets turned on its head by the stunts pulled by Castiel, he decides it’s time to get out and he needs Sam’s help to do it.
Link to art by thette / art by scherziato.
[“Nemo titulum istum”: 18k, NC17, Sam/Gabriel, aria_lerendeair & samaelsammy.]
Title: Nemo titulum istum interpretari scit
Author: aria_lerendeair (aria-lerendeair on tumblr)
Artist: samaelsammy (samaelsammy on tumblr)
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel
Word count: 18k
Rating: NC17
Genres and tropes: Stripper AU, some angst, happy ending
Summary: Gabriel is a stripper at one of the hottest nightclubs in the city. So when he meets Sam, hottest dude of his unknown dreams, he has to take advantage of him. Over and over again. Falling for him was never part of the plan…but it happened anyways.
[“The Weight of Living”: 19k, PG, Sam/Gabriel, carelessshipper, stardustmote, & flannel4lyfe.]
Title: The Weight of Living
Author: carelessshipper (dean_n_pie on AO3, demxndean on tumblr)
Artists: stardustmote (stardustmote on tumblr) and flannel4lyfe (sams-hams on tumblr)
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel
Word count: 19k
Rating: PG
Genres and tropes: High school AU, pining
Summary: Sam and Gabriel have been inseparable since Gabriel saved Sam’s ass from some bullies in elementary school. But everything changes with an ill-timed kiss at a New Year’s Party, and all Gabriel can see wherever he looks is old memories of him and Sam. Now, Gabriel is left tail-spinning, drowning his sorrows at a bar and reliving some of Sam’s and his greatest hits. Everything seems to have taken a turn for the worse, and then the greatest tragedy of all strikes. Gabriel’s always heard it said that the darkest hour is before the dawn, but him and Sam are so tangled up in heartache and self-destructive tendencies that Gabriel has no idea how any of it will end. AKA the all-human AU where Gabriel is a pining best friend, Sam is an oblivious dork, and there are all the romantic, gushy cliche’s that we all love and live for. Also, Gabriel really should have just convinced Sam to take that road trip with him.
Link to art by stardustmote / art by sams-hams.
[“Carry that weight”: 25k, PG, Sam/Gabriel, scarlet_gryphon, sharys_aogail, and ziarenete13x.]
Title: Carry That Weight
Author: scarlet_gryphon (anenchantedloom on tumblr)
Artists: sharys_aogail (sharysisnhmoonshadow on tumblr) and ziarenete13x (angelicdiaspora on tumblr)
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel, minor Dean/Cas and Bobby/Jody
Word count: 25k
Rating: PG
Genres and tropes: Sentinel/Guide AU, pining, steampunk, fantasy
Summary: Sam doesn’t want a Guide. Gabriel has no choice but to be his. The road to love (or even like) never has run smooth. Steampunk-fantasy Sentinel/Guide AU fusion. Sabriel with v. minor background Destiel.
Link to art by sharys-aogail / art by x, and youtube music playlist by the author.
[“The Lucky Ones”: 42k, R, Sam/Gabriel, winnywriter & moonbirdie.]
Title: The Lucky Ones
Author: winnywriter (winnywriter on tumblr)
Artist: moonbirdie (quercusrubra on tumblr)
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel/p>
Word count: 42k
Rating: R
Genres and tropes: Roadtrip
Warnings: Underage drinking, drugs (mostly past), panic attacks
Summary: Sam is running away. Running from his past, from his future, from everything that seems to be going wrong in his life. It seems like all he has to look forward to are long stretches of road and desert in front of him. That is until a stranger in a beat up old pickup truck stops on the side of the road and asks him if he needs a ride.
[“Title”: 33k, NC17, Sam/Gabriel, saybriel, saeadame, & trickstergabrie.]
Title: Don't Ask, Don't Tell
Author: saybriel
Artists: saeadame (saeadame/simbeline on tumblr); and trickstergabrie (tricksterangelgabriel on tumblr)
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel
Word count: 33k
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Mentions of PTSD, slight gore
Summary: Sam and Gabriel have a strange relationship. Because he is Sam’s ‘hired snuggler,’ Gabriel spends a lot of time in Sam’s bed, but not in the context he’d prefer. Being a professional, Gabriel decides that he needs to cut back how much of his time he spends with Sam, just as the lawyer starts to show more interest in him.
Link to art by saeadame / art by tricksterangelgabriel.
[“French Toast and Psychosis”: 24k, PG, Dean/Gabriel, darth_firefly & kidezt.]
Title: French Toast and Psychosis (or read it on AO3)
Author: darth_firefly (bluetoast on AO3)
Artist: kidezt (sassypancakes on tumblr)
Pairing: Dean/Gabriel, mentions of Sam/Bela
Word count: 24k
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Mentions of child abuse (not graphic), cancer
Summary: It was just supposed to be a weekend get-away. Doctor Gabriel Armstrong was looking forward to his semi-annual weekend off to de-stress from his job as a psychiatrist. He certainly wasn’t looking for a weekend fling. Dean Winchester has been doing a good job of hiding his burn-out from running his diner and taking care of his brother Sam, who’s battling leukemia. He was sent off for the weekend, kicking and screaming. He definitely wasn’t looking for anything out of the weekend other than a nice massage. What neither of them know is that they’re already connected - by one of Gabriel’s patients, Emma Crowe.
[“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall”: 17k, M, Sam/Jess/Gabriel, hey_mister_dj & nrwendt.]
Title: Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall
Author: hey_mister_dj (thnksfrthwilliam on AO3, queerbriel on tumblr)
Artist: nrwendt (queerpanic on tumblr)
Pairing: Sam/Gabriel/Jess
Word count: 17k
Rating: M
Warnings: Underage drinking
Summary: Sam and Jess are the all-American Power Couple on campus. Gabriel is a Gatsby-esque playboy. They meet at a party and there’s a spark that none of them were expecting. What blooms from that meeting is something more than they could have predicted, but they’re all incredibly happy with the outcome.
[“Mr Speight”: 47k, M, Sam/Richard, lilithrain & necrora.]
Title: Mr Speight
Author: lilithrain
Artist: necrora
Pairing: Sam/Richard
Word count: 47k
Rating: M
Genres / tropes / warnings: Foreign languages, swearing, possession, angels, vandalism, bullying, epilepsy, abandonment issues, family issues, running away, stress, unrequited love, heartbreak, visions, fights, comedy, pranks, tricksters (inferred).
Summary: Richard’s life is far from ordinary, even if he is just a high school teacher and maths tutor on the face of it. But for those who know him however, Richard is much more than that. Oppa, big brother, family. Growing up in two technical families gets even more interesting and complicated as Richard finds out when your surrogate baby sister gets big brothers of her own. More than him to just worry over her, especially when she runs away from home, or more drives away. The soundtrack to his story just got a whole lot more chaotic, especially when Sam Winchester is in his life.
[“The Theory of Silence and Storms”: 101k, NC17, Dean/Gabriel, natt & mothandstars.]
Title: The Theory of Silence and Storms
Author: natt (lysanatt on tumblr)
Artist: mothandstars (themothandthestars on tumblr)
Pairing: Gabriel/Dean, Sam/Lucifer, past Ion/Gabriel
Word count:101k
Rating: NC17 (with NSFW art)
Genres and tropes: AU, romance, future!fic, bdsm
Warnings: Spoiler-free. Art is not work safe. The kinky stuff: safe-sane-consensual BDSM, D/s, bondage, power-play, piercings (no blood or bloodplay), exhibitionism, voyeurism, sounding. The unpleasant stuff: angst, slavery/loss of personhood (no dub/non-con), minor character death, canon-typical violence.
Summary: Since the High Lord and his children took over Earth a century ago, winning the Cage has been the fast lane to fame and fortune for the champion. Defeat is not as pleasant: the loser is sold to the highest bidder. Of course Dean had to try. And to be honest, Dean thought that he would be the one on the podium after the last fight. Instead he is kneeling in the dirt, battered and bruised, the Lords and Ladies of North America fighting to buy him.
Link to art (nsfw!).
[“Pines in Winter”: 15k, PG, gen, dragons_muse & luorescence.]
Title: Pines in Winter
Author: dragons_muse (dragonmuse on tumblr)
Artist: luorescence (paper-luo on tumblr)
Pairing: Gen
Word count: 15k
Rating: PG
Genres and tropes: Kidfic, human AU
Warnings: None.
Summary: Gabriel hadn't meant to add kidnapping to his long list of crimes, but there was a boy with a black eye and a knife. Some things were just meant to be.
[“That's the way the cookie crumbles”: 23k, PG, Gabriel/Sam, nileflood & velocitym1.]
Title: That's the way the cookie crumbles
Author: nileflood (dont-blink-get-the-speight on tumblr)
Artist: velocitym1 (litrastoriesandsounds on tumblr)
Pairing: Gabriel/Sam preslash, past Gabriel/Kali, Dean/Castiel
Word count: 23k
Rating: PG
Genres and tropes: Murder Mystery AU, based on the show Castle, police procedural- we wear sunglasses at night
Warnings: Death of minor characters, violence towards main characters, danger
Summary: Gabriel Tricksler is a successful crime author with everything going for him. He's got a great publisher behind him, several best-sellers under his belt and now Hollywood wants to make his books into a blockbuster. Life couldn't get much better. Well, he could find some motivation to write. Luckily for him, or maybe not as it turns out, a body is discovered at one of his charity events, and the investigating officer is none other than Sam Wesson, one of the city's best homicide investigators and perfect inspiration. He's not so keen on working side-by-side with Gabriel Tricksler, but his Chief makes sure he has no choice in the matter. Of course, when Gabriel manages to literally stumble over a second corpse, Sam starts to suspect that Gabriel is more involved than he's letting on.
Link to art and to podfic.
[“Lost Promises and Broken Dreams”: 21k, R, Castiel/Gabriel, glenavera & h4ppy_fun_b4ll.]
Title: Lost Promises and Broken Dreams
Author: glenavera (glenavera on tumblr, Leya on AO3)
Artist: h4ppy_fun_b4ll (happyfunballxd on tumblr)
Pairing: Castiel/Gabriel
Word count: 21k
Rating: R
Genres and tropes: Canon divergent
Warnings: Major character death, wing-rape
Summary: After leaving heaven Gabriel always thought that there was absolutely nothing that could make him choose a side. He was wrong.
And the honorary sort-of-big-bang:
[“Your kind prison”: 30k, NC17, Gabriel/Sam and Gabriel/Dean, whit-merule.]Title: Your kind prison
Author: whit_merule (whitmerule on tumblr)
Artist: No art, sadly. But written for a prompt by natt (lysanatt on tumblr).
Pairing: Gabriel/Dean (one-off hookup), Gabriel/Sam (endgame), Dean/Castiel, implied Charlie/Sefkhet
Word count: 30k
Rating: NC17
Genres and tropes: Canon divergent (coda to season 8), fallen angels, reclaiming Heaven from Metatron, genderqueer character, manhandling/rough sex, archangels, biblical reinterpretation, BAMF Castiel and Gabriel, vessel!fic (consensual temporary possession)
Warnings: Some spoilers for season 9 (character names only); mild dubcon of the 'sex while disguised' kind; angelic possession; rough sex and manhandling
Summary: Humans talk of the Fall as if it were one finite event, one story alone. But Lucifer was not the only archangel to fall. Each of them fell, one by one, in their own way. Some of them fell many times. And now the sky is full of falling stars, falling angels. The last archangel watches them fall, and has to make a choice between continuing as he is and learning - teaching all of them - to write a new own story, to set against Metatron’s.
“Cute,” Gabriel rapped out in Enochian. “You’ve got demons. Battle stations, guys.”
He took a moment to be shocked at how easily the general’s voice came back to him - at how lethargic uncomprehending Malon was on his feet and standing to attention in a moment, and Castiel’s sleepiness vanished like it had never been there - then he was tossing the knife to Ezekiel, drawing his own sword out of nowhere and holding it out hilt-first to Castiel.
Title: Lost Promises and Broken Dreams
Author: glenavera | glenavera on tumblr
Artist: h4ppy_fun_b4ll | happyfunballxd on tumblr
Beta: Lightning_Bee
Pairing (if any): Castiel/Gabriel
Rating: R
Word count: 20.995
Warnings/Spoilers: character death, wing-rape, canon divergence
Summary: After leaving heaven Gabriel always thought that there was absolutely nothing that could make him choose a side. He was wrong.
Link to fic: AO3
Link to art: Art
Title: That's The Way The Cookie Crumbles
Author: nileflood
Artist: velocitym1
Beta: velocitym1 and skarofalls-gallifreystands over in Tumblr land
Pairing (if any): past Gabriel/Kali, pre- Gabriel/Sam, Dean/Castiel
Genre/Tropes Murder Mystery AU, based on the show Castle, police procedural- we wear sunglasses at night
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 23,000
Warnings/Spoilers: Death of minor characters, violence towards main characters, danger
Summary: Gabriel Tricksler is a successful crime author with everything going for him. He's got a great publisher behind him, several best-sellers under his belt and now Hollywood wants to make his books into a blockbuster. Life couldn't get much better.
Well, he could find some motivation to write.
Luckily for him, or maybe not as it turns out, a body is discovered at one of his charity events, and the investigating officer is none other than Sam Wesson, one of the city's best homicide investigators and perfect inspiration. He's not so keen on working side-by-side with Gabriel Tricksler, but his Chief makes sure he has no choice in the matter.
Of course, when Gabriel manages to literally stumble over a second corpse, Sam starts to suspect that Gabriel is more involved than he's letting on.
Link to fic: Click HERE for Ao3
Link to art: Click HERE for art masterpost on LJ
Title: Pines in the Winter
Author: Vera Dragonmuse (on tumblr)
Artist: Luo (on tumblr)
Beta: Noxlupi
Pairing (if any): Gen
[Optional]
Genre/Tropes kidfic, altnerate universe: human
Rating: PG-13 for language.
Word count: 15,500
Warnings/Spoilers: None.
Summary: Gabriel hadn't meant to add kidnapping to his long list of crimes, but there was a boy with a black eye and a knife. Some things were just meant to be.
Link to fic: AO3
Link to art: Tumblr
