I thoroughly enjoyed episode 11.19. Really interesting, freaky MOTW and some nice character stuff. It also made me think a lot about love in all its various forms. As we all do, I have lots of head-canon around Sam and Dean and in my personal head-canon, Dean is bi-sexual. That head-canon and my contemplation about love led me to this coda...

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Title: Love, sex and tomatoes

Author: zara_zee
Beta: Not beta’d
Genre(s): Episode coda.
Rating: PG-13, Gen
Spoilers:  Episode 11.19

Word Count: ~ 1,000

Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing in the sand box.

Summary:  Dean put sex and love in different baskets a long time ago.

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I enjoyed the last episode. I've always loved Jodi and I've never minded either Alex or Claire. In last week's ep, I really liked all three of the women and the Sam and Dean we had was great, so I didn't feel ripped off in that regard or anything. Solid ep for me with bonus cooking and cleaning!

This week's coda was inspired by frozen_delight's glorious gifspam and associated conversations and the title was inspired by a conversation with kalliel (and others) about the difficulty of naming fics and writing summaries!  :D
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Title: The one where Dean and Jody clean the kitchen and talk about cooking…
Author: zara_zee
Beta: Not beta’d
Genre(s): Episode coda.
Rating: PG-13, Gen
Spoilers:  Episode 11.12
Word Count: ~1,000
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing in the sand box.

Summary: What it says on the tin…

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Title: Shadows and Dust
Author: zara_zee
Artist: dizzojay
Beta: endlessevelina
American-English Proofer: 9tiptoes
Genre: Action, Hurt/Comfort
Pairings: Gen
Rating: R
Word Count: ~ 24,000
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing in the sand box. Written for fun, not profit
Warnings: Violence, blood and gore, nudity, gladiatorial fight scenes, kidnapping, imprisonment, physical punishment, whipping, minor character deaths, hurt!Sam, hurt!Dean, major Dean!whump, non-explicit references to torture and rape in Hell
A/N: Set season six, between The French Mistake and …And then there were none.
Story is mostly canon compliant, although Sam and Dean find out about pureblood werewolves earlier than in canon. This story owes a debt of gratitude to the Angel episode The Ring…in case anyone thought it seemed a bit familiar!

Summary: 
When Dean disappears after a hunt in Montana, Sam will stop at nothing to find him. As he tears up the Mid-west looking for answers, Sam learns that it’s not only hunters who are disappearing; monsters are being kidnapped too.

Meanwhile, Dean awakes to find himself locked in a cell. Being held captive sucks, but he knows his brother will come for him soon. Until that happens, all he has to do is kill monsters in an arena. In front of an audience. Wearing sandals and a leather skirt.

It’s not as much fun as it sounds.

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A huge thank you to dizzojay for her incredibly inspirational art prompt that sparked this whole thing. I accidentally big banged. But wth Gladiator Winchesters to work with, who can blame me! I got gorgeous additional art pieces too. Please check out her art post and tell her how wonderful it all is!

A big thank you to endlessevelina on Tumblr for the beta read and to 9tiptoes for the super last minute look over to make sure I hadn't included any bizarre Australian words or phrases!

And a final, massive thank you to the spn_reversebang mods for once again putting together this fun, friendly challenge! This is my third year taking part and it's always so much fun!

I always enjoy case based episodes and I like the old school creepy ones...and what is creepier than ghost possessed people in scary masks? The bunny was terrifying, as was the clown. I'm not a huge fan of Sheriff Donna, but she's starting to grow on me. She's hiding a lot underneath that chipper, darn tootin' mask.
Anyway, suffice to say I enjoyed the ep and I'm bummed that we don't get a new one this week. I guess that's because you're all too busy in America baking pie and stuffing turkey to watch television on Wednesday night? On which note, I hope my American Flisties have a wonderful Thanksgiving on Thursday...mmm turkey...
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Title: What women want
Author: zara_zee
Beta: Not beta’d
Genre(s): Episode coda
Rating: PG-13, Gen
Spoilers:  Episode 11.07
Word Count: ~930
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing in the sand box.

Summary: In which Sam tries not to  dwell on the cage by talking to Dean about Sheriff Donna Hanscum, gender studies and what women really want from a hot, unattached drifter.
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Another awesome episode that I loved muchly. I may even have loved this one as much as Baby, but then I did kind of spoil Baby for myself by thinking the Impala was going to turn into a person at some point!
Anyway, the new writer did good: knew her SPN history and made use of it. And it was a nice case!fic linked to the main story arc, with a lovely early seasons vibe. Very enjoyable.
There's lot of interesting speculation about why there was such a focus on how losing your soul impacts different people different ways and ash48 made the suggestion that perhaps Amara sucked out Dean's soul in episode one, my response to which is  "Ooooohhhh! Fascinating!" Dean certainly has seemed a little flat this season, but then who wouldn't, given what he's been through? At this point I'm not 100% sold on the idea of Soulless!Dean, but it's certainly a possibility and I can't wait to find out! And what's with the dark winged things that Len feels might hatch from inside him? Was that just a super creepy analogy or something more literal?

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Title: Soul Deep
Author: zara_zee
Beta: Not beta’d
Genre(s): Episode coda
Rating: PG-13, Gen
Spoilers:  Episode 11.05
Word Count: ~600
Disclaimer: Not mine, just playing in the sand box.

Summary: It’s not like he actually has any repressed homicidal urges. Up until Sam got that mark off his arm he was actively expressing all his homicidal urges in nice loud Technicolor.

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