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The 2018-2019 round of the SPN Dystopia Bang has finished. We've had an amazing crop of stories and art this year and we invite you to check out the following story and art links below to see for yourself. (Find the AO3 collection here.)
Until next time.
~ hit_the_books and Enoliel
here at the end of all things
Author: chestercbennington / remy
Artist: blueeyesandpie / sunny
Rating: teen
Length: ~40k words
Pairings: gen
Warnings: graphic depictions of violence, torture and its aftermath
AU from Season 12 onwards. The British Men of Letters win in the USA, and slowly manage to establish their bases and authority over the whole country. They also capture Sam Winchester and keep him prisoner for eleven months, experimenting on him regularly before wiping his memories so that he has no idea what has been done to him.
Even after Dean rescues him and they begin planning to get revenge once and for all, the niggling doubt at the back of Sam’s head remains – what did they do to him? Why won’t his anxiety get better? And what is it that he’s missing?
Lebanon, Postilla
Author: smalltrolven
Artist: kuwlshadow
Rating: Explicit
Length: 11,679
Pairings: Sam/Dean
Warnings: None
After the Great Deluge, the Postilla, or the Afterward begins. In 2030, Sam finally has the time to write the story of the end of their world and what came next. The Winchesters manage to find some solace in what they’ve long denied themselves. Cas and Jack are presumed gone in the Deluge, but then tales reach the brothers of approaching beings killing with only their voices.
Link to art on tumblr
The Melancholy Waters Lie
Author(s): anyrei & mugglerock
Artist: Hitori Alouette
Rating: Explicit
Length: ~90k
Pairing(s): Castiel/Dean Winchester; (Jessica Moore/Sam Winchester)
Warnings: Minor character death, Attempted Rape/Noncon, Drowning
Merifi had always been the guardians, the angels of the sea. The balance in their world, the light to the sirens’ darkness. As with time and industrial growth, humans became aggressive, dangerous, uncaring in their endeavor to put all life in the sea at risk. Unable to combat it, the merifi and many other creatures went into hiding within their kingdoms.
That was, until the fateful period in which humans created such mass destruction, pollution, and chaos; the earth warmed and the sea levels rose.
Humans who survived were forced to reside in Teloah; the City of Death, and the sea was returned to its rightful inhabitants. Despite the shift, merifi of the Kingdom of Basgim were instructed by their King to never venture to the surface. But Castiel, the youngest of the King’s three sons, had never been good at listening.
Fascinated by humans and the things they created, Castiel too often found himself nearing the surface in curiosity, but never drawing too close, never interfering in the affairs of humans on ships. That was, until a fateful night during a terrible storm, when a handsome human was flung from the safety of his ship.
It wasn’t like saving one human could possibly change his life. Right?
Under the Nothing Sky
Author: malmuses
Artist: anyreiart
Rating: Explicit
Length: 78k
Pairings: Dean Winchester/Castiel (Background Sam/Eileen and Gabriel/Kali)
Warnings: Minor Character Deaths (No Winchesters or Castiel), Homophobic Society, Canon typical violence, Torture, Imprisonment, Angst with a Happy Ending, Spaceships, Big Explosions, Drinking and Dancing.
Welcome to the Glass City.
Its citizens live perfect, orderly lives. Controlled by the barcodes upon their arms, they are quietly assigned jobs, spouses, accommodations… whole lives. Some families rank above others, but that is just the way it is. The way the Council demands it to be.
Lieutenant Colonel Castiel Novak is the shining star of the Glass City’s Academy, mere weeks away from graduating and being titled Commander of his own ship, his own crew.
Castiel is very good at obeying.
Until he meets a man with green eyes, a cocky smile, and no barcode.
I Will Always Find You
Author: Hunter Kin
Artist: amberdreams
Beta: jdl71
Word Count: 31,217
Rating: Explicit
Pairings: Dean/Sam
Warnings: barebacking, swearing, violence, spoilers for Season 8
When Sam realizes that his brother had been blasted to Purgatory after killing Dick Roman, he takes a back door through Hell to save Dean. Only his brother won’t leave without Castiel. And as each day passes, it becomes more and more clear that the angel just doesn’t want to be found.
Link to art: LJ
Not Without You
Author: jscribbles
Artist: bees-are-awesome
Rating: Explicit
Length: 57,000
Pairings: Dean/Castiel (a little of Castiel/Hannah, a non-con Meg/Castiel)
Warnings: various non-con situations, dub-con situations, cruel and unusual punishment, graphic depictions of assault and violence, humans put in solitary confinement, forced ejaculation, drugs and substance abuse, use of barbiturates, imprisonment, mentions of forced breeding, torture, sexual situations, eugenics, emotional and physical abuse by authority figures
There’s a virus spreading across the globe, rendering 80% of men infertile. In a rush to contain the spread of the virus as a viral hotspot arises in South Dakota, the government implements forced fertility testing for all men, and a mandatory breeding program. The borders close, all communication both interstate and across borders is shut down, and a state of national emergency is put in place. The fertile twenty-percenters are being redistributed to breed with society’s elite women—moguls, celebrities, geniuses, CEOs. The eight-percenters are being sent to work on farms or sent back to their regular jobs, distributed via lottery. Dean and Castiel are not one of the lucky ones.
Victims to cruel medical procedures, routine sexual assault, and other atrocities under The Facility’s authority, Dean and Castiel quickly find comfort in each other. They—especially Dean—scheme and plot their escape with the help of Dean’s laywer brother, Sam, who is states over but somehow instrumental in their plan. They find strength and love in each other, but how long will they live in a facility that executes rebels, and how long will they last when Naomi discovers that separating them makes them weaker?
Moon-kissed
Author: FogsRollingIn
Artist: MidnightSilver
Rating: Mature (for dark themes)
Length: ~28,000
Pairings: Sam/Dean (unrelated)
Warnings: Dark themes, slavery, mentions of past abuse, graphic violence
Leviathans led a successful global assault on humanity twenty years ago. The resistance is made up of surviving humans and Luna-borne creatures such as weres. Dean, a Marrow Pack werewolf, runs missions to take down leviathan strongholds and rescue those imprisoned and enslaved there. On this particular mission, Dean is shocked to discover one of the young slaves is a werecat, a species so rare that most weres thought them extinct.
I Dreamed A Dream
Author: MidnightSilver
Beta: wendibird
Artist: Angel
Rating: Gen
Length: ~21,000 words
Pairings: none
Warnings: Canon level violence, some gore, angst, despair, child death - minor characters,
Six beings stand alone as the world crumbles and gasps it dying breath - a world of death from sickness and starvation; a world where monsters walk the day without fear; where the living wait for death only to find Death is no comfort.
Above this world sits the Archangel who was its architect. Below it waits the Vessel who could not let go - who laughed as it burned. And somewhere unknown is a man lost to his family. He fights, though his strength is almost gone. The one who was looking for him is broken - his hope destroyed. And the last Angel is not enough. He was never meant to stand alone.
This world is nightmare - but when you are alone in the terror of the night who can lead the way to salvation?
Between Promise and Purgatory
Author: CR Noble
Artist: hit_the_books
Rating: Explicit
Pairing: Gen, background Ketch/Gadreel
Word Count: 26K
Warnings: Major Character Death, Dystopian AU, Human trafficking, self-harm, graphic depictions of violence, imprisonment, uneducated!sam, resistance, caste system, torture, noncon, medical procedures, eugenics, minor character death (multiple)
In a post-apocalyptic world where the rich have control of everything, including the people, and the poor don’t even own their own bodies, people with superior genetics are sold as breeders for the Gentry to keep their immortal bloodlines growing.
Dean has lived in Purgatory his whole life, trying his best to protect his younger brother from the hideous truths of their existence, especially since their parents died while they were teenagers. So, when Sam is taken to be sold as a breeder, Dean doesn’t have a choice.
With the help of the underground society known as the Network, Dean must face impossible odds if he is to save his brother.
The risks are great, but he’ll do anything to save Sam. No matter what it costs.
