being_not_on_boats: The character Castiel from the TV show Supernatural, with a beige trenchcoat, blue tie, and large black wings (castiel)
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire?

And what shoulder, and what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? and what dread feet?

What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
The Tyger -William Blake


THY FEARFUL SYMMETRY


Author: http://an-ardent-rain.livejournal.com / [personal profile] being_not_on_boats
Artist: http://frayed1989.livejournal.com
Fandom/Genre: SPN - it's episodic road-tripping fic! pre-romance! tigerstiel!
Pairing(s): light beginning Dean/Lisa, then Dean/Castiel
Rating: NC-17
Word Count: ~38k
Warnings: language, sexual situations
Disclaimer: I do not own and am no in no way affiliated with Supernatural. This is for fun and I'm making no profit. Also I do not own my title, because it is a line from William Blake's "The Tyger" - rather appropriately, I think.

Summary: Goes AU after the end of S5. When Castiel gets Sam from hell, his soul comes with him, unscathed. But Cas isn't so lucky. Sam joins Dean at Lisa and Ben's, tells him what happens, and they go off to find their friend. When they finally track him down, Cas, depowered and almost human, joins Sam and Dean on a road trip to restore his tattered grace and learn something about hunting in the process. Story is episodic, with elements of case!fic and a lot of UST. Also Cas dreamwalks a lot, and visits Dean as a tiger.

AUTHOR'S NOTES

Huge, huge thanks to my artist frayed1989. YOU ARE AMAZING! Seriously, I really, really, really enjoyed working with her and I feel super, super lucky to have gotten such a wonderful artist. SERIOUSLY. GO CHECK OUT THE ART. When I saw the first picture I literally squealed out loud with delight; I am incredibly pleased, and I'm still in awe that such beautiful illustrations were made for my story!

THE FIC:
Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five | ART POST
PDF | PDF w/ ART | AO3 | LJ

COMING SOON: Outtake #1 | Outtake #2


NOTE REGARDING THE OUTTAKES: For the story's adaption of the 10th labor - getting Hippolyta's girdle/belt/whatever - I had some trouble. I accidentally deleted the whole scene, so in order to get the story posted on the proper day, I ended up having to write a short little paragraph to fill the space. I'm going to try to recreate what I had written, though I haven't yet decided if I'll replace what's in the story now. For now, it's tentatively outtake #1. Once it's finished, I'll post a link. (The second outtake is just sex. Lots and lots of sex.)
being_not_on_boats: The character Castiel from the TV show Supernatural, with a beige trenchcoat, blue tie, and large black wings (castiel)
Title: Thy Fearful Symmetry
Word Count: ~9700
Warnings: sexual situations

masterpost | part 1 | part 2 | part 3 | part 4

Part 5 of 5 )
being_not_on_boats: A small giraffe sitting on an opulent pillow (tiny giraffe)
Title: Thy Fearful Symmetry
Word Count: ~7100
Warnings: misuse of Greek mythology

masterpost | part 1 | part 2 | part 3

Part 4 of 5 )

part 5
being_not_on_boats: A girl in a red dress and gold crown sitting on the ground in a forest (queen of the forest)
Title: Thy Fearful Symmetry
Word Count: ~7900
Warnings: tentacles that penetrate a chest cavity in a vaguely orgasmic - but consensual! - way

masterpost | part 1 | part 2

Part 3 of 5 )

part 4
being_not_on_boats: A close-up of a strawberry blonde ponytail belonging to a light skinned woman (ponytail)
Title: Thy Fearful Symmetry
Word Count: 8211
Warnings: none, really

masterpost | part 1

Part 2 of 5 )

part 3
being_not_on_boats: An auburn-haired girl with pale skin laying upside down and wearing a cream colored mask with feathers (feather mask)
Title: Thy Fearful Symmetry
Word Count: 5300
Warnings: some Dean x Tigerstiel stuff

masterpost

Part 1 of 5 )

part 2
being_not_on_boats: The character Castiel from the TV show Supernatural, with a beige trenchcoat, blue tie, and large black wings (castiel)
Important post about people I've made up (in which Hannah gets very, very excited about imaginary people)

AKA My long ramblings about Marcus and Daisy McLeod, 2 OCs from my Dean/Cas Big Bang fic

Okay.

So these two won't really have a big role in the fic, but. I already like them a lot, so I want to plan something out for them and make sure that they have a really interesting, dynamic backstory. So!

How they fit into my narrative:
• Bobby knows them from... a place. Yes. They are hunters, and they've run into Bobby a time or two and he realizes they're pretty cool folks and he knows if he needs them he could count on them. But they're not close. It's just... Okay, well you get the point.
• Once Cas has fallen and he sort of gets kicked out (like Dean basically just refuses to even speak to him), Bobby figures that - since the guy has very little practical knowledge in being human - he ought to send Cas somewhere he'll be able to have someone show him the ropes or take care of him or whatever. So he gives the McLeods a call.
• Cas stays with them for awhile, but he's really down in the dumps about everything, getting kind of obsessive, and he isn't sure he wants to take up the hunting lifestyle, so. I think one day he just decides to leave. And they don't think it's a particularly good idea to let him out on his own, so they sort of keep tabs on him and make sure he gets a job and everything. And the job is where he meets Alyssa, and. Well that's when things start going badly.
• They like Cas and they can see that something's wrong with him, so they want to keep up with him - and somehow, maybe a visit or just not hearing from him or something, they figure out something is wrong and contact Bobby.

And that's basically all they do for the story. Um, okay, though. Other stuff. Originally I just sort of had this idea for some sort of couple Cas to meet up with, and then for whatever reason I saw Cloak and Dagger from Marvel and I was like "Ahh ha!" and so I had basically what they looked like, and also a starting point for their backstory (though it wound up changing a lot). And then I got an idea for their personalities: Daisy is basically like Lotte from Disney's The Princess and the Frog and Marcus is very similar to Sig from Full Metal Alchemist. She's this emotional, big-hearted person: like, she seems really sweet but if she sees a threat the safety comes off and SHE WILL FUCK YOU UP sort of a deal. Marcus, on the other hand, is really the more nurturing one. Like he's this big, huge guy, and people are intimidated by him, but he's... he's just a solid, steady guy, and he's good about keeping Daisy grounded when she flies off the handle about something. Like she'll be aggravated and upset and will be pacing and talking in this constant stream of worries and stream of consciousness and he can just come up and put his arms around her in this big, warm hug and it all sort of melts away for her and she just sighs it all away and squeezes him back tight and that just makes things okay. UGH WOW I THINK I LOVE THESE TWO SO MUCH ALREADY IT'S RIDICULOUS.

Hee. Like seriously. Daisy is just like WHOO, I'M 'BOUT TO GET THINGS GOING and Marcus is ".." (Baby, please calm down I think you're scaring people.) I can see her with this curly blonde hair, with a little daisy barrette (that Marcus bought for her ADL;DKDJHKLKDHJKLS) over her left ear, with big combat boots, denim shorts, and a green tanktop.

Okay, can I just write an entire about these two now because seriously they are my new favorites.
being_not_on_boats: An auburn-haired girl with pale skin laying upside down and wearing a cream colored mask with feathers (feather mask)
Going to be working from here for awhile, I think.

Yo.

Jun. 18th, 2009 09:53 am
being_not_on_boats: oboe reeds (Default)
I totally didn't sleep well last night.

And I still have to finish that story for class today - we'll see if that ever happens. Heh.

Ciao.

-ILB
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