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The comm hosted this little event a couple of years ago, and as November 2 is an auspicious day for our darling Sam, today would be the perfect time to revisit this challenge. Welcome to the Triple Play 2015!





BOOST THE SIGNAL





And here's how we play!

Step One (mandatory): Write a three-part prompt.
1.) Pick a setting
2.) Pick an additional character or characters (Sam is assumed, naturally.)
3.) Pick an H/C scenario, with Sam as the focus. Other characters can share the misery, but Sam should get the brunt of it. That's how we roll. :D

You can make as many prompts as your little heart desires, one set per comment, but it would probably work best if kept simple. For instance: 1.) the Impala 2.) Dean 3.) a hangover, or 1.) autumn 2.) Rowena 3.) a curse.

Step Two (optional): Participants can choose to make visual art: create a drawing, painting, photomanip, or video based around an offered prompt set. All three points must be addressed. The art can be doodled or extravagantly detailed, artist’s choice. And, of course, Sam should be the primary focus of the h/c. Please reply with your art under the prompt you choose, and either put the art beneath a cut or supply a link to it, with appropriate header and warnings! (See "Posting Guidelines" in the left sidebar.) As subject lines are no more, please begin your fills with the word FILLED and a TITLE in BOLD.

Step Three (optional): Participants could also choose to write a ficlet, again with Sam as the primary victim of our dastardly h/c scenarios. (No minimum or maximum word count is required; just go where the muse takes you, as long or short as you'd like.) Again, please reply with your fic under the chosen prompt set, using the appropriate header and warnings. (See "Posting Guidelines" in the left sidebar.) As subject lines are no more, please begin your fills with the word FILLED and a TITLE in BOLD.

If more than one author or artist wants to work with the same prompt, have at it! The ideal goal is to make a Triple Play, where a prompt set gets both art and fic – the art potentially inspiring the fic or the fic inspiring the art. But no matter how it's sliced, we get lots of delicious Sammy h/c! Have all the fun … at Sam’s expense. ;)

The usual courtesies apply:
→ If you notice that your fic is not on the master list after a decent amount of time (say, three days), please poke us in a PM. We might have missed it.
→ Anon posting enabled.
→ NO SPOILERS FOR UNAIRED EPISODES.
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MASTERLIST

Sick City by [livejournal.com profile] fireheart13
1.) Las Vegas
2.) Dean
3.) Gall stones

Better Than Trick or Treat by [livejournal.com profile] septembers_coda
1. town of 200 people
2. john
3. parasite

What's in a Job by [livejournal.com profile] cherry916
1. the bunker
2. a service dog
3. PTSD

Hour of Darkness by [livejournal.com profile] amypond45
1. Squatting in an abandoned building.
2. Mary.
3. Fever dream.

Twist in the Wind by [livejournal.com profile] thursdaysisters
1.) the bottom of a ravine
2.) the ghost of Sarah Blake
3.) broken bones

Untitled by [livejournal.com profile] caranfindel
1. The bunker (maybe a newly discovered part?)
2. Dean
3. Impaled

It's Gotta Be a Hex by [livejournal.com profile] tarotgal
1. Crappy motel room
2. Dean and John
3. Strep throat

We Shall Gather at the River by [livejournal.com profile] crowroad3
1. Monument Valley
2. Dean
3. Staked out in the burning sun

Break No Bones by [livejournal.com profile] milly_gal
a) Bobby's panic room
b) Bobby and/or Dean
c) broken leg

What You Don't Know (Can Kill You) by [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1. A foggy deserted road.
2. Jess
3. Car accident.

Bleed by [livejournal.com profile] hugglewolf
1) The Bunker
2) Cas
3) Sam wakes up wounded and weak from blood loss on the floor of the Bunker—with no memory of how he got there, how he got hurt, or where Dean is.

Tornado Warning by [livejournal.com profile] ameliacareful
1.) Setting: somewhere flat and Midwestern
2.) Other character: Dean
3.) H/C scenario: tornado related injuries

(Art) Untitled by [livejournal.com profile] cassiopeia7
1. pacific northwest
2. dean
3. drowning

West of Omaha by [livejournal.com profile] laughablelament
1) the lonesome highway
2) Dean & whoever's in the trunk
3) feverish magic-induced flashbacks

It's Gotta Be The Pie by [livejournal.com profile] tarotgal
1.) the bunker in the middle of the night
2.) Dean
3.) stomach flu

Stone Number One by [livejournal.com profile] caranfindel
1. Bobby's
2. Hallucifer
3. Psychotic episode that doesn't seem to want to end

(Art) Vatican Prison by [livejournal.com profile] amberdreams
1) Vatican jail cell
2) Dean
3) stigmata

It's Gotta Be At Least 200 Stairs by [livejournal.com profile] tarotgal
1. fire escape
2. Dean
3. permanent limp

Remember by [livejournal.com profile] soserendipity
1. A cornfield at night.
2. Dean.
3. Bleeding out.

Surf's Up by [livejournal.com profile] firesign10
1) The beach
2) Jess
3) Kelpie attack

Can We Call It Bob? by [livejournal.com profile] soserendipity
1. Hanging off the ledge of a bridge/tall building
2. Dean
3. Dislocation

Cor Unum by [livejournal.com profile] crowroad3
1) the bunker
2) Dean
3) heart condition

The Forest at Night by [livejournal.com profile] thursdaysisters
1) Car accident
2) John
3) Head Injury

I Can Move Forward Looking Back by [livejournal.com profile] hugglewolf
1) A hunt
2) A hunter (one we've met, or a new one)
3) PTSD

To Sleep, Perchance to Dream by [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1.) Stanford
2.) Brady
3.) Chronic insomnia

The Definition of Insanity by [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1. The Impala
2. Dean
3. Gunshot wound to the gut

In the Woodsman's Cottage by [livejournal.com profile] thursdaysisters
1.) Setting: a forest
2.) Other character: Bobby
3.) H/C scenario: bear trap

Shaken by [livejournal.com profile] cowboyguy
1. A laundromat
2. Dean
3. Trying to heal from a bad fight while trying to wash blood out of their clothes

It's Gotta Be a Plane This Time? by [livejournal.com profile] tarotgal
1) Airport security gate
2) Dean
3) bullet wound

Trapped by [livejournal.com profile] cowboyguy
1. tunnels
2. Dean
3. mutism/voice loss

Cold as Ice by [livejournal.com profile] indiachick
1.) Byberry Mental Hospital
2.) Dean
3.) botched lobotomy

The Source of All Sorrows by [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1.) Hospital
2.) Charlie
3.) coma

Draconids by [livejournal.com profile] crowroad3
1.) High school
2.) EMTs
3.) Fever

Like a Rock by [livejournal.com profile] caranfindel
1.) middle of nowhere
2.) Baby
3.) dislocated shoulder

Dead River by [livejournal.com profile] crowroad3
1. Impala
2. The ghost of a loved one
3. Poisoned

Broken Memories by [livejournal.com profile] cherry916
1) motel room
2) Jody Mills
3) head injury/concussion

Hidden by [livejournal.com profile] hugglewolf
1. backwoods
2. castiel
3. buckshot

Empty Hearts by [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1.) Hospital
2.) Charlie
3.) Panic attack

Unsettled by [livejournal.com profile] cowboyguy
1.) the bunker in the middle of the night
2.) Dean
3.) stomach flu

Splintered by [livejournal.com profile] themegalosaurus
1. THE BUNKER
2. DEMON!DEAN
3. HAMMER

Fingerprint by anonymous
1. Impala
2. Dean
3. touch starvation

It's Gotta Be Four in the Morning by [livejournal.com profile] tarotgal
1. Roadhouse
2. Ellen
3. Respiratory illness

Bitter and Sick by [livejournal.com profile] indiachick
1. Setting is author's choice
2. Dean
3. Forced/tricked into ingesting demon blood

words like glass by anonymous
1.) Camp Chitaqua, post-apocalypse
2.) Dean, Stoner Cas
3.) disfigurement, mutism

Feathers and Claws by [livejournal.com profile] themegalosaurus
1) Decrepit old building
2) A priest
3) Demonic possession

Maleficus by [livejournal.com profile] crowroad3
1. Field at night
2. Witch doctors
3. Blood-letting

Sup by [livejournal.com profile] hugglewolf
1) A grassy field at night
2) Castiel
3) Poison

It's Gotta Be a Damn Ghost by [livejournal.com profile] tarotgal
1. A busy bar in Stanford
2. Jess/Brady/Becky/Zach/Luis (any or all!)
3. Beaten up (bruises, bloody nose, scrapes, or maybe even a broken bottle to the head/body!)

Somewhere, Beyond the Sea by [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1) Somewhere watery
2) Dean
3) Amnesia

Dis(connected) by [livejournal.com profile] center_galaxy
1) On the end of a phone
2) Bobby or Castiel
3) Blood loss, in and out of consciousness

It's Gotta Be a Day and a Half Now by [livejournal.com profile] tarotgal
1.) Singer Salvage scrap yard
2.) Bobby
3.) exhaustion

Placebo by anonymous
1) the woods
2) Dean
3) bitten by a snake

Hiss by [livejournal.com profile] cowboyguy
1) the woods
2) Dean
3) bitten by a snake

Across the clouds I see my shadow fly by [livejournal.com profile] caranfindel
1) Coffee shop or Diner
2) Employee of said establishment
3) Gun shot wound

Check It Out by [livejournal.com profile] themegalosaurus
1. MOL Bunker
2. Dean (and/or Charlie, Cas, or Kevin)
3. A curse involving plaid shirts or plaid in general (you're screwed, Sammy! Will they figure it out?)

The End of the World (and Back Again) by [livejournal.com profile] harrigan
1. A boathouse
2. Dean
3. Permanent physical disability (knee/hip/leg etc)

If Only by [livejournal.com profile] foolscapper
1. Hell, the cage
2. Castiel
3. hallucinations

Bitten (art) by [livejournal.com profile] foolscapper
1.) zombie infested suburbia
2.) Dean, Bobby
3.) bitten

Play It Again, Sam by [livejournal.com profile] caranfindel
1) A hospital
2) Dr Cara Roberts
3) Axe wound(s) to the upper body

The Mustard Seed by [livejournal.com profile] kettle_o_fish
1. Out on a case
2. Dean
3. Sam develops minor healing powers (not angel-level resurrection or demon killing, more like curing lesser illnesses, fixing broken bones, moderate wounds, etc). However, each time he helps someone, there's a drain on his own health/strength. Dean wonders if it's worth the toll it takes on Sam.

FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-03 01:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowroad3.livejournal.com
We Shall Gather at the River

Gut-red. Highish noon.

The Mittens, sprung bloody from a thousand screensavers, might be, if they were in sight, burning palms onto his retinas, and the red, the red, the flare of John Ford's own personal backlot, where John Wayne kicked a saddle and drawled break out the grain and chased the Navajo stand-ins for all his Comanche...

Suck in a breath, son; it might be yer last; there's a good little cowboy. Staked him to spikes and left him, no shit, to dessicate with the brittlebush, the coyote. Ghoul-gunslinger, might have been. Got the girl to safety and chased him, silver-swinging, into the sage-scented scrub. Got turned round in the canyon, jumped. A howl out there. Everything gone to ground now. Streaks of wrist-red onto the old earth. Highish noon.

Pray a little, to the valley of the gods. Dean's gonna laugh at it; no hoof-thunder; no fool-cavalry to fuck it all up.

*

Not like this, Sam shouts to the sun, get back here, you bastard.

There's such a thing, John Wayne muses back, as a creature that'll just keep comin'. Ride a horse a thousand miles and then eat him. There's a Stetson-silhouette, right there.

Sam's brain crackles over the cowboy fire, pork-strip, mesquite. Think I don't know that, he says, since I was nine, I knew that. Think I haven't been eaten before. Think I haven't come back.

It's not hell here. It's beautiful.

Not by what you believe, John Wayne says. But one day this country's gonna be a fine place to be, you'll see.

Pain's like rock, like something he's felt a million times, the earth the demon-dirt, entrails; after all this time slip to the empty, heaven or hell and desert, death. He'll follow the water if he finds it; follow it back to tourist-town, tug at the stakes.

John squats at his side, spits, maybe a horse-pat.

What do I believe then, Sam says.

Long as you live, John Wayne says, never ask me again.

There's a dry western wind.

*

Maybe a horse-pat, a slap. Croak of a desert corvid.

Sam. Sammy. Jesus Christ.

No, John Wayne, he groans, alkali-tongue, lets his brother tip the canteen, tell him they're not so far, tell him (no) he never stopped looking, haul him up, fold him under the fire of the mesa.

Scout for the Texas Rangers, he mumbles, without pay.

Yeah, Dean says, fingers his neck, me too.

Sam breathes into his brother's hatbrim into his hair the whole of their own always-keep-coming.

"Girl's safe," Dean says, "you did good, Sammy."

Navajo land red under the setting not so far from where the canyons come together like seven fingers on some old hand.

Sun's going down. There's water. They're not so far from the road.


* with apologies to John Ford's The Searchers.
Edited Date: 2015-11-03 02:11 am (UTC)

Re: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-03 08:42 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] amberdreams.livejournal.com
Eeeee this is perfect! Love how out of it Sam is that the John he conjures up is Wayne not Winchester. And I love how you word-weave like an Anglo Saxon.

RE: Re: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-04 07:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowroad3.livejournal.com
Wayne not Winchester! Yep ( ;

So glad you like this--such a great prompt. I kind of have a thing for that slice of the country.

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-03 01:28 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] quickreaver.livejournal.com
NO APOLOGIES REQUIRED.

This was amazing! Such deliciously painful poetry.

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-04 07:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowroad3.livejournal.com
Hee, I'm scared of offending the ghost of Mr.Wayne, which, you know...*break out the salt*!

So glad you enjoyed!

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-03 06:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madebyme-x.livejournal.com
Beautiful! I love how you weave your words!

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-04 07:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowroad3.livejournal.com
Thanks so much! Am very glad you enjoyed.

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-03 07:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thursdaysisters.livejournal.com
And I am that 12-year-old in the back of the comics shop reading Preacher. :D That we should all be so lucky to have John Wayne as our spirit guide.

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-04 03:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ameliacareful.livejournal.com
"to dessicate with the brittlebush" I just said that out loud, it's so fine.

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-04 07:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowroad3.livejournal.com
I'm glad you found a line good for reading aloud, my friend! ( :

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-04 07:12 pm (UTC)
laughablelament: (Impala)
From: [personal profile] laughablelament
Holy crap.

We're all so conditioned, I think, to associate Dean with the movie references, that we kind of forget that Sam's seen them too. And here, hallucinating(?), telling himself to hang on... John Wayne is perfect. Unexpected and so on point.

Gut red, mesquite, seven fingers... Sigh... But then, you know how I associate Winchesters with desertscapes. :D

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-06 07:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowroad3.livejournal.com
I know, these boys and the deserts...there's something about it, a kind of stony psychogeography.

And oh yeah--Dean always gets the tough-guy films, but you know they both have to have seen The Searchers, right?
Every post-1956 hunter must have, heh.

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-04 07:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] septembers-coda.livejournal.com
I, too, have a thing for this part of the country and imagining the Winchesters there (I wrote a fic set in Bicknell, Utah, which is similar country). This was an awesomely poetic piece of writing with absolutely perfect ambience-- great job!

Re: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-05 08:24 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowroad3.livejournal.com
Am so glad you liked the ambiance! And oh yes, Winchesters in the iconic westernscapes! Would love to read your Bicknell story...on your journal?

RE: Re: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-05 03:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] septembers-coda.livejournal.com
Aww, thanks for the interest! Yep, on my journal; it's called Paco Dean and the Ghost of Arson Danny, and interestingly it's another hurt!Sam piece. :-)
Here: http://septembers-coda.livejournal.com/6577.html

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-04 07:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] septembers-coda.livejournal.com
I, too, have a thing for this part of the country and imagining the Winchesters there (I wrote a fic set in Bicknell, Utah, which is similar country). This was an awesomely poetic piece of writing with absolutely perfect ambience-- great job!

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-04 07:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] firesign10.livejournal.com
Scorching setting and imagery!! love Sam's hallucinating train of thought.

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-06 05:55 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowroad3.livejournal.com
So glad you liked the burning desert and the disjointed thinking! <3

Re: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-04 08:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cassiopeia7.livejournal.com
I adore the sparse, almost taciturn rhythms of the writing, and you really captured the feel of arid desert heat at noon. If Frederick Remington had written poetry, I imagine it would've sounded like this. Beautiful work -- brava!!

RE: Re: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-06 07:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowroad3.livejournal.com
"If Frederick Remington had written poetry...": Ahhh I love that! I am so glad you liked this; thanks so much!

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-09 11:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] themegalosaurus.livejournal.com
this prompt was horrific and your fill was perfect, nightmarishly atmospheric. awesome stuff

RE: FILLED:We Shall Gather at the River

Date: 2015-11-10 07:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] crowroad3.livejournal.com
Am so glad you liked!

Just read your masterful possession fill--very awesome stuff indeed.

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