OhSam November meme 2018!
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ohsamIt’s that time again … our annual November 2nd OhSam meme!
BOOST THE SIGNAL
Step 1: Leave a comment with a prompt. As always, since we are a Sam-focused hurt/comfort community, Sam should be the primary recipient of any of the hurt and/or comfort. Prompts can involve Sam being sick, hurt, angst-filled, grief-bearded, or any other scenario that will put him into a hurt/comfort-y type of position. (Other characters can be hurt if you wish, but Sam is a requirement.)
Step 2: Make all the things! Prompts can be filled as soon as you have a fic or art to fill them!
The rules:
-Post one prompt per comment, please. This makes it easier to track, and easier to tell which fills go with which prompts. If you have several prompts, post them in separate comments.
-Prompts can be as short or as detailed as you like, but shorter prompts give people more wiggle room to create.
-Post as many prompts as you'd like! The more, the merrier.
-Same goes for fills. You're welcome to fill as many prompts as you want to, and multiple people can absolutely fill the same prompt. We love to see different takes on the same concept.
-Like we said, h/c and Sam-centric.
-No real-person fic (RPF), please.
-Anon posting will be enabled. If you came here from tumblr and don’t have an LJ, just leave an anon comment linking back to your tumblr or AO3 post for any fic/art fills to prompts!
-Use the code below if your fic/art contains potential triggers (non/dub-con, abuse, self-harm, etc.):
-NO SPOILERS FOR UNAIRED EPISODES. Please be courteous and post spoiler warnings for recently aired episodes. Use the following code for spoilers:
-Post fic fills as replies to the initial comment with the subject line “FILLED: [Title] (1/1)” for the number of parts your fic will have (If it doesn’t fit in a single comment, then change to (1/2), (2/2) or however many parts you’ll have. If the fic runs away from you and becomes too long to easily fit in comments, you can also link directly its original source post on LJ, AO3, etc.)
-Post art fills with a link to the original source, preferably with a thumbnail image. Please note whether the art is SFW or NSFW.
-Feedback is love. If you liked it, leave a comment!
-Contact a mod if you have a question.
-Pimp this meme! Spread the word to your friends! As with prompts and fills, the more, the merrier!
-No spamming. No flaming. No character bashing.
-Play nice and have fun!
The mods will update the post with a masterlist of prompts/fills periodically throughout the meme. If you notice a prompt or a fill missing from the masterlist, please poke![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
quickreaver or cowboyguy and we'll get that updated as soon as we can.
BOOST THE SIGNAL
Step 1: Leave a comment with a prompt. As always, since we are a Sam-focused hurt/comfort community, Sam should be the primary recipient of any of the hurt and/or comfort. Prompts can involve Sam being sick, hurt, angst-filled, grief-bearded, or any other scenario that will put him into a hurt/comfort-y type of position. (Other characters can be hurt if you wish, but Sam is a requirement.)
Step 2: Make all the things! Prompts can be filled as soon as you have a fic or art to fill them!
The rules:
-Post one prompt per comment, please. This makes it easier to track, and easier to tell which fills go with which prompts. If you have several prompts, post them in separate comments.
-Prompts can be as short or as detailed as you like, but shorter prompts give people more wiggle room to create.
-Post as many prompts as you'd like! The more, the merrier.
-Same goes for fills. You're welcome to fill as many prompts as you want to, and multiple people can absolutely fill the same prompt. We love to see different takes on the same concept.
-Like we said, h/c and Sam-centric.
-No real-person fic (RPF), please.
-Anon posting will be enabled. If you came here from tumblr and don’t have an LJ, just leave an anon comment linking back to your tumblr or AO3 post for any fic/art fills to prompts!
-Use the code below if your fic/art contains potential triggers (non/dub-con, abuse, self-harm, etc.):
-NO SPOILERS FOR UNAIRED EPISODES. Please be courteous and post spoiler warnings for recently aired episodes. Use the following code for spoilers:
-Post fic fills as replies to the initial comment with the subject line “FILLED: [Title] (1/1)” for the number of parts your fic will have (If it doesn’t fit in a single comment, then change to (1/2), (2/2) or however many parts you’ll have. If the fic runs away from you and becomes too long to easily fit in comments, you can also link directly its original source post on LJ, AO3, etc.)
-Post art fills with a link to the original source, preferably with a thumbnail image. Please note whether the art is SFW or NSFW.
-Feedback is love. If you liked it, leave a comment!
-Contact a mod if you have a question.
-Pimp this meme! Spread the word to your friends! As with prompts and fills, the more, the merrier!
-No spamming. No flaming. No character bashing.
-Play nice and have fun!
The mods will update the post with a masterlist of prompts/fills periodically throughout the meme. If you notice a prompt or a fill missing from the masterlist, please poke
quickreaver or cowboyguy and we'll get that updated as soon as we can.
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Date: 2018-11-17 02:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-17 08:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-17 08:48 pm (UTC)You know, I started writing this after that episode. Have to post it when I get off work.
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Date: 2018-11-17 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-18 06:25 am (UTC)Please stop.
While I am glad you enjoyed the bit I shared, and I really hope I can come back to it one day, as of now it’s just not going to happen. I don’t have time to commit to finishing something as long as that piece.
I write when I can. I only happened to have a spare few minutes at lunch one day and the very short snippet that I wrote coincided with the prompt here. That’s the only reason I even decided to comment at all.
It’s always awesome to know your work is appreciated and it’s inspiring to have positive feedback, but I’ve already said that all the in-progress work I have is on hiatus right now. As I mentioned in my post, I will update on my journal if anything changes. It hasn’t yet. Thank you for your interest, but please just let it be. I will get to it when and if I can.
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Date: 2018-11-18 06:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-20 06:47 am (UTC)Just tell me to eff off, it's ok.
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Date: 2018-11-20 03:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-11-21 02:22 pm (UTC)FILLED: tell no secrets, keep no lies
Date: 2018-11-30 06:02 pm (UTC)He hates it because, as he keeps telling Dean, everyday is Halloween for them. There's no novelty in monsters if monsters are your normal.
And yeah, okay, sure, he hates it because of Andrea Howell and her stupid sixth-grade party.
But that's not the main reason.
Halloween, October 31st. Two days before November 2nd. Which was right around the time Dad would start acting weird.
And, by weird, Sam means going out to bars and coming back completely pissed, barely able to find his way to his bed he was so far gone. Or he would drag him and Dean away from wherever they had kind of settled in to, all the way to the other side of the country just for another hunt. He'd usually come back from those bleeding in too many places, no matter how simple the hunt, because apparently the words 'care' and 'restraint' were not in John Winchester's vocabulary. Or he'd just sit silently in the motel, pretending to research while he glowered at Sam, who was also generally pretending to be working.
Sam was never sure which one it was going to be (which one he wanted it to be). Sometimes, if they were really lucky, it would be all three at once.
As a kid, Sam had hated his dad for that. He'd hated him for a lot of things, truth be told, but for that most of all. He gets it now, sort of, so, if he's being honest with himself, that's not the real reason either.
October 31st. Two days before November 2nd. The last time he saw her.
Sam considers himself to have a decent memory. Photographic, some have called it. Even so, he's forgotten a lot of stuff from Stanford, from that life he's now only half-sure he didn't dream. He's even forgotten some things about her - the exact melody of her laugh, that indescribable blue of her eyes, her favourite brand of cereal. You know, the little things.
But that night, Halloween, he remembers that night in minute detail, even down to the shitty music that had been playing in the bar. (It had been a Classic song, something Sam's sure Dean would have loved).
He remembers asking if he really had to go, hating the idea of hanging in a stuffy bar with people he barely knew when he could have been practising for his law interview. But he'd gone because she'd asked him to and he kind of enjoyed it. Not as much as he should have done, though.
Oh, if he'd known that those would be the last memories of her he'd ever make, he would have used them better. He would have dressed up in whatever ridiculous costume she'd picked out for him, he would have made sure to commit every detail of her to memory so that he'd never forget just how beautiful she was.
Although... No. If he'd known, he would have stayed with her, if only to get that little bit more time. He knows he could never have saved her, and he's made his peace with that now, but he still hates himself for leaving her alone all those Halloweens ago.
It's funny, though, the things people remember with hindsight. Because Sam also remembers seeing Brady watching him and Jess from across the bar, a grin on his face. He hadn't thought anything of it at the time, thought it was just Brady being, well, Brady.
God, if he'd have known.
In the end, Sam hates Halloween because it reminds him of his greatest failure. It reminds him of everything he'd fortified by leaving with Dean, of everything he'd lost with that single action.
In the end, there are many reasons why Sam hates Halloween. And no one can ever know the real one.
RE: FILLED: tell no secrets, keep no lies
Date: 2018-11-30 08:17 pm (UTC)RE: FILLED: tell no secrets, keep no lies
Date: 2018-12-10 07:57 pm (UTC)RE: FILLED: tell no secrets, keep no lies
Date: 2018-12-01 02:19 pm (UTC)RE: FILLED: tell no secrets, keep no lies
Date: 2018-12-10 07:58 pm (UTC)RE: FILLED: tell no secrets, keep no lies
Date: 2019-01-02 10:04 am (UTC)RE: FILLED: tell no secrets, keep no lies
Date: 2019-04-06 01:09 pm (UTC)