Die Wurst

[golby-moon]

let's pretend it's still the 10th guys so that we can all celebrate @theloversthings' annual aging :000

I don't even know what happened here tbh. it started out as oh I can draw like Dean and Cas in armor because a lot of her OCs are like medieval (?) to some extent. then it became oh I can make them animals haha that would be fun oh oh and let's add a horse bc she likes horses yep uh huh—wait when did it become a weird Puss in Boots AU????

that was pretty much the thought process. I tried using colored pencils for the first time with this one but I don't think it turned out super great tbh lol. I only had the one brown and wanted to differentiate between like six different shades so I tried combining stuff and uh yeah so the blending didn't work too great and it came out just kinda weird. thank @ragd0lly for helping me not tear up the page and eat it out of frustration

also ashamed to say I could definitely see myself expanding this AU. ie if it's based on Puss in Boots (somehow, still don't know how that happened) then Jack just has to be Perrito right? what species should he be though (personally I think something huge would be funny. I find crazy size differences to be amusing, hence why Cas is like half Dean's size at all times. imagine that little fluffy boy pulling Dean up from Hell like bro he's an apple and a half tall MAX okay ,_,)

(06/10/26)

[lazarus-rose]

Restraintstiel Week Masterpost

@golby-moon and I have collaborated on a series of fics (complete with art!) for Restraintstiel Week! This has been a really awesome challenge, and Golby and I have had a lot of fun creating these works!

Day 1 (Collar) — Short Leash

Dean Winchester is no stranger to weirdness—being a hunter, it pretty much comes with the territory. But a cursed collar, complete with a tiny bell, turning his angelic best friend into a grumpy rabbit-ish creature? Yeah, that's a new one. Or, a cursed collar turns Cas into a viscacha, and Dean has Feelings about it.

Read it here! | Check out the art here!

Day 2 (Handcuffs / Chains) — Icarian

After killing a witch on a routine hunt, Dean searches her house and, in her basement, finds a winged man chained to the ceiling. When the chains prove unbreakable, Dean offers the guy a temporary home in the bunker while he figures out how to free him. However, as Dean and his new roommate, Cas, grow closer, Dean finds himself wishing that he could keep Cas with him forever…

Read it here! | Check out the art here!

Day 3 (Rope) — Save A Horse, Lasso A Firebird

Dean is riding through the desert when he spies a rare creature—a firebird—flying overhead, and he knows he needs to capture it.

Read it here! | Check out the art here!

Day 4 (Living Restraints) — A Sea Monster Meat-Cute

Castiel is minding his own business, dragging his human prey back to his lair to eat, when a troublesome cecaelia ambushes him, looking for a bite…

Read it here! | Check out the art here!

Day 5 (Ribbon / Tie) — Tied In Knots

Castiel struggles to do his tie, and Dean steps in.

Read it here! | Check out the art here!

Day 6 (Magic) — I, Carrion

Castiel is finally free again after his imprisonment, and all of it is thanks to Dean, the best human he will ever know. So, when Dean seems unhappy, Castiel postpones his return to Heaven to help him. After all Dean has done to help him recover from the witch's bindings, it's only natural that he tries to return in the favor in any way that he can; Dean deserves nothing less.

Read it here! | Check out the art here!

Day 7 (Free) — We All Have Our Hunger

To put a stop to Castiel's divine rampage, Dean, Sam and Bobby work with Crowley to seal him away. Yet strangely, whenever Dean sees the angel-turned-God, he can't help but feel like he's the one trapped instead.

Read it here! | Check out the art here!

[golby-moon]

we have created Life (angsty life more often than not but still life)

[golby-moon]

day 7 for restraintstiel week, a challenge where Cas is once again all wrapped up in some new thing (related to the Winchesters no doubt) (hosted by @valdelion and @niceworkhuggybear). for this challenge, @lazarus-rose and I have collaborated to create fics and fic art for each of the prompts :00

this is another Laz Original (TM), where she had the idea of Godstiel being kept in a cage by Dean until he gives up the souls (or Dean gives up his will lol as seen in the second picture). somewhere along the line it became a bird cage for added symbolism and angst. y'know, as a treat

this is another unique art style I tried to do, this one heavily inspired by the style that @hellion-cat used in this series of art pieces that my brain refused to release. I tried to imitate the style a bit but uh don't think I did all that well tbh lool. it was still interesting to try to emulate that with traces of my usual style poking through though, even if I was visibly guessing with the lightning. I've never drawn a cage before so it's a bit of a mess as well and also more than a little inconsistent between the two art pieces but ehh an attempt was made

the fic this is made for is called 'We All Have Our Hunger' by @lazarus-rose (and me oh no (co-write)) for the restraintstiel week challenge

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

(05/31/26)

[golby-moon]

day 6 for restraintstiel week, a challenge where Cas is knot always having a great time (hosted by @valdelion and @niceworkhuggybear). for this challenge, @lazarus-rose and I have collaborated to create fics and fic art for each of the prompts :00

this idea is another one of laz's and is actually a follow-up for prompt 2, handcuffs/chains, hence why the art styles are so similar (main difference is the color palette really). this means more angst potential which is always fun yayy

the goal of this one was primarily just to mirror what I did for prompt 2, since the fic is a continuation of that, hence the similar positioning of the characters and the style in general. this one has decidedly been marinating in pickle juice for an unknown length of time however. I wanted it to be made in shades of green and got a palette online but didn't really take into account just how green it would be I guess? the actual magical bindings took it over the top I think but oh well, might as well add some chaos for funsies right? the wings came out weirdly okay considering how lazy I was with them btw

the fic this is made for is called 'I, Carrion' by @lazarus-rose (and me :00 (co-write)) for the restraintstiel week challenge

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

(05/30/26)

[golby-moon]

day 5 for restraintstiel week, a challenge where Cas is all tied up and can't come to the phone rn oh noo (hosted by @valdelion and @niceworkhuggybear). for this challenge, @lazarus-rose and I have collaborated to create fics and fic art for each of the prompts :00

this is the last of the prompt ideas that I came up with I promise lol. for this one, the idea was Cas very badly trying to tie his own tie and uh getting all tied up in it, and Dean comes by to help him out. I like coming up with maybe more unexpected ways to fill the prompts. this one very easily could've become a idk sexy one or smth but instead it's kinda sweet. I feel like a lot of the prompts could be violent or intimate like that, so I like subverting the obvious themes and going down more unexpected paths (but dw, the darker prompts are still ahead as Lazarus mans the ship oh no send help)

(separate panels bc ow why the blur)

continuing the theme of unique art styles or techniques (which I should've been mentioning earlier on oops), this little comic has a style that is VERY different than what I usually do, so it was interesting to see how it kinda turned out. I'm really bad at doing stuff with colors so thank @hellion-cat for helping me make it look okay ,_, (shockingly it actually looked far worse before)

the fic this is made for is called 'Tied in Knots' by @lazarus-rose for the restraintstiel week challenge

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

(05/29/26)

[golby-moon]

day 4 for restraintstiel week, a challenge Cas experiences Things in the form of physical restraint (hosted by @valdelion and @niceworkhuggybear). for this challenge, @lazarus-rose and I have collaborated to create fics and fic art for each of the prompts :00

I started coming up with the idea for this piece actually way in the beginning of seeing the prompt, when laz and I first started talking about collabing on these. I knew I wanted to flip the expectations a bit and have the living restraint prompt be a bear hug (Cas needs more hugs guys). I came up with a few different designs that will probably be posted independently eventually maybe (assuming I ever finish them), but we eventually had the idea of creating octopus creature!dean and mermaid!cas for mermay yayy. always wanted to do mermay but always forgot it even existed or was too busy to do anything ,_, (laz came up with the sea monster eating people idea though, unsurprisingly. I promise eating people was not in my original idea draft guys. it's a fun contrast though considering the art is inspired by the movie Luca loool)

I tried a whole new drawing program for this one called Affinity Designer, which is vector based (as opposed to raster based/pixels like I'm used to). I still don't really know how to color on it. thank @blueeyesblueties for being extremely patient with me and helping me figure out how to use the program (I really needed the help guys I was/am a total disaster and uh likely would've given up 5 curves in otherwise tbh). it's still fitting though since a bonus challenge I've been doing for this week is pushing myself to try new art styles/techniques, and you can't get much more new than an entirely different art program ow. also I'm aware the fish shapes in the background look weird but they were fun to draw like that so I kept them

the fic this is made for is called 'A Sea Monster Meat-Cute' by @lazarus-rose for the restraintstiel week challenge

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

(05/28/26)

[golby-moon]

day 3 for restraintstiel week, a challenge where Cas is always getting roped into something (hosted by @valdelion and @niceworkhuggybear). for this challenge, @lazarus-rose and I have collaborated to create fics and fic art for each of the prompts :00

I came up with the idea for this one (hence why it's not angsty Laz), so it features a cowboy sorta setting and the rope is a lasso, because of course it is. I very rarely ever do comics, and this is like my second ever full page comic so uh yeah that's why it's a mess ig as far as the paneling goes

as a disclaimer I stupidly colored this entire thing at night with the brightness as low as it could go because ow my retinas. looking back and thinking about it for more than two seconds, that was probably a dumb thing to do but oh well. but yeah that's why Dean's boots are pink; I noticed while I was shading stuff but honestly it had aura so I kept it (they were supposed to be an orangish sort of brown to stand out from the background since I colored them in that bottommost scene first). also Cas is actually supposed to be a phoenix which is why his wings are red and orange going down something something fire. I wanted to add more bird-like features to not pull a Supernatural visual effects and go with like. dude with slightly strange features. but it looked really weird and my author tragically vetoed the bird feet so alas, we must sacrifice

plus a bonus picture of the idiots being stupid. Cas is decidedly Not Amused by this turn of events. this coloring and shading style is obviously not something I've done before but I think it actually doesn't look too bad all things considered, especially since I've had trouble in the past with getting colors to complement that specific outline color (which I picked because it seemed a bit cowboy-y). also notice how between the last panel of the comic and the bonus, Cas goes from having the magic rope wrapped around him one time to suddenly three times over, implying Dean took the time to wrap Cas up even more just to bug him a bit. I felt this was very important to point out

the fic this is made for is called 'Save A Horse, Lasso A Firebird' by @lazarus-rose for the restraintstiel week challenge

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85627236

(05/27/26)

[golby-moon]

day 2 for restraintstiel week, a challenge where Cas is Going Through It (sad) (hosted by @valdelion and @niceworkhuggybear). for this challenge, @lazarus-rose and I have collaborated to create fics and fic art for each of the prompts :00

the second prompt is for handcuffs/chains, and since we decided to split up the prompts between us, laz was the one who came up with the subject of this prompt by starting on a fic outline. I illustrated a scene from the fic she started and I also contributed to in order to get some of the boring fluff out of the way to make room for more angst in the part two for this fic (posted on the 30th for the sixth prompt 'magic,' another Lazarus pick :0)

I was going for a gritty awful mess sort of vibe with this one and only used six colors (well actually seven for the purple bruises oops), five of which were in the scale of greys and the other being red of course. the slight glow effect actually started out red but it was kinda cursed so I went with white instead to add to the 'hope has arrived' motif. also I nearly forgot to add the wings several times so thank Laz for them actually being there or I would've completely forgot lool

the fic this is made for is called 'Icarian' by @lazarus-rose (and me :00 (another co-write let's goo)) for the restraintstiel week challenge

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85565421

(05/26/26)

[golby-moon]

day 1 for restraintstiel week, a challenge where Cas is not having a great time (hosted by @valdelion and @niceworkhuggybear). for this challenge, @lazarus-rose and I have collaborated to create fics and fic art for each of the prompts :00

this challenge is a week long event where various prompts are filled to have Cas restrained in a number of ways. I'm doing a bonus challenge to try to do new/different art styles for each of the prompts, starting off with this weird Camp Camp-y sort of style and yeah idk what I was really doing here but I think it turned out okay, even if the trees feel like they're missing something but idk what. also yeah the scenery in the art doesn't quite match the fic since it's night here and outside vs day and inside the Bunker in the fic oops ignore that

the first prompt is collar, so naturally I immediately thought of viscacha!cas because I'm absolutely cooked oop (the autism is too strong I'm afraid chat :/). I realized I've been drawing viscacha!cas as basically a minccino lately (one of my favorite Pokemon so it's unsurprising) and leaned fully into it with this one to the point where the inclusion of that bonus panel in the corner is entirely inspired by this picture of grumpy!minccino my beloved. Cas just deserved to be extremely grumpy here guys

(plus here are some bonus silly doodles because I wanted an excuse to draw more viscacha!cas I mean what)

the fic this is made for is called 'Short Leash' by @lazarus-rose (and me :00 (cowrote)) for the restraintstiel week challenge

https://archiveofourown.org/works/85477386

(05/25/26)

[lazarus-rose]

ooooh, what restraintstiel prompts are yall working on? (If you dont mind sharing)

Don't mind at all! @golby-moon and I are doing all of them, I am doing the writing and they are doing the art (and also writing because Golby is badass). Golby and I divided the prompts between us to come up with stories for each of them!

Lil sneak preview for Day 1 - Collar, Golby has been doing some gorgeous art of Cas as an adorable lil creature called a viscacha, so this fic is based on that!

Thank you very much for the ask!

[golby-moon]

[golby-moon]

oh no I tried another speedpaint, this time with my fully smooth lines style as opposed to the sketchy one (probably why it took 3 hours instead of 20 minutes lol gg. also the fact that I fully colored and shaded this one might contribute to this as well. just maybe). (link at the bottom)

despite wanting to go for something basic and similar to what I always do to show the process, I ended up trying some new things this time around as far as texturing various cloth and hair bits with the 'crayon' tool. I also tried doing like actual body hair for the first time because I know some people who will scream about it (in a good way presumably). also you can visibly see not only in the speedpaint but also in the final product where I just gave up lol. in this case, it's Dean's left arm and also his eyes and general expression; he looks annoyed that there's an audience watching him maybe but that wasn't what I was originally gonna give him. normally I'd pause for a bit and come back to the project later but I couldn't really quit in the middle of the speedpaint in my mind so yeah that didn't happen oops

also here are the little wolf-related designs I came up with, featuring a crescent and full moon, a wolf face, a little wolf standing, and a paw print. I did not mean to use them all but they all ended up on there anyway double oops.

the slippers in the art belong to @meowmeowfart6000 as seen in these pictures. I said a while ago that I was gonna steal them for some art thing at some point and that day is today apparently. and yes Cas absolutely needed the lone slipper guys nobody can match his autistic swag

I harassed poor @appleisoffline about what the theme of the pajamas should be (they just said 'wolves' and I went a bit overboard oops) and the colors (a few were suggested and I went with the navy blue + cream), and the background ('sunset-y'). apple of course had no idea what they were approving or what I was doing because I didn't provide any details about what I was even drawing yayy

also Clipchamp was the goat for this one as far as piecing together 6 hand + 6 phone screen clips and adding thee song of all time Coconut Mall as the background music (which is why the segments are a bit choppy and not perfectly aligned; also the fact that the handcam timed out a couple of times but I didn't realize at first. I tried my best to have it so the handcam and the screen were synced but they were not recorded in sync so uh I did mess it up a bit. an attempt was made I assure you). it was recommended I should aim for 3ish minutes so this thing is at 60x or 6000% sped up so sorry if it destroys anyone's sense of time or consciousness. I lowkey got a little dizzy or something while watching it but I am weird. 3 hours to 3 minutes is till nothing to sneeze at though

(05/17/26)

[golby-moon]

oh noo another birthday gift, this time for @meowmeowfart0421 :00 yes yes confetti. he made the mistake of saying barn swallows were his favorite bird so naturally I created a bunch of random drawings of Cas as a barn swallow, one page of him as an ugly bald baby bird and another of a full-fledged adult form

here's the whole process, from start to finish. I usually order stuff a bit better but idk this set up feels fine I think, like said baby bird going from just a pencil sketch to a fully (crayon) colored drawing. as a side note sorry if this is a bit disappointing lol I don't do traditional art all that often. I actually came up with the idea a couple of weeks ago and sketched everything all out, but the original hypothetically digital version would've just been that ugly bald baby bird!Cas choking on a singular McDonalds french fry and looking generally pathetic, but then I also wanted to sketch an actually recognizably barn swallow-flavored version as an adult and well

oops. two full pages of doodles forever immortalized in my mini notebook now ig, crammed between genetics notes and ochem chair structure diagrams. such is the life of a student ig

(05/02/26)

[golby-moon]

chat would you say this image with its strange art style is understandable/clear/comprehensible even without an outline

be honest. it's made entirely with highlighter so idk what I'm expecting really

Is this image clear even without an outline?

it was clear before seeing the outline

it only made sense after seeing the outline

it only made sense after seeing the reference image

it never became clear/could never tell what the image was

other

Voting ended onMay 7

spoiler images below

I think the image is about as clear as a minecraft painting where you can sorta tell what's happening only after knowing what it's supposed to be

(04/30/26)

[golby-moon]

uh oh I'm Experimenting again guys, this time trying to create something apparently called an isometric room. very different art style this time around with a weird new shading style but I wanted to try something new because this disasterpiece just so happens to be a (definitely not last minute) gift for @demetriustheangel's annual aging :000000

here are two versions of nearly the same thing: the original that I made too low in the frame and didn't notice until I was 8 layers deep in work and too lazy to fix it, and the version I moved up to center the room (but it looks kinda weird to me and idk why, probably the way that I did it by combining the layers into one and moving everything then pasting them back in and yeah idk it's a mess)

but anyway yeah I went with a more simple animal crossing villager sort of style here, with all the characters as various animals (featuring viscacha Cas, wolverine Dean, dog Sam, cougar Jody, and lynx Donna). the additional characters not at the tables are the two workers in Gas-N-Sip style vests: Tyler the opossum mopping the floors (@honeykrak3n's OC; she also let me bounce ideas around and also helped me come up with Jody and Donna's species as well as telling me it is indeed called an isometric room and not a 'floating cube room scene' which would've been helpful when looking up guides to draw it...) and ofc the bull terrier at the counter is Demetrius' own OC for the vibes (looking very stressed in the job but who wouldn't be with 5 hunters in their place of employment). fun fact but the plates of food with the exception of Donna's milkshake were last minute additions because the tables looked too empty, so please accept Dean and Cas eating pies and Sam with a salad (Jody has a burger but her body is blocking everything but the plate so pretend she finished it already ig). this started out as a 2D Burger King sketch (+ a crown or two) but became a 3D weird cubical diner I hope you're happy ghkjgddk

here's the scene with a transparent background, aka the reason I adjusted the cube in the first place lol. I really have no idea what I was doing with the shading but idk don't really hate it. might revisit this style in the future, likely with more tiny animal spn characters

(04/28/26)

[infinitecakes]

Thank you to everyone who took part in this round of Infinite Cakes!

We had 12 teams participate this year, creating stories from cute to creepy. You can find a master list of this years works under the break. As always, the artists and authors have been an absolute joy, and we look forward to seeing both new and familiar faces in round 3!

Speaking of Round 3, we're excited to announce that we will be running a reverse bang this round! Prompt suggestions can be submitted for the first 3 weeks in July, so keep your eyes open!

We will also be running a 2nd iteration of Infinite Cakes - the Heated Rivalry edition! This will be a regular bang, with prompt suggestions being called for in October. More to follow on both editions of the bang!

Now that we have that out of the way, I encourage you to peek under the break to find the list of amazing stories and art.

See you in July!

Love, the Infinite Cakes Mod Team

Brushes and Clay Author @masoena​, Artist @xpurdyglambertx

Fake it Till You Bake it Author: @adromelke, Artist: @onowey

Accidental Author: @friendofcarlotta, Artist: @twinone1221

90% Angel Author: @bethmints, Artist @twinone1221

Music to my EarsAuthor: @jld71, Artist: @entropic-saudade

I Would be Amenable to That Author: @hectatess, Artist: @alicetallula

Crafty Author: @ravenfuchs, Artist: @slothserpent

Murders & Meet-Cutes Author @flatcokeao3, Artist @valdelion

The Crossness Monster Author @bethmints,​ Artist @alicetallula

Arc Author: @WhoIPretended2B, Artist @golby-moon

From the River Author @tanis-in-a-trenchcoat, Artist @hellion-cat

Heart in a Snowglobe Author: @seidenapfel, Artist: @solstheimart

[infinitecakes]

Title: Arc

Author: @WhoIPretended2B Artist @golby-moon​

Word Count: 10,386

Rating: M

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Mutual Pining, Superpowers, Hurt/Comfort, Secret Identity, Natural Disasters, Touch-Starved, Electricity, Angst with a Happy Ending

Summary: 

Dean is a null. Powerless in a world where almost everyone has some kind of ability. Not that it matters. Most people’s powers are glorified party tricks like finding loose change or hovering a few inches off the ground. Pretty useless. None of them can do a damn thing about the storms ripping through this part of the country.

Dean figures he’s not missing much.

Then a car hydroplanes straight at him, and Dean has just enough time to think, Of course.

Except a stranger grabs his arm. He hauls Dean out of the way, and time stops. Rain hangs in midair. Sound drops out. They’re the only two who can move inside the stillness. They can even hear each other’s thoughts. Then the guy lets go, and everything slams into motion again.

Dean only looks away for a moment, and his guardian angel is gone.

He tells himself it was adrenaline.

Then Castiel Novak walks into the garage where Dean works, and things are electric.

Excerpt: 

Most people’s powers were fucking useless anyway. Finding lost money sounded cool until you realized it meant crawling around picking up pennies off the sidewalk and gutters. Or the guy who could levitate three inches off the ground. Real impressive. Some powers were worse than useless though, like the guy whose hair grew at an alarming rate or the woman who set everything she touched on fire. 

What the world actually needed was someone who could do something about this goddamn weather. The storms had been getting worse every year, but this year was something else. Today the black clouds had rolled in fast. And now the wind was cutting down the street like it had teeth.

Dean yanked his jacket higher around his neck and hunched his shoulders, trying to keep some part of himself dry. Rain trickled down his collar anyway. Fucking weather.

He waited at the curb, squinting through the downpour to check for traffic, water sheeting across the road in heavy silver streaks.

That was when he heard it: the sudden snarl of an engine pushed too hard. Tires hit standing water, and his head snapped the other way to see a car fishtailing and sliding straight toward him.

He had just enough time to understand what was about to happen and think, Of course.

Link to Art | Link to Fic

[golby-moon]

uh oh I have swooped into the @infinitecakes bang and made a mess of it (as I do)

I went into this banner with the goal of making Dean look like a wet pathetic cat, which unfortunately meant attempting to draw Rain and Wet People, something I've only really done a couple of times before. as soon as I heard the fic title (and saw how short it was I mean what) I had the idea of trying to make the words into lightning in the sky to reflect the themes of the fic without giving too much away, so it the banner had to be outside. to achieve full Wet Cat vibes, I have Dean at a bus stop just getting completely soaked in the rain. the credits might be a little tricky to spot but they're on the manhole cover in the foreground and on the soggy McDonald's bag + napkins hanging off the edge of the trashcan. I wanted to have the bang's name/logo as an ad on the bus stop's side, and then for the other visible side, I just have an ad for an energy drink (again carrying on the electricity/lightning bolt motif to further hint at the fic's theme, because the huge lightning bolt title wasn't enough ig)

oh also I did make the logo featured on the banner, which became one of the logos people could use for the bang. you can tell it's mine because of the thick lines and bad attempt at swirly cursive icing words on this cake slice that is decidedly Club Penguin coded in my brain. so yeah that's a thing

uh oh I've been experimenting with the random effects again that can't be good. no but please accept Dean and Cas holding hands on the couch, the beginnings of the wings that symbolize their connection only just starting to form (oops spoilers). I wanted to try to show time literally freezing around them when they stare into each other's eyes (hence the giant clock on the wall) but that's not the easiest thing to represent in a still image. also for anyone curious, the pictures on the wall show Charlie, Mary holding baby Dean, Bobby, and Sam and Dean in front of the Impala. just tiny family photos up there because the wall looked too empty lol. also I tried something new with the glowing how does it look guys

this was only just barely finished in time for posting day due to finals existing but I wanted to show another side of the tornado, before it gets too bad. in this scene, Dean and Bobby are working to help the locals get somewhere safe for when the tornado comes, since it's bound to be a bad one by the looks of it. I have some houses and trees set up to show it's a residential area, and Cas is stressed enough to tromp through somebody's flower garden to get to Dean, just the smallest hint of those glowing eyes from before visible as even their closeish proximity ignites that bond again. also fun fact but the old lady faces were just placeholders for the art draft but I liked the expressions enough to leave them pretty much unchanged lol gotta love oversimplified old person wrinkles right guys

this was actually the first piece I made for the fic because the scene was described in claims and made the fic firmly land itself into my top pick for the bang :0 (I am weak but the idea of Dean and Cas' profound bond manifesting itself into this power that can save a city (or at least greatly reduce the costs of potential property damage) and as wings made out of electricity sounded so cool gkhjdgd). granted the author probably wasn't expecting such a weird wing design. I had a lot of trouble getting the lightning to actually look like wings, and this was like my eighth attempt I think it was, in which I had the idea that the wings in the space between the two of them would be larger since the current is flowing between them and gaining momentum something something physics equation

at some point the stacked wings looked weird and it became more like a bolt of lightning, which soon became this weird tree shape complete with branches and roots as seen above. idk how that happened. also I've never tried to draw an actual tornado before beyond like messy concentric scribble on a piece of scrap paper, so this was definitely a learning experience in that regard as well

as a bonus here's Dean and Cas flying and staring with the tornado and wings layers' opacity knocked down. I just liked how they were looking at each other like that and had a hard time not making the wings big enough to cover all that up. plus a bonus screenshot of the background itself because I put way too much time into designing each blade of grass and knocked over tree and telephone pole and dirt thrown up in the wind to not show that a little ,_,

and as per usual now apparently, here are all the quick scribbly MS Paint sketches I made while reading through the fic just to get some ideas down on paper. just to prove that as bad as the final art is, it actually started out much much worse (though the proportions in some of the sketches are actually a bit better I think like that lightning wing one. the bed one makes up for any aura that could've been gained however). I enjoy looking at other people shamelessly adding their before and after no matter the quality and decided to carry on that trend. so yeah enjoy that ig

the fic this is made for is "Arc" by @whoipretended2b for the infinite cakes bang

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

(04/24/26)