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call me lions. they/them. late 30s werewolf. i draw things? sometimes writing also. (let me know if your ask is private? feel free to say hi ♥) | inspiration blog

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i missed most of restraintstiel week but i figured i might as well post kitty cas, which was where my mind went for day 1: collar

do not ask me how he came to be in this predicament i do not know, but i'm sure these two will sort it out lol

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oh the new MUNA album is full of bangers damn

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no really if you're gay and you like pop...........

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torn between two wips and being driven slowly toward the second because i have to think of a name for Cas' massage business in the first one and it needs to be earnest but goofy and i'm comin' up blank lol

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the aurbb finished posting and this was a second submission that wound up not quite happening, so i feel like it's okay to release into the wild, now. selkie dean!

who would be an adorable shoreline menace and legendary weirdo for the nearby townsfolk. vacationing cas would be both baffled and smitten by the big dude in the little swimsuit who seemed to appear from nowhere and disappear just as readily...

meanwhile dean is no better than a seagull about beach bbqs but at least he'd charm the hotdogs out of people's hands instead of swooping. ...mostly

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man thank you guys for still reblogging my mass effect stuff after all these years, it does this old werewolf's heart good 💖

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Art masterpost for "Coaxial Evisceration" by @stonelions for the @deancasreversebang!

I think this DCRB is the first time I've submitted digital art for a reverse bang (I'd previously done a linocut for @deancas-stabfest last round they ran), and I couldn't be more pleased with my partner stonelions' incredible work! Link to Fic Art and details/discussion under the cut:

This was the OG version in the gallery, inspired by the end scene in I Saw the TV Glow with the associated prompt along the lines of either an IStTG AU, or something playing with Cas' canon connection to TVs and his 'multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent' nature:

Stonelions took the prompt and ran further that I'd dreamed, writing a gorgeous fic, centered on Cas (who struggles with his borrowed grace, post-humanity) and Mark of Cain era Dean going on an intimate case fic that pays wonderful homage to ISTTG, down to the broken power lines, queerness, the meta nature of The Pink Opaque and the Carver Edlund books, etc, all of which hurts just as sweetly as IStTG does. Reading the draft made me feel the same way as watching the movie for the first time, like looking into a mirror, and with all the references that felt tailor made... I can't scream enough about this fic. I sent this to stonelions earlier today:

and I hope you all feel the same way, too. After claims I finished a loose render of the bathroom from the original reference image:

And after receiving the draft made these static and GIF versions for the final main art:

On all of these, I used my usual preferred combo of Syrup and Turpentine, and then played with different jittery and glitch brushes I had for the static, a window brush for the lines coming out of Cas (which in the OG/static version are done in the same colors as a "no signal" color bar error screen on a CRT TV). For the GIF'd version, I also played with chromatic aberration on some of the duplicated color bar layers I had (and as with all GIFs, I just export the frames individually then put them together on Canva). I made a broken sparking power line and a pink thread (frayed, to evoke the fic title, and more rope-like because "freedom is a length of rope and God wants you to hang yourself with it") PNGs for scene dividers:

For the sparks I played with some firework sparkler brushes I had from an "art with Flo" brush pack, and I used Turpentine for everything else. And did the sticky notes individually (Siken always gets me, man), using Syrup brush for the note and shadow, then a Micro Nib brush from a brush pack called "The Rusty Nib", with a really tiny Bokeh Lights brush over it to emulate glitter for the glitter gel pen text:

Anyway, please go scream at stonelions, give I Saw the TV Glow a watch if you've never had the pleasure (bring tissues), and go check out the rest of DCRB!

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Coaxial Evisceration

Artist: saudade

Author: stonelions

Rating: Teen

Pairings: Dean/Castiel

Length: 24049

Warnings: N/A

Tags: Canon Universe, Fusion (with I Saw the TV Glow), POV Castiel, Case Fic, Homophobia, Transphobia, (not from our mains), Mutual Pining, Cosmic Horror, Quote: Multidimensional Wavelength of Celestial Intent

Summary: Team Free Will can’t seem to catch a break. Metatron is in the wind. The brothers are at an impasse. Dean is succumbing to The Mark, and Castiel is on angelic borrowed time. So when Dean finds a missing persons’ case that might just be a lead, Castiel is all too happy to go along for the ride. Their so-called milk run takes a sour turn when they discover that the missing teen’s old CRT TV is a conduit for an unknowable force that wants, very badly, to make itself known to them, and worse, their secrets known to each other. And it’s going to use every available wavelength to do it. Including Castiel.

Link to Art | Link to Fic

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hey check out this thing i wrote because @entropic-saudade drew something very awesome for the dcrb!

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The Boiling Point

it's dcrb posting day! i'm wildly excited because that means you all get to read @bethmints' incredible horny (literally) Demon!Dean fic that had me both biting my nails and on the floor laughing every time she updated the doc. (the puns. the tension. the case. the everything!!) it was such a treat to get to see this one take shape and i can't thank beth enough for being amazing and doing so right by this goofy idea.

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After bolting from the bunker, demon-on-the-run Dean makes himself scarce. When Cas finally tracks him down in Louisiana, he's disturbed by what he finds: a yellow-eyed, big horned, id-driven creature that, whether he likes it or not, might just still be his best friend.

But of course, Dean isn't the most frightening thing in Slidell. There's a hungry mystery lurking in the still waters of Lake Pontchartrain, and Cas is discovering he has distressing appetites of his own.

When an angel and a demon walk into a restaurant and order the crawfish boil, you know the punchline's bound to be a doozy.

[ Come down to Lake Pontchartrain ]

the art:

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what's everybody workin on. what are you guys up to?

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2 bears waking up from hibernation. (in theory they share the coffee. in practice cas drinks the coffee.)

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the thing about. destiel. is that it is infinitely horny. because it is so unconsummated.

12 years of life and death stakes yearning between two unlikely boy best friend de facto husbands who keep choosing one another over and over and over in the face of betrayal and apocalypse and family obligation while also labouring under the delusion that the other cannot love them back the way they long for.

12 horny years of knuckles brushing while they stand just slightly too close together in otherwise empty rooms. stuff of fuckin arthurian romantic legend.

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i was revisiting this post recently and

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all the drawings from Don’t Swing That Way 

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jdklajfdklsj thank you for this tag. a succinct summary of all of us reacting to dean winchester

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¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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until the day i die

aurbb posting day is finally here! it has been an honour and an absolute blast to work on this beast with the incomparable duckyboos, who is not only SO much fun but also a powerhouse that blew me away chapter by chapter. i only hope i have done this story some justice!!

trust me, friends. comrades. you don't wanna miss this one.

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when young Dean Winchester met a guitarist in a dark alley one fateful night in Illinois, he lucked into a hyper-competent, wholly compatible creative force to be reckoned with, and a best friend besides.

now, a decade and change and a lot of paid dues later, Band Name Here is finally hitting the big time. trekking state to state via tour bus, they're not so much rockstar glam as they are gas station coffee chic, but it's hard to complain when their shows are selling out and there's a plucky journalist on their heels penning a spread for Rolling Stone.

except their professional breakthrough is taking Dean dangerously close--like, Titanic, meet iceberg close--to a personal one, and the lines between best friend and something-else but not-quite are getting blurrier by the sound check.

if you love it when Dean manages to be charming while also conducting unimaginable psychological warfare primarily against himself, with predictable fallout, you'll wanna grab your tickets now!

[ LIVE IN CONCERT ON AO3 ]

aaand, the art:

(apologies for lack of tattoos, above was the submitted piece!)

and some of Dean's tattoos just because he's a nerd

[stonelions]

Does Benny have any heeler in him? My dog is mostly heeler with some border collie and the way you draw him looks so much like my Birdie, it would be a funny coincidence if so :)

Benny is, believe it or not, an entire sheltie! (oversized and less heavily coated than some, also frequently mistaken for an aussie but, yeah.)

HOWEVER!!! I had a bc/heeler mix as a kid and they are wonderful, funny dogs, & personality/looks wise there are definite similarities. (also the little eyebrows. I will forever be a sucker for dogs with little brown eyebrows....)

anyway! I hope you and Birdie are having a good day <3

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if you reblog art that links to a fic and feel like you gotta add a disclaimer in the tags that you're only reblogging for the art, who are you even explaining yourself to. who is that even for. maybe there is other art out there better suited to your needs that you won't have to worry about being judged for engaging with by a disdainful phantom audience. like godspeed to you but set yourselves free

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cas and dean both trying to acts of service their way into making their feelings known while simultaneously both being people who need to be directly told information otherwise it cannot possibly be true is so funny to me. it’s dean like ‘i have traversed the sixteen hells to find you and would again’ and cas like ‘i have fled across the sixteen hells to protect you and would again’ and then they’re both standing there aching, staring into one another’s eyes like i wish he loved me back