#cybernature

[spn-fanfic-reblog-writes]

Title: Beauty and the Beast of the Below (ao3)

Author: @ladyknightskye

Illustrator: @spn-fanfic-reblog-writes

Summary:

Fending off an unwanted advance leaves Dean Winchester in a bind - literally. He wakes up about to be auctioned off in one of the slave markets of the Below, the seedy underbelly of the City of Enoch. However, all of this is further complicated by the fact that Dean is the Michael Sword - the only person in the entire city whose internal hardware is immune to being hijacked.

Or so he thought. Enter Lucifer - the first Michael Sword. Lucifer buys Dean under the pretense of using him as a sex slave. In reality, Lucifer knows how dangerous Dean can be, and wants to use him to help take over the Below.

As Dean and Lucifer get closer, they begin to realize that Dean’s abduction was not an accident at all.

[spncybernatural]

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[tigerlilynoh]

Please tell me about • Cybernatural Short: Prequel

❤️🩸🖤

It’s a short fic (probably end up being less than 10k) about Sam’s demon blood binge mentioned in Cybernatural. It revolves around him hunting a demon crime syndicate, meeting Nima, and helping her gain power, while also resisting Dean and Castiel’s attempts to capture him. The story ends with the confrontation at Twilight Plaza.

It’s a fun but challenging exercise in writing a version of Sam that toes the line between self-interest and villainous. Honestly, the writing process is all just me making heart eyes while writing Sam and Nima being menacing together.

Snippet below:

“What the hell is he?”

“He drinks the blood of demons,” Nima told the nest’s leader.

The brutish man scoffed. “It’s poison. Nobody can—“

“I’ve seen it.”

Sam could see Nima’s muscles coil subtly and her jaw set. For some reason he got the distinct impression that everyone else was mistaking it for nerves or desperation. To him it was obvious that she was seething. She’d just survived torture by the enemy, witnessed something that was evidently unheard of, and was now being called a liar in front of her entire nest. Not only was the leader being blindly stubborn to his own harm, the guy might be an obstruction generally. Life was too short to endure the likes of such nuisances.

He looked at Nima while gesturing at the supposedly powerful vampire. “Do we need him?”

The nest leader stepped forward and hissed, “Who the fuck do you think—“

Sam telekinetically threw him into the ceiling and held him there without turning his attention away from Nima. His body tensed a bit from the strain causing more blood to drip from his injured shoulder.

“If you don’t need him, I’m just gonna kill him. Okay?” Sam told her.

“Wait!” shouted the former leader, but Nima gestured at him in a dismissive way.

In an instant the man’s head was literally torn from his body. A huge amount of blood poured out onto the filthy tile floor. Sam used some of his diminishing strength to telekinetically throw both pieces of the corpse to the side of the room. It had taken real effort to make that demonstration, but he trusted that every other vampire there would think twice before trying to fight him.

[digitalerrabe]

[Image description: Several photographs of artworks by Peter McFarlane. The art consist of computer circuit boards with metal imitations of animal skeletons worked into them like fossils. Under the last photograph is a small text that reads: Obsolete. This work is a play on the "fossil" of a dinosaur, and how quickly we "fossilize" history now.]

[digitalzealot2]

Jackson Springs!! My OC

I really wanted to draw him smiling for once, so here he is. I'm really proud of the background and his expression

[mamaangiwine]

Kinda sucks when you find a really cool blog that has some really interesting technomancy aesthetics or cybernatural artwork and then you see that they call themselves a "techno shaman" or some such nonsense.

[cyberpunker-hologram]

Wire Tree

Dirac 77 // Artist

[bitterbetterbun]

WIP themes game

Select one of your WIPs and bold the themes in that work. 

Tagged by @girl-star-bastard

My WIP: Cybernature

addiction | beauty | betrayal | change vs. tradition | chaos vs. order | circle of life | clash of ideologies | coming of age | communication | convention vs. rebellion | corruption | courage | crime and law | dangers of ignorance | darkness and light | death | desire to escape | dreams | displacement | different views | empowerment | facing darkness | facing reality | faith vs. doubt | fall from grace | fame and fortune | found family | fate | fear | fear of failure | free will | friendship | fulfillment | good vs. bad | government | greed | guilt and forgiveness | hard work | heroism | hierarchy | honesty | hope | identity crisis | immortality | independence | individual vs. society | inner vs. outer strength | innocence | injustice | isolation | knowledge vs. ignorance | life | loneliness | lost love | love | man vs. nature | manipulation | materialism | motherhood | morals | nature | nature vs. nurture | oppression | optimism | peer pressure | poverty | power | power of words | prejudice | pride | progress | quest | racism | rebirth | relationships | religion | respect | responsibility | revenge | sacrifice | search for meaning | secrets | self-awareness | self-preservation | self-reliance | self-worth | sexuality | social class structure | survival | technology | temptation and destruction | time | totalitarianism | weakness | values | vanity | war | wealth | wisdom of experience | youth

I tag all of you wiring wonderful original works. Tag me so I can see.

[deizephyr]

Who is that Pokemon? 🤣 #cybernature You dare to visit: www.deizephyr.com ? (at Tokyo, Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci1jw9sOFTp/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[rexvonkostia]

The Electric Shaft #strangerthings #postapocalypse #postapocalyptic #cyberpunk #cybernature #italy #nature https://www.instagram.com/p/CMpg09Jjo0c/?igshid=1xnqugeeqbiy6

[miroslav-iv]

Gal***1

[saskiavalentineapologist]

introducing Syrah Lavigne! she’s a character in a new trilogy i’m developing. she’s a vampire :3

(also, first time watermarking a piece of art! kinda weird! looks neat tho)

[elf-indulgent]

some kinda porn-adjacent bot blog starts following me and thats nothing new but like... this url combination w this picture is genuinely unnerving...like... i think these are the demons in my room at night

[tigerlilynoh]

Fic authors self rec! When you get this, reply with your favorite five fics that you've written, then pass on to at least five other writers. Let’s spread the self-love ❤

Thank you @ambersock for the nudge/inspiration to reflect on things I'm really proud of.

Job & Family This one is definitely top of my list because it’s dear to my heart in so many ways.  I spent 26 months writing this 600k beast.  It has several of my favorite original characters and fight scenes.  I love that act one starts pretty straightforward, then it jumps the rails with the second act (and I love the inherent trust of any reader who is willing to hang on).  The story gave me so much room to world build across multiple planes and dive into the politics and culture of Hell in particular. It’s simply the sandbox I could play in forever.

Beyond the End, There is a Season I often describe this fic as “Job & Family was several seasons of a tv show.  Beyond the End is a movie.”  My goal with the fic was to really dig into pacing and tension to play with suspense.  The main inspiration were 28 Days Later and A Quiet Place— with the added priority of a really mess interpersonal dynamic (post-canonical-betrayal Sam and Ruby).  It’s like 100k with the first 80% being almost entirely just Sam and Ruby having to work together.  Both in that character/relationship study and in individual moments, it lingers in a way I love.  I’m so proud of how it turned out.

Time for a Lesson My version of a dark fic.  It was for a dark fic bang and part of my challenged to myself was not relying on sexual violence to do the heavy lifting of danger.  I wanted to make the most unnerving, menacing Demon!Dean I could, one that would inevitably flay the canonical one.  Sam’s character arc in this one is something I’m very pleased with.  And I delight in this dark fic’s inspiration being Treason by the Book (a historical account of a failed incitement to treason, and specifically the poor bastard who got a target on his back because someone tried to incite him).

Cybernatural I don’t blame anyone for not giving this one a chance; it’s an odd one, but it has a lot of things that I’m so happy with.  The inspiration was, “If I could write a spn spinoff, what would the first season look like?”  This was my attempt at noir (it’s actually neo noir because it’s set in the future with some minor sci-fi tech), a genre that I actually didn't really like prior to writing this, but I studied it as part of the challenge to myself and grew to really appreciate its style.  It was also my attempt at writing an old version of Sam, particularly one struggling with passing the torch and his own insecurities.  I dig its case fic/noir vibe, and I cackled wildly at making readers read through a sex scene involving elderly people… because I often think of myself as your antagonist, here to put you where you never thought you’d be.

The Uncomfortable Adventures of Sam in Law School (WIP) Despite the fact that it is incomplete, this is another instance of world building that I’m so deeply proud of.  Stanford-era Sam getting caught up in the magic subculture of the San Francisco Bay Area.  Magical realism, drugs, lots of sex, Sam having anxiety and major illness, a chapter that delves into hunter culture and Sam’s relationship with his dad and Dean— that chapter is one of my favorite things I’ve ever written. It's a piece that's so special to me that what holds me back most from completing it is fear of letting it down, but I hold out hope that with time and renewed practice (and maybe a couple vacations or ADHD medication to reboot me) I'll grow braver. Time will tell.

[tigerlilynoh]

I wrote another fic! It’s my attempt at a neo-noir cyberpunk story, with lots of world building, interpersonal relationships, and angst.

I’ll do a more detailed post about my process and thank yous a bit later, but in the meantime, if this sounds up your alley, check it out :D Hope you all enjoy it!

Title: Cybernatural

Author: tigerlilynoh Artist: noctemusart Word count: ~84,000 Rating:  Explicit Ships:  Sam x OFC

Warnings: Graphic violence, descriptions of mutilated corpses, explicit sexual content, major character death, discussion of transphobia.

Tags:  old!Sam, neo-noir, cyberpunk, case fic, interpersonal conflict, angst

Summary:

Sam would’ve expected the Apocalypse to have been the most difficult chapter in his life, but that ordeal had been a sprint compared to the marathon of his later years.  For decades the hits kept coming one after the other: addiction, illness, and loss— all piled atop a world that had turned harsh. The year is 2078, and the world around him has changed, twisted by ecological disaster, extreme wealth disparity, and the struggle of non-humans trying to integrate into a society.

During the last few painful decades of his life, Sam had turned inward as he focused on trying to protect and mentor his family’s next generation of hunters: Jack, Dean’s half-reaper daughter, and his demonic genderqueer child.  But during his latest case, he discovers that his family has become caught up in something much bigger than expected. Their investigation leads them into some of the unsavory corners of the city’s supernatural underground, and pieces from Sam’s tragic and sordid past start coming out.  He just wanted to protect his family, but it was just like a Winchester to have good intentions go so very wrong.

Read the fic on AO3.

See the artwork on AO3.

[monicawoe]

Spotlight Saturday - spn fic rec

I’ve been meaning to do one of these for a while and finally remembered to so on a Saturday! For this Spotlight Saturday I’m doing “Make a post recommending someone else’s fic that you love.”

And this time, that fic is Cybernatural by @tigerlilynoh​

My favorite fics are the ones that stick with me for a long time after I’ve read them and this one absolutely qualifies. The world building in this fic is next level fantastic. I was completely sucked in from start to finish and it hints at an even more expansive world that I’d also love to read more about. It’s Sam-centric but Sam is much older and has to take a serum and—actually, I’ll let the author tell you about it. Here’s their summary:

Sam would’ve expected the Apocalypse to have been the most difficult chapter in his life, but that ordeal had been a sprint compared to the marathon of his later years. For decades the hits kept coming one after the other: addiction, illness, and loss— all piled atop a world that had turned harsh. The year is 2078, and the world around him has changed, twisted by ecological disaster, extreme wealth disparity, and the struggle of non-humans trying to integrate into society.

During the last few painful decades of his life, Sam had turned inward as he focused on trying to protect and mentor his family’s next generation of hunters: Jack, Dean’s half-reaper daughter, and his demonic genderqueer child. But during his latest case, he discovers that his family has become caught up in something much bigger than expected. Their investigation leads them into some of the unsavory corners of the city’s supernatural underground, and pieces from Sam’s tragic and sordid past start coming out. He just wanted to protect his family, but it was just like a Winchester to have good intentions go so very wrong

Read the fic at Ao3 and leave it some love!