Supernatural Rarepair Shipfest 2012

The second round of voting has now been tallied!

Placement results for Main Round 2 are as follows:

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Thank you to everyone who produced an entry and to everyone who voted. You are now free to de-anon your work wherever it is posted, or in the comments below!

Voting on entries for Main Round 2 is now open.

You can read all of the Main Round 2 entries in the Main Round 2 Dreamwidth community.  If you wish to leave feedback on any entries, feel free to do so in the comments of the entry in question.

We ask that you read as many entries as possible before voting. Please choose the entries you wish to vote for based on the quality of the entry, the portrayal of the ship involved, and the interpretation of the prompt.

Votes are cast on an individual basis, although if all members of a team vote, that team will receive a point bonus.

When voting, you are asked to list three teams. These must all be different, valid teams in the competition which submitted an entry to this round. You may not vote for your own team, and you can only vote cast one set of votes. Invalid or duplicate votes will be penalised.

When voting, put your Dreamwidth username and your own team in the subject line, and the teams you wish to vote for in the main body of the post. Please use the official team names, i.e. the names of the characters involved in the ship separated by slashes. The order you cast votes in does not matter.

An example voting post could be:

benedlund (Team Writers)
Alice/Bob
Bob/Eve
Alice/Bob/Eve

Leave your votes in the comments below; these are screened and will not be visible to other participants.

Main Round 2 votes must be cast before the Main Round 3 deadline, on January 26th 2013.

Voting on this round is now closed.

Ahoy there, shippers!

Allow us to take the opportunity to congratulate you and your crewmates on the success of your ongoing voyage. You are now roughly a third of the way through this gruelling supernatural odyssey, and we, your mods, could not be prouder.

We will now reveal the theme for the second round of SRS: in-series AU!

By which we mean something quite specific.

This time round, we would like to see your characters interact within one of the alternate universes established in canon. The striking thing about Supernatural the series is its nigh-indefatigable propensity to explore the various possibilities inherent in missed opportunities, and roads not taken. As such, we’d like you to do some exploring of your own. For instance, would the legendary love between Charlie and Meg suffer a dampener in 2014? What if Castiel and Bobby had a Very Special Episode devoted to them in the Supernatural sitcom? More importantly, who’s left alive if the Titanic remains un-sunk?

Note: if your chosen characters do not actually appear in the episodes containing these universes – as will be the case for most of you – use your imagination! If Lucifer were a character in It’s A Terrible Life, what would his job be? If Ruby were a character in Doctor Sexy, would she be the Manipulative But Sexy intern, or a comatose patient admitted for french fry addiction? 

Suggested in-series AUs include:

• 2014!verse: from 5.04, The End. Self-explanatory enough. Sam says yes to Lucifer in Detroit: everything goes to shit; Castiel gets laid approximately a million times more than he ever will in canon; and nobody has enough toilet paper. Dare you let your beloved pairing loose in this environment?
• meta!verse: the alternate universe in 6.15, The French Mistake. Please note that this is not the same as straight-up RPF. The characters in The French Mistake are parodies of their real life counterparts. Hence, if you decide to explore this ‘verse, we expect to see, for instance, not Misha Collins in all his zany, philanthropic glory, but meta!Misha who is, in actuality, something of a jerk. Likewise, if you are using meta!characters who did not appear in the episode itself – for instance, meta!Alona, or meta!Mark - we would expect to see them equivalently parodied.
• It’s A Terrible Life!verse: from episode 4.17, It’s A Terrible Life. In which everyone has a soul-crushing corporate job that they secretly hate.
• What Is And Never Should Be!verse: from episode 2.20, What Is And Never Should Be. In which Dean’s wish-fulfilment fantasies create a less-than-ideal universe.
• Doctor Sexy, M.D.: this one’s self-explanatory. Have fun, kids.
• Any of the universes from Changing Channels: 5.08, Changing Channels, and yeah, we all know this one. You can drop your characters into the Supernatural sitcom. Try your luck with the weirdass game show where everyone gets punched in the balls, and blunt, accusatory questions about people’s personal lives fly left, right and centre. Crack some truly terrible puns in what is totally not a CSI: Miami rip-off. Alternatively, damned if we’re going to stand in the way of anyone desperate to write an AU based on the “I have genital herpes” universe.
• My Heart Will Go On!verse: from 6.17, My Heart Will Go On. How will your characters cope in a world without the Titanic? More importantly, what kind of major knock-on effects has Balthazar’s minor historical modification managed to accumulate?

Please note that this is not a definitive list of the available options! If you can think of an in-series AU that we’ve managed to miss, feel free to pursue it. On the other hand, if you’re feeling unsure, you might want to message us in order to check that it fits the criteria.

Entries can be produced by any team member or collaboratively between team members. Remember that Main Round entries can be in any media or combination of two media, but some media have length restrictions:

• Written entries must be of length 1000-4000 words.
• Graphical entries must be no longer than 10 images or panels.
• Combination written and graphical entries must have 1000-4000 words and no more than 4 images or panels.

Images which contain text, such as speech bubbles or captions, should be followed by a transcription of that text, which counts towards the entry’s word count.

The submission deadline for this round is January 5 2013. A countdown to this deadline can be found here. Entries should be submitted in the same format as Main Round 1, to a comm which will be created closer to the deadline.

Important: Any work you produce for this prompt, whether or not it is chosen as your team’s entry, must be kept anonymous until the voting for this round has ended. An anonymous AO3 collection for this round will be created closer to the deadline.