Prompt Day 3: Stars (@starcrosseddeancas )
(TW: grief, but mostly depressive vibes.)
There are plastic stars on the ceiling. The kind that glow in the dark.
That's really what does it, in the end.
Dean remembers plastic stars on the ceiling of his own room, when he had one, in a house that was nothing like this, and everything like this. He remembers counting them, like sheep, like real stars, when sleep would be far away because of the buzzing in his limbs. When Sammy cried too hard, too loud, and he'd wake up, groaning when told to go back to bed, buddy. When the world seemed softer, somehow. Easier.
The nursery is unfinished.
There's a half-painted mural on a wall, a dresser piled with boxes of diapers. A half-assembled crib. And the stars. On the ceiling.
Dean pictures Cas there, on a step-stool, maybe, building constellations on the ceiling of a place he'd meant to call home.
Cas isn't here, now. Cas will never be here.
And Dean can't fucking take it.
He sinks to the floor, back to the wall streaked with paint, and stares up at the stars.
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -
I am fine with "the audience" -
downloading my fics
printing my fics
copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics
sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3
making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss
doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc
I am not fine with "the audience"
doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity
feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever
Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.
Enjoy the fandom things.
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Okay but the Justice League finds out their new baby hero teammate Phantom is the Ghost King by virtue of the Fright Night showing up while they're in the middle of a meeting, looking terrifying and such and scaring the shit out of everyone- even more so when Constantine starts freaking out over the fact that the sworn night of the King of the Infinite Realms is in the Watchtower what the fuck that's apocalyptically bad Pariah Dark is supposed to be locked the fuck up forever - but instead of trying to smite them all or yeet them into the nightmare dimension he just pulls out a space themed packed lunch??? And gives it to Phantom??
And the mildly eldritch giant murder ghost is talking about how "The Queen Mother commanded me to ensure you ate my Lord, she says you missed your morning meal."
And Phantom is just grumbling about over protective sisters and "there's a cafeteria i would have been fine" what the fuck is happening right now?
What do you mean "oops you forgot" Phantom I thought the ghost thing was just a theme!
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