Midnight Of the Century - Author's Notes & Thanks

[glasslogic]

Story Credits and Notes
This story was officially written for the 2010 SNCross Big Bang Challenge. These notes and comments were written for that posting and have not been updated. This story complete with artwork can be found at www.infinitytwist.com under glasslogic.

So, this started when I told my roommate, "ooops, I think I might have signed up for another BigBang." After confessing the details, I gave her the list of SPN/Millennium crossovers I had contemplated and had some plot work for, and she picked this one as the most likely to be a reasonable word count. But then she asked about Jessica, who in the original sketch was only included at all because if Sam continued at Stanford, presumably she would have been a part of his life. A disposable part.

Her: "Is Jessica going with Sam?"
Me: "Well, I figure after Sam and Dean sort themselves out and get with the sex, Sam will just break it off."
Her: "Why would he do that?"
Me: "I only read wincest, so to be fair, I only write wincest."
Her: "Jess seems like she would be into that."
Me: *blinks*
Her: "Jess seems like she might like Hunting. And Dean."

And then it just ...developed. On its own, I swear.

Obviously (unless you have just never seen any Supernatural) this story is an AU. It diverges from canon before the series even starts. Up to that point I don't think any of the back story actually conflicts with canon, though I have only seen the series and am not familiar with any of the other information floating around from other legitimate sources such as literary publications. You can tell that I am all kinds of concerned about it *dryly* The idea of a Millennium/SPN crossover actually started with a different idea, in which Sam and Dean get stranded in the woods with the Old Man from Millennium -- who in this case would be Frank as a successor to the canon one, and have to learn about the nature of evil while putting up with the creepy dogs and various other assorted problems. But Midnight of the Century is one of my favorite Millennium eps, so after exploring the other idea for awhile I drifted towards this one. If I write any more in this 'verse you are probably looking at stories titled things like "Luminary" and "Powers, Principalities, Thrones, and Dominions."


Betas! Normally I would have put this section right up front and center, but since it is included in mini-form in the actual story post -- and there is a link to it up top -- I didn't think it would be terrible to hang it down here with the story notes. I have listed them based on when they jumped on board (apparently, I require a lot of hand-holding), to the best of my recollection. The order is in no way a reflection of how much assistance they provided or anything like that, all of them offered invaluable contributions to the story and I am deeply, deeply grateful. I'm lousy with the grammar, but of any of you guys ever need a plot/story reviewed, someone to bounce ideas off of, or anything else of that nature -- just tell me when!

asdis athanasia: The roommate. This is all her fault. Also, I think she might still be bitter that it's not SGA.

kathickers: Gave me some great suggestions and encouragement about sections when I was unsure about direction and tone, and also when I just plain was doubting their inclusion. She also educated me about the difference between a "prologue" and "Chapter One," which has no doubt made it better for later readers. And hey - she made the deadline for SPN J2 BB with 9 minutes to spare! That's style *grins*

lilacsigil: Her observations went a long way towards shaping the story up from early drafts and encouraging me to go on with it. Without her help it might never have reached the point where anyone else would have been able to see it, much less help with it. Her later assistance was just as valuable and I am very grateful that I found her ...somewhere. I can never remember where I acquire people!

dime-for-12: Despite been entrenched in her own BB journey of pain and frustration, she took the time to read MotC and offer some very useful suggestions and encouragement. I think we met up as an agreement to do mutual cheerleading and periodic check-ins to make sure we were, you know, actually writing. This would have been for the SPN J2 BB which hits posting in June, but she was agreeable to being shanghaied into taking a look and this BB story for sncross as well (yes, I'm crazy, I did two this Spring). *hugs*

elusive_life_77: Another one of my BB writing peeps! I don't even know how we ran into each other, but I have the sneaking suspicion it started with a sad plaintive sob for help somewhere on LJ *grins* That's how I meet most people. Which one of us was doing the sniffling I have no idea anymore, but it certainly could have been me. Like I said, I require a lot of hand holding *dryly* In the midst of working frantically on her own SPN J2 BB story she took the time to give me some very insightful feedback and several reviews of MotC. She also applied liberal headpats and made me a pretty piece of beaded art to decorate my computer with, it helped keep me happy when otherwise I would probably have been inching the file towards the Recycle icon. The happiness was also vital in preventing me from setting fire to my Admiralty Law textbook during my last round of law school finals. Well... from setting it on fire before I took the test anyways *shifty* She and aelfsiden (and Tracy!) also provided a lot of moral support in the way of zombie slayage. Nothing says "what deadline?" like a few campaigns of Left 4 Dead!

fickleanactoria: Provided some excellent commentary and suggestions for the story, and delivered a much needed and outstanding grammatical review. I freely admit to thinking of grammar as more of an "art," saints like Anactoria make it actually readable. She also fixed a lot of the spacing ...much of her work was scrambled during the translation between programs, I am hopeful that I fixed most of it *winces* but it is entirely possible that I missed... a lot. Her work was impeccable, any errors or inconsistencies remaining are completely my fault. Which reminds me, she also straightened out the time-line for the story and helped me work out the mash-up in discrepancies between Millennium's time-line and Supernatural's, the fact that it actually makes sense now is purely thanks to her.

And last, but most certainly not least - the amazing briarwood, who did the fantastic art for the story that you see embedded at various points in the text. I know she was dealing with a lot of things at the same time, not least of which was her own sn_cross BB, and she still managed to do these outstanding pieces and get them to me early! Thank you so much!



glasslogic - MotC - 4/10/10


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