Yep! Once it’s all over with I’ll update the FAQ. Since everything’s going so quickly the last few days, we plan on waiting until after the flurry is all over and all sneak peeks have been revealed.
That way I only have to update it once instead of once a night.
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Background information:
Brothers Apart was started by @nightmares06 October 24th, 2014 and has been going strong ever since! During the last two years two other writers have been added to the team along with a very helpful assistant!
The main storyline, Brothers Apart, has since sparked a collection of AUs. Each storyline is individual in and of itself, but all tie into the main arc in their own way. Visit Links to find your way to the stories.
Why don’t you just post Brothers Apart and not all these other stories?
Since Brothers Apart is (mostly) written by myself, there isn’t enough story built up to have a backlog. Due to a falling out with a former beta reader, writing for Brothers Apart was frozen for a year. During that time we conceived a number of other storylines, and we invite you to enjoy them along with us.
When/where do the stories post?
Sunday, 9pm EST
Wednesday, 9pm ESTAny changes to this schedule will be announced on the tumblr as soon as we know about them.
There are three different sites the stories post on:
Archive of Our Own || Fanfiction || Deviantart
Any prompts received will be posted to the tumblr blog before appearing on any other sites, otherwise stories are on the three sites listed above.
Order of creation of the various AUs:
I love the artwork! Why don’t you have more of (insert character)?
We love the art too! But since we’re writers, and our skill at actual drawing is lacking, all of the artwork you see posted here (with a few incredibly rare exceptions), are either commissioned with our own money or submitted by fans (you lovely, lovely people). We love supporting our favorite artists, so we won’t stop commissioning anytime soon, but it’s dependent on if we have money at the time we get the idea.
If you want to help us out, please Buy Me a Coffee and let us know what character or AU you want commissioned! Once we have enough money for that AU, we’ll get it done.
When does (insert story) start posting?
We’re not sure when each story goes up, we only have a timeline for the days stuff will post. To prevent any stories from gaining favoritism over others, we started running a poll. During the last week or two of a story, there will be a poll with (2) to (6) options offered, and the winner will be the story that starts next!
Keep in mind that the stories that appear in the poll will be fully written/edited and beta’d by our wonderful beta readers, any stories that are incomplete in any fashion will not be included.
The poll is run through SurveyMonkey, and each person gets only (1) vote! Duplicate votes WILL BE REMOVED.
Can you go back to posting stories about only Sam and Dean?
No.
Seriously, we’re going to keep writing together because we do it for fun. You’ll see classic Brothers Apart stories come around when I finish them, but you’ll also get a lot of the collabs we do. We write for ourselves and to get rid of stress. Since we’re not paid to do this (in fact, we spend a decent amount of money on story things), we’ll continue to write what we like.
We still love feedback and getting new ideas from all you readers out there, so keep sending us prompts and suggestions! Just don’t be upset if we don’t do yours– we might not be feeling it.
There’s a book? Where can I get a copy!?
There used to be a book, but it has been discontinued and no longer offered as an option in the contest. Thanks for your interest!
Will Castiel be in the story?
Go read all the stories.
Why didn’t my ask get answered yet?
Generally only one ask is answered a day, please be patient with us.
Popular Tags:
#commissioned art– all the artwork commissioned by the writers of the BA for the stories/ideas we have.
#fanart– artwork done by the fans.
#contest entry 2016– entries submitted for the 2016 BA contest
#bac 2017 tumblr– entries submitted for the 2017 BA contest on the tumblr side (for DA entries, go here).
#daily update– all the story excerpts posted since the beginning.
#prompt– finished prompts (or unfinished prompts, multiple things get filed here).
#submission– wonderful submissions from you readers!
What characters belong to who?
Supernatural characters– Sam and Dean Winchester, Bobby Singer, John Winchester (though I’ll warn that any prompts for John Win are the least likely to be fulfilled because he usually gives me writer’s block), Castiel, Gabriel, Rufus and Rumsfeld. Various other Supernatural characters.
Original characters– Nixie, Ilyana, Celeste (problematic fave), Walt Watch, Mallory Watch, Briella Watch, Moira Wainscot, Krissy Vent, Sean, Kara Bolt, Christian Bolt, Mikael Foyer, Noonia and Elenia.
Original Characters– Bowman, Jacob Andris, Oscar, Rischa, Cerul, Scar, Vel, (any of the wood sprites, basically), Colfax and Adrian (better prompted at @alittleblogoftrust ), Asp the shadow sprite, Indigo Seraf.
Only original characters, as canon characters tend to come very slowly for me.
Sherlock Characters– Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, Greg Lestrade, Mrs. Hudson, Molly Hooper and Mycroft Holmes.
Doctor Who Characters– Mostly Tenth Doctor, will do Nine, Eleven, and Twelve (I’m working through Classic Who at a snail’s pace xD) Willing to write for companions from New Who as well.
Original Chracters– Zepheera is my main OC, Stan Baker, Simon Baker, Nathan Sullivan and a bunch of borrower bbys: Kernel, Orrick Shelf, Boston Mantel, Baycliff, Klerida, Marcue Overmantle; basically, if you’ve read my stories, any of the OCs are up for grabs.
Story excerpts
Each day on brothersapart.tumblr.com, we will be posting a new excerpt from a story we are working on at the time. This happens at 10a.m. est, and it’s a tiny blurb from the story.
A bit on the tags for our story excerpts:
#trnt here is the abbreviation of the story the excerpt came from– later revealed to be “The Road Not Taken”
Abbreviations we’ve used and their names if announced:
A Time to Heal
It’s a Tall World After All
Dean of Nowhere (posting)
Dean of Wellwood
A World of Secrets
Wayward Sons
An Unexpected Visitor
Shadows on the Wall
The Ties that Bind (posted)
A Burglary at Baker Street
The Enemy of my Enemy
Jacob in Wonderland (posted)
Road Trip
#lald– Live and Let Die
The last kind of tag you’ll see is the queue tag:
All this means is it is a reblogged excerpt from 2016, you can go to the original post to find out its tags.
This has been a dissertation on tags!
If you see any questions we left out, be sure to send in an ask!
You can actually find the answer to questions like this in the FAQ! (Link sadly incompatible with the mobile app but not the mobile browser)
Also, for any changes to the scheduled times, each chapter will have the next update time listed in the notes for that chapter on all three sites.
The posting dates were changed before The Study of the Four began posting due to personal issues, Sunday and Wednesday were the winners in a poll decided by the readers.
Let us know if we need to add anything to the FAQ at any time!
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We didn’t include him on that list because it was a list of the Brothers Apart AUs, but he would go between Unexpected and Consulted. Lucky kid gets to play giant with the canon Winchesters.
Of course! I’ll add it asap.
Order of creation:
More soon to come!
Considering the amount of asks we get about Castiel, I’m going to point you towards the FAQ we have.
I’m not sure if Crowley will ever be appearing in BA, but he is a fun character on the show, so it’s certainly a possibility!
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