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Aww, thank you!! I've been off for a while and it's so lovely to come back to beautiful reblogs!

Pack Masterlist

So, I didn't really mean to start a new series when a scene came to me, but we're at over 8k words in the doc now so it's pretty official that I have, in fact, started a new series...

Pairing: Alpha!Dean Winchester x Omega!Reader, Alpha!Sam Winchester x Omega!Madison (the werewolf from season 2 "Heart" 😆)

Note: This is not a poly fic but I will be leaning into Pack dynamics where Pack members seek comfort in physical contact with other Pack members. So if you're after something poly you could probably read that into some subtext here, but if you're not into that then don't worry.

Series summary: Omega!Reader is thrown into a world she's not expecting when her mate turns out to be a hunter, and she's not used to Alpha & Omega Pack dynamics.

Warnings: canon-level violence, probably a bit of smut, A/B/O dynamics, there will be hugging and sleeping with (literal sleeping, not sex) Pack members who are not your mate. Individual chapters will carry their own warnings.

Supernatural writing masterlist

(image from google)

Chapter 1

Your newly-found mate, Dean, leaves you in the care of his brother.

Chapter 2

You accompany Sam and Madison on the case.

Chapter 3

Dean explains.

Chapter 4

You go home to sleep.

Chapter 5

You head back to the bunker with the Winchester

Chapter 6

Madison opens your eyes...

Chapter 7

Sam and Dean leave you and Madison in the motel room.

Chapter 8

Sam takes Dean to hospital.

Chapter 9

Sam comes to sit with Dean with you.

Chapter 10

Dean gets out of hospital.

Chapter 11

Dean is suddenly sick.

Chapter 12

Dean remains in the local hospital clinic.

Chapter 13

Dean comes home.

Chapter 14

Dean and you go to the doctor

Chapter 15

You try to follow the doctor's orders

Chapter 16

Miscommunications abound...

Chapter 17

Dean calls a family meeting.

Chapter 18

The reader learns a number of things about her new life.

Chapter 19

You need some air.

Chapter 20

You're feeling better.

Chapter 21

You start learning some lore

Chapter 22

The morning after your night alone.

Chapter 23

Your heat continues.

Chapter 24

You've finally been marked!

Chapter 25

Your heat and Dean's rut are over.

Chapter 26

The Pack heads out on Claire's hunt.

Chapter 27

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for whom good omens is being written

Hey maggots and the rest of the fandom, it's the Good Omens Mascot here. Today I read a post about this tweet:

The accompanying video genuinely made me cry. And I've been thinking about this for a long while, as far back as February, when I saw a lot of conflicting opinions on what people wanted from the third season. It really is true that no matter what you do, some people will be dissatisfied. But what matters is that Neil is writing this for Terry.

And I was reminded of some paragraphs from the Good Omens TV Companion, which I'd read in Amazon's sample excerpt of the book. I know this is a long post, but I really truly do think you all need to read these, I've done my best to select only the most important parts. Here you go:

'His Alzheimer's started progressing harder and faster than either of us had expected,' says Neil, referring to a period in which Terry recognized that despite everything he could no longer write. 'We had been friends for over thirty years, and during that time he had never asked me for anything. Then, out of the blue, I received an email from him with a special request. It read: “Listen, I know how busy you are. I know you don't have time to do this, but I want you to write the script for Good Omens. You are the only human being on this planet who has the passion, love and understanding for the old girl that I do. You have to do this for me so that I can see it." And I thought, “OK, if you put it like that then I'll do it."

'I had adapted my own work in the past, writing scripts for Death: The High Cost of Living and Sandman, but not a lot else was seen. I'd also written two episodes of Doctor Who, and so I felt like I knew what I was doing. Usually, having written something once I'd rather start something new, but having a very sick co-author saying I had to do this?' Neil spreads his hands as if the answer is clear to see. 'I had to step up to the plate.' A pause, then: 'All this took place in autumn 2014, around the time that the BBC radio adaptation of Good Omens was happening,' he continues, referring to the production scripted and co-directed by Dirk Maggs and starring Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap. ‘Terry had talked me into writing the TV adaptation, and I thought OK, I have a few years. Only I didn't have a few years,' he says. 'Terry was unconscious by December and dead by March.'

He pauses again. 'His passing took all of us by surprise,' Neil remembers. 'About a week later, I started writing, and it was very sad. The moments Terry felt closest to me were the moments I would get stuck during the writing process. In the old days, when we wrote the novel, I would send him what I'd done or phone him up. And he would say, "Aahh, the problem, Grasshopper, is in the way you phrase the question," and I would reply, "Just tell me what to do!" which somehow always started a conversation. 'In writing the script, there were times I'd really want to talk to Terry, and also places where I'd figure something out and do something really clever, and I would want to share it with him. So, instead, I would text Terry's former personal assistant, Rob Wilkins, now his representative on Earth. It was the nearest thing I had.'

(...) As Neil himself recognizes, this is an adaptation built upon the confidence that comes from three decades of writing for page and screen. But for all the wisdom of experience, he found that above all one factor guided him throughout the process. 'Terry isn't here, which leaves me as the guardian of the soul of the story,' he explains. 'It's funny because sometimes I found myself defending Terry's bits harder or more passionately than I would defend my own bits. Take Agnes Nutter,' he says, referring to what has become a key scene in the adaptation in which the seventeenth-century author of the book of prophecies foretelling the coming of the Antichrist is burned at the stake. ‘It was a huge, complicated and incredibly expensive shoot, with bonfires built and primed to explode as well as huge crowds in costume. It had to feel just like an English village in the 1640s, and of course everyone asked if there was a cheap way of doing it. 'One suggestion was that we could tell the story using old-fashioned woodcuts and have the narrator take us through what happened, but I just thought, “No”. Because I had brought aspects of the story like Crowley and the baby swap along to the mix, and Terry created Agnes Nutter. So, if I had cut out Agnes then I wouldn't be doing right by the person who gave me this job. Terry would've rolled over in his grave.'

And, finally, this paragraph:

"Once again, Neil cites the absence of his co-writer as his drive to ensure that Good Omens translated to the screen and remained true to the original vision. 'Terry's last request to me was to make this something he would be proud of. And so that has been my job.'"

I think that's so heartwrenchingly beautiful, and so I wanted you all to read this, too, just in case you (like me) don't have the Good Omens TV Companion. It adds another layer of depth and emotion to this already complex and amazing story that we all know and love.

Share this post, if you can, please, so that more people can read these excerpts :")

Tagging @neil-gaiman, @fuckyeahgoodomens and @orpiknight, even if you've definitely read these before :)

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I don’t even care who fucking wins the presidency this year look at this

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I'm trying to prove a point to my brain: Reblog if you think fanfiction does not need sex to be good.

There is a trend I’ve noticed that smut fics tend to be much more popular than anything else and honestly I just want to have something to look at to remind myself and that writing doesn’t have to have sex to be worth putting out into the community.

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Me while editing: *adds a sentence*

*finds nearly identical sentence in the next paragraph*

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Looks like it's on Binge in Aus, can't wait to watch it!

I stayed up till 3 AM local to let you know: The Turtles All the Way Down movie is out now on Max. I hope you love it as much as I do.

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Weekly Pond Newsletter

There may not be a newsletter next week, so keep an eye on our calendar (links at the bottom) for anything that comes up! To ask forgiveness for missing a week, have a nice Jensen gif:

Old Business:

Fic Highlight - We did another fic highlight! It's a Destiel Russian mob AU that both fluffy and bloody as hell. Click here for our review!

SPN Rewatch: Fanfic Edition - We had a great chat yesterday about the episodes 2.05 Simon Said and 2.06 No Exit! Click here to access the Archive and read what we discussed in the episode docs!

Last week's #TweetFicTues prompts were -

New Business:

Fishing For Treasures - Next weekend is FFT weekend at the @fanficocean! May's theme is Pairings (especially Rarepairs)! Be sure to head over there next weekend and see what wild and wonderful rare pairings people have come up with outside of the SPN fandom!

Sun Spin Stageit - Next weekend Michae Rosenbaum and his partner in music will be performing for a virtual audience on Friday at 8pm EDT. Click here for info and to buy tickets!

Question for YOU - We are considering starting up something akin to the Angel Fish Awards, but where writers tell us about awesome comments they've received on their fics! Admin Michelle spent some time during her chat yesterday bandying about different names, but didn't come up with anything that really spoke to her. Angel Turtle Awards? Ninja Angel Turtle Awards? Raphael Awards? (Because, you know, he was a TMNT and an archangel.) What do you guys think? Let us know in replies and reblogs!

(Divider by @glygriffe!)

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Whoever invented "open in app" links that redirect you to the app store instead of actually opening the app even when you already have the app installed on your phone should be involuntarily turned into a beanbag chair

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Watching Dean be all fatherly with Jack *swoon*

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I swear they just did the Law & Order gavel noise when they kicked open Michael's church in Apocalypse World

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Reblog if you think a woman can be complete without children

Y’ALL HAVE TIME TO REBLOG THIS. IT TAKES LESS THAN FIVE SECONDS.

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"And no, Jensen, not in key" 😂

The 3rd script of 7 donated by Eric Kripke as a raffle prize for our final fundraiser for RIP Medical Debt (kicking off on April 25) is...

3.16 "No Rest for the Wicked"

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Unfortunately my experiencing this exact situation right now has delayed my reading Dean comforting me about it 😅 Man, I am sick of vomiting.

Anyway, the stories were great!

Hey 💕💕 so I absolutely loved your dean/Ben/beau story as you know and would absolutely love to see you do another… one idea I had would be for a how they react to their pregnant girlfriend/partner/wife getting really bad sickness, to the point where they can’t keep anything down and need to go to hospital for meds. If you don’t mind 🥰 thank you!

So we talked about this one a while back, and I finally got the craving (pun intended) to do this one. 😘

Pairings: Dean Winchester x F. Reader, Beau Arlen x F. Reader, Soldier Boy/Ben x F. Reader

Tags/Warnings: Established relationship, pregnancy, "morning" sickness, hurt/comfort.

Headcanon: How Dean, Beau, and Ben would react to you getting "morning" sickness during pregnancy.

Dean Winchester

Aw, Dean as a new dad gives me feels...

He'd be equal parts scared, apprehensive, and so damn happy that you're pregnant. With his kid.

If Dean was protective before, now he's in overdrive.

You indulge him, keeping to the bunker, trying not to stress yourself out. And he's game to indulge you in whatever cravings or needs you might have, but neither of you were ready for this...

When bouts of morning sickness turn into sporadic all day sickness, for weeks and even months on end, Dean turns from sympathetic to very concerned.

It gets to the point where you can't hold much of anything down.

From raw meat or cooked bacon, to cleaning products, to nothing at all besides whenever your stomach decides to rebel—anything might trigger your nausea, and send you to the bathroom to throw up what little you have in your system.

Dean follows you, grabbing a cup of water for you, and gathers your hair away from your face when you're bent over the toilet. He rubs your back.

"Oh God, this is hell," you manage between bouts of heaving. You realize the shittiness of saying this to Dean of all people, but it's the truth of how you feel. You grab his wrist with hot tears in your eyes.

"Babe, this is well and truly hell," you confess. Both your voice and your grip on his hand is shaky. He holds you steady and swipes the tears from your cheeks.

"All right, that's it," he says gruffly. "You're going to the doctor."

But that gruffness is just a mask for his concern.

He goes with you to the Emergency Room, where you're prescribed nausea medication that has its own lovely list of side effects. But at this point, you'll deal with anything as long as it takes this discomfort away.

You've come to be afraid of eating. Which absolutely sucks, because you love food, almost as much as Dean.

But now, food has become your dreaded enemy.

Dean takes it upon himself to be the sole cook for you and Sam. He makes you whatever you can keep down, even if it means he can't eat burgers in the bunker anymore. (The smell of cooking meat sets you off.)

Whenever Sam and Dean are out on a hunt, Dean scarfs down a bacon burger with extra cheese like a man eating his last meal. Sam gives him a look of mild disgust. "Dude, really?"

Dean shoots him a deadpan look. "Damn it, Sam. I can't eat this shit at home. Leave me alone."

But when it comes down to it, he's willing to do pretty much anything if it makes you feel better during your pregnancy. He'll be your body pillow when you just can't get comfortable. He'll be your in-house chef, your foot massager, whatever else you need.

If he ever gets annoyed or frustrated with these tasks, he reminds himself that you're having his kid. Carrying his child.

You're doing more for him right now than he could ever do for you.

And this is his way of showing you that he loves you for it.

Beau Arlen

The sheriff with a heart of gold...

He'd be doting on you throughout this whole experience.

He's been through this once before, so he thinks he's prepared for whatever your pregnancy might entail.

Back rubs? He's on it. (Including massages for leg cramps and/or achy feet.)

Cravings? He's willing to go out in the middle of the night if you well and truly need that order of lo mein with a side of pickle juice.

When the mere smell of the meal you're cooking sends you straight to the bathroom (again), Beau turns off the stove and follows you to the bathroom to make sure you're all right.

He discovers that you're prepared: you have a cup of water on the bathroom counter, your toothbrush and toothpaste out of the cupboard, and your favorite scrunchy to toss your hair up into a bun.

He's noticed you occasionally get up at night to rush to the bathroom, but because of his long hours at work, he hasn't been here often enough in the day to notice just how much you've been going through.

Beau frowns as he rubs your back while you heave what little you seem to have in your stomach.

"How long's this been going on?" he asks. "This ain't the first time you've been sick, is it?"

When you're able, you give him a watery look. "No. No it is not."

His face softens further. He helps you up when you're done and brushes your hair out of your eyes. "How long, darlin'?"

"For about a month now," you confess. That deepens Beau's frown and has him pulling you into his arms.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asks. He soothes his fingers through your hair and comforts you while you weep.

"I thought I could deal with it," you reply with a sniffle. Your fingers clench in his shirt. You aim to take deep, slow breaths through your nose in effort to calm the nausea threatening to take over again. You shake your head. "It's okay. It'll go away eventually."

Beau frames your face in his hands and presses a kiss to your forehead.

"You kidding me? I'm taking you to the doctor tomorrow, get you some medication," he says.

"You have work tomorrow," you remind him. "I could just go by myself."

"I'll have Jenny cover for me," he says. His lips kick up in a smile as he gently rocks you back and forth. "She'll like that, being the boss for a day. Hopefully it won't go to her head."

You laugh lightly and slip your fingers through his hair. You'd kiss him if you didn't need to brush your teeth first.

You settle on hugging him close and resting your head against his chest.

Soldier Boy (Ben)

Oof, this man would be wholly out of his depth...

Ben's deepest wish is coming true. After many fun and creative attempts, you're finally pregnant.

You know that your husband hasn't contemplated all the inevitable realities of you having his child, but you thought you were ready for this. And you're excited to start a family...

It's just not quite what either of you expected.

Ben hears the sounds that are coming out of the bathroom, for the third time tonight, and it makes him grimace.

He'd been out on a mission for a couple of weeks, but he was more than ready to come home to you, hoping he'd find a nice home-cooked meal and his wife waiting for him, now that you've been working from home.

Well, he found you, hunched over the sink in the kitchen while a raw chicken sat in a bowl on the counter. Apparently the sight, feeling, and smell of raw flesh had made you sick.

Ben resolved to toss the chicken back into the fridge and order a pizza.

But now, this was the third time you'd left his side while watching a movie in bed.

He ventures into the bathroom and frowns when he finds you kneeling on the floor, practically hugging the toilet.

"The fuck is happening?" he asks.

You give him a wry look and gesture at the ceramic appliance below you.

"Oh, me and him? We're doing battle. I think I'm winning though," you quip. Until a bubble of nausea makes your face pale even worse. You turn from him to heave the contents of your stomach into the bowl.

With a sigh, Ben kneels down and brushes your hair from your face. He lays a warm, heavy hand on your back and waits for you to finish. Then he helps you back onto your feet.

You brush your teeth for the fourth time today and wipe your face with a groan. You still feel like shit, but at least your stomach is settled. For now.

"How long has this been going on?" Ben asks. You spy the look on his face through the mirror. A small "V" creases his forehead with a surly frown.

The fact that he has to ask that irritates you and sparks your anger, but you try to breathe through it. Sometimes, you don't realize what's should be an understandable reaction, or when your hormones are sparking you more easily to anger.

"Hmm, how long have I been pregnant?" you wonder dryly.

Despite your own grumpiness, you turn around and trudge into his arms.

Ben sighs and tucks your head under his chin. He'd known you had bouts of morning sickness every now and then for the past couple of months, but he hadn't realized it was this bad.

"Well, you should've fucking said something then," he said. "Have you been to the doctor? They could give you some nausea pills or something."

"I've got it handled," you tell him with a dismissive hand. "I have an appointment for the 30th."

Ben's frown deepens; he pulls away from you just enough to see your face.

"That's almost a whole damn month away," he says.

You shake your head with a weary sigh and rest your head against his chest. "It's the soonest appointment they had available."

Once again, Ben leans away so he can meets your eyes. He holds your face in his hands.

"That's not good enough. We're going tomorrow morning, and you're getting some damn pills," he says.

A smile threatens your lips. "Ben, that's not how it works—"

"You think I give a fuck?" he snaps. "I don't want to see you on the bathroom floor, holding the shitter. When was the last time you ate something you could actually hold down?"

You purse your lips at his tone, but when you consider his question, you realize that you can't remember the last time you actually had a meal that agreed with you.

"That's what I thought," Ben says. "We're going tomorrow."

He leads you back into the bedroom, and you have to sigh. But you finally do smile as he guides you into bed with gentle hands, despite his grumpy attitude.

You fist a hand in his shirt and tug him down to you. Your smile grows, and you press a sweet kiss to his lips.

It lightens his eyes a bit, even makes his lips tug upwards.

This man can bark and growl, but at least with you, he's all too soft in the middle.

AN: Aww, this one was fun. I love pregnancy feels lol. Special thanks to my mom, and also my friend @iprobablyshipit91 for extra insights into pregnancy and "morning" sickness. Let me know what you think! 💜

I wonder if I should start adding Jason Teague (Smallville) to these imagines. I think that would be a fun addition!

Dean Winchester Imagines

Dean Winchester Masterlist

Big Sky Masterlist

Soldier Boy Masterlist

Main Masterlist

Dean, Beau + SB Tag List (Part 1)

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'I Will Play Sam Again': Jared Padalecki Shares Exciting Update on Supernatural Revival

Noting that "it's weird" not to have any Supernatural-released projects on air, the actor agreed that he would return to the show. "The simple answer to your question is 100%. I will play Sam Winchester again. Jensen will play Dean Winchester again. It's more of a timing and availability thing."

Padalecki also explained that he and Jensen Ackles set a timeline to revisit the show. Luckily, his words are encouraging because the timeline is closer than we think: "In hindsight, Jensen and I have always said 'always,' if we ever have the option. I think in the last two or three seasons of Supernatural, when we realized somebody might want more, we said '2025. In 2020, we're ending this. Let's get together in five years and see what Sam and Dean are up to.'"

The Walker actor continued, "I'm going to see him in a few weeks to talk to him about it again. We've talked about it a few times. He and I are both champing at the bit to see what these boys have been up to and what else good they can do in this world or the next. I'm excited about it."

"My only contingency about it is, with Jensen and I being so protective of the show and the characters, the story has to be absolutely right. I don't just put on flannel and big coat, get in an Impala and say 'Dean!' That won't work for Jared. It needs to have a purpose, as Sam and Dean always did."

CBR

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For those of you who weren’t able to get 100% of the total solar eclipse today… I gotchu <3

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You're not the first bot to evade detection...

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