#claire’s fic recs

[stcverogers]

JANUARY FIC RECS!

fics that i’ve been reading and obsessing with over the month of january

this is extremely important and i take this very seriously out of respect for the community. please do remember to read the rules for the respective blogs before interacting with or reading them.

F: fluff A: angst S: smut

𖥻 - series /multi part

masterlist

BUCKY BARNES

F: how's your head? by @bucky-bucky-bucky-bucky you and bucky didn't exactly have a meet-cute. your first encounter is you bleeding from your head.

F: bucky being shy around a girl he likes + part 2 by @ro-is-struggling

F + A: through his eyes by @sebbytrash 𖥻 ever since bucky came to the compound, he always thought you were familiar. when he slowly regains his memories as the winter soldier, he is horrified.

F: pastel colours by @the-canary 𖥻 mr barnes, the physics teacher, seems to have a thing for stealing pens. you, an avid stationary collector, cannot stand it.

F + A: caught in the fire by @dreamwritesimagines 𖥻 growing up in a bakery right in the middle of a mob neutral zone, it’s no surprise you and bucky barnes become the best of friends. life gets in the way and you facing circumstances. whether you let bucky stand by you through it all is up to you.

A: say it by @sgtjbuccky 𖥻 you love bucky with all that you have. sacrificing yourself to save him included.

F + A: the new recruit by @angstysebfan 𖥻 you and bucky were in a good place. a new recruit to shields threatens to take it all away

F + A: picture perfect by @writingsoftheloser 𖥻 you're steve's fake girlfriend to help make his crush jealous. you meet his best friend and fall in love with him. all while trying to keep up your facade with steve.

F + A: something domestic by @fandoms-writings 𖥻 a majority of bucky's adult life has been dedicated to the military. losing an arm and being discharged leaves bucky to try and rediscover who he is, even if it meant living a hundred miles away from the city in the middle of nowhere.

F + A: heart of glass by @buckybabesonly you and bucky rarely had disagreements, let alone he be angry at you.

F + A: accidentally in love by @creativebeang 𖥻 sargeant barnes was a complete hardass. he always had something to critique you about. a mission gone wrong flips a switch in his head and suddenly he's all over you.

F + A: the ask out by @delaber bucky barnes is no longer the charming boytoy he once was. it's completely evident in his interaction with you.

F: old fashioned by @demxters bucky was traditional, old fashioned, nothing like other men of current times.

F + A: personal ghosts by @fandoms-writings you lose bucky to the snap and he presence looms over you even after he's gone

F + A: they don't know you the way i do by @themorningsunshine bucky overhears a conversation between a few agents, agreeing with what they have to say about him.

A: out of time by @drailyter all good things must come to an end, your relationship included

F + A: the outbreak + part 2 by @stxrvel in your head, a self sacrifice is nothing as compared to a successful mission. bucky thinks differently and it causes your friendship with him to crumble.

F: missed you by @stuckylaufeyson bucky comes home from work missing you more than usual.

F + A: relationship tutor by @samingtonwilson 𖥻 bucky is infatuated with natasha rudolph, who you happen to know from your yoga class. you reluctantly agree to be his wingwoman.

F + A: looking for a heartbeat by @justreadingfics 𖥻 you left without a word 2 years ago to finally pursue what you have been searching for your whole life. you're back in new york now and it seems that bucky's long moved on from you

F + A: vacant mirrors by @whirlybirbs 𖥻 the blip chipped away at everyone. you were no different. dr hart shares an office with fellow therapist dr raynor. this meant that you shared a waiting room with one james buchanan barnes.

F + A: time after time by @justsomebucky 𖥻 at just seven years old, your parents got divorced. you move in next door to the barnes family. it's only right that you became friends with bucky.

F + A: until his last breath by @witchywithwhiskey bucky comforts you after a break up with your long-term boyfriend.

AARON HOTCHNER

F: mess of mine + i'm a mess but by @hotchgirlsummer you are far from SSA hotchner's type. he usually goes for those older, mature. not adorably clueless women who work at a clothes shop.

F + A: 'tis the season by @happiest-hotch 𖥻 hotch needs his family to get off his back when he visits them for the holidays. you come up with the terrible idea of being his fake-date. what's worse? you have feelings for him.

F: the mark of a lover by @wildflowerluver aaron hotchner is not a touchy person. the five times hotch has to adjust to your physical affection and the one time he embraces it

THE BATMAN

F + A: all for us by @the-daydreaming-show 𖥻 jason's death had been tragic for the waynes. you will do whatever it takes for you to be the happy family you once were.

F + A: one bad day... by @a-reader-and-a-writer-for-all 𖥻 bruce refuses to avenge jason's death due to his moral code. you, however, do not share the same morals as him.

S: the billionaire affair by @kaleidoscopewritings19 𖥻 you and bruce rekindle an old flame, despite being married.

[lesharl-eclair]

the fic masterlist

that 10 people asked for.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iY0wKMOY_Nr4EIGM-4IFs7XhDy5FPcvoAgdaB0TX35M/edit

possibly my magnum opus. bit of a labour of love (300+ fics with links authors titles ratings pairings) but i think it's worth sharing these amazing fics with the world

i KNOW i missed many many groundbreaking fics but dw this list will be updated alw! so check back to see once in a whilee. this is also quite obviously just my own niche tastes - 1 year in fandom's baarely enough to scrape the tip of the iceberg in terms of just how much insane stuff there is out there!! so js a small cozy corner i'd like to share

and thank you so so much to all the authors who've created these wonderful words + universes :)) tagging y'all under the cut (SORRY IF I MISSED SO MANY PEOPLE In my defense it's 5 am + sorry if iwasn't supposed to tag oooops)

love you and keep creating. <3

@sunshineyoujustwait @altisssimozucca @ultrasofts @sunday-driving @antimonyandthyme @astronomical-light @wewentcarracing @outofbodyinjury @waddlingpenguin @shih-coulda-had-it @boldlettered @boxboxbrioche @butonsilyo @damixnpriest @boxboxlewis formerly @ayceeofspades @red-flagging @janinaduszejko @americangrandprix @lyonsbutton @traincoded @cagoldenpapi @eiffelover @whatdidwejustdo @outbrake @milflewis @sebchalex @blorbocedes @flawlessassholes @rosyjuly @fractalkiss @georgierre @grandprix-ao3 @hungerpunch @hurricane-heatt @ignismai @mediumtires @alpaine @seb-the-bees @undignifiedpopemobile @grideon @kritischetheologie @hakkisen @lafaerie @ocontraire @legendofthefireemblem @zweizimtsterne @lewishamil10n @lewisshamilton @likelylarks @lilcrickee @lil-shiro @monacotrophywife @drivestraight @meova101 @weegreenbean @formulatrash @mclarenracing @liamlawsonlesbian @misonikomi @deathonthe @nyoomfruits @ohmygasly @juergenklopp @readingbythestreetlights @mundanememory @redpaint @retro-parkerr @rivalism @2316 @georgierre @saintsideways @sashajwolf @seafoampearlygirl @second-lifetime @sionisjaune @sebchal @softstarter @shanghaichicane @movieboyfriend @streetlightsky @fourmula1 formerly @tsuchansworld @sweetpeapoppy @thereisstillalifetolive @theianitor @wormeo-and-juliette @twizlurv @valmontheights @vicsy @vlieger-fic @vvettell @mysticalbread @whitewolfcraft @thelittlebirdthatkeptsomanywarm @wolfhalls @xiaoluclair @estiebestieban @powertrains

[t00muchheart]

As I do when I am hyperfixating on something, I have read a LOT of supernatural fanfiction in the last few months, and I get a lot of the titles I read from other peoples’ recommendations or collections on ao3, so I figured I’d share some of my favorites in case anyone else is looking for recs :)

AUs:

Spirit of the West by teen_dean

This is a shock to literally no one who follows me because I regularly bring it up, but it honestly is one of the best things I’ve ever read. The 90s horse girl AU of your dreams (or, if you haven’t dreamed of one, that you never knew you needed). The storytelling is immaculate, the symbolism rich, and it only improves on re-reading

And this, your living kiss by opal_bullets

Poet Dean AU featuring genuinely beautiful comments on language and writing and how we encounter stories and words and what they can do, and also some honestly incredible poetry

where there is darkness by quiettewandering

Lighthouse keepers AU! this one is a bit mysterious and I did scream into a pillow after finishing it. If you know the story of the Flannan Isles lighthouse keepers, it is loosely inspired by that.

Phantasma by thisisapaige

Messy Dean, my beloved. Messy, Stanford-Era Dean, my beloved. Dean breaks off from John and buys a haunted house, and things sort of escalate.

For All You Young Hockey Players Out There, Pay Attention by thursdaysfallenangel

I don’t even watch hockey, but this AU kind of made me want to start. Rivals to friends to lovers all while dealing with the homophobia in the NHL

time has come today series by teen_dean

Team Free Will brings in teen Dean Winchester to help with a case, parallel worlds come into play; every version of Dean Winchester falls in love with Castiel & all the good stuff like that

What Baking Can Do by cowlovely

Baker & Dad Dean fic and Doctor Cas? What more could you ask for?

Everyone’s a Critic by Englandwouldfall

Food Critic Cas and Chef Dean meet in a truly unfortunate way. This is worth it for Cas’s reviews alone, but also the Dean-Gabriel dynamic

FROTUS by kathscradle

A President Cas, Restaurant Owner Dean romance that was honestly just a good time

Fix-Its:

take the bones, begin anew by JustStandingHere

This was one of the first fics I read and it is sort of peak disaster™ Dean Winchester. I love a good “I fixed up a house for you and didn’t realize it meant I was in love” fic and this one is iconic

i want to do with you (what spring does with cherry trees) by sobsicles

I ugly cry every time I read this fic. It is a run of Cas and Dean’s relationship in seasons 13-15 and has Dean making a friend and it hurts but also it’s so good. Maybe my favorite Sam line of any fic comes from this fic ("If he thinks what you two do is friendship, then I must just be some guy he happens to speak to sometimes.”)

break the skin (to break the barriers) by sobsicles

Dean gets tattoos, and as he does, he tells the tattoo artist his life story. This is a post-15x19 fic told from an outside perspective and it is so well-done

Dumbassery, Denial, Doing by sobsicles

Listen tbh this list could be dominated by sobsicles and so I am showing restraint by only including three of their works. Their Dean characterization is everything to me and this fic really highlights Dean growing to understand himself better when given the freedom to

Revisions by bizarrestars

THEE what if Dean and Cas got together earlier and Chuck just wrote it out? fic.

a turn of the earth by microcomets

I love a work that explores pre-series Dean, and this one is great. Basically, think what-if later seasons Cas and pre-series Dean met (Strandlines by aeli_kindara is another good example of this premise, but in Strandlines, it is pre-series Cas as well as pre-series Dean).

psalm 40:2 by unicornpoe

On a similar note, psalm 40:2 is a great pre-series Dean, future-Cas fic. I am a bi Dean believer but this fic did sway me toward the gay Dean camp because it’s simply so good.

You Belong Among the Wildflowers by ImYourHoneyBee

Dean fixing his relationship with Jack? You got it. Dean trying to work through losing Cas? Yep. Dean getting Cas back by being stubborn? It’s there.

Who You Gonna Call? by saintedcastiel

Dean has a ghost following him around as he tries to start a life post-series, and for a while, he can’t figure out what’s happening. I love nothing more than Dean telling people he and Cas were married because he doesn’t know how else to explain and this fic delivers so hard

quilts by fleeceframe

A “Cas didn’t confess before getting taken to the Empty” fic. Soft things all around

Miscellaneous:

Fathers & Daughters by sinnabonka

On a different note, this is one of my favorite Claire fics. It looks at Claire’s relationship with Cas and the impossibility of it, and it’s so artfully done.

Bus Loop Madness by batz_in_blue

Literally just a “what if everyone lived, Jack was a toddler, and they all picked him up from school?” AU. I audibly laughed while reading this, and it’s an essential pick-me-up from the heavier fics.

More of my favorite sobsicles fics include: gorging myself on you, still can’t get full (insatiable), and he’s back (with a mind of his own), six hundred sundays (and many more), oh sooner or later it all comes down to faith, things happen (they do, they do, and they do), according to all known laws of life, and profoundly bonded (by law)

Also, honorable mentions to Ninety One Whiskey, which is such a good fic, and Make a Believer Outta Me, which is a Hocus Pocus AU that is honestly just a fun time.

[pinkytoothlesso11]

Hello! Newer to the fandom, but recently I’ve been reading a ton of fanfics and have seen a lot of Jim centric fanfics but was wondering if you knew of any Claire centric ones or ones where she has more povs?

Hi anon! Welcome to the fandom! Sorry for my belated reply, but I know of several fics where Claire gets a decent amount of attention:

I'd recommend most of @avirxy's fics, since almost all of them have Claire as the main, or one of the most focused on characters, most especially:

Tear Me in Two (The Moonlight will Anyway) This is basically a monster Hunter AU with werewolf Claire, very angsty but very original.

First Frost This one has Trollhunter! Claire as well as her being a type of Half troll that changes forms based on changes in weather. Mostly Claire POV.

False as it Can Be A gender swap beauty and the beast with Claire as the beast. My favourite so far!

Trollhunter! Claire AU's:

Claire the Courageous, Part I Haven't read this one, but it's another Trollhunter! Claire AU that is also a bit of a role swap. Unfortunately left orphaned, but it seems popular.

Claire the Kind Another Trollhunter! Claire fic that's pretty popular, and has Claire as a main character.

Alternate Universes

Atlas, Fallen Haven't read it, but it's about evenly split between Claire and Jim as main characters, where Jim is a fallen star.

Both Sides of the Sky Regency AU set in the medieval times, definitely Claire focused.

Friendship, Family, and Other Foreign Concepts Missing scene esque oneshot with focus on Claire and NotEnrique's relationship.

That's most of the good and popular fics that focus on Claire more so than Jim. I'm honestly surprised that there aren't so many Claire focused fics... Considering she's in a lot of fics in general. Hopefully you'll like some of these!

[skylightangels]

@steiiaric asked for Dean & Claire fics so I thought I'd make a post

Safety in the Stealing and Keeping: THE jacketnatural fic, Claire steals Dean's jacket because it feels safe.

White Summer: Dean crashes Claire's hunt, they talk about gender and stuff. Trans Dean & nonbinary Claire.

Nothing More Than A Shattered Mirror: widower arc, Claire comes to help take care of baby Jack.

Set Yr <3 at Rest: more of a Cas & Claire fic, but Dean is there too and it's really good, exploring how love grows.

Out of This World: Destiel neighbors AU, Claire is a baby

[seidenapfel]

Given to Fly Written by MittenWraith (@mittensmorgul) || Art by @seidenapfel

Summary: It only upsets Dean's comfortable routine a little bit when Claire's illustrious uncle moves down to Norfolk to run his airfield. That is, until he meets his new boss face to face and can barely make words happen. Cas isn't doing much better, even if he knows exactly what he'd say to Dean if only he weren't Dean's commanding officer… Test pilot instructor Cas (who's afraid of boats) ran from his Air Force family to join the Navy, Dean ran from his Marine Corps father to work on airplanes for the Navy-- just as long as he doesn't have to fly in one, he's fine. They've met in the middle, but also in an impossible circumstance. It seems as if the one thing they want is something they can't have. Unless solving one impossible mystery could free them…

Read the full story on AO3 || Art on AO3

Artist's note: Here's my art post for the @deancaspinefest. I got to work together with Mittens and had a great time. There were so many things I wanted to draw/paint, but I ended up with four pastel paintings and one digital one. The moment I read the fic, I knew i wanted to do some pastel portraits, even though I hadn't worked with pastels before. But I really like how the pieces turned out, despite my limited palette. I only managed to create one digital painting in the end. At first, I had planned to do art for two other scenes, but the first time of Dean and Cas meeting was such a great scene for a banner, so I made another version without the font. Find more notes on my AO3 post.

[dont-tell-mom-and-dad]

Highly recommend this series for the Dadstiel and destiel girlies. It had me giggling and kicking my feet. Post-Season five Dean and Castiel end up adopting Claire and living their best lives in a small town.

Shout out to @playedwright for this fanfic that's been living in my head rent free for weeks

[aparticularbandit]

Idk if you write yandere but if it is okay. Maybe yandere Claire and reader

Thank u

Rating: M for mature themes.

IDK if this is what you wanted, Nonnie, but I tried.

You first ran into Claire Debella during your junior year of college. Every now and again, a guest speaker would be called on for one of the upper level classes, and you'd come into college with a bunch of early credits, putting you well in range to take that class, even though you shouldn't have been able to take it until senior year. You'd thought, well, it would be nice to hear from people in the actual field more often than not and had set yourself up to take it once your junior year and once your senior year - perhaps more, if you could get your credits to align.

Claire was the first speaker, a Democrat from Connecticut on the campaign trail, stopping to encourage the next generation. To vote, primarily. Especially to vote for her.

Halfway through her speech, she asked a question, something tricky, and while she didn't call on you first, you were the one who had the correct answer. You'd seen it in her eyes then, the glimmer of approval followed by the gentle lift of her lips in the barest hint of a smile that she'd all too quickly suppressed as she continued speaking.

Afterwards, Claire stopped you. "No other student has ever answered that correctly."

"It wasn't hard," you said without thinking. "It follows logic and the patterns of the masses. Any intelligent person should have been able to come up with the answer." You smirked. "Eventually."

Claire gave you a look that you didn't notice and then one that you did, her arms crossing under her chest. "I have an opening on my team."

You glanced up at her. "An internship?"

"Paid."

Your brows raised.

"Experience on the campaign trail will do wonders for you," Claire continued, looking away from you. Or, as you realize later, pretending to do so, not wanting you to catch her at it.

You considered it. You wanted it. But--

"I can't," you said and hating yourself for saying it. "I can't miss that much school--"

"A mentorship, then." Claire's eyes flicked over to you, and as soon as you noticed her gaze, they trailed up to meet your eyes. "Zoom meetings on the trail, in person afterwards. How does that sound?"

You could arrange for that. You could make time. It would help you tremendously in the future, when you started looking for jobs after college, to say you'd been mentored by someone like Claire. Perhaps she would have that opening again next summer and you could be an intern then--

Then you gave her a slight nod. "Sounds good to me."

Claire smiled then, but you didn't notice the darkness in it until much later. "Any intelligent person would have come to that answer eventually." She met your eyes again hungrily. "We'll talk soon."

~

Claire had seemed like a normal mentor. Even more than that, she'd seemed normal over that summer when you did intern for her - and she paid you well above minimum wage, well above maybe what you should have been paid - but that hadn't seemed bad. Or wrong.

Sure, she'd never approved of any of your dates, and usually they broke up with you very, very shortly after being alone with her, but you never put two and two together until later.

Not until after you graduated.

Not until after she gave you a real job.

~

It's an event that maybe you shouldn't have been at.

No, you definitely shouldn't have been there, but Claire invited you. Said you were the best assistant she'd ever had and you deserved to go, so you had. Dressed your best, but still not quite enough to fit in with the other elites around you.

Claire rubbed shoulders with a lot of people given her influence, got invited to a lot of parties. This is just one of them - a birthday party for the not entirely well-esteemed Birdie Jay. Claire assured you she was just an old friend, but you're still not sure.

Still. Standing here among models and fashion elites, you feel...out of place. Like you shouldn't be here.

And it doesn't make you feel any better that Claire is conspicuously not paying you any attention. It's like...like she invited you, but she....

Maybe she hadn't really expected you to come.

So you end up at the open bar, drinking a little too much, feeling like Cinderella might have felt at the ball if she'd stayed past midnight, until one of Claire's other old friends - Jen Barkley, who you'd spent plenty of time with during your internship and who had frequently interrupted your Zoom meetings. Not always with very good reasons.

....

Actually, never with good reason.

If you're honest with yourself, you don't like Jen. But you're drunk, and she's...not quite drunk, actually, but close enough, and if you look at her in just the right light, she almost looks like Claire.

(You will never tell anyone that you find Claire attractive. At least not again. Your old roommate did not approve of your crush. You don't know what happened to her either. She just stopped talking to you after graduation. Which is odd because you'd thought you were really good friends.)

Which is how you end up in one of the hallways off of the main room with Jen's tongue down your throat, and to be honest, she's not that great of a kisser, but she's warm and she's there and you're definitely more than a little bit drunk and--

All of a sudden, Jen stops. You think about asking her why, but then you see the hand on her shoulder and Claire standing behind her with daggers for eyes. It doesn't matter that you're drunk; you swallow hard and find yourself saying, "Sorry, sorry, we shouldn't have," in a slur, avoiding Claire's eyes.

Claire's hand tenses on Jen's shoulder. "Jen, can I talk to you for a minute?" She guides Jen away from you, offers you something that looks halfway between a smile and halfway between bared teeth, and then says, "You should go on home. Drunk isn't a good look on you."

You bite your lower lip and nod.

Except.

You want to apologize to Claire again. You want to know that she isn't going to fire you for being so unprofessional. This might not be a professional event, but Claire invited you, and if you made her look bad, then....

This is why you don't drink at these sorts of things.

So you wait.

And wait.

And wait some more.

And then people start leaving but Claire hasn't shown up again, and you're pretty certain that people can't leave down the hallway where you'd been with Jen, so Claire should be coming back this way. Or should have. And hasn't. Isn't.

Claire's your boss. You should probably go check and make sure she's okay. Not that Jen would do anything to her. Ew, gross, wait, maybe they're together and that's why Jen kept barging in on your Zoom streams while Claire was campaigning. Maybe Claire was mad at Jen because she shouldn't have been making out with you, she should have been with Claire--

All of this you think while you walk down the hallway, checking out every door you find, and then you think you see Claire, so you push open the door and--

Oh.

Oh.

"Claire?"

The room is dark, but you can tell that she's covered in something red and wet and shining, and you're drunk and really hope that isn't blood.

You also hope that isn't a body on the floor in front of her. Really hope that isn't Jen.

Claire turns to you. "You...weren't supposed to see this."

Suddenly, your heart starts beating faster. Claire just killed someone. Claire just killed someone and you walked in on it. Claire is going to kill you.

But before you can make it to the door, Claire is there, a hand on your wrist, and when you open your mouth to scream, she kisses you instead. You still scream, at first, but she muffles you, and then you kind of forget that you're supposed to be screaming because for all that Jen was a bad kisser, Claire is. well. wow. Before you know it, you're kissing her back, and then your hand is in her hair, and then her hair is sticky because blood, and then you're screaming again, but it doesn't last as long this time.

Claire parts just enough to say, "I'm not going to hurt you," and you hate it, but you're drunk, and you believe her. But that doesn't stop your heart from beating fast in your chest. She glares over her shoulder at the body. "Jen knew better than to touch you."

You should ask.

You swallow hard.

You don't ask.

[fic-rec-time]

A Second Grace

by sometimeswelose

Supernatural/Complete/Chapters: 2 Words: 26,988

Cas dies and Dean starts referring to himself as a widower. This is somewhat confusing for everyone involved.

(Inspired by *that* tumblr post; linked in notes)

(Canon MCD not tagged because it's temporary)

//

I’ve read and adored plenty of Post-Empty fics, New God Jack fics, etc, but this one blows them all away. I teared up several times reading this–the way sometimeswelose writes Dean’s feelings for Cas, how the confession affects his life, how he copes and changes, is wonderfully cathartic. The love in this is so tender yet powerful. I love the lives that he and Sam create for themselves. This fic feels like a perfect ending for Winchesters and Co., not a perfect world, where everything goes back to how it was, but a new one that they are building for themselves. Well written. This is one of those fics that is going to stick in my mind, I can already tell.

[tomoyorecs]

Our Old Heroes

Author: AdelaClancy

Rating: E

Word Count: 499,275

Summary:

In which Amara doesn't bring back Mary, she brings back John Winchester.

Dean is uncertain what Amara's meaning is when she brings John back, and struggles with coming to terms with the new family dynamic. Sam tries harder to keep the peace than he used to, and Cas does not get along with John at all- though he tries. Testosterone is at an all-time high as these four men struggle to coexist in the hunting world with very different ideologies.

We explore just how much the brothers have changed in the ten years without their father's guidance, the trauma they still haven't resolved, and the feelings that Dean and Cas hold for one another despite the very real and new barrier that is John.

Commentary: Well written, in character and really long? Ding ding ding, we might have found a new Tomoyo favorite!!

This story is a complete rewrite of season 12, up until the first few episodes of season 13.

Having John back is a twist so good, so tasty, so crunchy. It's so interesting to see Dean and Sam react to him, because while they're not their season 1 selves, neither are them their season 2 selves. We see them little by little regain the courage to stand up for themselves and show John who they've become. John who, of course, is not a bit happy about how friendly Dean and Sam have become of monsters. Or about how close Dean is with Cas.

It's very very interesting how this story deviates from season 12 at the same time it keeps on track with almost everything (but, better). I don't think I paid as much attention to BMOL plot in the show as I did in here! The author also gives us more time with Claire, Alex and Jody, deepening their relationships with the main cast.

Dean starts the story trying to convince himself of how he doesn't have feelings for Cas, but it slowly becomes impossible, as he has to confront old memories. Having John around makes it so much harder for Dean to ignore everything he feels, which makes perfect sense! He is scared at first, specially right after having to see Lucifer possess Cas.

POVs flow mainly between Dean and Cas, but there's also Sam, Eileen, Claire and many others (eventually, Jack).

I know this is a huge one, but I can't recommend it enough. It's big because it need to be. Because we need this time with these characters for them to get where they are. And it's so worth it.

[lesharl-eclair]

chestappen 😦

i know i know this is not par for the course BUT. going crazy about this author and their chestappen fics im going to transcend please give these a reaasdd if you can

we found clues and arrived at answers (T, 6.1k)

“Huh. Didn’t think bushy eyebrows and nearly a decade older were what you’re into. Nice surprise, Verstappen, very nice.” Here is Lando Norris, intoxicated by the blasphemy that’s commonly known as boredom. “Learn to pick your battles, mate. Checo’s certainly available but I don’t know if he’s available available, you know.” Max concludes that Lando is very bored, and shrugs. “We have never even really talked.” He thinks of the past three, four months; thinks of the people here that he has come to know. He still calls him ‘Sergio’ and if that’s anything to go by, it’s not. Five times Max averts from Sergio’s gaze, and the one time he holds it like there’s no going back. (There isn’t.)

hotel au. didnt know such a thing was possible and yet here we are. special mention to the sheer attention to detail + the amount of care in the descriptions !!!!!!!!! so evocative so good

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take me to where you are, what you've become (T, 2.6k)

Sergio wants to believe that it is bad luck. But let’s be real here. See what is meant to be seen, hear what is meant to be heard. Max is not fleeting, he is constant and Sergio admires more than he envies. The colors are a bit brighter than painted grey, the garage hums as it no longer thrums. Max tugs at the back of his fireproofs where his hand hides behind tire racks. Mexico City, 2023

the writign style of it all oh mygod the introspection???? the way max cant truly understand checo (pain) and yet???? ther lingering hints of self doubt etc etc but it will have to be enough...... this dynamic

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thanks bye please give these a read

[obsessionnostalgia]

claire novak should be in a lot more spn fics

[7-wonders]

hi is there a post with your dream x reader fic recs? I'd like to check out all your faves, if possible, thanks

Alright. I have read SO MANY good Dream fics over the year that I've been in this fandom. I'm sure I'm forgetting some, and I'm sure that I'll reblog to add more later, but here are some recs. I might make a more formal post to add to my masterlist!

I want to highlight a couple of my favorite writers! You'll love everything they write, so I'll just link their blogs and let you do the rest. @aralezinspace, @honeybeezgobzzzzz, @roguelov, @writethrough.

Multi-chapter/multi-part fics

Treehouse by @ofsappho. Linking the Ao3 too. Seriously, I cannot recommend this fic enough. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel 🥵. And the best part? They're just getting started.

Your Fate is Sealed With Mine by @honeybeezgobzzzzz. When I think of the multi-chapter fics for this fandom, this one is at the top.

The Accident That Led Me to You (Pt 1 & Pt 2) by @writethrough. This one is so sweet, and I love Death in this!

enjoy the silence by @darkhangels. This is another one that is so captivating. The type of fic that you have to binge-read because it's just that good.

Sweet Dreams by MissAlrauna on Ao3. This is a series of interconnected oneshots, and I love each and every one of them. I literally reread all of them this week because they're that good.

Per Somnia by Rhune on Ao3. Make sure to read the sequel, too!

Oneshots

How to Mistakenly Summon An Ancient Being & Keep Him by @writethrough. Did I mention that I love my dear writethrough? Because I do. As a fellow insomniac, this fic spoke to me.

Mine, Ours by @roguelov. WHOO BOY. The first Morpheus/Reader/Calliope fic I read, the one that made me realize that this is a really good throuple with a lot of potential.

after dark by @sinner-as-saint. Peak dark, possessive Morpheus.

Another Taste of Heavenly Rush by hopeless_aromantic on Ao3. Listen. Sometimes you just need to read a good, sexy fic.

[finalfantasyx]

The fight came to an end when Qianluo and Xiao Se looked at each other across the courtyard, both breathing heavily as they held each other’s weapons. . . . It's spring, and they're sparring.

[ao3sdaredevil]

“I walked into a file cabinet,” Murdock says loudly, when Claire reaches for his face, tilts it toward the light so she can check that nasty-looking cut on his cheekbone a little better.

“Oh my God,” Karen murmurs; in her peripheral vision, Claire sees her press her face into her hands.

“I thought we were going to come up with a better-” Nelson begins, visibly stops himself, and continues: “-explanation of that thing that definitely happened.”

[dicklessthewonderclown]

hey if ur afab with daddy issues read the way a dad should by fleeceframe it’ll fix everything at least temporarily