#dad bod Castiel

[spn-fanfic-reblog-writes]

PB Exchange Round 11 @profoundnet

For @cat-hesarose ❤️💙💚💛

Title: A Day in the Apple Pie Life

Pairing: Destiel

Rating: General Audiences

Characters: Jack Kline, Dean Winchester, Castiel, Benny Lafitte, OMC Tony (discussed)

Word Count: 978

Warnings: None

Betaed by: Rachel

Tags: Jack is God, Jack is a preschooler, Archangel Castiel, Retired Hunter Dean Winchester, Married Castiel and Dean Winchester, Retired Hunter Castiel, Canon Divergent, Post 15x19 fix-it sort of, Castiel was Rescued From the Empty, Benny was freed from Purgatory, Established Castiel and Dean Winchester, Mechanic Dean Winchester, Vampire Benny Lafitte, Mechanic Benny Lafitte, kid fic, dadstiel, pb exchange round 11 space theme, Castiel and Dean Winchester are Jack Kline’s Parents

Summary: A day in the life of Cas and Dean with their son, Jack.

Ao3 Link

Buzz.

Buzz

Buzz. Buzz. Buzz.

Castiel rolls over and falls on the floor with an “oof” from his lips. He grunts and gets up. He does a full body stretch, thankful that his footy pajamas are a bit big. He scratches his beard and walks to the front door trying to wake up enough to remember if he was supposed to have company or not.

He unlocks the front door and opens it, looking straight ahead then down to see his preschooler waving at the car backing out of their driveway. He pouts his lips with a quirk of a brow, then takes a step back.

Jack walks in, smiles on his face as he looks at his Dad, wipes his shoes off, and then takes them off, placing them next to the front door as usual.

“Aren’t you supposed to be in school?” Asks Castiel, his voice still sleep rough.

“Play date, Dad. Remember? Weekend,” Jack replies as he takes off his backpack and sets it on the bench in their mudroom.

“Ah. Yes, I remember now. How was it?” Castiel closes the door and scratches his belly; the zipper always irritates him slightly if he doesn’t have an undershirt on, like today.

“It was fun! Tony has this really cool electric car you can ride in and he let me drive.” Jack adds, “Yes, we both had helmets on, Dad.”

Castiel smiles and cards his fingers through Jack’s blonde hair as he heads back to the living room.

Jack follows him and sits down on the couch next to him, grabbing the blanket his Dad left over him.

“Tired?” Castiel inquires. He grabs the tv remote and hands it to the preschooler, who is dressed in jean shorts and a blue t-shirt that matches his eyes.

Jack nods and scoots next to his father, then snuggles into Cas’ side as Jack finds a cartoon to watch.

“Should I take a look in Heaven while you rest?”

“No, Michael has it. I check in with him every few days, so if something comes up, I make sure to know,” Jack yawns the last word and rests his head on Castiel’s chest while zoning out to the tv.

The Angel wraps his arm and unseen wings around his son, kisses into his hair and takes his cell from the side table, going through messages and emails.

A few minutes pass and then Castiel hears Jack snoring. He grins and takes a selfie with him that he sends to Dean.

Meanwhile, Dean is at the shop working under the hood of a car when his pocket buzzes. He gets out from underneath and wipes his hands off before pulling it out. He grins the moment he sees the photo of Castiel in the green, hot dog footie pajamas and Jack cuddled up asleep.

He texts back: Glad to see my man and our son are having a good day. Take care of our baby. I’ll be heading home soon. Love you both!

Castiel’s blue eyes return to the tv, realizing Jack put on Scooby Doo. He leaves his phone open and waits a few minutes to see if Dean will reply.

When he reads his husband’s message, he grins and replies: Of course, Beloved. Would you mind picking up Chinese for dinner? Jack asked if we could have egg rolls for dinner. Figured we could get our usual and a few extra.

Dean: Yeah. Put in the order with 20 mins after closing for pick up.

Castiel: Will do. See you in a bit. Love you.

Dean: Love you too.

Dean’s fingers suddenly fumble with the phone, having been shouldered into by one of his best friends, Benny. Jack and Michael sorted through all the creatures in Purgatory and gave second chances to those who had not truly caused harm in their lives. Benny was the first one they brought back, of course.

“Quit it, Dean. He knows you love him. Let’s finish getting this installed.”

Dean glares at the vampire and sticks out his tongue. “You’re just upset because we are having Chinese and you don’t get to have any.”

Benny leans back and laughs, then settles before asking, “I’m okay with what I’ve got for dinner tonight. How’s Jack holding up?”

Dean shows Benny the picture of Cas and Jack.

Benny smiles wide and nods. “He’s getting big. Looks so much like his Daddy.”

Dean grins, reaching for a tool before putting his phone back in his back pocket. “That he does. That he does.”

—💙💚💛—

Jack and Castiel hear the purr of Baby’s engine pull up into the driveway and park. The preschooler runs outside to greet his Dad and help bring in food. “Dad!” yells Jack and runs right into the man’s legs, wrapping his arms around his thighs, happily. Dean puts the food bags down on his seat before picking up the blonde haired, blue eyed boy and hugging him tight.

Meanwhile, Castiel comes out and snaps his fingers, setting the food bags set on the dinner table. He catches Dean’s green eyes, smiling at his husband, and motions he’s going back.

Dean gives a slight nod and loosens his hug to look at Jack. “Hey, Bubby. How was your playdate with Tony?”

“It was so much fun. I got to drive a car but I had a helmet on.”

“I assume you mean a kid car, right? One of those battery powered cars you fit in?”

“Of course, Dad. I’m not big enough or old enough to drive.” Jack rolls his eyes and shakes his head.

Dean chuckles and sets him down. He turns around and finds the bags gone. His brow furrows, and there is a frown on his lips as he closes the door.

“Dad took them in,” replies Jack at Dean’s confusion. He holds his hand out to Dean.

Dean’s face relaxes, and he holds Jack’s hand as they walk into the house together.

Castiel changed into jeans and one of Dean’s band t-shirts. “Picnic dinner?” Castiel asks Jack.

“Yep,” the preschooler confirms with a toothy grin.

That evening Dean and Castiel set out to have a picnic outside. It was Jack’s favorite thing right now, to have “picnic dinners” as he calls them. They would eat under the stars in their backyard around their small fire pit that Dean made last summer at Jack’s behest to make s’mores all the time.

This time, Castiel snapped his fingers and created the nice blazing fire for the cool evening they were having as Dean put food on a tray, making sure to keep everything separate for Jack and on plates for Cas and Dean. Jack sat there with the cooler next to him and passed out drinks: soda or juice for him and beer for his Dads.

They dived into eating in silence as Jack’s eyes glowed gold and peered into the night sky. It was a purplish-tinted black sky with twinkling stars of yellow, red, blue, and orange. Jack, of course, knew which were stars and which were planets. He would point them out through space between bites of food. He would even tell them about galaxies and nebulas that were forming. Despite having true God powers, Jack never lost his amazement at the universe around him.

He was very lucky to have wonderful Dads who were very accepting of everything he dealt with as he balanced being God and a preschooler.

Once dinner was eaten, the three laid down on the blanket and stared up into the sky. Jack was in the middle and started explaining about constellations and their stories of cultures that have been lost to the ages. Dean and Castiel exchanged a loving look before focusing back on Jack.

[montanabohemian]

i literally cannot stop laughing at "You marry the hottest man the intersections of American Christianity and the American Midwest have to offer." like i am going to be thinking about that for months.

Everyone but Dean thinking Cas is Just Okay Looking is funny and all except that he's canonically described by everyone from Random Christian Mom #3 to the King of Hell as sexy, dreamy, etc. A woman found him wandering naked by a river and said That's Husband Material. Amelia Novak let that face through her front door after he ditched her and their kid for over a year. He led half of Heaven in a rebellion on a scale only thee Devil himself had ever managed before. He's so hot he made Meg switch sides. Even after his Third Epic Fuckup most of the angels were down to follow him. The scribe of god took one look at him and said if Dean is God's main character, You are Mine, I will kill him to give you a Tragic Backstory.

Only Amara, terminal Deangirl and Sam, terminally heterosexual, have ever thought Castiel was anything less than the hottest motherfucker in the garrison.

[ao3feed-destiel-02]

A Day in The Apple Pie Life

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/ftWe5Mo by spn-fanfic-reblog-writes (Lmrb19) A day in the life of Cas and Dean with their son, Jack. Words: 1290, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Jack Kline, Benny Lafitte, Original Male Character(s), Garth Fitzgerald IV, Background & Cameo Characters Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Additional Tags: Kid Fic, Profound Bond Gift Exchange (Supernatural), Jack Kline is God But Also Still a Child, Archangel Castiel (Supernatural), Retired Hunter Dean Winchester, Retired Castiel (Supernatural), Married Castiel/Dean Winchester, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Episode AU: s15e19 Inherit the Earth (Supernatural), Domestic Castiel/Dean Winchester, Castiel is Saved from the Empty (Supernatural), Benny Lafitte & Dean Winchester Friendship, Benny Lafitte is Saved From Purgatory Again, Mechanic Dean Winchester, Mechanic Benny Lafitte, Vampire Benny Lafitte, Werewolf Garth Fitzgerald IV, dadstiel, Fix-It of Sorts, Family Fluff, Family Bonding, Dad bod Castiel, Castiel and Dean Winchester are Jack Kline's Parents read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/ftWe5Mo

[hexelein]

I need you to know that they have more than just these dad shirts. Claire is very embarassed by it, and maybe a tiny bit fond.

[idgaf-what-you-call-me]



[themauvesoul]

They killed crowley off before cas became a single father bc crowley would’ve been slavering and slobbering over cas’s dad bod. Going weak in the knees whenever he is a good parent to his little baby sonboy. Consumed with the urge to squish jacks soft squishable cheeks and spoil him rotten. He’s swooping in during the deancas divorce and desperately trying to get cas to finalize his divorce faster so he can marry crowley instead. He spends his workdays in hell doodling mrs crowley castiel on his very important paperwork. Dean whomst.

[destieltropecollection]

Destiel Trope Collection 2020 Day 21: Neighbour AU

Easter Day | @blueraven06

Rating: General Word Count: 1093 Main Tags/Warnings: No archive warnings apply, Easter, Alternate Universe - Neighbors, Dean Winchester is Ben Braeden's Parent Summary: Charlie had organized an egg hunt for the neighbourhood. Dean's son, Ben is pretty excited for the hunt.

Out of This World | @suckerfordeansfreckles

Rating: General Word Count: 1390 Main Tags/Warnings: single parent Cas, neighbor Dean, getting together Summary: Dean can’t explain what it is about men with children, especially small ones, but they do things to him. They make him… feel all soft and gooey. Make him want a partner and a child running around his too-empty house, making his life a little louder and more colorful. Just regular men, with dad bods, pushing strollers and cooing to their small, chubby, red-cheeked babies. It’s absolutely ridiculous and he can’t explain it at all, but… Regular men with babies already make him weak. And then there’s his neighbor, Cas.

Watching from the Window | @wingsandimpalas

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 1830 Main Tags/Warnings: Disney Songs, Getting Together, Alternate Universe - Neighbors, Singer Dean Winchester, Bartender Castiel, Smoking, Meet-Cute, Teacher Dean Winchester Summary: Castiel's neighbour is singing again and it takes all of his willpower not to laugh. It’s not that he's a bad singer, quite the opposite, in fact, he's brilliant. It’s just that without fail every time the man steps into the shower he will power belt of all things: Disney songs.

Boy Next Door | @supernatural9917fic

Rating: Explicit Word Count: 2453 Main Tags/Warnings: Twink Dean Winchester, Older Castiel, Castiel and Dean Winchester are Neighbors, Dean is a Tease, DestielFFPrompt, Top Castiel/Bottom Dean Winchester, Age Difference Summary: Castiel's hot, young, new neighbour is going to drive him crazy... Written for the Destiel Smut Bingo 2018. Square fill: Getting caught

Pathetic | @peanutbutterjelly-pie

Rating: General Word Count: 2836 Main Tags/Warnings: Alternate Universe, Neighbors, Fluff, Single Parent Dean Summary: In which Dean is too much of a coward to talk to the new hot neighbor and in the end uses his daughter as an alibi.

Sharing Showers | @misha-moose-dean-burger-lover

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 2925 Main Tags/Warnings: Sam and Dean are roommates, Castiel wearing Dean Winchester's clothes, Dean Winchester is a disaster bi, Smut is Imagined Summary: Balthazar arranges for some repair works in his apartment, and a fresh-from-his-run Castiel shows up at Dean's door, awkwardly asking if he could use his shower. And while Dean sits in his living room, trying not to think of Castiel showering naked in his bathroom, Castiel yells for him.  *** Prompt Inspired: ""My shower isn't working, can I use yours?""

Pandemic? More like bi-demic | @synonymouslyyours

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 3183 Main Tags/Warnings: Quarantine Fic, Mutual Pining, Fluff, Castiel and Dean Winchester are Neighbors, Castiel and Dean Winchester are in Quarantine, Castiel and Dean Winchester Like Staring at Each Other Summary: The quarantine was starting to get to Dean. That’s what he told himself, as he stared out the window of his living room, casually spying on his new neighbor Castiel Novak—no, not spying, looking. After all, it was normal for a guy to be curious about his new neighbor, especially when said neighbor was currently bending over a bed of flowers, sculpted legs and toned arms glistening with sweat in the searing heat of the outdoors. Dean hadn’t been outside for days, but if anything could convince him to leave the house, it would be this gift of a visual.

Flow Like the River | @deservetobesaved

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 4429 Main Tags/Warnings: high school AU, fluff, first kiss Summary: Dean and Sam are starting their summer vacation when they get new neighbors. A certain blue-eyed one makes Dean weak in the knees.

Fairytale of New York (JFK) | @Clio-philyra

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 4748 Main Tags/Warnings: Christmas fluff, neighbours, meet cute, mentions of Dean/others, fluff and smut, no warnings apply, Summary: Cancelled. Cancelled. Cancelled... As the dreaded words appear next to every flight on the departures list Castiel Novak lets out a deep sigh. He stares at the screen for a few more moments, hoping for some kind of Christmas miracle to make the word next to his flight to Boston change into a gate number. No such luck. In which Cas bumps into his very annoying neighbour on a very annoying Christmas Eve.

Homemade | @saltnhalo

Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 5317 Main Tags/Warnings: Alpha Dean Winchester, Omega Castiel (Supernatural), Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Chef Castiel (Supernatural), YouTuber Castiel (Supernatural), Engineer Dean Winchester, Domestic Fluff, Fluff, First Meetings Summary: Dean Winchester, a successful but perpetually overworked and overtired engineer, meets chef and restaurant owner Castiel, his new neighbor. Castiel courts him in the form of homemade meals in Tupperware containers and handwritten notes, and Dean eventually takes it upon himself to return the favor.

A Little Push | @amyoatmeal

Rating: Mature Word Count: 5446 Main Tags/Warnings: neighor au, crack and humor, jealous dean, grumpy cas Summary: "It all started yesterday. Saturday morning. Well, technically, Friday night. Honestly, it started six months ago when Castiel Goddamn Novak moved in next door, but who's keeping score?" As it turns out, Drunk Dean can be petty, and Grumpy Cas... can be just as petty. Who knew?

[suckerfordeansfreckles]

For the trope fic numbers 3 & 33 please :)

3 & 33: Modern AU & Baby Fic - after one million years, I finally filled this prompt! I hope you guys enjoy it and some of you might be able to relate to Dean (and me) lol

Out of this World (read on AO3)

Dean can’t explain what it is about men with children, especially small ones, but they do things to him. 

They make him… feel all soft and gooey. Make him want a partner and a child running around his too-empty house, making his life a little louder and more colorful.

Just regular men, with dad bods, pushing strollers and cooing to their small, chubby, red-cheeked babies. It’s absolutely ridiculous and he can’t explain it at all, but… Regular men with babies already make him weak. 

And then there’s his neighbor, Cas.

Cas is — Cas is out of this world. 

They used to talk a lot more, back before Cas got custody of Claire. He’s an awesome guy, intelligent, sweet, compassionate, friendly, funny and just so good. They spent time with each other, hanging out in their gardens and living rooms, having dinner and drinking beer by Cas’ pool. Then Cas told him about his ex, about the baby that will be with him in a few months. Dean even helped him paint the room he conveyed to a nursery. They were friends. Dean was so close to asking him out… to try for more.

But then Cas took in Claire, and all his time and energy had to be on this little bundle of life. Obviously. Doesn’t mean Dean misses him less, though. And now, when Cas walks by his house, it’s not only just his gorgeous, hot friend — but also Cas, a soft and caring and sweet father to a tiny, cute baby.

Cas is walking by again this morning, and Dean just stepped outside to grab his mail, still in his pajamas on this fine Saturday. And now he’s standing and staring, again, he knows he is. But there, across the lawn, is Cas. Castiel Novak, single parenting a seven-month-old girl named Claire seemingly like he was made for it. 

He’s got Claire strapped to his chest, rocking her gently while he walks, her tiny blonde head against his chest. He has one big, broad hand on her back, the other one gripping a half-empty bottle of milk while simultaneously pushing the stroller in front of him with the hand not patting Claire’s back. 

His hair is ruffled like crazy, he hasn’t shaved in a while, and there is a questionable stain on his jeans on left thigh — and Dean absolutely fucking loses his mind. How in the world is this guy even real. How is he this cute when he looks like an absolute mess.

What the actual —

Dean misses his last step down on his way to the mailbox and ends up stumbling along his driveway, cheeks burning up with embarrassment. He hopes Cas didn’t catch it, just keeps his eyes on the floor and swiftly walks towards his mailbox when —

“Hello, Dean,” he hears, in that low, growly voice that has him weak in the knees. 

“Oh, Cas, hey there!” He stutters, sending Cas his biggest smile. He’s close now, so close that he comes to a stop in front of Dean, still raising up onto his toes and down again to keep rocking Claire. Dean tries to take a breath, but it ends up shallow and gasping. “How are you? How’s our sweetest girl?”  

“Oh, she — we haven’t had the best few days, to be honest,” Cas says softly and his hand is still gently patting her back. “Claire has been having tummy troubles, so I kind of have to keep rocking her, or she’ll start crying again. It started yesterday morning, her doc assured me that it’s nothing out of the ordinary. But she just… I can’t put her down.”

Cas looks miserable, suddenly, tired and drained, but when he looks down at his daughter, a loving smile stretches across his face. 

“I’m sorry, dude, do you — Do you need help? I’d be more than happy to help, I mean, if you trust me with her, I don’t, um,” he stumbles over his words, ears surely bright red. 

“Yes,” Cas blurts, before Dean can stutter out more. “Yes, please, if you’re serious about this. I… I would love a shower. If you’d really take her for a bit?”

Dean sends him a smile, genuine and wide, and nods. And that settles it.

He steps forward, takes the stroller from Cas and pushes it until they reach Cas’ porch. It’s only when he steps through the door behind Cas and toes off his shoes that he realizes that he’s still in his pyjamas, but Cas doesn’t seem to care, so Dean tries to tamp down his embarrassment and follows Cas into the living room.

It’s not quite like he remembers, there’s no alcohol around, there are safety stickers on the edges of the coffee table, fuzzy carpets all over the floor. Chew toys on the table, baby blankets spread out on the couch. Dean knows he’s ridiculous, but it kind of melts his heart. Cas is doing so well with Claire, and Dean is weirdly proud. He remembers quite a few drunken nights of Cas sharing his worries. None of them came to be true, just as Dean assured Cas it would be.

“Dean, are you sure? This is a little much, to ask,” Cas says, as he steps towards the couch and unbuckles the straps holding Claire against his chest. 

“Hey,” Dean says, as soft as he can. Claire is gurgling quietly, but she doesn’t sound unhappy. “You know I like you, I care about you — you two. If holding her for a little while and allowing you a shower is what you want, I’m here. I’d love to hold her, too.” 

Cas’ answering smile is so soft, it has Dean’s heart skipping a few beats. And then he hands Claire to Dean, and it takes a few minutes of carefully shuffling her, but he eventually manages to hold that tiny squirming bundle against his chest in a way that is both safe and healthy, according to Cas. 

He doesn’t dare carry her while walking through the room, the way Cas suggests, but he carefully sinks down on the couch with Claire and rocks her in his arms. 

She’s wrinkling her small nose, tiny fingers grabbing and holding onto Dean’s shirt, and Dean’s heart burns in his chest. He barely notices when Cas leaves for the shower, can’t tell how much time passes until he steps back in. The fact that his hair is still damp, that he’s wearing sweatpants and a wide shirt that slips down his shoulder, shows his collar bone — that’s the only thing that manages to pull his attention from Claire for a little while.

“She really likes you,” Cas whispers, looking down at where Claire is sleeping in Dean’s arms. “I’m impressed.”

“I really like her, too,” Dean answers, smiling as he shifts to the side to allow Cas to sit down next to him. He’s not sure what makes him say the next words, maybe the warmth of Claire in his arm, maybe the softness of his heart. “I really like you, too.”

Cas looks up abruptly, eyes wide and smile wavering. “You — Even with Claire?”

“Yes. Especially with Claire,” Dean smiles up at Cas, hope burning in his stomach, and then he carefully leans a little closer.

Cas bites his lip, and then he leans in, over Claire, and plants the softest of kisses on Dean’s mouth. He makes a soft noise, low in his throat. “I’ve been wanting to do that for so long,” he whispers, kissing Dean again.

“Yeah? Me too,” Dean replies, dazed and happy and warm.

“I would like to continue this — But first, if you don’t mind, I’d like to let you hold her a little longer and take a quick nap? I will be much more entertaining once I got an hour of sleep,” Cas chuckles, and before Dean can protest — not like he would ever decline the opportunity to hold Claire a little longer, to help Cas a little more — he shuffles down until he’s sinking   into the couch and his head is pressing against Dean’s thigh. 

“Good night, Dean. Thank you. I really like you too.”,“ Cas murmurs, and then he closes his eyes and dozes off in a heartbeat. 

And leaves Dean with a wildly beating heart and Claire babbling in his arms. And he has never felt better.

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[thegirlwholied]

I think to answer your question about the spn lighting it’s simply bc of the cw, since basically all of their shows are standard lightning where it doesn’t stand out to be like gritty, maybe except Nancy drew which gives me very ocean vibes

Current!Supernatural definitely felt like it was being filmed just like one of their superhero shows!

..with that said I feel like Arrow also had more of a filter that was gradually phased out, but not quite to this degree of tonal inconsistency. 

Nancy Drew which I’ve seen always feels like it has a blueish filter over it, definite ocean vibes... & while I’m a fan of ocean vibes in general, as a Nancy Drew book fan, I didn’t stick with that show as it never felt *Nancy Drew* to me.

...granted it may become gradually clear that I am Not Great with sticking with shows. But there is a wide gulf between ‘gradually phased out after several years of watching faithfully and still occasionally check in’ and ‘only watched sporadically & never finished the first season & probably never will’. 

I will say tuning in randomly over the years I didn’t notice the chance. But I very recently rewatched the s4 premiere (Castiel’s introduction) & s4 Halloween episode. WOW, it was dark in those days, and WOW is it bright now. Weirdly bright. We were reminded of that episode where they were turned into a sitcom for a second. The tonal inconsistency makes me a little sad.

...I kind of feel like Supernatural is the equivalent of the hot guy from high school, who was rough around the edges & a little bit trouble but *fun* trouble, andddd when you look him up now he wears glasses & posts pictures of his dog & is rocking a bit of a dad bod & bought a house, and, hey, he does still look good & happy, you’ve got to be happy for him, & his jokes may be a little more cringe than you remembered but he’s plainly still charming. Just. Whoa. *Not* what you expected. The tonal inconsistency is striking.

...there is room for Grey’s Anatomy to join this analogy, & it’s something like, that girl you were good friends with except now are only ‘friends’ with on Instagram, she’s always posting pictures with tons of different people you’ve never seen before, in completely inexplicable situations, & it kind of annoys you that you’re still curious enough about her baffling life to click on the pics occasionally & read the very long captions... & mostly you wonder, ‘how were we ever friends??’...but sometimes she posts a story that makes you go fondly, ‘oh, that’s why’, but only *sometimes*, for a *second*.

this is all to say I miss that filter, toning it down was one thing but going *BRIGHT* was quite a lot. Just like a *little* bit of trouble there is something to be said for a *little* bit of grimdark in the right place (& imho, on the CW, Supernatural was that place). In my heart Supernatural will always be overfiltered!

[spn-fanfic-reblog-writes]

Retired, dad-bod Dean Winchester and Castiel, post-Chuck. Hahaha!

[tippitv]

TippiTV recap: SPN 15.01 “Back and to the Future”

First a quick note on the format of this recap: I'm dealing with some neck/back/shoulder pain so I'm not going to make a bunch of captioned screen shots and diagrams and other visual aids like I usually do. That stuff, while hugely fun to do, is time-consuming even under ideal conditions. I will instead attempt to provide you with mental images of graphics I would have made.

Now, let's get on with things.

Welcome to the 15th and final season of Supernatural, everyone! If the show were a person we could give it a Quinceañera.

[Graphic: The Impala in a beautiful taffeta gown and tiara and like... satin mudflaps instead of gloves.]

It's been 5140 days since the show premiered. That's 123,360 hours. Our solar system travels around the center of the galaxy at 490,000 miles per hour. This means we have moved through 6.04464e10 miles of space since this show premiered. I don't even know what that means. Once numbers start getting letters in them, I'm lost. But it's got to be nearly as many miles as are on the Impala's odometer.

[graphic of our solar system and the Chevy Impala zooming through space together, perhaps in friendly competition]

The road so far: Man, I do not remember a lot of this. Relevant to this episode is God throwing a hissy fit, killing Jack, and releasing all the souls and/or demons from Hell.

Currently: Jack's eyeless corpse is lying around as corpses are wont to do. The surviving members of Team Free Will are fighting a lot of freshly risen dead bodies that were possessed by the released souls. If it were me just out of Hell, I wouldn't waste time in a rotted corpse. I'd just fuck off as quickly as possible and possess someone who's eating a deep-dish cheese pizza.

The risen dead are polite enough to mostly attack the Winchesters one or two at a time, so they get to grab Jack's corpse and run into a mausoleum for shelter. Okay I understand why the souls can't get through the iron doors but what's stopping the disembodied ones from just going through a window? Or through a stone wall, for that matter?

Sam asks Castiel if he can bring Jack back but he sounds like he already knows the answer. A mid-level angel without all his original powers isn't gonna be able to undo what God's done unless the plot requires it.

[Graphic of Sam's incredibly sad face as he says or thinks "maybe the plot will require it later?"]

Everyone tries to figure out what they're going to do next. Dean snarkily wonders if they're going to starve to death. I mean, no, because the ambulatory corpses will break in before long. Failing that, they'd die of thirst unless Castiel has like a TARDIS bladder that holds Dasani, and then they could eat Jack. Mmm nephilim jerky....

Proving my point for me, a resident of the mausoleum or perhaps a neighbor tries to bust through some of the loose stones just as Sam starts chipping away at them in search of an escape route. Castiel smashes its head with a big rock, causing the ghost to flee? I guess? Whatever it is looks like a glowy skeleton and ghosts usually look like their living selves for the most part.

"What the hell are we gonna do now?" Sam asks.

Ol' Eyeless Jack pops up and says in a friendly tone of voice, "Hello!" Nobody's super shocked by this turn of events.

[Graphic of Jo and Ellen saying "nobody stays dead on this show except us"]

It's just Jack's bod with a demon in it, though. Was he the one that looked like a glowy skeleton? Whatever. He happens upon some budget sunglasses on the floor nearby. No seriously they're sunglasses to save the budget because it wouldn't be cheap or timely to have to CGI empty eyes for the whole episode.

He introduces himself. "My name is Belvegar." The fuck? That sounds like a horrible portmanteau for shipping Mr. Belvedere with Garfield the cat.

[Graphic of Buckleming: "We'd write that!"]

I suppose I should check IMDB to see how that's spelled...

BELPHEGOR???

Oh okay apparently Belph is a prince of hell and "Lord of the Gap," which is like half a step up from being Lord of Old Navy. I'm looking this up on regular Wikipedia not Supernatural Wiki so the show didn't just make him up. It says here he seduces people by suggesting inventions that will make them wealthy. One time I came up with an idea for pills that would turn people's urine into toilet cleaner. I was going to call it Vita-Wiz. And that's why I've never been able to seduce anyone with my inventions.

Anyway Castiel shoves Belph up against a wall, as is customary on this show, and demands he leave Jack's bod. But Belph says he has some mojo that will get rid of all the hellish souls and demons currently trying to get into the mausoleum. Much like how Vita-Wiz gets rid of hard water stains and leaves your toilet with a minty fresh scent!

[Graphic: a colorfully jaunty ad for Vita-Wiz with Sam's endorsement a la the "Changing Channels" Herpexia ad. "I've got powerfully clean urine."]

Belph knows all about the Winchesters but is slightly surprised this latest fuckery is God's fault. He makes himself out to be a low-level demon so either he's lying or the show's not going with the prince of hell backstory. Judging by his delivery and mannerisms he thinks he's auditioning to be in Goodfellas: The High School Years.

[Graphic: High School Musical promo poster but make it mobster]

He goes on to say that, like the Winchesters, he wants all the souls back in Hell where they belong and he can get back to torturing them. "I like my job!" Unrelatable. He can't fix the main shitsplosion that's going on but says he can get them all out of the cemetery safely.

Using some "graveyard dirt" from the floor and angel blood from Convenienstiel, he works a little spell that turns all the risen dead back into just... dead. Unoccupied corpses litter the ground by the dozens. Man, what a mess. You know who isn't gonna like their job in the morning? The groundskeeper.

Also, that sure is a useful spell. I wonder if it will ever come up again...

"Where are all the ghosts?" Dean wonders.

Cut to two teenage girls somewhere else acting like teenage girls Dabb has seen in Troom Troom videos. One of the girls sees herself as a ghost in the mirror and claws her face clean off. Man, that ghost's wig is terrible. Is she Bloody Mary? I don't remember her wig being this bad. I can't believe they couldn't afford a better one even with the Budget Sunglasses.

Back to Three Men and a Belphy. Riding home in the Impala, Sam checks the news. So far, no mention of any kind of worldwide Ghostpocalypse. It seems like you're mostly safe in this universe as long as you don't live in middle America. Belph suggests they may be able to contain the ghosts before things get too out of hand and he just happens to know the right magic.

"Imagine a salt circle a mile wide," he says. Castiel points out that Harlan, Kansas is less than a mile from the cemetery so Dean hatches a plan to get everyone out so as to not trap them inside with the ghosts and demons. Is it gonna be a lame plan that would never work in reality?

But first they stop for a wrecked car on the side of the road. There's blood on the inside of the windshield but no body. "This look familiar to you?" Dean asks Sam. It looks like a lot of wrecks where someone got wanged on the head and wandered off in a daze, but they figure it's the Woman in White. "If she's back then they're all back," Dean goes on. "Every last one that we ever killed."

Okay shout out to everyone who answered my post where I asked if ghosts used to be obliterated rather than going to Hell. The consensus seems to be that the Winchesters didn't really know one way or the other early on and were guessing.

Cut to a woman running through a house with her young daughter in her arms. The aftermath of a destroyed birthday party can be seen. How late in the day were they throwing this kid's party?? To make a long story short, the ghost of John Wayne Gacy is chasing them. I'll just reiterate my hatred of this character, not because Gacy is a serial killer obv, but because it lacks internal logic! Why is he dressed like a clown?? He wasn't executed in his old clown outfit!

Suddenly it's daytime. It's like Bugs all over again. Sam, in a jacket with an FBI decal on it approaches what must be the dumbassiest dumbass sheriff in three states. He convinces the sheriff to evacuate the whole town because of a benzene leak and the sheriff just... takes his word for it. Like, he's never heard of a benzene pipeline in his hometown but doop de doop this handsome giraffe in a cheap jacket said to evacuate so it must be true!

Also why isn't the sheriff down at the cemetery?? Someone would've called that in by now! You know what I don't really care.

Meanwhile, Dean is in the car and tells Castiel to take Belph to go get supplies for the spell. Cas says he can't do it, he can't even bear to look at him. And Dean! Rolls! His! Eyes! Like, Jack's the closest thing Cas will probably ever have to a child. He was with Kelly through her pregnancy. It's only been like eight hours since the kid died horrifically. Don't roll your dang eyes!

Cas leaves and Dean puts the Equalizer gun in the glove compartment along with a copy of The Complete Works of Anton Chekhov.

Belph notices that everyone walking down the street is good-looking. Yeah, that's casting agencies for ya. He says back in his ancient penis-worshiping days, people were uglier. Belph appears to be an equal-opportunity ogler. He turns to Dean. "I mean look at you. You're gorgeous!"

[Graphic: Belphegor replacing his penis-shaped rock altar with that Skittles poster of Jensen Ackles.]

"So who was he anyway?" Belph asks, referring to his meatsuit. "He was our kid, kinda," Dean says. The show manages to resist making a Gay Dads joke that I feel like it would've given into in an earlier season. So, yay progress I guess?

Sam and Castiel split up to check every house for ghosts. That seems super time-consuming. How many Reapers are left besides Billie? I feel like they should get one on the horn unless they're all dead. Anyway, Cas's house is where the Troom Troom girls were killed. The ghost's wig looks even worse in daylight. Do they get their wigs from the Hobby Lobby doll crafting aisle or something?

Sam's house, meanwhile, is where John Wayne Ghosty went on a sartorially illogical rampage. Somehow the mother and daughter are still alive. Dumbass ghosts can't see behind a shelving unit, I guess. The instant Sam gets them safely down, Ass-Clown immediately slices him across the belly. Castiel shows up to blast the ghost with rock salt.

Meanwhile, Belph is fanboying over Dean's torturing skills. Gasp! The show remembered Dean was in Hell. It'd be nice if they were consistent about it but whatever. Belph casually mentions that all the doors in Hell opened and Dean realizes this means the cage, too.

[Graphic: That dancing gif of the actor who played Adam that says "Still in Hell" but now it says "Maybe not in Hell."]

Castiel heals Sam's wound and the fabric of his jacket! The mother and daughter are still standing there seeing all this. Cas is like, "Whatevs, I'm an angel of the Lord & Taylor." The mom is pretty flabbergasted, and even more so when Sam mentions the wound he sustained after shooting God. Castiel can't heal that one, though, because it's probably gonna be a recurring plot point judging by the flash of Evil Sam we see.

The sheriff is making a final sweep through town when he happens upon the Woman in White. The sun looks to be setting, which means it's probably been 16 hours since all the souls and demons escaped, but they're still basically within a mile of the cemetery? Even I, burdened with an easily exhausted flesh body with shitty joints could have gotten farther than that.

Anyway, Belph needs a fresh human heart for his spell so it's pretty handy of the sheriff to die! That way none of the mains need to do the morally objectionable thing of murdering someone.

Dean senses a sudden drop in temperature. "Winnie the Pooh, right now!"

WHAT THE FUUUUCK??

Hold on. I'm watching this at 1.2x speed. Let me rewatch it at 1x.

Okay he says "we need to move, right now."  My apologies to Mr. Pooh for thinking you could ever be a part of this.

[Graphic: Winnie the Pooh chipper as anything. "I CRAVE THE BLEAK ABIDING COMFORT OF DEATH AND HUNNY."]

At the same time, Sam and Castiel are walking the two survivors through town. The little girl pauses at a badly placed fish pond because she sees a woman in it. Is it Bloody Mary? What's she doing in a pond? Seriously though putting a pond right on the street corner is just asking for trouble even without spectral shenannigans. How many people have driven over the curb and right into that thing?

Okay I gotta stop getting hung up on landscaping issues. Even if they are HIGHLY IRRESPONSIBLE AND NONSENSICAL.

Dean is attacked by the Woman in White. Ass Clown goes after Sam and the others, and is soon joined by... a tall ghost and... Lizzie Borden? Sam accidentally shoots Cas full of rock salt when Lizzie vanishes, which is pretty funny although move ya pretty self out of the way, Cas. When she pops up behind him, she tries to choke him with the ax handle. It reminds me of that lesser known poem about Miss Borden.

Lizzie Borden had an ax Gave her mother 40 whacks Tried to choke the angel Cas 'Cause axing would've been too fast

In the ensuing fisticuffs, everyone has time to throw punches while Belph performs the spell. All he does is put the heart on a little pile of salt and chant some Latin. Is like the thing Ruby 1.0 did with that poor virgin girl's heart a million years ago?

Oh sweet Jeebus the sight of these ghosts chasing everyone on foot is... bad and funny. Y'all are ghosts! You can just blip in and out of wherever you want to go! One of the only upsides to being dead has got to be not having to do cardio anymore and here you are running the hundred yard dash like it's 6th grade PE class. They come screeching to a halt where the spell has created an invisible boundary. This might be worse than Hell.

[Graphic: Parisian street mimes trying to escape an invisible box]

But wait... Why wasn't Belphegor affected by this spell? Did he write in an exception clause? Or is it only for ghosts and not demons?

The Good Guys plus Belph bring the mom and daughter to the high school down the road where all the evacuees are sheltering. With no sheriff to coordinate things, isn't it all just gonna... fall to pieces now? How are they gonna convince everyone to stay away from their homes? What if someone needs their prescriptions? ("Oh no my Herpexia!") They can't get rid of the ghosts as long as Hell isn't in business anymore, right? This is a mess. Dean seems to know it.

Dang why are Castiel and Dean on such icy terms? Why do I not remember last season?

Now that they have a five second breather before the shit hits the fan, Dean wants to see Sam's godly bullet wound. It looks a little crusty but not too bad except... "There's no exit wound," Dean notes. He gives it a swipe with some alcohol which will surely kill whatever supernatural E. coli is in there.

"So when Chuck said this was the end I guess this is what he meant," Sam says. Yes being trapped in a high school with my neighbors seems like end times to me, too. Tonally, things seemed a lot more dire in All Hell Breaks Loose 2.

Dean's feeling a bit embittered about discovering they didn't have as much free will as they'd thought, that everything was part of Chuck's personal lab experiment. "What did it all mean?" he wonders. "It meant a lot," Sam says. "We still saved people."

But what even are people, man? I'm going to have an existential crisis and I can't drink as much as Dean because I have that "Asian flush" gene thing. One drink and I turn super red and hot and queasy and then I pass out.

Sam thinks God has fucked off to who knows where because he hasn't seen the promos for episode 2 yet. "He gets bored and starts another story." Ah yes like me and my WiPs. Relatable. Overall, Sam is feeling much more optimistic. "Once we win this, God is gone... and it's just us. We're free."

Dean catches his optimism cooties. "I like those odds," he says of fighting billions of evil souls. You know what that means? We got work to do. Quick intercut of Baby Winchesters with Middle-Aged Winchesters saying the same thing and closing the trunk of the Impala.

[Graphic: Impala with the solar system again. This time the Impala is pulling ahead. "ONE MORE TIME AROUND, SONS O' BITCHES"]

So there we are at the first episode of the final season. Reblog or reply with what you thought of the episode and thanks for reading!

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A Day in The Apple Pie Life

A Day in The Apple Pie Life https://ift.tt/9omhfBk by spn-fanfic-reblog-writes (Lmrb19) A day in the life of Cas and Dean with their son, Jack. Words: 1290, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: M/M Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Jack Kline, Benny Lafitte, Original Male Character(s), Garth Fitzgerald IV, Background & Cameo Characters Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Additional Tags: Kid Fic, Profound Bond Gift Exchange (Supernatural), Jack Kline is God But Also Still a Child, Archangel Castiel (Supernatural), Retired Hunter Dean Winchester, Retired Castiel (Supernatural), Married Castiel/Dean Winchester, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Episode AU: s15e19 Inherit the Earth (Supernatural), Domestic Castiel/Dean Winchester, Castiel is Saved from the Empty (Supernatural), Benny Lafitte & Dean Winchester Friendship, Benny Lafitte is Saved From Purgatory Again, Mechanic Dean Winchester, Mechanic Benny Lafitte, Vampire Benny Lafitte, Werewolf Garth Fitzgerald IV, dadstiel, Fix-It of Sorts, Family Fluff, Family Bonding, Dad bod Castiel, Castiel and Dean Winchester are Jack Kline's Parents via AO3 works tagged 'Castiel/Dean Winchester' https://ift.tt/UuHY65A July 14, 2024 at 04:23PM

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Out of This World

Read it on AO3 here!https://ift.tt/33UuoBR

by suckerfordeansfreckles

Dean can’t explain what it is about men with children, especially small ones, but they do things to him.

They make him… feel all soft and gooey. Make him want a partner and a child running around his too-empty house, making his life a little louder and more colorful.

Just regular men, with dad bods, pushing strollers and cooing to their small, chubby, red-cheeked babies. It’s absolutely ridiculous and he can’t explain it at all, but… Regular men with babies already make him weak.

And then there’s his neighbor, Cas.

Words: 1390, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Supernatural

Rating: Not Rated

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Castiel, Dean Winchester, Claire Novak

Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Additional Tags: Single Parent Castiel (Supernatural), Baby Claire Novak, Alternate Universe - Neighbors, Castiel and Dean Winchester are Neighbors, Friends to Lovers, Getting Together, First Kiss, Soft Dean Winchester, Castiel is Claire Novak's Parent, Dean is very weak for Dads, Especially Cas being a Dad

Link: https://ift.tt/33UuoBR

[daenw]

alternatively, can we stop describing cas as pale, small, and skinny????? stop slandering the beefcake.

[just-another-busy-fangirl-writes]

May 26, 2017

I am reposting old fic rec lists.  Unfortunately some of the blogs/stories have been removed, but I am still going to list them for historical reference.

Feel free to tag me in ANY fics you post, and see previous weeks’ fic recs HERE

SMUT

Tender, Loving, Care by @callmesweetheartifyoumeanit   Dean gets hurt on a hunt and after being patched up by a friend he realizes that he wants so much more from her than medical care.

Passing Ships by @ilostmyshoe-79   Sam and Eileen spend a night together after an unplanned meeting. I am sailing this ship hard.

It’s a Not So Terrible Life by @justanothersaltandburn   Dean loves his little sister… Probably more than he should. He also loves his little sister’s boyfriend, Sam. He thinks he’s good at hiding his feelings but… Not so much.

Full of Surprises by @melissaj616   The reader plans a great evening to be with Dean.

Doin’ it Like Sam Winchester by @mysaintsasinner   It’s very hot, and Sam finds you wearing very little in his bed - the coolest place in the bunker.

No Time Like the Present by @pinknerdpanda   Cas sends you to 2014 to help bring Dean back, but you get a bit distracted by Endverse!Cas.

Baby by @saxxxology   You, Sam, and Dean decide to put Baby to yet another test.

FLUFF

Civil War by @blackgirloneshots   You and Dean don’t see eye to eye when it comes to comic book universes.

Are You A Wizard by @docharleythegeekqueen   With encouragement from her friends’ Reader decides to tell Dean Winchester how she feels. Unfortunately, her hopes are seemingly crushed and she turns to alcohol and a mysterious wizard for guidance. Well, she hopes he’s a wizard.

I Like Your Sass by @imagineteamfreewill   The reader is shy and Dean doesn’t understand why she doesn’t talk to him.

God Gave Me You by @jotink78   An old friend comes by to visit the Winchesters and a few secrets are revealed. 

Just Me, Coffee, & My Big Mouth by @lipstickandwhiskey   You can’t leave it alone, so you have to say your piece. All you can do is hope she’ll listen, and that Sam won’t be too upset.

So Close by @whispersandwhiskerburn   Dean has a dream come true with the Reader and it’s so perfect, he doesn’t know whether or not he can believe it.

Dad Bod by @winchester-smut   Dean has a major crush on you, and one comment from Sam has him insecure about it.

SERIES

Hate to Love You by @casbabydontgoineedyou   You hate Castiel. Or at least, you tell yourself you do. In turn, Castiel feels the same about you. Exactly the same.

Box of Chocolates by @helakkas (on AO3)   Through a series of odd happenings, it becomes increasingly clear that the universe is determined to get Dean and Cas together. Dean very much disagrees.

Go With The Flow by @saxxxology   At a con (VanCon 2013), you and Jared take the opportunity of the fact that both of you are single and more than ready to mingle.

[just-another-busy-fangirl]

May 26

Feel free to tag me in ANY fics you post, and see previous week’s fic recs HERE

SMUT

Tender, Loving, Care by @callmesweetheartifyoumeanit    Dean gets hurt on a hunt and after being patched up by a friend he realizes that he wants so much more from her than medical care.

Passing Ships by @ilostmyshoe-79    Sam and Eileen spend a night together after an unplanned meeting. I am sailing this ship hard.

It’s a Not So Terrible Life by @justanothersaltandburn    Dean loves his little sister… Probably more than he should. He also loves his little sister’s boyfriend, Sam. He thinks he’s good at hiding his feelings but… Not so much.

Full of Surprises by @melissaj616    The reader plans a great evening to be with Dean.

Doin’ it Like Sam Winchester by @mysaintsasinner    It’s very hot, and Sam finds you wearing very little in his bed - the coolest place in the bunker.

No Time Like the Present by @pinknerdpanda    Cas sends you to 2014 to help bring Dean back, but you get a bit distracted by Endverse!Cas.

Baby by @saxxxology    You, Sam, and Dean decide to put Baby to yet another test.

FLUFF

Civil War by @blackgirloneshots    You and Dean don’t see eye to eye when it comes to comic book universes. 

Are You A Wizard by @docharleythegeekqueen    With encouragement from her friends’ Reader decides to tell Dean Winchester how she feels. Unfortunately, her hopes are seemingly crushed and she turns to alcohol and a mysterious wizard for guidance. Well, she hopes he’s a wizard. 

I Like Your Sass by @imagineteamfreewill    The reader is shy and Dean doesn’t understand why she doesn’t talk to him.

God Gave Me You by @jotink78    An old friend comes by to visit the Winchesters and a few secrets are revealed.  

Just Me, Coffee, & My Big Mouth by @lipstickandwhiskey    You can’t leave it alone, so you have to say your piece. All you can do is hope she’ll listen, and that Sam won’t be too upset.

So Close by @whispersandwhiskerburn    Dean has a dream come true with the Reader and it’s so perfect, he doesn’t know whether or not he can believe it.

Dad Bod by @winchester-smut    Dean has a major crush on you, and one comment from Sam has him insecure about it.

SERIES

Hate to Love You by @casbabydontgoineedyou    You hate Castiel. Or at least, you tell yourself you do. In turn, Castiel feels the same about you. Exactly the same.

Box of Chocolates by @helakkas (on AO3)    Through a series of odd happenings, it becomes increasingly clear that the universe is determined to get Dean and Cas together. Dean very much disagrees.

Go With The Flow by @saxxxology    At a con (VanCon 2013), you and Jared take the opportunity of the fact that both of you are single and more than ready to mingle.