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Title: In This Handmade Heaven Author: VioletHaze Artist: Whichstiel Rating: Both explicit and teen-rated versions available Length: 37k Pairings: Dean/Cas (past Dean/Lisa) Warnings: None Tropes: Law Enforcement AU, Enemies to Friends to Lovers

Summary: Dean knows Bobby’s given him an opportunity by asking him to fix up this house, but being sent to a tiny town in the middle of nowhere feels a lot more like being banished. One store, one bar, hell, the entire place only has one cop. Dean’s plan is to go, get the house in order, and be back to his real life in Sioux Falls in time for Sam’s visit home at Christmas.

Everyone in Linden seems to know his business before he even arrives, and no matter how he tries to keep to himself, he and that cop, one Officer Cas Novak, keep crossing paths. Despite his initial intentions, Dean finds himself embracing the small town, the people there, and even the neighborhood goat. As he and Cas grow closer, Dean realizes that being stuck in the middle of Iowa feels a lot like coming home.

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My art for the 2019 Tropefest Every Song Is About You

Summary: Castiel, a successful musician with the band Fallen, lost everything that he thought mattered. Grieving the loss of his band after a tragic accident, Castiel decides that he doesn’t need to make music anymore. Crowley, his manager, is not okay with this plan. Enter Dean, the former member of the band, Winchester, who needs something to help fix what’s broken in his life and his career. He has his own internal demons to fight, and the fact that Castiel still hates him after all these years isn’t exactly helping anything. Despite all that, they form a new band together and slowly unravel the past.

[izulkowa]

Art for Once Bitten Twice Shy [ao3] by @noxsoulmate The past can hurt, no question there. But what happens when it makes you too suspicious of the present?

for the @deancastropefest

[artyrosac]

Dean/Cas Tropefest 2017: my art for Letzi’s fic Between Friends.

[asecretvice]

a promo spam is coming

now that i’m finally on my computer it’s time to support all my fellow authors and artists in the Dean/Cas Tropefest! because i’ve been lax there’s going to be several promos in a row, here.

i’m tagging them all #dctropefest so you may block at will.

[castiel-lord-of-the-bees]

tfw you have homework and essays and everything else to be working on but the #dctropefest tag is calling your name and being very very distracting. 

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The One With the Loft by teacass

I got to work with the amazing @teacass for the Dean/Cas tropefest *¬* This is such a fluffy feel-good story, and the ensemble cast is AMAZING ♥ Go read it, you won’t be disappointed!

Summary:  Imagine an old industrial building somewhere in the sunny San Francisco — with all its sixteen flats and sixteen families. (Or friends. Or just roommates. Or, well, brothers.) Imagine the mayhem, the drama, the romance. Imagine a young attractive mechanic named Dean. Did you know he’s pining for the hot neighbour from the loft upstairs? No, not the short and noisy one. I meant his brother, the one with those dreamy blue eyes. Let’s call him Castiel, okay? Imagine Castiel — he is a handsome, young ex-accountant who likes coffee, yoga, and Dean from apartment 3C. You got all that? Great. Now this is the story of how they got together.

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And here I am sitting in front of my computer, not writing

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Title: Faking It Author: castielrisingabove Artist: usarechan Rating: Teen Length: 16k Pairings: Dean/Cas (Sam/Jess, implied past Dean/Benny) Warnings: No Major Warnings Apply Tropes: Fake Married, Bed sharing

Dean Winchester is a bartender in Austin, but his life is turned upside down when his bar is attacked by a supernatural creature. Next thing Dean knows, he’s wrapped up in a fake marriage with the attractive hunter, Castiel, in order to investigate a string of supernatural attacks in Dean’s neighborhood. There’s just one problem: Dean’s actually starting to fall for Castiel.

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Title: Get Your Kicks Author: LoversAntiquities ( @tragidean ) Artist: Subtextiel (@feathergrave) Rating: Explicit Length: 23,746 Pairings: Dean/Castiel, Mentions of Dean/Others & Castiel/Others Tropes: Pornstar AU, Pining, Lovers to Friends to Lovers Summary:

A five year veteran of the porn industry, Dean Winchester is at his wits’ end with his employer and the business in general. Incidentally, five years after Castiel Novak’s retirement, Sainted Angels finally reels him in for one last film—on one condition: Dean has to be his partner. With retirement on his mind, Dean agrees to film with his idol—but what happens when a dream business partnership turns to something more?

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Title: Sycamore Smile Author: almaasi Artist: impmakesart Rating: General Length: 19k Pairings: Dean/Cas Warnings: Past Dean/other men (no names given). No past relationships for Cas are mentioned, but he’s openly gay. Besides that, there’s just a couple of mild swears. And one dirty joke...? Tropes: College/University, Domestic Fluff, The KonMari Tidying Method, Bunnies

Professor Castiel is a hot mess. Second hottest mess on campus? Dean Winchester – who comes complete with a black floppy-eared rabbit named Zeppelin, and a job at the university's coffee shop franchise. They both need to get their shit together. And nobody's gonna help them do that better than each other.

(A feel-good AU in which Cas bunnysits for Dean, and Dean helps Cas KonMari his life – all the while falling in love and accidentally moving in together.)

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Title: Under My Skin Author: Whichstiel Artist: Aceriee Rating: Explicit Length: 39k Pairings: Dean/Cas (mentions of past Dean/Lisa, mentions of past Dean/Other) Warnings: Body horror Tropes: Sharing a bed, Sex magic

Dean and Castiel head to a remote town in the Ozarks to investigate a series of mysterious deaths. In each case, the victim mutilates their own skin, gruesomely clawing at it until death stops their hands. They scramble for answers, trying to solve the case before more victims succumb.

In this small town, the only motel room available means that they will be sharing a bed. They’ve never been more aware of each other, or the potential that lies between them. When they learn that an ancient sex magic ritual is the best way to stop the deaths? Well, somebody has to take one for the team.

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Title: Playing House Author: @alxdiamond Artist: @feathergrave Rating: Explicit Length: 25,568 Pairings: Dean/Cas Warnings: Dubcon spanking (coercion from a third party to Dean/Cas) Tropes: Pretend Couple/Fake Relationship, Undercover in a (Leather) Gay Bar

2002, Chicago.

When Detective Dean Winchester arrests the wrong scumbag and gets on the wrong side of a vengeful deputy commissioner, he gets hit with what should be a career-ending blow: a forced transfer to the universally maligned wiretap room. It’s the joke of the Chicago PD, the basement where fuck-ups go to wait out death or retirement. He’s determined to make his work still count, but first he has to earn the trust of the jaded and paranoid guys already down there.

His chance to accomplish both comes sooner and weirder than expected, when he and Novak, the worst of them, get paired for an impromptu, unsanctioned undercover operation in a leather bar. That quickly escalates into an impromptu, unsanctioned undercover operation in the very heart of the mob where they have to fish for incriminating evidence, play nice with the scion of the crime family, and pretend to be a deeply devoted, deeply kinky couple.

The problems? They barely have any contact with their bare-bones team, the mobster Novak has to work for is a volatile murderer with his eye on Dean, and the kink isn’t entirely pretend.

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Title: Back Chat Author: teacass Artist: busy squirrel  Rating: Mature Length: 17,598 Pairings: Dean/Cas Warnings: None Tropes: Two Person Love Triangle, Locked In Summary:

Castiel doesn’t have a lot of luck when it comes to romance. He downloads Tinder on a whim and soon finds out it’s not any easier in the virtual world. He’s about to give up completely when a miracle happens: someone keeps talking to him even after Cas explicitly says he doesn’t want to date. As days go by and Cas and the man continue to chat, Cas begins to question his own rules.

— Dean’s life is simple: work, gym, weekend, rinse, repeat. He’s not really an expert, but he doesn’t have any qualms about chatting people up as he works out. At least not until he tries to offer well-meant advice to a blue-eyed hottie in shorts and gets shot down – turns out the guy is a real jerk. Unfortunately, that’s only the beginning of their new spiteful relationship. — What Cas and Dean don’t realise is that they have two things in common: they both go to the same local gym and they both have a very good friend on Tinder.

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Title: Aurora Borealis Author: blue_morning Artist: deliciousirony Rating: Explicit Length: 17 804 words Pairings: Dean/Cas  Tropes: Trapped together, alternate universe

When Professor Castiel Novak, newly single, decides to cross seeing the northern lights off his bucket list, he gets a lot more than he bargains for: stalked by a polar bear, rescued by a handsome stranger, and seduced into a night of passion. Regretting his choices in the morning, he leaves without even finding out this mystery man’s last name.

Back at home he finds that he can’t stop thinking about that night and the man who saved his life. Realizing that he has no way to contact this man he now knows he’s fallen for, Cas throws himself into his work and tries to forget. When fate throws them together a second time, can they work things out?

Link to fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18782434/chapters/44561821 Link to art: https://archiveofourown.org/works/18781270

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Title: Let the Old Ways Die Author: opal_bullets (ao3) / asecretvice (tumblr) Artist: Dreym Rating: M Length: 34,700 Pairings: Dean/Cas (Sam/Eileen, Cain/Colette, Jesse/Cesar) Warnings: Drinking, mild weed usage (not Dean or Cas), discussion of past drug addiction Tropes: Musician!Dean, Farmer/Beekeeper!Cas, second chances, suspicious to friends to lovers

Summary: After being fired from his job as a record exec, a stint in rehab, and years of wandering, Cas has settled in small town, South Dakota to help Cain take care of his bees. To his surprise former rock star Sam Winchester also lives there: but he finds himself content to ignore, and be ignored. Until one day Sam breaks the unspoken truce, and convinces Cas to join him for a drink at the Roadhouse. When Cas gets there he finds out Sam has an ulterior motive: he wants to enlist Cas's help in convincing his brother Dean that he still has a chance at the music career he never got. And after seeing Dean play, Cas can't help but get drawn in.

A Begin Again/A Star is Born double movie fusion AU.

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