#dean winchester reads books

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Happy two year birthday to A Thousand Lives, my very first ever fic in SPN. This is a #DeanStudies fic which holds that Dean loves books and always has and follows his life as a reader. I was so afraid to post this fic and so convinced people would hate and reject as totally OOC. Instead, over the past two years it has unfolded into something very special: thousands of people have read it !! hundreds of people have left comments and kudos and bookmarked it !! the extraordinary @skeens-leap made an amazing 6 hour podfic of the whole thing !! and I turned it into a little series. To say it surpassed every expectation I ever had about a niche SPN fic in the year 2021 is a vast understatement. Very grateful to anyone who ever cared about this fic and to everyone who helped make it happen. I wrote it at a time when everything in my life felt like it was ending, but it reminded me how very much I have to say, even when it feels like no one will listen. I am so glad I wrote this and I am so glad people read it and I am so glad it exists. Here's to writing for yourself until it finds and audience, and loving the ways book save us, and giving our beloved Dean agency and an interior life and a fucking brain in his head. If you want to read it, the series starts here: A Thousand Lives (and yes, I included a reading list and the book-nerd'iest HEA ever.)

[hells-plaid-angel]

Julia Armfield - Our Wives Under the Sea

[wigglebox]

Destiel Hot Summer - Unexpected 🙈

[melle-otterwise]

Just chillin' together 🎶📚

Drawing them is so relaxing ~

Thanks a lot @zissie for the prompt 💚💙

[icaruspendragon]

happy first birthday poetry book i wrote called lazarus rises (amongst other things).

you would’ve never been possible without fanfic and this, your living kiss by opal_bullets

[zer0expektation]

slightly obsessed with cassie/girl-dean atm,,

[spn-lesbian]

Dean, addressing Cas: love of my life, pain in my ass

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Sam and Dean from Supernatural were hunting down a demon for a family that was a bad parody of the family from my current AP lit assigned reading.

[panicroomsammy]

John your son is seven years old he’s almost three months away from turning eight don’t try to make yourself feel better by rounding up

[reallyunluckyrunaway]

Casdean?

(except originally from: Supernatural Psychology: Roads Less Traveled by: Travis Langley, Lynn S. Zubernis).

[hells-plaid-angel]

Dean Winchester: Reading Recommendations

Because I headcannon Dean as a reader, here is a list of books that I think he would like. Some are directly referenced in the show, others are odes to America and a life on the road complete with horror, satire or complicated family issues. And, of course, some books manage to meet at the twist of the mobius strip where toxic masculinity and homoeroticism collide.

Books of Blood - Clive Barker 

Imajica - Clive Barker 

The Complete Poems - Hart Crane 

Hard Rain Falling - Don Carpenter 

Our Share of Night - Mariana Enriquez 

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller 

Iliad - Homer 

Jesus’ Son - Denis Johnson 

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

My Heart Is a Chainsaw - Stephen Graham Jones 

On the Road - Jack Kerouac 

Christine - Stephen King 

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter - Carson McCullers

Survivor - Chuck Palahniuk 

The Moviegoer - Walker Percy

The Devil All the Time - Donald Ray Pollock

A Season in Hell - Arthur Rimbaud

Crush - Richard Siken

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson

Cat’s Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut 

Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Time is a Mother - Ocean Vuong

Leaves of Grass - Walt Whitman 

Butcher’s Crossing - John Williams 

[wrenhasregrets]

finally got to supernatural season 13 and it's so hard to watch. every scene with dean and jack makes me want to cry.

[runawaydr3amerao3]

Fic Reader Poll: Text Messages

Okay, another poll for y'all. I'm writing a fic with a lot of text message exchanges between two characters (details below poll).

As a reader, do you prefer that the text messages are written with the same proper spelling, punctuation, and grammar (SPAG) as the rest of the fic? Or do you prefer to see the writer's interpretation of a character's 'voice' with a realistic texting style, e.g. typos, abbreviations, missing SPAG?

Please don't just vote based on your headcanon for how your blorbos would text. Vote based on what you find most enjoyable to read.

For reference, and if anyone would like to share their opinion with me about my specific situation, the characters are a semi-AU Sam and Dean Winchester (they're not brothers but they're still hunters in the SPN universe). I headcanon Dean as being fairly loose with his texting, rapid-fire short messages, not bothered with much more SPAG than autocorrect does for him. He'll correct a typo if he notices it. For Sam, I see him as a step above that, longer single messages, proper capitalisation and more punctuation, but not fussed with perfection.

So that's how I've been writing it so far. But having said all that, I don't want the reader to struggle to actually read these exchanges, especially since there are many of them. Conundrum. 🤔

Feel free to reblog (it would be appreciated for a larger opinion pool!) in any fandom/pairing, as it's not fandom-specific, just reader-specific. For writers who also read, please consider what you prefer to read, not what you prefer to write (assuming those aren't the same).

Thanks for any input, all! 💖

[annmariethrush]

slow burns, especially REALLY slow slow burns, are the inverse of porn without plot.

I just read a fanfic that contains more words than the entirety of the Hunger games trilogy combined with only a single instance of sex between the love interests. The amount of plot that I have endured to make it to the porn is downright comical if you frame it that way.

[queensilber]

Supernatural: Witch‘s Canyon

Posting everything in this book that i think you need to know, lets go!

Summary:

Okay, so, the boys head to the Grand Canyon to solve a case of a fourty-year murder cycle. The spirits of variouse humans and animals alike attack the locals and they need to find out why and how to stop it.

It is set somewhere in Season two.

My opinion:

This was so much fun. Like, it was really like watching an episode, just a lot longer and with the magic ability to see into Sam and Deans (and a bunch of other characters) heads.

It also gave a little bit of a fanfiction vibe, just with the addidtion that everything is cannon and that all the random little facts and quotes are a real thing (i‘ll list those in a second)

And also there were flashbacks of their childhood??? That made me cry??? I hated john winchester before, but now even more so. (More about the flashbacks below too)

So yea, it was definetly worth it and i cant wait to read the others!!

Songs:

This is the music Sam and Dean listened to during the course of the book (some locals listened to music too, but i did not list those)

- „paranoid“ by Black Sabbath

- „turn the page“ by Bob Seger

- unspecified tape by Bad Company

Flashbacks:

There are two flashbacks to Sam and Dean‘s Childhood:

- the first one is Dean Remembering a time when John made him and Sam run through an obstacle course at age twelve and eight. Dean had to shoot a gun during it, Sam just had to point and yell „Bang!“.

In the process of that Sam got injured and cried and John yelled at him to keep going and that he was doing poorly. Dean comforted his brother and encouraged him, leading to sam actually making it. Sam did it and Dean cheered, but john kept yelling at them to keep going to the next obstacle.

- the second one was from when Dean was fourteen and Sam was ten. Their Dad gave them backbags and said what was in them could last them fir four days and they all went on a hike together.

In the middle of nowhere john then saud that they should not trust anyone on what they are told and left them alone, telling them that they should find their way (at very least two days of walk) back themsleves and they shouldnt have relied on him so much and he just… left.

When they checked their backbags they found that most in it was useless and they were also filled with rocks to make it seem like it was more than it was.

Thats so fucked up, like

Those are children. And the worst part, when Dean rememvers this he thinks of it almost positively because it taught him a valuable lesson. I cant even begin to describe how my heart hurt for them.

Random facts:

Here are some facts from the book, i do t know anymor if those are mentioned in the show too, but it hardly matters, i think:

- Sam outgrew Dean at the age of 16

- Dean felt gutity over Jessicas death and thought that it was a „more solid basis“ of guilt than Sam had on the matter

- Sam can differentiate between uniforms of different wars in history just by a look

- Dean hates Rats. A lot.

Quotes:

Some quotes from the book:

John Winchester hunted monsters, ghosts, demons — the creatures most people only believed in deep down in their 3:00 am hearts, abd that they laughted off when the sun was bright and their spirits high.

It was a habit Dean had picked up from Dad — reffering to what they did as a „job“. To Sam it was nore of a Mission, even a calling.

„Sammy really likes cops,“ Dean said. „If he didnt have any talents he might have become one“

Sometimes he thought Dean wouldnt mind dying if he could go out in a blaze of glory, as the saying went. In moments of fairness, Sam knew that wasnt true. Dean didnt care about the glory; he cared about making a difference.

„I‘m coming around to the point, Sam.“ „He‘s Dean,“ Sam corrected. „I‘m Sam“. „Sorry, For some reason, you just look more like a Dean to me“

Gilmore Girls reference?

„You tried to shoot my brother“ Dean said.

Sam belived in a highter power, Dean didnt. Sam didnt have any special knowledge that Dean lacked, handt seen or heard or met God.

Lol, not yet.

Dean had been a kid, hadnt ever had a chance to become anything other than what Dad had made of him. That, finally, was the gulf between them — the canyon that could never be bridged.

Dean was an amazing guy, Sam knew, with skills and abilities most people would never imagine, and smarts Dean himself wouldnt credit, even though he relied on them all the time. And yet, at times like this, he was so humble, so unassuming, that he seemed almost unaware of the importance if his iwn contributions. At other times, of course, that humility vanished. Knowing and accepting both Deans, he guessed, was what being brothers was all about. Maybe I wouldnt want to be Dean, he thought, but i‘m sure glad I have him araound.

STOP MAKING MY CRY WTH

So anyways, that book sure was an experiance and i cant wait for the next one! I‘ll post a review of that as well and will update that post with a link to it one i‘m done!

Xoxo! <3

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[thebookaddict7]

Dean: you know when I was your age-

Sam: you know when I was your height

Dean:

Dean: listen here you little shit…