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[the-real-anywolf]

The End of the Road (So Far)

Title: The End of the Road (So Far)

Authors: anyrei | @anyreiart​​ and queerwerewolf | @queerwolfsstuff​​

Cover/Banner/Fic Art: anyrei | @anyreiart​​

Rating: Explicit

Archive Warnings: Graphic Depictions of Violence

Possible Trigger Warnings: Canon Typical Violence, Temporary Character Death (Sort Of)

Fun Tags: Supernatural Season 15, Canon Compliant, Explicit Sexual Content, Meta AF, Like No Joke, When the Viewers Fight Back, As Usual, FanFiction Authors Fix the Writers’ Fuck Ups, Godzilla-ing, Misuse of Gabriel’s Horn, Zombies and Demons and Ghosts, Oh My

Word Count: ~50k

Pairing(s): Castiel/Dean Winchester, Elieen Leahy/Sam Winchester, Gabriel/Rowena MacLeod

Summary:

anyrei and mugglerock present: How we would like to see Supernatural end, while still being super realistic and knowing it will never, in a million years, end this way.

God has gone too far this time. Finding out you are merely a puppet, a marionette being yanked by the strings, as part of some sort of cosmic temper tantrum… that sort of revelation is game changing.

Billie is nothing, if not a little competitive, and she has no intention of losing the game.

With the help of a recently deceased nephilim, a cranky cosmic entity (or two), a heartbroken angel, a brazen witch, and two brothers who have been a proverbial pain in her ass for too damn long… they might just have what they need to send Chuck to the penalty box, once and for all.

Notes: Here it is! Our Season 15 Fic is now complete! Our version of season fifteen focuses on the primary storyline (so no case fic interludes) and (obviously) some serious spoilers for all previous seasons. 

Again, thank you so much to @punk-is-notdead and @eyesofatragedy67 for being the badass beta beezies we need! I went for alliteration, but yeah. You guys are the fucking best! <3<3<3 

Read it here!

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Title: Jurassicatural Author: anyrei & mugglerock || @anyreiart & @misspoogy / @the-real-anyrock Artist: @foxymoley Film: Jurassic Park Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester Word Count: 35k Rating: Explicit Summary: 

An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning Jurassic era creature DNA has been discovered. Chuck Shurley and his bioengineering company have successfully utilized this technique, and now, once long extinct supernatural creatures; from the tiny Jackalope, to the magnificent Leviathan, are free to roam Superno Park. A park all the world can visit for a price, an adventure 65 million years in the making; provided there aren’t any more “issues” or delays. In order to get this project, and the ultimate goal of opening a biological preserve, off the ground, his investors have insisted on the professional opinion and recommendation of respected experts. The lawyer that represents Chuck’s investors went with the ever opinionated historian and alpha theorist, Cas Novak. To balance the odds in his favor, Chuck plans to recruit the Winchester brothers, a Paleontologist and Paleobotanist; archaeology rock stars with the noted esteem of, well… their entire profession. With them on board, he knows he can get the investors (and lawyers) off of his back, and finally accomplish his lifelong goal. Provided nothing goes wrong. Warnings: Past Familial Loss, Canon Typical Violence, Minor Character Death Tags: Explicit Sexual Content, You Bet Your Ass We Made Jurassic Park Rated NC17, It’s Us, You Really Shouldn’t Be Surprised, A Plagiarism 65 Million Years in the Making, Everything Can Be Gay, If You Just Believe, We’re Sorry There’s No Raptors

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[deancaspinefest]

HAVE YOU TRIED TURNING IT OFF AND ON AGAIN? | EXPLICIT | 119,140

Author: anyrei & mugglerock | Artist: thevioletcaptain

Cas Novak has spent a majority of his adult life escaping his past, hopping from job to job and city to city in six months or less. Seattle, Washington was supposed to be no different. A pretty standard systems admin job for a company filled with a hilarious variety of Clients from Hell. Dean Winchester being a prime candidate (and almost worth a submission). The big, bad marketing director who had been known to make employees cry, if he wasn’t dumping iced coffee on their heads.

He might have been content in assuming such things of the company, “Mean Girl,” had they not accidentally bonded over some trash TV in the breakroom one workaholics Saturday. As they say, it was, “the start of a beautiful, bizarrely satisfying, if sexually frustrating, friendship.” And somewhere between building a living room fort out of moving boxes and dog sitting his Baby, Cas quickly realized he had stopped trying to outrun his past.

Can two broken puzzle pieces fit together to make a brand new puzzle?

Only one way to find out.

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Tags & warnings under the cut! 

Pairings: Dean Winchester/Castiel (Castiel/Inias, Sam Winchester/Eileen Leahy, Bobby Singer/Crowley, Past Aaron Bass/Dean Winchester) Warnings: PTSD, Depression, Suicidal Thoughts, Survivor’s Guilt, Past Partner Loss Tags: anyrei, mugglerock, thevioletcaptain, epistolary, friends to lovers, explicit sexual content, holy rusted UST batman, this ain’t pinefest for nothin’

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Chapters: 13/13 Fandom: Supernatural Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Castiel & Dean Winchester, Castiel/Inias (Supernatural), Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester, Crowley/Bobby Singer, past Aaron Bass/Dean Winchester - Relationship Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Samandriel (Supernatural), Gabriel (Supernatural), Anna Milton, Charlie Bradbury, Kevin Tran, Eileen Leahy, Bobby Singer, Crowley (Supernatural), Benny Lafitte, Meg Masters, Frank Devereaux, Bela Talbot, Inias (Supernatural), Zachariah (Supernatural), Baby (But Not How You Know Her), Claire Novak, Jack Kline Additional Tags: Epistolary, sort of enemies to friends to lovers, Unresolved Sexual Tension, Angst, Friends to Lovers, Romance, Humor, Slow Burn, like slow burn, That’s No Joke, Don’t Come Crying, You Have Been Warned, This Ain’t Pinefest for Nothin’, Explicit Sexual Content, Explicit Language, Top Castiel, Bottom Dean Winchester, Anal Sex, Anal Fingering, Anal Play, Rimming, Oral Sex, Dom/sub Undertones, Wall Sex, Semi-Public Sex, Unsafe Sex, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Depression, Suicidal Thoughts, Survivor Guilt, Past Partner Loss, Clients From Hell, Holy Shit Dean Shouldn’t Be Allowed Near a Computer, A Lot of Tech Talk, Hey Don’t Look at Me, Any’s the IT Nerd, Epic Blue Labes, Sorry Not Sorry, the dulcinea effect, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat, Dean/Cas Pinefest 2019, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Alternate Universe Summary:

Cas Novak has spent a majority of his adult life escaping his past, hopping from job to job and city to city in six months or less. Seattle, Washington was supposed to be no different. A pretty standard systems admin job for a company filled with a hilarious variety of Clients from Hell. Dean Winchester being a prime candidate (and almost worth a submission). The big, bad marketing director who had been known to make employees cry, if he wasn’t dumping iced coffee on their heads.

He might have been content in assuming such things of the company, “Mean Girl,” had they not accidentally bonded over some trash TV in the breakroom one workaholics Saturday. As they say, it was, “the start of a beautiful, bizarrely satisfying, if sexually frustrating, friendship.” And somewhere between building a living room fort out of moving boxes and dog sitting his Baby, Cas quickly realized he had stopped trying to outrun his past.

Can two broken puzzle pieces fit together to make a brand new puzzle?

Only one way to find out.

[Part of the Dean Cas Pinefest 2019] [Fantabulously Awesome Art made by thevioletcaptain a.k.a Imogenbynight]

[anyreiart]

Ao3 link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/9922235/chapters/22233893

Dean Winchester had a quiet life. Quiet, but good. He had a great car, awesome parents, successful brother, and a beautiful house he built with his own two hands. Despite that, it had never felt like a home. And then, one day, he finds a naked man, lost and confused in the woods. How was he to know his life would never be the same again?

(canon verse fic! Although it sounds like happy AU)

[destiel-fic-rec]

In A Mirror, Darkly by anyrei, mugglerock

Summary: “Do you trust me, Dean?”

“You know I do,” Dean answered, his voice carrying resignation and sadness. He knew Cas was right. This was the only way if he wanted to help save his brother. He had to do it, even though everything in him wanted to fight it. But he trusted Cas with his life. And now he was going to show him just how deep that trust ran.

Dean fell to his knees in front of the angel, bowing his head forward as he was fitted with the extraordinarily heavy collar. Castiel’s fingers caressed his skin when he closed the clasp of the sign of slavery; the symbol that gave Dean’s life over to the angel’s mercy. Dean suppressed the urge to close his eyes. 

~

We know good people go to Heaven and bad people go to Hell, but where do the medium people go? Welcome to Limbo, a fourth plane of existence, ruled by angels and built upon the servitude of the humans enslaved to them.

While on a routine salt n’ burn, the Winchester boys encounter a garrison of angels. Sam ends up being taken to Limbo; leaving it up to his brother, Dean, and the angel, Castiel to infiltrate the plane in order to rescue him.

Comments: 10/10. My god that was a rollercoaster, it's seriously dark, but also incredibly fluffy. In order to rescue Sam, Dean and Cas go undercover as master and pleasure slave, easy right? Turns out Limbo effects angels, it allows them to feel emotions and basic human needs, but there's also the danger of them turning savage. Bring with Dean helps Cas, and vice versa. It's kind of a fuck or die, but with a fuck ton of plot. The smut is incredibly well written, the fluff will leave you squealing for hours, and the angst will make you cry. I cannot love this fic more. The writing is also magnificent. WARNING: dubious consent, rape (not between Dean and Cas), sexual abuse, sexual slavery, drugs, psychological abuse, panic attacks, basically if you can get triggered avoid this. 

[ao3feed-destiel]

Crack in the Fourth Wall

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2yqpwnJ

by mugglerock

Today was the day. The day Dean Winchester was going to man up and tell Castiel how he really felt about him. He had everything planned out, down to the tiniest detail. It was going to be perfect.

Too bad they keep getting interrupted.

Words: 3437, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Fandoms: Supernatural

Rating: Mature

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Balthazar (Supernatural), Inias (Supernatural), Hannah (Supernatural), Mick Davies, Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Sam Winchester

Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Castiel & Dean Winchester

Additional Tags: Crack, Fluff and Crack, Love Confessions, Unrequited Love, Declarations Of Love, Dean is in love with Cas, And so is everyone else, goddamnit, Humor, Silly, There Aren't Enough Crack Fics, Dean is Not Amused, Dean is Bad at Talking About His Feelings, Castiel is a Sweetheart, Castiel Whump, Happy Birthday anyrei, You're My Unicorn, No Napkins were Harmed in the Making of this Fic

read it on the AO3 at http://ift.tt/2yqpwnJ

[the-real-anywolf]

Coming Soon!

Some of you asked, some of you begged, some of you actually read our author notes about the fact it was already a plan, but we have finished the sequel to our DCBB 2017 fic: Playing With Fire!

Part two of the Domination and Submission: A Love Story series. We Kiss and the Flames Get Higher. This fic will explore more aspects of BDSM and polyamory, so if you did not dig the threesome in the primary fic, you are definitely gonna hate this. 

After the preliminary beta to check for continuity fuck ups and what not, we will begin posting a chapter at a time, as it gets edited. We’re hoping to start posting within the next couple of weeks. This is a 185k beast of a sequel so it might take a minute to edit. But it’s done and it’s coming! Pun totally intended.

And just because we can, here’s a teeny, tiny sneak preview:

He heard the familiar jingle of keys as Dean opened the front door, followed shortly by a, “Honey! I’m home! And I brought another stray!”

“Did you save another cat?” Cas asked, turning the heat down so he could greet Dean. Experience had proven it was a good idea to lower the heat of the stove when he was about to kiss his husband.

He heard some rustling as Dean came into the kitchen and said, “Uh, not quite…”

“Well, I could purr if you really want me to.”

Cas spun around, surprised to see Inias, who looked like he had been through hell. “Hey, what happened?” He immediately went into doctor mode, walking up to Inias before he caressed the side of his cheek. “Is that ash in your hair?”

[queerwolf79]

Eeeeek! The art for our DCBB2018! We’re so happy!! Thank you so much @zelirocks!!

Hey!! I am very much alive, and very much sad about Supernatural ending after season 15. Sadness aside, this here is my art master post for the DCBB fic Compatible by Anyrei and Mugglerock

Summary:

Compatible - capable of existing or living together in harmony.

It was the reason why Castiel and Inias were chosen for each other prior to Castiel’s assignment to save the Righteous Man from Perdition. But after so many years on Earth, first-hand experiences with emotions and the nuances of humanity, Castiel has come to terms with the fact that he isn’t the angel he used to be. However, it isn’t until a traumatic event upending his world that he finally starts to question what love really means.

And surprisingly, it isn’t at the hands of his Aisaroel (the angel he was bonded to), but that of a certain hunter.

Check it out on AO3!! 

Drawing Cas and Dean (and boys in general) is still a pain but I specially think them being all kissy kissy on the swing is too adorable. I am so rusty that the angles on the pool kiss where also a pain. xD 

Regardless my authors like them, they are awesome like that <3 

PS: Dean’s hair is dirty blond. Fight me!

[deancaspinefest]

Have You Tried Turning it Off and On Again?

fic by anyrei & mugglerock  | art by thevioletcaptain

Cas Novak has spent a majority of his adult life escaping his past, hopping from job to job and city to city in six months or less. Seattle, Washington was supposed to be no different. A pretty standard systems admin job for a company filled with a hilarious variety of Clients from Hell. Dean Winchester being a prime candidate (and almost worth a submission). The big, bad marketing director who had been known to make employees cry, if he wasn’t dumping iced coffee on their heads. He might have been content in assuming such things of the company, “Mean Girl,” had they not accidentally bonded over some trash TV in the breakroom one workaholics Saturday. As they say, it was, “the start of a beautiful, bizarrely satisfying, if sexually frustrating, friendship.” And somewhere between building a living room fort out of moving boxes and dog sitting his Baby, Cas quickly realized he had stopped trying to outrun his past. Can two broken puzzle pieces fit together to make a brand new puzzle? Only one way to find out.

Keep reading for a sneak preview!

"Holy frakking toaster. Dean Winchester just sent another one." Charlie – the redheaded programmer with a personality as bright as her hair – groaned and leaned back into her chair, sharing a self-pitying look with Kevin, who was working on repairing a motherboard. Cas rubbed the back of his neck. It was his first day at Smith and Wesson, a high profile consultant company, and his short introduction round as new head of IT by HR had been exactly that. Short. "Who’s Dean Winchester?" he asked, looking up from the documentation his predecessor had left him. "Head of marketing," Kevin muttered before he smirked, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose. "You should go, boss. You know, introduce yourself." Charlie's eyes widened in glee. "That's a fantastic idea! First day and you’ll have already saved the company damsel in distress. You will be a hero." Cas squinted his eyes at Charlie. "Is this a Clients From Hell situation?" Every company had one. Or ten. “Is there a worse place than Hell? Because that would be closer to what you’re dealing with,” Kevin said with a groan. Charlie threw her susuwatari at Kevin's head. It bounced off of his forehead and landed under a pile of boards. "No," she drawled. "He is such a nice guy." Cas knew she was lying. He plucked her plush toy from the floor and sighed. "Whatever, I mean, I have to start somewhere." "That's the spirit," Charlie cheered as Cas handed it back to her by setting it on top of her screen again. “He’s on the sixth floor.” “Should be six-six-six,” Kevin grumbled under his breath. "It's good that you don't work in sales, Kevin," Cas snorted as he quickly replied to the email, telling the guy that he was on his way.

(Continue reading on Wednesday February 27th)

[destieltaggedfic]

Secret Relationship - Part 7

5 Times Dean's Friends Thought He Was Single – SeaisshellDestihell   Ao3

AU.  Dean and Cas have been together for years.  They live together. Why are all of his friends introducing him to single people all of a sudden?

Word Count: 4k                                 No Sex

That Wasn't Supposed to Fucking Happen! - anyrei, mugglerock   Ao3

Set S12.  After the events of First Blood Dean and Cas decide to get together, but keep it a secret so their relationship can’t be used against them.  This follows the rest of S12 canon except behind the scenes the boys are together.  With a very big fix-it for the end.

Word Count: 67k                              Graphic Sexual Acts  

Who's Got the Grumps – VeraBAdler   Ao3

Nonspecific timeframe. Dean is not yet awake when he starts complaining to Sam about Cas’ bad sleeping habits.  The fact that they share a bed is news to Sam.

Word Count: 1k                                 No Sex

I Love You, Buddy – Bookmark   Ao3.

Set S9 AU.  One day, after Cas has been living in the bunker for a while, Sam calls Cas buddy and finds out that to Cas and Dean that means something else.

Word Count: 2k                                 No Sex

Fast and Furious - From_My_Dark_And_Twisted_Mind, MalicMalic   Ao3

Nonspecific timeframe. Keeping their relationship a secret is getting harder when Dean and Cas start purposefully initiating sex when Sam could walk in at any moment.

Word Count: 4k                                 PWP

[angzlicas]

Since we've hit 100k works on ao3,

I've gotten many asks about my favorite Destiel fics! Instead of replying to them all, I thought I'd just list them here along with the summary, word count, and my opinion on each (as a side note, all of them are Explicit):

In a Mirror, Darkly by anyrei, mugglerock Words: 196,710, Canon

Summary: “Do you trust me, Dean?”

“You know I do,” Dean answered, his voice carrying resignation and sadness. He knew Cas was right. This was the only way if he wanted to help save his brother. He had to do it, even though everything in him wanted to fight it. But he trusted Cas with his life. And now he was going to show him just how deep that trust ran.

Dean fell to his knees in front of the angel, bowing his head forward as he was fitted with the extraordinarily heavy collar. Castiel’s fingers caressed his skin when he closed the clasp of the sign of slavery; the symbol that gave Dean’s life over to the angel’s mercy. Dean suppressed the urge to close his eyes.

Opinion: This fic is my all-time favorite. No seriously, it's the first fic I recommend to people when they ask. And I've read it 3 times over a 3 year period. I'll never get tired of reading it. It follows Cas and Dean having to pose as master and slave to rescue Sam from Angels in Limbo. Lots of smut, basically a Porn With Plot fic but the smut adds SO MUCH to the story. Amazing fic.

Taker of Souls by jscribbles Words: 128,665, Canon

Summary: The angels have fallen. Castiel is human, Sam is recovering from the trials, and Dean doesn’t want to expose them to the world as it’s crumbling outside the bunker doors.

To pass time in their solitude, Dean discovers a hidden room in the bunker full of dangerous magical artifacts and accidentally exposes his friends and family to an ancient horror. If Castiel thought adjusting to humanity was already a terror in itself, he experiences a world of pain when the ancient spirit Dean released chooses him as a vessel to fulfill its evil prophecy.

Castiel begins to change as voices call out to him in the night and take the form of the one righteous man he desires, temptation drawing him to complete a ritual that will allow one of Hell’s most feared ancient entities to occupy his vessel.

Before Sam, Dean, Kevin and Crowley know what is happening, they are thrown into a lockdown, unable to escape the bunker as the cruel, twisted monster inside of Castiel prowls the hallways, hunting them, thirsty for their blood, hungry for their souls.

Opinion: This one was very gory, very scary. A cheeseless and modern take on the horror movie The Evil Dead (1981 2013) where Cas is the villain but unwillingly. Heartbreaking angst with a happy ending, this little fic is overlooked because of being tagged as a crossover. I hadn't seen Evil Dead when I read the fic and the author did such a good job describing every single scene, I didn't need to. READ TAGS

Out of the Deep by @riseofthefallenone Words: 488,608, Mer!Cas/Human!Dean AU

Summary: Stay away from the light-beds. Stay in the deep.

It is the first thing hatchlings are taught the moment their fans unfurl and they can swim without their parents to buoy them along. It is the first rule, the first law. It is the beginning of every boogey-monster bedtime story told when they settle against the cliffs to sleep.

Castiel should have listened better.

Opinion: WOW. Where to even start. This fic is a staple in the Destiel AU fandom. The world-building is absolutely incredible and the author stayed true to the characters' personalities and what makes Dean and Cas, Dean and Cas. I was hooked from the very first chapter and read it within 2 days. Although the 500k words may look daunting, it's ABSOLUTELY worth it, I promise. You'll get. everything you could want from this fic including fluff, angst, heartbreak, hurt/comfort, smut, just everything. And if you're staying away because of the mermaid thing, let me tell you. The author just makes it so realistic and believable and beautiful, a few chapters in is enough to change your mind.

The Graveyard Shift by @purgatory-jar, @riseofthefallenone Words: 620,733, Monsters Living In Harmony AU

Summary: Dean’s favourite coffee shop, The Graveyard Shift, is only open after the sun goes down. Which is perfect for him, because that’s exactly when he craves coffee the most while doing the overnight at the fire hall. The coffee shop’s owner is pretty perfect too, but it’s kind of a bummer that Dean never gets to see Cas during the day. In a world where the supernatural live more or less in peace with the rest of humanity, it’s a little impolite to ask Cas just what he really is - or what his dark past entails.

Opinion: Although it's over half a million words, this fic is incredible. From the world-building to the mysterious air it has, the art, as well as the writing, makes it a must-read. I can't tell you how many times I've recced this to someone in the fandom. I won't spoil it for you, but it's absolutely adorable. Again, the authors work so hard to make sure that Dean and Cas' personalities are true to the show's. It's coffee shop!au meets fireman!au meets monster!au. A slowburn truly worthy of it's title.

Hunting for Faith by @perunamuusa, @riseofthefallenone Words: 270,952, Reverse!verse AU

Summary: It starts a few days earlier.

Castiel first notices it in the middle of the night when the dreams of fire and screams have kept him awake. He’s kneeling before the altar, praying, when the glass in the windows start to shake, the very air vibrating around him. Castiel is on his feet and reaching for the gun tucked into the back of his pants as the shutters over the windows start to rattle.

Opinion: If you have ANY interest in Hunter!Cas/Angel!Dean, go read this fic. Like now. So, so awesome. I won't say any more other than Cas is a priest and a hunter and Dean and Sam are angels, because I don't want to spoil it. Truly a masterpiece.

If you want to see more of my favorites, check my BOOKMARKS on my Ao3!

[hawkland]

Destiel fic recs #3 - the (mostly) longfic edition!

It’s been a while since my last rec post - mostly because I’ve been wallowing in a number of longer fics (50-350k!) so it’s taken me a while to have enough to talk about in one post (and boy do I talk a lot, here!)

With these longer fics, I do sometimes have some caveats with my recs - or at least reasons why they might not appeal to every Dean/Cas reader. But note that if I didn’t overall strongly recommend reading the fic I wouldn’t include it in my recs here at all, so any quibbles I bring up are minor compared to my overall enjoyment of the stories. Just, I don’t want someone to commit to a long read without knowing what they’re getting into and why it might not be their thing.

I’m still not into reading complete setting AUs at this time, but a lot/most of these are canon-divergence AUs, often written/set at the end of a season and giving an alternative take on what happened next. I love those kind of stories, as it’s often so interesting to see how fans thought of what might happen in the next season (especially when it’s better than what we actually got.)

Onto the recs & discussion behind the cut!

The Sinking Ship by UnfortunatelyObsessed (114k). This is a story that ripped my heart to pieces (in a good way!). I stayed up all night to finish reading because I simply couldn’t stop once I started on it and it gave me a massive fic hanger from all my emotions. Season 14 divergence, imagine if Dean did go into the Ma’lak box to trap Michael under the ocean with him forever...and once there, he discovers that Cas has stowed away with him. Because of course Cas would never leave Dean to such a fate on his own.

I loved literally. Every. Damn. Thing. About this fic. Cas telling Dean stories to pass the (endless) time. Their small intimate moments while realizing they can never consummate physically while trapped in the box but finding every other way to express their love. The absolute heartbreak that had me SOBBING when Michael fights for control of Dean and destroys everything they’ve built together and Cas thinks he’s lost Dean forever. Sam & Gabriel & Rowena & Claire & Jack doing everything they can to devise a plan back home to try to save them both while keeping Michael trapped. Also even just the wonderfully sensitive portrayal of aroace Jack still closely bonded with Claire and Maggie and just. And just. This is a story I’ve already re-read just to savor how much I loved it and its portrayal of everyone in TFW 2.0 and their extended family, it just hit my id in all the most incredible ways and I have nothing but absolute love for this one.

Beautiful Chaos by anyrei, mugglerock (141k). Season 9 canon-divergence, in which Dean doesn’t simply abandon Cas to fend for himself post 09x03. Instead he sets Cas up in a kind of squatter’s nest in an abandoned building near the bunker so he can keep tabs on him and help him out. 

This fic definitely gets the award for FILTHIEST, HOTTEST, SMUTTIEST Dean/Cas (and Cas/other) I’ve read in, like, ever, for human!Cas turns out to be a rather insatiable sex fiend/cock slut and Dean is too up his own repressed ass to easily give Cas what he wants/needs. It is dark at times, Cas ends up in some very unsavory/non-con situations, and the authors do mention that they tried to hone in on endverse!Cas’s characterization more than what we saw in Season 9...so you might roll with it, you might not. I adored their original character Jerry the tattoo artist in this, and like I said it was seriously hot (if you are good with total bottom!Cas and Cas with others, I know those are not everyone’s cuppa). I did have a few minor issues. For one, the last chapter felt a bit rushed and hand-wavey, but clearly the authors weren’t fond of the canon conflicts of season 9 & 10 (Abbadon, Mark of Cain) and just wanted to be done with them. Can’t say I really blame them. And I did have to laugh a bit at Lebanon, Kansas apparently having such a bustling gay bar/tattoo artist/etc scene being someone from a butt-fuck nowhere American small town myself. But, SPN was never all that realistic in how Lebanon was shown (and yes I’ve spent too much time roaming around it on Google maps), so if you can suspend some disbelief this is an awesome hot/angsty/occasionally heartbreaking read.

These Forsaken Lands by destielpasta (53k). I came upon this story when looking for fics that dealt in some way with the aftermath of Godstiel. This is a wonderfully atmospheric late Season 9 “fill-in” case fic (post Meta-fiction) where Cas ends up in a small town that had been visited by Godstiel...and while initially residents have reaped much good fortune, there has suddenly been a wave of deaths/bad events and he is determined to find out what happened and set things right. He calls upon Dean for help, but Dean is fighting the Mark of Cain and it’s going to take a lot to get past its control and find a way out for both of them. Together they work on repairing an old church while trying to repair each other and their damaged relationship.

I loved this story for how well written it was, really invoking a gothic small-town/Americana atmosphere. The original characters blend in very well with the case-fic at the center of it, and the author deals really well with Cas at a very fragile point when he’s running on borrowed grace and trying to navigate Dean’s MoC-enhanced anger. It’s Dean/Cas but actually much more of a Cas character study, so I highly recommend it to my fellow/compatriot Cas-girls who love a good wallow in his head.

Mixed Emotions by Tierra469 (50k). Canon 12 “parallel” fic that then goes canon-divergent with the season finale. I actually stumbled on this while in the mood to read some Cas/ or & Mary fic after enjoying their interactions in Season 12 (don’t hate me). This is sort of two fics in one. The first half focuses mostly on filling in the gaps with some critical S12 Cas episodes, especially Cas & Mary’s developing friendship (and one night of something more). But of course Cas’s feelings for Dean (and vice-versa) are always there, and when Cas figures out a way to get his powers fully back, the question is if Dean can open himself up to be vulnerable - and express love - the way Cas needs for this to work.

This was an interesting fic in a lot of ways. I loved the author’s take on angels’ connections to their vessels and grace, it was very consistent in a way the show sometimes/often wasn’t. Cas is very Cas in not understanding privacy and personal boundaries (so he does some questionable things, admittedly, which might squick some readers). The smut is fucking HOT - though I will caution at one point it involves Cas temporarily in a younger (NOT underage) female vessel (and the story does point out Dean’s discomfort with this and some of the consent issues involved, I don’t want to spoil too much). I wanted the Mary plot resolved more than it was, but I still recommend this story strongly for the quality of the writing and unique/well-developed take on angel lore and mechanics that was quite different from what I’m used to reading.

We Are Either Here Or Not Here by petramacneary (54k) A post-season 12 fic that goes on a different tangent to how Cas returns, and what happens in the meantime. Particularly, it offers a different take on what apocalypseverse!Cas would be like—as Mary makes her own way back from that world with AU!Cas as her prisoner.

What I loved about this story: first off, BAMF!Mary is awesome here. Dean is so heartbreaking, not quite knowing what the fuck to do with this different Cas who at times is just a painful reminder of who/what Dean’s lost...but then becomes a chance for Dean to say and express some of the things he always was afraid to in the past. And when (real/our) Cas finally returns, there’s some very interesting stuff that happens with both Cas & AU!Cas and Cas & Dean that I don’t want to spoil. (And let’s also just say that when real!Cas and Dean finally get together it’s AMAZINGLY awesome. Like, hot Impala!sex. So is the artwork that goes with this story.)

You Can Keep Holding On by NorthernSparrow (353k) The longest fic I read this time around and probably the one I have the most mixed feelings about, but a while on I do keep thinking about parts of it so I do rec it with some caveats. This is a canon-divergence after the end of Season 11. Dean & Sam find Cas after he’s been blasted out of the bunker...to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Mary isn’t in this one except for a brief appearance/visit, which Dean thinks is Amara’s gift to him. Life seems good for a while, they’re enjoying dealing with mundane problems for a change, but then Cas seems to be pulling away from the brothers, spending less and less time with them at the bunker, taking a mundane job at another Gas ‘n Sip, and clearly preoccupied by something else. Or is it someone else? Dean is worried yet finally ready to accept that Cas maybe has a girlfriend, or a boyfried, but then it turns out that is not at all what Cas has going on. It’s something far more serious than that.

Honestly I almost stopped reading when the reveal happened - it’s a subject that’s very sensitive to me from personal/family experience and not something I usually like reading in fic (especially if there is a sad ending.) So I admit I jumped ahead to read how it would end first before committing to finishing it. And I am glad I did, because the author handles the subject matter with a realism and obvious knowledge of experience as well, not how I often see it in fanfic. There are a lot of emotional ups and downs but it’s nice seeing Dean in his momma-hen/mode, and Sam is so so good in this one! I think I enjoyed Sam’s characterization here most of all! And the author has a really cool/well developed angel/wing lore that hit my wing-kink pretty hard. I do think it could have all been edited down a bit - I found myself skimming parts, especially in the last third, just to get on with things. But it’s definitely a story you can disappear into for a good long time and I’ve bookmarked the author’s other works to read later, so again, I do rec it even with a few caveats.

A few shorter fics, too, just because I don’t want to forget about them...

Eleven Erogenous Zones of a Fallen Angel by almaasi (15k) Pure gratuitous wing!kink for me :) Cas uses the last of his grace to manifest his wings...but then is stuck with them in his human form and not even able to use them to fly as he used to. This presents a lot of awkward problems to deal with but also the excuse for Dean to help him keep them clean :) I did say wing kink, right? :D :D I loved how Cas seemed confused about the pleasure signals he got from bathing vs. sex vs. grooming and all of that. It’s sweet and hot and has my favorite kind of caretaking Dean in it.

Fossil Tracks by SegaBarrett  (3k). Dean & Sam & Cas and dinosaurs. How can you go wrong with that? One of the SPN stories from the Id Pro Quo collection I really enjoyed reading (and didn’t write myself, lol).

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Inias (supernatural)

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MFL Monday - 5/4/21

Because I'm not putting summaries, this week I've added the fandom each fic is from, so it's more obvious! About 90% will probably be Destiel, but there are definitely a few others scattered in there.

Supernatural

The Wings of Time by RogueTranslator (116,360 words)

Mr. Blue Sky by anyrei and mugglerock (111,809 words)

So Much Tangled Thread by imogenbynight (37,428 words)

Dark Shadows - Metaphysical Gravity by zoemathemata (78,970 words)

like real people do by bottledbasil (18,865 words)

Deep Sleep by Sequesters (2,814 words)

Little Motels by orphan_account (238,655 words)

Four Letter Word For Intercourse by bendingsignpost (194,739 words)

oh sooner or later it all comes down to faith by sobsicles (62,240 words)

Thursday's Child by strangeandcharm (114,241 words)

Anything Worth Dying For by waldorph (30,250 words)

Dark Side of the Moon by imogenbynight (37,212 words)

We're not in Kansas anymore by fellshish (3,336 words)

like a five pound note by godtiering (2,947 words)

wash me clean, set me free by MercuryWaters (18,799 words)

late night, come home by lobotomycastiel (926 words)

Memories Bring Back Memories (Bring Back You) by sobsicles (66,660 words)

love bade me welcome by mmtion (23,154 words)

Marvel

5 Times Peter Made Tony Laugh Out Loud by grilledcheesing (16,353 words)

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I haven’t done one of the tagging games in a while. @maryfairy3700 tagged me in this. (Instead of reblogging an already long post I copied it into a new post.)

Rules: Tag 9 people you want to get to know better (We know I never do that)

Ships: DeanCas (SPN), ThorinBilbo (The Hobbit), KandaAllen (D.Gray-Man), RikuSora (Kingdom Hearts)

Last Song: Joining You by Alanis Morissette

Last Movie: I honestly don’t know. Probably Shrek because my sister watched all of them while she was doing home office.

Currently Reading: Mr. Blue by Skyanyrei & mugglerock

What Food Are You Craving: Hörnli mit Ghacktem. I don’t know why.

Tagging: Everyone who either has a pet or who is currently wearing at least one sock.