#so here it is!! (:

[sammyofold]

Here are those fic recs I promised you @incesthemes ! I hope there's some in there that you'll really enjoy <3 I split up the recs into overarching tropes to group some together, but I'll start with those that don't fit into any of the groups.

The list got a bit long, so I decided to split it up into two parts.

(Part 1 | Part 2)

Courting Death by theproblematique.

Summary: Sam Winchester lived the first six months of his life in a happy family; the next twelve years as John Winchester's only son, and the last decade as an orphan. He's supposed to die at twenty-two trying to save the woman he loves from a fire, because he doesn't have a brother to pull him back. But the night Sam meets his Reaper he discovers that Death is overly fond of pop-culture references, too beautiful to be real, and reluctant to kill him.

Servant of Servants 'verse by klove0511.

This is a two-part series (though I think it might've been intended to have more fics, its ending doesn't leave you feeling snubbed), posing the question: "what if it had been Sam who'd been mortally wounded at the end of Season 1?"

love potion no. 9 by according2thelore.

Summary: Dean drinks a love potion. Sam is falling apart at the seams because he's been in love with his brother for more than a decade.

keep me in a daydream by according2thelore.

Summary: After an accidental kiss makes a hunt go suspiciously well, Sam and Dean decide to try it again. And again. And again. It's no different from wearing lucky socks, right? A 5 + 1.

for you and me (i got no alibi) by remy.

Summary: There are people hitting on Sam wherever he goes, and Dean is doing weird things like holding doors open for him and touching him way more than is necessary, and it's all driving Sam up the wall. It doesn't help that he's been in love with Dean for just about forever, and all of it feels like a mockery of something he'll never get to have. Meanwhile, Dean is at his wits' end trying to figure out how he can make Sam realize that he is, in fact, trying to get into his pants.

Ben Has Two Dads by regala_electra.

Summary: When Ben turns thirteen and learns that Dean Winchester is his father, he runs away to join his father (and uncle). A tale where boys are boys, Vikings are Vikings, unicorns go to Candy Mountains, Dean and Sam are in big gay love, and Ben becomes a Winchester.

Last Temptation by merle_p.

Summary: Sam is running a fever again, the kind of fever no Ibuprofen or cold compress will bring down, the kind of fever that is eating him up alive, eviscerating him from the inside. He is too hot and too cold and too pale, delirious and shaking, resonating with whatever divine energy the trials are subjecting him to, and Dean is not sure how much longer he can stand to see him be in this state. Because Sam is quite possibly dying, and there is nothing Dean can do to stop it. Because Sam is dying, and he just. Won’t. Shut. Up.

Five Times Dean Forgot and One Time He Remembered by elsi.

Summary: Rowena warned him the obliviate curse might have “aftershocks.” That Dean could relapse to his amnesiac state without warning—though only temporarily, she assured. But this? This goes beyond calling a lamp a “light stick.”

Whatever It Is by theproblematique.

Summary: Both Sam and Dean get sent to the year 2014.

Take My Hand (Take My Whole Life, Too) by TeacupUnicorn.

Summary: Sam and Dean get handcuffed together during a hunt. With a werewolf on their tail and a proximity to each other they haven’t had since they were kids, their unstable relationship is put to the test and their trust in each other is pushed to the limit. Set sometime after 5x16 and before 5x20.

Not Her Sam by Yuval25.

Summary: Future Dean goes back in time to change the future and saves Jess. Future Sam tags along unexpectedly. And Jess is okay. No, seriously. She's fine.

Mistaken For a Couple

101 - mythology by ani_coolgirl.

Summary: As Sam, Dean, and Kali flee Lucifer's slaughter, Kali makes an assumption. The boys try to clear up any misconceptions. They don't do a very good job.

I need you so much closer by cherryvanilla.

Summary: five times they're mistaken for a couple plus one time they actually are.

Domesticity

Paisley by samsexualdeancurious.

Summary: After his mind wall was broken and was healed, Sam knows he can’t be a hunter anymore, so he and Dean retire, and Sam ends up finding a homeless dog who was abused and together they heal.

The Chicago Verse by compo67.

This is a series spanning a whopping 169 fics. I've read only a few of them and I enjoyed Sam and Dean retiring in this town together. It's still updating, looks like, since the latest fic added was in May of this year.

a few things worth saying by hathfrozen.

Summary: “So this morning,” Dean ventures as they blast down the highway in pitch black night toward a probable werewolf case. Sam looks over at him, thin eyebrows raised, eyes clear and calm. He’s not even difficult about it, doesn’t ask what Dean is after, doesn’t deny what had happened. Instead he says, very simply, “I just figure, why lie?” Alright then.

All The Way In by hunters_retreat.

Summary: Sam never did know how exactly it happened. One day, he and Dean were run ragged, exhausted from yet another disaster of a hunt, no money and no gas, no prospects and no allies left alive to give them a hand. The next, they owned a store with a shooting range and Sam was a professor of religious studies at a local community college.

Pre-Series & Season 1

To Blow Against the Wind by dreamlittleyo.

Summary: After Oasis Plains, Sam and Dean can't. Stop. Touching each other.

Star-Crossed by Agent_Hellcat.

Summary: Before Sam departs for Stanford, he writes a letter to Dean, begging him to come to Palo Alto with him.

Birthday Suit by wincestation.

Summary: On the morning of Dean’s eighteenth birthday, Dad takes him to buy a suit. Sam is… interested.

house song by according2thelore.

Summary: “The werewolf.” Sam says, quick. Hushed. Scared. “I don’t know how. I was—He was standing above you and then he wasn’t. And I think I did that.” Dean keeps whispering stuff to Sam, banal reassurances that Sam soaks up like a sponge, but he feels sick. Sammy did something impossible. Sammy’s been doing impossible things. For years. Or: Pre-Canon/Teen!chesters AU in which Sam develops powers at age eleven, Dean will do anything to protect him, and they have to live with the consequences

Outsider POV

What I've Done by Amoreanonyname.

Summary: He wasn’t going to say anything more about it. He could tell, Dean was happy to see him, but wasn’t going to humor this topic. Dean, young Dean would jump to obey John, to answer John’s questions, but this was an older Dean who was more loyal to someone else now. More loyal to his brother. John wasn’t the priority here, and he realized with another guilty jump in his stomach that he never should have been.

something you love and understand by monsterq.

Summary: In heaven, Mary makes an unwelcome discovery about her sons’ relationship.

a skeleton terribly restless by remy.

Summary: Mary knows she doesn't fit right in this strange new world she's woken up in, with these grown men masquerading as her sons, but she tries her best. She really does. She closes her eyes to all the things she does not want to see, and she lies to herself until she's convinced. Until she can't.

Flowers on the Window Sill by orphan_account.

Summary: Sam and Dean Winchester's relationship as observed by the good people of Star's Hollow.

Soulmates

Fix You by non_tiembo_mala.

Summary: After their encounter with Famine, the boys are in dire straits. With Dean left shaken by the horseman's taunts - which rang truer than he'd like to admit - and Sam juiced up on demon blood again, Dean is at a loss. He has no idea how to move forward, or where they're meant to go from here. Then again, they’ve always had each other - perhaps their salvation isn't as far away as it seems.

All Too Familiar by sammichgirl.

Summary: Sam's new hobby has consequences they never saw coming. Turns out, that's OK with Dean after all.

What We Do by BleedingInk.

Summary: Castiel catches Sam and Dean in a compromising position.

since feeling is first by queenklu.

Summary: That he wants to think this is Dean yanking a leash should make his blood run cold, not aching hot. It should make him sick, angry, it should get his fucking hackles up and make him fight. He does want to fight. But there’s a skin-thin line between primal things, and fighting isn’t all he wants to do.

if the dam breaks open many years too soon by deirde_c.

Summary: Sam’s soul springs a leak, and Dean’s the one who can repair it.

In the beached margin of the sea by rivers_bend.

Summary: Sam and Dean black out on a hunt, and when they wake up, Dean's having visions and Sam can't get new, strange feelings out of his head. When John finds out about the side effects, he'll do anything to get rid of the "curse". But Sam and Dean don't want to go back to the way things were before.

I Don't Need A Symbol by amoreanonyname.

Summary: It hadn’t meant that much to Sam at first. A warm glow at being able to do something nice for Dean, to give him something for once, to make him as happy as he seemed when he put it on immediately. It was what it meant to Dean that made it mean something else to Sam.

[recklesshorizons]

throwback to the fireworks from last summer

[not-poignant]

State of all the stories and where we're at in terms of how far through them we are.

Just some educated guesses by yours truly because literally nothing I'm writing is planned:

Underline the Black - Over halfway (I think! I'm pretty sure!)

Underline the Blue - lol, not over halfway

Underline the Gold - not over halfway, but it won't be as lengthy as some of the others, don't quote me on that please my family can't handle the humiliation and disgrace of my poor guesses anymore it brings shame upon my household my cat is sad.

Underline the Red - we're really in the beginning, these guys have a journey ahead of them I think dslkafjsda

Underline the Silver - Embryo

A Stain that Won't Dissolve - Over halfway (in what I'm writing, I'm up to chapter 29)

Palmarosa - *laughs in 'oh shit we're not even a quarter of the way through I think'*

The Nascent Diplomat - Probably over 3/4 (fourth and final part to come after)

Constellations - Early days re: 4 chapters being done, but it also isn't planned to be super long. Maybe around 12-17 chapters.

Smoke in Autumn - Believe it or not, probably not even a quarter of the way through. It's one of the reasons this one's taking so long, because when I dive in I want to really dive in.

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Stories that will finish or likely finish in 2024 - The Nascent Diplomat, Underline the Black, Underline the Gold (probably), A Stain that Won't Dissolve, Palmarosa (depending on if I can keep up this pace, if I can't, or have to slow down, it may go into 2025).

Stories that will start in 2024 - Underline the Silver, The Lone Wolf IV, probably something else that's supposed to be Mallory & Mount or Vexteria if I'm not a giant coward about it.

All else will be ongoing :D

[velvetrambles]

Although the sands of time have gone and torn us apart

[angryducktimemachine]

Don't think I've drawn the boat guys hanging out.

Rasmusson by my dear @cheraxny and Friederick is mine :3

[ID: a digital drawing of Rasmusson and Friederick, two OCs. Rasmusson is a white human man with ginger hair and beard, wearing fishermen's clothing, including orange overalls. Friederick is a gnome with light skin and brown hair in a braid, wearing old-fashioned sailors clothing and w leg brace on his left leg. Both are sitting on a bench smoking pipe. /End ID]

[jaaklops]

rejanis blob since idrk where else to put it

warning of the d slur used once

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It’s a cool, quiet evening and Janis doesn’t quite know where she’s going. She’s on a quiet path, far enough away from home to where she probably wouldn’t know the way back, which would be worrying if it weren’t for the fact that she wouldn’t mind getting lost for a bit. It would take her mind somewhere more productive, like asking where she’s at, instead of wherever it is now.

There’s a bridge in the near distance, and Janis spots something painfully familiar.

What Janis sees is a streak of platinum blonde.

It’s a stark contrast to the lifeless gray of the cement, and Janis wonders, with a nasty curl of her lip, why she’s sitting somewhere as ‘peasantish’ as the side of a bridge. Kicking her feet and throwing pebbles into the current of the river below, at that. She has everything in her to just walk past and leave her be and not get herself into more trouble than she’s been in. She knows best, Regina George is not a good companion when she’s upset.

But instead she stops. Shoves her hands in her pockets to seem cool, when in reality her hands are getting sweaty being around Regina. She has the audacity to be nervous.

Janis chews her cheeks when Regina looks at her. Piercing blue against deep brown. It makes her feel small. That makes her feel angry.

“What the hell do you want?” Regina says. “Haven’t you ruined my life enough?”

“Haha. So funny, Gigi.”

Regina wrinkles her nose. “Ew, since when did you start calling me that?” 

“Well, since when did you start calling me ‘space dyke?’”

Regina doesn’t respond to that. “Exactly,” Janis says, and it feels like she’s won that one. Regina George zero, Janis one. “We both have changed a lot since five years ago, haven’t we?”

“…Yeah. We have.”

Janis sits. Regina doesn’t push her away.

Regina starts hesitantly, “Um.”

“That’s all? Um?”

“No, you prick. Take a rock.” Regina puts the surprisingly numerous pile of rocks over where they can both reach. Janis looks at her, perplexed. “Try it. It’s very… calming.”

“I know what throwing rocks into water feels like, dumbass.” Janis snarks, “Unlike you, I don’t worry about getting dust on my pretty pink high heels and don’t go outside.” It may have been true, but the subtle look of hurt on Regina’s face still makes Janis feel remorseful. She sighs and throws a rock. “I’m sorry. That was a bit of a low blow.”

“Yeah, kind of. But it’s true.” Regina holds a rock in her hands. It’s colored like clay. “I’m sorry too. For uh, everything.”

Janis doesn’t respond—maybe she’ll be able to someday. Instead, she takes sudden note of Regina’s lack of a back brace. “You graduated the back brace a bit quick, huh?”

“I got out on good behavior.”

“That’s a shocker.”

Regina pushes her shoulder. She’s messing around. Except she’s dead serious when she says, “Well, doing nothing but laying on a fucking couch for about a week and then not being able to do much else gives a girl some time to think. That, and losing old friends. Getting new ones.”

“I bet it does.” Janis pauses. “Heard you’re playing lacrosse now.”

“Yeah.”

“How’s the team?”

“Very… tight-knit,” Regina tells her. “I felt like I was intruding at first. It was kind of awkward too, considering… you know.” She motions to herself. Then, she throws another rock into the water. “But it’s pretty cool now.”

“Cool. Maybe… maybe I’ll watch you guys play sometime.” She feels Regina’s smile on her. It feels warm. “Had no fucking clue we even did lacrosse, though.”

“Me neither.”

They laugh, really laugh, and after so long it really feels good.

[crispynewtss]

new talk some sense to me chapter link in this ugly format because tumblr

*offers this wet-paper-towel-of-a-chapter with shaking hands* pl…s… acce…pt?

[visenyaism]

i don’t know about you guys but the main reason i am still on tumblr in 2024 is BECAUSE it is the most cloutless least influential social media app out there and that is the experience i am after. absolutely none of this will ever translate into significant attention or real success in my life and that is so beautiful.

[bizarrebazaar13]

what if your doppelgänger wasn’t evil it was just a person. what if your doppelgänger wasn’t trying to replace you it was just trying to learn to be a person and you were the best model it had. what if your doppelgänger looked at you with your eyes and said with your voice that it just wanted to be loved. what then.

[trans-ralsei]

[nyancrimew]

[kawareo]

"Imagine still posting fanart a whole year after the game came out" brother what are you talking about

[ugartecoco]

the transition im crying

[inkskinned]

it's extremely critical that you see the photo of the perp walk for luigi mangione as being propaganda. i've seen so many people wave it off and instead fawn over his looks. and trust me, i know it ended up being kind of pathetic and weird - but please don't brush it off as a "modelling opportunity" for him. it's a fucking terrifying message the police are sending.

i want to make a few comparisons here, in case you're not from the US or familiar with why the perp walk thing is something to pay attention to. just to set the groundwork for why this is a purposeful, unusual, and cruel act by the nyc police - for why this is not a common occurrence and for why that matters.

the prosecution alleges the show of force is due to the charge of "terrorism." for comparison, in june 2015, tsarnaev was found guilty for the boston marathon bombing, which killed 3 people and injured hundreds. his actions are considered to be an act of domestic terrorism. i have spent the last hour looking through google for pictures of similar to mangione's perp walk - and so far, i have found zero. i also just do not personally remember a moment like that, despite living in boston at the time.

they allege that luigi is a stone-cold killer who carried out a longterm plan, making him particularly dangerous. again for comparison: in nyc, recently cory martin was found guilty of the killing of brandy odom. the murder was planned and premeditated to steal insurance money. and yet no staged perp walk. why didn't her life matter enough for a "show of force"?

but mangione gets paraded by a veritable army of police officers as if he is a rabid animal. for a single citizen who allegedly killed one other single citizen, the "largest perp walk ever" occurs.

so what is the "strong message" that the mayor and the police were trying to send here? the mayor speaks as if mangione is already convicted of terrorism. there is a very thin number of people who feel threatened by the CEO's death. none of us felt like mangione needs to be under massive armed guard.

the message is that you shouldn't resist. they are trying to "make an example" of him - that if you behave badly and kill a single rich person, you'll be treated as if you killed hundreds of people. you will be treated worse than a man who was found guilty of terrorism. you will be considered guilty without trial. the message is that the rich are a protected class, and you cannot touch them without massive punishment. they are trying to prevent a revolution by showing dominance and force against you.

the message is that the police are a puppet of the wealthy and that the law is not equally applied across class disparity. it is "some are more equal than others." it is "one life is more precious than another."

the show of force wasn't for luigi. it was for us. it was a warning. they are trying to remind us who is really in control.

[kiryuing]