#spn postcanon

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

Spn postcanon update (kinda)

Something big is coming

Two weeks

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

My weird ass: “everything the actors have done since can be seen as a unified postcanon. It’s not going especially well, it is Spn after all, but it works strangely well. Anyway, the ‘Gates’ that Ruby warned Sam about are the Gates of Janus, which are a Roman thing. When they’re open, it signifies a state of war. They’re open because Janus is an annoying yet persuasive douche and managed to convince Cas to let him use the vessel for a few minutes, at which point everyone’s least favorite (literal) two-faced war deity split Cas’ true form right in half to power his Gate Thing. Can Cas be saved? I don’t know, but given that ‘A Hellgate, But Specifically For War’ is VERY bad news, those gates do need to close. I don’t know which dogs Ruby was talking about and I’m afraid to find out. Also Sam’s got yet another werewolf gf, and Ruby had his kids back in the 2000s and unironically named them Edward and Stella because “ha ha, blood drinking” I guess, they’re college-age now and both are witches, Blurrywife is some kind of Fae thing and hella evil, might be one of Eileen’s hunts and is just doing this to fuck with her, this blurry bitch ate Sam/imprisoned his soul in some sort of Eternal Cowboy Dreamscape (why tho) but at least she’s currently getting her ass kicked, idk where Dean Jr went and I’m worried abt him. Cas and Meg have a kid, everything is vaguely Celtiberian like that one spnwin ep, Hell is at war with itself, Azazel is wearing John, the Second Coming of Christ is happening but Girljesus is a genuinely great person, the rebar was cursed and Hell used it to control Dean and send him on a time-travel rampage to alter history in their favor. Dean banged one of the Morriganae back in that one ep where he was abducted by The Fae, and she’s still kind of obsessed with him. Jack is possessed and picking fights with Girljesus. Where is Sam’s body? Not with his soul. What’s it doing? Violence. Anyway”

Some so-called Supernatural fans: "The actors have all moved on. There is no need for a 16th season."

Misha Collins: "I found Castiel in my carpet."

[monstermoviedean]

i love that dean can just fix a bus like it's nothing

[uhoh-spn]

Lonely Without You, Dear

For the Dreamy Drabble Prompts

Also on Ao3

Prompt: Lonely

Fandom: Supernatural

“I’ll just wait here, then,” he says, hanging up the phone with a bittersweet smile.

Those words bring back memories of the early days of his and Dean’s relationship. He’d been extremely lonely when he’d first rebelled. Normally surrounded by his angelic family, he spent many years alone and waiting on the Winchesters to call or following a lead.

But now he has a family, a house, and a partner in Dean. They come home to each other, sleep in the same bed every night – even when they’re arguing. They know from gut-wrenching, heartbreaking experience that it’s not worth it to be apart from each other over some small rift.

The door opens and Dean calls, “Sweetheart?”

“In the living room!”

Dean flops on the couch beside Castiel and presses a kiss to his cheek.

“Were you lonely without me?” Dean teases, plucking Castiel’s book from his hands.

“Of course.”

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

So apparently there’s a new Doctor Who spinoff series in the works, about uhhh

*checks notes*

“The return of the ancient Sea Devils, last seen in attacking naval bases in 1972, likely due to environmental catastrophe, with overall military and sociopolitical themes”

…

….bitch okay.

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

‘an impactful, autonomous, technically non-corporeal entity’

That is so many words to say ‘a pagan deity’

WHY IS THIS FANDOM *AND ITS WRITERS* ALLERGIC TO THE CONCEPT OF PAGANISM

ngl mr bedlund keeps making me more insane with every new tweet. DEAN AS ANGEL 2.0???????

Bonus:

[july-19th-club]

the impetus of this fic by the way is that "grace" was written like eleven hours after the finale and i did zero thinking about whether it was good or not i just slammed 'post' and dipped . and i think it is very shallow in terms of character because it's short and not meant to be anything but a straight up fix fic. and i also don't love the end scenario i gave it i was just deeply in the nov. 2020 insanity at the moment so it made sense at the time and people seemed to enjoy it. HOWEVER. the real dense intellectual fix fic is my djinn theory baby that i have been nursing for several thousand hours . and "grace" is a pale shadow

[armandgender]

what are your ultimate spn fic recs? like, great writing, great plot, great characterisation, instant favourites?

my top 8 right now because i couldn't pick 5:

Fracture mechanics - very angsty post 15x18 fix it. one of those fics where it's hurt/comfort except the author is the one hurting and then comforting you

Spirit of the west - AU, Dean is eighteen and works on his dad’s ranch taking care of horses. Cas, a childhood friend, comes back to town. teen_dean's writing is always phenomenal

Canticles - what happens after dean and cas leave the brothel in free to be you and me. i regularly go back to this fic just to feel the heartache all over again Where black stars rise (also by teen_dean)- dean and cas explore a canyon. Interstellar vibes. Cas wears cute little hiking shorts

Swimming with the fish pond fish - amazing shorter (25k) post canon fix-it fic with trans dean

Psalm 40:2 - after 15x18 cas goes back in time to meet stanford era dean. Angsty. Young dean is like a fragile little bird i love him so much

You and me and the war of the end times - endverse grace shotgunning fic + jupernatural!

Put them in a box somewhere - 5k, technically a Mary fic but also a kid Dean study. consider it a backstory to why dean was so interested in those ballet shoes

others that are also amazing:

So Says the Sword - Cas is ordered to watch over the michael sword and ends up falling in love with him (of course)

Everyone’s a critic - fluffy AU with a lot of miscommunication. Dean runs a restaurant, Cas is a food critic who calls his garlic bread closeted

Games of skill and fortune - I haven’t actually read this one in a couple of years but I remember really enjoying it. Dean says yes to michael. 

In the shadow of your wings - the one where cas gets an italian boyfriend

If wishes were horses - postcanon fix-it by thee teen_dean who cannot miss

The reddit thread fic 

Angelus cruorem - just a horny fic where dean drinks cas’ blood

Here, bullet, here - angsty and excellent dean study 

Let the old ways die - au where dean is in a band and cas is an ex music producer who now works on a farm. This fic made me go sit on a log in the sun and listen to music for an hour 

Seek to know you better - dean and cas go through those questions that are supposed to make you fall in love. But, you know, they’re in love the whole time anyway 

Take the bones, begin anew - everything you could want from a fix-it fic

All this and heaven too - author describes it as a love letter to every trans person who ever projected onto dean. i go back to it a lot :^)

[cheru6z]

i think what really gets me about sam winchester is that i was not expecting to give a damn about him at all.

one of the main reasons i started watching spn is : i had an idea for a postcanon destiel fic and figured i should Watch the show first. i wanted to get a feel for deans characterization. sam wasnt particularly on my radar besides being 'the other winchester brother'.

i was immaculately primed to be a deanapologist-casgirl. as if i was made in a lab for it. i do not often waver in my programming. but i now realize that what i knew of spn before watching it was a very narrow scope , that with surgical precision attempted to unweave sam from the core of the narrative.

i was going to watch the first 5 seasons (bc id heard they were good and cohesive) and then tunnel-vision on the castiel greatest hits episodes in the 10 seasons that follow.

but , by the time cas was introduced , sams arc had sunk its claws into my brain to the point that i was unfazed by cas' character for his first ~5 episodes. and after that , ambivalent. by the time i finished season 5 , i went "wow that was a good ending. i sure would like to see more sam winchester though 😊- HES IN EVERY SINGLE EPISODE ? 😰" thus my longer-and-more-perilous-than-expected journey began .

and now? i frequently consider blocking the destiel tag so i can browse sam posts in peace. but i dont. bc sometimes i look at destiel posts (and consider blocking the destiel tag still bc of how clogged it is with confession memes).

what a fascinating tv show. the character and narrative arcs got me good.

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

@what-if-i-just-did hey so yknow how my meta postcanon garbage fire is built off what the actors are doing?

hm..... welp.

anyway claire novak girlies go see abigail there’s a bit in it where kathryn newton is in a situation that made me go “oh i know she wishes she could have done this in her claire spin off show”

[the-grey-hunt]

got tagged by @youghostandyoutrick

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! and then tag as many people as you have WIPs

my WIP titles are....a little disappointingly boring LOL but i'll try to track them all down, my folders are by fandom, not by WIP status. some of these are looooooooong abandoned/put back on the shelf but I count them

Here There Be Gnolls—Critical Role/The Adventure Zone

i will learn to fly—CR

the gift (m9/qt)—CR/Queen's Thief

pike and pike—CR

burial—Ghost Trick

cab translation—GT

friends—GT

ghost trick postcanon 4.0—GT

live sissel AU—GT

the manipulator—GT

untitled document (two of them)—GT

hp/sep heap—fandoms are what it says on the tin lol

ineffability and witchcraft—HP/Good Omens

hp gabriel possession—HP/Supernatural

cas funtime—SPN

daemons—SPN (TLA)

gabriel???thing???—SPN (and HP? idk)

gabriel/bail—SPN/Star Wars

michael fanfic files— SPN (TLA)

new trilogy pt2—SPN/SW

Play 'Verse—SPN

possession—SPN (TLA)

IPRE/attypf—TAZ/TAZ fanfic

murder on the rockport express—TAZ/Poirot

ouroboros pt2—TAZ/Princess Bride

modern legend—SPN/HP

modern legend unfinished—SPN/HP

michael kills the dark and it gets worse from there—SPN (TLA)

tl;dr I Will Write Any Crossover. And Abandon Any Fic, Only To Descend Upon It Years Later (But Probably Not)

i tag @inukagome15, @notaficwriter, @redrobemerle, and anyone else who'd like to

[howldean]

Endgame Archangel Castiel is something I have never heard about and now I am deathly curious please tell me about endgame archangel castiel

okay so first of all I AM TEAM ANGEL CAS ENDGAME i’ll take him however i can get and i’m by no means averse to human cas he’s so darling to me but i just think that

it’s important to me that his full grace is restored. so archangel cas comes into play with the resurrection of angels and demons aka the emptying of the empty version of postcanon. i think it’s EXTRA juicy if he fulfills the role in the hierarchy left open by lucifer. because rebellious fallen angel go brrrr and fuck mark pellegrino all my homies hate that bitch. anyway i think it’s the perfect space for him. he always winds up in a position of solitary leadership but we see time and time again that he was a soldier and also just. doesn’t like being the one guy in charge. but archangel cas…… now that’s yummy. i’ve never been satisfied with how raphael was treated in the series, and to give my best archangel cas pitch i’d have to rewatch those seasons, but i think that having them not only be equals but ON THE SAME SIDE would be. oh yeah. big time. i also think that the archangels as a whole are such a tragedy within the script of spn that to bring them back together would give us spectacular dialogue. gabriel is tired and done and wanted things to be over, michael well i could go rounds about michael but i think that him and adam’s visage combined would be unique, and then taking raphael and his goals. throwing cas into that mix, the last true children of god plus the guy god kept fucking up and tell them they’re family again. holy fucking shit yknow. OH BUT ALSO obviously he’d be souped up and wouldn’t die easily and could help others. yeah

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

@deanwasalwaysbi wait,,,, wait.

do you want in on this? can we compare notes? I LOVE finding ppl who kept track. did you use just actor drama/reveals/META meta, or did you also use other shows the actors worked on? was it a series of events or did it have a plot? how unhinged was the plot?

what are your thoughts on Deanmon 2.0, and this whole thing w Dean being able to breathe fire? interesting, scary, just strange? Did you watch far enough to get to the point where Cas got possessed? Did you predict the Campbell family playing such a huge role in the postcanon plot?

3 seasons a year really... that really is more manageable huh. especially the period that became my "s17", there were three DISTINCT arcs happening there at once.

I love finding out that other ppl did this, spn fandom is truly on a whole other level.

“Supernatural season 16 keeps going!” My brother in Christ we are balls deep in at least season 18 by now

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

When Walker’s final arc ends with Jared Padalecki’s character getting trapped in an uncanny dreamscape with a fake happy life as he’s slowly dying buried in forest dirt, which he has to escape before suddenly quitting his job as ranger, taking his kids and taking off out of town as fast as he can, and The Boys s4 brings Jeffrey Dean Morgan in as a literal demon, canonically introduces a new age of pagan (specifically Roman) “wrathful gods”, ties it into Revelations somehow, makes a bunch of posters saying Robert Singer (played by Jim Beaver) is possessed by a demon, introduces undead (specifically undead Campbells, yeah Hughie has relatives and one of them was briefly a vengeful ghost, on The Boys, a show notably not about ghosts) and shapeshifting seductresses as things that exist, and brings back Soldier Boy with the exact hair and beard cut that Dean had in the spnwin finale, and announces that Jared will have a role in The Boys s5, and the new head of the college in Gen V is announced to be a supe(?) named Cipher at the same time that Jason Ritter starts rp’ing on twitter as being possessed by Bill Cipher

[july-19th-club]

i don't write so no need to send one back but one of each for the ask game?

ok this post was in my queue for so long i genuinely forgot about it alkjlaksjdf but ok let's do it babey we'll play it for wishes were horses (spn postcanon fixit fic) since that's the story i worked on most recently

SPECIAL FEATURE (post a fun fact): this story directly contradicts the first spn postcanon fixit i wrote, Grace, which really really rubs me the wrong way bc i'm a stickler for consistency, but i wrote the first one feverishly eleven hours after the final episode. so i still think it's pretty good under the circumstances. however i can do better

MOVIE SCRIPT (post most recently written line): "He wonders why he’s so nervous to have this conversation, when apparently they eat dinner together all the time. His mom told him that, and he even remembers the dinners. And yet."

DVD PLAYER (post dialogue): i had CONSIDERED putting something from the few end-of-story scenes i have sketched out, but avoided the temptation so here's a little domestic scene.

For all his criticizing, Sam polishes off his breakfast in about ten seconds flat, then leans back and says, “What is it with you and the eggs, man? It’s always eggs with you.”  “Easy, filling, cheap. Nature’s perfect food.”  “Cause growing up, all I remember you ever making was canned soup.”  “Well.” Eggs aren’t easy to take on the road. They’re house food. “Yeah, that was in motels. We ate eggs when we stayed at Bobby’s.”  “I remember him making pancakes.”  Dean remembers too. God, those were good. He’s pretty sure it was just Bisquick, but Bobby always had the real maple syrup, none of that Mrs. Butterworth shit. “He did his pancakes, I did the eggs. He taught me how to do an over easy, but I couldn’t get it for years. Kept smashing the yolks.”  “Ohhhh, yeah, okay, now I do remember that. Cause I remember one time you got so upset you almost cried.”  Dean doesn’t remember this at all. “Nothing worse than a smashed egg.”  Eileen puts her coffee mug down. “I like them smashed,” she says, “easier to put in sandwich.”  That’s Eileen’s easygoing compromise. Something for everybody.