#spn postcanon

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

or yknow

a man demon creature thing idfk at this point wakes up in Hell from what he thinks was a coma, after getting an iron stake through the heart (he did not know he was weak to iron, this is because he is a dumbass) and finds out that he cut a bloody, mind-controlled-time-travel swathe across several decades before someone finally destroyed his body and set him free

and also he can breathe fire now, a privilege that, imho, HE SHOULD NOT HAVE

after the boys is over eric kripke should start a show called super natural. in the first episode a man wakes up from a coma\fever dream after a very bad case of tetanus

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

Spn postcanon update (kinda)

Something big is coming

Two weeks

[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]

postcanon/s16 Sam never fully recovering from the ACTUAL events of 15x20 and having to use a cane wizard staff that he custom made to support his weight

(also Dean having chronic pain from said events, and whatever disability metaphor is even going ON with Cas)

you can always give your blorbos mobility aids btw . you can always make them disabled its always morally correct

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

idk if its just the new year, but my Spn Postcanon Sense is tingling

[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

[pj3k]

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.

[marmolita]

2024 year in review

Taken from the list in this post! I decided to just come through and answer all the questions.

How many fics have you worked on since January?

Well I posted 41, but I have 2-3 more being actively worked on.

What’s something new that you tried in a fic this year?

I did a fake-reddit-post mediafic this year!

What piece of media inspired you the most? (This can be the fandom you wrote the most for, the one that spawned the most ideas, the one you thought about the most, etc.)

Final Fantasy XV my beloved, back for a second go at being my obsession

How many fandoms did you write for this year?

5 if you include "original work" as a fandom.

What ships captured your heart?

Squall/Seifer(/Rinoa) definitely leapt out at me this year. Other than that I've been kind of all over the place, but am currently in a gladnoct state of mind for some reason.

What characters captured your heart?

Okay so I didn't write any fanfic about it, but I read Naomi Novik's Scholomance this year and Orion Lake absolutely captured my heart. He is entirely blorbo bait for me, but alas, I didn't get what I wanted out of him in the third book and didn't find much fic about him either. Other than that, I spent a good while this year feeling like Squall Leonhart was extremely relatable, and then got back to FFXV and my true love Noctis.

Did you write for any new fandoms or ships this year?

Yes, actually! This year I wrote a Stardew Valley fic, and I also wrote my first (and so far only) Destiel fic for SPN.

What fic meant the most to you to write?

Hmmmmm. It's probably the Niflheim!Gladio fic that I haven't published any of yet because I'm not far along enough to be comfortable with it. Other than that possibly this little fic I wrote about Cartanica because even though I did it for a prompt, I was having a lot of feelings about Cartanica.

What fic made you feel the happiest to work on?

I giggled my way through writing Paw-paw said WHAT?, because the idea of Noct having a magical healing cock and it being used in a random side quest cracked me up.

What fic was the most satisfying to finish writing?

Probably Fated Circle, the Seifer/Squall postcanon one. It ended up being way longer than I anticipated and having a lot of action scenes, and I was pretty proud of it.

What fic was the most difficult to write?

It was weirdly this random one about Noct posing for a charity calendar? Not sure why that one gave me so much trouble but I eventually kinda threw in the towel on it. Other than that, the Niflheim!Gladio one I'm still working on is being pretty difficult because it has actual plot and needed an outline and is LONG.

What fic was the easiest to write?

Pretty sure I pounded out feast for a king on my phone during breaks from work because it flowed so quickly and easily.

What were your shortest and longest fics posted this year?

Shortest: Sacrifice, at 328 words

Longest: Fated Circle, at 10,066 words

What were your go-to writing songs?

...the FFXV soundtrack? Actually though for my FFVIII fic I spent a lot of time listening to the FFVIII playlist I put together, which includes multiple P!nk songs (What About Us, TRUSTFALL, Can We Pretend, among others) and also Kelly Clarkson's Catch My Breath which I listened to a million times thinking about Squall.

What was the hardest fic to title?

ALL OF THEM. But probably the Seifer/Squall amnesia one where I ended up with "The Body Knows" which is a dumb title.

What's your favorite title of the year?

Muscle Memory. I started writing this one about GF memory erasure years ago and finally wrapped it up to post this year, but the title was set long before posting because it Felt Right.

Share your favorite opening line

Henry Loxlian, just past his eighteenth birthday, was the most highly anticipated student at the Academy of Saint Lillian in a century.

from The Ecstasy of Saint Lillian, an original work I did for Smut4Smut!

Share your favorite ending line

None of them, I suck at endings. And, upon reviewing a bunch of them, I'm realizing that I often end fics in the same way, with something like "Maybe [thing the fic was about] isn't so bad after all." Oops? Anyway this one was okay.

Whether it'll amount to anything in the bright light of day, Seifer doesn't know, but here in the dark he'll hold this nascent dream close to his heart.

from A New Dream

Share your favorite piece of dialogue

From Absolution: "I deserve punishment." "No, you don't. But if you feel like you need it, then I'll give it to you."

Share your funniest line

People in the comments seem to really like that in my Stardew Valley fic I had Alex say, "Thanks, bro" to Sebastian after they had sex, but tbh that's a mainstay from hockey RPF so I feel like it wasn't that creative? 😂

One that I particularly enjoyed was Prompto saying "The tentacle monster wants to fuck your throat, Noct.  All the way through." in ride of your life, though that's admittedly a little niche. I also liked Squall thinking that he and Seifer were exes in The Body Knows.

There's also the setup to Paw-paw said WHAT? which I had fun with: "Well see, I been gettin' these headaches?  Real bad ones, sometimes, and Paw-paw's been worried about it.  He told me, 'Go get Reggie's boy to fuck you and it'll clear it right up.'"

What's something that surprised you while you were working on a fic? Did it change the story?

I kind of had some fits about writing Most Eligible, because Gladio wasn't being villainous enough, and then Noct liked him too much, and then none of the plot made sense with there just being the one banquet, so I ended up adding a pageant because why not!

What writing programs did you use? Did you write by hand?

All my writing is done in gdocs.

If you had to choose one, what was THE most satisfying writing moment of your year?

Actually coming up with a coherent plot for the Niflheim!Gladio fic and outlining it. I cannot wait to share this fic with you all but I also do not yet believe I will finish it, and I am not one to post unfinished WIPs.

Did you do anything special to celebrate finishing a fic?

No, I finished a lot of fics and none of them were that exciting lol

How did you recharge between fics?

I am either constantly writing in a frenzy or not writing at all for months, there's no specific recharging happening.

Did you create fanworks other than fic?

I make a lot of playlists but mostly for my own personal use.

How many events did you take part in? (bangs, exchanges, ship weeks, zines, prompt memes, they all count!)

Enemies to Lovers Exchange, FFVIII Bingo, Smut4Smut, Nonconathon, Rare Pair Exchange, and a combo kinktober/promptober that also ended up becoming a server event for the Seifer/Squall discord, so that makes a total of....6-7?

If this were an awards show, who would you thank?

@misswonderheart who alpha/beta reads all my fic for me and lets me yell at her about it always and forever, and @freosan for brainstorming ideas with me!

What's left on your to-do list for 2024?

Nothing? I'm still working on some fic but I don't expect them to wrap up this year.

What would you like to write next year?

If this Niflheim!Gladio fic isn't posted next year I will be very disappointed in myself tbh. I've got 14k words written so far and I'm only like maybe 1/3 of the way through it or less. I rarely even write fics that are over 10k words long so having 14k already on it is a LOT, but I have some confidence I can do it! I just need to recruit some more cheerleaders I think 😂

[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.

[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

[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:

[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

[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.

[bonethief420]

Postcanon:

dumbassery, denial, doing (the three d's to the destination) by sobsicles

108,427 words, 4 chapters

Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Mutual Pining, Slow Burn, Canon-Typical Violence, Coming Out, Didn't Know They Were Dating, Domestic Bliss, Fluff and Humor, Fed-up Sam Winchester, Oblivious Dean Winchester, Eileen Leahy is THEE moment, God is a child and that child is Jack, except he looks grown, Temporary Character Injury, Flirting through religious metaphors, The SPN Ladies being present and lovely, Dean being pathetically head over heels in love, Cas lets go of his restraint, Sam dropping hints that Dean is in love with Cas to Dean, some smut sprinkled in later, the art of learning to want, the growing pains of moving out, finding peace and trusting in hope, oh and holding hands!, Hugging! Cuddling!, kissing!, So much kissing, dates that aren't called dates, Pining, so much pining Summary:

Freedom is just one adjustment after the next. ~~~ Cas hums again. "I think you already have. It's been months since everything settled. All that's left to do is...get used to it, and perhaps—" His voice stalls out, uncharacteristically, and his gaze roams Dean's face with intensity. When he speaks next, his tone is a little raw. "Perhaps what one does with peace is...whatever they want." "What if I don't even know what that is?" Dean grumbles, arching an eyebrow in challenge. "'Cause I know damn well you don't just mean good food and a good bed and time in Baby, not simple wants like that. You mean—ya know, the big things, the wants we didn't get to have before." "Yes," Cas agrees. "If you're not sure, figure it out." "Easier said than done."

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❤️there is rest for the wicked by fleeceframe

14,578 words, oneshot

Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Additional Tags: finale fix-it, post-confession, Getting Together, First Kiss, Love Confessions, dean takes a lot of naps and watches say yes to the dress, the whole family is together including jack !!!, theyre all enjoying retirement (this is my favorite trope i will die on this hill), dean is just soooo sleepy and all he wants to do is nap with cas, but hes also still dean and a little repressed, Angel Castiel (Supernatural), Domestic Fluff, POV Dean Winchester, cas covers dean with a blanket

Summary:

“So what’s up with- Dude, again?” Sam’s voice rings through the room incredulously. Dean grunts in response. “You can’t possibly still be tired. Like, I feel like this should be physically impossible.” “Tell that to my melatonin levels.” “How do you know what melatonin is?” Dean does his best to roll his eyes under the cover of his eyelids. “Jesus, Sam, I’m not an idiot. Will you shut up so I can sleep?” He hears Sam huff. “Ya know, if you wanted to nap, you could always use that thing you have called a bed.” “Not the same,” Dean grumbles. His body doesn’t get all loose when he’s laying in his bed watching horror movies. The synapses that slow their firing contentedly seem to be wired to that same invisible bodily response of the outside world, and apparently being in the openness of his family’s space turns his brain into mush. “Now unless someone’s dying, I’m beggin’ you to shut up.” or the one where the whole family is together, dean finds enough peace to take some naps, and he's not sure he'll ever figure out how to say those three big words to cas

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Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover by ImYourHoneyBee

26217 words, 5 chapters Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Additional Tags: 15.20 doesn't exist in Ba Sing Se, Dean being a simp, Dean takes Cas on a date without telling him that it's a date, it winds up being a date anyways, he's an idiot your honour, Gabriel created octopuses, and platypuses, Dean stirs his coffee with a knife, sorry it's the authors favourite headcannon, Cas makes Dean work for it, And we LOVE that for him, Cas is the hottest piece of ass at the farmers market, canon-typical eye fucking, Sam is haunted by the genital herpes commercial, Crack, Fluff, Cas's hands while doing pottery does things to Dean, Dean and Cas make couple friends because they deserve that, Dean should have gotten to flirt with Cas, Cas deserved to be pursued, The f/f relationship refers to OFC

Summary:

Face all twisted up into an epic bitchface, Sam complains, “You call me a rabbit and then make bacon for dinner when I ask for a veggie-based meal, but Cas just gets a ‘You got it”?”   There are several things that Dean could have responded with. He could have said something about how it was Cas who most recently came back from the dead, or about how the new human gets priority to try whatever he wants, he even could have just flipped his brother off and left it at that. But Dean was already frustrated when he walked into the room, he’d gotten more frustrated at dealing with a sex question from a five-year-old (even if he had handled that well in the moment), and then Cas talking about oral sex with his perfect mouth had fried his brain entirely. So yeah, he could have said any of that, but he doesn’t. What he does say is “Yeah, well you’re not the one I’m in love with bitch.”   “I’m your brother!” Sam says indignantly like Dean hadn’t just dropped the absolute a-bomb of a secret he’s been carrying around for years right there on the floor in front of him. In front of Cas.   “No you don’t” whispers Cas

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gorging myself on you, still can't get full (insatiable) by sobsicles

24182 words, oneshot Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Borderline crack, Crack Treated Seriously, Hulk Metaphors, Twilight Metaphors, Self-Imposed Sexual Tension, Cas being flustered, Dean being a flirt, Slip up and confess your love once, it's all downhill from there, A surprising lack of Sexual Crises, That feel when you're a timeless being, but you still need time, Mildly Inspired by Good Omens' 'You go too fast for me', Sam swinging wildly between delight and judgement, Drunk Shenanigans, Humor, very mild angst, implied sex scenes, nothing detailed, all fade to black, I think Dean should have gotten to flirt with Cas, Stabbing yourself into a relationship, twice

Summary:

"Fine, whatever. Love you too, asshole. I hope you enjoy your walk home with your stupid, grainy bread. Taking Nature's Own a little too much to heart, but sure," Dean tells him, flashing him a sarcastic smile and swiveling around in the aisle to march away. He throws out something over his shoulder, careless and barbed. "I'm not paying for that shitty cardboard."  Dean's three aisles over when he realizes what, precisely, he said. Thankfully, when he comes to this conclusion, he's holding a box of poptarts, so when he fumbles and drops them to the floor, it's not a huge mess. He stares down at the slightly dented box of Brown Sugar Poptarts, and he has a very swift and very unshakeable crisis right there and then.  Love you too, asshole.  No, no, no. Why would he say that? Why would he do that? In the middle of the goddamn grocery store while arguing about bread? That's not—that can't be how it happens. That can't be. 

 Notes: really not crack at all idk why they tagged it that way. a really really good fic. Based on the same prompt as the last one, both very good in different ways

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❤️🔒One Week Later by squirrelofcelestialintent

23208 words, 5 chapters Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Post-Canon Fix-It, Internalized Homophobia, The John Winchester Legacy, Dean Winchester is Bad at Feelings, Alcohol as a Coping Mechanism, BAMF Saileen, BAMF Castiel, Graceless Castiel, Switching, But Cas has Gentle Dom Vibes, dean is a bi disaster, Dean Winchester Has Panic Attacks, Non MC Sex Work, Excessive amounts of ennui, in between graphic sex, I swear there's a plot if you squint, pining in the bunker, eventually getting come on every surface of the bunker, Dean gets to go to bed wearing pyjamas like he deserves, instead of sleeping on top of the covers with a knife in his hand, identity crisis, handjobs, Face-Fucking, Castiel Topping From the Bottom (Supernatural), Dean wears short shorts, and a cowboy hat

Summary:

“Touch-starved”. It’s one of those terms (along with “alcoholic” and “abused child”) that Dean has worked very hard to keep on the other side of the big fat concrete wall in his brain. The one that, until now, only weakens when he’s truly, deeply shit-faced. But Cas has made a career out of breaking through Dean’s walls, it only makes sense that he’d tear this one down too, if he just died enough times. Ripped Dean’s heart out just enough so that the foundations of family and duty and sacrifice can crumble and leave Dean even more of a desperate, black hole of need than he was before. Chuck is dead, and Cas… Cas is back. And Dean is supposed to be happy. It’s time to decide what he wants to do with the rest of his life. But how can he do that, when every time he’s not physically touching Cas he starts to have a panic attack that none of this is real, and it’s all just another one of Chuck’s games? Who knows. So, he lets himself touch Cas. Constantly. It’s that or face a complete, Chernobyl-scale meltdown. At least Cas doesn’t seem to mind.

Notes: THEE touch starved traumatised dean winchester fic. let that man being a sad sopping wet mess !!!!!!!

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according to all known laws of life by sobsicles

29727 words, oneshot Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Sexual Frustration, emotional frustration, Cas actually has to face the consequences of his actions, or rather his love confession, Dean isn't doing too hot with Cas being gone, but then Cas is back, and then he is Struggling With Feelings, Dean is desperate to be loved and doesnt know it, Dean Being an Asshole, but like unintentionally, he really just wants Cas to pay attention to him, Accurate Portrayals of Sibling Interactions, Sam being a little brother teasing the shit outta his big brother, Sam being So Done with Destiel and their dumbassery, Unnecessary metaphors and parallels drawn between Destiel and the Bee Movie, it fits okay fight me, this is a hill I will die on, don't boo me i'm right, Dean is metaphorically pulling on Cas' pigtails, but like in a loving way, and because he unconsciously seeks validation, Dean experiences Bi Panic, Gay Chicken as a sport, Angry Boys just need to make out already, they do eventually and there is some light smut, human cas, Dean is both emotionally and sexually edged in this fic, someone please help these idiots, Love Confessions, (again), and of course Reciprocation!, because it's what we deserved Series: Part 1 of Cursed Metaphors Summary:

Cas comes back. It's not exactly the reunion that Dean is expecting. ~~~ Dean stares at him, flummoxed. Cas quite literally poured his heart out to Dean, gave a truly sappy and distressingly romantic speech and everything, then proceeded to give his life so that Dean could live his. And he wants to act like he doesn't want to see Dean, be around him, touch him? Actually, Dean's ninety-nine percent sure that Cas probably wants to fuck him, and while he has no clue how he feels about that, he's pretty goddamn sure that means Cas doesn't get to act like this and make it authentic. It feels strangely real, though, as if Cas wants nothing more than to get as far away from him as possible. This is a blatant contradiction. Even someone as weird as Cas doesn't want to get away from the person they have the desire to fuck five ways to Sunday, that they're in love with. That's not how these things work, so Dean isn't buying it.

Notes: Dean is SOOOOO annoying in this one <3 ur gonna wanna put him in a blender sooooo bad

Fenario by ftmsteverogers

47,100 words, 10 chapters

Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Post-Canon, Post-Canon Fix-It, Slow Burn, Jewish Winchesters (Supernatural), Jewish Dean Winchester, Jewish Castiel (Supernatural). Hunter Retirement (Supernatural), Jupernatural, Happy Ending, Angst with a Happy Ending, lake house fic

Summary:

“We did good, Dean,” Sam says. “We got him back.” Dean huffs a hollow laugh, because yeah, that’s always what it’s about, isn’t it? Cas or Sam or Dean getting themselves lost or dead, and then taking turns dragging each other back from the brink. He shrugs, shoving his hands into his pockets. “We got him back, yeah,” he says. Sam nods, watching him. “So now what?”

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POV outsider:

❤️break the skin (to break the barriers) by sobsicles

29620 words, oneshot

Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: POV Outsider, Tattoos, Grief/Mourning, Angst with a Happy Ending, Tattoo Therapy, it's a thing, trust me on this, Dean is going through it, as always, Dean's brain overheating when thinking about Cas, sam being a good brother, indulging the insane, that feeling when you meet an old man who has lost his wife and hasn't been the same since, Dean actually talking about his life and feelings, Original Character saying what we wish we could, the way people can come to mean so much to us, even when they start out as strangers, hope and peace and life being what you make it, be kind to yourselves loves Summary:

The first time she meets him, he's nothing more than an almost-missed appointment.  ~~~ Dean is silent for a long, tense moment, then he gruffly says, "It's not for banishing the angels. It's to summon them. So, it doesn't—it's not to get rid of 'em, but to draw 'em in."  Mitzi can't help but glance up at him at that. His voice is so heavy with so much unexplained pain, and she doesn't understand why, or what angels have to do with it. She knows religion can impact people. She's very aware that it can get complicated, and that it can be a huge source of pain for someone, but Dean sounds grievously wronged, somehow, as if it's a truly personal thing.  She pushes through, focusing back on her job, clearing her throat before murmuring, "Well, I guess we all want angels to visit us sometimes."  "Just the one," Dean mumbles.  "Your guardian angel?" Mitzi asks.  Dean breathes out, "Something like that. As close to one as an angel will ever get." 

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🔒 Dean Winchester's Secret (Angel) Boyfriend by reluctantabandon, Winter_of_our_Discontent

11,191 words, oneshot

Rating: Teen Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Still Hunters, Humor, Misunderstandings, Canon-Typical Violence, Bisexual Dean Winchester, Dramatic entrances, Cas is a BAMF, POV Outsider, Community: deancasbigbang, Ellen and Jo are BAMFs too

Summary:

Dean Winchester isn't exactly a team player. So when he starts mentioning a new Hunting partner, Ellen and Jo Harvelle aren't sure whether they should be worried or relieved. But they're starting to get the feeling there's something important Dean's not telling them about Cas...

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Phone a Friend by noviembre

6,931 words, oneshot

Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: POV Outsider, Future Fic, finale denialist, Alternate Universe - Post-Canon

Summary:

Whoever is answering the phone as "FBI Assistant Director Robert Harvelle," she really hopes they come through for her, because her handcuff-slipping skills are definitely not up to par yet. -- The hunting community, after the apocalypse-that-never-happened.

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AmItheAssholeNatural (series) by birdsofthesoul, PlaidIsTheBestPattern

just a bit of silly goofy. in universe AITA posts. all pretty short

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The Love Story of the Runner Up by Margo_Kim

4755 words, oneshot Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Temporary Character Death, Dating, Break Up, POV Original Character, POV Outsider Summary:

“So you saw a white man in a trench coat pop out in an alley,” Paul says, “and you thought, what, ‘I want to see where this is going’?”   “If you get hung up on details like that,” Miguel says, “it will take a very long time to get through this story. For a very weird era in his life, Miguel dates an angel who is in love with another man.

Other:

Casefic:

Le Nouveau by museaway

23246 words, 3 chapters Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Crossover, Canon Universe, Fake Marriage, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Haunting, Ghosts, Case Fic, Jealousy, Doppelganger, Sexual Tension, The glory of Castiel's season 4 hair, Really spectacular interior design, First Time, It was a robot head

Summary:

A routine haunting lands Dean in a historic hotel with his brother, a flirtatious Cas look-a-like, and a grouchy Angel of the Lord masquerading as his husband.

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Though The Course May Change by imogenbynight

51581 words, 10 chapters Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Additional Tags: Canon Divergent, Fake Relationship, casefic, Pining, Fallen Castiel, First Kiss, First Time, Near Death Experiences, Dean playing guitar, Hurt/Comfort, "Platonic" Bed Sharing, Accidental Voyeurism, Fluff, Smut, Canon-Typical Violence, deancastropefest, Canon divergent - Alternate Canon, Post-Episode: s08e23 Sacrifice, author is card carrying member of, team everyone switches forever

Summary:

After a couple who went missing several years ago from an Oregon couples retreat are mysteriously returned on the same night that another disappears, Dean and Charlie plan to go undercover to find the cause--until Dean's foot meets his mouth, and he finds himself fake-engaged to Castiel instead.

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Alternate Universe:

the proof is in the pudding (49787 words) by caelum_writes Chapters: 7/7 Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Additional Tags: Non-Hunter Winchesters (Supernatural), Alternate Universe, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Fake/Pretend Relationship, Homophobia, Homophobic Language, Stanford Era (Supernatural), Smoker Dean Winchester

Summary:

After three years away, Sam's finally coming home for the holidays. Only, much to Dean's surprise, he isn't coming alone. -- “Who’s this?” Dad asks, confused. “Right,” Sam says. He huffs out a breath as he draws up his confidence. “Dad, Dean, this is Castiel. My boyfriend.”

Notes: NOT cheating. fake relationship is between sam and cas. not an outsider pov technically but still has that fun element of outside perceptions iykwim ?

[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”