#stabfest

[deancas-stabfest]

Stab Fest Sticker Guide

Law Boy Sam: The entry does not contain what would, generally, be considered to be a STAB, but if you look at the technicalities, it totally counts. Participants may need to argue their case before the mods. Curly powdered wigs optional.

BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE: The entry is part of series.

Uno/NO U reverse: Cas stabs Dean, rather than Dean stabbing Cas

Cannon of Canon Complicity: The entry is not an AU. This may mean the entry invokes Thee Original 4x01 stab, or simply that it's canonverse.

Stab Stab: Multiple stabs >:)

St. Stabastian: Entries which invoke St. Sebastian imagery. Introduced in 2023.

2 Girls 1 Stab: We've decided to add femslash to this Dean/Cas event. All femslash works get this. Introduced in 2023.

Crying Misha: The entry invokes an "actor AU" such as the episode The French Mistake, in which Misha and/or Jensen appear as characters rather than Castiel or Dean. May or may not invoke Misha getting stabbed in an alley.

Rebar of Shame: The entry invokes the 15x20 rebar impalement rather than (or in addition to) the 4x01 knife stab.

Om Nom Nom: The entry involves a bite. [Design Pending]

[hexentaenzerin]

Happy @deancas-stabfest day everyone. I'm so glad they added a femslash option this time around, because I somehow got it into my head to make the fallen angel (Anna) have some fun with the demon with a knack for helping humans (Meg). I got lucky that @malicmalic saw my art and claimed it. The fic can be found here

[amaranthhiding]

Forest Fever is online now!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/43749622 Pairings: Dean/Castiel, also friendship Dean&Cas, Sam&Cas Words: 8,586 (finished) Rating: Explicit Tags: Canon Universe, Monster of the Week, Forests, Mystery (a little), Hallucinations, Angst, Romance, Humor, Action, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, First Kiss, First Time, Post-12x10, Dean POV, Sam POV, Happy Ending Summary: After the crushing events of episode 12x10 "Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets", Castiel is low on grace and morale. In an attempt to restore at least one of these two, Sam and Dean take him on a hunt. Things start going wrong when Sam gets injured and Cas seemingly disappears. They get worse when Dean turns from hunter to prey for something feeling far more at home in this dark, rainy forest than he does. My entry for the Dean/Cas Stab Fest 2022, with art by the incredibly talented SUNINJANG.

Excerpt under the cut:

The angel sank to his knees with the blade still stuck in his chest, pure white glowing in place of his eyes and mouth.

Loss slowly carved its way through Dean’s body like an icy rivulet and he couldn’t breathe, couldn’t think, couldn’t accept that he had really killed Cas.

So he just reacted. No thought, no plan—the only thing that mattered was keeping the grace in as he let himself fall into that dying body in front of him, knocking them both fully to the ground.

His hands trembling in desperation and his own eyes barely functional in the blinding brightness, Dean reached for the blade with his good hand. The movement of pulling it out of Cas’s chest was the stuff of nightmares creeping over into reality. He let the offending metal drop to the ground. 

Then he pressed his palms against the glowing eyeholes, effectively shutting off the stream of light. There was heat under his fingers, but not the kind that burned skin. And even if it did, he couldn’t have cared less at this moment because he saw the ember outline of wings appear beneath Cas’s body, turning blades of grass to ash as a herald of death.

Cas, don’t leave, dontleavedontleavemeNO, Dean thought and prayed and begged indiscriminately.

He’d give anything. Anything.

For lack of more hands to stop the flow of grace, he covered Cas’s mouth with his own, another string of thoughts shouting through his head.

Stay, you have to stay. Ishim got it all wrong, you have a home. You’re home, Cas. Use my soul, do it, heal yourself, dontmakemeloseyouPLEASE! CASTIEL!

Something latched inside of him and the icy despair in Dean’s veins heated up rapidly, turned into searing lava that coalesced in his chest. It was like getting torn apart from the inside and he could no longer hold back a dull scream straight into Cas’s mouth. His voice unleashed all of his pain and fear and desperation, his affection and longing and love until the fire passed from his lips to Castiel’s. Read the full story on AO3.

[kikiatthemirror]

Ok, I'll use sketchbookdean 's post because I'm the worst at promoting myself. Here's our fanfic (https://archiveofourown.org/works/43735939) and fanart for the Dean/Cas stabfest! Enjoy!

Blood was pouring copiously from Cas’s wound, it had already soaked his shirt. A coughing fit confirmed Dean’s theory: Cas was spitting blood.

Dean held him in his arms, while tears of anger streaked his face.

How could he lose him again? He went through so much trouble freeing him from the Empty only to have him snatched from his arms a few months later?

Pain and despair joined his weariness.

Why did they always have to end up like this? Why couldn’t there be a fucking happy ending for them?

“Cas, please... Please...” he couldn’t say more, his eyes clouded with tears. He held him tight against his chest as he pressed on the wound around the blade.

“We’ve had more time...” Cas gasped, still looking at him with adoring eyes. “Months... together... I’m happy...”

Dean shook his head, furious, and was about to reply when his attention focused on the thing that had bobbed on his chest at the movement. There, hanging from a thin metal chain, was the vial with what was left of Cas’s grace.

your last grace by @kikiatthemirror

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entry for the @deancas-stabfest

[xfancyfranart]

THIS TAINTED LOVE YOU'VE GIVEN

As promised, here's the art post for my second @deancas-stabfest collab 😍 @lazarus-rose's prompt had me immediately hooked since it was music to my horror loving heart (with a spin on murder husbands I hadn't even considered yet) and takes the name "Stabfest" beautifully literal:

Summary: Everyone has their hobbies—Dean’s just happens to involve a lot more blood and screaming than most people’s. And sure, maybe murder isn’t the nicest way to blow off steam, but Dean’s always thought that being nice is overrated anyway. His latest victim, a pretty guy with startling blue eyes, should be nothing special, just another nameless body on Dean’s list. But then, after Dean kills and buries him, he turns back up at Dean’s house again the next day. What’s a guy to do when they’ve accidentally gotten an immortal witch convinced that they’ve got some kind of profound bond?

... can you blame me for claiming it? 😂 Read it NOW!! 🩸

Laz, I had an amazing time with you, your story and our collective brain rot. It's been so nice to meet and work with you and I hope it wasn't our last collab. Thank you for the A+ inspiration 🔪🖤

[fluffsnake]

𝓐𝓵𝓵 𝓽𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓡𝓮𝓶𝓪𝓲𝓷𝓼

I can finally post my companion piece for @doctorprofessorsong 's fic 'All that Remains', done for the @deancas-stabfest !! Get ready to have your heart shattered into a million pieces... 💔

I wanted to share a snippet of one of my favorite scenes from the fic - this part is unrelated to the artwork, really, but I just love it so so much~

He knew with inevitable certainty that his faith wasn't in God, or heaven, or the celestial host he used to call family. The thing he believed in most was nestled in the soft mossy green eyes staring at him as if trying to solve a puzzle with only half the pieces.

It was a bolt of lightning, burning him inside and leaving only a soft ashy glow of devotion.

Like a prayer, it poured straight from his heart to the object of his devotion, before he could think to stop it: "I have faith in you, Dean, even if life is a bunch of 'bullshit'"

[coydahlia]

My first art to post for a bang! (There will be more soon!)

For the amazing and dark and disturbing story by @autisticandroids : https://archiveofourown.org/works/52302232. Mind the tags, etc., but go read it!!

Picture is based on Orpheus Mourning the Death of Eurydice (included below the cut)

[keikakudom]

For my 2nd artwork in the @deancas-stabfest, I was paired up with Ola(@mrcowboydeanwinchester)!

Read Revenge for Dummies here!

[mrcowboydeanwinchester]

omg new 10k jo/meg fic just dropped it's a homoerotic high school au with stabbing and crack but mainly lesbianism and it's called revenge for dummies also there's like awesome art for it by @keikakudom

[deancas-stabfest]

#ides of STAB

Don't forget to send us your stabby snippets, doodles, thoughts and feelings for #ides of STAB! (main post here.)

ALSO--the studio that brought you STABFEST is happy to announce a new fest: 5K BY 5MAY. It's a no-frills fest with a word limit. Write a fic 5,000 words long and post it on the fifth of May. MORE INFO AND SIGN UP LINK HERE.

(Best part is, 5K by 5 May has no anonymity requirements, so if you end up writing a fic for a prompt or idea from #ides of STAB, you're free to submit it for 5K by 5May!)

[hemlock-ghost]

Spectril fell for this idiot's smile and that's the only thing I'll believe (that's a lie I'll take all the sliqtril I can get my grubby little hands on)

[hawkland]

Art Masterpost: the starving faithfuls Story by pluto (@spacetiel) Art by sidewinder (@hawkland)

It's Stabfest time again, everyone!

In probably my last new art post for the year, I can share my two pieces for the 2023 @deancas-stabfest today.

I saw Godstiel (my beloved) mentioned during claims, and I just had to jump on him that. And I got to work with @spacetiel who wrote a very delicious fic with some of my very favorite things in it so please go give "the starving faithfuls" a read!

[neversleepuntilfive]

My secound art post for this years @deancas-stabfest!! It was so much fun and make sure to check out @melancholictearz 's awesome fic Frightland!! Summary: WHEN BLUE EYES ARE PIERCING LIKE A PROP-KNIFE…

Hired as a theme park tester for the Halloween season, Dean is left to his own devices in the middle of Frightland Screampark. He isn’t the kind to be afraid— hell, he and his reviews are the ones everyone else should be afraid of. Yet, he pays a visit to the oh so famous haunted house; the place is nothing scary enough to trigger a fight or flight situation but a secret third option appears when Castiel, dressed as Leatherface, rushes at him— flirting.

Behind the bruise makeup, blue-eyes pierce right into his soul like the broken knife-prop that stabs his chest, and Dean doesn’t know how to deal with the pain in his heart and panic throbbing in his blood— he calls Castiel a pretty boy and finds something to actually look forward to by the end of the night...

[gaytedlasso]

There is a physical body now. At least that's what he imagines. His wounds are repaired, not by the magic of Hell, but by something far more powerful.

More infinite, tolerant, and brimming with faith. It's a feeling of warmth, and safety and the promise that everything will be alright.

It frightens him.

His consciousness sinks into the body, his body. How can that be? Was he not torn to shreds, soul dragged into the depths of the Pit?

Then, there is a warm – no, searing – grip on his shoulder, and he cries out in pain. But there is no sound, still.

He can't hear words but it's like an electric feel that washes over him, resonating within his heart and mind, blending deeply within his soul, a thunderous rumbling that pieces together his entire being:

My apologies.

This, Your Eternity by @kjosi

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my entry for the @deancas-stabfest

Go read the linked fic to get the whole story!

[xfancyfranart]

This Blade for Hire

Taking part in the @deancas-stabfest was a fantastic last minute decision! These mods do an amazing (and hilarious) job, and I've had so much fun collabing with @friendofcarlotta again.

Go and read "This Blade for Hire" HERE!

Dean still thinks that angels are dicks until he doesn't, Cas proudly wears not only flannel, but also his dom brow and a demon blade, and the girls finally get to stab each other too. Enjoy~

(My second Stabfest collab posts on Monday, so stay tuned <3)

[hexentaenzerin]

I got to do the art for @6x20castiel's @deancas-stabfest fic, so here you go. Yes, I hurt myself just as much drawing Dean in pain as he hurts. Anyway... Go read the fic here