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daydreamindollie · 6 years ago

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UPDATE!

Hey Dolls,

It’s me again, I’m so sorry I’ve been dead for several months now but here I am! Unfortunately, I don’t have an official update for you (as in an update for a story or a new oneshot or something) but just to give you some reassurance about my progress, I’m here to tell you what I’ve been doing.

So, here’s just some quick background on the happenings of the previous few months where exam season is slowly creeping up. I have two 2-hour mock exams to prepare for (psychology and biology) but I also have to complete my second project for art on micro-macro before I begin my component one to carry into the summer holidays. So school is busy but I’ve also been needing to do a lot of university searching and getting my work experience done. I actually did my work experience during the two-week holiday I was given for Easter but that took a week so I was really pressed for time.

To add onto that *le sigh* I’ve gotten really sick recently and it’s only getting worse by the day, which I don’t understand because I’ve taken medicine for it!!! It’s so frustrating! But you know, whenever I get sick, I really have no motivation to work on both school and my writing because I just want to sleep in bed and slowly die in my filth, so that’s slowing me down more than other works are, which I HATE!

Despite ALL OF THAT, however, I’ve gotten some work done for you! It’s not ready to be posted though but I’ll gladly tell you all about the progress.

I’ve planned all four scenes with all the events I want happening in it. I’m about to start scene three and am at 3.3k words

There’s a lot of fluff and some minor development in the relationship between Reader and Jungkook, there’ll also be some development in the relationship between TaeTae and Jungkook as well so look out for that!

Here’s a little teaser for you simply because I like spoiling you guys ;)

“Promise me you’ll take care of yourself too, Jeong,” you demand in a soft and beautifully fragile voice that has Jungkook leaning in ever so slowly closer, his urge to connect his lips with yours becoming instinct whenever in a situation where you’re looking up at him with those beautiful wide eyes, rosy cheeks and plush lips, he swears you’re silently begging him to devour your mouth with his own in a passionate dance.

“I promise…” he whispers back, lips brushing against yours as both your eyes slowly start to close, breaths momentarily stopping as if hypnotised by each other’s eyes, daring the other to initiate it kiss first. Before either of you could follow through, however, you were interrupted by a very loud shout.

I’ve planned around 4/5 scenes, I’ve just finished scene one and just realised that I have to do some more research so that there’s more accuracy but some delay in the writing process. But it’s currently at around 1.1k words.

This is a bit of an angsty chapter, especially for those of you who are animal lovers but there’ll finally be some progress in Reader’s and Yoongi’s relationship

Again, here’s a little teaser sample for you lovelies!

“Shhh…” he hushed in a husky voice despite his best attempt at reducing his rough speech into something soft just for your comfort, “it’s going to be okay…” his arm rounded your figure and brought you into his warm, tight embrace as he gave you a handful of moments to calm your heart-breaking sobs, “she’s in good hands, trust that they’ll do what’s best for her,” you nod meekly into his chest, following with a soft whimper as you cling onto the back of his shirt. The presence of time ceases to exist as you stand there hugging yourself tightly to your neighbour and expel all of your tears and sobs into his chest, soaking his shirt but he doesn’t mind.

“Th-thank you, Yoongi,” you whisper with a sniffle as you look up at him with a rose-dusted cheek pressed to his chest, your eyes big and glossy as an adorable pout had your lips looking plumper than usual. Yoongi’s heart skipped many subsequent beats as he stared down at you, very well aware of the blossoming blush on his cheeks but unable to turn away; had you always been this cute? How could he miss that about you?

PHEW! Planning this was so exhausting because I’ve never written smut before! And Silly Me didn’t split it into scenes but I can assure you that it’s all planned out...the only problem is that I think I might change it again, sorry! But it’s only at 0.8k words, I’m so sorry!!!!

But here’s another teaser, keep in mind that these teasers aren’t grammatically edited yet so please excuse the unpolished state of these teasers x

The more you avoid him and the more Namjoon is left to his own thoughts and queries, the quicker he’s beginning to connect the dots. It was the same day he had finally allowed your heavenly name to pass his lips during his ministrations for the first time since the very beginning. It was always the little things that you did that turned him on more than any other girl on campus has been able to, not even the perkiest cheerleaders, the smartest biologists or the most compassionate artist as been able to stir and tangle his nerves the way you have been able to. In your oversize shirts and jumpers, shovelling junk food into your mouth as you moan in bliss and smile happily at the entertainment you have playing on the screen before you, the innocence you display is inversely proportional to the amount of unadulterated lust you evoke within him.

There’s just something in the way you lick your sweet pink lips clean, ridding them of the crumbs of your snacks; he can vividly imagine the way they would look lapping up the last droplets of his cum after you’ve sucked him off like the good little girl he knows you can be. He has played with the idea that you have nothing but your oversized shirt protecting you from his wandering hands even though you’re clearly wearing a bra and shorts underneath, it’s just more exciting to him if there’s a possibility that if he were to slip his hands underneath the tauntingly thin fabric of your shirt, he’ll only be met with supple softness, ready to be tainted by his fine hands. And taint them he will if you’d ever let him have the chance to. One time, several months ago, you actually weren’t wearing your bra underneath your shirt and it drove him up the wall, he was so close to you and seeing your perked nipples making an obvious indentation through the fabric made his hands itch to just reach over and squeezesqueezesqueeze your fleshy mounds until he had you squirming underneath him. Those are things he’s been able to grow some immunity to, especially after flushing out his frustrations through, somewhat, unsatisfying personal sessions with himself. However, it’s your unintentionally arousing moans that always trigger something dark and sinister within him, he’s always tried to imagine you moaning his name aloud but has to refrain from doing so or else he’s sure he’ll jizz in his pants - a dry orgasm was something he wasn’t eager to experience, yet.

So this is a Jeon Wonwoo x f.reader oneshot I’ve been working on that’s part of a oneshot series that’s based around an alternate universe I came up with. I’ve planned 8 scenes for it and I’m half way through scene 4 and am already at 5.2k words.

The teaser I’m about to give you is far longer than the rest but I’m just really proud of the alternate universe I was able to come up with that I feel is just so unique. I really want to show you guys how it’s coming along and get you fired up as much as possible so you can pester me to finish it and get on with the other 12 members’ oneshots for this series too!

In a universe where people carry around their hearts, with some wearing them on their sleeves and others tucking them into the breast pocket of their blazers and out of people’s sight, Wonwoo appeared to be the only one adamant at keeping his at home and off his person when moving about. It wasn’t as though he was embarrassed by his heart or anything, it’s just that, carrying around his heart like most people usually would, was a heavy burden on him, literally. Everyone’s heart had a trait that matched the personality of the person they represented and, although they were all as unique as the person that owned them, they all had a similar trait. They were unbreakable - harder than diamond and more precious than any jewel. Despite this physical resilience to external forces, they can be fractured by one thing and one thing only: heartbreak.

Wonwoo’s heart was much like the rest in this quality, however, his had undergone a phenomenon he’d prefer to keep to himself rather than alert the cardiologists, who specialised in the field of hand-held hearts. Before his first heartbreak, Wonwoo’s heart was soft, in any way shape or form. Its surface was smooth like the finest silk and it was rather sizeable too, almost reaching farther than his fingertips when held in the centre of his palm. Not only that but his heart had the viscosity of fluffy marshmallows. Looking back on the time his heart was of that state was laughable because it directly matched his personality: funny and sweet, soft and malleable to any given situation. Now, however, he was hardly like that now and so was his heart.

Heartbreak really changed him as a person and usually, people who suffered through that would go through therapy or counselling with their heartbreaker in order to avoid any desperate change their heart and they, themselves, would make in response to the pain of heartbreak. Sometimes, breaking another person’s heart was punishable as a crime simply because of the adverse effect it can have on an individual, and so, it was always taught to children at a young age that when given the responsibility of another person’s heart, they should handle it with the utmost care. Wonwoo never had the pleasure of going through therapy or counselling for his heartbreak; he merely didn’t want the pity that came when people found out that he had gone through something like that, and he knows for certain that many people would be alerted of his suffering. If people had ever once been heartbroken in their lives it was put in their medical records as a signpost that their heart was more breakable now than before, he also didn’t want the sympathy of others if he were to enter the heartbreak clinic. He just wanted to avoid all the trivial attention.

And so, Wonwoo left his heart alone, to change and morph into stone. He didn’t know what stone it was but it was still as unbreakable as ever, with the exception of the damage heartbreak had brought - he wouldn’t dare test that out. Alongside the change of his heart, Wonwoo also made a drastic change in personality; now he was mostly silent and stoic, inclined to keep to just himself and his group of friends. He had become as quiet and still as his heart of stone.

This series isn’t out yet but it is in progress. It’s going to be a really long series that’s gonna have a lot of chapters and will possibly be an OT7 x f.r fic, I don’t know, maybe I’ll make it a member-centric in later chapters - again, it’s still a work in progress. I’m still planning everything out.

I might tweak some of the storyline because I don’t think having the entire thing progress over five years would be easy to do, unless I want to make multiple sequels for it, so like Harry Potter or something but no, that’s not gonna happen, unfortunately. I just won’t have the time.

But here is my inspirations list and what I’m directly finding inspiration in, just so that you can have a feel of what I want this series to be like:

- anime: Fairy Tail (Tournament + Powers)

- Harry Potter (Magic School)

- Hunger Games(?) (Tournament Style + Filming of events)

- Pokemon(?) (Mini Battles)

I’ve planned the ending (although it might change), the concept and workings of magic circles, the AU’s background/history, Elemental Stereotypes, the magic school’s background and I am in the middle of creating the members’ as well as Reader’s character profile.

I’ve also gone ahead and planned the first year of their school, although this could change because I want to take away the years that this would be progressing through and make it more straightforward.

This...I’ve been planning this for a while but haven’t really gotten to writing it yet. I’m hoping to make it into a mini one-shot series of Royal Encounters *wink**wonk* that’s subtly linked to each other.

This could end up being an OT7 x maid reader or individual members x maid reader but yeah! I’ve planned out all of the ‘encounters’ in bullet point format and hope to get to writing it for you Dolls soon!

SO I’ve been really busy, haha, despite being dead these few months, I’m so sorry that I take so long to post anything, I’m also sorry that I’m bad at building a relationship with you guys by not making casual posts like this often, where I can talk to you freely.

I guess, I just don’t feel like I’m an interesting enough of a person for you guys to be interested in talking to me in such a way. I also have many silent readers, who I appreciate a lot, but I guess that just reassures me more on the topic of ‘being silent with readers is okay’.

But please, if you have a question like ‘Are you still alive Dollie?’ or ‘how’s this work coming along?’, feel free to message me! I’ll happily reply as soon as possible! And it’ll draw my focus back onto what works I need to continue writing.

You’re my inspiration too, not just our beloved idols.

Anyway, that’s all from me! I hope you’re all looking forward to what I have in store for you.

Much love,

Dollie x

#bts x reader #wonwoo x reader #update #i'm still alive #so sorry for the wait

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tyreexpert · 4 years ago

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What to keep in mind while buying new car tyres

Tyres are the fundamental link between your car and the road. A good set of tyres will improve the handling, steering, acceleration and braking of your car, and will make full use of any further modifications performed to your car. This article contains the bare essentials of choosing the right set of tyres for a typical passenger vehicle without getting too technical or specific.

There are five main elements you have to consider when choosing the right set of tyres for your vehicle -

1. Tube-type or tubeless 2. Size of tyre 3. Tread pattern 4. Rubber Compound 5. Overall quality of the tyre

1. Tube-type or tubeless The answer to this question is very simple. Opt for tubeless tyres. They are safer, more advanced and have a few other small advantages too. You do NOT need to have alloy wheels in order to use tubeless tyres. However, for the best results your steel wheels should be rust free (or just buy a new set as they are very cheap) and preferably have the insides coated with an anti-rust coating.

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2. Size Size is probably the most talked about and controversial part of buying tyres if you are going for an upsize. Tyre sizes are represented in a standard format. For eg. 205/55 R 15, which can be read as follows: 205 (mm) - or 20.5cm is the width of the tread on the tyre. 55 (%) - is the height of the sidewall represented as a percentage of the tread width. R (Radial) - Radial construction, as almost all tyres are nowadays. 15 (inches) - Is the rim diameter of the wheel on which this tyre is designed to fit.

Choosing the right size can be broken up into three decisions -

i. Rim size - You have to choose a tyre size designed for exactly the size of rim you plan to mount the tyre on. Larger rims will effectively reduce the sidewall height (making the tyre lower profile) and therefore minimize sidewall flex when cornering, adding to the "on rails" feel, however, this will obviously have an adverse effect on ride quality and comfort.

ii. Tread width - Generally a 0mm-20mm increase in width from the stock size is considered within the realm of sanity in the Indian context. Keep in mind that not only size, but tyre compound also plays a large role in "grippyness".

To get a better idea of whether you should upsize your tyre width (if at all) see the following chart

Keep in mind that the tyre width also has an ideal wheel width which it works best with, try to keep this in mind otherwise you may end up having stability issues when braking hard or cornering

If you increase the width of your tyres, you should also confirm that they do not touch the wheelwells of your car on turning the steering wheel all the way and when the car is under full load.

iii. Sidewall Height (or Profile) - After selecting your rim size and your tread width, the objective is to choose a sidewall profile that keeps the overall diameter of the new tyres as close to original as possible.

Use <this> calculator to judge changes in size. Generally a difference in the range of 3-4% is considered acceptable.

Keep in mind that a change in overall diameter (OD) of your tyre & wheel combo will cause a slight error in your speedometer readings and odometers readings, which is purely academic. Also your ground clearance may change very slight (half the change in diameter).

3. Tread Pattern

The tread pattern of a tyre has a major effect on the tyres wet weather performance, which depends on its ability to channel water away from the contact patch between the tyre and the road. The tread pattern also plays a part in how much road noise is generated by the tyre due to air getting trapped and expelled from those channels during running. Tests have shown that the tread pattern of a tyre does not have as much of an effect as the compound of the tyre when it comes to traction, but nonetheless it plays a part. (Unless ofcourse you are looking at a tyre for mud, snow or sand, in which case the tread pattern plays a vital role.). Never buy re-treaded tyres; they are dangerous and not worth the little money you save. i. Conventional Tread - Is the most commonly found type. It is neither (uni)directional nor asymmetric and therefore can be run in either direction or mounted on the rim either way.

ii. Uni-Directional - These tyres are designed to be most effective when rotating in the specified direction. There will always be a marking on the sidewall of these tyres stating the direction of rotation with an arrow. The tyres with the tread pattern in some sort of "A" or "V" configuration are usually uni-directional. They work more efficiently when rotating in the specified direction primarily in terms of water chanelling and controlling tyre noise.

iii. Asymmetric - These tyres are designed to have an outside/road facing sidewall and a inside/car facing sidewall. There will always be a notation on the sidewall stating which side is to be road-facing / outside. The advantage to asymmetrical tyres is, for example, the outside shoulder of the tyre tread can be designed with a different pattern and compound of rubber to aid high speed cornering (where a lot of the the load is transfered to the road facing side of the tyre on the outside of the curve) while the rest of the tyre can be designed with a harder compound for better treadwear, or a different tread pattern for better wet weather performance etc.

4. Rubber Compound

The rubber compound used to manufacture the tyre is probably the most important factor in determining a tyre's traction and treadwear characteristics. Generally, the quality ("softness") of the rubber is proportional to the amount of traction you will get and the speed rating of the tyre, and inversely proportional to the treadlife of the tyre. Therefore the higher the speed rating of a tyre, the better the grippyness of the tyre is likely to be. Also, the way the tyre is marketed is an indicator - the "ultra-sport" will usually have a grippier compound than the "sport" or the "comfort" tyres from the same manufacturer. The compound also plays a part in the behavior of a tyre in little ways, for example, some tyres will screech and wail when approaching the limits of traction, whereas others might just let out the faintest chirp and then begin to slide.

5. Overall Quality Of The Tyre

Things to consider are -

i. Reputation of manufacturer - Ask around, read reviews, do research or just go with a well known and trusted manufacturer. It does make a difference as they have more modern facilities, better quality standards and newer equipment at their manufacturing plants.

ii. Warranty - Read the fine print. There always is fine print.

iii. Date of Manufacture - Every tyre is stamped with a four digit DOT code on its sidewall which denotes the week (first 2 digits) and year (last 2 digits) of manufacture (eg. 2104 = 21st week of 2004). The fresher the tyre you buy, the better. Try not to buy tyres that are older than 6 months, and definitely nothing older than a year.

iv. Added Technologies - Each manufacturer has different little technologies and tricks that they apply to their tyres, and named something unique and cute; don't pay too much attention to these unless it is actually something revolutionary

CEAT Car Tyres is the best tyre brand as these car tyres are made using new generation rubber compounds that enable them to withstand any and all conditions. CEAT offers durable tyres with excellent grip for a comfortable driving experience. You can visit the nearest tyre shop or buy tyres online on CEAT website

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rekindlingintimacyinmarriagepdf · 4 years ago

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How To Restore Intimacy And Romance In Marriage - Men’s Edition

Relationship elements, a concise preliminary; the inceptions of outrage and closeness Marriage mentoring, treatment for melancholy, or relationship/life instructing is an interest in yourself or potentially your marriage. It appears to be that nobody shows us how to be a genuinely solid individual, or how to have a sound marriage. A few of us search out a mentor, or a coach, and when we do, we find that we have found something that we never knew existed. We find that being a sincerely solid individual or having a sound marriage is definitely not a strange or tricky thing that individuals just discussion about. It's genuine, and inside your grip. The time and energy you spend on yourself and your marriage is rarely squandered! Put resources into yourself and your marriage!

Connections can be fulfilling, and rather vexing and befuddling on occasion. Through our conversations you will learn numerous apparatuses, and to create and use these abilities to accomplish your objectives throughout everyday life, work and love. This article manages one focal dynamic seeing someone, with an accentuation on close connections. That dynamic is the connection between private emotions and irate sentiments. It is an antiquity of our very closeness that makes us have the option to all the while feel nearer then any other individual we know, and to battle like nobody else we know. This dazzling inconsistency appropriately made do with getting, regard, and responsibility, can and ought to be the wellspring of interminable satisfaction and a happy life as a couple. There is an extremely cozy connection between warm, close, adoring emotions ( Intimacy ), which is our objective, and cool, furious, inaccessible sentiments ( all the more frequently then we might want, the issue ). Those two sentiments may appear to be, and are, from numerous points of view perfect inverses. Nonetheless, they originate from nearly, precisely, a similar spot.

Those total inverse sentiments make them thing in like manner, passionate weakness. To incredibly shifting degrees it penetrates each connection we have altogether of our connections. It is generally predominant and applicable to our close connection, and subsequently key to our conversation of relationship elements. That weakness is obvious in both our caring private connections and our furious harmful minutes, it is the actual establishment of every one of our connections. Without some degree of weakness there is no relationship by any stretch of the imagination.

We as a whole have weaknesses. We are altogether powerless in light of the fact that not a solitary one of us is awesome. It is our decision to share or make ourselves powerless against someone else that brings session a relationship. How those weakness are overseen, is the thing that decides how close a relationship will be. Since not a one of us is great, we as a whole have beneficial things about us, that we are glad for and appreciate offering to other people. These weaknesses are ones that we have a sense of security to impart to a wide scope of individuals and we do only that when we meet another person and we are putting that best foot forward. Also, we as a whole have things about us that we are not so glad for, that we would prefer not recollect not to mention share with anybody. These things, are our greatest weaknesses and hence what causes us to feel genuinely passionate powerless. We are ordinarily exceptionally cautious about whom we endow this most delicate data with. It is just those individuals whom we believe the most that we will impart our greatest weaknesses to. We share these weaknesses, just with those individuals whom we wish to be nearest to. We convey them verbally and actually, in return for closeness, and in the long run, trust and love.

Notwithstanding passionate weakness, there are different sorts of weakness that are partaken seeing someone, there is scholarly weakness, where I share my considerations, abilities, thoughts, and arrangements. There is additionally actual weakness where I portion of my actual self, we like that one.... Passionate weakness, anyway is the key "flavor" of weakness that we need to concentrate on. This is on the grounds that it is the fundamental segment of each relationship. Throughout the course of time, as we share increasingly more about ourselves, it is additionally one of the essential things that dynamically brings us closer, and closer together. Appropriately regarded and oversaw, in time it bonds us together, as a sound and upbeat couple. In our personal connections our closeness/closeness develops through the sharing of weaknesses.

Passionate weakness is just 50% of what draws us together. Notwithstanding weakness to feel close, we should likewise feel great, or protected in sharing those weaknesses. In the event that we are not happy, or don't have a sense of security with another we won't share our weaknesses. In any case, when we do have a sense of security we appreciate sharing this data. At the point when we share weaknesses and we feel tuned in to, regarded, and really focused on, we start to feel close. These warm close sentiments feel so great that we are attracted to that individual genuinely and in time truly as well. The more we share with one another and the more secure we feel, the nearer we become. As we keep on dating one and other, there normally comes when we find that we can talk for quite a long time. We miss one another and long to be together once more. At the point when we are having these long distance race discussions we start to share things about ourselves that we are not so pleased with, in short our weaknesses. As I share this advantaged data about myself, and you tune in and support me, and offer to help me in managing these things, I feel regarded, heard, really focused on, and on schedule, cherished. Through correspondence and actual touch, we develop personal sentiments and eventually fall head over heels in love for one and other. Our inevitable objective is to impart all of ourselves to one another and in the end feel adored for all of what our identity is, blemishes what not. In this way, warm, close, adoring, personal sentiments originate from the capacity to feel genuinely powerless and protected simultaneously.

Closeness develops, as I depicted, thus does .... outrage.

Outrage starts at a point on schedule after some proportion of significant closeness has been developed. This is on the grounds that before any significant annoyance will show between us there should be some proportion of shared weakness. Like closeness, outrage originates from feeling sincerely powerless, however this time hazardous simultaneously. It begins with miscommunication, and resulting errors, at that point as examples create, correspondence diminishes, and feelings of disdain start to aggregate. These feelings of hatred will arrive at a sort of minimum amount and ruinous resentment arises.

Outrage is an individual, guarded, and on occasion dangerous dynamic, that runs its course by harming the ones I love. My displeasure shields me from you by making distance between us. The reasoning is moderately straightforward, in the event that I can make sufficient distance among us, you will not have the option to hurt me and I will be protected once more. Outrage makes distance in one of two different ways, possibly I drive you away or I eliminate my self from the circumstance, whichever way I reestablish my very own security, regularly to the detriment of our common or relationship's closeness.

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nienorwinchester · 8 years ago

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#2 Destiel fics REC list

You can find my first Destiel and Cockles rec list here.

I decided to make a new one because the first one was sooo big and it was time for a fresh start. :) I will update the list whenever I have a lot of new fics to add. Right now I uploaded nearly a 100 fics, so enjoy them. :)

PS: every fic is “explicit”, or at least “mature” here. And you can find two sections: “Long fics” and “Short fics”. If you not see “AU” or “A/B/O” next to the titles it means that it’s an SPN verse/canon verse fic. I don’t like OOC fics, no matter if it’s canon verse, AU or A/B/O. There’s one exception for OOC fics in here: if it’s tooo good and beautiful with fantastic story, oh, and epic. :)

Long fics (More than 30k)

Ad Interim by emwebb17 (AU)

Castiel is invited to study at the prestigious International Academy of Art and is one of the very select few who is told about the real power of Art: people and events can be influenced by the stroke of a paintbrush. As Castiel learns more about this power, he realizes he can do a lot more than what he's being taught in the classroom. Maybe even interact with the beautiful, expressive subject of his favorite four hundred year old painting.

Anything, I repeat, ANYTHING by emwebb17 is a must read. She’s one of the best Destiel and Cockles writers. Trust me, she’s never gonna disappoint you.

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The Spirit of Lawrence High verse by violue (AU)

Dean Winchester is funny, gorgeous, brave, loyal, and a breath of fresh air in Castiel Shurley's life. Dean Winchester is also a ghost haunting Castiel's school, but nobody's perfect, right?

This. Is. A. Must-read. Trust me, it’s epic and it has a fantastic happy ending, no MCD. :) Oh, and read anything by violue. She’s a genius.

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Carnival Oasis series by violue (AU)

The adventures of Dean Winchester and his sin eating boyfriend.

I can’t express myself well, I can’t tell you how much I love this series. It’s a beautiful masterpiece, highly rec it. :)

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Unfamiliar by riseofthefallenone (AU)

“We all know that Familiars will be the closest to you. Your bond with a Familiar will transcend family, friends, and even your future husband or wife. A Familiar becomes a part of you, and you a part of them.” Mr. Adler’s dull tone rolls across the auditorium and it’s clear to everyone that he doesn’t care about the topic. It makes Castiel feel bad for his Familiar. “Now, can anyone tell me why Witches need Familiars and why they need us?”

Riseofthefallenone is one of our best authors. Highly rec all her fics.

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The Complete Works of Emmanuel Allen by violue (AU)

Dean Winchester, reluctant business owner, reluctant home owner, and reluctant cat owner, is striking up a very promising friendship with the author of his favorite book series.

And he has no idea.

Violue is one of our best authors. I highly rec all of her fics. :)

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Dean Winchester Is a Gay Virgin by betts (her old name was betty days, sadrobots) (AU)

"Dean Winchester has a grand total of two big secrets:

Secret #1 is that he’s a virgin.

Secret #2 is that he’s gay."

***

Dean Winchester is a college junior, a full-time mechanic, and a baseball superstar. He's so far in the closet, he can't find a way out. Then he meets Castiel Krushnic, the totally dreamy President of the LGBTQA Alliance at school, and finds out that Cas has some dark secrets of his own.

This. Is. A. Must. Read. Anything by betts is perfect. I highly rec all of her fics.

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Dear Dean by anyrei, Drunk_Idjit

Season 10. Takes place right after Dean is cured and decides to take a break from the hunting life to get back on his feet. Cas is on his mission finding rogue angels with Hannah. Sam suggests a dating website for Dean so he can look for new friends, or something more. He wants Dean to feel like a normal human being again. Cas finds out and decides to start writing to Dean anonymously through the website.

Seriously guys, you have to read this. Perfect amount of angst, hurt/comfort and fluff. Not some cliché fic, so highly rec it.

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First Gentleman Wanted by youaresunlight (AU)

President of the United States Castiel Novak is popular, charismatic, and knee-deep in campaigning for a second term. He’d be the ideal candidate if it weren’t for the fact that he hasn’t dated once while in political office. With his opponent’s relentless PR team calling him incapable of emotional commitment, Castiel’s staff decides to remedy the situation by finding their boss a fake, picture-perfect boyfriend. And when Dean Winchester enters the scene, he and Cas become America’s new favorite couple, except they’ve got a whole lot of history between them and complicated feelings to resolve.

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Written in the Scars on Our Hearts by elizaye (A/B/O)

Dean's... content. He's single, and he'll probably stay that way for the rest of his life. He screwed up his relationship with Cas, fucked up badly enough that no one in their right mind would take him back, and really, Dean's already stupidly lucky that he's allowed to see Ariel at all, let alone have her over at his place every other weekend. It's more than he deserves, but hell, he's not about to give it up. He's accepted the consequences for his actions, and he's content. At least, he thinks he is.

Here’s the link for the whole series.

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Angel Bridge by Desirae (AU)

“Oh, I’m just peachy Cas. I just have one question for you.”

“Of course, Dean, what is it?” Cas said, reaching out a steadying hand to his chilled shoulder.

“Did you rent me a haunted fucking cabin?”

When paranormal writer Dean Winchester decided to spend a quiet summer writing in Echo Lake Maine, he never expected to stumble onto a century old Ghost story. Falling in love with his adorably sexy landlord, shop keeper Castiel Novak definitely wasn’t in his plans either. Sometimes the unexpected is the best thing that could ever happen to you.

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Ignore the Butterflies: Best Friend Advice from Dean Winchester by impatient14 (AU)

What do you get when you add Firefighter!Dean to standoffish-Doctor!Castiel?

A thousand other fics, you say?

Aaaand what’s your point exactly??!?!

Dean likes his doctor, but his doctor doesn’t like him.

Accidental friendship ensues, heartwarming bonding type moments occur, and oops!friends become best!friends.

But best friends aren’t supposed to feel the way Dean feels about Castiel. He knows this. So he ignores all the things that he can’t help feeling. When he sits and watches a movie with his best friend or when they are arguing about which method of coffee brewing is best, he pointedly doesn’t look at his friends lips, or the adorable way he tilts his head when he doesn’t understand.

Dean ignores his feelings.

That’s the way he knows how to keep his best friend.

Just ignore the butterflies.

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Plain and Tall by destielpasta, mtothedestiel (AU)

Dean is a Kansas farmer who only wants to work his land and care for his infant daughter. With his wife gone and his brother moving on to a life beyond the homestead, Dean finds himself in need of another pair of hands. Castiel, a lonely drifter freshly arrived in town, may prove the solution to Dean’s troubles. Over the course of four seasons, the two men face the everyday challenges of prairie life, and learn to overcome the betrayals of their past to discover a new definition of family.

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Touch of Silence by anyrei

Dean touches Cas after he got his grace back and the mark is silent for the first time.

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Autrement, Danger - or, The Account of an Exceedingly Long Day by awed_frog

When Dean looks at it, he sees Cas, and he's not happy about it. When Sam looks at it, he sees Jess, which is even more unfair and fucked up. And when Cas looks at it - hell, who knows what Cas is even thinking? Dean is not asking him, because he really doesn't care - like, at all.

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Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore by Lyekka

Attempting to help Castiel embrace his newfound humanity, Dean embarks on a mission to finally get his friend laid. Plot derails quickly and some shenanigans and awkward sexual tension ensue.

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Kissing It Bitter Trilogy by strangenessandcharm

This was originally a one-off in which I wanted Dean to save Castiel. And then Castiel ended up reciprocating, and then Lilith got involved, and, well, this happened. Contains much sexin' and some violence... but, yeah, mainly sexin'.

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Get Knocked Down, Get Back Up by Unforth (A/B/O)

With an over-sensitive sense of smell, omega Dean Winchester finds the scent of most potential mates to be, frankly, nauseating. Enter alpha Castiel, who smells fracken *perfect* but has problems of his own.

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Convenient Husbands by Annie D (scaramouche) (AU)

"It's only temporary, right?" Dean says. "Just until you're healed up, and then we'll never have to see each other again. So what do you say, Castiel, do you want to marry me or not?"

A beautiful and hot must-read. :)

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Gravity vs Velocity by PaperAnn (A/B/O)

Newton's law of universal gravitation states that any two bodies in the universe attract each other with a force that is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between the two bodies.

Dean swears he feels an honest-to-goodness gravity (not any scent-true-mates-bullshit) pulling him to a mysterious omega and makes the worst mistake of his career... he only has one thing to say...

Fuck science.

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The Melting ’Verse by stangenessandcharm

The epic love story of Dean and Castiel told in 110,000 words. Stuffed to the brim with angel!porn, whump, angst, action, wing!porn and occasional soppiness, and Sam doesn't get neglected either. (Although he doesn't partake in the angel!porn, I should probably add.) Some of it's really, really dark (with non-con), so be prepared for that if you're just looking for a little schmoop.

This is EPIC. With BAMF!Cas. Fantastic, I highly rec it. :)

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To Raise A King by riseofthefallenone (AU)

This must be some kind of horrible joke at Castiel’s expense. Is he truly expected to protect a King? One who has been their enemy for as long as he can remember? He is much more suited to being a part of the army, or at the very least someone who helps to train the knights. That would be far more preferred than having to watch over the King. It means Castiel would get to keep fighting – and that’s the only way he knows to give meaning to his life.

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Into Your Hideaway by thepinupchemist (A/B/O)

Driving down a deserted road in the Rocky Mountains, Castiel finds something unexpected: An omega. Not only an omega, but a naked, injured, pregnant omega.

Dean doesn't talk much at first, but that doesn't change the brightness of his soul.

It also doesn't stop Castiel from falling in love with him.

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Thursday’s Child by strangenessandcharm

Spoilers for 5.04, 'The End'. So I got to wondering: what would have happened if past!Dean hadn’t turned up in 2014, and future!Dean had actually succeeded in killing Lucifer with the Colt? Apparently, it involves lots of angsting. Who knew? 114,000 words total.

You have to watch the fic’s trailer too. It’s fantastic.

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When Worlds Collide by jhoom

When Zachariah dies, the illusions he’s created die with him. But before they collapse completely, sometimes they collide. That’s how Castiel goes from cradling Dean Winchester’s broken body one moment, to finding himself face to face with Dean Smith in the next.

This story starts in the moments after 2009 Dean is pulled from the Endverse back into his own timeline. We follow Endverse Castiel as he’s sucked into the Terrible Life Verse. Confronted with Dean Smith, Castiel begrudgingly tries to deal with the fact that he’s still alive and that he’s stuck with some strange Dean. (Worse yet, he might be developing feelings for this other man.)

But is Castiel the only one who slipped between the cracks between one world and another? And how and why did Castiel end up in Dean Smith’s apartment?

THIS! This is... Wow. This is something new and different and good and just sooo sooo beautiful. Definitly a must-read. :)

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To Build A Home by anyrei, mugglerock

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?

This is epic, and beautiful and something sooo new and great. :) I loved it so much :)

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You Can't Spell Subtext

by LadyTuesday

... without S-E-X. Or, Five Times that Dean Fucked with Cas, and the One Time Cas Fucked Back.

Plot - The first time it happens, it’s a genuine accident. Dean’s mind wanders in a completely random, not-at-all-planned direction by sheer happenstance; he’d swear to it on a stack of bibles. He doesn’t mean to think of Cas while whacking it. But as he lays on the bed recovering from a mind-blowing orgasm after having a fantasy about the angel and he’s pretty sure Cas mentally witnessed said fantasy, Dean can’t help thinking … this could be fun.

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The Heart of Ophelia by anyrei, mugglerock

Always throwing himself in harm’s way for the Winchesters, Castiel ends up getting hit with a love curse. Under the influence of fabricated emotions, Castiel learns just how dangerous unrequited love can be. And Dean learns what it means to doubt everything he’s ever believed. They have a week to find a way to lift the curse, otherwise the intoxication of “love” will kill Castiel. Literally.

THIS... This is sooooo good and epic, and love. Sorry, I love their works so much. xD

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Our Home Below by jupiter_james (AU)

Statistically speaking, any two people in the world are sharing the breaking of a mating bond through some sort of tragedy at any given time. Unbeknownst to either of them, Castiel Novak and Dean Winchester become widowers at the same time, joining the statistics together. Through a change of scenery and the need to rebuild their shattered lives elsewhere due to the sudden breaking of their mating bonds, Castiel and Dean meet in their new hometown of Halcyon, Maine; population: barely a handful. Despite both being alphas, they are immediately drawn towards one another. Their shared circumstances, combined with the strong urge to scent bond, sends them both reeling. The only problem is that Castiel refuses to set himself up for the same heartbreak a second time. And no matter how hard Dean tries not to, he can't seem to come across as anything other than the stereotypical alpha jerk when confronted with the intriguing doctor. But fate keeps bringing them together, so Castiel keeps trying to figure Dean out, while Dean just plain old keeps trying.

Some of you know, that it’s hard for me to find great A/B/O fics. And besides that, alpha/alpja pairings is my weakness. And if these three meet with epicness, not-OOC characters and good writing... The result is something beautiful. Like this perfection. <3

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like moses and batman and james dean by saltyfeathers (AU)

dean used to turn tricks. over a decade later, he met cas.

Seriously, I’m the kind of reader who closes a fic as soon as I see that the title and summary don’t have capital letters. Oh, man, I’m so glad that I didn’t do that with this epic beauty.

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I Can Make You Scared by Dangerousnotbroken (AU)

So this is how it goes. Best day of Dean Winchester’s life. Loses his job, finds out he’s been cheated on, gets dumped, all in the course of one fucked up Thursday. Drinking himself into oblivion is the natural response, right? A chance encounter in a dingy dive bar gives Dean a new friend who sees his problems and likes him anyway. Now, as Dean struggles to pick up the pieces of his life, Castiel just might help him put them back together in a way he never expected.

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No Words by Ltleflrt (AU)

On the run from his very powerful family, Castiel does his best to get lost. Because if he doesn't know where he is, his brothers won't be able to find him very easily either. He ends up in Silverton, a small mountain town nestled deep within the Rocky Mountains where he meets Dean Winchester, a very beautiful and very grumpy omega.

I think I finally found my most favourite, the most epic long A/B/O fic. I tried so much, they always had something that put me off, but this was perfection. Not OOC, not feminizied characters, great story and plot and and ultimate happy ending. :) Just like with “Into Your Hideaway”. I nearly cried for joy and the end, and it’s something, because it’s not easy to make my cry happy. xD

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Short fics (Less than 30k)

If the World Doesn't End by Obsessionist

"If everything goes according to plan, the world won't end tomorrow. But I won't be there to see it. So since this is probably my last night on earth, I'm going to do something I have wanted to do for a very long time." -Dean's last night on Earth.

It. Is. Epic. Trust. You have to read this gem.

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Gray Matter by PaperAnn (A/B/O)

It should have been a night like any other night, but for Dean Winchester this evening was different.

Tonight was his last on Earth.

The omega finally snapped; the weight of his kills moonlighting as an assassin were too heavy to carry. So he decided to set out to numb the pain with whiskey and the white noise of whatever seedy bar he randomly ambled into. Although he’d intended to drown his sorrows alone, a bold alpha (who introduced himself as Castiel) wormed his way into his party-for-one, but more importantly: his story.

After brazenly announcing that Dean’s plan to shoot himself in the head was “unoriginal,” the alpha lured him out into the bar to prove there are much more interesting and creative ways to go.

A bizarre, deranged game turns into a night of passion, and leads Dean into introspective questions he never would've asked before. Maybe everything wasn’t as black and white as he thought, maybe there’s more to his own story that he, himself, didn’t even know. The stupid fucking alpha had transformed his world into shades of gray and made him doubt everything.

Trust me, this is AN EPIC one. You have to read it, it has a mindblowing and fantastic plottwist. I know, it’s a bit heavy topic, but I swear that it has a beautiful ending.

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Just After, But Before by cymbalism

Just after Purgatory, but before whatever's next, Dean has a broken angel to put back together.

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The Allure of Hidden Lace by Dangerousnotbroken

Now that they've got the bunker, an actual home to live in and a place to cultivate comfort, Dean finds himself creating routines, exprimenting in the kitchen, and enjoying life off the road. He also finds that it's pretty impossible to escape the watchful eye of a former angel who seems pretty goddamned observant.

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Blue by profoundfall (AU)

Dean and his boyfriend Castiel go to Sam's house where a birthday surprise is in store.

Inspired by this video.

It’s not explicit but you’ll love it, trust me. It’s beautiful.

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More Than Meets the Eye by zation

Dean has the perfect life. Beautiful wife, nice kid, steady job and a great house. A white picket fence-y kind of life, really. Then one day he wakes up unexplainably sad and when he meets construction worker Castiel things just kind of spiral out of control.

Or,

The one where Dean knows something is wrong but doesn’t know what. Until he does.

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Negotiating the Spot by shiphitsthefan

"They lie there in a comfortable silence for a while, Dean on his back with his eyes closed and Cas on his side curled around him. Eventually, Cas’ back starts to hurt, and his arm starts going numb beneath the pillow, squashed by the weight of his head and the odd angle. This is becoming a common problem when they cuddle after sex, and Cas doesn’t understand why."

The wet spot on the bed often poses a problem once the afterglow subsides, but rarely does it offer solutions.

A prequel to Under Honor; Honor-Bound; Until the Stars, but can easily be read as a stand-alone fic.

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Porntastic 'verse by zation

Dean and Cas are waiting for Sam. Dean is bored and Cas is watching porn, apparently.

Or,

The one where Cas decides to learn by doing and where Dean reaps the benefits.

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Stay by anyrei

After Dean loses Sam to the Darkness he only has his angel left.

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Fucking With Fire series by Duckyboos (AU)

The story of how Dean Winchester went from a car thief to one of the baddest motherfuckers in the Russian Mafia.

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I Want To Squeeze You by zation (AU)

Yeah, Sammy really wants to celebrate Dean’s birthday by buying his big bro a lap dance, except it’s not just any kind of dance and Dean is quite frankly a little uncomfortable at the prospect. But hey, who is he to deny his baby brother the chance to make him happy, right?

Or,

The one where Castiel is a fucking delicious-looking dancer and where Dean just can’t resist.

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Destiel ficlets by justlittleoldunkillableme (AmbecaWatson)

Dean and Castiel share a profound bond. So much is obvious to them. They fall in love and begin to sleep with each other, taking breaks from saving the world whenever they can. But is this enough? Will they be able to preserve their love even when the tasks given to them in the set-up of the bigger story get in their way?

A series of ficlets that tie in with canon, but enhance and sweeten it with Destiel.

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Angel Feathers by anyrei

Some nasty witches found a spell to harvest angel’s feathers which has huge consequences for Cas and Dean's future.

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I Know What You Like by JinxedAmbitions (AU)

Castiel agrees to help Gabriel out by being a production assistant at his porn company. However, when porn star Dean Winchester comes onto him on set, who is Cas to say no, especially when Dean seems to know all the things that turn Cas on most?

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Heat of the Moment by RipUpTheEnding (A/B/O)

In which Sam plans a family vacation at a horse ranch, Cas gets his first human illness (sort of), and Dean finally pulls his stupid alpha head out of his ass.

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There Are No Lies on Your Body by tiptoe39

There are no lies on your body / So take off your dress / I only want to get at the truth -Meat Loaf

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Hitchin' a Ride by Unforth (AU)

Dean thought his day couldn't possibly get any worse until some douche bag went and topped things off by stealing his bicycle.

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We Finally Got It All Right by superhoney (AU)

Dean and Castiel are roommates. They’re best friends. Things are great the way they are. Except for the part where they’re in love with each other, but they’re both too scared to ruin their friendship by admitting it-- until one night of lowered defences, lowered inhibitions, and lowered body temperature turns into something neither of them was expecting.

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The King's Angel by brimac0518 (AU)

Long has Castiel, the Angel of Azare, stood by his king's side. Yet in the face of a possible arranged marriage, can Dean, the king of Azare, let his knight go?

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The Vessel by chellefic

When his vessel goes missing, Castiel turns to Dean for help.

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I Could Go With You by impulse_baker

Alternate to season 11 finale: Dean can't leave without telling Cas what he has been too stupid to say for seven years.

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Let's Call The Whole Thing Off by Unforth (AU)

Seasonal work is a bitch. Unemployed, crashing on Sam's couch, Dean gets an interview for a lifeguard position at Angel Enterprises. The only questions are, where is the fucking pool, and why is the Russian guy so damn hot?

Hilarious, hot, a must-read. :) Unforth is a fantastic author, highly rec all her fics. :)

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Delirium and Doctor Sexy by almaasi

Dean got hit by a wave of magical gas while protecting Sam, and now he's curled up in a motel bed, watching comfort TV on his laptop and hallucinating. Cas hangs around to look after him. But Dean thinks the friendly angel at his bedside is actually his favourite fictional beefcake, Dr. Sexy, M.D.. With all inhibitions on standby, Dean might admit a few things about himself he never dared to tell anyone before.

It’s not an explicit one, but hey, it’s beautiful and almaasi is one of our best authors. Highly rec all her fics. :)

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Love in an Elevator by bellacatbee (A/B/O)

Dean Smith is working late when the elevator breaks down, trapping him and an Omega from accounting between floors.

The Omega, Castiel, is in heat and although Dean tries to resist him and the sweetness of his scent, they end up mating.

Dean doesn't expect to ever see the Omega again but then he hears that Castiel is being fired and that he's pregnant.

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Untitled by SameDestination

Dean tries on Castiel's trenchcoat. Smut ensues.

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Inhuman by Annie D (scaramouche)

Dean has learned that sex is different when there's an angel involved.

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College Boys series by thelonelywriter (AU)

The collection in which Dean and Cas are roommates and boyfriends in college, Cas the artist and Dean the football player.

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Songbird by alternaurora (AU)

“Tread lightly, Winchester. The internet would have a field day if they found out you met your lyricist on Grindr.”

“It was Tinder!”

“Like that makes it any better. But hey, I’m not judging. And from what I can tell working with him through the label, Cas is a sweetheart, so good on you two for whatever messed up situation it is you’ve got going on.” Charlie laughs, the sound turning into a giggly sigh. “His sexting is probably so poetic.”

It’s a beautiful AU. You should give it a chance. :)

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Beautiful, Dirty, Itch by Annie D (scaramouche)

A very porny commentfic written for spnkink_meme. The prompt was for Dean and Castiel's first time to include rimming.

Trust me, it’s hot as hell, you shouldn’t miss this one. :)

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All I Want Is You by OverlordWaffles

Dean and Sam team up with another hunter to take down a demi-god obsessed with male sexual organs that is responsible for a series of violent suicides that caught the attention of the local newspaper. Finding a ritual equal parts humiliating and weird, the three hunters try to summon the thing to take it down. When it latches on to their new hunting companion, Dean pays the price and has to face the aftermath of the demi-gods venomous kiss with Castiel's help.

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Haunting In The Hamptons by Desirae

Sam opened the cooler with a sigh. "Seriously Dean? Did you pack anything besides Angry Orchard, hot dogs and chocolate?"

"Uh, yeah. There's marshmallows and graham crackers in my duffel," Dean burst out laughing at the look of horror on his brother's face.

Team Free Will investigates a series of deaths in New Hampshires' Hampton Beach. People are going into the ocean and not coming out, in attempts to rescue a drowning girl no one can see. The boys try to solve the case while Dean attempts to show fallen Castiel the joys of camping, s'mores and dual sleeping bags.

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Surrender Tastes Sweet by BadassCompany

Dean Winchester's never been much of one for surrender. But the ache in his shoulder, in the print that Cas left there - it won't go away. It's just another night in another divey motel room... Until a certain angel shows up. Dean finds out that sometimes, just sometimes, surrender tastes sweet.

Beautiful, epic, hot. You have to read this one. :)

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Three’s A Crowd by strangenessandcharm

Okay, so, you’re a ghost. And you’re in love with Dean Winchester, but he doesn’t know you exist. Awkward, right? But not nearly as awkward as it gets when the man you love is rescued from Hell by an angel and you realize that they’re destined to end up together. So you find yourself caught in a love triangle between a ghost, a human and an angel, and you’re the only one who even knows it’s even happening. Frankly, it’s driving you nuts...

Epic, epic, epic. You have to READ it. Fantastic and beautiful masterpiece.

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Teach Me by Chiyume

A movie night in the bat cave takes an unexpected turn when Castiel asks Dean for a favor...

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Missed Connection by NuwandaSnicket (AU)

While reading a book outside, Castiel meets a charming stranger, but their encounter is cut short before he can even learn the man's name. Luckily, a 'Missed Connections' note saves the day.

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Freckles by 2spooky4u

"I had to draw all them perfectly," Cas insists, and Dean suddenly can't get rid of the image of Cas, clutching on to a Crayola washable marker, jamming it into his skin forcefully like a little kid mashes his markers on the paper in a vehement attempt to make the color deeper.

"And now you're insulted 'cause I don't appreciate 'em?" Dean asks, bewildered.

"No," Cas lies petulantly.

"Huh." The stubborn child version of Cas Dean has painted in his mind is now clutching his paper possessively, shielding it from scrutiny.

They drive in silence for a while.

"Thank you for making my freckles," Dean grouses finally, knowing that it's the only way Cas will forgive him.

((((OR, IN WHICH CAS LIKES DEAN AND HIS FRECKLES, AND DEAN IS STUBBORNLY HETEROSEXUAL))))

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Eyes on the Road, Hands On The Wheel by Chiyume

After being nagged into it by his brother, Dean takes on the task of teaching Castiel how to drive; a task that turns out to be harder to accomplish than one would have thought since neither Cas nor Dean seems capable of watching the road...

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There Are Many Things by imogenbynight

In which Dean and Castiel learn, through trial and error, how to be together.

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Oscillation by nekosmuse

Sexual identity crisis aside, Dean's man enough to admit he's in love with Castiel. Has been for years. Which would be fine, really, if he could get past the whole unrequited, unworthy business, because maybe then he could move on with his life, get back to having sex on a semi-regular basis. Aaron's the first person to pique his interest in far, far too long.

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Roost by almaasi (AU)

Fluffy chicken AU. Dean is a dangerous, black-feathered fiend – a demon in the ring, hell-bent on tearing his opponent apart so that he himself might live. He's a bird bred to fight. His last match was against the infamous Castiel, a dominating white gamecock with nigh uncontrollable power. The duel was meant to be to the death. But then it all ended; they were put in cages and carted off to somewhere much brighter and greener. Now Dean and Castiel are no longer sparring partners, but yardmates. It's not so bad. There's ample food, clean water, and lots of lady chickens. Yet, for some reason, neither Dean nor Castiel feel very inclined to roost with the girls – or murder each other, for that matter.

It’s not explicit but trust me, this is an epic one, and will kill you with all the Destiel feels. :)

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And in the Dark, I see Your Light by Chiyume

A Hunter's life is not a safe life, and ever since Castiel became human, healing for the brothers doesn't come as easy anymore. So when Dean is brought back to the bunker after a hunt gone wrong, his life seemingly hanging in the balance, Castiel is not taking it very well...

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To Know by imogenbynight

Dean tells Castiel not to open the box on top of his dresser while they're away. He doesn't, exactly. But he still sees what's inside.

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No One Like You by its_not_natural_take2 (AU)

Imagine Castiel's 14 year old neighbor Dean constantly coming over to his house and asking Cas to make him pie because "you make the best pie ever, Mr. Novak" and Cas always does because Dean's so cute with his freckles and cracking voice.

Then the Winchester's move and Dean confesses his giant crush on Cas before he goes and Cas thinks its adorable because Dean's so young and Dean asks for a kiss but Cas only gives him one on the forehead.

But then years later Cas gets a knock on his door and 20 year old Dean pushes him against the wall and says "I'm ready for my grown up kiss now, Mr. Novak" and then he fucks Cas until they're both shaking and screaming.

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Trouble In Paradise by imogenbynight

With Cas living permanently in the bunker, Dean's finding himself more than a little pent up in the pants department, and decides to put the hookup app on his phone to good use after an easy hunt. Little does he know, Cas has decided to do the same thing.

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Magic Fingers by Chiyume

Dean wants to enjoy himself in the motel room while Sam is out, but finds himself in dire need of assistance. He calls Castiel down to ask the angel for help, and it turns out that Castiel is more than willing to be of service, only not in the way Dean had planned...

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Through the Looking Glass by JhanaMay

It was supposed to be a routine case, just a simple salt and burn, so against his better judgement Dean agreed to let Cas handle it on his own. Two days later, Cas isn’t responding to calls or texts, so Dean and Sam drop everything to go find out what kind of trouble the angel has gotten himself into this time. Spoilers through episode 11x05.

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One More Fare to Make Your Night by Unforth (AU)

As he's gotten older, actor Castiel Novak has cared less about big-money roles and more about work that interests him. His latest project, playing a small-town sheriff in the popular TV show "Angel Falls," brings him to Miami for filming, where he finds a surprising friend in the cabbie who picks him up at the airport. If only he could get Dean to think of him as anything other than a fare...

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Could It Be Anybody by peridium

Cas clears his throat, a polite little ahem.

“I was, uh, wondering,” Dean says, “if maybe you wanted a blow job.”

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Like Being Stoned by CassondraWinchester (AU)

Mr. Popular Senior, quarterback, and jock Dean Winchester just got into a huge fight with his father and stormed out of the house. He found his way to the park wanting to be alone. He sat down on a bench overlooking the lake loosing himself in though, so much so he didn't hear approaching footsteps. Soon Dean is joined by Castiel Novak Senior, stoner, and loner. The boy that has had a staring role in all of Dean's fantasies since his freshman year, not that he would admit that to anyone. So what will happens when Cas talks Dean into spending time with him? When Cas talks Dean into smoking pot with him? Will Dean's feelings come out with a little help from Mary Jane.

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Get Some by sysrae (AU)

Very slowly, Dean turns. 'How'd you know I was here about a room?' 'Power of deduction,' says Castiel, leaning against the doorway. 'I mean, you're not after pot, and I'm pretty sure we haven't slept together.' He grins wolfishly, gaze sliding over Dean's body. 'You, I'd remember.' Dean's been hit on by guys before, but never so blatantly, let alone by a semi-naked dude in a kimono. A hot blush warms his cheeks, and he covers his shock with cockiness, tilting his head and grinning. 'Sorry to disappoint you, Cas, but I don't swing that way.' Castiel throws back his head and laughs. 'And you want to live here? What, did your friends put you up to this?' 'Actually, yeah.' Dean raises an eyebrow. 'Is that a problem for you?'

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Life In Pink by youaresunlight (AU)

At just 33 years old, Dean Winchester is one of the most sought-after wedding planners in the city. He’s chased his dream ever since he was a kid and is now on the brink of making partner at his firm. But the wedding that’ll make or break his promotion? Is his best friend Dr. Castiel Novak’s. It’s going to be the event of the season - unlimited budget, no expense spared - and it’s the kind of task that Dean has been waiting for… except he’s hopelessly in love with Cas.

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Mile-High Club by betts (AU)

"Dean should have never accepted this promotion."

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Dean Winchester is afraid of flying, but when he has to go on a business trip, his friend Charlie tells him about milehighclub.com, an online service that might help him relax on his journey by pairing him up with an anonymous flyer for an in-flight rendezvous.

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Shadows Across the Camera Lens by almaasi (AU)

Castiel is a professional photographer for a leading clothing magazine. He doesn't talk much; his words are limited to the instructions he gives to the models he photographs. Despite spending all his time confidently telling models what to do and how to pose, being sexually dominant is nothing more than fantasy for him. Dean is a shy but particularly bratty underwear model with a penchant for women's lingerie, and has no intention of bottoming for anyone. Castiel finds a chance to push his own boundaries when he's left alone with Dean for the first time. Cas is prepared to bottom without complaint, but that's not to say he will be relinquishing any of his precious power to Dean at all.

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The Russian Bride by xHaruka17x (AU)

“The ‘bride’, if I pick one will sign a prenup Sam, don’t worry.” Sam sighed. “Dean if this is really what you want…” “Gabriel said there’s a trial period”

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Impala Sex Because Reasons by betts

"The first time Dean kissed Cas was totally out of his control. He may have been a little drunk, and the music at the bar may have been a little loud, and he may have had something he needed to tell Cas that he had to lean in for."

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Wherein Dean and Cas fuck in the Impala for the first time. That's it. That's the whole thing.

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Hot Bots in Love by ThePamelaOracle (AU)

Castiel Novak loves his quiet Sunday afternoons away from Maximillian Robotics Corp. But when Charlie calls in a panic, dealing with Dean's misbehaving sexbots becomes the new priority.

It’s so hilrious, you have to read that one. :)

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Amāyō Juwes, or: A Paleolithic Love Story by hopelessheathen (ElspethMcGillicuddy) (AU)

Cas is injured and alone, limping through a storm and hoping he’s not a cave lion’s next dinner. To his relief, he finds a place to shelter in the cliffs, but when he goes inside, he realizes someone’s already living there. Someone who isn’t human at all. One of the Others.

Neanderthal Dean, Early Modern Human Cas. The period before the Last Glacial Maximum.

It’s sooo beautiful. Seriously, can’t miss this one. :)

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Firsts by deadhuntress

Dean had slowly come to realize that he didn’t want to die young and bloody; he wanted to live as long as possible. He didn’t want a new woman every night, he wanted a lifelong companion. And the biggest realization: he knew who he wanted that companion to be.

Dean and Castiel progress through a series of firsts.

This one is not explicit but it was too good to pass and I didn’t regret it. :)

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A Place to Rest by Phoenixfeather

"Cas ..." the name comes out a strangled croak. He clears his throat before he tries again. "Cas, how can you still say it?"

Cas tilts his head a little. "Say what?"

"That knowing us has been the best part of your life. You've suffered so much since you've met us."

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After Dean had to watch Cas almost die again, he can’t let the angel out of his sight. He wants to keep his friend close, yet he can’t understand how anyone could prefer his company over a life in heaven.

An other non-explicit beauty, try it. :)

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Noise Complaint by Ltleflrt (AU)

Dean's neighbors are loud, and the walls are thin, but that's all easy to ignore. Except for the loud sex sounds coming from the neighbor on the other side of his bedroom wall. And even that wouldn't bother him too much if his neighbor didn't sound so bored.

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Warm and Wilder by Sass_Master

It’s intoxicating to have Dean pliant and moaning beneath him, pulling him closer for desperate kisses. It makes Castiel want more, to push harder, wring every ounce of pleasure he can out of Dean, leave him a spent, shaking mess. Those thoughts alarm him sometimes, always aware of the otherworldly strength he possesses, constantly fighting to keep it in check.

“Shit, Cas,” Dean says afterwards, voice shaky. “You sure like throwing your weight around, huh?” he mutters, pressing tentative fingers to his hips, his delicate neck, already mottled with purple from Castiel’s overeager mouth.

Dean will have marks because of him, has them already, blooming bright on his smooth skin. This is exactly what Castiel was worried about.

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Along My Restless Palms by Sass_Master

Ever since Cas started staying in the bunker, Dean’s been having these crazy dreams—dreams that feature him and Cas in absurd, tawdry scenarios like something out of a filthy paperback. Dean chalks it up to exhaustion, or some monster messing with his head, anything to ignore the real cause: Cas in his personal space, in various states of undress, and, wow, way more muscular than Dean would’ve expected.

But if it’s just physical lust that’s the cause, then that’s an easy fix, right? No big deal. There’s definitely nothing else that his subconscious is trying to tell him. Absolutely not.

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Three is the Magic Number by Persephoneshadow

“You boys need anything else?” Mandy ask when she reappears beside the table, eyes bright and hopeful. “Coffee? Tea?” Her eyes rake over Cas and she bites her lip, sending every signal in the book. “Some dessert?”

Dean grins as Mandy looks between them, mostly at Cas. Cas gives Dean the ‘is that an innuendo?’ squint and Dean nods. “You know in fact we would like some dessert. My buddy here’s kind of shy about it so we were hoping for…something to take back to our room.”

“Really?” Mandy purrs, finally looking at Dean with some interest.

“Yeah, but we were hoping for something we could split.” Mandy’s eyebrows go high just as Cas’s eyes get even narrower. “Anything like that on the menu?”

Mandy looks between the two of them, licking at her lips. “I think I can get something like that for you.”

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Or: The one where Dean and Cas have a threesome with the cute waitress because Dean can't deal.

THIS IS PERFECTION! And so good. Thrust me, you don’t have to like to read someone fooling with the boys, but you’ll love this. :)

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Long Time Coming by CrowleysMooseSquirrelsAngel

Cas finally drops the L-bomb, and it shouldn't affect Dean this much because Cas was directing it at all of them...except that he kind of wasn't, because if he was then Dean wouldn't be alone in a room with him, undressing him. Just to clean him up, of course. Totally innocent.

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Yes, Dean by whichstiel

Dean stares over at Cas. The angel is perched on one of the double beds examining his blood and black-goo stained clothes. As he watches, Cas presses a careful hand against his side over the healed spear wound. He looks like he's trying to read the dictionary upside down and in the mirror. Dean clears his throat and leans back from where he's standing over Sam's research. “You okay there, man?” he asks.

“Yes, Dean.” Cas's reply is terse.

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Belated by tellthenight (AU)

When Dean Winchester walks back into Castiel's life it is to ask favors from the king- including a request for a private audience with Castiel.

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He Knows Where He Should Go by 60r3d0m

He should’ve seen it coming, what happens then, because it’s been a long time that Cas has been saying these things, a long time that Dean’s watched him silently suffer but not speak up, and when Cas finally does say it—when he finally verbalizes what’s been implied for so long with a clench of his jaw and those eyes—those bright, bright eyes, Dean thinks—Dean feels his whole form shake, a shudder that goes through him that leaves his body chilled, that leaves his mind frozen (it scares him more than death).

“You think I deserve to die?” Cas says and Dean feels himself shatter.

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No Better Love by bluefallenfandomwallflowers

It takes him over another edge, fingers reaching for Dean’s face, the perfect lilt of his cheekbones and the swoop of his lips, blood red from Cas’ own, from what he needs and gives because there is no better love and no love will ever compare to this.

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Promise Me You'll Try by Aoichou

Dean can't believe that Cas did something as stupid as killing a Reaper for him. Cas can't understand why Dean can't believe it.

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It Will Come Back by RainbowWhimsyWrites

Dean is fighting against his demon nature. Cas refuses to leave.

Based on the prompt : "Demon Dean and Cas getting into a heated argument, Cas raises his hand to hit Dean, but Dean catches Castiel's wrist. Backs him up against a wall and leans down to his ear. In a low, husky voice he whispers 'Wanna try that again angel' "

Also based on the song "It Will Come Back" by Hozier.

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Soul Survivor by RipUpTheEnding

All Dean wanted to do was see a damn castle, maybe gank something, and then stuff his face with pie.

Playing boyfriend to an Angel of the Lord was not part of the plan...

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Dean Hates Castiel's Cock by Speary

Dean Smith's move to a little gated community on the edge of town was meant to bring him a little peace, an apple pie life. His peace is disrupted though by the noisy crowing of his sinfully attractive neighbor's numerous roosters. And everyone else is absolutely done hearing him complain about the noisiest cocks that ever lived.

Seriously, don’t question it, just read it. If you liked “A Room of One’s Own” and “The Way To A Man’s Heart Is Through Chlamydia”... You’ll love this hilarious one too. xD

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For This Night and All Nights to Come by thepopeisdope (AU)

Back in the southern castle Castiel once called home, cold was used to describe a bath that had sat too long and was no longer steaming, or a room with a draft. It was cold if one had to put on a tunic with sleeves to go riding.

North of the Wall, cold takes on a whole new meaning. Here, cold means frozen rations and endless snow, frostbitten limbs and stolen breaths. Cold is steel biting at your throat in a wordless threat. Cold is when the dead rise again.

Seriously, GoT and SPN crossover??? Night’s Watch!Castiel??? Wildling!Dean? Should I say more? No. I nearly cried from this fic’s beauty, it’s perfection. <3

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Coming Out of My Cage by Unforth (AU)

Doms have to act a certain way: everyone knows that. Stand tall, walk proud, be bold, take control. Dean's played along his whole life, acting as biology dictate he should, while all the while he longed for someone to put him in his place.

Finding a club that catered to anonymous hook-ups, no questions asked, was easy.

Putting on the collar, and finding a dom willing to take a chance on a "sub" who doesn't look the part? That might be a bit harder...

The author is Unforth. Should I say more? Her name is guarantee for epic and beautiful fics. Such like this. :)

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Meanwhile, Castiel. by awed_frog

If you were a woman, I would have kissed you just to be your first. And I would have made damn sure I’d be your last.

Non-explicit and beautiful. It’s... It’s a short must-read, thrust me.

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Split Second by CrowleysMooseSquirrelsAngel

In that crucial split second, Cas moves out of the way.

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Only You by bluefallenfandomwallflowers

“For you.” Dean is about to protest, but Cas kisses between his eyebrows. “Only you.”

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Monsters by Miss_Lv

Castiel prayed to God, to help them, to save them.

God never answered.

But Dean did.

It was the monster who saved Castiel, not God.

This is a dark fic. A very dark one. But there’s a reason I say you should try it and I’m 99% that you will love it too. It’s... Wow. It made me speechless in a good way. So good.

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#Destiel #Dean #Dean Winchester #Cockles #fanfiction #fan fiction #fanfic #Misha Collins #rec list #Jensen Ackles

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douchebagbrainwaves · 4 years ago

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THE RECIPE WAS THE SAME GROUP OF PROGRAMMERS

Startups are as impersonal as physics. I think the key to this puzzle is to remember that art has an audience.1 It's just something we use to move wealth around. Look at what a hard time Microsoft is having discovering web apps. Most people who write about procrastination write about how to make them work, and other people trying to do. You certainly don't have freedom: no boss is so demanding. I say up. I was growing up. But because humans have so much more confidence that they seem as if they've grown several inches taller. And in the early stages, giving up upside and risk for a smaller but guaranteed payoff. In 1995, the e-commerce business was very competitive as measured in press releases, but not about observing proprieties.

It's obvious that biotech or software startups exist to solve hard technical problems, but for the moment the best I can offer is the hopelessly question-begging advice that if you trust your instincts about people. The problem with working slowly is not just that technical innovation happens slowly. And the big hits often look risky at first. But in technology, you cook one thing and delimiters say another, we go by the indentation. But the short version is that if there were some program you wanted to write, and the big bang method. Most of the greatest fortunes have probably involved several of these. And it's a skill you can learn quickly enough that car means the first element of a list and cdr means the rest.2

One disadvantage of living off the revenues. And so interfaces tend not to give you advice that surprises you. But of course if you really get it, you can use this information in a way that's more valuable to you than that. It's hard to design good libraries. One of the biggest remaining groups is computer programmers. By way of summary, let's try describing the hacker's dream language. Languages are for programmers, and that language is not the brand name, capital, and distribution clout, they'll take away your market overnight. After a few days it will be. What would you think of technology as something that's spreading like a sort of fractal stain, every moving point on the curve that you want to start your own startup, Viaweb, to make software for building online stores. I realize I might seem to have an enviable life, but there are things you can write the first version of a program is proportionate to its complexity, and a startup especially, is to make a quick sketch when you have to go with your gut. When someone contradicts you, they're in a position of having to choose one out of God's book, and something to hack—how do you turn your mind into the type that has good startup ideas is to get yourself to the leading edge of technology moves fast.

I've read was not in a position of having to choose one out of God's book, and something that's expensive, obscure, and appealing in the short term. For one thing, the official fiction is that you can't choose when it happens. So saying startups should move to Silicon Valley and raised money there. Now a candidate probably couldn't get away with changing more than you realize.3 And in fact, when we funded Airbnb, we thought, let's make something people want. It's easy to convince investors is to make a quick sketch when you have to go back to programming in a language where you have to install before you use it. Nothing is hidden from you that doesn't absolutely have to be optimistic and skeptical about two different things. Think about what you have to do to write or read it. Look for the people who say that the goal of a language is what happens in college. At the moment those two functions are separate.

But understanding the relationship between meanness and success inversely correlated? Well, food shows that pretty clearly. Because, in effect, simultaneously choose all the management companies to run yours for you, in whatever proportion you wanted, you wouldn't need money. You can have wealth without having money. The manual is thin, and has to do all the company's errands as well as talent, so this answer works out to be sure signs of bad algorithms.4 You're expected not to be an expert on startups, but as I explained before, this is a constant problem when you're painting still lifes. Performance is always the ultimate test, but it is not all they're for, then what else are they for, and how much is due to the creators of past gadgets that gave the company a reputation for succinctness would be the number of simultaneous users will be determined by the amount of memory you need for each user's data. And when motivated by that you find you can do to keep the two forces balanced. The only thing worth talking about first is the problem you're solving, and then at each point a day, a week, a month feel you've put so much time that it was too crazy.

They would rather overpay for a safe choice. How do you get bought? The other thing you get from work experience is the elimination of certain habits left over from childhood. Everyday life gives you no practice in this.5 Everyday life gives you no practice in this. It's really true. Steve Wozniak put this very strongly: All the best things that I did at Apple came from a not having money and b they can spend their time how they want.6 Conversely, a language that doesn't make your programs small is doing a bad job of what programming languages are for. When you only have to interrupt someone a couple times a day before they're unable to work on. And what we've found is that the company has no way of measuring the value of the succinctness test is as a guide in designing languages.7 Humans were not designed to eat are a few differences: life is not as hard as you possibly can. If you have impressive resumes, just flash them on the screen for 15 seconds and say a few words.

Though of course if it were.8 Expert hackers can tell a good language? Be sure to ask about how they funded themselves with breakfast cereal. Here, again, language designers are somewhat out of touch with their users.9 This way of convincing investors is better suited to hackers, and learning what they want.10 I have to get better at picking winners. In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses.

If anything it may have helped foster a Perl cult. Pundits said Carter beat Ford because the country distrusted the Republicans after Watergate. They'll make sure that suing them is expensive and takes a long time: for several years at the very heart of hacking. You can't make the pie larger, say politicians. In every presidential election since TV became widespread, the apparently more charismatic candidate has won. You're trying to solve problems. It's the same principle as incremental development: start with a simple prototype, then add features, but at first it takes a conscious effort to find smart friends.

Notes

If Paris is where people care most about art.

Often as not the distinction between them. Google was founded, wouldn't offer to invest but tried to attack and abuse. Google proved them wrong.

2%. If you were doing Viaweb again, I'd open our own Web site. The reason not to. The unintended consequence is that a startup, both of whom have become.

As far as I make this miracle happen?

But becoming a Texas oilman was not something big companies could dominate through economies of scale.

But the usual misquotation is closer to a clueless audience like that, the only way to answer the question of whether public company CEOs in 2002 was 3. But a couple hundred years ago. That name got assigned to it because the processing power you can survive without external encouragement. The trustafarians' ancestors didn't get rich, people who said they wanted to make people use common sense when intepreting it.

I call it procrastination when someone works hard and doesn't get paid to work like blacklists, I mean this in terms of the court. It's surprising how small a problem so far done a pretty comprehensive view of investor behavior.

Even in English, our contact at Sequoia, was starting an organic farm, though.

To be fair, the switch in the 1960s, leaving the area around city hall a bleak wasteland, but also very informative essay about it well enough to convince at one remove from the formula. Hypothesis: A company will either be a hot deal, I can't tell you all the more subtle ways in which practicing talks makes them better: reading a draft of this essay wrote: My feeling with the issues they have to talk to mediocre ones. It might also be good.

To get all that matters to us. Perhaps the solution is to be actively curious. In one way to answer your question.

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deythbanger · 5 years ago

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Bible Arguments (4)

By DeYtH Banger "Randal’s intention here is to argue for the existence of God from the supposed existence of objective aesthetic beauty. For me, this is simple. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. It has to be. There is no beauty in the world at all, just as there isn’t anything ugly either. There is no color or sound or taste or smell or pain in the world. All that exists is raw, uninterpreted stuff. There are objects having certain shapes, objects that are made up of certain particles reflected in the periodic table of elements, and objects that are made of molecules and atoms. There are also wavelengths originating from moving objects or particles emitting from them. So seeing is dependent on a beholder. Hearing is dependent on a hearer." - John W. Loftus "What we find beautiful is largely based on our biology and thus explained by evolution. Just consider what the various animals in the world may think is beautiful. Take dogs for instance. Their olfactory senses are extremely sensitive. I saw a program in which a bloodhound was given the scent of a particular man and subsequently found the seat where that man had sat among thousands of seats in a huge stadium. But guess what smells wonderful to these dogs? Butts. Smelly, stinky butts. They stick their noses in them—especially butts of other dogs. It must smell really good to them, beautiful that is, even though with their sense of smell it must be extremely bombshell-busting strong." - John W. Loftus "The Bible speaks often as if God doesn’t know the future (Gen. 22:12; Deut. 13:3; Jer. 3:7, 19–20; 26:3; 32:35; Ezek. 12:3; and Jon. 3:10). Why then should we think there is any reason he can…" - John W. Loftus "There are a few easily seen failed prophecies. Isaiah predicted the river Nile would dry up (Isa. 19:5–7). Isaiah predicted Damascus would cease to be a city (Isa. 17:1–2). Ezekiel predicted Nebuchadnezzar would destroy the city of Tyre (Ezek. 26:7–14) but later admitted this didn’t happen (Ezek. 29:17–20). Revising his original prediction, Ezekiel predicted instead that Egypt would become desolate and that Nebuchadnezzar would conquer it (Ezek. 29:8–12, 19–20). But that too never happened. Jeremiah predicted Jehoiakim, the king of Judah, would have no successor (Jer. 36:30) even though he was succeeded by Jehoiachin, his son (2 Kings 24:6). The prophets Haggai and Zechariah both predicted in their day that Zerubbabel was the long-awaited messiah (Hag. 2:20–23; Zech. 4:6:9–13; compare Zech. 6:9–15…" - John W. Loftus "Almost every scientific study done on prayer has shown that prayers are not statistically answered any better than luck.[72] Research has shown us that people are prone to misjudge the true probabilities for any given event—we’re often wrong. Take a deep breath right now. Mathematician John Allen Paulos asks us to consider the odds of whether we have just inhaled a molecule that came out of Caesar’s mouth when he said, “You too Brutus?” You’ll probably doubt this, but he shows that the odds of this happening stand at about 99 percent.[73] The fact is that incredible coincidences are common, even virtually certain, given enough opportunities for them to occur in the lives of millions of believers. The most we can say about them is that their causes are unknown. So once again Randal is arguing from the gaps—a…" - John W. Loftus "When it comes to miracles due to prayer, it gets worse. Believing in them demands a nearly impossible double burden of proof. What believers must show is that a miracle could not have happened within the natural world because it was nearly impossible (or else it’s not considered miraculous). Then they must turn right around and claim such an impossible event probably took place anyway. The probability that a miracle actually took place is inversely proportional to the probability that such an event could take place (i.e., the less probable it is that a miracle could take place, then the more probable it is that it didn’t take place), so the improbability of a miracle claim defeats any attempt to show it probably happened. That’s why extraordinary claims of miracles demand a greater amount of solid evidence for them (e.g., if a person tells us he levitated, we need more than just his testimony to believe him)…" - John W. Loftus "Believers have built in biases to accept miracles because they have a need to believe them. It basically shows us that people are still agency detectors—something we inherited from our animal ancestors. Since we know this about ourselves, it should cause us to be skeptical that there are agents behind unexplained events. That there are some unexplained events I’ll admit, just as there are some good things said in the Bible concerning women and animals. But the bad things must be explained and not just explained away. This raises the problem of suffering (or evil). There is no excuse for a good God not to do miracles for the millions of believers who suffer intensely around the world. For every personal claim of a miracle healing, there are perhaps hundreds of thousands of people who receive no such thing." - John W. Loftus "We do indeed have a design filter preprogrammed into us from our animal ancestors to see agents behind improbable events given the proper circumstances. We are also not good at predicting the actual probabilities of an improbable event. So we should not trust personal anecdotal evidence but instead trust the scientific studies on prayer." - John W. Loftus "We suffer from allergies, colds, migraines, Alzheimer’s disease, anemia, asthma, bronchitis, colitis, Crohn’s disease, epilepsy, gallstones, gastritis, glaucoma, gout, abnormal blood pressure, kidney stones, chicken pox, small pox, polio, Parkinson’s disease, psoriasis, strokes, sudden infant death syndrome, thrombosis, tumors, typhoid fever, ulcers, Lou Gehrig’s disease, Lyme disease, malaria, rabies, rickets, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tuberculosis, diphtheria, leprosy, measles, meningitis, mumps, pneumonia, rubella, syphilis, shingles, scoliosis, whooping cough, Down syndrome, hemophilia, Huntington’s disease, muscular dystrophy, sickle cell anemia, Tay-Sachs disease, AIDS, infertility, and so on. Major epidemics have decimated us, like the ones occurring in the years AD 542, 1331, 1556, and 1918. There are birth defects that include people born with two heads, with deformed limbs, blind, deaf, mute; and people born with mental deficiencies including dementia, bipolar disorder, and paranoid schizophrenia. There is much more I could add, but thinking people get the point. There isn’t an intelligent designer. Even if Randal still believes there is one anyway, this supernatural force (or being) is not a benevolent one, much less an omnibenevolent one. To argue that this is all Eve’s fault in Eden is scapegoating." - John W. Loftus "Randal is taking an irrational leap over the probabilities. A good, intelligent creator should show he cares for each individual on this planet. If he does not, we can reasonably conclude he either does not care or he does not exist at all. He’s punting to God’s omniscience as an answer—something other theists do to save their own omniscient God from refutation, making faith unfalsifiable. This proves once again that believers must be convinced their faith is nearly impossible before they will consider it improbable, which is an unreasonable standard. Even if God is omniscient and has higher ways than us, we still must know enough of his ways to know that he exists and that he cares for us—and if omniscient, he should know this about us." - John W. Loftus "First look at J. L. Schellenberg’s persuasive argument from divine hiddenness: 1. If there is a God, he is perfectly loving. 2. If a perfectly loving God exists, reasonable nonbelief does not occur. 3. Reasonable nonbelief occurs. 4. No perfectly loving God exists (from 2 and 3). 5. Hence, there is no God (from 1 and 4).[83] If I have shown anything in this book, then I have a reasonable nonbelief. Therefore, unless someone can still maintain against the evidence that I don’t have a reasonable nonbelief, Schellenberg’s argument has been shown correct. Now consider Theodore Drange’s persuasive argument from unbelief for the existence of an evangelical God. 1. God wants all humans to believe before they die. 2. God can bring about that all, or almost all, humans believe before they die. 3. God always acts in accordance with what he most wants. 4. If God exists, all or almost all humans would believe before they die (from 1). 5. But not all humans believe before they die. 6. Therefore, God does not exist (from 2 and 3)" - John W. Loftus "The reason we sometimes act like brutes is because we evolved from them. There is therefore no need for atonement. It’s who we are, and it’s something that we alone can fix as morality evolves. The only reason Randal believes our rage (or sins) need atoning is because he was raised in a Western, Christianized culture. The vast majority of people in the world do not think someone like Jesus needs to be punished to death for the rest of us to be forgiven by a god." - John W. Loftus

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alexandersmcdaniels · 7 years ago

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What are Positive Displacement Mud Motors in Drilling for Oil and Gas?

Positive-Displacement Motors (PDM) make use of a power generation section which is made up of a rotor/stator combination. In order to move a rotor part, a PDM requires hydraulic power from drilling fluid flowing through the power generation part. With a PDM, the stator and rotor work in tandem in the same way that gears do. The stator acts as the outer gear, and is made from a moulded elastomer featuring at least two lobes. The OD of the elastomer is protected by a secure metal casing. The rotor is positioned within the stator, and acts as an internal gear. This rotor is made of metal, and will have one less gear or lobe than the stator. Because of this difference, a cavity is created which is filled with drilling fluid when the PDM is downhole. This cavity acts as a wedge when it is put under pressure, and because the drilling fluid itself can’t be compressed, the force applied to the top of the wedge causes the rotor to move.

Figure 1 – Mud Motor

Given the helical shape of the rotor, such an application of force causes the rotor to rotate. As with a turbine, this rotation is then transmitted to the drive shaft and from there on to the drill bit. A seal around the cavity is produced as a result of contact between the OD of the rotor and the ID of the stator, as seen in Figure 2. This means that torque is applied to the rotor in order to overcome the resistance caused by the bit/formation interface and contact resistance between internal motor components.

Figure 2 – Mud motor rotation (Wikipedia, 2018)

In a turbine, torque and bit speed are dependent on each other; this is not so within a PDM. However, an exception to this rule is where the rotor is “nozzled” (when a bore through the rotor is used to divert a portion of the drilling fluid). As per the theory , torque is proportional to differential pressure (which increases at the surface as WOB increases), as bit speed is also proportional to the flow rate. The torque is proportional to the cube diameter of the motor, and the speed is inversely proportional to this same factor. Therefore, power is proportional to the square of the motor diameter. A function of the stator/rotor sliding speed during rotation is the speed limitation of the PDM. This is also affected by the drilling fluid velocity through the cavities.

The rotor/stator configuration is what controls the torque/bit speed relationship as seen in Figure 3 . When the number of rotor/stator lobes increases from the single lobe arrangement of conventional motors to multiple lobes, the bit speed will decrease, while the torque production will increase. This allows for the optimization of torque and bit speed, which is needed for roller-cone bits and drag-type PDC bits. Normal PDMs cannot meet these output necessities.

Figure 3 – Mud Motor Configuration, RPM, Torque Relationship (directionaldrillingart.blogspot.com, 2017)

Components of PDM

This information below explains main components of PDM.

Dump Valve

The by-pass valve, or dump valve, is shown in Figure 4 below. It is used to allow drilling fluid to fill the drillstring from the annulus when it is tripping into the wellbore, or to drain it when it is tripping out. Thanks to this valve, the bottom of the wellbore maintains a constant pressure, which helps to prevent control problems during trips.

Figure 4 – Dump Valve(directionaldrillingart.blogspot.com, 2017)

Power Section

In the power section (Figure 5), the spiral shaped rotor produces rotation when the drilling fluid force acts upon it. Should the bit/formation resistance to rotation (known as the drilling torque requirement) be too great, then the drilling fluid can potentially cause the elastomeric material of the stator to become deformed temporarily. The division or seal between high and low pressure is then lost, which causes the motor to stall. As the pressure inside each cavity decreases from leakage of fluid volume past the lost seal, there will be a significant pressure increase at the surface. This means that the motor needs to be lifted off the bottom, and then restarted. Should the stall not be properly corrected, the stator will be permanently damaged, and the life of the overall motor reduced. This is especially important when working with higher flow rates or high differential pressures. Less applied differential pressure will mean fewer stalls.

Figure 5 – Power Section (Dyna-Drill.com, 2018)

The center axis of stator and rotor are not identical. The offset between these two center points is known as “eccentricity”. When the rotor turns within the stator, its axis moves around that of the stator. One full rotation around this stator access is called a nutation or precession. To find a PDM’s precessional speed, one must multiply the rotational speed by the number of rotor lobes. This process is, in effect, a gear reduction mechanism, and accounts for why the bit speed will decrease when the rotor/stator lobe configuration is increased.

The stator itself is formed out of a steel tube, lined with elastomer, and with spiraled lobes which correspond to the rotor. The material needs to be rigid enough to withstand abrasion and wear from the solids in the drilling fluid, but also flexible enough to provide enough of a seal on the rotor. It is therefore necessary to find some midpoint between these two demands. The materially also needs to be minimally affected by the numerous chemicals in the drilling fluid, as well as normal operating temperatures. It is vital that the elastomer bonds properly to the steel casing. It needs to be completely clean, to allow for effective adhesion.

After this is done, the elastomeric material needs to be pumped into its proper place, to prevent air pockets developing between the elastomer and its casing, as well as within the elastomer itself. Finally, an intricate curing process needs to take place. Although this is considered proprietary, it is nonetheless similar to the procedures used to heat-treat various metals.

Power Curves

PDM Power Curves are an extremely useful source of specific data when required drilling parameters are known. There are four major parameters displayed on the Power Curve format used here:

Output Torque (foot-pounds)

Output Rotational Speed (revolutions per minute)

Total Pressure Drop (pounds per square inch)

Drilling Fluid Flow Rate (gallons per minute)

Figure 5 – Power Cure of Mud Motor (Halliburton, 2018)

These graphs refer specifically to a stated design (i.e. a rotor/stator configuration), and one where water is used as the fluid medium. Should a fluid of a higher density or viscosity be used, the torque and pressure drop will subsequently be higher. Using weighted fluid will have an impact on the parasitic (free-running) pressure losses which are a part of the total pressure drop. Said parasitic pressure losses are in part a result of contact between the particles of barite which is used to raise the density of the fluid. When the drilling fluid weight goes up, so too does the amount of solid particles and thereby the particle-to-particle contact.

In addition, if a fluid is used which is more viscos than water, the torque output will be larger than the one indicated by a water-based curve. This is because thicker fluids result in a better seal between rotor and stator, maximizing the differential pressure that may be applied. Given the direct relationship between torque production and applied differential pressure, higher differential pressure across the PBM means there will be greater torque production than that shown on the Power Curve, as the seal is improved.

Transmission Assembly

The Transmission Assembly takes care of the eccentric rotation, or precession, of the rotor, which needs to be stabilized within the stator when the mechanical energy reaches the bit. On top of this purpose, the transmission assembly will also absorb some of the hydraulic thrust which originates in the power section, and transmit the generated torque to the drive or output shaft. There are multiple designs used in the drilling industry to achieve this purpose.

Figure 6 – Transmission Assembly (http://steelmakingmachine.com, 2017)

Bearing Assembly

Bearing assembly which consists of radial and axial thrust bearing supports a transmission assembly. The bearing assembly transmits rotational force from the the transmission assembly and support both trust load and radial bending load while drilling.

Figure 7 – Bearing Assembly

There are two types of bearing assembly.

Oil Sealed Bearing Assembly – This type is recommended to use when corrosive drilling fluid is utilized, there is a lot of LCM to be pumped through the BHA or it is required to have very low pressure drop across the bit.

Mud Lubricated Bearing Assembly – This type use some of mud flowing through the bearing assembly. Typically, it is about 4 – 10% of mud which is used to lubricate and cool the shaft and bearings.

Adjustable Bend Housing

An adjustable bend housing (figure 8) connects a bearing assembly to a stator and it also provides protection to a transmission assembly. The bending on a mud motor can be adjusted in order to achieve a required build rates while sliding. If the angle is set at 0 degree bend, it is normally used to improve drilling performance in a vertical well since a bit will spin faster than a rotary drilling.

Figure 8 – Adjustable Bend Housing (http://drillingknowledge.blogspot.com, 2018)

References

Inglis, T.A. (2010) Directional drilling. Dordrecht: Springer-Verlag New York.

Mitchell, R.F., Miska, S.Z. and Aadnoy, B.S. (2012) Fundamentals of drilling engineering. Richardson, TX: Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Short, J.J.A. (1993) Introduction to directional and horizontal drilling. Tulsa, OK: PennWell Books.

Technical, T., Astier, B., Baron, G., Boe, J.-C., Peuvedic, J.L.P. and French Oil & Gas Industry Association (1990) Directional drilling and deviation control technology. Paris: Editions

En.wikipedia.org. (2018). Mud motor. [online] Available at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_motor [Accessed 28 Apr. 2018].

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Halliburton.com. (2018). SperryDrill® and SperryDrill® XL/XLS Positive Displacement Motors – Halliburton. [online] Available at: http://www.halliburton.com/en-US/ps/sperry/drilling/directional-drilling/matched-systems/sperrydrill-and-sperrydrill-xl/sperrydrill-and-sperrydrill-xl-xls-positive-displacement-motors.page [Accessed 28 Apr. 2018].

Steelmakingmachine.com. (2018). Downhole Drilling Motor,Downhole Tools,Energy Conversion Device Manufacturer. [online] Available at: http://steelmakingmachine.com/6-1-downhole-drilling-motor.html [Accessed 28 Apr. 2018].

Drilling, S. and man, h. (2018). Steerable Downhole Mud Motor – Directional Drilling. [online] Drillingknowledge.blogspot.com. Available at: http://drillingknowledge.blogspot.com/2017/11/steerable-downhole-mud-motor.html [Accessed 29 Apr. 2018].

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Another example of a myth that Youtube is so eager to bust these days is the myth of overtraining. I see plenty of buff guys on there explaining to me how I’m never going to reach overtraining because overtraining is reserved for a small percentage of high-performance athletes who train extremely hard for hours every day. Oh, really? What about hormones? Each day of the week I spend 10 hours at work absolutely grilling my nervous system, which elicits the same type of stress response as does hours of training. And I do that even before I even get to the gym! So yes, I am very much at risk of experiencing overtraining symptoms, people. And so are you. You don’t have to be a professional athlete for that. I am producing cortisol like crazy for 13 to 14 hours each day, sometimes longer. It adds up!

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Lesson 7. There are predominantly 4 types of Youtube fitness personalities. There’s the jacked guy with no fat on him whose looks everybody wants. There’s the blocky natural lifter, strong and intimidating, with excessive fat and barely any definition, whose deadlift is enviable, unlike his physique. There’s the almost muscular, almost shredded guy who looks like any gym debutante after a couple of months of lifting on a junk diet. Finally there’s the smart guy who doesn’t need gains because he has the brains - this one's usually fully dressed, talks like a book and likes to call himself a doctor. The jacked guy - whose bulky frame and chiseled structure are the very embodiment of your dream physique - is the type most of us will want to take advice from, in hope that it might get us his looks. Sadly - and here’s my lesson - this guy is usually on some type of synthetic compound. Whatever he preaches couldn’t work for you, unless you’re part of the Anabolic-Androgenic Syndicate… You want to listen to the naturals even if they look like shit. The nerdy doctor type may need to be taken with an extra pinch of salt though. He can quote from the book but whether he's able to relate that to fitness if he’s never done any serious lifting is another matter.

Lesson 8. Youtube is full of ‘easy' diet and exercise programs, all of which are just as worthless as they are overpriced. The truth is this: any diet or exercise plan that’s not radical is not going to produce noticeable changes. Period. To guarantee results from short- or medium-term moderate-intensity workout programmes and nutrition plans is the epitome of bullshitterism and should ring all your alarm bells. If someone is telling me I can get a jacked chest from doing twenty pushups every day, that’s not just stupid but also disrespectful of my intellectual capabilities, and of me as a viewer. Those 'x pushups a day for a month' challenges and transformation videos are fun to watch but, guys, all of this is hogwash. Muscle takes years to build and it builds in barely noticeable increments. My lesson is to remain consistent, enjoy working out, and take pride in my willpower.

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Don’t the Rich Deserve to Keep Their Money?

Wealth is socially created — redistribution just allows more people to enjoy the fruits of their labor.

via Jacobin

by Michael A. McCarthy

ech tycoons, beloved entertainers, and dazzling athletes nearly always come up in heated debates over taxes. Don’t you like your iPod? What about Harry Potter? Neoliberal economists argue that figures like Steve Jobs, J. K. Rowling, and LeBron James should make more moneythan the rest of us.

After all, we — the consumers — are the ones buying their products. Their higher pay creates the incentive necessary for the hard work and innovation that even the lazy among us benefit from.

Intuitive as it may seem, this view doesn’t hold up. Advocates for low taxes on the wealthy deliberately choose examples from tech and entertainment, suggesting that the elite are great innovators truly cut from a different cloth.

But a glance at the list of the top-paid CEOs in the United States tells us otherwise. The highest-paid executive is Discovery Communications’ David Zaslav, who made over $150 million in 2014. His great contribution to the human endeavor? Helping to air Here Comes Honey Boo Boo.

Most people understand this and believe the rich should pay more in taxes. According to a 2015 Gallup poll, 62 percent believe that upper-income earners are taxed “too little,” while just 25 percent think they pay their “fair share.” 69 percent believe corporations aren’t taxed enough, while only 16 percent were content with current rates.

But the socialist justification for taxes is grounded in a view — not often captured in opinion polls — about how capitalist wealth is actually created. To explore it, we first need to understand what taxes are and what non-socialists think about them.

Tax policy does two things in capitalist society. First, it determines what share of the total economic pie will be managed by the public, in the form of government revenue, and how much will be left to the use of private actors like individuals and corporations.

Second, it stipulates how that public share is divvied up between the competing needs and wants of individuals, organizations, and corporations. The first is about resource control while the second is a matter of allocation.

Even when a government takes in high tax revenue, it does not necessarily put it to progressive ends. Just consider the huge benefits that flow to corporations through subsidies or state-supported research and development, and it’s easy to see how governments can redistribute up, down, or horizontally.

In a capitalist economy, where productive resources remain privately owned, socialists call for a significant portion of the social product to be controlled publicly and democratically redistributed downward.

However, in the United States today, the libertarian view that “taxation is theft” has seeped so deeply into everyday conceptions of property that even those who support progressive taxation often accept the premise that there is a pre-tax income that people earn and should own outright.

Even the liberal credo that everyone needs to “do their fair share” is based on the implicit idea that workers and capital alike pay taxes out of a civic obligation to give up part of what is theirs for the betterment of society.

On the same grounds, libertarians argue that if pre-tax income is the direct product of a person or corporation’s own effort, it should be theirs to use as they see fit. In this view, even if the government has decided democratically to tax the rich at a higher rate, taxation remains fundamentally unjust. In the extreme formulation of libertarian political philosopher Robert Nozick, “taxation of earnings from labor is on par with forced labor.”

That viewpoint has been rightly criticized by progressives. But socialists should not fall back on the common liberal criterion for taxation: that a person or corporation’s ability to pay should determine the amount they pay. The familiar justification circulates even among leftists, who hear within it an echo of the dictum “from each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

This perspective suggests one of two things, both of which are inaccurate.

First, that taxes are a kind of necessary evil for those that are being taxed. Even though a person or corporation’s pre-tax income is the result of their own labor, it’s more practical for society to tax some of that income for public purposes than to leave it under private control. Or, alternatively, that taxing the rich more is just being fair.

Both of these views get us tangled back in the libertarian thicket — doesn’t such a tax policy still encroach on the rights of the individual? Should fairness then trump individual rights? And doesn’t the socialist argument for heavy progressive taxation ultimately also violate the rights of the individual as well? Why do socialists hate freedom so much?

The socialist view of redistribution within a capitalist society must reject an important premise at play in nearly all tax policy debates: that pre-tax income is something earned solely by individual effort and possessed privately before the state intervenes to take a part of it. Once we break from this libertarian fantasy, it’s easy to see that individual and corporate income is made possible only through tax-financed state action.

The capitalist economy is not self-regulating. The first precondition for firms to earn profits is state-enforced property rights, which give some people ownership and control over productive resources while excluding others.

Second, governments have to manage labor markets to help ensure that the skill needs of firms are met. States do this through setting immigration and education policies. All capitalist states also try to mitigate labor market risks, whether it be the risk of labor scarcity for firms or unemployment for workers.

Third, most capitalists want states to enforce anti-trust, contract, criminal, property, and tort laws, as it makes market interactions more predictable and reliable. And finally, the capitalist economy needs a working infrastructure. Even most libertarians argue that state control over the money supply and interest rates is necessary to spur or slow growth when the economy needs it.

All of this is done with taxes. In short, the very notion of pre-tax income or profits is a bookkeeping trick. A person’s income or a corporation’s profits are in part the result of governments collecting taxes and actively creating the conditions under which they were able to make money in the first place. In this framework, “tax the rich” isn’t merely a cry of spite or a demand for fairness.

The socialist case for taxation and progressive redistribution is built from three basic factors of how capitalism works. First, as just explored, personal incomes and corporate profits are not simply the result of individual work and business competition — instead they are part of a broader social product.

The total income generated in a capitalist society is the result of a collective social effort, made possible by a specific social and legal architecture, and channeled through both publicly funded and privately controlled and financed institutions.

Second, the class inequality that results from making this social product is relational. Capitalists are able to accumulate large stores of wealth only because workers do not. All things being equal, firms can raise their profits in inverse proportion to the labor costs they bear.

The condition for this relationship is, once again, political and maintained through tax revenue. Firms rely on states to enforce property rights and contracts that keep ownership of society’s productive resources — its means of production — in the hands of very few.

As a result, in capitalism, most people work for others; they don’t hire others to work for them. And capitalists employ workers only when they believe that those workers’ efforts are going to make the firm more money than they will take out in wages — doing otherwise would be market suicide.

Of course, hard work, guile, and luck afford some workers the ability to become capitalists. But the basic structure of capitalism, in which a small number own most of the productive assets, guarantees that the vast majority of people will (at best) spend their lives earning wages, but never profits. Taxation provides a partial remedy to that essential, structural inequality of capitalist society.

Third, redistribution through taxation is a means of extending individual freedom — not curtailing it, as libertarians contend. Freedom, according to the liberal theorist Isaiah Berlin, has a dual composition. On one side, there is negative freedom, the absence of coercion or “freedom from” that is the hallmark of most common conceptions of freedom in the United States today.

With respect to coercion, taxes fund a variety of public provisions that offer citizens some measure of freedom from the private tyranny of firms. They form the entire basis of the state apparatus that, in a capitalist system, is the only force whose power exceeds that of the capitalist class as a whole.

Without laws prohibiting slavery, written by legislatures and enforced in courts sustained by the public coffers, people would be compelled by threat of violence or starvation to work for no money at all. Without regulations, like those that demand at least minimal workplace safety or the ones that compel management to engage in collective bargaining, workers would lose what little say they have in how their work is organized.

In the context of tax policy, however, positive freedom matters as well. Positive freedom is the “ability to” — the capacity to do things, and the possibility of selecting goals and making efforts to realize them. Such freedom requires resources.

In capitalist societies with low levels of redistribution, positive freedom is a zero-sum game in which a few enjoy a great deal of such abilities at the expense of many others. Tax policy that divides the social product in such a way that allows some people to live opulent lives while others scrape by cannot be said to promote freedom.

The public education system, for example, which offers citizens the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in pursuit of both collective and individual ambitions, is a bedrock of positive freedom that can only be sustained through taxation.

In a truly socialist society, the combination of political and economic equality would offer everyone a far greater degree of both negative and positive freedom than they enjoy under capitalism. Until we realize that world, progressive redistribution through taxation is both a means to redress structural inequalities and the primary way we can expand and extend freedom to as many people as possible.

But we are headed down the wrong path. Over the past few decades, financial gains from growing labor productivity have primarily flowed to the top while tax rates on top earners have been drastically lowered and now approach pre-New Deal levels.

Even a modest increase in the total tax burden on the top 1 percent of earners to a 45 percent rate, far lower than its postwar levels, would bring in an additional $275 billion in revenue. That’s far more than just the $47 billion needed to make all public colleges and universities tuition free.

Such increases also go a long way in generating the revenue needed to finance a universal health care system, increase Social Security benefits, and rebuild our crumbling infrastructure.

Most would agree that we all deserve to live in a society where we are given what we deserve, are free, and have the capacity to be creativeand reach our potential. As unglamorous as it may seem, redistributive taxation is a step in this direction. The rich didn’t earn their wealth — they’re just holding on to it for us.

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