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In honor of Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day, which is today, August 21, I’m posting a rec list of all the Supernatural’s stories I bookmarked on AO3. These fics had a big impact on me for one reason or another, and I want both to suggest them to my followers and make a shout out to their authors. Coup de chapeau to all of you.

Fanfictions

Aesthetics in Autoerotica by @relucant (relucant)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: college!AU, Photographer Castiel, Model Dean, Nude Modeling, Fluff and Smut, Panty Kink, Dean in Panties, Cameras, Anal Fingering, Anal Sex, Butt Plugs, Blow Jobs, Coming Untouched, Top Castiel, Bottom Dean, PWP

“What do you think about when you masturbate?” “I sure don’t think about callin’ it masturbate,” Dean retorted with a small laugh. “I’m sorry. What do you think about when you jerk off?” “Jesus, Cas, you talkin’ dirty like that ain’t gonna help me not come in these panties.” “Well, I intend for you to,” Cas pointed out. “But not just yet. Now answer the question, please.” “Jesus,” Dean said again, blush deepening. “I – um. Jeez, I dunno. I mean, there’s all kinds of crap in my spank bank. Some days, yeah, s'gettin’ thrown against the wall by some hot dude in an alley. Other days, I dunno, it’s triplets.” “What are you thinking about right now?” Dean turned an incredulous look on him. “Uh, there’s a hot photographer takin’ pictures of my dick in pink panties right now, you think I need any more material?”

Read if: you’re in the mood for incredible smut and pretty interesting conversations

Appoggiatura by @ceeainthereforthat (ceeainthereforthat)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Fluff, Domestic, Musicians, Classical Music!AU, college!AU, Virgin Castiel, Masturbation, Bondage, Rope Bondage, Explicit Consent, Oral Sex, Frottage, Rimming, Snowballing, Dom/sub Undertones, Phone Sex, Top Dean, Bottom Castiel, Anal Sex, Switch Dean, Switch Castiel, Paddling

Castiel leaves the religious commune of Heaven Farms to study classical piano after winning a full scholarship paid for by the Deanna Campbell Memorial Foundation, and answers an ad in the campus newspaper: 1 bedroom to let. Meals provided. 50mb wifi, quiet odd music student preferred.

Read if: you’re ready for a complex world made by silences, music, fears and hopes, marks that fade slowly, and a peculiar take on our beloved characters

Assimilation by @cuddlebabies (komodobits)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Coda, Mary-Centric, homophobia in that Mary has been yanked out of 1983 a la the AIDs crisis and dropped into 2016, but born out of ignorance rather than malice or hatred

Coda to 12.01 Keep Calm and Carry On. Mary always thought you were supposed to be able to tell. That you could just look at someone and know they were – you know. One of that sort. It’s not supposed to happen to her son.

Read if: you want a realistic fic about the relationship between a mother and a son she last saw right before her death, happened in a different age

Clover Clamps by @mayalaen (Mayalaen)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Cock & Ball Torture, Nipple Clamps, Cock Slapping, Painplay, Blow Jobs, Begging, Bondage, Tickling, Established Relationship, Dom/sub, Praise Kink

Fill for an Anonymous Prompt asking for consensual, loving CBT. Bonus if it’s contrasted with others (only villains, please!) doing similar things against Dean’s will in the past.

Read if: you enjoy feelings with your smut, and so, so much trust

Consort by @valinde (Valinde)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Arranged Marriage, Medieval!AU, Prince Dean, King Castiel, Virgin Dean, Dub-Con, Painful Sex, Awful Sex, Traumatized Dean, Aetheling Dean, Paganism, Religious Conflict, mild blasphemy, Mild Gore, Violence, Aftermath of Torture, Hurt Dean Winchester, Bottom Dean, References to Mpreg, not a kidfic, Very Brief Infidelity, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort

When King John of the West Saxons forms an alliance with a neighboring Christian kingdom, his eldest son Dean ends up playing a role he never expected.

Read if: you like medieval-like fictions with intricate plots and complex characters. A warning, though! It’s a wip and it hasn’t been updated in a long time

Dean hates witches by @museaway (museaway)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Truth Spells, Love Confessions, Canon Universe, Season/Series 10, Mark of Cain

Instead of researching, Sam does what any loving brother would do. He dials Cas and puts him on speaker.

Read if: you too think that Dean should be honest with himself, and not only that.

Epilogue by @serricoj (Jayne L)

Pairing: Dean/Cas/2014!Cas

Tags: Episode: s05e04 The End, Time Travel

Bobby is here, swearing somewhere above and behind him; and Dean is here, talking about 2014 like it’s a foreign country; and Sam is here, and is not Lucifer. Which means– Cas is no longer when he was. Lucifer sent him back. Coda to ‘The End’.

Read if: you like The End and wish Cas would have had a chance to be happy, even for a short time

Every Living Thing by @jimmynovaks (Askance)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Ambiguous/Open Ending, Medicinal Drug Use, Disturbing Themes, Animal Death

When a pair of hunters on the eastern coast witness the arrival of a very disturbing omen, it isn’t long before the news hurtles across the country, piquing the interest—and fear—of people everywhere. In a matter of days, the new, safe world that Sam, Dean, and Castiel have been inhabiting is flipped upside-down. Something enormous is coming—and this time, it’s something they can’t fight. Faced with rapidly diminishing prospects, holed up in a tiny, empty Nebraska town, they are forced to confront fears, secrets, and emotions that might have otherwise never seen the light of day. It seems every story must end somehow, and the only thing that remains to be done is to make the most of what little time they have left.

Read if: you enjoy suspense and an atmosphere that makes time flows in a different way

Fata morgana. by @robotmango (orange_crushed)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Implied Castiel/Dean Winchester, Hell, Season/Series 09, Demon Dean Winchester, Demon Bela Talbot, Mark of Cain, Angst, Mild Gore, Violence, Post-Episode: s09e23 Do You Believe In Miracles?

The endless asphalt and broken road, the empty land and piles of human garbage, the unwanted ends of life, the cracked toys and broken screens and burning cars and gravel. Dean Winchester is the king of hell. “Oh,” says Bela. That changes certain things.

Read if: you miss Bela and would like to see a new take on Demon!Dean

For Science! by @feelsspiral (pm_lo)

Pairing: Dean/Cas, Dean/Anna, Dean/Others, Cas/Others

Tags: Alternate Universe, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Knotting, Self-Lubrication

Selected transcripts and supporting materials from Dr. Castiel Williams and Dean Winchester’s seminal study on physiological and psychological sexual response by gender designation.

Read if: you’re a nerd and love medical stuff and sex positivity - and also smut, because, whoa

Found Naked in his Azaleas by @mnwood (mnwood)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: POV Castiel, Depressed Castiel, Aromantic, Aromantic Castiel, Bottom Dean, Switch Castiel, Mentions of Cancer, Animal Transformation, Angst, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Modern Setting!AU, Farm/Ranch!AU, Police Officer Castiel

Castiel doesn’t mind working a graveyard shift as a security guard. An owl accompanies him to work at night, and he gets to talk to the food truck guy, Dean, when he’s heading home in the morning. And yeah, maybe he likes Dean, but relationships never really work for him anyway so why bother.

Read if: you want a story with a magical atmosphere where everything isn’t perfect and nobody cares

How many slams in an old screen door? by dandelioness

Pairing: Dean/Cas, Balthazar/Cas, Cas/Ruby/Anna

Tags: College/University!AU, Asexual Character, Asexuality

In which Castiel is a theatre major terrible at first impressions; Dean is a set designer who likes Cas anyway; and the most chaotic production of Les Miserables in history somehow manages to go off without a hitch. Or, just as you should never give a moose a muffin (because he’ll want some jam to go with it), you should never give a blank check to a university theatre department.

Read if: you want a realistic ace!Cas fic immersed in the world of theatre kids

If I Was a Flower Growing Wild and Free by @khoshekhcarlos (EndlessRain)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: High School!AU, Omega Verse, Omega Dean, Alpha Castiel, Alpha/Omega, Juno AU, Teen Pregnancy, discussions of abortion, Coming of Age, Growing Up, discussions of rape, Mpreg, Pining, Adoption

In between wondering if he’s ever going to see his dad again, and worrying about Sam, Dean Winchester manages to find time to sleep with his best friend and get pregnant, just in time for his junior year. This is the tale of teenage woes, growing up, and learning to see the world (and himself) a little bit differently. Based off of the movie Juno with a side-dish of omega!verse.

Read if: you like Juno and waited for this fic to happen forever

Music Be the Food by @dragonmuse (Vera)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: the song of the universe, cat’s cradle by kurt vonnegut, two towers by j.r.r. tolkien, a shakespere sonnet, and two men at peace, Asexuality, Asexual Character, straight!Dean, asexual!Cas

karass - a group of people who, often unknowingly, are working together to do God’s will. duprass- a karass composed of only two persons. A duprass “is a valuable instrument for gaining and developing, in the privacy of an interminable love affair, insights that are queer but true.” It “is also a sweetly conceited establishment.” [ 55 ] ― from Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle

Read if: you want a story about Dean and Cas' profound bond and how it knows no boundaries

not the same moon, that’s impossible. by of_dreamdust

Pairing: Dean/Cas, Charlie/Gilda

Tags: Asexual Castiel, Pansexual Dean, but really it’s just implied, dean only hooks up with cas, Texting, Alternate, College!AU, Literature, But only a little, dean is a lit major, Human Castiel

“But, since Dean had two more weeks until deadline, he decided to start slowly. Which meant that he ended up watching the third season of Parks and Recreation on his laptop, lying in his bed with a bottle of beer and a bag of pumpkin seeds. Somewhere in the middle of Andy and April’s grocery shopping, his phone vibrated. ” or, one in which Dean flirts via Parks and Rec lines.

Read if: you need an heartwarming story on the line of Parks and Rec

Priestly’s Pesto by @amazinmango (amazinmango)

Pairing: Dean/Cas, Sam/Jess

Tags: dean as boaz priestly, sammiches, lots of sammiches, please let the deli counter know if you have a nut allergy, Recreational Drug Use

A man with a mohawk, a tax accountant adrift, a brother not so lost and the sandwich that brings them together. (Or at least it’s tasty.)

Read if: you want to spend an awesome evening with a fantastic fic. And like Ten Inch Heroes, too.

Prosopagnosia by @misseditallagain (misseditallagain)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Depression, Cognitive Disorder, Prosopagnosia, Kid Fic, Gas-N-Sip, Firefighter Dean, Human!AU, Family

“I could turn around right now and I wouldn’t be able to spot you out of a lineup. There is nothing remarkable about you I could identify and say: there, that is Dean.” “So you mean I’m not just another pretty face?”

Read if: you enjoy discover new things and Cas!centric fics that delve deep into his mind

Significant by @holyhael (holyhael)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: AU, Recreational Drug Use, Marijuana, Hand Feeding, Body Image, Sub!Dean, Dom!Cas, refractory periods

Dean Smith’s and Castiel’s unconventional morning after.

Read if: you like the pairing made by 2014!Cas and Dean Smith and their intriguing interactions

Smoke In the Mirror by @wavervelvett (letters_of_stars)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

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It begins with the flier hung in the library: art model needed for thesis project, will pay. Castiel figures it’s an easy way to make some extra money, but modeling for Dean Winchester ends up complicating his life far beyond anything he could have imagined.

Read if: you enjoy quiet moments shared in a small studio dedicated to art, stolen glances, and gentle poetry

Suck My Dick S.E. Hinton by @mnwood (mnwood)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Episode Tag, Screenplay/Script Format, Angst, Season/Series 10, Consent Issues

“One thing that really gets on my nerves:People who think they can write a better #SPN than the writers do. Try it. Just fucking try it.” -S.E. Hinton

Read if: you’re fucking sick of people not understanding fans and think they’re the shit

Superior by @museaway (museaway)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Case Fic, Established Relationship, Canon Universe, Season/Series 11, hunter husbands, Implied/Referenced Suicide, Hurt/Comfort, Cas and Dean being pretty gross and in love, Car Sex, Shower Sex, Thunderstorms, Cas and Sam being bros, POV Sam Winchester, POV Castiel, Team Free Will

Sam, Cas, and Dean travel to Michigan to investigate a series of deaths along Lake Superior. But with little evidence to go on, Sam begins to doubt his instincts and wonder if the deaths are accidental when Dean develops an inexplicable draw to the lake.

Read if: you’re in the mood for a thrilling story that shows the beauty that is Team Free Will and the horror of some of the cases they accept

The breath that passed from you to me by @dixseptdixhuit (mariesondetre)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Tuberculosis AU, sanatorium AU, Sick Dean, Hurt/Comfort, Slow Burn, Fluff, Sick Fic, Happy Ending, Man of Letters Castiel, Waverly Hills sanatorium, 1950s!AU, Epistolary, Hand Jobs, Graphic Depictions of Illness, not too graphic but medically accurate, POV Multiple

When Dean Winchester had to stop hunting with his brother for a while to be treated in Waverly Hills tuberculosis sanatorium, he wasn’t expecting to meet someone who fought the same creatures as him. It turned out his doctor, Castiel Novak, was also a Man of Letters. And he was also going to become so much more for Dean…

Read if: you like historical fiction that unites medicine and supernatural. Plus a badass!sick!Dean

The Dove’s Long Journey to Champaign by @violue (violue)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: past Sam Winchester/Ruby, past Dean Winchester/Lisa, Past Castiel/Other(s), Past Suicide Attempt, Anxiety, Depression, PTSD, Anal Sex, Top Castiel, Bottom Dean, Frottage, THERE IS NO VOLLEYBALL IN THIS FEATURE, aimless emotional hurt/comfort, Mention of a Hate Crime, Past Character Death

After four years of solitude on a remote island, Dean’s been through hell. But he’s home, he’s healing, and he has a very special gift for a man he’s never met. (Basically this is an AU of the movie Cast Away that takes place after the island.)

Read if: you’re up for a fic that shows a kind way of healing, without shying away from the reality of mental illnesses

the mania of owning by @reallyelegantsharkfish (sharkfish)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, End of the World, Apocalypse!AU, Alpha Castiel, Omega Dean, Content note: References to sexual violence

Oh god. By the time Dean is visualizing, compulsively, the last good fuck he had, he knows that he’s made a mistake. Within the next mile of walking, he can’t even delude himself into ignoring it anymore; he can feel a trickle of moisture running down the inside of his thigh. Oh god. Castiel has had plenty of time to get used to the idiosyncrasies of his symptoms, but the way his focus shifts towards this particular scent that reaches him on the barest breeze – it’s somehow different. And somehow he knows, automatically, that it’s not happy-heat-mate but scared and sick and alone.

Read if: you want a scary story about bodies that change against your will in a post-Apocalyptic world, and how sometimes you just have to make do with what you have

The Prince of Any Failing Empire by @herbcitty (Herbcitty)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Asexual Character, Asexual Dean, Acephobia (mild), enforced gender roles, Swearing

When Dean is a teenager [14, 15, 16], he believes there is something wrong with him. He doesn’t line up to what the other boys are [girls, girls, girls; beer, sex, sport, live life and fuck the rest; MAN], he doesn’t line up to what his father is [shrewd, strength, soldier; alcohol, women, hunting, top of the game; MAN], he doesn’t line up to what television guys are [MAN].

Read if: you like ace!Dean, because man, this is one of the best stories I’ve read on this matter

The Shadows We Draw by @deanghostchester (viviansface)

Pairing: Dean/Cas, Bela/Charlie

Tags: Alternate Universe - High School, Bullying, Violence, violent imagery, Horror, Dark, Witchcraft

Senior year of high school is generally considered to be a struggle; with a new boyfriend and a group of jocks who won’t stop straight-out harassing him, it’s nearly impossible. Despite being in love and enjoying its perks, Dean grows desperate enough to seek aid from a practiser of one of the oldest arts – witchcraft – to hopefully make their lives (especially Cas’) easier. Spells are a dangerous business, though, and oftentimes, not even the best intentions can make a difference.

Read if: you’re in the mood for a psychological horror that you’ll lose yourself into, and come out shivering

The Unwavering Heart of a Winchester by @violue (violue)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Past Character Death, John Winchester’s A+ Parenting, Past Child Abuse, Depression, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Brief homophobia, Angst, Infidelity (Not Dean or Castiel), Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Mild Somnophilia, Dirty Talk, graphic description of Castiel/Others in the form of Dirty Talk, unrepentant smut, mild spanking, incredibly light Dom/sub vibes, Bottom Dean, Bottom Castiel, Top Dean, Top Castiel

There’s no point in mincing words. Sam is dead, and without him Dean is a drunken shell of who he used to be. When he finally pulls himself out of a growing pile of whiskey bottles, Dean finds it hard to go back to his life. With one flippant comment from a friend, Dean thinks he might finally have a way to make peace with the loss; Sam was an organ donor, and Dean’s going to find the recipients, talk to them, and see how their lives are better because of his little brother. For the first six stops on his road trip, things go mostly according to plan, and then he meets the man who has Sam’s heart. Dean had hoped he might find peace on this trip… he never expected to find love.

Read if: you’re ready for a story that first and foremost explore Dean’s emotions and mind and takes time to create a journey that it’s his own

The water is bluer in dreamscapes by @saandrae (Sa_kun)

Pairing: Gen

Tags: Asexuality, Asexual Character, Ace!Dean, Friendship

Dean stops having sex after Hell. Actually, he was never that into it in the first place.

Read if: you want a take on Dean’s sexuality that blends perfectly with canon

Thursday’s Child by strangeandcharm

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Angst, Croatoan/Endverse, Drug Addiction, Implied/Referenced Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Violence, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, PTSD, Castiel Whump, Hurt Castiel, Human Castiel, Dean Whump, Hurt Dean, Rape/Non-con Elements, First Time

Thursday’s child has far to go.

Read if: you’re ready for an epic journey through a post-apocalyptic world that is learning to rebuild itself, and how Cas and Dean cope with everything that has happened and it’s still yet to happen

Triple Chocolate Covered Cherryccino by @shiphitsthefan (shiphitsthefan)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Coffee Shops!AU, Wayward Daughters, Aromantic Dean, Bisexual Dean, Aromantic Castiel, Quoiromantic Castiel, Aromantic Claire, Asexual Claire, Barista Dean, Manager Dean, Sub Dean, Professor Castiel, Dom Castiel, Fluff, Valentine’s Day, Smoking, Frottage, Non-Explicit, Recreational Drug Use, Everything is Beautiful and Nothing Hurts

Dean Winchester loves his job managing Wayward Java. He loves the family he’s found in the owner, Jody, and her three daughters. He loves sex with no strings attached and the freedom of bachelorhood. Dean knows his life looks like trash to most people, but he couldn’t give two shits, because he loves it, too. It’s a good thing Castiel Novak loves studying garbage.

Read if: you’re craving aromantic characters that are comfortable with their identities and wanting to know about their little family

Welcome to the Hunter_Bros Comm by @yalufic (Yalu)

Pairing: pre-Dean/Cas

Tags: Fandom AU, Metafiction, Fans, LiveJournal, Epistolary, if LJ posts and PMs and tweets can be called epistolary

wings_to_fly wrote in hunter_bros Tags: I don’t understand, what do you want me to tag? Hello, I’m New Hello, I’m new. I started watching Supernatural season one last week and I’m up to ep1x09 Home. I was wondering if anyone could tell me which communities are the best to join for good fanfiction about Dean and Sam. I haven’t been in online fan communities before and am not sure where to start. (read comments) (post a comment) Or: in which Sam and Dean mod a comm, the final SPN season is airing, Castiel is the newbie, fandom is obsessive as ever, and betaing is totally a metaphor for love.

Read if: you want a peculiar fic with a lovely format that explores fandoms and how our boys and girls would be as fans of Supernatural

What I Need by Jacqueline Albright-Beckett (xaandria)

Pairing: Dean/Cas, Sam/Jessica

Tags: surgery AU, Surgery, Getting Together, medical AU, hospital au

A joking phrase commonly heard between a surgeon and his tech is “Give me what I need, not what I ask for.” Dr. Novak and his tech Dean will soon learn the impact this phrase has on life outside the operating room.

Read if: you like accurate hospital AUs where Dean and Cas are competent at their jobs and find the time to get to know each others among surgeries and steaming coffee mugs

White Albatross by @spoopernaptime (spnergitout)

Pairing: Dean/Cas

Tags: Magical Realism, Psychological Horror, Suicidal Thoughts, Mental Health Issues, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Angst with a Happy Ending, The Pacific Northwest, Lake Mead, Established Relationship

Six years of a relationship isn’t something Dean can just throw away. Cas is sick, and all Dean has to do is hold on. Even if Cas is drifting further and further away, even if the seeping blackness threatens to swallow them both. When dreams are reality and reality is void, there’s only one thing Dean knows for sure: he isn’t giving up on Cas.

Read if: you like realistic descriptions of mental illnesses and how partners’ emotions can get tangled with each other. Oh, and Cas’ wings, too.

Series

Cruel Angels by @orphan-dat (orphan)

Well. The Apocalypse was one thing. Thousand-foot-tall multi-limbed horror-angels smashing up the planet was something totally different…

Read if: you like Evangelion and are in the mood for a gigantic badass Cas

Dean and Cas are Switches by @wallmakerrelict(wallmakerrelict)

Established relationship Dean/Castiel BDSM fics with an emphasis on trust, negotiation, and the miles of baggage that the boys bring to the table. Expect to see both Dean and Cas bottoming, topping, subbing, and domming, sometimes within the same fic.

Read if: you’re team switches and would love to see how diverse Dean and Cas’ relationship can be

Dom/sub Verse by bluest_skies

An AU series of fics exploring the D/s relationship of Castiel and Dean. Please note that all play is Safe, Sane, and Consenual and they have an established safe word and though it may not always be mentioned/talked about, etc., it IS there. Aftercare always takes place as well even if it isn’t described in a particular piece.

Read if: you’re in the mood for some healthy, hot, and tender BDSM and how Cas and Dean get to know each other in every way

Frigging Festivities by Englandwouldfall

In which everyone’s had a bit of a crappy year, Dean is tired of thanklessly breaking his back trying to help lost causes, Cas is fed up of being sued for trying to save people and Christmas is most definitely cancelled. Or, one the many ways hating the festive season brings the broken (or maybe not quite) together. And… maybe Christmas isn’t so bad after all.

Read if: you like medical AUs and are not big on festivities

Good Books, Bad Movies by @handsomefeelings (Amelia_Clark)

Castiel Novak is an award-winning, heavily tattooed writer of dark fantasy (think China Mieville). Dean Winchester runs a quirky book/video store called Good Books, Bad Movies. There’s a reading, some lit-nerd flirting, and eventually smut amongst the shelves.

Read if: you enjoy stories where the characters meet after their own personal journeys and still manage to grow together even more

Grammar Games by @relucant (relucant)

“Hey, hey,” Dean said, propping his feet up on a chair. “Dude, I don’t even know your name.” Cas blinked up at him, and the tiny heat that the gravelly voice had sparked in Dean’s stomach evolved into a full-on tingle. “Oh, uh,” he said. “Yeah. I’m Castiel. Cas, if you like.” “Cas,” Dean drawled. “I do like.” He stuck out his hand. Cas raised an eyebrow, but he reached out to shake. “I’m Dean Winchester.” “I’m aware,” Cas said dryly. “You’ve something of a reputation.” “I’m aware,” Dean agreed with a bright grin.

Read if: you’re a nerd and would love to learn or brush up on english grammar with the help of Dean and Cas and their sensual studying sessions

His Fucking Kids by @8swords (8sword)

Jesus, the school should just have a parking spot labeled, “Reserved for the Novak-Winchesters,” because Dean’s getting sick of having to cruise around the parking lot looking for a spot every time he gets a call from the principal about Emma.

Read if: you’re in the mood for a kid fic that doesn’t ignore all the troubles a kid can put themselves through

Necessities by @shiphitsthefan (shiphitsthefan)

As a human with a price on his head, stripped of choice and agency and control, Castiel is confined to the bunker while the angels seek him out to enact their revenge. Dean means to give control back to him, in more ways than one. [Dom!Cas/sub!Dean alternate season 9 bunker fic]

Read if: you want D/s fics where Dean and Cas are left satisfied both physically and emotionally

Never Trust a Skinny Baker 'Verse by @mnwood (mnwood)

Dean owns a bakery. Cas is a patron who can’t hear, and Dean happens to know sign language. This fic has all the tropes you know and love so get reading, fuckos.

Read if: you’re ready for some serious fluff with some badass characters that need a little time to learn how to fit with each other

Sun 'Verse by enigmaticblue

By the time Dean stops Lucifer, it’s already too late. A post-apocalyptic tale.

Read if: you want an epic, amazing tale of how family doesn’t end with blood and everyone deserve a second chance

the Mathematics and Media Studies 'verse by @cosmicwarden (necrotype)

College AU in which Dean and Cas are roommates, everything is pretty clichéd, and there’s more focus on the good than the bad.

Read if: you want to relax and slip into a comfortable universe where everyone is free to be who they want

It’s clear that my short comments don’t do these awesome stories justice, so I’ll add this: every single one of these fics is written in a marvelous way. The style is always compelling and right for its story. I’m in love with all of them and I suggest you to take the time to go through the whole list.

Authors, my most sincere compliments. You’re all incredible.

#serricoj #robotmango #feelsspiral #herbcitty #cosmicwarden #destiel #dean/cas #supernatural #sam winchester #team free will #fic rec #fic rec list #annales #fanfiction writers appreciation day

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herbcitty · 8 years

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prompt x. the night before

I wrote this last year using a series of @nosebleedclub prompts, so thanks to them for the inspiration and the feeling of it.

Credit to @inkskinned and @tomonkey4 for the lines of poetry, they’re from a piece called Why Icarus died happy. (it is my favourite and I have five copies of it on my blog).

I saw her sometimes, when I was visiting you.

She told me you’d be there.

I saw her sometimes, when I was visiting you. Her hair, long and dark, had had a bright pink bow in it the first time I noticed her – it stood out here, with the greys and blues and blacks all blended together in an atmosphere that you’d have been the one to force anything I tried to write about it, if I tried, to make sense. Writing like that doesn’t work for me anymore. The day I saw her though, even without you reading over it for me, I felt it could have. She sat on the slab, leaning against the stone like I used to lean against you. Her hands were waving in gestures, and I wondered what story she was telling, what her voice sounded like. Whether it was strong and welcoming, teasing yet like a bird in a jar like mine used to be, when you stood beside me. Or whether it was fragile and soft, talked over like a girl climbing out of a burning car, like mine was now. I didn’t approach her and I didn’t talk to you that day either; I never did. Instead, I read books of firefly-lit forests and last minute flights, never the murder mysteries you used to love. There was no mystery, there was no love. Not for you. I left the single rainbow-coloured flower I brought in the cement vase, like I always did.

She never wore the bow again when I saw her, her clothes dark, and I now understood why I had missed her before – that was how she wanted it to be. She was usually there when I went to see you, fading into the gloom. She caught me staring once, and I waved. She did not wave back. Rather, she turned and kept talking with her hands. There was no one with her, but at the same time there were many of you.

The next time I visited though, she came to meet me. When her narrow brown eyes met my gaze, it felt as though she’d run an x-ray over my soul, my chest tightened and something stirred in the pit of my stomach. She raised her hand out to me and mouthed a greeting, as if unused to actually speaking aloud. I took her hand in mine, thinking she’d shake. She did not. I found myself on my feet instead. I did not stay and read with you that day. We went to the bat-filled house at the end of the street you used to live on, where you and I always dared people to go but never went ourselves. With you, it was like that - we looked and talked and gave the impression that we were or had or should have been, but we were not. It was always only us who were in on the joke.

The night before she introduced me to why the stone she leant against was treated so comfortably like a friend, she took me to the bats again. They liked her – everything did, except people with crosses on their necks like those who’d told us in sophomore year that you and I would make a cute couple. We’d smiled to their faces, then, laughing behind their backs. You did not kiss girls, and I did not only kiss boys. I cut my hair after what happened to you, just because you’d joked once that I should fit the stereotype. They crossed the road to avoid the two of us when I was with her. She didn’t seem to notice, continuing to talk to me in a voice like shipwrecks and empires falling, a voice like angels clad in gold had lost themselves in front of her, and the second language of her hands in a way that was obviously habit to her that she use them.

She liked the attic best, closest to the bats, so we always sat there. It hadn’t occurred to me that we were dating until she kissed me, pulled me closer so we were breast to breast, her hand flayed across my collarbone, her thumb hooked under the strap of my bra. Her mouth against mine, tentative and soft at first, and I wondered what you’d think. Her mouth against mine, desperate and wet when I kissed back, and I knew you’d be happy for me. You’d be congratulating me and asking where all the cute boys were, if they hadn’t found you. Sliding my hand from her jaw into the hair at the back of her head, she shivered. The boat neck of her shirt slid down her right shoulder, revealing a tattooed x. I traced it with my other hand when our mouths parted for breath.

There was a boy with dark hair, dark eyes, darker skin than her though their features were similar - her brother, she said - and a black cat sitting on the slab with her the next day. He was Thai, probably, I thought, though I knew very little of people from anywhere but here. The cat had a long tail wrapped around its feet like a draft stopper, and rubbed it’s head against her leg – I went to see her first now, and then you. She spoke to them in only the language of her hands, and he replied like it was something the two always did. I could not read their gestures, but I waved at them both like I had her the first time our eyes met. Colour drained from her face, but she introduced us; to me with her voice like a car crash heart sensing the impending collision, and to him with her hands, her nails long and painted black. ‘Spirits can’t talk,’ she said, ‘not to us on the corporeal plane.’ Her shoulders were hard-set, her voice terse, carefully blank. I nodded, hugged her like routine, and excused myself for you, but she caught my elbow as I pulled away. She told me you’d be there.

And sitting against the tombstone engraved with the words come find me where the sun / and the sky know each other: i’ll / meet you on the edge and we’ll / fly together – for Icarus fascinated us both – you were. There was nothing else I could say but whisper your name, ‘Sammy.’

#writing #herbcitty #nosebleedclub #mine #inkskinned #tomonkey4 #if nobody understands this - the second person 'you' was the first person character's best friend. He was gay and attacked for it.#and also- sneaky fall out boy reference. points to anyone who notices it.

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