I started reading late in the month of May but here are the little gems I collected on the way. (I also started to hoard some fics to read later so there's that to look forward to!)
Supernatural
Prettiest One: A little bit of fluff to soften the pain of a broken leg. By @dean-winchester-is-a-warrior (Dean x Reader)
Untitled drabble: Making sure Dean is ok and opening a door into his psyche he rarely uses... A drabble by @lipstickandwhiskey (Dean, Reader)
Jack's Garden: A short story of what Paradise looks like for Jack, and who are his gardeners... by @posingasme on AO3 (No pairing)
A leprechaun in the bunker: a sweet story about soulmates and slowish burn by @kazsrm67 (Dean x Reader)
Untitled: a short fluffy piece about how the love of a child can change you by @shellygurumi (Dean, Castiel - kind of background pairing)
Foxholes: a mature ficlet by@thoughtslikeaminefield about Annie Hawkings and her sexy times with Bobby, Sam, and Dean that suggests more than it tells. But it tells enough to get my imagination going... (Annie x Bobby, Annie x Dean, Annie x Sam)
Homesick: a short Sam POV from the pilot episode by @mrswhozeewhatsis that is equally fluff and angst. (Sam x Jess)
Alone, I know: No one understood the emotional damage Sam endured in the Cage. A whump ficlet by Rulerofpotatoes on AO3. (No pairing)
What more can I say: to laugh a little. By @justagirlinafandomworld (Sam x Reader)
Best laid plans: (Supernatural adjacent) A sweet RPF series about falling in love in the land of the rich and famous by @thinkinghardhardlythinkingogblog (Jensen x Reader)
Stranger Things
Untitled: A season 4 Upside-down finale battle AU where Steve and Eddie fight side by side with the help of Robin and Nancy by @metalhoops. (Eddie x Steve)
Untitled: How dating Steve Harrington changed Eddie Munson? by @metalhoops (Eddie x Steve)
Other fandoms or original works
Gotta Catch 'Em All (Pokémon, Bas Guys, Etc.): a sweet IronDad trying to be a good parent to Peter. By @lemonlillybee on AO3 (Tony Stark, Peter Parker)
Necromancer EMT: Annabelle has trouble getting recertified… 😆 by @ofgeography (No pairing)
Tumblr’s lore: the love story of Todd and Annette by a collective based on a prompt by @writing-prompt-s (funny enough, no pairing - except maybe Annette x Charles)
I’m sorry for my lack of answers, I’m trying to keep up with the current airing whumps’ lists but also completing the finished shows’ one and the new seasons’ episodes’ ones:
* The current airing shows’ lists are all updated: Law & Order SVU, The Flash, Magnum PI, Taxi Driver; I’ll soon watch Carnival Row and update it with the first two episodes aired as well;
* I am doing a whumpslist for Will Trent, which is currently airing, and the books by Karin Slaughter the TV show is based on, I'm still undecided whether to publish it or wait to complete them all. What would you prefer?;
* I have to update the Titans' list with the first part of the fourth season;
* I’ve finally updated the Prodigal Son's list with the second season (I will reblog it right after this post); The Boys' one has already been updated with the third season;
* I’ve recentely updated Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan and Strike (TV show and books) too, and posted a new K-list, The Veil;
* I have started to watch the second season of The Witcher (I’ve watched the prequel Blood Origin and enjoyed it so much);
* I have K-drama The K-2 list to complete from... forever, I will gather my courage to finish it and goodbye one of my favorite character; same for The Musketeers, only a bunch of episodes left to review...
You can find all the lists and the links into the Whumpslist’s links Sheet here. Plus, I've made another sheet to include all my gifs, short clips and audios posted as Tumblr allows only a certain amount to links into a single post.
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Meanwhile I’ve received many messages, I’ll gather the answers here into a single post.
Have you ever seen doctor who or torchwood? cuz they have a lot of whump, especially jack harkness
Doctor Who would take an eternity to be watched from the first episode, besides it’s not my kind of show so I’ve never watched it. Neither Torchwood, and that’s because I don’t like John Barrowman very much.
in your endeavor post, what ep was the second to last gif from?
Hi Anon, I suppose you mean the post of January 12th. It’s from Endeavour 1.00 “The Origins of Inspector Morse" when he’s listening at the Rosalind Galloway’s disc.
Ooo have you watched ER I’ve wanting a whump list for John Carter
Sorry @marahm30, I’ve never fully watched it back in the days, only some (whumpy) episodes already reported into The Whumpapedia.
I love love love your lists! Do you think you'd ever do Stargate SG1? I have a list of the daniel whump eps from the first handful of seasons, I'd be happy to help if you wanted to make a list
Maybe, @ravenwingdark, but surely not in the foreseeable future, my hands are full.
would it be possible for you to do Rise of the teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Series and the movie? I saw that you had done the 2003 version and was wondering if you would do the 2018-2020 one
You’re mistaken, @the-true-alpha-04, I’ve never watched nor compiled a list for it neither I will do it in the future, sorry @rachealwolf25.
Clay Spencer
Nope, as I’ve already answered it several times: I will not do a list for SEAL Team, I've only made a gifset for episode 2.17. Despite the potential, it’s pretty lacking in whumps (even if the last season had some improvements). The ones shown are widely reviewed in The Whumpapedia, though.
Do you know any good Chloro Man scenes from shows?
Interesting trope, Anon! Not one of my kind, so I can’t really recall some specifically, but I report it in my lists when it happens. Maybe you can use a selected filter to serch it into The Whumpapedia, though.
Could you do whump lists of…Forever, TVD, The originals, Legacies and other crime sci-fi shows?
It’s highly unlikely it will happen, sorry @anonymous-persona, especially the vampire shows, because of the immortality things, whumps are almost pointless...
Hi! would you be able to make a list for the Mandalorian? specifically pedro pascal’s character! thank you
I’ve thought of making one while I was watching it, but they are just a few, plus Pascal always wears the mask and it’s limitating.
do you know of any whump from All Saints, the '00s australian medical drama? the stabbing episode whumpypepsigal posted was amazing, but the whumpapedia doesn't have much to offer for more... i don't know if the show just isn't very whumpy or if it hasn't been combed through yet, but maybe you'd know, or people in the notes would? thanks!
Nope, I don’t know the show. After receiving your message, I’ve looked for it but I was unable to retrieve it. Please, let me know if you have more luck.
(Making a new game because I feel like it and I’m very nosy. Post your favourite sentences/ paragraphs (with or without context) from your current wips! Tagging @tackytigerfic @skeptiquewrites @wolfpants but no pressure!!!! And if anyone else wants to do it please do I wanna read your snippets!!
WIP 1: (context: angsty draco whump fic that ive been working on since january)
. ‘Fear twists Draco’s insides like a wet rag. In the forest, watching him, was there something more monstrous than Fenrir himself?’
.‘He stares up at the sky, the stars and the enormity of the world above him mostly obscured by the layer of cloud, but even through that he can see the blurred outline of the moon, almost full but not quite.
Draco swallows cold air, and leans back against the door. Almost full. Almost, almost.’
WIP 2: (context: fill for my bad things happen bingo)
.‘It’s just such a Potterism: in the Slytherin common room they used to mock the way Potter constantly went “Um, Er, Eh, Ah, Uhm,” instead of just fucking saying it.’
.‘He’s a terrible person really; at his core Draco is a black mass with fangs.’
WIP 3: (long plotless eighth year smut fic that’s been in my drafts for over a year):
.‘It catches both of them off guard when Malfoy flings the bathroom door open, clad in fresh pyjamas with his hair dripping from the shower.
Harry freezes, even though he knows that Malfoy can’t possibly have the X-Ray vision required to see where his hand is, and Malfoy does a full body cringe, face spasming in what Harry knows must be absolute mortification.’
WIP 4: Torchwood (ianto angst in the gap between season 1 +2)
.‘It was two days after Jack vanished that Tosh had checked the cameras in the Bay. The four of them gathered around her workstation, Ianto with an empty coffee tray still under his arm. Gwen was biting her lip so hard that it almost bled.
The four of them watched as Jack sprinted past the Millennium Centre to an old fashioned blue police box. Ianto’s stomach had dropped to his toes. He knew that box.’
A moodboard off of the concept of “What if Adam won”
under the influence
Torchwood Phone Backgrounds
Big Finish Audios
FIC
Jokes and a Ring, or something like that...
gifts, clothes/outfit, polyam/consensual nonmonogamy, fantasy
Spilling the Beans
Andy Davidson
@melodyandpond
FIC
Cruising* all the way - Chapter 1
nosy coworkers
Cruising* all the way - Chapter 2
day off work
Fish and Kinks
food, kink discussion
@monstermince
FIC
Flower Power
Femslash, plants/vegetables, crossover (the Backyardigans).
you give cannibalism a bad name
John Hart, dead/death
@my-ghost-monument
EDIT
The Year That Never Was: When Martha met Ianto Jones
The Year That Never Was, chance meetings
Night Sky Camping
camping
A Blast From The Future
dopplegangers, betrayal
FIC
new experiences
I can explain!, exposed and fantasy
verdant
time loop, Myfanwy
@night-terrors-official
ART
Torchwood: Saint Lucia - the start of something new
domesticity
Sam Ryder trans moodboard
character(s) of your choice is trans
Finally Free
music/dancing
EDIT
Weretiger!Sam moodboard
werewolves/vampires
John Hart; Pansexual Villain moodboard
John Hart
@princess-of-the-worlds
FIC
where the hea(r)t is
interspecies romance, cold/warm, cultural differences, "clothes/outfit
the city on the edge of forever
healing
when does a monster become one
betrayal, immortality, secrets, exposed
the past forgotten
bullet wounds, coffee/coffee shop, mission-related trip, teenage years/ianto's criminal past, myfanwy/untitled the dog/steve the rat, big finish audio or tw novel tag or au
@sammys-magical-au
FIC
Someone to Watch Over Me
backstory, the fairies, the time agency, hurt/comfort
Caught in a Trap (I Won’t Walk Out)
anger, friendship
Captured in Stone
Suzie Costello, family
The Life of Sam
dead/death
They Do Tend to Come in Pairs
Martha Jones, alien tech/future tech
An Expected Encounter
crossover
Celebrated Guests of the Lietea
benign alien visitors
@secretartquotes
EDIT
Owen Harper Pink Moodboard
pink
Welcome to Hearthy
food, team tardis
An AU where Lisa works for UNIT instead of Torchwood One
different first meeting/meet cute, UNIT, public displays of affection, lisa hallet/katie russell/tommy brockless
supernatural s14e12 prophet and loss (w. brad buckner, eugenie ross-leming)
feel like i'm just grinding through s14 at a decent pace. several times now they've made me had minor (to moderate) breakdowns and i just want to keep plowing through because i don't want the breakdowns to last more than one day 🫠 been a long time since a season made me cry so much. and especially with mid-season episodes? but it feels more.... hm. calculated. like when i bitched about 4 months suddenly equals 40 years in hell etc.
ranted about it in 9x09 because i don't think i was making my feelings known here for every episode back in s4
instead i just sighed because “trust me, kevin” and “i always end up screwed :)” so now dean’s gonna feel guilty. he’s already feeling guilty enough, did we need that too? when they push too hard on the excessive dean whump, i get annoyed. like the whole 4 months=40 years, i enjoyed torturing people, etc. edgelord bullshit :P
except instead of getting mad about it being edgelord bullshit now, i'm just feeling brokenhearted and manipulated. very not fun times. it's too much too close together to the jack thing and too similar to things they've done in the past, i think. is why it's pushing me away so hard.
dean's nightmare in the box / suicidal deathbed-esque convo also with interstellar-ish music / interstellar cornfield chase (c. hans zimmer) played by anna lapwood on the organ
well. dean's nightmare was awful. shades of him in hell calling out for sam. cannot fucking wait until this particular plotline gets snuffed out. and because i can't deal with not comparing this interstellar-ish music (it's in both spn scenes) i tacked it on to the end of this video too.
SAM
Oh, hey. Didn’t mean to wake you. Sorry.
DEAN
No, it’s just a… bad dream. It’s fine.
SAM
You want to talk about it?
DEAN
No, I’m – No, I’m okay.
DEAN
What’re you doing? Why don’t you get some sleep?
SAM
You know, Dean, you don’t have to act like what you’re planning to do is just business as usual. I-I know you’re scared.
DEAN
Never said I wasn’t scared. But it doesn’t matter.
SAM
Doesn’t matter? We know we could die, uh, doing what we do. It’s always a possibility. But what you’re talking about is far worse than death. Michael’s an archangel. He could literally keep you buried in a coffin, alive, forever.
DEAN
Okay. I get it. But what’s the other option, huh? Michael gets outta my head and ends the world? ‘Cause it’s all right there in Billie’s book.
SAM
Yeah, but that’s only if we don’t find another way to take Michael off the board, and there has to be another way.
DEAN
And what is that other way?
[SAM says nothing.]
DEAN
Exactly.
(but at least he wasn't sleeping in his jeans this time. oh and they're in an actual normal mid-price generic hotel room)
this reminds me a lot of the conversations in s5 about sammy going in the cage.
and like when i was watching the old guard, i'm like ah yes, stuck in a coffin in the ocean drowning over and over because you're immortal - i have heard this story before! on the vampire diaries! someone... stefan?? was stuck in a ...... safe? and pushed into a lake to repeatedly die and revive. 500 years and 3 months, respectively.
well this rando dude torturing and drowning a woman scene, also awful. jesus. we're committing to darker-than-usual i guess
CAS
Sam. Maybe if I spoke with Dean…
SAM
It wouldn’t matter. Believe me, I-I I’ve never seen him like this. He won’t listen to me. H-He just – No. If we don’t find some way… Dean’s gone.
that interstellar-ish music again...
DEAN
You ever think about when we were kids?
SAM
Maybe. Yeah, sure. Sometimes. W-Why?
DEAN
I know I wasn’t always the greatest brother to you.
SAM
Dean, you were the one who was always there for me. The only one. I mean, you practically raised me.
DEAN
I know things got dicey… you know, with dad… the way he was. And I just… I didn’t always look out for you the way that I should’ve. I mean, I had my own stuff, you know. In order to keep the peace, it probably looked like I took his side quite a bit. Sometimes when I was… when I was away, you know it wasn’t ‘cause I just ran out, right? Dad would… he would send me away when I really pissed him off. I think you knew that.
SAM
Man, I left that behind a long time ago. I had to. And if we’re gonna get through this, I-I have to do like you said and… try and keep my mind off of where we’re going. So, if we could not have conversations that sound like… deathbed apologies, I would really appreciate it.
DEAN
Right. Yeah.
listen i know this gets resolved somehow and i'm not gonna bail on this fucking project with a little more than a season left but i can't express how much i don't want to watch something that's making me cry so hard my head is killing me (more than it was already) on a regular basis. this is too many things that cut too close to home with characters i'm too attached to. sigh.
As of June 4, 2023 this Library will no longer be updated.
Please refer to the New Version here.
A list of whump lists I’ve made ^^ .. click the titles to go to the lists Obviously this is a WIP .. links will be added as I go .. but I guess till all the links are added, it’s kinda a preview ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
To Directory
Alice in Borderland Season 1 (2020) - Full List
... Season 2 (2022) - Full List
Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Guess (2021)
... Part 2 (2021)
Cherry Magic! (2020)
... Cherry Magic! The Movie (2022) - Full List
Deep Crime Unit : DCU (2022) - Full List
Fallen Angel (2012) - Full List
Fullmetal Alchemist (2017) - Full List
... 2: The Revenge of Scar (2022) - Full List
Jack o’ Frost (2023) - Full List
Kei x Yaku : Dangerous Partner (2022)
Koishite Akuma - Vampire Boy (2009) - Full List
Minato Shouji Coin Laundry (2022)
Night Beyond the Tricornered Window (2021)
Nobunaga Concerto (2014)
Ouroboros (2015)
Tokyo MER: Mobile Emergency Room (2021) - Full List
I nearly went for xray + penny - jack but then don’t hold your breath 1 caught me eye and I'm most intrigued about that one!
don't hold your breath 1 is something I started from a Whump of May prompt which was definitely "don't hold your breath". 😂 It's only about 1000 words and I wish I knew quite where it was going to go. This is set between seasons 3 and 4.
“You just said we should sign up for a wilderness challenge, Mac,” Desi snapped back. “How is that relaxing? We’d probably get eaten by crocodiles or catch malaria.”
“And you just said we should take up MMA fighting,” Mac pointed out. “Yesterday you asked me if the bike in the garage would be good for motorcycle racing.”
“Hey, a girl can have hobbies, can’t she?”
“We don’t even know how long we’re going to be off,” Mac says. “We could get called back tomorrow.”
“You wish,” Desi muttered.
He did wish. It had been two months since the Phoenix was shut down, and Mac was ready to crawl out of his skin with boredom.
My favorite version of MacDesi is when they're arguing, obviously. 😂
Jack's plans for a lazy afternoon are derailed when he discovers that Phryne has gone missing. A wild search ensues, and when he finds her, not everything is as he'd hoped and he discovers that she is badly injured. Worse, they are forced to spend the night in an abandoned barn before he can rescue her from their current murder suspect.
A very late submission for the 2022 Whumptober prompt "Take my coat."
Words: 12209, Chapters: 4/4, Language: English
Fandoms: Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Categories: F/M, Gen
Characters: Phryne Fisher, Jack Robinson, Dorothy "Dot" Williams, Hugh Collins
Relationships: Phryne Fisher/Jack Robinson, Jack Robinson & Dorothy "Dot" Williams
Additional Tags: Season/Series 03, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, with FEELS, Love Confessions, phrack banter: now with extra angst, MFMMwhumptober, Abduction, Blood and Injury, Whump, Huddling For Warmth, case elements if you squint, Hospitals, Found Family
- when the guy says that he knows them. My kids got a rep ayyyy 🤙
- bro I doubt theyve met you
- Jack just gets up and walks away and nobody notices????
- tealcs cheek muscles jumping out of pure rage
- daniels hair is bothering me. Doesnt he have it short for the rest of the series??? Why would they have it long for one ep
- this guy has the BIGGEST crush on cronos and his wife is literally helping the rebels
- DIRECTED BY MICHEAL SHANKS
- "he called me major" ????? Is this another dimension of sg1 wheres shes still a captain??? She did say the realities overlap
- cronos looks like my homophobic aunt
- uuhhhh he brought up killing tealcs dad thats it someone hold my beer
- hello what the hell is going on
- he gives Jack a lil shake of his head. I'm going to jump off a cliff
-uuhhhh Daniel just got his head BLASTED off????? and he closed his eyes to accept it
- FUCKIN!!!!! ROBOTS!!!!
- that makes sense actually. He said there were two of them and Sam said something about 8 hrs earlier and i remember they cant leave the planet for a very long time
- ALSO this means I was right. Robot Jack didnt bury the gate and someone owes me MONEY
- I guess the robot duplicates are in trouble this should be fun! TWICE the fun haha get it
- actually now that i think about robot Daniel accepting death is really on point for the character bc he would be really depressed about not being able to go home and continue his work. Plus he would have all of OG daniels mental health issues. Maybe he felt there was nothing to live for...no sha're.....lost all his research.....all his possessions.....his house.....his job. I'm depressed now
- KOMTRAYA
- jacks like no please anyone but him
- "what are you" robots!!!
- Sam said she built a portable charger for the robots in their chests but then why did robot Sam say they only had 8 hrs?
- "what is it that you do?"
PLEASE TELL ME I NEED TO KNOW
- they ignored the question and im about to throw my phone out the window
- what do they have on their resumes??? "Space Shit"
- "your robot counter part is equally as good at following orders as you are"
- daniels not in this one I guess. Michael shanks had to be behind the camera the whole time to Direct
- they're not gonna HELP?? Arent you guys suppossed to protect the planets you liberate or do you just drop them when your done with them? Bitches
- P3X729
- Jack taking them down from the bushes likes a ninja
- "your the Other PAL"
Jack on Jack violence
- robot Jack sad about robot Daniel :(
- whos this lady in all black with the worst lipstick
- "what the hell you think your doing?"
"What you do.....only BETTER"
Robot Jack petty as fuck I love him
- confirmation Jack gets embarrassed when he does something wrong
- "come on fly boy!!" Guys....guys this isnt gonna help *scuffling in the backround*
- Jack 1 has Jack 2 in a headlock, ref is starting the countdown
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- "sirs!" Sam is done with your SHIT
- who would win a fight. Jack or Jack
- "its not like you havnt lied to yourself before" ooooooohhhhhhhh snap
- "I so own you" aldjsjdjdjd
- FINALLY they are saving the planet like they SHOULD
- daniels lovely decapitated body on the table is a bit unappetizing
- this is like the 3rd version of Daniel that is dead btw
- "this kinda thing happens to us all the time" Sam has had a rough life
- they can communicate with their brains??? You cant tell me they didnt fall in love and become poly
- "its simple....." I seriously thought she was gonna finish the sentence with You shove it up your ass
- robot Jack can take a hit!
- several hits
- is he dying
- "got gas" has just gonna let one rip and he'll be fine
- robot tealc came here to FIGHT
- shooting him not gonna work you gotta get close and rip his arms off
- its always fun when they listen to me
- robot Sam starting a bomb like a bad bitch
- ah for fucks sake when will cronos DIE
- TEALC TEAM WORK
- "for our father"
- and all the robots are dying ??? This isnt fair
- robot Jack is the last one left oh god
- "are we still so far from real to you?"
"No......i guess not"
- he gave up. U know he probably didnt think there was any point in living if he didnt have his team with him
-this ep ripped my heart out I'm prepared to sue
~
Robot tealc whump: hands tied,manhandled, forced kneeling electric pain?, shot, noises, fought, death
Robot Jack whump: shot by zat, passed out, shot in arm and leg and side, "bleeding" out, death
Robot Sam whump: hands tied,manhandled, forced kneeling, electric pain? , forces hand thru force shield (painful), cut on cheek revealing circuitry, death
Robot Daniel whump: hands tied, manhandled, forced kneeling, executed, decapitated by staff blast, death
Original tealc whump: staff blast, fought with cronos
🤓no glasses!Daniel for about 15 minutes up until robot Daniel dies
🎶listening to 10,000 Weight In Gold by The Head And The Heart🎶 "it never feels like treasure, til you lose it all" thinking about how they lost everything when they had to stay on the planet and how they wanted to keep fighting and do the right thing. How much they cared about each other. Im spiraling
I've been dying to share this with y'all. It was an idea that wouldn't leave me alone until I wrote it.
At first I didn't know if Mac's coma dream should be Jack-less or season 4 as a nightmare and then as if I needed more incentive, I wrote the mix of both, mentioning the mess that season 4 was and Jack not being around but only in the dream (nightmare 😈). Jack's always there when Mac wakes up.
Warning for panic attacks when Mac comes to consciousness and is still intubated.
Thank you @sabbystarlight for inspiring me with your fic for GEAW.
And thank you @thethistlegirl for the brainstorming, helping me choose the pics for the edit and for the beta.
Most of these turned out to be Cas angst, which is a kind of Cas studies, right?
these are organized by length. the stars note which fics are my absolute favorites.
Under 10k
Stories Are Made of Mistakes by wildhoneypie ✨
thee human Cas fic, featuring Cas being weird and idiosyncratic and Dean being completely head over heels in love while having no idea they’re dating, 6k
Occursus by PallasPerilous
post-s15e20, set in heaven, featuring Cas and Dean having an insane little conversation about angel trueforms and the handprint, 4k
Gone through the glass again by communistmishacollins
the author calls this: “A three part love letter to Castiel Gayngel of the Lord.” featuring human Cas and his human friends, 4k
Get Out In Times of Declared Emergency by Jayne L
Cas deals with the aftermath of being possessed by Lucifer and the resulting depression, 6k
built to roam by sleepyvan
author’s summary: “Cas’ Farewell Tour.” pre-s15e28, in which Cas tries to take a little of what he wants most before the empty takes him
Between 10k and 50k
Cuckoo And Nest by komodobits ✨
a fic about Dean needing Cas to stay and Cas needing Dean to tell him he’s wanted, my ultimate comfort fic, 10k
Scratchmarks by Bookkbaby
do you want some angst in your endverse threesome fic? do you want 2014!Dean with emotional intelligence and endverse!Cas hurting loudly? this fic is for you, 11k
The River by hal_incandenza
an incredibly good rewrite of s15e9 “The Trap,” dealing with Cas’s grief over losing Jack and Dean’s control issues with god, featuring bamf!Cas and hurt!Cas, 16k
Kingdom Come by ahurston ✨
author’s summary: “Cas wakes up on the coast of Maine. He makes his way home.” post-s15e18, Cas comes back from the empty and Dean comes to get him, 17k
He Can’t Sleep by 6or3dom ✨
ANGST angst angst, featuring human!Cas and Dean try to make their relationship work and it mostly goes poorly, they’re both astoundingly fucked up and for once it’s Cas struggling to talk about what’s wrong, 18k
The Tunnel of Love by xylodemon
a soft lovely get-together case fic, not strictly Cas studies but well worth a read, 21k
These Are Not Real Problems by Annie D
author’s summary: “Castiel used to be a god. Dean took that away from him, and now Castiel’s stuck in a hell of his own making. Future!fic, post-season 6.″ 30k
if it all fell to pieces tomrrow by spocklee
author’s summary: “After the Empty, Cas has to spend time alone. Orpheus tries to convince Eurydice over the phone that it’s okay to turn around now.” Cas struggles with being happy after coming back from the empty, 42k
To Be Restored by serenityfails
post-s15e18 fic where the empty sends Cas back in a different vessel, there’s a lot of Dean struggling with gender and sexuality, not strictly Cas studies but gives me a lot of trans!Cas feels, 47k
Superheroes verse: part 1 There’s A Limit, part 2 It’s The Fall That Kills You, part 3 Superheroes, part 4 Hole In Your Soul by strangenessandcharm (on dreamwidth) ✨
This series is from 2009 and it’s the first spn fic I remember reading. Lot’s of angst and whump. Cas becoming human in the worst way and Sam struggling with a magical sickness. It doesn’t have to be read in order and part 4 is my favorite.
Over 50k
These Forsaken Lands by destielpasta ✨
post-s9e18 a case fic about Cas’s guilt for what the did to heaven and his run as god with a side of MoC!Dean, a bittersweet ending, 53k
Galveston by lunarriviera
Cas built a life away from Dean, then Dean walks back into it, also a love letter to Galveston, Texas, 56k
Tall Grass by aeli_kindara
thee gardener Cas fic, featuring slow burn and found family, not strictly Cas studies but well worth the read, 57k
A Winter’s Tale by NorthernSparrow ✨
author’s summary: “Cas is sick and Dean finds a journal that Cas kept about his time alone as human.” a season 9 au that tries to make Cas’s time as a human more realistic (an subsequently much more angsty), gen!fic with a focus on Dean and Cas, epistolary, 64k
Memories Bring Back Memories (Bring Back You) by sobsicles
a fic that answers the question, “who are Cas and Dean without their memories? who are they to each other without all their baggage?” 66k
the cost of a thing by quiettewandering
a case fic where Dean and Cas have already fallen apart and they learn how to come back together, 74k
Human AUs
Honey-Baked by mishaminion69 and sydkn3e ✨
a human!au where Cas and Dean are childhood friends and live in a cabin together and Cas is a stoner and Dean loves him dearly and they keep getting in their own way, a get-together fic, 89k
Love, Take Your Toll by aileenrose
a human!au where Cas is a lonely toll worker and Dean is his favorite motorist, 8k
BONUS
Down to Agincourt by speris ✨✨✨
A fic that’s about learning how to live with yourself after the world has already ended, Yes, it’s a million words and a WIP. Yes, it’s completely worth it.