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Surprise! A small, chatty catch up episode from @ellen-of-oz and @malmuses.

Come and listen to us chat about AHBL Con fic recs from listeners, Mal's health updates, and some of our recent reads and old faves.

Direct website link to the episode.

In this episode we mention fics by:

@followyourenergy, @riseofthefallenone, @ipromiseimlying-blog1, tiamatv, @friendofcarlotta and dothraki_shieldmaiden, bizzarestars, fullvoid, jscribbles, @imbiowaresbitch, @imthatperculiarone and more!

For a full list of fics discussed or recced by fans, check out the blog post!

You can listen to the Mixtape Book Club podcast on our website, http://mixtapebookclub.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Podbean, and most other popular podcasting apps.

Enjoy!

Do you love Supernatural? Are you a fan of Dean and Castiel, and their relationship? Do you enjoy reading Destiel fanfiction? This is the podcast for you!

You can find our Mixtape Book Club Ao3 collection here, containing the stories we’ve discussed on the podcast so far.

A warning: adult themes and swear words are mentioned in this podcast.

MBC is a positive fandom space. You will not find negative reviews, fandom trashing, or negativity beyond some good-natured mocking of the show itself here; we only feature fic that we like. Please keep that in mind when reaching out to us or interacting in our social media spaces.

#destiel fic #spn fanfiction

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Happy Easter!! ✨🐝

Thought the boys deserved at least one nice, happy Easter egg hunt and in my mind Bobby did so too :)

Have a fantastic Sunday 🌻

#my heart #spn fanart #easter eggs

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I can be productive at times. Sometimes I draw shit. Sometimes I draw people.

and sometimes, I draw ridiculously amazing angels.

#Gaaaasp #spn fanart #badass castiel

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Chapters: 17/17 Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Charlie Bradbury, Ash (Supernatural), Sam Winchester, Mary Winchester, John Winchester, Becky Rosen, God | Chuck Shurley, Ellen Harvelle, Bobby Singer (Supernatural), Jo Harvelle, Jessica Moore (Supernatural), Missouri Moseley Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Castiel Whump (Supernatural), Dean Winchester Whump, Hurt/Comfort, John Winchester's A+ Parenting, Mentions of alcoholism, Mentions of conversion therapy, Internalized Homophobia, Minor Character Death, Grief/Mourning, Pining, Mutual Pining, Reunions, Childhood Friends, Friends to Enemies, Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Minor Mary/John, Minor Ellen/Bill, Minor Chuck/Becky - Freeform, Minor Sam/Jess, Dean/Cas Big Bang (Supernatural) Summary:

Castiel Novak had known Dean Winchester his entire life. Growing up together, the two friends' worlds revolved around one another, each of them looking forward to their annual summer get togethers at the Winchesters' farm and winery, located in the rolling hills of Napa, California.

However, it only takes one night for seventeen years of friendship to all come crashing down. When Castiel confesses his feelings for Dean, his friend’s rancorous reaction sends him packing. Castiel leaves, and stays away for ten years.

When Dean’s father John falls ill, Castiel begrudgingly visits the farm again for the first time in a decade. Castiel is nervous to relive that night. He is nervous to be back at a place that holds so many memories. He is nervous to see Dean for the first time in so long.

While he grapples with his anger and hurt, he also has to grapple with the fact that the feelings he holds for Dean may still be there after all this time.

#spn fanfic #destiel fic #reunion #au #angst with a happy ending #i love this

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Just a reminder that if you click through to ao3 there are two more parts 😊

Making this Destiel, please stand by…

#destiel fic #professor dean #Baby Claire #college au #Ellen writes

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Chapters: 11/11 Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe, Canon Divergence - Season 13, Castiel Adopts A Cat, Dean Winchester is Bad at Feelings, Dean Winchester in Denial, Castiel's grace is damaged, Boys Being Awkward, Sam Winchester Ships Castiel/Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester is So Done, Canon-Typical Violence, Eventual Smut, Frottage, POV Castiel (Supernatural), Dean/Cas Big Bang 2023 (Supernatural), DCBB23 Summary:

Castiel, angel of the Lord, has been saved by a cat. He didn’t intend to keep it. He didn’t mean for the green-eyed cat to work its way into his heart. It’s becoming a bit of a theme. Yet, here he is, smuggling a cat into the bunker.

Cas and Dean have been doing a dance for nine years—circling each other, one step forward, by one step back, changing direction, never getting closer, never too far apart. However, when you throw a cat into the mix, the next move becomes a lot harder to predict.

#spn fanfic #destiel fic #canonverse #Canon Divergence #castiel and cats #so lovely

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AITA for telling my brother he has smelly farts and that's why all his girlfriends are dead by PlaidIsTheBestPattern & birdsofthesoul

Chapters: 1/1

Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005), Supernatural Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester Additional Tags: reddit's idea of etiquette, AITA - Freeform, reddit, Sam Winchester uses Reddit, Dean Winchester uses Reddit, Crack, Humor, brotherly bickering, Just read it you fuckers we spent a lot of time on this HTML wrapper, No betas we die like Sam's girlfriends, no wank or discourse Series: Part 1 of AmItheAssholeNatural Summary:

EDIT: Alright, this is getting out of hand y’all. Let me say this for the final time: my brother is not a serial killer. He would NEVER lay a hand on a person, alright, the dude doesn’t even eat meat because he thinks it’s animal cruelty! He is a GOOD man.

#spn fanfic #brilliant #comedy

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Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester, Claire Novak & Dean Winchester Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural), Sam Winchester, Bobby Singer (Supernatural), Claire Novak, Eileen Leahy, Anna Milton, Gabriel (Supernatural), Meg | Demon Possessing Meg Masters, Uriel (Supernatural), Charlie Bradbury Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Inspired by 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future, Alien Invasion, Immortality, Happy Ending, Dean/Cas Big Bang 2023 (Supernatural) Summary:

“You’re talking to me from outer space?” Dean stares at the ceiling. There’s a very long pause.

"Yes."

“...Huh.”

"I don’t know where else I would be talking to you from."

“No,” Dean says, “of course not.”

#spn fanfic #destiel fic #dcbb 2023 #space gays #rated t #sci fi au #i love this

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the trap

Dark, cold, 

and empty. 

The forest has a lack of monsters, or angels. 

I can’t lose him again

Not like this, with those things we said, 

what if he’s dead and I’m not and he never knows how sorry I am? 

There’s not enough time, and too much forest.

I walk on, each step less sure, 

a dread creeping up my limbs like molten lead.

It pulls me down to my knees,

the regret, the grief builds;

It swallows me down like a tidal wave and I pray with everything I have

I hope you can hear me

I hope you can hear me…

“Dean?”

He’s here!

Suddenly, I’m lighter than air

A breeze could carry me away 

But first, steeling my resolve, 

I try to tell him again, 

the words on the tip of my tongue.

“You don’t have to say it." 

But I do.

There are so many words to say

I’ll spend the rest of my life saying them to him, 

I swear. 

We step towards the portal.

#spn poetry #season 15 spoilers #15x09 #15x09 coda #angsty #destiel #destiel poetry #purgatory

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Dean Winchester/Lisa Braeden (past), Dean Winchester/Cassie Robinson (past), Dean Winchester/Lee Webb (past) Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Eileen Leahy, Mary Winchester Additional Tags: Home for Christmas, Christmas, Christmas Smut, Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Lawyer Dean Winchester, Firefighter Castiel (Supernatural), Mentions of past underage partying and drinking, Divorced Castiel (Supernatural), First Christmas after parent death (John Winchester), Explicit Sexual Content, Explicit Language, Anal Sex, Oral Sex, Castiel (Supernatural) as Santa Claus, Dean Winchester Dressed as Santa, Plot What Plot/Porn Without Plot, mention of John Winchester drinking/ruining Christmas in the past Summary:

It’s Christmas and big city lawyer Dean Winchester begrudgingly returns to his hometown of Lawrence after a breakup with Lisa Braeden and the death of his father, John Winchester, two months earlier. While trying to entertain his niece, Dean runs into his old classmate and former crush Castiel Novak, a firefighter who plays Santa for the fire dept at the local Christmas parade.

Later that night, Dean has his own unholy night with Santa Cas.

This was based on a Twitter prompt I came up with that a lot of people had interest in. This is my attempt to write it.

#spn fanfic #destiel fic #christmas #santa claus #this is hot #i love this

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#duck prints press #aether beyond the binary #queer fiction #signal boost

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Me: *scrolling tumblr*

Castiel: I love you

Me: Dear god what’s happened now

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Love Is a Meat Loaf Song by @followyourenergy

Chapters: 20/20 Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Gabriel (Supernatural), Balthazar (Supernatural), Meg Masters, Lucifer (Supernatural), Some other canon angels, Benny (briefly), God | Chuck Shurley, Amara (Supernatural), Sam Winchester, Adam Milligan, Original Characters Additional Tags: Enemies to Friends to Lovers, Angel Castiel (Supernatural), Demon Dean Winchester, Angel/Demon Relationship, Sassy Castiel (Supernatural), Sassy Dean Winchester, Irreverent Dean, Dean is a Little Shit, Dean wants to get into Castiel’s pants, Castiel wants none of Dean’s bs, at first, Cas is mission-driven, Flirting, Innuendo, Apocalypse, Lucifer and Chuck are fighting again, Daddy Issues, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Canon-Typical Violence, Humor, Vulnerability, Doubt, Castiel Has Doubts (Supernatural), Questions, Travel, Lingerie, Angel/Demon Sex, or is it angel/demon lovemaking, why not both?, True Form Sex, Time Weirdness, Bible verses, Rip up the ending, Falling In Love, Castiel and Dean Winchester Falling in Love, Rescues, Rebellion, Betrayal, Shameless use of music, Music as a Plot Device, Inconsistencies as a plot device, Additional Warnings In Author's Note Summary:

The Apocalypse is coming. The end of days. Father and favorite son, battling for control of the universe. Dean, a human turned demon, is on Team Lucifer, and in these most epic of times before the Great War, Dean is…bored.

Then, to the tune of a classic Meat Loaf song, a little excitement swoops into Dean’s life–a smoking hot angel named Castiel who’s hell-bent (heaven-bent?) on defeating Lucifer.

They make an agreement: to spend time with each other in exchange for information on their bosses’ plans.

Dean has an additional plan in mind: to rock the sexy seraph’s world until the Earth is a pile of rocks.

He doesn’t expect Castiel, with his sarcastic wit, his take-no-bullshit attitude, and his pure, genuine heart, to rock his world right back.

As demon and angel grow closer, questions arise about both themselves and the universe itself, leading them to search for answers as they race toward a future they hope will happen–if they’re willing to do anything for love.

(also includes beautiful artwork by @ladyrandombox) 

#spn fanfic #destiel fic #Canonverse #canon divergent #demon dean #angel cas #fix it fic #beautiful writing

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“I think fanfiction is literature and literature, for the most part, is fanfiction, and that anyone that dismisses it simply on the grounds that it’s derivative knows fuck-all about literature and needs to get the hell off my lawn. Most of the history of Western literature (and probably much of non-Western literature, but I can’t speak to that) is adapted or appropriated from something else. Homer wrote historyfic and Virgil wrote Homerfic and Dante wrote Virgilfic (where he makes himself a character and writes himself hanging out with Homer and Virgil and they’re like “OMG Dante you’re so cool.” He was the original Gary Stu). Milton wrote Bible fanfic, and everyone and their mom spent the Middle Ages writing King Arthur fanfic. In the sixteenth century you and another dude could translate the same Petrarchan sonnet and somehow have it count as two separate poems, and no one gave a fuck. Shakespeare doesn’t have a single original plot—although much of it would be more rightly termed RPF—and then John Fletcher and Mary Cowden Clarke and Gloria Naylor and Jane Smiley and Stephen Sondheim wrote Shakespeare fanfic. Guys like Pope and Dryden took old narratives and rewrote them to make fun of people they didn’t like, because the eighteenth century was basically high school. And Spenser! Don’t even get me started on Spenser. Here’s what fanfic authors/fans need to remember when anyone gives them shit: the idea that originality is somehow a good thing, an innately preferable thing, is a completely modern notion. Until about three hundred years ago, a good writer, by and large, was someone who could take a tried-and-true story and make it even more awesome. (If you want to sound fancy, the technical term is imitatio.) People were like, why would I wanna read something about some dude I’ve never heard of? There’s a new Sir Gawain story out, man! (As to when and how that changed, I tend to blame Daniel Defoe, or the Modernists, or reality television, depending on my mood.) I also find fanfic fascinating because it takes all the barriers that keep people from professional authorship—barriers that have weakened over the centuries but are nevertheless still very real—and blows right past them. Producing literature, much less circulating it, was something that was well nigh impossible for the vast majority of people for most of human history. First you had to live in a culture where people thought it was acceptable for you to even want to be literate in the first place. And then you had to find someone who could teach you how to read and write (the two didn’t necessarily go together). And you needed sufficient leisure time to learn. And be able to afford books, or at least be friends with someone rich enough to own books who would lend them to you. Good writers are usually well-read and professional writing is a full-time job, so you needed a lot of books, and a lot of leisure time both for reading and writing. And then you had to be in a high enough social position that someone would take you seriously and want to read your work—to have access to circulation/publication in addition to education and leisure time. A very tiny percentage of the population fit those parameters (in England, which is the only place I can speak of with some authority, that meant from 500-1000 A.D.: monks; 1000-1500: aristocratic men and the very occasional aristocratic woman; 1500-1800: aristocratic men, some middle-class men, a few aristocratic women; 1800-on, some middle-class women as well). What’s amazing is how many people who didn’t fit those parameters kept writing in spite of the constant message they got from society that no one cared about what they had to say, writing letters and diaries and stories and poems that often weren’t discovered until hundreds of years later. Humans have an urge to express themselves, to tell stories, and fanfic lets them. If you’ve got access to a computer and an hour or two to while away of an evening, you can create something that people will see and respond to instantly, with a built-in community of people who care about what you have to say. I do write the occasional fic; I wish I had the time and mental energy to write more. I’ll admit I don’t read a lot of fic these days because most of it is not—and I know how snobbish this sounds—particularly well-written. That doesn’t mean it’s “not good”—there are a lot of reasons people read fic and not all of them have to do with wanting to read finely crafted prose. That’s why fic is awesome—it creates a place for all kinds of storytelling. But for me personally, now that my job entails reading about 1500 pages of undergraduate writing per year, when I have time to read for enjoyment I want it to be by someone who really knows what they’re doing. There’s tons of high-quality fic, of course, but I no longer have the time and patience to go searching for it that I had ten years ago. But whether I’m reading it or not, I love that fanfiction exists. Because without people doing what fanfiction writers do, literature wouldn’t exist. (And then I’d be out of a job and, frankly, I don’t know how to do anything else.)”

— “As a professor, may I ask you what you think about fanfiction?” (via meiringens)

#about fan fiction #Fanfic is literature

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Chapters: 32/32 Fandom: Supernatural Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Rowena MacLeod, Kevin Tran, Jack Kline, Eileen Leahy, John Winchester, The Empty | The Shadow (Supernatural) Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Canon Temporary Character Death, Angst/slow burn/pining, Post-Season/Series 15, implied/referenced suicidal ideation, Blood, Canon-Typical mentions of domestic abuse, John Winchester A++ parenting, implied self harm, (just one instance with warnings on the chapter itself in the notes), some mature but non explicit content Summary:

"When his eyes first open, there is nothing but darkness. Not the velvety, deep black of night, but the steely, thin murk of nothingness. Of cold.

Of death. Of Death.

Somehow, it feels like coming home."

 Dean dies to become Death, but then - things go horribly wrong. Welcome to Supernatural - Season 17 (because Season 16 belongs to the fandom).

**please note that every playlist link per chapter is a new, original playlist (just because you know. THE multimedia experience)**

come yell at me on tumblr

#spn fanfiction #destiel fic #canon verse #post-canon #beautiful writing #i love this