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flyingcatstiel · 4 months

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I’m currently reading superbat fics (sorry, destiel, stony and dinluke, I’ll get back to you some day) and I’m having great time with commenting and authors replying to me. It’s a whole new fandom experience when I can read fics just for personal enjoyment, without planning fic rec lists. So much easier to comment, wtf. Anyways, I’m following 4 superbat identity p*rn fics right now, and it’s glorious. What a feast. My favorite trope, so many interesting ways to explore it. Happy holidays to all superbat writers but especially those 4 WIP writers🎄

ETA - here be some recs

ETA, March 2024 - HERE BE SOME UPDATES!

@pinkb00bsocks asked about those 4 WIPs. Here they are! The usual disclaimer - there are plenty of excellent superbat WIPs going on right now, but I've limited spoons and these are the ones I currently enjoy.

The World and All Its Hedgehogs by Ginevra_Benci [M. 8,007 word count, WIP, 4/?] To investigate illegal arms sale taking place at a tropical resort hotel, Batman goes under cover as a vacuous billionaire Brucie Wayne and Superman takes a part time job as a porter. They didn't coordinate this, they don't know each others civilian identities. Every time they talk there are at least 3 different conversations going on and it is glorious. Also, so much lust. ;)

(Also, check out Interviewing & Counceling series by the same author. Clark is having a superhero identity crisis and Bruce is there to catch Clark gently as he spirals down. It has one of the softest identity reveals in superbat fics. ETA - the series is now complete, it has 5 parts and 18k word count. Awesome ending to the softest identity reveal story)

Watching Our Stars Align by ClarkeStetler [M, 28,840 word count, WIP, 7/14] There's a dating/chatting app only for superheroes and all identities are secret. What could go wrong? Bruce and Clark get matched under their new pseuds, and same happens to Tim Drake and Conner Kent. Now fathers and sons gotta navigate complicated relationships that come with secret identities and judging your coworkers hastily while talking heart to heart to anonymous superhero. The identity porn part happens through DM, which just happens to be another favorite trope of mine. [The story is going strong, it has 10/14 chapters now and a wonderful tangle of 3 secret identities!]

(Love) Triangles Have Multiple Centers by frozenpotions [T, 27,281 word count, WIP, 4/10] This fic wastes no time getting playboy billionaire Brucie Wayne and pining-after-his-coworker journalist Clark Kent together. After that, first time uneasy partners Batman and Superman gotta solve a case and their civilian selves gotta deal with the realities of their one night stand. Complicated doesn't even cover it! [The fic is being updated and Clark and Bruce are being put through new trials, 6/10 chapters]

A Favor for a Friend by RedFive [Explicit, 18,286 word count, WIP, 4/7] Omega verse fic with alpha playboy billionaire Bruce Wayne and omega journalist Clark Kent. I'm fascinated by dominant, flirtatious, sexually ravenous alpha Brucie Wayne who moonlights as a stoic, covered in scent blockers thus unclear second gender, Batman. Meanwhile omega Clark, due to being Kryptonian, is much less ruled by his second gender. That is, until he meets Mr. Wayne. This fic has so much lust and tension between the two. Does accidental heat triggering counts as a soulmate mark? I'm gonna count it like that. [The fic has entered the finish line, only a chapter or two are left to finish this wild, explosive, life changing story of two people who were meant for each other. 8/? chapters, 44k word count] The fic is now complete!!! 9 chapters, 56,153 word count. (Also, there's this new TV show about two gay dudes, and istg, they look like Bruce and Clark from this fic. I'm not naming it here because I don't want to highjack the show tag with superbat post, but go and check the tag on tumblr)

*****

And a special shout out to two identity shenanigan WIPs that are not actively updating but are absolute must reads.

ship-to-ship combat by pomeloquat [M, 62,737 word count, WIP, 12/13] OK, so, for me personally, this is the ultimate identity p*rn fic across all fandoms I've read so far. This fic has one of the highest amount of secret identity pairs in superbat fics. There's the usual pining silently Batman/Superman, then there's Clark dating Bruce, Superman saving Bruce Wayne from peril, Clark Kent chatting with Batman. And the cherry on top is Clark writing Bruceman fanfic which is basically a RPF of his two friends, Batman and Bruce Wayne. Which leads to an internet friendship with a fellow fan, who is, you guessed, Bruce. This fic has great reflections on fandom and shipping culture. But the very beating heart of this fic is about how easy it is to lose something you wished to have but were afraid to ask for. The fic, at 12/13, is technically a WIP, but the main reveal is already done, and it is glorious. ETA - THIS IS NOT A DRILL, the fic is finished and the last chapter is a super meta cherry on a top of delicious, layered superhero identity and fandom shenanigans parfait. 13 chapters, 76,7k word count.

10 Things Every Brucie Fan Needs in Their Life by pomeloquat [T, 8,956 word count, WIP, 5/10] The main premise of this fic is hilarious and yet so, so right. Bruce Wayne is promoting himself as a nation's boyfriend instead of a playboy, and is making bank out of his wholesome, PG rated merchandise. The chapters of this fic tell continuous story but they also can be read as separate vignettes, so there's really no cliffhanger. This fic is so soft and fluffy, it will heal your soul. Also, Superman has celebrity crush on Bruce Wayne. Batman is amused.

#flyingcatstiel has thoughts #I’m doing small superbat reblog spree tonight #just to get everything out of my drafts #superbat #identity p*rn #identity shenanigans #superbat fic recs #i already added these to the reblog #but eh #let's ad them here as well #add #i worked hard on them #sometimes i forget how to tumblr #fic rec of the day

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deancaskiss · 2 years

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Are @impala67 and @angelbeekeeper dating? (a destiel tumblr!au)

word count: 3,814 (continued under the read more). also posted on ao3.

Admittedly, Dean should’ve known better than to trust his brother’s judgment. Signing up to join this website was a bad idea. A really really bad idea.

He was far too old for this. Mid-30s, single, with an obsession with vintage cars and cooking in his spare time. Honestly, there wasn’t much going for him when he put it like that. So what did he have to lose by creating this account?

“It’ll be good for you, Dean. You’ll find great recipes there to cook, and I’m sure you’ll find an account or two that has some vintage car stuff, too,” Sam had said, as if it were that easy.

That little bitch.

Yeah right.

Now, as Dean sat with his cursor over the username bar, the box waiting for him to type in his suggestion for a name, he was very much regretting having put his email into this site. Was it too late to turn back now?

Alright. You know what. Screw it. What harm could there be in making the account? It’s not like anyone who knew him would know about it anyway.

Typing in the only username he knew he’d remember, Dean hit enter and watched as the box lit green and a new page opened up.

‘Welcome to Tumblr, @impala67’ popped up on the screen.

“Well, that was easy,” Dean muttered to himself, following along with the setup steps and following a few basic blogs that fit his interests. Pictures and videos started to fill his dashboard, and Dean raised an eyebrow as a picture of a classic Mercedes appeared at the top of the screen. Huh. Not a bad looking car. Maybe he could use this site as a way to match-up cars he was currently fixing up to get them looking up-to-par again.

Maybe this site wouldn’t be such a waste after all.

Closing his laptop, Dean decided that instead of just thinking about cars, he should go do some work on them.

Later that night, Dean found himself aimlessly scrolling on his laptop, with the TV volume low, when he clicked on the website again. After having a conversation earlier that day with Charlie about tarts versus pies, which turned into a debate, which then turned into a competition, Dean was now searching for some recipes that he could use as his secret weapon; something he’d never whipped up before that could show Charlie he was the cook around here.

He’d considered just searching Google, but it would be obvious if he used a recipe straight from the first page of Google. So here he was, now typing pie recipes into Tumblr’s search bar. Not that he expected to find anything, but, oh well. Here goes nothing.

Except there were results. Quite a lot of them, actually. The top one was of a honey and apple pie. Dean quickly scrolled down to the recipe, but then did a slow scroll back up to the top where the blogger had a picture of the pie with a little blurb.

‘This pie is an instant sell-out in my brother’s cafe. Shush, don’t tell him I’m sharing the recipe with you all. But, well, that’s what he gets for stealing my bees honey without asking to make this pie.’

Huh. Now Dean was intrigued. Scrolling up, he looked at the username that had made the post. @angelbeekeeper.

A quick scroll on their blog couldn’t cause too much harm, right?

Clicking the icon, Dean watched as it loaded the blog. At the top was a description.

‘Castiel, he/him, 30s, beekeeper with over 50,000 honeybees and part-time helper at my brother’s cafe. Follow for some sneaky recipes and lots of fun facts about bees.’

Something inside Dean’s chest churned as he reread over the bio once, twice, three times. He wasn’t the only guy in his 30s on this site? Somehow that made him feel a lot better. Plus, the guy posted recipes, and that was one of the things Dean had been hoping to find on here.

Might as well.

Before he could talk himself out of it, Dean hit the follow button and started to scroll through Castiel’s blog. The more Dean scrolled, the more he couldn’t stop reading. Castiel was funny. All his posts had some level of wit, and yet there was a lot of passion in all the posts he made about bees. Some of his posts had thousands of notes, and Dean was a little bit starstruck over the earnestness that this guy portrayed in his posts.

Admittedly, Dean spent far too long scrolling through Castiel’s blog, liking his posts and reblogging a few of them, too. By the time Dean reached the very last post on Castiel’s blog, it was 2am and his laptop was almost out of power. Snapping the laptop closed, Dean vowed that the next day, he’d make his blog look as nice as Castiel’s.

The first step was his bio description, which shouldn’t have been as hard as Dean was making it, but God, how the hell did he make himself sound interesting? It took over half an hour for Dean to find words that sounded even half-way decent.

‘Dean, mid-30s, he/him. Just your local car mechanic who likes working on classic cars and also enjoys cooking and baking. Surprising, right? If you want to see some cool vintage cars and great recipes to show off to your friends, then I’m your guy.’

Well, now that trainwreck was over, setting an icon was easy. A picture of his Baby. His pride and joy. With his beloved Impala now saved on his blog, he snagged a picture of his last mini bake-off that he’d had with Charlie and set it as his header.

There. Now his two passions were clearly evident to anyone who clicked on his blog.

But now, the real challenge began. Making his first post.

Dean spent far too long thinking about it, pacing back and forth across his kitchen, before he caught sight of Baby on the driveway, gleaming after Dean had spent the morning cleaning her up.

Easy.

Opening his laptop, Dean began crafting his first post. What better way to start his blog than by talking about the one car that meant the most to him. Typing up a little about the car and the work he’d done to have her looking as good as she does, Dean put a picture at the top of the post that he’d taken of the Impala that morning.

Opening a new tab, Dean went to Castiel’s blog and looked at his top post. Oh. There was a new one to read.

‘Focus, Winchester. Post yours first and then come back to read this.’

Scrolling down, Dean found what he was looking for. The tags.

Copying Castiel’s style of tagging, Dean tailored the tags to match his own post. Taking a deep breath, Dean stared at the screen, eyes darting back and forth as he analyzed everything he’d put together. Was he overthinking this? Yeah. Was anyone actually going to see this? Probably not. But did he enjoy talking about his Baby and sharing that with the world? Yeah, yeah he did.

With that in mind, Dean hit the ‘Post Now’ button before he could back out of it. Then, he clicked back to Castiel’s blog and read his newest post on the process of honey making from the bees perspective. Something Dean never thought he’d want to read about, but the way Castiel wrote about bees was soothing and almost… sweet? Whatever it was, it kept Dean coming back for more.

A couple weeks had gone by, and now Dean had a rhythm. A system of posting that he really enjoyed. He was now creating posts every day, alternating between showcasing something he was working on with the cars in his shop and then a new recipe or cooking story with pictures of the things he’d whipped up in the kitchen.

The more he posted, the more followers he was gaining. Surprisingly, people were enjoying seeing the cars and the food. Some of his posts had even gotten a few hundred notes, and Dean was thrilled. Maybe this hadn’t been such a bad idea after all.

A few people had reached out and messaged him, asking car related questions or sharing pictures of food people had made using his recipes. Oh yeah, Dean was liking this a lot. Maybe, in a weird way, he’d found his people.

Oh.

Maybe that’s why Sam had suggested it in the first place.

“You’re too lonely, Dean. You have, what, like three friends? Get out there more. Make friends. Find your people,” Sam had said to him months ago.

Dean had scoffed at the time, but now… now maybe Sam was right. Not like Dean would ever admit that to his younger brother though. He’d go to Hell before admitting that his brother was right about something like this.

But now Dean had a group of people he interacted with online. He’d even gained a collection of recipes from his newfound friends, too.

And yeah, maybe Tumblr was the last thing Dean clicked on at night and the first thing he checked in the morning. And the one website he went to the most throughout the day, too. But that was okay, right?

He wasn’t obsessed or anything.

The bowl slipped from Dean’s hand, shattering on the ground as Dean stared at the notification on his phone in shock.

No.

No way.

It must’ve been a mistake. There was no way that…

Throwing the spoon into the sink. Dean quickly rushed to his computer, completely ignoring the trail of flour that was now all across his tiled floor. Opening the laptop, Dean quickly clicked on Tumblr and checked the notifications.

Sure enough, right there at the top, there was a notification for a new follower.

‘@angelbeekeeper started following @impala67’

“Holy shit,” Dean muttered to himself, staring at the screen and blinking several times as if he expected the notification to disappear.

Castiel followed him.

Oh God.

Thee Castiel.

The same one Dean had been obsessively following since he’d joined this Hellsite.

Castiel followed him back.

They were mutuals now.

Dean turned, facing the mess of the kitchen, with his head spinning and a smile tugging at his lips.

“Time for a change of plans,” Dean said to himself, walking back into the kitchen and sliding the batter into the fridge to use later. “Today, we’re making something with honey in it.”

Finalizing the post, Dean took a deep breath as he skimmed the recipe and the pictures of the cake with the honey drizzles. A honey cake. God, Dean hoped Castiel would see it and maybe hopefully like it.

Yes. He was aware. He didn’t need anyone to tell him how sad it was that he’d just gone and baked a cake specifically in hopes that his favorite blogger would notice it. But hey, what harm would it do? And besides, Sam and Eileen were coming over tonight, so he’d feed them the cake. It all worked out.

Hitting the post button, Dean slammed the laptop shut and walked away. Then he walked back and opened it again, before quickly shaking his head and closing the laptop again.

“Get it together, Winchester,” Dean muttered to himself.

Maybe he needed to go work on one of the cars in the shop. There was a nice Mustang out there that was calling his name.

Deciding that a distraction is what he needed, Dean made his way out of the house and into the shop just next door. But as he collected his tools, his mind was drifting off, wondering if Castiel had seen the post yet; wondering if he would like it or if he’d hate it and unfollow Dean.

He lasted all of 10 minutes working under the Mustang before anticipation got the best of him and he picked up his phone to check his notifications. There was some activity on the post, but nothing from Castiel.

Sighing to himself, Dean put his phone down and rolled back under the car. “Stupid cake. Who needs this anyway?” Dean muttered to himself, grabbing a wrench and getting back to work.

The sound of his phone pinging with a notification a few minutes later was so sharp that Dean whacked his head on the underside of the car in his haste to snatch his phone.

Quickly, Dean unlocked the phone and went to the notifications.

‘@angelbeekeeper commented on your post: This cake looks like the best cake I’ve ever seen in my life. Can’t wait to try this recipe myself, although mine won’t look nearly as perfect as yours does.’

Dean almost dropped his phone as he rushed to reply. ‘@angelbeekeeper you’re joking, right? I’ve seen the desserts you make for your brother's cafe. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think you were the mastermind behind all the baking and your brother just sells your creations.’

Dammit. As soon as Dean hit reply, he realized how desperate that was. God, he should’ve waited at least an hour. But no. Dumbass. Now he just looked desperate for Castiel’s attention.

Putting his phone down, Dean grabbed the rag he kept in his belt loop and he wiped away the grease he could feel sticking to his forehead. No more Tumblr. For the rest of the day, Dean was focusing on the Mustang.

A new ping echoed from Dean’s phone. The sound of a new private message.

Dean felt his breath catch in his throat. Maybe? Could it be?

No. No way.

Dean messaged a lot of people on the app now. It was probably just Benny or Jo talking about a new recipe.

And yet…

Dean found himself picking up his phone again. Just one last time. Then he’d focus on the car.

‘@angelbeekeeper sent you a private message: You know, I’m not really the baker in my family. That’s definitely Balthazar’s domain. But, he’s cocky about it. And now I’m tempted to use some of your stellar recipes to knock him off his high horse. Whaddya say? Wanna team up to take my younger brother down?’

Dean glanced at the car, and then the message, and back at the car.

The client wasn’t expecting the car to be fixed up until next week. Dean had some more time, right?

Who needed the car when Thee Castiel has just messaged him.

‘Castiel?’

‘Castiel???’

‘Okay you need to answer your messages.’

‘I’m dying here, man.’

‘Did our plan work? Did our combined cake baking skills completely crush your brother?’

Dean paced back and forth, waiting for any kind of notification. Was he being too much? Maybe. Possibly. But now he and Castiel had formed a friendship and Dean was far too invested now. And, okay, maybe he was harboring just a little tiny crush. And no, he was not going to admit that out loud. He was a 35 year old man who did not admit to having a crush on a guy he met on the internet. Nope nope nope. And yet…

Dean’s phone pinged, and he shut down that train of thought before it went too far.

‘Dean!’

‘It worked! Our cake outsold Balthazar’s cake!’

‘We sold all our slices in just over an hour.’

‘Took Bal almost half the day to sell all his slices.’

‘He was desperate to know where I got the recipe.’

‘But I refused to tell him.’

‘Couldn’t have him stealing our amazing recipe, right?’

Dean felt his heart skip a beat in his chest. Our? Did Castiel really just say our? As in both of them? Dean felt dizzy with happiness.

‘I knew we’d beat him,’ Dean typed, fighting a smile on his face.

‘Hey, we make a pretty good team.’

Holding his breath, Dean waited to see if Castiel would reply. Or maybe that’s all Castiel wanted from him. Just needed Dean to prove his brother wrong one time and that was it.

But then, his phone vibrated. Another message. And another. And another.

‘You’re right. We do make a good team.’

‘What are we making together next?’

‘I saw you’re good at cooking, too. Got any good recipes for a good burger? Bal is always saying his burgers are the best in the State, but I think we could take him down. What do you say?’

Oh yeah, Dean was absolutely crushing on this guy.

‘Dean, I need some help.’

‘Whatcha need, buddy?’

‘My car broke down this morning. And I’m a few towns over from the nearest car shop. I’ve never needed to take it in because it always runs pretty smooth. Any tips you can give for what I can do?’

‘Yeah, I’ve got you. Tell me what you see. Any lights on? Any smoke or oil on the ground?’

‘Hang on. I can send you a few pictures.’

‘Image.’

‘Really? You drive a Lincoln Continental Mark V?’

‘What’s wrong with that? I thought you liked classic cars?’

‘I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder.’

‘Alright, I think I see your problem. This is what you’re gonna do.’

When his phone lit up with another message from Tumblr, Dean knew it was Castiel before he even looked at the screen. Castiel was the only one Dean messaged this much. In fact, they were messaging all day every day. And tagging each other in posts all the time. They constantly interacted with each other’s posts, and yeah, maybe Dean’s heart skipped a beat every time Castiel interacted with him, but that was normal, right?

He’d received several asks anonymously with people asking if he and Castiel were dating, and Dean had always brushed it off. Always answered them subtly because he’d never broached the subject with Castiel.

‘I just finished the pie recipe you sent me a few days ago. Do you wanna see?’

‘Hell yeah, Castiel. Send it my way.’

Dean paused, tapping his finger lazily against the screen, his thoughts flickering back to something he’d been thinking about for weeks now.

‘You know, Castiel is too formal of a name.’

‘So I’ve been told.’

‘What about Cas?’ Dean suggested, nervously chewing at his lip.

‘No one’s ever called me that before.’

‘I like it.’

‘Yeah?’ Dean typed, his heart thumping wildly in his chest.

‘Yeah, Dean.’

Dean smiled as he typed his next message. ‘Now I just need to put a voice to the name. Call me? 636-808-9273’

Throwing his phone down, Dean sucked in a sharp breath. God, he hoped he hadn’t been reading this all wrong. There were signs, right? Maybe Cas liked him, too? Or maybe the flirting had been one-sided.

Dean’s phone pinged again.

‘That was smooth, I’m impressed.’

And then Dean’s phone started to ring. Dean looked down in shock, staring at the number on the screen as his heart kicked a wild beat in his chest.

Bringing the phone to his ear, Dean answered the call. “Cas?”

“Hello Dean.”

Oh God. Dean was absolutely and utterly screwed.

Scrolling through Tumblr, Dean laughed, catching sight of another message as it popped up in his askbox.

“What’s so funny?” Cas asked, his voice on the other end of the phone slightly distanced as Dean could hear him clattering with wood. Probably something for his bees.

“Just got another ask with an anon asking if we’re dating,” Dean said, already opening the ask to type out a response.

“Are you going to answer it?” Cas asked, his voice suddenly a lot closer as he presumably stepped closer to the phone.

“You’re going to have to check tumblr to find out,” Dean replied, feeling a smile tug at his lips.

“I hate when you’re obtuse,” Cas muttered, even though Dean could hear the fondness in his tone.

“Liar,” Dean said, hitting post on the ask.

The post appeared on the dashboard, and Dean grinned.

‘You and @angelbeekeeper are always flirting with each other on posts. Are y’all dating?’ Let me ask my boyfriend. Hey @angelbeekeeper, are we dating? Better yet, I have a more important question. When am I going to get to kiss my devastatingly handsome boyfriend?

Dean waited for a moment, knowing that Cas was already on Tumblr, checking out what he had said. A moment later, a notification popped up on his screen.

‘@angelbeekeeper reblogged your ask: Sooner than you think ;)’

Dean perked up, flickering his eyes to the top of his phone to make sure the call was still ongoing. “Hey Cas? What did you mean sooner than I think?”

Dean could also hear the smile in Cas’ voice when he replied. “You know, it doesn’t take an internet sleuth to realize you’re from Kansas.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?” Dean asked, raising an eyebrow even though he knew Cas couldn’t see him.

“Your license plate on the Impala gives it away. Also, I put two and two together, and well, it makes sense that you’d work at Winchester’s Auto Shop in Lebanon,” Cas replied, and distantly there was the sound of a car door opening and closing.

“Are you stalking me?” Dean teased.

Cas hummed from the other end of the phone. “Just curious about my boyfriend, that’s all.”

“Oh yeah?” Dean said, moving into the kitchen to check on his pie that was in the oven. “And why’s that?”

“Because I live in Burr Oak.”

Dean’s brain froze. Then unfroze. And refroze again. “Burr Oak? As in Burr Oak in Kansas? The one that's 20 miles down the road from Lebanon?”

“Mmmhmm,” Cas said, and the sound of a car engine roaring to life filled the phone. “So? What do you say? Do you want that kiss now? Or later?” Cas teased, and Dean felt his heart skip a beat, then another, and another.

“Now. Right now,” Dean replied, breathless and dizzy. “You’ve been a few towns over from me this whole time?” he asked, a laugh catching in his throat.

“I only just figured it out this morning, actually. I just didn’t know how you’d react,” Cas said over the phone.

Dean felt like his heart was going to leap out of his chest. He was finally going to get to see Cas. Not just over FaceTime, but in person. He was going to kiss his boyfriend for the first time.

Cas was the one to speak again, shaking Dean from his thoughts. “There’d better be a slice of pie for me when I finally see you,” Cas said, soft and tender, yet teasing and playful.

Dean looked at the pie in the oven, then down at the phone where Cas’ name was lighting up his screen, their 2 hour phone call still ongoing. “A slice of pie. A kiss. Whatever you want, honey, it’s yours.”

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flyingfish1 · 1 year

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I don’t think Dean HAS been looking for Cas. YET.

I think what he’s actually been doing is – and I say this with all the love and hope in my Deangirl, destiel-otp heart – fleeing in the opposite direction.

Because –

Mary: I don’t regret what happened [when we were closed into a room with only one exit, with an antagonist pounding on the door, trying to get in and kill us, and romantic feelings were expressed]. But with everything going on […] I – I’m not sure what I’m ready for. So, I – I just need time. -1x08

Lata: You know, I just – I can’t believe you haven’t been in touch with Anton. -1x09

Mary: Um, can I ask you something? About you and Tony’s dad Ali [an interspecies romantic relationship]? Ada: What would you like to know? Mary: Well, going into it, you both knew you were from different worlds. Ada: Mmm-hmm. Mary: But you went for it anyway. If you had the chance to do it over again, would you? Ada: I followed my heart. I don’t think that’s ever a mistake. Mary: Even if you’re scared? -1x05

Carlos: Listen, um – I’m, I’m sorry I never called you after our date. Anton: Don’t tell me the big, bad hunter got scared. Carlos [smiling]: Maybe! [Pause] Carlos [serious this time]: Yeah. -1x09

But it’s okay. It’s okay, because –

Ada: I followed my heart. I don’t think that’s ever a mistake. Mary: Even if you’re scared? Ada: Especially then. It’s just part of falling in love. -1x05

Mary: It’s okay to be scared. In fact, it’s good to be scared. [She glances at John.] You can’t be brave if you’re never scared. -1x05

Carlos: But, um. I’m not afraid to ask you on a second date tonight. -1x09

[Mary walks up to John and kisses him] John: What – I – I don’t understand. Mary: I don’t want to think about the Akrida. Or whether the world has a future. I want to be with you. Right here. Right now. -1x08

Mary: Listen, before you go, I have to tell you something. John: Tell me when you see me again. -1x13

Ahh, classic supernatural destiel narrative parallels, where would we ever be without you? seriously though, the instant that kiss happened – that “locked together in a room with only one exit, with death banging on the door, right before it gets sucked into an alternate realm” kiss – I just knew that Mary’s reaction would tell us SO MUCH about Dean’s reaction to Cas’ love declaration.

And I really think it did! but it goes so far beyond just that one scene. so many of Carlos’s reactions to Anton, and so many of Mary’s other reactions to John, are SO telling as well.

And I think, looking at the narrative parallels, it’s all laid out clearly:

Dean’s been scared. He doesn’t regret what happened – he’s glad that Cas said what he said – but he hasn’t known how to handle it. Of course, in the immediate aftermath, Cas was gone, and there was no relationship to handle – but after learning that Cas, it seems, is out of the Empty, Dean was confronted with the certainty of coming face-to-face with him again and having to deal with the consequences. Things that may have been distant thoughts were now extremely concrete possibilities. And it was overwhelming.

He needed to take some time to process his feelings and to figure out what he was ready for. The idea of following his heart to where his heart wanted him to go – the idea of a relationship – scared him. Maybe also the intensity of his feelings scared him. And Cas is an angel, and that element of the relationship – the two of them being from such different worlds – was intimidating too. What if something goes wrong? What if he messes it up somehow? This is Cas. This is important. So Dean avoided Cas for a while, and then he stumbled onto the Akrida threat, and it was just too much for him to deal with all at once.

But he’s looking for Cas now. Maybe he’s still scared, but he’s trying to be brave. He’s going to follow his heart. He has to tell Cas something.

#spn #spnwin #spnwin spoilers #spnwin 1x13 #but also all the rest of it #destiel #Dean Winchester #parallels #my thoughts #and where it will all go I do not know but *gestures* yes

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sugarrushproductions · 5 months

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Sabriel Family Headcannons

Not married, sees no real point too. They love each other, that's enough.

A few months after they begin dating, a hunt has them dealing with a shifter. Another hunter had already dealt with it, but accidentally missed something.

The shifter's kid. Not really kid, but the one that was ordered to raise it.

Dean was busy on another hunt with Cas and Jack, so Mary goes with him.

They arrive just after the hunter blows town.

Since they're there, the two decide to check things out just in case.

Sam has to check the sewers, a bit annoyed. He can never win Rock Paper Scissors with his mom.

He found some of what the shifter shed.

He also found a little girl. That was unexpected.

He takes her back the hotel room.

Mary is concerned, but doesn't want to kill her.

She's only nine after all.

She hates it when she found out silver burns her.

Sam is thankfully able to convince her to let her stay.

They can't leave her in town, so she comes back to the bunker.

Dean is surprisingly ok with keeping her around. Jack immediately takes to her as well. Big brother energy.

Jack loves showing her his powers and is mostly their go to baby sitter. Mary and him take turns.

This goes on for a good few months.

Gabriel comes to visit Sam and the crew, only to find him reading to the little girl.

At first he can't bring himself to interrupt.

He just watches. Sam doing voices, making the girl laugh.

He'd never felt more in love.

Sam happens to glance up and see him.

Gabriel blushes and looks away, like he hadn't been silently watching him read to this girl.

Sam promised to finish the book later and picks the girl up to greet Gabriel.

At first the girl is shy, burying herself into Sam's shoulder.

She lightens a small bit after they kiss. Even more when Gabriel summons candy and gives her some.

He finds out her name is Sally.

From then on he's not just visiting Sam and his nephew.

There are days he'll come the bunker to find Jack and Sally snacking on the sugary cereal Sam disapproves of.

(side note: did not plan this intentionally, but now I see them dressing as Jack and Sally for Halloween)

Gabriel can't help but laugh when Jack and Sally say simultaneously "Don't tell Sam (Sammy)"

He'll stay until Sam gets back from the current hunt.

He shows off his illusions, Sally loving every bit of it.

She even makes requests based off her books and favorite shows.

She starts calling him Gabe like Sam does.

One day she goes to Gabriel, tugs on his pant leg, and asks him to make an illusion of what a kid of him and Sam wouldn't look like.

He starts. He doesn't know what to think.

He asks why and she explains that she can't shift unless she's seen the person she's trying to copy.

Sam comes in and hears it.

Both their hearts melt at her insistence.

Gabe obliges, making a vision of her with brown hair with a golden sheen. She has his nose, Sam's eye shape and color. She's the same height and has cute little dimples.

He really loved the one she has already.

Sally leaves to go shift in her room, thanking Gabe with a hug.

Sam and Gabe embrace, surprised but overjoyed to have a daughter.

I don't know why, but I find it really cute for these two to have a shifter daughter. I just feel it's a cool parallel to destiel and Jack. What do you think?

#sabriel spn #spn #supernatural #sam x gabriel spn #Sabriel Family #sam winchester #gabriel #gabriel spn #mary spn #dean winchester #spn jack #spn sam winchester

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youchangedmedestiel · 4 months

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I haven't got the time to work on my fics lately, especially last week. I was busy and my brain couldn't focus on that. So I didn't even write a single word. And I miss it. Fortunately, next week will be calmer so I'll be able to.

In the meantime, if you didn't get the chance to read those, here are the last 6 fanfics I wrote (every fics are based on canon with little changes obviously), each link is on the titles:

SMUT

Thanked as deserved: Post 15x19

Castiel stays at the bunker, while Sam and Eileen go to hunt what happens to be a new kind of wraith. And Dean goes to work on his own werewolf case alone, he needs time to think now that Cas is back from the Empty. When he comes back from the hunt, he has a small cut on his cheek and his muscles are sore, Castiel offers to take care of the last one and thanks him for saving people, saving the world, like he deserves it. He doesn’t just massage his back.

Inspiring Fanfiction: Post 10x05, I updated this one with a 2nd smutty chapter

Dean discovers fanfics about Destiel, thanks to Marie, the high school girl that directed the show about their lives. She sent him some fic links to read, when she saw his reaction about Destiel. That’s how Dean ends up reading the one fiction that disturbs him in a way he couldn’t have imagine. And then I have to face Cas at some point.

NO SMUT

A gift to listen and keep: If you're still in a Christmas mood. Post 12x14, famous mixtape mentioned.

The brothers are back on good terms with their mother after the Alpha vampire was killed by Sam at the British Men of Letters' headquarters. Dean forgave her for working with them. He got scared of losing her again. Plus he - they - almost lost Cas not so long ago. So he decided that those reasons, and his mother being back from the dead should be good enough to celebrate Christmas this year.

Need for comfort: 14x08

Jack just died. Sam leaves the kitchen first after their drinking session to mourn Jack together as a family, leaving Dean and Cas alone. They drink a little bit more, just the two of them. Then Cas decides to leave the kitchen, but Dean calls him once he is in the hallway. The angel turns around and comes back to Dean.

There is nothing stupid about you and me: 10x09

Dean and Cas are on their burger date while Sam searches on how to find Claire. They talk about the Mark, but their conversation doesn’t just stop there like on the show. Instead, Dean tells Cas about the high school kids’ show about their lives, based on Chuck’s books, Sam and he attended to. He even mentions Marie and her view on Cas and Dean’s relationship, allowing him to know how Cas feels about it.

Healing guilt: Post 11x03

Dean refuses to be healed by Cas, after Cas beat him when he was under Rowena’s dog spell, because he feels guilty about almost killing Cas when he had the Mark of Cain. But Cas thinks about a plan to heal him anyway without Dean knowing.

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tiktaalic · 9 months

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Another pretentious post warnnnnning sorry but. hm. the articulation of this thought.

one. i feel like i do watch a lot of #nothing girl shows where everything's very low stakes and has ardent let people enjoy things with their brain off defenders. and i like these shows i love em. but its very much . 20 minutes of television. cool. 👍. im going to sleep now.

two. i a mcurrently reading a fanfiction that is the most play by play of a fanfiction that could ever be done. there's plucky Girl Best Friend. There's slutty Guy Friend who's like thats whats up love is love. what do you mean you're not dating. theres "so that just happened." and dated references . and mixtapes. it is Every Fanfiction. and. i think i am realizing. the reason that i never read plotted fanfiction is because most of the time its this. and it sucks. ive speent the last 100 pages going. ok. and when is it going to get fucked up. one of the characters is #SoNeurotic that he goes to therapy 4 times a week and is on antidepressants but he hasn't said something unforgivably cruel even once? if this was destiel fanfiction* there may not be any overarching conflict but at least ONE of them would be one. unmedicated. TWO. crazier than all get out. THREE. the most closeted man this world has ever seen. FOUR! have the sickest family background invented.

*passable destiel fanfiction. a level above bad and a level below good will hit this mark. good will also obviously hit this mark but the point i am making is that it's a fairly low bar that many destiel fanfictions leap over.

what am i saying. stream epota i guess. is the mesage.

#we're all friends here i can say i'm reading the andrew garfield jesse eisenberg rpf by the rwrb author. and i can say i have spent the #entire time going ok. how do you take a man who has openly said he has an oedipus complex and is dating his girlfriend because she look lik #his mom. and make him boring. oh because we're doing Every Fanfiction. sure. fine i guess. lets make one of them #awkward but not TOO awkward and demisexual. and one of them extroverted manic pixie dream girl pansexual.#because we gotta wrap this up quick we have a ya romance novel to write after this.#etxt

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So I have a few weeks until my new job starts and I want to work on something in that time. I'm not sure what I feel like writing (I'm kinda in hibernation bc it's winter rn and the last time I felt motivated to write was on-the-job in summer). I have dozens of wips and outlines to choose from but these ones are top of the pile bc they're fun..

[1] Nursery AU: Paradise Nursery

Dean is grieving his recently deceased mother. He's in his early 30s and was her carer for the better part of a decade; he has no friends and no life to turn to for comfort or distraction. He needs a new job and to learn to navigate his loneliness. He ends up working at the garden nursery where his mom worked decades ago. Dean meets Cas and falls for him but also makes new friends in Charlie and Jo and Bobby and others.

Cas is the newly appointed manager of Paradise Nursery™ and he's not enjoying it; he misses the small minutia of everyday plantcare and loathes the pressure, office-based and people-interactive duties, and trying to find a buyer for the business his father left him in charge of. Cas is a single parent to Jack and guardian to Claire and gave up on finding love long ago, instead focusing on his children and the work he's passionate about. But then he meets their newest seasonal hire Dean who becomes a bright spot in Cas' workday.

As they become tentative friends and try to suss out whether their feelings are mutual and how to go about them, Dean is dealing with his problematic father while Cas is dealing with his arch nemesis - fresh-cut flower farm owner Crowley - who wants to purchase Paradise to eliminate Cas as a competitor while expanding his own empire.

Boss/Employee. Mutual Pining. Alternating POV. Misunderstandings. Familiar Faces and Friendship. Slow Burn (legit). Strangers to Friends to Lovers.

A/N: this one is close to my heart as it's inspired by my own experiences; every day I worked I was inspired to write something for these two. Still not sure whether to keep this one contained at the nursery or follow Dean as the season dies off and he finds work elsewhere? Endings are hard and I'm still living mine, so.

[2] Dan In Real Life AU: Here Comes The Sun

Based on the movie but with its own flavour. Dean is a late-30s widowed songwriter and single father to young Audrey. The whole extended family is spending two weeks at Grandma Mildred's lake house for some quality time together before Autumn settles in. On his solo drive to the house, Dean meets Cas. There's chemistry and Dean thinks maybe there's something between them.. but he arrives at the house to discover Cas is dating his oldest friend Benny. Things are rocky at first but during their time together Dean and Cas grow closer until they can't deny their feelings any longer.

This one has intial Cas/Benny with some open relationship vibes but also cheating. Still trying to decide whether to write some explicit Cas/Benny scenes. The plot is heavily inspired by the movie but goes its own way. The whole two weeks will be covered day and night with alternating POV but mostly Dean and Cas.

RomCom with Family Dynamics. Lots of Familiar Faces. Papa!Dean. Alternating POV. Mutual Pining. UST. Strangers to Lovers. Happy Ending (for everyone, I promise).

A/N: I started writing this in.. 2020? It was my comfort fic but life changed so much that year I just couldn't stick with it. I've tried going back to it multiple times but kept getting caught up on how to finish the next chapter. I've done a bunch of art for this and would love to get it finished, but there's a lot of plot to still figure out (sometimes filler stuff, sometimes main events of the day).

[3] Movie AUs: numerous!

I love subpar action comedies (and romcoms) because they're such easy fic fodder for Destiel. Simple, readymade, perfect practice for writers to work on our skills but don't have the time or brain capacity to work on plot.

I have outlines of a few I really want to Destielify: The Lost City (a fun little adventure with unique plot I'd love to give our guys), Knight and Day (made before algorithms it's overlong and full of secondary locations - better off as fic), Red Notice (terrible twists but it had some fun ideas so I'd tweak the plot in various ways), Ghosted (subpar with bare bones I'd like to put a bit of meat on), Quantum of Solace (the most straight-forward Bond flick, a filler in the franchise and easiest to create a standalone au with).

A/N: if you haven't checked out SPNMediaBigBang go do that now. I'm terrible at bangs but I'd love to write a few fun movie fics and post chapters every week.

[4] Gotham Knights AU: make it Destiel

(GK being cancelled is another blow for queer rep and spncast stans but I hope it motivates fans to create more fic for this awesome show!)

The AU I've been working on is 'inspired by' not straight copy. It features batman-inspired Dean and harvey dent-inspired Cas with turner-inspired Jack.

Cas goes from being Jack's uncle to his guardian after his father was killed by the city's vigilante saviour The Hunter - who Jack once idolised but now thinks is a villain; naive Jack is out for revenge, to reveal The Hunter as a badguy and see him taken down. And he's not the only one looking for The Hunter's true identity. Meanwhile, friends and longtime mutual piners Dean and Cas finally act on their feelings for each other - but then shit goes down.

Friends to Lovers. Guardian/Single Dad Cas. Vigilante Dean. Heroes & Villains. Mutual Pining.

A/N: I started drafting the outline for this halfway through s1 of GK. It utilizes the darker vibes we get from Jack in season 14, which I love. And no, it's not related to my Destiel AU gifset series, sorry!

⮑ with all that in mind..

#my destiel prompt blog + ao3 is @theheartchoice btw 💕#destiel #fanfiction #thoughts #myedits #spn polls #deancas #wips #(no one look at my Crazyhead or Fly By Night wips. im just not feeling them atm bc they're young deancas..#plus i haven't posted in almost a year so i wanna work on sm i can fully flesh out #and these fics are the easiest to work on bc i have the plots and inspo at the ready..)

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Hi! Since you were talking about your latest project, for the ship bingo I'm going to ask: John/Dean? (And if you want to do one extra, may I suggest Philes?)

NARA. I should have known you'd come up with the ship that's not talked about in polite company. Thank you so much!

So, for any anti that might have followed me by accident: I think we're about to part ways. John/Dean here refers to John Winchester and Dean Winchester from Supernatural.

Train wreck but I can't look away: whichever way you look at it, whether it's consenting or not, it's not gonna start well, go well, or end well. No amount of great writing will make this relationship stable or fair. It's doomed.

I'm a casual shipper: this isn't my OTP in this fandom (that spot belongs to Destiel), but I multiship.

INTERESTING COMPELLING COMPLEX SCREECHIBG: Dean took on his mother's role in the family in most ways after her death, why not this too? Have you seen the Winchester family dynamics? None of it is healthy, they're violent creeps with codependance issues. These boys haven't been socialized! So yeah, incest, why not? So many themes to explore with this ship. Abuse, masculinity, free will, homophobia, parenting.

Fandom ruining it: not really. There is amazing fandom content for that ship. But the SPN fandom is extremely divided and confrontational, and John's character is a touchy subject. Most people stop at arguing about whether he is good or bad, and are too busy decrying incestuous ships to provide interesting discussion about Dean/John.

Person A deserves better than person B: hey, John Winchester sucks. He's interesting, but he's the kind of character you watch telling yourself "I wish he'd rot in hell" and guess what? He canonically does!

Could cut the tension with a KNIFE: every room John steps into has tension. Things are already tense and intense and electric with his sons (in different ways) in a story where he doesn't fuck them. Imagine if he wasn't just Dean's father, drill sergeant and personal god, but also the man who taught him to have sex.

FREE SPACE: ew ew omg ewww! This hits the tiny mark between "absolutely disgusting" and "so fucking hot". There are days I can't stomach it, but I stand by it because it's extremely compelling.

Thank you a thousand times for giving me the oportunity to talk about them, it was very exciting.

And now, some Philes as a palate cleanser:

Train wreck but I can't look away: their worldviews and morals are too different and conflicting to build a lasting relationship, it's always going to be messy, and I'm here for it.

THAT one scene. You know the one: the duelling scene, of course. Thurston, what were you thinking? Also, the minotaur fight scene when Fetch realizes Niles is sort of a friend, kinda??

INTERESTING COMPELLING COMPLEX SCREECHIBG: It's because they have such different opinions and goals that they are interesting to see interact. For Fetch and Niles to date or fuck, I think Fetch would have to get more down to earth and less absolute about his views, and that would be an interesting growth. Also, Thurston Niles is a great character to explore and make headcanons about.

They are divorced, possibly not for the first time: these guys fight so much. They're used to each other's presence like you're used to an inconvenience or a flaw in the sidewalk. The way Fetch goes to Niles' house for drinks, and Niles doesn't serve him alcohol, and they antagonize each other but still have a decent time is so Divorced to me.

Could cut the tension with a KNIFE: I love to see the girls fightinnnnnggg. I love that Fetch seems two seconds away from imploding when he's in the same room as Niles. What's interesting is that the tension is brought by Fetch and Niles is chill about their situationship. When they meet on a case of Fetch's, sparks fly and that's awesome.

FREE SPACE: I'm using this space to say a trop I love to imagine for them is "ugh, why did it have to be him of all people?". I like to imagine them both inconvenienced by their attraction.

Thank you so much for playing with me <3

#ask game #Nara #fetch phillips archives #philes

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castielsfeatheredballs · 1 year

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Something I don't see very often in this fandom is a comparison of deancas to deanjo, which is a pity in my opinion, because I think deanjo is actually the most similar relationship Dean has to the one with Cas. It also imho sheds some light on one of thee destiel Problems, which is the Closet Problem.

Now, I only just named it that, but if you are in the destiel fandom you might understand what I mean by that. It's the fact that Dean is not explicitly, verbally out as a queer man and so much of his relationship with Cas is influenced by this fact. People disagree on what Dean's closet looks like, if he's totally repressed an unaware, if he knows and doesn't act on it, if he knows, acts on it but keeps it secret, if he's okay-ish with people knowing but prefers to keep it low-key. Whichever it is, it means that from Dean's end the fact that he never acknowledged that what he had with Cas might be more than a platonic friendship. It follows that a very predominant fandom interpretation is that the only thing standing in the way of destiel from Dean's side is him being in the closet. Like if Dean came out then he would be ready and willing to get into a romantic relationship with Cas.

Now, I'm not saying this is wrong, but I think this take overshadows the fact that Dean has Issues with relationships in general that go beyond the gender of people involved. That's very evident looking at his romantic history with women. Some people interpret this as evidence for Dean being gay, which is fair, but I find it more compelling to interpret Dean as bisexual and just a relationship disaster in general. Which is where Jo comes in.

The thing is, what usually stands between Dean and a successful love life, what Dean himself would say is the problem in his relationships, is hunting. Hunting is what turned Cassie off him, what put Lisa and Ben in danger enough that Lisa had to break things off. That is also ostensibly the reason why Dean doesn't bother trying for something long-term with most of the women he gets with, because hunting life doesn't leave room for love blah blah blah. Jo is actually the first person he meets that challenges that notion, because Jo is also in the life. She's not just in the know, on the sidelines like Cassie and later Lisa, she actively wants to be a hunter. Which means that Dean's excuse is not applicable here. They have mutual attraction an feelings, and in the beginning of their acquaintance Jo seems like she would be down to date Dean. However, he closes himself off. He's the one who keeps them in a weird limbo where they are friends with insane chemistry they never act upon... this sounds familiar, doesn't it.

The thing is, Dean, despite clearly yearning for a meaningful romantic connection, is very very afraid of actually having one. He has big issues with self-worth, for one, and I think because of his childhood he feels like he has to prioritize his original family--Sam--over everybody else. I don't think it's a coincidence that the only two times we see him actually trying for a relationship is when Sam is out of his life. He falls in love with Cassie when Sam is at Stanford and cut off all contact, and he goes back to Lisa when Sam is dead and he has no one else. Soon as Sam's back in his life, Dean seems like he has to preserve the family unit at all costs, and that is why he never allows himself to be with someone else in a meaningful way. I think the relationship he had with Jo tells us a lot about how he is with Cas, too, regardless of the queer issue. And I'm not gonna lie, it does annoy me to no end when people try to idk, sanitize deanjo, saying he never ever saw her as anything more than a sister, because to me it's very evident that the reason they vere never together is not because he lacked interest, but because Dean never could allow himself a chance at happiness.

#spn meta #deanjo #deancas #dean studies

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deansemptyribcage · 10 months

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Coming to terms with being a wincest shipper

The first time I read a fic with wincest in it, it was completely by accident? Like, I’m not even joking, I had never even considered reading about it before. Ofc I noticed all the little looks and the sexual innuendos between the two, but it never crossed my mind that other people had. So, anyway. Back then I was still very much in denial about finding it hot, bc who wasn’t in denial at first? 😅 So the fic. It was a destiel (yes, I ship both destiel and wincest, shoot me.), or it was supposed to be. It starts off with Cas and Dean in college, I can’t remember if they were just friends and Cas was in love with him or if they actually started dating, but either way, not all that important. Dean moves his baby brother (Sammy, duh) into his dorm room after something happens with their family (I can’t remember if John dies or if he’s just abusive and Dean can’t let it continue happening to Sam, it’s been years since I read this) and Cas gets incredibly jealous. Every time Sam shows up in the fic (which is nearly every scene with Dean in it) Cas’ jealousy increases. He gaslights himself, trying to convince himself that there can’t be anything going on between the two, they’re brothers for crying out loud! After months (I think it was months) of acting cold towards Sam, he finally gaslights himself enough to really convince himself that nothing is going on between the two, so he goes to Dean’s dorm to apologize to Sam for how he’d previously acted. He really thinks he’s crazy for being so mean to Sam for something that was all a figment of his own imagination, he must be crazy, right? Well, upon walking into the dorm room, he finds Sam and Dean doing the do. It’s obvious that the writer of the fic wants you as the reader to feel disgusted and repulsed by this revelation, wants you to feel it’s criminal, seeing as that is exactly how Cas feels and acts. Cas even calls the police and gets Dean arrested and the two separated. Which, being the reader, I was trying to convince myself that I also saw that as repulsive and criminal, but I didn’t. And that, my friends, is how an anti-shipper showed me that I really fucking liked wincest. Anyway, how did yall first come to terms with your love for wincest?

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☆☆☆☆

I've been wanting to give the romance genre a shot, and since I like modern fantasy, I thought A Witch's Guide to Fake Dating a Demon sounded like a good start.

Mariel Spark is supposed to be the most powerful witch, but she only ever feels like a failure, unable to get basic summoning spells right, even if her plant magic is unparalleled. When trying to recall the magical name for flour to summon ingredients for muffins, she accidentally summons a demon, Ozroth the Ruthless. Now they're stuck together until Mariel sells her soul, but as time goes on, Ozroth doesn't want to see her lose it.

This book was fun, even if it took me a while to get into it at first. It's possible that wasn't the book's fault, though. Like many, I've looked down on the romance genre before, which is completely unfair (especially when I read YA, which is also looked down on), so it might have just been me struggling to get into a new mindset to enjoy a genre I'm not well-acquainted with.

I am well-acquainted with cozies, though, so Witch's Guide felt like a perfect starting point for me. It takes place in a small town full of eccentric people, including an elderly character who wears absolutely ridiculous clothing. I'm pretty sure Alzapraz would get along with Gertie from the Miss Fortune series by Jana DeLeon (that or Gertie would put Alzapraz's immortality to the test).

The world-building was straight-forward and perfect for a cozy or romance, the magic system reminding me a little of Sabrina the Teenage Witch... actually, maybe Charmed more. There's rules and limits, sure, enough to keep the stake of the premise high, but it's easy to tell from the get-go that Mariel and Oz will get their happily ever after (this is a romance after all, and the genre has its own rules and limits).

Mariel's inner struggle hit hard; she was an easy protagonist for me to sympathize with, especially when it came to her faults. She turns on Oz and her friend Themmie, when they were only trying to help and defend her to her mother. She felt like a well-rounded character, and it was nice seeing her bloom just like her flowers as the story progressed.

Oz undergoes his own transformation, and I enjoyed seeing how they worked both against and with each other. I also both cringed and laughed during the first sex scene, when Mariel asked Oz if demons knotted, only to then describe it when Oz had no clue what that meant. Makes me wonder if Mariel's a destiel girlie or a wincest girlie.

To be honest, I'm not totally sure if I'll read the sequel, A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch. The first two chapters are in the back of my copy of Witch's Guide, though, so now that I'm settled in my new apartment, I might read that before deciding. (Though I'll need to wait until I have more money in my savings before buying any books ^^")

#book review tag #romance books #sarah hawley #a witch's guide to fake dating a demon

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sams-lost-again · 2 years

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Okay so if Dean Winchester had a bar, head canon summary: (little destiel and sabriel here too)

-He would have a faulty juke box and spend a lot of time trying not to get it to only play one annoying song that he liked in the first place but now despises

- Cas would deal with all the ales and beer in the cellar because he is an organisation king when it comes to some things

-Dean goes full handy man mode and fixes all the run down bar stools

-There are neon signs and classic bar decor that he loves when he goes to a bar

- Dean begged sam and Cas to let him by a mechanical bull but they denied him

-Sam would help run the socials with Dean but mainly help with a menu set up and hiring, he tries to leave it to Dean so he can have something of his own for once

-Dean would be really protective of the girls that drink there because of the sleesebags he used to see in bars (maybe slightly partake in some of the douchbagery) but he is especially friendly towards the regulars

-Dean makes fun of Sam for bringing Eileen in every couple of nights for a date night but secretly thinks it’s cute

-Cas and Dean even have a little dance sometimes after close (and a lil smooch)

- Dean has free little bar snacks too

- They hire mainly local kids who need sort of training up because then they can kind of learn on the job together (over 21 because Americans are legally not allowed to drink under 21 I think)

-Dean has music on at the bar if all kinds of genre and lets locals have a jam night every two weeks or so

-The bathrooms are all unisex and ungendered

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These rattle round in my brain and might even write a fix if they get really stuck so enjoy!

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deaniewithalittleweanie · 10 months

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About that one fic I wrote

Back in 2020/2021, I wrote a fic called The Theory of Attraction. It is now the most popular fic I still have attached to my name on ao3. Mostly, it was met with good reception, and I still have people who reach out to me here to compliment it. That being said, it was the most controversial fic I have ever released. I never had to moderate a comment section before that fic. It's not moderated anymore, because the hype died down, but today, it got its first comment in a while, and it was....very mean lol. So, this tumblr post is basically me pulling back the curtains and talking very candidly about this fic and why it was written. Major spoilers for the fic below the cut and TW for discussion of substance abuse.

So, when I started TTOA, I wanted to write a second chance romance, enemies/FWBs to lovers Destiel fic. I made it an office AU as well. It started pretty harmless, but right in the first chapter, something happened. Without any prior planning, I made Castiel an alcoholic. You might think that was the controversial part of this fic, but it actually wasn't. Stay tuned. Anyway, very quickly I realized this was a story primarily about addiction. Here's where some bare-naked truth comes in.

At the time of writing this fic, I was deep, DEEP into substance abuse myself, and very vehemently denying it too. I was about midway through writing TTOA when I made the realization about myself and had a short breakdown over it. So as I was writing about Castiel's recovery, I was in active addiction myself and attempting to get clean, which did not happen until long after I had finished writing the fic (will be two years clean on July 31, 2023).

So, that's why the fic was written. It was my subconscious absolutely screaming at me to get help. I attribute my motivation to get clean to that fic, so obviously, it's very special to me. I will not orphan it or delete it unless something terrible happens and I have no other choice.

Now, if you've read the fic, you know exactly why it's controversial. I used a trope that to this day, I still do not like. I didn't like it when I wrote it, but I used it for a reason.

Towards the end of the fic, the reveal of the reason for Castiel and Dean's breakup in high school is revealed to be that Dean was unfaithful.

Let me get one thing clear: I knew this was out of character for Dean. That was...sort of the point. Castiel is out of character through a lot of this fic as well, BUT! That is for a reason as well, and it's the same reason for Dean's OOC-ness. Both of them are addicts. Dean's alcoholism starts young, and being way too drunk is his excuse for cheating (yes I know it's a bad one. that's why Cas dumps his ass. he deserved it). Castiel is more brooding and mean throughout the fic because he's miserable and drunk most of the time. Dean recovers before he meets Castiel again, 17 years after their initial breakup. It's towards the end of the fic when Castiel recovers, and they end up together some time after that.

Both of them changed a lot in the time since they dated in high school. Dean goes through a whole lot of self discovery and healing before we meet him in this fic. His whole arc is trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, and part of that is him figuring out how to make amends with Castiel. Meanwhile, Castiel's arc is him getting out of his depressive spiral and welcoming Dean back, because he knows both of them have changed so drastically that it's practically a new relationship by the time they finally end up together again.

I know the fic is not my best work. Not by a long shot. If you asked me to write that fic again, especially now that I'm in recovery, there are a lot of things that I would do differently. But, that doesn't mean I regret writing it. I know there are mistakes. Some things are not handled with as much grace as I could handle them now. But, at the end of the day, I wrote it for fun, and to motivate my own recovery. I'm glad so many people have enjoyed it over the years. If you're looking at this post because you dislike the fic, that's okay too. You may disagree with what I'm saying here, and that's fine. You can have whatever interpretation of TTOA that you want. Just know that what I've said here was was I intended when I wrote this fic, and I'm sorry if I did not make it clear, or if my words had a negative impact on you.

That's all I have to say about this. I'm keeping reblogs off on this, because it's just a point of reference. If you feel the need to reply to this post somehow, feel free to use my ask box (but do try to be polite)

Sincerely, Skyler/Pigeon

#sky talks #the theory of attraction #ttoa

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Not sure if this is something anyone would be interested in, but I was thinking of writing fanfiction collaboratively with someone, maybe where we just collaboratively write chapters together, maybe where we switch perspectives back and forth and each write a characters perspective, maybe where one of us mainly writes one fic and the other edits and then do that the opposite way on a separate fic.

I'm not really stuck on any of those options and if you have a different idea I'd be down to explore that, I just honestly I think want to try working with others, I think it'd be fun.

Anyways, if that sounds interesting to you here's some possible fandoms I'm in that I'd feel comfortable enough writing about as well as ships or basic plot ideas I'm ok with writing

(I'm aroace spec, I'm fully down to explore aromantic and ace identities in any of these fandoms and with any of the characters in it as well as explore plots that don't have to do with romance, sex, or shipping at all if that's what you're looking for)

Stranger Things

Ships

Steve/Eddie

Platonic Stobin (in conjunction with Steddie or without Steddie at all)

Ronance

Possible Tropes/Plots Could Explore

any of the characters recognizing their queerness

Vampire Eddie

Steve and his relationship with his parents (getting into his c-PTSD and having him heal from it, hurt/no comfort pre-series exploration of some of his trauma in general, hurt/comfort where his pre-series trauma is explored with lots of found family healing mixed in, up to you)

QPRs!!!! (like for literally any pairing, but especially Stobin, you let me explore aromanticism and asexuality and I will provide you with cake, frogs, and my undying devotion)

Steve and any exploration of his gender

Supernatural

Ships

Destiel

Sastiel

Sabriel

Sam/Rowena

Dean & Sam (platonic exploration of their relationship)

Sam & Castiel (platonic exploration of their relationship)

Dean & Jack (platonic exploration of their relationship as parent/kid)

Destiel + Drowley (not something I've done before or even really read much of but I saw one fanart and now I'm interested in possibly exploring it)

Possible Tropes/Plots We Could Explore

female winchesters (trans Sam, gender fuckery with angel or witch magic, baseline born that way au, transport to another universe into opposite gender body, literally could be anything I just really really like gender fuckery with these two)

Fix-it for destiel confession (I'm aware this has been done many times before, but with as many times as the show lead us on about these two I feel it can always be done again)

Pre-series Destiel

PLATONIC dean & sam & castiel where Cas goes to the past and fixes some trauma of the boys. I repeat, PLATONIC, I'm really really really really not into underage

Literally anything to do with Sam/Rowena, it's a really minor ship and I think honestly anything you wanted to do with that I'd be down

Platonic exploration of relationships (Sam and Dean actually talk for once in their goddamn lives, hurt/no comfort exploration of every reason Sam and Dean should just talk for once in their goddamn lives, Sam and Castiel becoming friends, hurt/no comfort of Sam being hurt by Castiel, Dean becoming a decent parent to Jack and apologizing, hurt/no comfort exploration of Dean not being a decent parent to Jack, etc)

anything to do with fucking over John Winchester. Fuck that man.

MHA

Ships

*any of these ships I should preface with I'm not really down to write anything underage, specifically sex. I'm not against that for any of these ships, but I'm only down to write that kind of content in an adult AU*

Bakudeku (qpr, married, dating, aromantic bakugou and bisexual deku, asexual bakugou and gay deku, I literally don't care, you put these two together I'll probably be down to write a version of them)

TodoBaku

TodoDeku

BakuShin

KamiShin

ShinDeku

Momojirou and Kamijirou poly relationships

Honestly pretty much any poly ship you want

TogaChako

Possible Tropes/Plotlines to Explore

Anything to do with exploration of BakuDeku's realtionship (hurt/no comfort exploration of kids, hurt/comfort bakugou redemption arc, platonic BakuDeku qpr exploration, etc)

That's honestly it, I am still interested in this fandom but it's not one of my top ones so I don't got a lot of ideas for it. If you do and you still want to collaborate I'm definitely still down, I just don't really got much myself.

Good Omens

*want to preface this with I haven't watched the second season and refuse to until the next one comes out because I don't want to spiral into a depression over these gay men. Doesn't mean I won't write from a point after the second season or that I don't know what's happened in general, but I haven't watched it personally myself*

Ships

Crowley/Aziraphale

*that's it pretty much lol, that's all I'm down to really focus on*

Possible Tropes/Plotline Ideas

AUs in general (coffee shop/bakery, tattoo artist and florist (look, florist crowley and tattoo artist aziraphale would slap, fight me), human AU, etc)

Hurt/no comfort crowley pining after aziraphale and vice versa

Hurt/comfort crowley to an aziraphale inevitably betrayed by heaven

Percy Jackson

*should be noted, I never read the books when I was younger so my main understanding of the fandom comes from mutuals and watching the new show. I'm perfectly willing to look up generalized plotlines or even read ahead in the books themselves (I can usually read a book in 1-2 days), but like while I enjoy this fandom, and I'd like to explore this fandom, if you're a long time fan full up front, you probably know more about this fandom than me*

Ships

*I'm just gonna put it up front, I again, don't do underage, and all I know of these characters so far is them as children. I don't mind exploring romances for these characters, but I'm not comfortable writing or posting underage sex in regards to these characters*

Percy/Annabeth

Percy & Grover (platonic exploration of friendship)

Grover & Annabeth (platonic exploration of friendship)

Nico/Will (don't know much about this one, because again, haven't read the books, but it fits the tropes I think are cute for relationships and I'm willing again to read up on the books themselves or read plot synopsis to catch up)

Possible Tropes/Plotlines

literally anything to do with religious trauma, I'm aware that the kid's trauma comes from Greek gods, but like religious trauma hits for me no matter the form, so I'm absolutely willing to explore this

exploration of Annabeth's relationship with her mother from her perspective and not Percy's

AUs (normal kids au, different pantheon of gods au, grown up college kids au, etc)

Some Things I Think I Do Decent As a Writer

Dialogue

Internal thoughts

Emotional Expression

Some Things I'm Not Good At As a Writer

sex scenes (not against writing them but I am the kind of ace that sucks at writing smut, so if you're good at it, awesome, would welcome the help)

Heavy action (I can write a little bit of action but long, drawn out fight scenes? Knowing where everyone is and keeping track of all that? My worst nightmare)

Setting Descriptions (I have aphantasia (can't visualize things in my head) so to me all stories exist in a black vacuum with just the characters in it and only relevant objects, so if you're better at creating descriptions of things around the characters and settings, then yeah we might work well together)

Fluff, I can write it, but I'm not great at coming up with fluff. I'm much much more a hurt/comfort guy

A Couple Of My Hard No's

I don't write noncon or underage unless it's specifically addressing a character's trauma or abuse, and even then I prefer less show more tell. If you want to explore a character's trauma dealing with experiencing and healing from either of those, I'm ok with that, but I won't ever write it in a positive manner.

Permanent main character death unless already such in canon (I can write hurt/no comfort but at the end of the day they're my blorbos and I just need them to live)

Permanent amnesia trope (same deal as above, I need my blorbos to be happy or at the very least to have them at least remember each other even if they're in pain)

I think that sums it up. These are relatively generalized guidelines, my main goal here is honestly to work with someone else creating a collaborative work together. If you've got a different plotline or even a different ship than the ones listed feel free to hit me up anyways and we can talk it over and there's a good chance I'll be on board.

Feel free to message me here in direct messages or send me a friend request at my discord username: cassemiah.

Reblogs are greatly appreciated so this leaves the sphere of my mutuals!

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