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Cupid's Hack

Author: carryonwaywardones

Artist: verobatto-angelxhunter

Rating: Mature

Pairings: Dean/Castiel, Bobby/Jody, Sam/Elle (original character)

Length: 58169

Warnings: Temporary MCD

Tags: Internalized homophobia, Bisexual Dean Winchester, Angst with a Happy Ending, Season 7 divergent, coming out (positive)

Summary: Charlie has been friends with Dean and Sam since high school. After she's killed by the Leviathans, she wakes up in heaven, hacks angel radio, and convinces Gabriel to let her return to Earth as a Cupid for queer couples. Dean and Cas are her guinea pigs. Sam and Dean find Emmanuel/Cas. As happens in Season 7, they lose Cas, get him back, and lose him all over again before Dean can really process anything. Will axe-throwing sessions and feelings talks with Charlie be enough for Dean to come to terms with his feelings for Cas and about his own sexuality? How did the angels manage to create a new angel anyway? Will Cas ever return to who he was before taking on Sam's insanity--and how will they make that happen?

Title: Stand By Me

Author: Whelvenwings

Artist:  Threshasketch

Rating: Explicit

Length: 31k

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Warnings: Alcohol Use, One Mention of Implied Suicidality

Dean Winchester has been alone for a long, long time.

When he and Castiel happen to find each other - a couple of survivors in a world that’s been all but wiped clean - Dean’s looking for his brother; Castiel is looking for something to look for. They stick together, because neither of them much wants to be alone.

They hate each other at first, of course. Dean hates Castiel for being weird and quiet and ironic and antagonistic and proud. Castiel hates Dean for being blunt and reckless and coarse, for drinking, for refusing to talk about how he feels and just pretending everything is fine. Most of all, they hate themselves and each other just for being alive. What right do they have to be alive? No one else seems to be. 

But against his own will, Dean starts to notice things about Castiel that he likes. Starts to hope that Castiel might like him, too. And together, they start to fight for a world where they’re both alive - and that’s a good thing.

Link to fic: AO3 

Three cases - man kills wife. woman steals from where she works. employee kills their boss. They shouldn’t have anything in common. Except all three suspects claim they have no memory of committing the crimes they’re charged with. Sounds exactly like a case for the Winchesters.

Three days investigating, however, and they’re drawing blanks. Nothing adds up in any way that makes these crimes align into a neat box. Dean’s ready to call it quits, but humors Sam and Cas by agreeing to interview a few more people. However he soon starts to believe this town has something pertaining to their expertise when he suddenly finds himself its next victim.

Will they manage to defeat the monster without Dean doing something he’ll regret? Or will the only way to free himself is to let go of the chains he forced himself into long ago?

For the @supernaturaltropecelebration and their amazing Halloween Challenge!

Kevin grunts in his sleep, trying to wake up from the strangest nightmare. Blinking into consciousness he finds himself in a different position than when he fell asleep. Instead of his eyes adjusting to see his beige ceiling, he stares into the bloodshot stare of his wife Darla. His hands at her throat, grip slack.

“Darla?” he whispers, hands moving to her shoulders. Shaking, he asks again, “Darla?” More panicked, twitching fingers returned to check for his wife’s pulse. A sob crawls from his chest as he realizes nothing beats against his touch.

“No, Darla,” he whispers, rolling off her and collapsing back onto his side of the bed. “How did this happen…”

His hands stay frozen at his sides until he works through his shock and calls the police.

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The Impala pulls into the diner parking lot, fitting in between a rusted truck and a Prius. Dean sneers at the latter car as he gets out, “Fuckin’ douche mobiles…”

“Dean,” Sam sighs from the other side, “focus.”

“Why? We have jack shit anyway.”

“There’s got to be something tying these crimes together!”

“Yeah, humanity ,” he scoffs, leaning against his Baby’s hood, “Listen, I’m not sure if there’s anything happening here that falls under ourjurisdiction, okay?”

Sam rolls his eyes, dialing up the softness in his features. Resembling more labradoodle than man, he asks, “Can we go over it all one last time?”

Dean tries to resist, but he succumbs to his brother’s masterful manipulation. “Fine. But let’s at least grab a booth before it gets too crowded, okay?”

Nodding, Sam moves away from the car and over to the diner. Dean turns to Castiel, the angel perched on the hood as well. A silent observer to their bickering. “You think there’s any foundation under the house Sam’s building?”

Head skewed to the side, Castiel squints at him. “While these events are muddled and pedestrian… you two have had less to go off of.”

“Yeah,” Dean sighs, tapping Baby’s roof twice, “we have.” He pushes himself off, stuffing his hands into his coat pockets. “Come on, otherwise Sam’ll order us all salads.”

“I’d like some fries.”

“Well you can order your damned fries when we get inside.”

SUMMARY : The Halloween party at the Roadhouse is supposed to be the party of the year, but Sam doesn’t like to put on a costume. He has to do it though if he wants Jo to let him in.It was not planned but his and Lucifer’s costumes match, and Gabriel can’t be happier about it. His plan for the night is to make a couple out of them.

PAIRING : samifer

RATING :  general audience

TROPE :  Becoming the Costume

WORD COUNT : 3008

This fic is written for @supernaturaltropecelebration Halloween 2019 Edition

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Title: Samhain Nights on AO3

Rating: Teen and up? General? Not sure.

Pairing: None (past Sam/Jessica)

Characters: Rowena MacLeod, Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, Jack Kline, Crowley, Adam Milligan, Jessica Moore, Kelly Kline

Tags: Book of the Damned, the Veil is lifted, Ghosts, AU probably, no definitely by this point

written for @supernaturaltropecelebration for the The Veil is Lifted prompt.

This also fills the square Book Of The Damned on my @heavenandhellbingo​ Card.

Word count: 1501 words

Summary: The Book Of The Damned holds a very special spell. Rowena shares it with the Winchesters and Jack.

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I wrote this for @supernaturaltropecelebration ‘s Halloween Edition! Happy Halloween everyone!

Title: Chill Me, Thrill Me: A Supernatural Halloween Story Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21220898/chapters/50522345 Rating: T Trope: For Halloween, I’m Going as Myself Characters: Sam, Dean, Donna, Original Characters, Jody Tags: Halloween Party, Costumes, Mystery, Monsters, Hunting, minor Sam Winchester/OC, Making Out, Humor, Holidays Word Count: 4930

Beta-ed by the wonderful @andromytta​

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Excerpt:

Sam and Dean got out of the car in unison, holding their pistols under their coats and dashing across the street. No one paid them any mind, except for the small dog and one of the bloody teenagers who got cut off by Dean.

“Watch it, old man.”

Dean glared at the teenager. He followed Sam up the porch steps and to the front door.

“FBI! Open up!” Sam pounded on the door.

Dean brandished his gun and flanked Sam.

Footsteps approached after a moment. The door opened with a creak and, to Sam’s momentary alarm, a woman with a bloody axe in her head peered down at them.

She looked at the gun, then at Sam and Dean, and rose a brow. “A little old to be trick-or-treating, boys?”

Sam and Dean exchanged looks.

“Uh, ma'am, we’re going to need you to step outside…”

“Yeah, yeah, come in and get your candy.”

Sam and Dean noticed a decorated foyer behind her with a large cauldron full of candy bars. The woman turned on her heel and walked back into the house, even as Sam attempted yet again to say, “Ma'am? Excuse me! You’re in danger!”

Rated: E

Words: 1917

For the @supernaturaltropecelebration Halloween mini! My trope was ‘Sexy Costume’

Also shoutout to the Profound Bond Discord for some help with this. Thanks to @nickelkeep for telling me to write about the Stripper Truck, because that made this about 10x better so ily

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Tags: Sexy Costumes, Unestablished Destiel, First Kiss, First Time, Early-Season Vibes

“Dean, why don’t you wear a costume for Halloween?”

Dean nearly jumped out of his seat when the familiar deep voice of his best friend came from behind. He thought he was alone in the motel room, Sam being out for a food and beer run. He turned around and saw Castiel standing right behind his chair. “Dude, first of all, you scared the shit out of me. Secondly, I hate Halloween. I have to live through Halloween every day of my life.”

Castiel took a moment to think about that. “I thought you were telling Sam about crashing that college girl’s Halloween party and wearing a costume.”

“Okay, I was mostly joking. I’m not gonna wear a costume. Also, she’s a grad student.”

“Are you still going to go?”

Dean shrugged. “Probably. What’s better than free booze and a bunch of grad student girls in sexy costumes?”

“I could name a few things…”

Dean rolled his eyes. “Right, ever the heavenly prude.”

Castiel narrowed his eyes at Dean before disappearing with the sound of flapping feathers. Dean turned back around in his seat and took a swig of his beer, frowning when he finished it off. Oh well, Sam would be back with more soon.

Title: And Super Creeps Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/21252632 Rating: M Trope: For Halloween, I’m Going as Myself Characters: Sam, Dean, Castiel, Original Characters Tags:  Pre-Slash. Chuck Shurley Is Not God Word Count: 1434

Written for @supernaturaltropecelebration Halloween edition! 

SUMMARY : Sam and Lucifer are tricked by their brothers into exploring an old abandoned hospital on Halloween Night. People says it’s haunted. Sam and Lucifer are in for a frightful night.

PAIRING : samifer

RATING :  mature because it can be scary

TROPE :  abandoned hospital

WORD COUNT : 5279

This fic is written for @supernaturaltropecelebration​ Halloween 2019 Edition

I’d like to thank my beta reader Spnyoucantkeepmedown fro their precious help.

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1. You don’t have the right to police (correctly tagged) content on AO3, or anywhere else the publishes fanfic for adult audiences. The world does not revolve around you; fanfic is not curated to your tastes alone. You get to do that by being selective in what you choose to read. You think incest/ABO/d-s or whatever is problematic? Fine. Don’t click on those sorts of stories. You don’t like a character being written as a sub/aggressive/ooc? Cool. Complaining on your blog about such things without naming a fic or a writer? Go ahead. But don’t flame a fic or an author because a story doesn’t suit your preferences. I shouldn’t have to explain why. Just don’t. There are a number of kinks I have no interest in. Certain characterisations of my fave annoy me too. So I do something radical about it: if I see a fic that I know I won’t enjoy, I don’t read it. Easy, right?

2. No one has the right to police ship tags either. If there is another pairing you don’t like tagged in a fic with your otp, scroll past it. There is no such thing as tag purity.

3. Authors do not ask for, nor do they deserve, non-constructive criticism of their work. I’m not talking about pointing out a typo, or politely asking about something that isn’t clear, or identifying a potential contradiction. In fact, I’m willing to bet that those of you who are guilty of this know full well what I’m talking about: comments that are little more than hateful diatribes targeting the subject matter and/or the author’s writing in general. To the people who do this - you know it’s wrong. You know you’re hurting people. Take a hard look at yourself and question why you feel the need to do that to someone. Does it make you feel better about yourself?

4. Shaming women for their kinks and for the pairings they write is part of the longstanding misogynistic oppression of women as sexual beings. Women have been vilified and abused by men for thousands of years in order to control our sexuality. It still happens today. @seleya​, @misshoneywheeler​ and others have written about this in the past, and far more eloquently than I can. But look. If you’re not comfortable with straight women writing slash, again, that’s fine - you’re allowed to feel that way. Just remember: the vast (VAST) majority of fanfic is written by women. Women writing slash is the origin story of the explosion of fanfic. Women created AO3. And on AO3, here are the current stats on stories by category:*

m/m: 2625740 

f/m: 1294662

gen: 997437

f/f: 439794 

multi: 250614

other: 145140

So those of you trolling slash authors or writing tagged rants about women being sick for writing m/m, sit down and stfu. Women - and especially female slash writers - made this sandbox you’re shitting in. There wouldn’t be a space to play in if it weren’t for them.

tl;dr: fanfic authors write for free (well, most do - published authors like Shakespeare clearly profited). They write for their enjoyment and ours. By flaming and shaming an author you’re attempting to censor them. You don’t write to Stephen King telling him to take all of his books off the shelves and never write again because you don’t like the horror genre, unless you’re batshit crazy. You don’t burn books because they offend your sensibilities, unless you’re a fascist. So don’t do it to fanfic authors. Simple as that.

You are a fucking adult. Use filters (both those in ao3 and external programs) to curate the site to your particular needs. This pedo shit is the same thing the Purity people on livejournal were campaigning against on livejournal and it was bullshit during Strikethrough and it is bullshit now.

Title: Echos of Feeling

Author: jscribbles

Artist: shealynn88

Betas: malmuses, son_of_a_bitch_spnfamily, mabscifiromantic, spiffingtea

Rating: Explicit

Word Count: 161,479

A03 & Tags: Graphic Depictions of Violence, chose-a-female-vessel!Cas, Season 4 re-write, Dean has a blood addiction, blood gore, handprint flip, vessel flip, Winchester destiny flip

Summary: When Dean miraculously returns from the pit, he and his family find themselves in the middle of a celestial war against Hell. Angels and Heaven are apparently a thing, seals need to be protected, and Sam and Dean are central to a long-foretold prophecy that they never asked to be part of. Sam has a role to play for Heaven and is esteemed among the angels, while Dean can’t seem to do anything to please them. That is, except for Castiel, a trench-coated angel who seems to have a soft spot for him, and seems determined to save him from succumbing to the evil inside him, to the blood addiction he brought with him from the depths of Hell…

As seals keep breaking, tensions ramp up between them and Heaven. Dean and Castiel foster a secret shared between them, and the more time he spends with her, the more he experiences echos of feelings that were once lost in the embers of Hellfire…

Meanwhile, a sinister plan brews behind the backs of Dean, Sam, and even Cas. Seals keep breaking. Key celestial and satanic players have a hidden shared agenda that would destroy the world. Can the trio and their gang stop the apocalypse from starting, and can they fight their destiny as it stares them in the face?

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If you’re looking for academic sources, the Organization for Transformative Works (the parent org of AO3) runs a peer-reviewed academic journal. You’ll probably find lots of good sourcing there.

For more anecdotal information and links to fic source material, blog posts, zines, fanart, etc try Fanlore (another OTW project). It’s a wiki of fan history and culture. 

I can give a some info about Doujinshi’s or the Japanese equivalent to ‘fan fiction/creations’ that I learned about. Different countries, culture, companies may treat fan fiction differently, especially in terms of copyright infringement, either strictly enforcing the rules or on the flip side turning a blind eye when the works do not infringe upon them too much. The Doujinshi market in Japan for instance is such an example, where many writers, artists, even production companies respect the fans wishes to create homages to their works, only stepping in when someone starts to profit widely from them. Some prominent creators such as Rumiko Takahashi, creator of Inuyasha, and many other popular series, got her start in that market back in like the 70’s. There are stores and conventions in Japan for the Doujinshi market. Imagine being able to sell your fan fics or fan arts/comics in a store! That’s pretty neat.

I’ve seen creators (mangaka’s) post/tweet when they receive such fan creations because it makes them happy. Not all, as we saw when Nintendo challenged fan art based off of Mario characters, but many do support their fans. They also feel that fan created works help to propel their own mangas/anime’s popularity so it’s a win win situation, especially in this age of the Internet.