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Destiel Trope Collection 2026 | Day 17: Bed Sharing

Fear of Sleep | @junesirius Rating: General Word Count: 4,228 Main Tags/Warnings: Post-Canon, Comfort No Hurt, Fluff, Caring Dean Winchester, Canon Divergent, Dean Winchester Uses Actual Words Summary: Sleeping has always been a human thing. Angels don't need to sleep, but they can, if they want. Dean knows that, so does Cas.

Avalanche | @baileys101 Rating: General Word Count: 5,201 Main Tags/Warnings: Castiel/Dean Winchester, friendship, emotional hurt/comfort, ambiguous/open ending. Summary: The snow keeps falling, relentless and silent, swallowing the world beyond the cabin walls. Dean stands at the window, feeling the cold, watching the white icy walls grow higher and higher. Cas is with him—always there—quiet, steady, unshakeable as ever. Time twists strangely, each day bleeding into the next. Supplies run low, but the storm outside is nothing compared to the one raging inside Dean’s head. Memories haunt his waking hours, dreams blur into reality. Trapped together as they are, Dean questions his choices, all the while never asking himself the most important question: how did they get there in the first place?

The Impetuous Engagement | @thefandomsinhalor Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 27,207 Main Tags/Warnings: Modern Settings AU, Cabin Fic, Snowed In, Sharing a Bed, Engaged Castiel, Dean Has a Crush on Castiel, No Cheating Summary: On his way to his fiancé who he met online, Castiel somehow finds himself stuck in a small Alaskan village, cut off from the rest of the world and no way of reaching him. But Castiel’s fellow passenger, Dean, is very eager to help him with housing, and perhaps something more as well…

The Black Series | @destiel-wings Rating: Mature Word Count: 28,093 Main Tags/Warnings: Angst and Romance, Fix It, Hurt/Comfort, Grief/Mourning, Dean Winchester Misses Castiel, Panic Attacks, Castiel is Saved from the Empty (Supernatural), Intimacy, Healing, Bed Sharing, Love Confessions, Angst With a Happy Ending Summary: After the Empty took Cas, Dean can't sleep in the dark, can't even be in the dark, and he can't see black. That color is a trigger. And after he saves Cas from the Empty, he realizes that Cas, too, has the same problem. So he offers to sleep in the same room, and as they struggle to heal together from the aftermath of their emotional trauma, Dean will need to deal with his own feelings.

wear you like a necklace | @9x20 Rating: Explicit Word Count: 43,162 Main Tags/Warnings: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Season/Series 11, Post-Mark of Cain, Touch-Starved Dean Winchester, Touch-Starved Castiel, Friends With Benefits, Angst with a Happy Ending, Minor Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester, Minor Dean Winchester/Original Female Character(s), Top!Castiel/Bottom!Dean Winchester Summary: While Dean recovers from the Mark, Cas recovers from Rowena's attack dog spell. As the two of them spend their time recovering together in the bunker, Cas theorizes that frequent touching will be beneficial for Dean and help him become a better hunter.

2026 SUBMISSION TIME HAS ARRIVED - THE TROPE COLLECTION IS AFTER YOUR FICS!

The Destiel Trope Collection is a SELF-REC collection for destiel fanfic full of tropes. Every year the list is voted for by you and the highest voted gets listed for the 31 days of May. If you have any questions, please ask!

Below (the readmore) is a list of the tropes that will be included in this year’s collection (all voted by you peeps!).

SUBMIT YOUR FICS HERE

WHAT CAN YOU SEND?

Completed fic? YES

Work In Progress? YES (if currently being updated)

Old fics? YES

New fics? YES

Fics written specifically for this collection? YES

Short fics? YES (over 1k words)

Long fics? YES (no max word count)

10 fics? YES

1 fic? YES

WHAT CAN’T YOU SEND?

A fic that wasn’t written by you - if you co-authored it, then that’s fine as long as you have permission of your co-author to submit it

A fic shorter than 1,000 words. Due to a popular result on the feedback form, the minimum word count is 1k.

The same fic several times in several tropes. A single fic is only allowed in one list, so, if it fits in several, pick the best one, or draw straws (up to you).

See the full rules and submission guidelines here.

SCHEDULE

2nd January 2026 - Submissions open

25th April 2026 - Submissions close

1st May 2026 - Day 1 of the Trope Collection Posts

1st June 2026 - Masterpost goes up

QUESTIONS?

Send a message or IM to @destieltropecollection!

THE LIST ↴ (below)

I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However...

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.

It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That's what sucks.

Hello everyone! Here's the masterlist for the very first round of the Wintertide Bang.

New Beginnings by @jld71/jdl71 and @xpurdyglambertx

Live, Laugh, Feeze by @need-more-meta and @entropic-saudade

Did Mary Shelley Dream of Tentacles? by @friendofcarlotta and @twinone1221

One Winter Night by AmyPond45 and Fatima_O

All I want for Christmas... by @samanddean76 and @masoenart

SKIN HUNGER by @farenmaddox and @alicetallula

Secret Santa by Glitter_Witch and @entropic-saudade

Healing Hearts by @masoena and @alicetallula

Chained to a Comet by @iamianweareme and @thestarsmakemedream-art

Avalanche by @baileys101 and @valdelion

Mistletoe Mayhem by SamWinjester and AveryEdits

Nes Gadol by @heavenssexiestangel and @entropic-saudade

We had an amazing round and we hope to see you again next year :)

Your mod team,