My Giant List of Destiel Fics

ozonecologne (48,940; R)

Summary:  Dean runs a laundromat. The punk kids come to him for all their clothing repair needs. That includes their bad boy ringleader, Castiel. A collection of ficlets.

Comments: This was sweet, funny, and generally light-hearted. Dean’s the proprietor of an old run-down laundromat/dry cleaners in NYC and he has a lot of palpable love for the job. From the tags: “Cas is a punk but he’s also a big softie.” “Dean’s the one with the anger problem.”

A collection of ficlets, but does have an overarching narrative. The ficlets center around the Winchester laundromat, but also around the collection of colorful characters that frequent it, including Gabriel, Hael, Gadreel, Michael, Balthazar, and Anna. 

Amazonia_8 (63,275; NC17)

Summary:  Castiel doesn't know how to explain what happened to him a year ago, only that something killed his friend and a mysterious Alpha appeared out of the blue to make it all go away.

Now he spends his days running a small holistic health shop in LA, unaware that a looming political decision will throw him back into the path of the stranger he's never been able to forget. But how are they supposed to navigate monsters, conspiracies, violent pasts and family secrets when the only thing their instincts care about is making them mates?

Comments: This was actually a really fun political intrigue fic. Oftentimes, fics like this can drag through the slower, research parts, but this fic has something to compensate for that: smut! Desperate denial-filled true-mate smut! And the political conspiracy side of the story and the hunter vs. non-hunter side of the story are just intertwined enough to keep the plot cohesive. Gabriel is pretty fantastic in this fic, and I loved Cas’ employees and the Balthazar cameos.

Sort of an atypical ABO verse where reverse discrimination actual came true. Omegas knocked alphas out of power and now the omegas are in charge and the alphas are oppressed. 

violue (86,779; NC17)

Summary:  There’s no point in mincing words. Sam is dead, and without him Dean is a drunken shell of who he used to be. When he finally pulls himself out of a growing pile of whiskey bottles, Dean finds it hard to go back to his life. With one flippant comment from a friend, Dean thinks he might finally have a way to make peace with the loss; Sam was an organ donor, and Dean’s going to find the recipients, talk to them, and see how their lives are better because of his little brother. For the first six stops on his road trip, things go mostly according to plan, and then he meets the man who has Sam’s heart. Dean had hoped he might find peace on this trip… he never expected to find love.

Comments: Ok, I gotta admit, when this came out in the 2015 DCBB, I wasn’t super interested because a) it seemed like it was going to be super sad and b) somehow there were three fics with the same premise (???) and I kind of felt like if I read one I would be obligated to read the other two. But then I saw the ‘verse title on this one.

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Hellosaidthemoon, schmerzerling (91,054; PG13)

Summary:  Dean has cystic fibrosis, a brutal respiratory disease that means he can’t cut it in the life his father chose for him, despite his very best efforts. He also has a give ‘em hell attitude and a dogged crush on his childhood best friend. Castiel has an absent father, a stellar GPA, a comprehensive ten-year plan, and—a lot of reservations about all this.

Comments: This is an incredible fic. It deals with some heavy subjects, from small-town prejudice, to serious medical illness, to shitty parenting, but it balances it with very refreshing bouts of hope and love. There is enough good mixed in that the bad is bearable (but still a million tears for Castiel). The art is also aces. 

peroxidepest17 (2,705; PG13)

Summary:  The one where Dean doesn't have a gay crisis because Sam has it for him.

Sequel: Phases of the moon (5,590; PG13)

schmerzerling (11,513; NC17)

Summary:  Dean Winchester—successful business owner, wrestling enthusiast, and all-around nice guy—is out and proud. Only he doesn't know it yet. And neither does the newest (hottest) guy this side of bumfuck Kansas.

orphan (17,520; NC17)

Summary:  Well. The Apocalypse was one thing. Thousand-foot-tall multi-limbed horror-angels smashing up the planet was something totally different...

Comments: From the A/N: “ The Supernatural-meets-Neon Genesis Evangelion mash-up no-one either wanted nor needed. With a bit of SNK (and some Station Eleven) thrown in for good measure.”

This fic calls back to Season 6, when angels were still the biggest bad to grace the Supernatural universe. And in this fic they really are big. And bad.

Some undefined cataclysm causes the angels to manifest on earth in all their terrifying glory to wreak vengeance upon unsuspecting skyscrapers. Dean and Sam do what they’ve spent their whole lives doing: saving people, even if they can’t hunt the thing. 

And of course worry about whatever happened to Cas.

Note: Is it still gay panic if your boyfriend actually turns out to be a giant genderless being of constructed thought?

lizbobjones (5,597; PG13)

Summary:  Let me count the ways that this is a terrible idea.

KelpietheThundergod (7,345; G)

Summary: He couldn't answer with the truth when Jody had asked him, concern bleeding through her typical gruffness, “You okay, kiddo? Since when do you care about Christmas?”

He doesn't, of course, not really. It's just that Christmas is a widely accepted excuse to cook enough food for an entire baseball team, then eat too much and lounge on the couch surrounded by family and argue about which movie to watch. Or so Dean thinks. Really, it was just a stupid – it's not like Dean is lonely. Sam is here, Cas is here, and the others are – well, mostly not here. But really, it should be enough. Dean is a grown-ass man, he can deal with being alone on Christmas.

(Or, the one in which no one cares about Christmas but Dean)

PersephoneShadow (143,263; NC17)

Summary: Dean Winchester's life changed forever the night a demon appeared in his brother's nursery and killed his father.

As a hunter Mary is determined to protect her sons from the evil she has run from her whole life - the same evil that took John. But Dean also trusts his protection to the angel in a trench coat he talks to in his dreams. Through years of tribulation and uncertainty, the Winchesters (plus a corgi that might be magic and an angel that may not be real) must fight monsters, demons, and even fate itself to survive as a family.

Or: The one where Mary lives, Cas is there, and nothing and everything changes.

Comments: Yes, I like this version of events much better. Looking back, canon’s backstory existed in a vacuum. No other family. No other hunters. Just John and his obsession. Mary, however, knows more, and it makes for a much more balanced story. Samuel actually isn’t an evil dickweed, but a grandfather suddenly brought back into the lives of a family he thought he’d lost. Bill, Ellen, Bobby, and Rufus all exist and do Important Things and have Personal Goals instead of just being canon fodder. 

Add in a corgi and some late-season meta, this fic actually manages to find a satisfactory ending to the apocalypse.

amarillogrande (31,206; PG13)

Summary: The King of Daughton dies, without any heirs. According to local law, the law then passes to a blood relative, no matter how distant.Uprooted from his home, Dean Winchester is given a crown and the task of finding a bride. He must marry before he comes of age.

Dean is on the eve of his 21st birthday, yet he cannot find love among the many that try to win his favor.

Only when Dean meets a stranger, an enigmatic young man in the woods, is his heart touched. He falls for the mysterious Castiel, unaware of his terrible secret—that Castiel and his fellows have been cursed for years—cursed to transform into swans during the day, only returning to human form at night.

And according to legend, the spell can only be broken with a proclamation of eternal fidelity. A proclamation of love.

Comments: The set up is different, but the story is all classic Swan Lake. The evil owl-wizard. The flock of swan maidens. The errant prince. The abrupt ending.  Has some charming dialogue.

domesticadventures (25,513; R)

Summary: She’s always had a make and a model, but it’s only after Castiel parks her in the bunker garage, Dean coming to lean irreverently against her side, that she has a name.

“When you were Castiel,” Dean says, “you were untouchable. Unknowable. A stranger. But now you’re Cas. You’re our friend. Our family. Not quite sure when one became the other, but the person who this car belongs to is definitely Cas. So maybe...we’ve been calling her the Continental, right? But that’s so formal. You know her now, so she needs a nickname. What if we called her Connie?”

“Connie,” Cas repeats, testing the feel of it. He hums to himself, sounding as pleased as she feels. “I like it.”

violue (33,441; NC17)

Summary:  After four years of solitude on a remote island, Dean’s been through hell. But he’s home, he’s healing, and he has a very special gift for a man he’s never met. (Basically this is an AU of the movie Cast Away that takes place after the island.)