All the Smol Things

2019 Masterpost

Thank you to all our wonderful participants for another smol and sweet round! Please check out all the wonderful art and stories produced for the 2019 edition of the Dean/Cas Smol Things Challenge.

A Little Night Music by blue_morning

“What the fuck is that racket?” Dean sits up in bed so suddenly that Meredith, Cas’s cat, goes skittering off their bed and regroups at the door, giving Dean the evil eye before stalking out of the room and down the bunker’s hallway.

Cas tilts his head and listens for a second. “Hyla versicolor. Eastern Gray Tree Frog.” He goes back to reading his book, absent-mindedly sliding his reading glasses up his nose.

Cupid’s Bees by livinginthequestion

Dean unexpectedly meets a bee. It turns out better than it might have.

Every Knick Knack is a Treasure and Every Treasure’s Got a Story by zaphodsgirl

Five times Dean found a button, and one time he lost it.

Finders Keepers by sconesandtextingandmurder

Ahead of him, although the stretch of road was straight and flat, the motorcycle swerved. It was quick and violent, sudden enough that Dean worried he would lose his balance and tip over. He stepped on his own brake pedal in response, watching as the motorcycle slowed down. Confused, Dean searched the road ahead of him for some sort of debris. He could see something up ahead, small and light against the rain-soaked pavement. Nonetheless, he continued to slow, keeping one eye on the motorcycle which had turned around and was heading back.

Growing Closer by TobytheWise with art by foxymoley

After Dean eats some cake from a witch who's obsessed with Alice in Wonderland, he wakes up "fun-size". It'll take Cas and Sam finding the witch's tea to turn him back. After dressing in cowboy Ken doll's clothes (complete with chaps and a cowboy hat) Dean catches a ride in Cas' pocket. Which leads to hidden discoveries, confessions, personal growth, and of course, actual-real-life growing too.

Jitterbuzz by a_diamond

Dean visits Cas at his new coffee stand job and has strong feelings about the uniform—or lack thereof.

Mini-Mish (Art) by BeesAreAwesome

Castiel stars as Ashley J Williams, taken from the mini-Ash scene from Army of Darkness.

Peter Rabbit by NavajoLovesDestiel with art by dmsilvisart

When Dean saves a baby bunny, he never expected to find the love of his life.

Ruffing the Passer by superhoney

Dean's team is gearing up for the playoffs, but it's hard to focus on football practice when the field is covered in puppies.

Hello, folks! We know it's a little overdue: because some (but not all! (okay, really just me)) of your mods have been slackers, we're giving everyone a bit of extra time in case you've got a Smol Things piece that's so nearly almost there.

We'll be closing the collection in the evening tomorrow (Wednesday), so if you've got something to add, do it before then!

Hope to see more of your smol wonders,

Hi there! Yes, you can post whenever you like! AO3 can be weird about collections sometimes, so there’s two things you can try if you’re having trouble getting the collection to show up.

One, go directly to the collection here and hit Post to Collection. You can post your fic from there and it will be submitted for us to approve. Two, you can post as you normally would and when you click the button to add to a collection, if AO3 doesn’t auto-suggest it, you should still be able to enter “smolthings2019″ into the field and it should allow you to proceed. 

Title: Every Knick Knack is a Treasure and Every Treasure's Got a Story

Author: zaphodsgirl

Rating: Teen and Up

Length: 2,209

Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Brief Demon Dean/Crowley

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Summary: Five times Dean found a button, and one time he lost it.

Posting for the 2019 round is now open! 

Please post your work to AO3 and add it to the collection DeanCas Smol Things 2019 (smolthings2019). If you cross-post your work to tumblr, please tag us @deancas-smolthings so we can see your post and reblog it to the challenge account! 

All the Smol Things is back for a second round!

We’re a fun, low-stress, and you guessed it, smol fic and art challenge, where you can work individually or as part of a team. For more information, check out our rules and schedule. 

You can also see the amazing works produced during last year’s round in our official AO3 collection to get a sense of what kind of fun you can have with this theme!

The first round of the DeanCas Smol Things challenge has officially wrapped! Thank you to all of our participants for all your hard work. We are so pleased to present the masterpost of fic and art from this year. 

ART

Bumblebee by Aceriee

Hunter Husbands by smudgythoughts

Hunting by Candlelight by foxymoley

FIC

All that glitters by ThePamelaOracle

Cas keeps finding small shiny reminders of his ex-boyfriend's last tryst. He does not handle it well. Dean comes to help.

In Miniature by LadyMalchav

Dean stood in front of the green painted door. He checked the address yet again and sighed, rubbing the back of his neck with the hand not holding the slip of paper.

From The Ground Up by starespressos

Castiel and Dean work together, and Castiel has problems with his reading comprehension. Dean offers a solution.

Little Things by amazinmango

Castiel is no longer an immense entity of light and power; he's losing himself, but he's also learning what it means to know the little things, and maybe to be one of them.

Retaliation by zaffre

Written for the DeanCas Smol Things 2018 challenge.

Strange Magic by blue_morning

Dean and Cas have a squirrel problem. Dean and Jack Daniels make it worse.

The Beat of Hearts and Wings by superhoney

Dean and Castiel have spent years dreaming of the day they will be assigned their roles at the Draconium, where dragons and humans work, live, and train together to ensure the peace and prosperity of the realm. But when Dean is granted the coveted role of dragon rider and Castiel is assigned to the care of the smallest dragons, their lifelong friendship is suddenly put to the test. With the help of dragons both large and small, surely Dean and Castiel will find their way back to their former closeness-- or maybe even to something more.

There’s always room for pie by ourmostinexhaustablesourceofmagic

Cas has been keeping a secret. A cute, fluffy, hard-to-say-no-to secret. And now the cat’s out of the bag (or trench coat

Tiny Dancer by BabysNotaProp

A cursed object dooms Dean to an adorably tiny size, which ends up being way kinkier than originally anticipated.

FIC AND ART

Bee Mine story by MalMuses, art by Nera_Solani

Human and lonely in the bunker, Cas is cheered when a mystery craftsperson starts leaving him tiny bees.

C.A.S. For Short story by superhoney, art by Aceriee

This case probably isn’t even a case, and Dean just wants to go back to the bunker and continue their Bond movie marathon, but then Cas walks into the room wearing that outfit and yeah, Dean is suddenly on board with this whole thing.

Like Autumn Turns Leaves story by zaphodsgirl, art by BusySquirrel

One summer night, Dean decides to teach his little brother how to catch fireflies. What he catches for himself is completely unexpected.

Want Fries With That? story by sconesandtextingandmurder, art by CluelessAkemi

Dean slapped his hand against the steering wheel. “How the hell did she get away?”

From the passenger seat, Cas sighed the sigh of the long-suffering. “As I’ve said numerous times, I don’t know.”

“She was right there in front of you. You should’ve taken her out before she poofed out of sight.”

Cas pulled out his trusty air quotes. “The only reason she was ‘right in front of’ me is because you missed your shot when she was on the other side of the room.”

There was no denying that, but having the truth pointed out made Dean want to deny it even harder. “Yeah well...you know witches aren’t my thing,” he concluded lamely.

“What is your thing?” Cas muttered.