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Romancing the Exit Sign by anandroidinatutu

But then Dean gets uneasy about it because well Dean got to top it’s only fair that Cas gets to top too right? Say whatever you want about Dean Winchester, but unfair? Never. After overthinking about this for weeks he barges into Cas’s room and tells him they need to have sex again in the name of fairness. Cas agrees because yes Dean is so smart, it should be fair, of course. So they end up fucking again with the decision to never speak about it.

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4. Militant anti-fanfic content creators also cannot do anything about fic posted to AO3

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Cryptid Castiel

I had so much fun with it! Here’s the still frames!

first reactions: having a good time reading the first chapter, and thinking of things to comment even though it's been orphaned, only to get to the end of the first chapter and see that comments are moderated, so no one will ever see it. womp womp.

This is a total Winchester Behavior fic and How Mary Also Does Winchester Behavior. She's going to solve a problem, without talking to Sam and Dean about it. And then everyone's mad at her because the BMOL misrepresented angels and Castiel, the weird angel.

Sam and Cas are doing some Winchester Behavior by seeing Mary without talking to Dean about it. It'll just make Dean so mad!! He's not ready! maybe if we just kick this can down the road, eventually everything will be ok and Dean will forgive Mary for Cas dying and they can be a family again.

Cas accepting his death and just being sad that Dean will never know what happened to him :husk:

There's a common fandom thing where people think that Dean just uses Cas, and that's "fixed" here, although idk if that's so much a fact that Dean (and to a lesser extent, Sam) uses him or if that's just the way Castiel feels: like unless he's being of use, he has no place. The latter is more interesting to me.

But anyway: Castiel having his grace drained ritually is interesting. Him wanting it, at least. Castiel not telling Dean what's happening, or why? He's basically being an honorary Winchester here. "I thought I could solve this problem and never tell you about it until everything was fixed and then surprise!!! You had feelings about it!"

THE MARY CHAPTER

A lot of canon really glosses over how what happens to Mary in season 12 is supremely fucked up. One moment, she's checking on her son in his nursery before being brutally murdered; the next, she sees that son's older brother, who is somehow older than her?

[side note: a lot of canon glosses over how coming back from the dead is really fucked up. but as they point out, they've basically all done it at this point. It would be interesting to hear about how the number one asshole Samuel Campbell was fucked up over this]

This isn't something that can be easily fixed, and being a part of the plot to kill your son's (angel) boyfriend just makes it worse. Obviously.

It's kind of nice that Sam points out that breaking the world is kind of a Winchester thing. Like, yeah I get how all of this could make all the characters mad, but remember that time that Dean literally killed Death??? What the fuck, dude? Winchester behavior, indeed.

They wouldn't be the Winchesters unless they said something was a relationship-ending argument and then came back together in the end.

thank you @deweys-posts for the rec, it inspired me to use the shaky amtrak wifi and I'm pretty sure I had never read it before :)