Hi!!!!! I've been following you for a while and all your posts about Destiel are pulling me straight back to the fandom. I stopped watching around season 9/10 but your enthusiasm is so awesome and I love seeing all your posts on my dash!!!! I've only watched each episode once, but do you have any favorite episodes to rewatch? And do you have any fic recs? I'm so excited that you're excited, it's so contagious. Thank you for being you and for being so lovely! š
HELLO thank you so much Iām so glad to share this happiness with you... the absolute hysteria of the implications of this thing
Favourite episodes to rewatch:
As Iāve linked before,Ā this is a great listĀ of Destiel moments to 14. In terms of my personal favourites that arenāt necessarily Destiel oriented (except that as soon as we get to s7 who am I kidding):
Faith
In My Time of Dying
Tall Tales
What Is and What Should Never Be
Mystery Spot
Lazarus Rising*
On The Head of a Pin
The Rapture
Lucifer Rising
Free To Be You And Me (!)
The End (!!)
Changing Channels
Point of No Return
Swan Song
The French Mistake
The Man Who Would Be King (!!!)
A Little Slice of Kevin
Sacrifice
Heaven Canāt Wait
Meta Fiction
Fan Fiction
First Blood
Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets
The Future
All Along The Watchtower
Lost and Found
The Trap
Despair
*literally any episode with Castiel from here on out and now even MORE SO given the recent Implication of 15.18. Just go to his wiki page lol. Also Season 4-5 really does fuck when itās plot related wow.
Fic recs:
Ok these are just the fics Iāve read recently, I know thereās a bunch of stuff that was written pre-s7 that isnāt here but I havenāt gone back through my rec lists and evaluated whatās stood up to the test of time. So these are the ones Iāve evaluated on my recent binge over the past year:
Down To Agincourt
I havenāt remotely finished this, Iām reading it right now. Get past the first chapter being purple prosey (this is what kept me back from reading it before this month and MISTAKE) and youāll be like. What. the. fuck. Incroyable. Over a million words of End-Verse angst and pining but also has humour and some absolutely outstanding writing. Ben Edlund come collect your legacy. The premise is that Dean from s7 post-Cas death gets sent back to the 5.04 world at the moment he left it, and takes over from End-Verse Dean - and starts to fight for a hopeful future. My one caveat is so far thereās been very little mention/concern over Sam but itās FINE because this is SO GOOD. Technically a WIP but being updated.
Ninety One Whiskey and anything by komodobitsĀ (warning A Complete Kingdom is very good but has an unhappy ending).
Donāt know if youāre getting the feeling that I like extremely long fanfic but uh.... frankly if itās not 300,000 words of pining itās not a slow burn. After I finished this I literally had one of those moments where I had to lie down and stare into space and by āmomentsā I mean like a full 24 hours. Life changing. World War II AU that is so artfully rendered and researched that it makes literally anyone who thinks they could be a writer cry.
You Can Keep Holding OnĀ and anythingĀ by NorthernSparrow
If we hadnāt had SPN go past S5 Iām not sure NorthernSparrow would have gotten into Destiel and that alone is why post s5 SPN deserves rights. Relative to komodobits, always happy endings and fluffy and so on. One of the rare authors who also writes AUs with rights. NorthernSparrow is a... nature academic? Of some kind, and that plays into their fics - lots of references to Castielās wings and bird anatomy.
Redemption Road
Iāve literally also not finished this even though Iāve got halfway through it three times now over the past decade slkdfjlskdjflkds SORRY my attention span cuts out when they get together donāt @ me. Variable quality sometimes because they have a team of different writers that came together to write an alternate Season 7, but overall really really good and some of the writers are incredible. Also like love it bc they just flexed on the writing team at SPN so hard with this. Has an alternate epilogue which happened because the writing team disagreed on the ending and had a whole drama (we love group projects) which I believe is better than the original(?), although having not read it to the end I canāt testify to that.Ā
Ok I simply canāt continue to fill your dash with long descriptions so hereās some more recs in shorter forms, (canon-verse because whatās an AU? I donāt know her) and favourite authors:Ā All Things Shining, The Law of Equivalent Exchange, Dean and Casā Top 13 Zepp Traxx, Where the Weeds Take Root, and just for a palate cleanser, the very funny crack ficĀ Broadway Musical.Ā Also some authors who have written a lot of rec-worthy canon-verse fics: aeli_kindara (some SERIOUSLY good and happy fics here), xylodemon, pantheon_of_discord.
My bookmarks folder is currently an unorganised MESS, usually I have things bookmarked on my Diigo but since a) most of these arenāt on there and b) I canāt verify the quality of fics I read before my destiel hiatus, this is the best I got! Iāll update and organise all my destiel bookmarks one day sorry...
