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Thank you guys for sharing your memories! My First Destiel Fic is a nostalgic survey open to any destiel fan with a simple goal - to celebrate fics that were our gateway into a wonderful world of destiel. Thank you, fic writers, you are our heroes! 

from @harleyinfandom​

I started watching spn around 2012. I’m not sure how I came across Slow Moving Cars by Gedry (because I didn’t use livejournal and yet I know that’s where I read it) but it gave me a place to rest and escape to when I was in high school. I have a soft spot for it all these years later because of artist! dean (I’m an artist) and cute enemies to friends to lovers. I’m biased but I really think deserves more love now that it’s on ao3.

Slow Moving Cars by Gedry [M, 7,600 word count]

Written for zombie_oak who won me in the helpthesouth auction. She asked for a Dean/Cas college AU involving Dean being an ass at first and then having to make it up to Cas. I hope this is good enough.

comment from dff mod @flyingcatstiel​ - Gedry was one the first destiel writers I devoured when I joined fandom 8 years ago. Their wing fic Going Forward was my very first review on this blog, soon followed by a review of This is All Life Really Means. I had a very poor understanding of how LJ works but I wanted to read all their fics there. So, years later, I was really thrilled to see that now these fics are also available on AO3. Please give them a chance on the new platform!

from @sparrowsfallingfromthesky​

I think I started watching the show in between when season 8 and 9 were airing. The first Supernatural fic I have bookmarked, one of the first ones I read if not THE first, was Even The Poorest Art Is Eloquent by riseuplikeangels. I read it before getting to season 4 and meeting Cas, so reading an AU was a great way of falling in love with the characters without having to know the plot.

Even The Poorest Art Is Eloquent by riseuplikeangels [T, 25,300 word count, posted 2013]

Castiel is a Biblical artist, Dean a displaced Kansan losing everything at once. And, as is the way of this odd universe of ours, fickle Fate brings them together.

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Such a beautiful bloom. thank you for your message Ras 😀❤

reblogged your photoset

“janemaxine: #toss a coin to your witcher’s exasperated bard”

#the witcher#jaskier#ha amazing that this dude is more popular than geralt#on tumblr at least#you go bard#random not spn thingy

One of them is The Snarky Sidekick. One of them is The Hot Hardbody.

flyingcatstiel replied to your post “THEN:Cas: And you can stay with Jack. Dean: Why? Cas: You were right....”

idk, this really looks stupid. I'm still trying to believe that dean said it it someone else, not cas. otherwise, this is such a bad writing, cheap drama engineering. I'm most upset about the phrase itself, not the accusation. Cas was dead last season. to tell him that dean would rather have cas to die again kinda erases all his grief in s13 in favor this new thing he blames cas for.

The only reason I am no longer trying to convince myself that Dean is talking to someone else is this promo photo which is in the same room and Cas, Sam, and Dean appear to be the only ones in it. 

Omgomgomg, too angsty????

Not gonna lie, the moment I see Jack Kline tag on a destiel fic, I close the tab. I mean, I already want less Sam in a destiel fic, why would I need another character that takes time and space away from deancas?

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Well, yea, that’s why I stressed that this is really my wishful thinking based on a very little real life info. I mean, Misha goes, I go and I can finally be free, who wouldn’t want to be free??

It is interesting tho that you mention two young children Misha has to provide for. I almost included my thoughts on this argument but left it out since the post was already too long. I’ve seen this argument going around for years in regards to both stars and Misha and it always struck as demeaning to all other SPN fans who raise their families on much smaller salaries? Like, if Misha leaves the show he’s broke and homeless, which is not? And yes, acting jobs are hard to come by but there’re other jobs in the industry like producing, directing, etc, etc? And I’m pretty sure Misha will still be invited to cons even if he quits the show, so that money is not disappearing.

A year or two ago I’d agree with you that Misha would never quit the show on his own will, but we are on season 12 which nobody expected. And there’s no end in sight. We don’t know what kind of future projects he had to postpone, we don’t know if working on the show has the same shine as it did in season 8. These things accumulate with time. And please don’t forget that he still have to work together with people who doesn’t share his political beliefs. The situation in US right now is frightening even for me who lives in Asia. The most crucial time for resistance is RIGHT NOW. If Americans don’t raise their voice right now, there’ll be no democracy left. Yes, political activism doesn’t pay but that’s not why people do it. If we would expect money from our freedom fights, there’d be no revolutionaries left.

In conclusion, we literally have no idea what Misha is thinking, so these are pure speculations based on our wishes for him to stay or go. But the very fact that we are talking about this is interesting. Apparently I wasn’t the only one with such idea. ;)

OMG fellow Asian! *high fives*

Sorry got distracted by that :)

Hmm, you do have a point and I agree - god knows I wasn’t trying to insult Misha by saying he’ll be homeless or something if he quits the show. And like you said, he might do behind the scenes work (which should free up a lot of his time), and of course he’ll still be on the con circuit, which pays really well? I guess. And yes, there is clearly no end in sight for the show, with 13 coming out soon, but with Cas gone? I wonder how they’ll sustain the show. The boys have lost so much already- perhaps Mary can be the new Cas? Sometimes on, sometimes off ally? *wails*

(Wild speculation ahead)

Somehow I always felt he wasn’t as well-paid as the two Js, though this may have changed recently.

It’s just.. the tweet he put out yesterday, promising he’ll donate 10K himself if 2K people join Kim’s campaign and that is a LOT of money too (and I’m so proud of him being so generous and selfless, how many people are like that?). It’s just.. I suppose I keep flashing back to Misha saying he bought a pair of fancy shoes with his first (?) paycheck from Supernatural, so he probably didn’t have a lot saved up before SPN. I know he’s been on the show for 8+ seasons now though, so possibly enough to build up a decent amount of savings- something that’ll enable him to do all the charity work that he does. 

I’m so confused now I don’t know what to think- on the one hand, I want Misha to actually do what he wants to do, but then again I will miss him...