#pinefest 2020

what stays (and what fades away) | Rating: E | Word count: 64,421

Author: dothraki_shieldmaiden | Artist: skeletonsinzeeclost

Fic Summary: 

Cas Novak’s life is perfect. He has a job that he loves and friends who support him. Most importantly, he has his husband, Dean Winchester, and his two adopted children, Claire and Jack. With them, nothing could ever go wrong.

That is, until he starts having flashes of a life that isn’t his and meets someone who shares his husband’s face but not his personality, someone who insists that he’s someone, something, different altogether. Cas’ life shatters when he’s dragged into a world that he doesn’t belong to and doesn’t understand.

Dean Winchester’s life was already shattered when he lost Castiel.

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This is my first time participating in the @deancaspinefest and I was super excited and lucky to get paired up with @dothraki-shieldmaiden on their story What Stays (And What Fades Away)

It’s an amazing story and they’re have a way with words I couldn’t help myself and got a little carried away with my illustrations for their story.

Seriously though, you need to read it!

Sugar and Smoke

You will need: + One (1) pastel-sweater-wearing church-bake-sale angel + One (1) cuss-happy BBQ lumberjack who doesn’t measure ingredients Instructions: 1. Combine ingredients: put competing tables side-by-side at the community fair. 2. Lightly grease with food appreciation, flustering, and friend-opposed flirtation. 3. Add your desired flavour! Have lumberjack invite angel to his housewarming party. 4. Knead, allowing a mutual failure to impress to become longing. 5. Prove for 1 hour. Watch as after-party conversation thrives towards an intensely passionate cook-off. 6. Now add heat! Watch inhibitions melt away until prim angel is an indecent wreck, and lumberjack is divested of shame. 7. Separate, then reunite and add sweet toppings for best effect. You now have a beautifully earnest relationship! Scrumptious!

I got to illustrate the fanfic Sugar and Smoke by the amazing @almaasi for this year’s @deancaspinefest! Don’t go into this fic hungry or you’ll be craving all the delicious food in no time. 😋 Go read it now ♥

Pinefest fic: House of Memories

Art by @dmsilvisart​

Chapters: 33/33 Fandom: Supernatural Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Gabriel/Sam Winchester, John Winchester/Mary Winchester, past Dean/Lisa, Past Castiel/Meg, past Dean/Cassie - Relationship, Past Dean/Nick, Past Dean/Lee, Past Castiel/Michael Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel, Castiel (Supernatural), Sam Winchester, Charlie Bradbury, Gabriel (Supernatural), Lucifer (Supernatural), Anna Milton, John Winchester, Mary Winchester, Jo Harvelle, Benny Lafitte, Garth Fitzgerald IV, Meg Masters, Adam Milligan, Chuck, Michael (Supernatural) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Long-Distance Friendship, Long-Distance Relationship, Best Friends, School counselor!Dean, artist!castiel, 90s background, Bisexual Disaster Dean Winchester, Anxiety, Minor Character Death (Chuck), Military family Winchesters, Religious family Novak, Online Friendship, Cosplay, Conventions, Young Punk!Cas, Young Jock!Dean, singer!dean, Friends to Lovers, Implied Past Abuse, Two Person Love Triangle, Two person love triangle (light), 9/11 Referenced, Red Thread of Fate, Mal wrote a thing Summary:

As a military brat, Dean’s life is uprooted when his family moves to Europe. Aside from his brother’s company, Dean finds solace online. As an artistic outcast at his school in Texas, Castiel looks for like-minded souls online. During their teen years, they meet on the Undernet and quickly strike up a friendship. Going by their handles Squirrel and Feathers, they find themselves relying on each other during the ups and downs of the years to come. When they finally start to admit their feelings for each other, Castiel falls off the face of the Internet and Dean has no idea what happened.

SUGAR AND SMOKE | T | 30k

Author: almaasi​

Artist: purzelndesbaeumchen​

You will need:  + One (1) pastel-sweater-wearing church-bake-sale angel  + One (1) cuss-happy BBQ lumberjack who doesn’t measure ingredients 

Instructions:  1. Combine ingredients: put competing tables side-by-side at the community fair.  2. Lightly grease with food appreciation, flustering, and friend-opposed flirtation.  3. Add your desired flavour! Have lumberjack invite angel to his housewarming party.  4. Knead, allowing a mutual failure to impress to become longing.  5. Prove for 1 hour. Watch as after-party conversation thrives towards an intensely passionate cook-off.  6. Now add heat! Watch inhibitions melt away until prim angel is an indecent wreck, and lumberjack is divested of shame.  7. Separate, then reunite and add sweet toppings for best effect. 

You now have a beautifully earnest relationship! Scrumptious! 

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THE HANDYMAN’S SPECIAL  | Explicit  | 51,456  Author: carrieosity Artist: delicious-irony

Dr. Dean Winchester, professor of Mechanical Engineering, was full of confidence in his own abilities when he decided to purchase a fixer-upper house to rehab and remodel on his own. Now, standing in the middle of his new house and praying the floors won’t cave in, he’s realizing that determination and academic brilliance might only take him so far this time. The bigger problem: his overconfidence in the face of other people’s doubts (ahem, Sam) means that asking for help now will mean swallowing a whole lot of pride…and he’d rather not.

Hiring a secret contractor to do the work without telling anyone seems like the perfect solution.

Accidentally hiring an amazingly hot secret contractor wasn’t part of the plan.

And when Sam overhears a conversation and starts connecting dots, a snap decision and another lie on top the first leads to a ridiculous balancing act of fake stories, pretend relationships, and one hell of a renovation tale.

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THE CURIOUS CASE OF CUTHBERT SINCLAIR |  EXPLICIT  | 73k

Author: @ellen-of-oz & @malmuses Artist: @somethingaboutnoodles

The murder, the mystery, the case… Dean Winchester, agent of the Men of Letters, lives for it. But when his colleague Cuthbert Sinclair goes missing while investigating a string of deaths, Bobby assigns the case to Dean, as well as assigning him a new partner. Much to Dean’s irritation, he’ll have to carry the dead weight of an inexperienced, probably over-pampered and arrogant lordling.

But Castiel defies his every expectation.

Recently returned from war, Lord Castiel Milton is haunted by demons of his own. Together, he and Dean could be everything that each has longed for…and that society won’t let them have.

But people are dying all over London, and what Cuthbert Sinclair saw is just the beginning.

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WRITE FIRST THEN READ |  M  |  60,254 words Author: @mittensmorgul Artist: @dmsilvisart

Dean spent his life split in two--the Dean who showed up to work every weekday to give his students the tools they'd need to grow into their best selves, and the Dean who spent the rest of his time actively involved in the fandom for his favorite tv show. Elementary school guidance counselor and prolific author of slash fiction didn't seem like compatible realities. Then he met the adorable librarian at his new school. There was something about Cas that broke through all of Dean's defenses.

Cas had chosen his career path for his own happiness. Fostering the love of stories and storytelling in his students was fulfilling, but he kept his own fanfic writing to himself. His online fandom life was the one thing he reserved purely for his own enjoyment, even if the price of that enjoyment was complete anonymity in the fandom. Then the new guidance counselor joined the staff at school and gave him a reason to question everything.

Meanwhile, online...Impala67 and FicFeathers, long time friends and beta readers, were pushed to question what exactly their relationship was, and whether it could survive without the anonymity they'd both always insisted on. Of course it all had to blow up right before their draft deadline.

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