#spnwintertide

Live, Laugh, Freeze

Author: @need-more-meta

Artist: @entropic-saudade

Rating: Explicit

Pairing: Dean Winchester/Sam Winchester

Word count: 16,042

Tags/Warnings: Post-Episode: s15e11 The Gamblers, Case Fic, Pining Dean Winchester, There Were Two Beds But They Still Sleep in One, Getting Together

Summary: People are turning up in a National Preserve in Alaska frozen solid with deep gnashes in their sides and bizarre grins on their faces. Sam and a desperately pining Dean decide to work the case to try out their newly restored luck.

Then Dean tries his luck some more.

Link to fic: AO3

SKIN HUNGER

Author: @farenmaddox

​Artist: @tallula03

Rating: Explicit

Pairing: Benny/Garth

Word count: 15,000

Tags/Warnings: Animal Death, Blood and Gore, Canon Divergence - Season 9, Huddling for Warmth, There was only one bed

Summary: The angels came and got Cas out of Purgatory, but they forgot to lock the door behind them. Benny has been guarding the rift they made, trying to make sure nothing gets out. When a monster gets past him, he chooses to follow it out and kill it himself, rather than risk letting it hurt someone on the other side. By pure coincidence, a hunter and freshly-turned werewolf named Garth is nearby, and they take down the creature together. Garth is kind, brave, and funny, but he’s also clearly lost and struggling in the wake of his turning, needing a shoulder to lean on until he gets his feet back under him. Benny was intending to go straight back to Purgatory, but he’s always been a sucker for a hunter in distress.

Link to fic: AO3

One Winter Night

Author: AmyPond45

Artist: Fatima_O

Rating: Mature

Pairing: Sam Winchester/Dean Winchester

Word count: 5,365

Tags/warnings: wincest, first time, Season 2 AU, ghosts, casefic, haunted house, snowed-in, family horror, sibling incest, angst, happy ending

Summary: Still reeling from their father’s death, Sam and Dean take a case at an abandoned ski lodge in the mountains. The locals think the lodge is haunted. The Winchesters expect to find a ghost, but they don’t expect the snowstorm that hits shortly after they arrive, nor the way the case raises questions about their relationship. This story is set in Season 2, about a week after the events of “Simon Said.”

Link to fic: A03

Did Mary Shelley Dream of Tentacles?

Author: @friendofcarlotta

Artist: @twinone1221

Rating: Explicit

Pairing: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Word count: 8,417 

Tags/warnings: Snowed In, Cabin Fic, Monsterfucking, Tentacles, Light BDSM

Summary: Dean has sequestered himself in a remote, lonely cabin to get some writing done. When a blizzard moves in, so does an eldritch being with windswept hair and a dorky suit. Castiel claims he’s come in response to Dean’s yearning for a companion and is ready to make all his sexual fantasies come true.

And really, who’s Dean to turn down that kind of offer?

Link to fic: AO3

Avalanche 

Author: @baileys101​

Artist: @valdelion​

Rating: general

Pairing: Castiel and Dean Winchester 

Word count: 5,201

Tags/warnings: Friendship, emotional hurt/comfort, character study, slow burn, ambiguous/open ending.

Summary: The snow keeps falling, relentless and silent, swallowing the world beyond the cabin walls. Dean stands at the window, feeling the cold, watching the white icy walls grow higher and higher. Cas is with him—always there—quiet, steady, unshakeable as ever.Time twists strangely, each day bleeding into the next. Supplies run low, but the storm outside is nothing compared to the one raging inside Dean’s head. Memories haunt his waking hours, dreams blur into reality. Trapped together as they are, Dean questions his choices, all the while never asking himself the most important question: how did they get there in the first place?

Link to fic: AO3

Nes Gadol

Author: @heavenssexiestangel

Artist: @entropic-saudade

Rating: Mature

Pairing: Arthur Ketch/Dean Winchester

Word count: 23,753

Tags/warnings: Graphic Description of Violence, Hannukkah, Unresolved Grief, Character Study, Jewish mythology, Jewish Arthur Ketch, sorta Enemies to Lovers, certainly Idiots to Lovers, Caring Dean Winchester

Summary: When Arthur Ketch asks for someone to go on a hunt with him, it's Dean that gets the short straw, and he hates it for more than one reason. They end up in a small vacation village that has been seeing too many unexplained murders, but the M.O doesn't fit any usual suspects. At least for Dean, because Arthur Ketch hasn't been much help so far. Something is going on with the ex-British Man of Letters, which makes Dean extremely worried, and it makes it hard for him to ignore his feelings for the British bastard. Doesn't help that they end up snowed in together.

Link to fic 

Healing Hearts

Author:  @masoena​

Artist: @alicetallula​

Rating: Explicit 

Pairing: Dean/Donna (side ship: Sam/Benny)

Word Count: 16,598

Tags/Warnings: Meet-Cute, Fluff, Romance, Happy Ending, Christmas-Themes, Slight PTSD, Smut, Kisses

Summary: Dean is close to his thirtieth birthday and still coming to terms with being back in civilian life after deployment. Benny, his best friend from the frontlines, and Sam, his brother, are major cornerstones in helping him find normalcy and stability. Then he meets Donna Hanscum. Flirting turns into a series of dates as she helps him realize the possibilities he hasn’t allowed himself to consider without her by his side and the life they can build together.

Link to fic: AO3 

Mistletoe Mayhem

Author: SamWinjester

Artist: AveryEdits

Rating: General

Pairing: Rowena MacLeod/Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester/Castiel (implied)

Tags/Warnings: Crack, Humor, Misunderstandings, Christmas, Holidays, Crack Treated Seriously, Found Family

Summary: Castiel and Jack misunderstand the mistletoe and kissing tradition and try to use it as a way to help the brothers “kiss and make up.” Meanwhile, Sam and Dean think there’s a monster on the loose in the bunker: why else would Cas and Jack have put up mistletoe to ward off evil?

Link to Fic: AO3