theirprofoundbond

"I'm the one who gripped you tight and raised you from Perdition"

or whatever gay people say

a guest post by Shea Sullivan.

Duck Prints Press loves fandom, and there are a million ways to be part of a fan community! Here are eight of them:

Bookbinding: Bookbinding can be intimidating, but the entry point is as simple as some paper, some time, and probably some thread. Create a piece of fandom for your home, and think about sending the author a copy, too!*

Comment: Comment on something that excites you! Community is composed of people with shared interests, talking and gathering and including one another. Commenting is one way to be part of that!

Fanart: Put those stick figure or MFA skills to work depicting your favorite moments, real or imagined!

GIF Sets: Create gifs and introduce new fans to your favorite moments! What tumblrina hasn’t been enticed to watch a new show from shiny gifs provided by a passionate fan?

Meta: Write down your deep-dive into the canon of the media. You can talk about character motivations, the color use, the writer eras… there’s no limit to the angles you can examine media from. Write down your thoughts and share them!

Podficcing: Record your own dramatic (or not-so-dramatic) reading of a fanfic you enjoy!*

Share: When you share something another person created and credit them, you’re a part of fandom! You’re showing your passion and appreciation for something someone put THEIR passion into, and that’s how fandom grows and thrives.

Video Edits/Fanvids: Set your favorite characters to music, or combine your favorite scene or scenes to show people your vision!*

What are your favorite ways to participate in fandom?

The Rescue

Author: @theirprofoundbond ● Artist: @remyafterdark

59k ● Mature ● No Archive warnings apply; content warnings provided

✨ A fix-it fic that diverges after 15x18 🏞️ Plot-heavy action-adventure with endgame Dean/Cas ❤️ Pining, slow burn, angst with a happy ending

Originally published in 2021 for the Dean/Cas Big Bang. Epilogue to be posted summer 2026!

Fic ● Art ● Playlist ● Visuals ● Fanart ● Explore #The Rescue fic

Summary: While looking for a solution to defeat Chuck and bring everyone back, Sam, Dean, and Jack encounter the original Death, who tells them they need an archangel. So Sam and Jack will search the earth for Michael, while Dean enters the Empty to find Gabriel… and he’s not leaving without Cas.

Because Dean has a soul, the Empty isn’t nothingness. He crosses vast, punishing landscapes, grappling with his feelings for Castiel while memories of the two of them haunt him—and memories of his rescue from Hell resurface. As Dean travels deeper into the Empty he discovers that its residents are awake, and they want revenge. Dean’s got to reach Castiel before they do, but he’s racing toward a secret in the heart of the Empty that will change everything.

This fic is fully posted! You can read it now on AO3.

Why am I repromoting an older, completed work? Read on:

At the end of the street Sam and Jack find a convenience store situated next to an old-fashioned bakery with a huge display window. Sam avoids looking at whatever remains of the once-fresh goods.

They’re in and out of the store in fifteen minutes; for five of those minutes, Jack deliberates over a candy display filled with unfamiliar offerings.

“I can’t decide,” Jack murmurs, tentatively picking up and examining a candy bar.

Sam glances over at him as he stuffs canned goods into his pack, and lets out a huff of a laugh. “Take one of everything, then.”

Jack raises his eyebrows. “I suppose I could.” So he loads up his bag.

When they’re done, Sam leads them back up the street they came down. They’ll return to their campsite to pray again before deciding where to go next.

Sam rubs at his beard. He’d stopped bothering with the razor ages ago, and has resorted to using scissors to keep him from looking too wild. He glances at his reflection in the tea room window. Maybe when they get back to camp he’ll—

“Wait!”

Sam whirls, alarmed. “What? What is it?” The wind whips his hair into his eyes and when he shoves it out of his face, he sees that Jack is wearing a terrified expression.

Fiction is not reality.

You can enjoy things in fiction that would be awful in the real world. Like playing a murderhobo in a game! In the real world, being or supporting a murderer-thief would be pretty damn awful, while in the game it's just good fun. Same with anything else you choose to do with the pixels on the screen, like kinks that don't affect anyone real, so they're okay in fiction, but would be pretty damn bad in real life.

No one else is responsible for your online experience. They are required not to harass you, but they are not and never will be obligated to not post about ships, kinks, or tropes you dislike just to avoid you seeing them. It's up to you to blacklist words or phrases, block tags, or even block users as needed to avoid seeing content that upsets you.

No one can force you to read anything against your consent. Any content you don't like seeing can be instantly avoided by closing out of the offending post/fic.

You are not owed an online experience free of discomfort.

Nothing that happens in your imagination can ever make you a bad person. Words you write or read about fictional characters will never make you a bad person.

The claim that media consumption influences real-life behavior is intellectually dishonest and serves only to excuse the behavior of real offenders.

Fiction is a safe way to explore horrifying or confusing concepts. Therapists agree that fiction, even (or especially) about taboo topics is a good coping mechanism, especially, but not exclusively, for trauma survivors. Fiction is to adults what play therapy is to children. This doesn't stop being true if the work in question is of a sexual nature.

Sex isn't an inherently worse or better motivation than anything else. A work written to create feelings of arousal isn't dirty, shameful, or in any way less pure than works written to entertain, provoke moral questions, or for other reasons. And worth noting is that multiple purposes can exist in the same story, especially fanfiction.