The Here And Now

Reposted from movies_michelle: Today is Snady's birthday. "...One of the things I know Sandy loved most about fandom is less watching the shows (which she referred to sometimes as "homework") than the community of fandom. It was the interacting with other people about things she loved, stories she liked, bitching about the things that made her crazy, whatever.

So, can I ask this of everyone? Post a rec of something, anything, you enjoyed today, whether it was a story, vid, photo, meme, discussion, whatever. Whether it's new or old. If you've been meaning to go back and leave a comment on a story, go do it now, even if it's just to say "Love this!"

My rec contribution today:
The NightVale Twitter account which contains such quotes as:

"It is good to help children achieve their dreams, but dinosaurs are now becoming a real problem. So let's dial it back just a bit."

My comment contribution:
The incestuous courtship of the antichrist's bride by fleshflutter

Remember last month, where I was collecting  fic and vid recs for a new Supernatural fan who is watching the show from the start?  She wrote back to me and said that shortly after she started watching, her sister was hooked.

They have now instigated Date Night With Sam and Dean.

"When we're ready to watch an episode, we get all dressed up with make up and everything, put out a dish (a real plate, not paper) of bite size tea rolls,and sit back for a night out with our true loves. She has promised to keep her mitts off Sam, (my fave) if I promise not to go after Dean (her fave), and a good time is had by all! 

I also made a promise to friends to watch only one episode a night. The show is so full of angst I was overwrought and my friends felt that I had to save myself from myself.  

 Ever grateful to you for guiding me through the fan fiction.  There was so much I was getting bogged down with paper and I bought a Kindle!!!!! Best thing I ever did.."

We're still looking for fan fic and vid recs (master list here).  While we need  more specific types of recs, the easiest way is to grab your favorite stories/vids and slot them into the existing season posts  rather than trying to work by season.  We have the seasons arranged by dates on the master post so it should be easy.

After last night's ep, I wandered away to look for pictures about the Impala (aka "Baby").

Found this

Impala - on the road...again by ~beata101 on deviantART

Which then led to this happening.

Fanlore should come with a warning: Warning! May be both addictive and fun.

Gen, het, wincest, or J2. Any type of fic: funny, dark or death or romantic or schmoopy. Categories are sub-divided into "short' and "long". The only "rule": one rec per category subdivision per season per person. Because I'd like to offer a wide range of authors, please no self-recs.  Use the category threads below to leave your rec.  Minimum info needed: story title, author, and current link. Note: I play fast and loose with the short and long categories. Also there may be typos and formatting weirdness - please ignore them. Broken links, however, please let me know.

And to anyone clicking on the links: in order to read many  of these stories you must be over the age of 18. Some stories may not have warnings. So caveat lector.

Season 6 (stories written between September 2010-August 2011)

Gen - Short (under 15,000 words)

• Better Not To Know Coda series  by latentfunction (a mix of gen and past wincest. It is part of a series of post episode codas for both season 5 and season 6) (Summer 2011)
• Longer Than That Road by eighth-horizon (Sept 2010)
• Pillars of Salt by blaskjar
• This Is What The Wolves Were Doing by treeshouse  (Dec 2010)

Gen - Long (over 15,000 words)

• Apocrypha by Sophia Prester 
• Ouroboros  by  gedry (June 2011)

Het- Short (under 15,000 words)

• Ferris Wheel by  destronomicsfic  (Jan 2011)
• OK Computer by obstinatrix
• We Won't Even be Memories by gatorgrrrl  (Feb 2011) 

Het - Long (over 15,000 words)

• When the World Is Burning by briarwood  (July 2011)

Wincest- Short (under 15,000 words)  

• Renovation II by de nugis (Aug 2011)
• Save your anaesthetic for the boy next door by rivkat (March 2011)
• Since Feeling is First by  queenklu  (Dec 2010)  
• These Things I Know Are True by killa (Aug 2011)

Wincest - Long (over 15,000 words)

• The Allegory of the Cave by tryfanstone (June 2011)
• Flying Weight by fleshflutter (Summer 2011)
  
  

Other Slash (including Dean/Castiel)

RPS- Short (under 15,000 words)

•  Keep Digging; Maybe We'll Find Some Talent by poor choices (RPS AU)  (Sept 2010)
• We Who Stumble by haruslex

RPS- Long (over 15,000 words)

• The Only Constant by lazy daze (July 2011)
• Full Service Firm Series by rivkat (Fall 2010) (RPS AU)

Vid Recs (you may need to leave the vidder a note to get a current download link)

• Coin Operated Boy by counteragent (Jan 2011)
• Cosmic Love by affablyevil   (Oct 2010)
• Driving nails into my soul by  k9lover27  (Oct 2010)
• I'm In Here by  ILoveThesePeople  (Feb 2011)
• Exit Wounds by  thewinchestergospel  (Oct 2010)
• Falling by mishasminions.tumblr.com
• Numb by counteragent (October 2010)
• Synapse to Synapse by proofpudding (May 2011)
• Will of the Heart by  auntshoe (Sept 2010)
• The Women of Supernatural by thewinchestergospel   (Jan 2011)

Other Lists

• spn-themes has put together a list of post season 6 finale codas

 Gen, het, wincest, or J2. Any type of fic: funny, dark or death or romantic or schmoopy. Categories are sub-divided into "short' and "long". The only "rule": one rec per category subdivision per season per person. Because I'd like to offer a wide range of authors, please no self-recs.  Use the category threads below to leave your rec.  Minimum info needed: story title, author, and current link. Note: I play fast and loose with the short and long categories. Also there may be typos and formatting weirdness - please ignore them. Broken links, however, please let me know.

And to anyone clicking on the links: in order to read many  of these stories you must be over the age of 18. Some stories may not have warnings. So caveat lector.

Season 4 (stories written between September 2008-August 2009)

Obligatory read after watching each episode: Kroki Refur's "Ten Expressions"  episode review picspams (broken into seasons 1-4)

Gen - Short (under 15,000 words)  

• Crooked Legs by hkath (Aug 2009)
• I'll Have What He's Having by  gekizetsu (Oct 2008)
• Loyal Opposition by cofax7 ((Sept 2008)
• Off the Map by debbiel66 (July 2009)
• To Course Across More Kindly Waters Now by dsudis (Oct 2008)

Gen - Long (over 15,000 words)  

• Drive All Night verse by roque classique (started in Sept 2008)
• Lazarus Came Forth by oselle  (April 2009)

Het- Short (under 15,000 words)

• A Level of My Own Invention by smilla02 (June 2009)
• A Virtuous Woman by pandarus (May 2009)
• Five Ways Ruby Told The Truth by  utsusemia  (June 2009)
• Such Friends Are Dangerous by vaingirlfic (July 2009)
• The Burning of Paper Instead of Children  by coyotesuspect (July 2009)
• Under the Carpet by  (Sept 2008)

Het - Long (over 15,000 words)


Wincest- Short (under 15,000 words)

• Ascalon by candle beck (Jan 2009)
• A Curse Is Just A Curse by queenklu (March 2009)
• Break the Lock If It Don't Fit by fleshflutter (Feb 2009)
• But What's in a Name by lotrabc (April 2009)
• Eight Things You Should Know By Candle Beck (Dec 2008)
• If we keep living this fast, no one will have time to die by oxoniensis (Nov 2008)
• Sanguine and the sequel Visceral by rivkat (May 2009)

Wincest - Long (over 15,000 words)

• Blue Skies From Rain by lovesrain44  (Summer 2009)
• The Incestous Courtship of the Antichrist's Bride by fleshflutter (Summer 2009)
• Issue of Consent by  varkelton and its prequels (Torn Apart and Searching For Answers)   and sequels  ( A Question of Choice) (Summer 2009)
• Filthy Mind series by rivkat (Sept 2008)
• Not Time's Fool by fay (May 2009)
• Suite!Verse by  leonidaslion (Series begins in the Fall of 2008 and is still ongoing)
  
  
  

Slash - Other (includes Dean/Castiel)

• 36 Versions of Hallelujah by seraphwings (Sept 2008)
• The Apocrypha of Chuck by maskedfangirl
  
  

RPS- Short (under 15,000 words)  

• Take me off this ship that is sinking by fleshflutter (Summer 2009)
• True Love's Kiss by destina (April 2009) (RPS AU)
• you are the surf that i am walking towards. by standing-fic (Oct 2008)

RPS- Long (over 15,000 words)

• Between Miles And A Stone’s Throw by alasse (June 2009)  
• Queensguard by aramuin (July 2009) (RPS AU)

Vid Recs  You may need to leave the vidder a note for a current link to the vid)

• Above and Below by counteragent (May 2009)
• And I Will Try To (Fix You) by secretlytodream (July 2009)
• Believe by giandujakiss (Feb 2009)
• Breathe Me by SmokeyFizz  (Feb 2009)
• Carnivale of Rust by absrip (May 2009)
• Crashed  by  absrip (July 2009)
• Eye For An Eye by thandie (March 2009)
• Fall of Man by obsessive24 (May 2009)
• For Everything A Reason by loki (June 2009)  
• Hey You by deirdre-c. (May 2009)
• No Heaven by milly (Aug 2009)
• Pretty by proofpudding (Nov 2008)
• Ruby's Lullaby by    meg-tdj  (Aug 2009)  
• Sea Lion by lithiumdoll (Oct 2008)
• Snow on the Sahara by absrip (Nov 2008)
• Souljacker by danegan (June 2009)
• Still Alive by counteragent (Oct 2008)
• The Devil's Inside My Head by mithborien  (April 2009)
• Thriller by buffyann (Aug 2009)
• Weapon by el1ie (July 2009)
• Won't Let Go by   jadams04  (Aug 2009)

Gen, het, wincest, or J2. Any type of fic: funny, dark or death or romantic or schmoopy. Categories are sub-divided into "short' and "long". The only "rule": one rec per category subdivision per season per person. Because I'd like to offer a wide range of authors, please no self-recs. Use the category threads below to leave your rec. Minimum info needed: story title, author, and current link. Note: I play fast and loose with the short and long categories. Also there may be typos and formatting weirdness - please ignore them. Broken links, however, please let me know.

And to anyone clicking on the links: in order to read many of these stories you must be over the age of 18. Some stories may not have warnings. So caveat lector.

Season 2 (stories written between September 2006-August 2007)

Obligatory read after watching each episode: Kroki Refur's "Ten Expressions"  episode review picspams (broken into seasons 1-4)

After you've finished season 2 and want  to read porny "Lizardbrain" fics,  femmenerd collected a set of multi-fandom recommendations here.  There are many types of Supernatural recommendations to be found.

spn themes also put together a list of episode codas for season 2. They are organized by episode, so you can read them after you finish watching the ep. spnroundtable did something similar for season 1 and 2 but they are not as well organized

Gen - Short (under 15,000 words)

• Cast Stones at Dragons by trollprincess (June 2007)
• Drive Until You Lose the Road by musesfool (June 2007)
• DNR (part of the Red Series by big pink) (April 2007)
• Dust in the Wind by lyra wing (Feb 2007)
• Easy the Descent by sanyin (May 2007)
• Faith and Consequence by morgan32 (April 2007)  
• Little Rattle Stilt by Hope (originally posted under the name Angstslashope).(Nov 2006)
• Muscle of Love by researchgrrrl  (Sept 2006)
• The Next Town by kres (June 2007)
• Verbal  (part of the Red Series by big pink) (April 2007)

Gen - Long (over 15,000 words)

• Beach Blanket Poltergeist by hansbekhart (Sept 2006)
• Dazzleland (part of the Red series by big pink) (Dec 2006)
• Fire in the Hole (  part of the Red series by big pink) (May 2007)  
• Red series by big pink (Sept 2006)
• Six of One by  vee-fic (March 2007)

Het- Short (under 15,000 words)

• A More Perfect Union by  innie-darling (July 2007)
• Downpour by kueble-fic.  (Jan 2007)
• Hopeful Monster by  monster-of-hope. (March 2007)
• Normal by misskatieleigh  (April 2007)
• Spider Bites On All Your Lovers by   thuviaptarth (March 2007)
• The Ties That Bind by elise-509.  (Aug 2007)
• You Catholic Girls Start Much Too Late by musesfool (Jan 2007)
   

Het - Long (over 15,000 words)  

• A Foreign Country by casspeach  (June 2007)
• Gobsmacked Universe     by  elanurel  (Feb-July 2007)
• Mockingbird by  hiyacynth (August 2007)
• Strange Angels by  elanurel  (Jan 2007)
• Transmutation universe by poisontaster and mona1347 (started in Sept 2006) (Sam/Dean/Jess threesome). A master list is here.

Wincest- Short (under 15,000 words)

• Bad Blood  by  Astolat (Feb 2007)
• El Camino Real by angstslashhope (Sept 2006)
• Green and Gambage by sevenfists (July 2007)
• Under Hill by  Astolat (Feb 2007)
• The Firefly That Loved Metallica  by fleshflutter (July 2007)
• Tied You With Your Flaxen Hair by sanyin (May 2007)
• Two Queens by  belyste  (Aug 2007)
• You Would Cry Too If That Happened To You by superbadgirl  (Aug 2007)
• Waiting Games by nutkin (March 2007)
   

Wincest - Long (over 15,000 words)

• And The Devil Makes Three series by killa (started Feb 2007)
• And The Highway Lines Pass By by philalethia (Aug 2007)
• El Sol Naciente by conquest (Feb 2007)
• Five Districts, Five Drugs series by rei_c (started Dec 2006)
• Hunger of Old Mouths by plutogirl10 (Summer 2007)
  
• The Killing Moon series by poisontaster (Feb 2007)
• The Knuckles of Skinnybone Tree  by hansbekhart (July 2007)
  
• The Old Gods Return series by fleshflutter (starts Aug 2007)
• Turn of the Wheel series by  gekizetsu (Starts in Sept 2006)

RPS- Short (under 15,000 words)

• Break Loose verse (RPS AU) by technosage   (each part is under 15k) (Jan 2007)
• I really dig those sequined shirts  (plus sequels  All you got to do is just not miss and We need to be a little more constructive) by balefully (March 2007)  
• The OT3 Universe series by nilchance and beanside (although this is a universe, each story is under 15k) (Dec 2006)

RPS- Long (over 15,000 words)

• Last Stop Chicagoland verse by  phaballa (some parts longer than 15k) (June 2007)
• The Pleasures Of Exile by rosekay (RSP AU) (Spring 2007)
• The Jared Padalecki Untitled Project by sometimesophie (Spring 2007)
  

Vid Recs (you may need to drop a note or email to the vidder to get an updated link)

• All That I Am by lithium doll
• Bricks by luminosity (Sept 2006)
• Carol of the Supernatural by dragonfly_sg1 (Dec 2006)
• Crash by michaela3105 (Feb 2007)
• Devil's Trap by luminosity (June 2007)
• Fault Line by   Lithiumdoll (May 2007)  
• Falling For The First Time by sisabet (Aug 2007)
• Fell on Black Days by ringwench (Feb 2007)
• Hemorrhage by fabella (Jan 2007)  
• Jared and Jensen Are In Love by tnt-dynamite (June 2007)
• Protege Moi by charmax (Oct 2006)
• See That My Grave Is Kept Clean by killa (Oct 2006)
• Shuffle by luminosity (Nov 2006)
• The 6 Between Us by winterevanesce  (August 2007)
• Two Step by luminosity (March 2007)
  
• Turn You Inside Out by sisabet (Feb 2007)
• Wake Up by sacrilicious  (Oct 2006)
• Want by destina (Aug 2007)
• Women's Work by sisabet and luminosity (August 2007)

I have a friend who is working her way through Supernatural. She just finished Season 1. I thought it would be fun to put together a rec list by for her (and other fans) season by season. She will read gen, het or wincest (don't know about J2 but can't hurt to include it). And I'd love help in the form of suggestions. She'll read most any type of fic: funny, dark or death or romantic or schmoopy. She'll read short or long. The only "rule": one rec per category per season per person. Min. info needed:  story title, author,  category and current link.  Because I'd like to offer a wide range of authors, please no self-recs. Each post will cover one year and there will be locations (threads)  to make your recs according to category.   Note: I play fast and loose with the short and long categories. They are merely...guidelines.

Season 1 (September 2005-August 2006)
Season 2 (September 2006-August 2007)
Season 3 (September 2007-August 2008)
Season 4 (September 2009-August 2009)
Season 5 (September 2009-August 2010)
Season 6 (September 2010-August 2011)
Season 7 (September 2011-today)

LJ users: you can find the corresponding LJ links under this tag.

PS. And if anyone knows of other rec lists season by season, please drop the link here.

Other season by season rec lists:

• Netweight offers an overview of Season 1-4  - both  fic and vids. To find the season breakdown, look either within the text or at the end of the line.  She also offers meta overview. Excellent resource for new fans.
• Deathisyourart offers vid recs Seasons 1-3. She does not break them down by season, so this would be a good stopping place after you've finished Season 3.
• Zimsham offers vid recs Seasons 1-2. Like Deathisyourart, they are not broken out by season but the post offers a useful stopping place after Season 2.

After the Fire by datenshiblue& caelumi
Sam/Dean Slash
Summary: Sam comes back, 10 years after the end of the Apocalypse. Dean has kids. Maybe Sam can finally stop trying to pay for his sins and rest.

A new Supernatural writer.  Her other two stories are really good, but this  is the one  that made me laugh.

Twist and Turn 'Til You've Got it Right - SPN, Slash, NC17
Sometimes it takes more than one try to get it right.

Sam huffs. “You’re not--hitting it right.”

Hold the phone. Dean Winchester had been told a lot of things by lays in his life. Heard whispered and fevered declarations of shit that embarrassed him even in the moment. But one thing he had, never, ever, been accused of was lacking in bed.

And what the hell did Sam know anyway? This was only the third time they’d fucked. The first that Sam let Dean fuck him.

Not that Dean was keeping a count.

Or that Sam was being very cooperative about it.

“Stop being such a pushy little bitch and let me do it!” Dean argues, like they’re fighting over the remote or something.

Pre-Stanford slash stories in the Supernatural verse are a tricky read for me.  Not only do we have issues of age of consent, but balancing the psychology  of a 4 year age gap in the teenager years (a huge gap) can be difficult.

Which is why I enjoyed winterweatherd's Easy On The Clutch so much. 

Dean wakes up to the sound of gunshots. He's still naked, and the side of the bed Sam was sleeping on is cool.

Dean pauses at the window on the way to the bathroom. Outside, Sam is shooting beer cans off the edge of the fence. He's a good shot: pow pow pow.

Dean gets this strange, unbidden image in his head of him and Sam, maybe five years from now, circling back-to-back and shooting out an army of zombies or werewolves or something. Pow pow pow, and they all go down one by one until Sam and Dean are the only ones left standing.

Dean finds his jeans and a wrinkled t-shirt and goes outside barefoot. He moves across the lawn quietly, waiting until Sam's finished his round before he steps up behind him and brushes his knuckles over the rise of Sam's shoulder blade.

The sun is bright on Sam's face when he turns around. He puts a hand against his forehead to shield his eyes. "Hey."

Dean squints back at him. He knows he probably looks ridiculous, one side of his face all squinched up against the light. "Hey. Gonna be late for school."

"Skipping," Sam says. He's probably waiting for Dean to give him shit for it, because Sam's never wanted to miss school in his life, but it's sunny and Dean is happy and he doesn't feel like pushing his luck. Sam holds out the gun. "You want to go a round?"

Dean shakes his head and steps back, shoving his hands into his pockets. Sam's gaze trips like a skipping stone over Dean's hips, the bare line where Dean is pulling his jeans away from his body. It makes Dean's chest hot, makes his toes curl against the dewy grass.

A grab bag of recs

1. rivkat wrote an excellent coda to Sex & Violence that captures Dean's state of mind. Short and should be read before next week's episode.
Steadfast - Gen - Dean’s still bleeding.

2. And speaking of rivkat, she took a favorite trope of mine - amnesia - and gave it a twist, a turn and then several good screws. OK, bad puns aside, go forth and read
Only Sweeter - Slash -Dean gets amnesia; Sam tries to use it to fix him.

3. I may have mentioned this writer before - rogue_clasique - but her I'd Drive All Night series is compelling and character driven. I've been devouring the series these past few weeks. Gen. Start with the first story here. She has written two sequels - all are completed. AU. John's missing, and Dean is hurt. Sam is trying to hold it together.

4. The Doors Of Time by felisblanco. People have commented that this RPS AU story is original fic. And it is. The concept is both creative and fresh and the writing deft- RPS AU
It’s not like he doesn’t try to fit in and make friends, he really does. It just seems like nothing he does is good enough for them. If he smiles they blink. If he speaks they stare. And whenever they see him coming they get this panicked look in their eyes like they want to run away and they don’t even know why. Jensen knows why. It’s the same thing that makes his dad worry and his mom cry. That makes Nana tell his parents he’s going to Hell, not even caring that he can hear her. It’s what makes him ‘weird’.

5. RPS AU - Jared and Jensen as spies? Someone You Might Have Been by fleshflutter
Jared's a secret agent, Jensen's his handler, eventually there will be angst, porn and plot. Right now, Jared is just a bad ass and Jensen is stubbornly unimpressed.

6. candle_beck is one of my new favorites. I'd love to meet her/him and chat about the story lines and characterizations.

Impossible to Tell By Candle Beck - Slash (read the warnings)
Tonight Dean almost kills his brother. They're in this church. It's being ripped apart from the inside out, great seams opening in the stone walls and shattering the stained glass into pieces as small as rain. Their dad left them, telling them they'd be safe here. He might have used the word 'sanctuary.'

candle_beck's other Supernatural fic can be found here. I also love Eight Things You Should Know - funny, short and sweet.
The first thing you should know: Dean annoys the living hell out of Sam.

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As always my gen recs are here and my het recs are here. Previous spn recs are also here

and from my del.icio.us feed
Morgan Dawn's Supernatural Gen Fan Fiction Recs

Morgan Dawn's Supernatural Het Fan Fiction Recs

(NOTE: Some of these recs are for same sex stories with mature themes, among them there may be stories and/or discussions of consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works. )

This fall I helped big_pink pull together some of her online Supernatural fan fiction to benefit Sweet Charity. Now that the bidders have received their copies, big_pink has put up the formatted 3 volume set as a downloadable PDF for everyone to enjoy.

Single White, Double Yellow: The Red Series. Re-edited and reformatted (by me), with scans of big_pink's handwritten notes and maps, photos, a brand spanking-new foreword, and an amazing set of covers designed by smilla02. Note: the PDFs are formatted for easy-printing on standard letter (8.5 x 11).

From my private collection of recs from 2008. They range from humor to horror, slash to gen. (NOTE: Some of these recs are for same sex stories with mature themes, among them there may be stories and/or discussions of consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.)

1. Schmoop vid alert. "The epic love story of Sam and Dean."

2. Funny short J2 snippet.

3. Common Fate. (Sam/Dean), 10,000 words. Dean Winchester works in insurance: brought up in foster care, he’s never hunted, never fired a gun, and never owned a car. Then, one day, he meets a guy called Sam.

4. Misunderestimate (Sam/Dean), 3000 words. Maybe, just sometimes, violence is the answer. Or not.

5. Apocrypha (slash) ( Dean/*coff*Lucifer*coff*, R) In hell, Dean screams for his brother, and Sam comes to see him.
Dark with a twist.

6. Jumping-Off Point. (Sam/Dean), 7,500 words). Writer's take on Sam getting Dean out of the deal.
I liked the descriptions and the sense of place in this story.

7. Into His Hand. (J2 AU, RPS) 50,000 words. JR Ackles is a professional bullrider at the top of his game. He's got one thing on his mind: winning the championship belt buckle and the right to call himself the best in the world. His unwavering dedication and focus is finally put to the test in the form of JT Padalecki, an up-and-coming rider new to the professional ranks, who has his sights set on winning the PBR finals - and Jensen. Cowboys ride and get by on grit and tough determination - the question facing Jensen is if they have to do it alone.
As good - if not better - than most original fic.

8. Do I Seem Bulletproof To You? (J2 AU, RPS), 96,000 words. When he can't find any acting work, Jared takes a job as driver and bodyguard to Jensen, who is an extremely expensive prostitute with a bad habit of attracting crazy people.
One of the more interesting hookerfics I've read. A story about adults with adult reactions. One character stumble at the end, but satisfying.

9. Golden Lights Go Dark Tonight (Gen), 5000 words. In the beginning, Sam only wanted to save Dean. By the end, everything and nothing had changed.
I liked the pacing.

10. And All But He Departed, (Gen) 5,000 words. Sam’s first coherent thought was nguhhhh.
As a Terri Pratchett fan, I adored this story

11. thought I could let you go in grace. (Sam/Dean) short, Episode coda for Long Distance Call.

12. This Is The Sun Gone Down (Sam/Dean) The blood of a demon made Sam, but it can also save him. A story of one out of many, and the slow slide into love. AU.
New take on how demonic blood could lead to mental illness. as an fyi...a happy ending.

13. 13 Bound Avenue, Hamistagan ( NC-17, Dean/Jo, Dean/Jo/Sam, Dean/Sam.) Dean has a wife, a house, a steady job, a brand new ride and a charmed life. And he realizes he's not in control of any of it.
I don't want to spoil the premise but this story offers an innovative take on hell. The writing is a bit raw, but I liked the twists

14. SPN Pic spam. The many faces of Dean. The many faces of Sam.

Gen
Skimming Clouds & Breathing Fire - FIC: Tiger Boy 1/1 by pdragon76
Dean’s favoring his left side. John sees when his son’s cutting back through the front bar from the bathroom. Probably wouldn’t have noticed if he wasn’t looking for it. But when Dean sits again, he’s canted slightly to the left, and John knows he’s copped it harder than he let on back at the room. And it serves him right. It really does. That’s what you get when you’re a cocky little shit who veers off track at the speed of light to circle round on a black dog. Like the sonuvabitch knew where it was gonna break cover before the goddamn mutt did.

Winsister
vaingirlfic: Fic: Fire Took My Baby Away (Dean/Girl!Sam) (possible WIP??)
Decades after his mother and baby sister died in a fire of demonic origin Dean Winchester picks up a hitchhiker off the interstate.

Slash
People Livin' In Competition by ladyjaida
In Oasis Plains, Oklahoma, it’s not exactly the first time Dean’s slapped Sam’s ass. Hell, it’s not even the second. Dean thinks the first time mighta been on Sam’s first day of high school; anyway, Sam wasn’t able to get a date until they moved halfway through Sam’s junior year.

The Gay That It Is (Or: The Gayest Gen Story Ever) by gekizetsu
Inappropriate crack. Dean gets another ‘idea’, and the cliches run rampant. Flamingly rampant. PG-13 for boykissing.

I’ll Have What He’s Having by gekizetsu
The Harry Met Sally riff. Dean messes with Sam until Sam can’t take any more. Dean shouldn’t do that. Or maybe he should.

elise_509: Like a Rolling Thunder Chasing the Wind (Sam/Castiel)
The sound of the door slamming is a violent crash, shaking the ground underneath his feet. It makes him wince, makes him shudder.

4x01 Coda: Traded Your Worth for These Scars (Sam/Dean, NC-17) by thenyxie
Dean wonders how he can be Chosen when he feels like this. When he feels like this about Sam. Burning up, bodies sweat slicked, sliding skin to skin, whispered words and moans, fingers twined tight into fists made of both their hands. God may have pulled him out of Hell, but Dean knows he wouldn’t last the day without Sam.

As always my gen recs are here and my het recs are here. Previous spn recs are also here

I was chatting about long plotty case stories in Supernatural fandom with cofax7 this weekend. So once again here are two such case stories that I have mentioned here before:

*Joshua Tree by cofax7 (The Winchesters take a break from demon-hunting to help solve the mysterious death of a rock-climber in Joshua Tree National Park.)

*Beach Blanket Poltergeist by hansbekhart (Obviously, Dean and Sam have never made their way to Santa Cruz, California to put down rabid ghosts and stop up a hell mouth. We have a lot of ghost stories in the area, but as for actual ghosts? That depends on what you believe in.) *And then if you like both het and slash but are not into Wincest try this story that deals with Deans' life after Sam leaves for Staford. I think of this more as a character study with the sex supporting Dean's personal journey.

1300 Days by stele3 (GEN, includes both het/slash sex, but that isn't the story's focus. PG-13 to R for violence, sex, language, and drug use. Mentions of suicidal behavior) It hadn’t been four years, actually. Somewhere in the darkness of an Arizona back road, Sam piped up with a revelation: between that April day when he’d left them in the baking heat of the South Dakota Badlands, and the Halloween night when Dean had shown up unannounced at his door (through his door, actually), there had been exactly 1300 turns of the Earth. Dean grunted, and thanked every benevolent spirit he knew that the darkness of night hid his face. *If you want kickass original female characters,

stele3 has concluded her Amazing Incredible Adventures of Freakboy and Dykegirl (GEN - includes het/slash/femslash. PG-13 to NC-17 for language, sex, violence, drug use, bodyswap, genderswap, femslash, and dinosaurs.) This is not a 'het' or a slash story - although there is a lot of love between Dean and the OFC Kim. I really cannot classify it but it is one of the more original pieces of SPN fic.

*Speaking of original fic, I am enjoying traveller's In That Bright Land (Jensen, Jared, AU, Texas panhandle, summer 1936.) Like cofax7's Joshua Tree it has a wonderful sense of time and place that feels very fresh and unique. It is a WIP. *And last, if you're into het, take a moment to peruse vinylroad's Supernatural fic - her het is complex with a tilt towards the sad. Like most het in this fandom it sometimes weaves in and out of Wincest, but it pulls off a difficult balance between porny and character building. Catch her writing here most of this fic is now locked. As always my gen recs are here and my het recs are here. Previous spn recs are also here

cofax7  reminded me a few weeks ago that this novel was on my reading list. I am so glad I finally took the time to read it. Not just because it references one of my favorite books (To Kill A Mockingbird). This is a rare story that gives the original female character (did I mention this was het story?) and Sam and Dean all equal weight. They are well rounded characters and by chapter 4 I was sucked into the story and *needed* to keep reading to find out where it was going. We have Sam angst and Dean angst and love and sacrifice and hot sex and  damaged souls and hopeful redemption ...and.... go forth and read!

Mockingbird by hiyacynth(many many thousand words)
http://hiyacynth.livejournal.com/218645.html

Summary: Dean frowned and shook his head. Even if he wanted to, how could he start to explain what Sam was these days? He wasn't sure himself. He knew what Sam had been before the war. He had a pretty good idea of what Sam'd been during. And he knew Sam wasn't either of those things anymore.

(NOTE: Some of these recs are for same sex stories with mature themes, among them there may be stories and/or discussions of consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.

There has been way too little Supernatural content in this journal lately. But I am beta-ing a very intense SPN vid (oh Dean!) and it has fired me up again.

I thought I'd showcase a few of my favorite writers today. There are so many, so I am grabbing a few randomly. Today, two writers who challenge themselves, the readers, and their characters by asking: What if....? If you're looking for simple case stories or comfortable "Sam and Dean and the Impala and their epic love" tales, then these may not be writers for you (more on those later).

kroki_refur
Writes mainly gen with some slash tossed in for leavening. Her writing is solid, she takes time building both the world and the characters (very important when you deviate from canonical characterization or even conventionally accepted views of the characters). She also has written a few thoughtful AUs: among them: What if Sam grew up in a universe where Dean never existed? And then they meet? (There But For The Grace) What if Sam lives in two universes simultaneously? one in which Jess dies and one in which Jess lives? (Crow on the Cradle)

If you're not in the mood for something long, then try some of her shorter works: they are tight and well paced:
Lost and Found (Sam saves Dean -- but sometimes, things just aren't that simple.)
Blood and Wine Are Red (Eventually, one of those boys is going to get caught.)
Messing Around With Slim (You don't mess around Slim. It's really a bad idea.)

kroki_refur uses cut tags and offers clear and detailed warnings and ratings on all her fic.

BUT..... if there is on thing in her LJ to read, it is her Supernatural Ten Expressions. Every episode she picks the best expressions from the show and serves them up to us with hilarious captions. Go forth and laugh.


fleshflutter
Her fic tends towards more darker themes but is also well thought out and well written. I'll start, however, with a story that is not dark to illustrate her wide range:
The Firefly That Loved Metallica (Dean's soul tastes like candyfloss. It's like a little, warm cloud of spun sugar in Sam's mouth. ) it is sweet and poignant without sacrificing masculine characterization

In Nomine Patris Her Bobby/Dean story is not a pairing I'd necessarily read or believe: but the psychological exploration of Dean's character and his unresolved issues with self-worth and family roles really sells the story to me.

One of the best horror SPN stories I've ever read was written by fleshflutter. It is The Old Gods Return (she has written a small coda to this story but I cannot seem to find it)

and last, if you thought you could never to read an 'end of the world story' and like it - I challenge you to read Starting From Home

fleshflutter also uses cut tags and offers clear and detailed warnings and ratings on all her fic.

thanks to bittermint, I found out that our cable on demand is offering a few NBC pilots. Bionic Woman and The Journeyman (both sci-fi). I watched Bionic Woman - it wasn't too terrible, just offering the hints of what mind be some interesting twists. It was like an old Witchblade-Firefly-BSG reunion with many of our favorite actors playing smaller (and some larger) parts.

We hope to watch The Journeyman tonight.

And last, in honor of lyra_wing's rewrite of The Outsiders for the Supernatural universe (NC17, Wincest), I reread the book this week. It still makes me cry like a 16 year old girl. Considering a 16yr girl wrote it, I find this fitting.

(NOTE: Some of these recs are same sex stories involving adult themes, among them there may be stories and/or discussions of consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.)

I am such a sap for death stories and sacrifice. I really enjoyed this video. Oh Dean.

http://meivocis.livejournal.com/326483.html

Big Bang Recs
Swear By All Flowers by sweetestdrain  (Sam/Dean, R)
With the Baba Yaga myth as a backdrop this is a Sam and Dean who are messy and vulnerable and human and true.

Hunger of Old Mouths by plutogirl10  (Sam/Dean, R)
To quote killabeez:  "It's one of those slash-notslash stories, in that outside circumstances push the [slash] issue in a way that completely and totally works for me. It's like a have your cake and eat it too kind of story, and so satisfying in that regard, particularly for someone like me who loves the Wincest like burning, but also desperately needs to have it flow out of the characters as we see them on the show."

The Knuckles of Skinnybone Tree by hansbekhart (Sam/Dean, NC17)
Summary: John Winchester walks the badlands, lost on the Path of the Dead, when he meets two mysterious men: a pair of hunters chasing the same ghost that he is, who tell him that he's wound up more than twenty years in the future. They promise to get him back to his own time - back to his young children - but refuse to tell him anything about themselves. The three men find themselves entangled with the warring spirits of the land, but John is pursued by nightmares and caught up between the two hunters, who are keeping secrets that John doesn't understand.

And a bonus RPS story that blew me away this evening: 
Untitled Jared Padelecki Project (Jared/Jensen, R/NC17, RPS).
Well plotted, painful and  very intense. I loved watching this story unfold.It was like origami.
Summary: After Supernatural, Jensen and Jared aren't talking. But a film's a film and Jensen could really use the money.

NOTE: some of these links are to  same sex stories involving adult themes, among them consensual incest. You must be 18 or older to read these works.

Groundhog Day is one of my favorite movies. (nb: it is also one of the Dalai Lama's favorites. Or so I 've been told). So if you're in the mood for a bit of snark, a smidgen of angst and the tale of  Groundhog named Phil, then check it out.

Punxsutawney Sucks by big_pink

Summary: Six weeks after Punxsutawney Phil sees his shadow, people are mysteriously bursting into flame.
Rated: Gen-o-riffic. Fun, funny, moderate amounts of angst, but mostly a romp.

Excerpt:
They approached town from the north, saw the signs when they were still a fair distance out. Shit, how could you miss them? I am so going to have a field day with this, Dean thought, glancing at Sam in the passenger seat. “You’re only 10 miles from Punxsutawney, home of Phil!” he read softly, like he had children’s stories when Sam was little. And in the middle of the billboard, a painted image of a big bulky rodent on his hind legs, little forelegs held out almost zombie-like. Dean bit the inside of his mouth, hard. Poor Sammy. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

“Don’t,” Sam warned, as though Dean had subtitles. A little unnerving, that habit, actually.

Very lengthy, twisty (and sometimes complicated story) about the lengths Sam would go to protect Dean and to win peace for his family. Even if the first chapters confuse you, stick with it. Excellent secondary characters and well plotted.

Six of One by vee_fic 
(63,000 words)

Tagline: "I'm looking for somebody," said Sam. "Somebody named Sam Winchester?"

I love this story. It felt like a dream.

Dust In The Wind by lyra_wing

It was like a sixth sense. Knowing when a change in the weather would come, knowing which way the dice would fall. As time passed, the sense grew stronger. Sam could tell immediately when someone was lying to him, Dean always got dealt the best hand in the deck, and sometimes, if they both wanted something enough... it'd just happen.