Fic: Gate Control (Residual Limbs Timestamp), R, Gen, Sam, Dean, OFC

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Title: Residual Limbs Timestamp: Gate Control
Author: rainylemons 
Rating: R for language and drug use
Genre and/or Pairing: h/c, gen, permanent injury
Spoilers: Not much, really.
Warnings: Hmm, well, Dean’s hands have been amputated. Other than that? We’re good.
Word Count:  3510
Disclaimer:  I think we had this talk when I’d written amputee Dean the first time– no way Kripke would let me do this to his boy.
Summary:  Sam and Dean drive to the Missouri countryside to pick up Dean’s “nurse”. Dean deals with his injuries and blooming addiction to Morphine.
Author’s Note: This isn’t going to make a whole lot of sense if you haven’t read Residual Limbs, so, if you can stomach the thought of Dean as a bilateral amputee, you may want to read that first.
Author’s Note II: As with the first, this is all roque_clasique ’s fault.

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Fic: Permanent State

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Title: Permanent State
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating/Word Count: R; 21,300.

Summary: For eight months, one week, and three days Dean has been trapped in supernatural limbo, living out alternate realities of his own life. He can’t control when the world decides to lurch, has no power over what version of himself comes next and why. Dean’s only concern is to get back to Sam, but time, he realizes, is running out.

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Because of the Amazons, Part 3/?

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Title: Because of the Amazons
Author: wave_obscura 
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Gen
Summary: If only they could have just driven off into the sunset. If only it could have ended happily-ever-after that way, with the gleam of the bumper, the exhaust and blue sky and maybe even Sam's hand out the window, surfing a warm breeze. But there's nothing like that.
Warnings/Spoilers: WIP, sick!Dean, sick!Sam, language, minor Dean/OFC
Disclaimer: No affiliation with Supernatural, no copyright infringement intended.
Author's Note: This is a sequel to Because of Houdini (or the second installment in the Houdini verse, if you will), an AU in which Dean has cystic fibrosis, a chronic illness of the lungs. You probably need to read the first one first. 

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Fic: Statistically Speaking 1/1

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Title: Statistically Speaking
Author: triquetralmoon
Rating: R -Swearing,
Genre: Gen X-over with House, M.D.
Warnings: A random autumn at some point post-Stanford, you should be okay. Something that might be misconstrued as homophobia but is really just --- House. House is just...House.
Word Count: ~2100                

Summary: Based on a lonely prompt from comment meme 1, posted by Anonymous.  "Dean goes to Doctor House and is diagnosed with asthma... it can be set in the now or when Dean is a teenager."  Adult Dean - and I sort of went my own way with the hurtification, wave_obscura  encouraged me. So - not just asthma.  

(Statistically Speaking)    


 

2 recent fics featuring mental illness/mentally ill!Dean (both gen)

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This is a topic I'm interested in, and one I'm interested in seeing treated with care. I feel like the authors of these two fics do an amazing job with the subject matter, plus they're just A+ in general, so... rec-post time!

A bigger rec-post on this subject from back in November can be found here if you're looking, btw, and there's even more to be found in the tags.

The Mad Road by bellatemple
& accompanying art by apieceofcake
Author's notes/summary: Written for spn_j2_bigbang. On October 31st, 2005, Sam Winchester wakes up to find someone rummaging through his kitchen. It's his father, with bad news: his brother's dead, and the thing that killed him is coming to Palo Alto. Weeks later, Jo Harvelle follows a lead on her missing boyfriend to a mental health facility and meets a man, dressed in half-scrubs, half-flannel, with bandaged wrists and paranoid tendencies. His name is Dean Winchester, he knows more than he possibly could, and convincing his family he's not really dead would only be half their problem -- if Jo can help him find them... Spoilers through “Dark Side of The Moon.” Please read warnings at link. 47000 words. R, gen.

Reccer's notes: Whoah. This has got to be one of the most well-thought-out and plotted stories I’ve read in this fandom. It’s twisty and turny and compelling and just so CLEVER. I was so impressed by how awesome and smart it was I actually had this look on my face when I finished reading it: :-o True story, bro.

Mental illness is in the background only for parts of this fic, fyi, which I actually really appreciate. It deals with all of Dean’s issues in a nice, subtle way.

And apieceofcake’s art goes beautifully with the story. The colouring is pretty-pretty, and I haven't had a chance to check out that many Big Bangs this year, but I already know she and bellatemple have made this one of my all-around favourite Big Bangs of 2010.

Tags: drugs (psychiatric), hospitalization (psychiatric), mental illness, self-harm, sleepwalking, suicide attempt, supernatural injury/trauma

Out of All the Hours by ratherastory
Author's notes/summary: Sometimes, the monsters are all in your head. Warnings: Mental illness, non-graphic descriptions of self-harm. 7,018 words. Pre-series gen.

Reccer's notes: This is one of the best, most realistic fics I’ve read about mental illness. The subject matter is handled with care and respect, and incorporated into the SPN universe very organically. Also, teen!Sam's POV is perfection.

Tags: bipolar disorder, hospitalization (psychiatric), mental illness, psychotic break, self-harm

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