monthly member/guest rec submissions: misc. recs (fic; gen, Sam/Dean, and Dean/Castiel)

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I'm taking a break from basking in the the latest h/c meme to bring you a wee end-of-the-month rec post. (Ahaha, can you believe there are 11 pages of comments in just two days? YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME.)

Title: Not To Keep
Author: aramuin
Tags: carried!Dean, clothes sharing, loss of voice, supernatural trauma
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean, future-fic
Rating: R
Word-count: 4623
Warnings: Post-Apocalypic, First-Time
Summary: Not even Dean at his brashest ever seriously planned for a future where they survived.
Reccer’s comments: maypoles says: A post-apocalypic scenario that is at once a wost-case and a best-case scenario. I like the gentle way the author illustrates Sam and Dean’s changing relationship.

Title: The Empty Man
Author: legoline
Tags: Dean’s deal, vision loss/blindness
Characters: Sam, Dean, Bobby
Genre/pairing: Gen, angst
Rating: PG-13 up to R.
Word-count: A little over 20,000 words.
Summary: Sam managed to get Dean out of the deal. But six months after Dean's year should have been up, Sam and Dean still have to deal with the aftermath.
Reccer’s comments: An anon says: An oldie but goodie! This is a story where Sam breaks Dean’s deal, and the consequences this has. These consequences are different but equally interesting for each of them, and the character development that comes out of it makes this a great fic. This one also has some domestic!Winchesters, which, yum. <3

Title: Case Study 24-71X
Author: pheebs1
Tags: drugged, drugs (psychiatric), hospitalization (psychiatric), jail/prison, psychological issues
Genre/pairing: Gen
Rating: PG 13
Spoilers: Spoilers for the series up to and including Nightshifter.
Warnings: for some bad language
Summary: A psychologist presents his insane patient Dean Winchester to his students. Kind of AU.
Reccer’s comments: An anon says: This is another oldie but goodie, dealing with the what-if scenario of Dean being nabbed by the FBI and held after “Nightshifter.” The execution is brilliant, from how it gets into Dean’s head to everything else.

Title: catch the wind, see us spin
Author: prettify
Tags: ep: My Bloody Valentine, mental illness
Pairing/characters: Dean/Castiel; Sam/Jess, John/Mary, Michael
Rating: NC-17
Word-count: 11,800
Spoilers: Early season 5.
Warnings: This is pretty dark, alludes to mental illness, and has epic whumping, lots of angst, h/c, and porn.
Summary: Dean is given an out, but reality is a strange, fickle bitch.
Reccer’s comments: maypoles says: I can’t say a lot about this one without revealing too much, but I’ll say that it’s so thoughtfully planned and executed and it shows, and the writing is GORGEOUS. It’ll be one I re-read for sure.

Title: Malacoda
Author: tiny_antares
Tags: fever, hell, nightmares, supernatural illness
Characters: Dean, Castiel, Sam
Genre/pairing: Dean/Castiel pre-slash, Dean/demon!Castiel
Rating: NC-17
Word-count: 6,700
Warnings: slight element of dub-con
Summary: Castiel needs Dean's help to destroy a demon.
Reccer’s comments: maypoles says: Between this and Sandstorm (also Dean/Castiel and recced in this comm recently) tiny_antares is quickly becoming my fave new-to-me Dean/Castiel author. His stories are tense and atmospheric, and his Cas is bad-ass, just the way I like him best.

There’s hurt!bad-ass!Cas to go along with the sick!Dean in this one, btw.

➽ This post was compiled by maypoles and is posted under this account for organizational purposes.

Comments

[maypoles.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry! I changed the pronoun. And, that's awesome. Yay for boys in fandom!

[mementis.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. I knew none of these except "catch the wind, see us spin," which is a truly amazing story. I love it when this happens. Thank you! :)

[maypoles.livejournal.com]

Isn't it GREAT?

& you're so welcome!