the post-hunt comedown (fic and art recs; gen, Dean/Sam + 1 Dean/Lisa)

[maypoles.livejournal.com]

Unf, I love this theme. <3 As always, please feel free to share your own similarly themed recs/self-recs in the comments.

Fic:

Title: Take Me to the River
Author: ariadnes_string
Tags: crying!Dean, exhaustion
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen, h/c
Rating: PG
Word-count: 1,800
Spoilers: General S5, no plot spoilers for any episodes.
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Sometimes help with ordinary things means the most.
Reccer’s comments: This is an example of a gen fic that’s every bit as intimate as fic with a pairing/pairings. Awesome.

Title: Lipstick and Bruises
Author: breebree16 @ in_the_tree
Tags: injury (misc.)
Characters: Dean, Lisa, a bit of Sam
Genre/pairing: Dean/Lisa
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: N/A
Spoilers: Takes place between 6.02 and 6.05.
Warnings: N/A
Summary: It wouldn't be the first time he came home in stitches, barely being held together in the one piece he promised to return in.
Reccer’s comments: A fantastically poignant look at Dean and Lisa’s relationship, after Sam comes back.

Title: An Empathetic Response
Author: callistosh65
Tags: injury (misc.), shower sharing
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: R/NC-17 (rated by reccer)
Word-count: 1,800
Spoilers: A coda to 6.19 'Mommy Dearest'.
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Dean would really like to finish his shower and put this crappy day to bed.
Reccer’s comments: This is hot and awesome and happy-making. I looove it.

Title: At the End of the Day
Author: dragonspell
Tags: exhaustion, injury (misc.), shower sharing
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: PG
Word-count: 770
Spoilers: N/A
Warnings: N/A
Summary: It's not about getting clean. It never really was.
Reccer’s comments: In which Sam and Dean are hopelessly co-dependent, just the way I like them best. This is gentle, yet intense.

Title: Electric Feel
Author: jaimeykay
Tags: carried!Dean, exhaustion, shower sharing
Genre/pairing: Dean/Sam
Rating: NC-17 (rated by reccer)
Word-count: N/A
Spoilers: N/A
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Written for the prompt - Dean is totally exhausted - like, can barely even stay on his feet, keep his eyes open exhausted - post-hunt, but they're in the shower cleaning up and things get a little SEXY.
Reccer’s comments: This is a blindfold_spn fill that was previously recced here, but has since been revealed to have been written by jaimeykay, and this is the new link. <3 Anyway, it was written for a prompt of mine, and it’s so intimate and sweet and HOT and really, everything I wanted when I prompted it.

Title: Dress You in Nothing Else
Author: laurificus
Tags: concussion/head trauma
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: adult
Word-count: 2,279
Spoilers: Season 6
Warnings: N/A
Summary: "I've got a concussion. And that's a pretty nice suit."
Reccer’s comments: This explores Dean’s relief at having souled!Sam back with him. Warm and hot and just the right amount of schmoopy. Full of love.

Between the Essence and the Descent, also by laurificus has been recced here several times recently, but I want to give it a shout-out in this rec post too. It's Sam/Dean, adult, set directly post "All Hell Breaks Loose 1." There is shower-sharing and other awesomeness!

Title: The Eight Hard Ways
Author: lyra_wing
Tags: post-Faith angstyness, injury (misc.), insecurities (misc.)
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Word-count: N/A
Spoilers: Takes place after "Faith."
Warnings: language, sex, incest
Summary: Sparring porn. 'Nuff said.
Reccer’s comments: Sparring porn! I would love that on its’ own, but this is also set post-Faith and deals with the fallout from that ep, and I adore that too. <3

Title: Tangle
Author: mollyamory
Tags: exhaustion
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: Adult
Word-count: 2,700
Spoilers: N/A
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Dean's so open like this, the sudden shift from danger to safety knocking his defenses down like dominoes.
Reccer’s comments: One of the reasons I like these kinds of fics so much is the idea of Dean being so tired his defences are stripped down for once, and this is a prime example of that. It's at once tender and scorchingly hot.

Title: An Absence of Violence
Author: riyku
Tags: exhaustion, injury (misc.), physical assault
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Dean/Sam, pre-series
Rating: R
Word-count: 1,900
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Hurt!Dean, borderline for underage.
Summary: Dean finally comes home. He's in pretty bad shape.
Reccer’s comments: This captures, with beautiful language and unexpected turns of phrase, exactly how Sam sees Dean, and the nearly overwhelming love/other emotions that they have for each other.

Title: Tourniquet
Author: rhythmsextion @ pianoforeplay
Tags: injuries (misc.)
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: 1,300
Spoilers: Seasons 1/2.
Warnings: Though this fic takes place sometime around S1 or S2, there are some allusions to some underage stuff here.
Summary: Sam and Dean heal each other, always have and always will.
Reccer’s comments: What the summary says. <3 This is a beautiful little fic. There’s hurt!Sam in this one too, btw; they share the hurt pretty equally.

Title: Best Hunt Clean-Up Ever
Author: saavikam77
Tags: bruises, manhandling, shower sharing
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: R
Word-count: 1,244
Spoilers: None
Warnings: N/A
Summary: After a really dirty hunt, Sam and Dean find salvation in the form of a Golds Gym and a Dollar General.
Reccer’s comments: Some fun, deliciously low-angst shower sharing! Yay!

Title: Nobody Mess With Me Tonight
Author: transfixeddream
Tags: injury (misc.), hugs/cuddling, physical assault
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean, pre-series (Sam is 18)
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: 2300
Spoilers: None
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Dean ends up on the receiving end of some punches and Sam fixes him up.
Reccer’s comments: In which Dean gets his ass handed to him after a hustle. A wonderful Dean voice, and wonderful, protective!Sam. YUM.

Art:

Title: After The Hunt
Artist: la_fantomette
Tags: injury (misc.)
Characters: Dean
Genre/pairing: Gen
Rating: PG-13 (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Bare chest!Dean. May be NSFW.
Summary: N/A
Reccer’s comments: la_fantomette is a new discovery for me, and her art is exceptional. This piece shows us Dean doing a common, every-day thing, but is completely striking.

Title: Headaches [leave feedback here]
Artist: smallworld_inc
Tags: concussion/head trauma, injury (misc.)
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Dean/Sam-ish
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Partial nudity (bare-chest), a bit of blood
Summary: Sam takes care of his brother.
Reccer’s comments: This is one piece from smallworld_inc’s absolutely INCREDIBLE set of 25 SPN drawings for hc_bingo (many, but not all involve hurt!Dean, btw.) The amount of creativity in that post amazes me.

An older piece by the same artist, previously recced here, would be a good fit for this theme too. ;) That would be Bad Wound, (NSFW, Dean, gen.)

Title: Sam’s Patch Up Job
Artist: zinfer
Tags: concussion/head trauma
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Gen
Rating: G (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Summary: N/A
Reccer’s comments: SO CUTE UGH. What could be better than chibi!Sam giving chibi!Dean first aid? Only the real thing being acted out on my screen.

Comments

[katiki7.livejournal.com]

Wow, lots awesome-looking recs! I think I'll start with the Dean/Lisa one, I love stories that explore the conflict between Dean's hunting and domestic lives. (And I have to give props to Sera, I really love the female characters on the show so much more since she took over, starting with Lisa.)

[maypoles.livejournal.com]

I think I'll start with the Dean/Lisa one, I love stories that explore the conflict between Dean's hunting and domestic lives.

Awesome. And yeah, me tooooo. ;)))

Lisa/Dean is totally my favourite het pairing in this fandom; I just can't get enough of it.

[katiki7.livejournal.com]

I was so afraid they were make her nagging or bitchy or helpless and ruin her for me. So in that very first scene when the alarm goes off, and she rolls over and rubs Dean's shoulder and asks "You okay?" I was like I LOVE HER! THANK YOU!

[salty-catfish.livejournal.com]

Great theme! I've read the first one and love it.

[maypoles.livejournal.com]

<333

[geckoholic]

UNF, these all look so good. *bookmarking all over the place*

Also, the last one... I just about passed out from a saccharine overdose. CUTE!!

[maypoles.livejournal.com]

I have such a weakness for chibis. Chibies? HOWEVER YOU SPELL IT. LOVE.

[smallworld-inc.livejournal.com]

Wow! What an awesome rec'! I'm really happy to be in it \o/
Once again, there are many fics and art I didn't read or see!
Thank you so much for reccing me an for your hard work putting this list together ♥

[maypoles.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank-you for your awesomeness! ♥

[colls]

ooo... several I haven't read - :D
thank you

[maypoles.livejournal.com]

♥!

[la-fantomette.livejournal.com]

It's my second rec', I'm so excited!
Thank you so much for reccing me ♥

[maypoles.livejournal.com]

You deserve all the recs in the world. ;D

♥♥♥

[ariadnes-string.livejournal.com]

thanks for the rec!

(it's weird to look at that fic, which I wrote when I was more depressed than I may have ever been in my life--glad something halfway decent came out of that time, I guess)

[maypoles.livejournal.com]

Aw. <333 I've noticed when I'm on my way into a depression, I'm at my most creative. It's kind of not cool, how that works.