hoodie_time | let the whipping boy ride (fic and art recs; mostly Sam/Dean w. some other pairings + gen) (Reply)

There’s a theme to this rec post! I just don’t know quite what to call it. It’s all to do with pain, and complicated relationships with pain. Aaaad there’s quite a bit of kinkiness too. \o/

As always, feel free to share your similarly themed recs or self-recs in the comments for others to check out.

Fic:

Title: A Functional Kind of Art
Author:

fossarian
Tags: injury (misc.), psychological issues
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean, pre-series
Rating: PG-13
Word-count: 2,100
Spoilers: None
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Sam helps patch Dean up, in his own way.
Reccer’s comments: A perceptive look at pre-series Sam/Dean. This is both cutting and lovely.

Title: Keep Us Hidden
Author:

geckoholic @

carpe_verba
Tags: post-hell issues, pain
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Word-count: 6898
Spoilers: Set in the second half of S5.
Warnings: adult content, light kink and D/S overtones.
Summary: Even now, hardly able to look each other in the eye, still lying to each other through their teeth, Sam up in arms and Dean barely holding on, they won't stop.
Reccer’s comments: Oh, man. Post-hell!Dean with a pain-kink pushes all my buttons, and I thought this was a completely delightful blend of kinky hotness and h/c.

Title: Exit Wounds
Author: Gin/

backinblack
Tags: post-hell issues, psychological damage/broken!Dean, supernatural injury/trauma, sexual abuse (non-con and dub-con)
Characters: Dean, Sam, etc.
Genre/pairing: Demon/Dean, Other/Dean, Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Word-count: 31,000
Spoilers: Season 4
Warnings: Noncon, dubcon, Dean in hell, mentions of violence and gore, explicit hardcore sex (emphasis on explicit), some unsavory situations involving tentacles. Seriously. I know this sounds dire and may put some people off, but give it a chance!
Summary: Dean, brought back from hell, deals with dreams and things not quite fitting into place.
Reccer’s comments: What the author said in the warnings! I'm open to trying most things, but this looked a little hardcore for my tastes. I’m really glad I gave it a chance, though. This is an original, compelling look at post-hell Dean. Told from his deceptively calm POV, this fic managed to shock me and disturb me like only the best horror can. And I can’t neglect to mention super-protective!Sam, who is SO scarily hot here.

Title: Pyrexia
Author:

lifting_latches
Tags: fever, post-hell issues
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Word-count: 1846
Spoilers: Season 6
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Written for the prompt, After hell (for both of them) and the start of or return to a physical relationship, they discover some interesting things when Dean is down with a fever. One, Sam likes being in control after so long without it and is incredibly and embarrassingly turned on by Dean’s feverish vulnerability. Two, Dean is conditioned to like being dominated/lose control the way Alastair did to him. No dub-con, just screwed-up!boys, and some manhandled!Dean, please.
Reccer’s comments: This is awesomely kinky, but there’s so much going on with the characters here too and it’s really psychologically interesting.

Title: Five times Dean got off on pain.
Author:

merihn
Tags: injury (misc.), pain
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean
Rating: NC-17
Word-count: N/A
Spoilers: None
Warnings: pain!kink
Summary: Five times Dean got off on pain.
Reccer’s comments: A nice little 5 times fic, raw and hot.

Title: The Only Thing
Author:

reapertownusa
Tags: bed sharing, hugs/cuddling, post-hell issues, pain, psychological damage/broken!Dean
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Gen, AU (in which Sam was the one to raise Dean from hell and Dean's soul didn't come back so nicely intact.)
Rating: R
Word-count: 1,960
Spoilers: Through early Season 4
Warnings: References to graphic torture. Vague references to past non-con and attempted suicide. Consensual non-erotic spanking of an adult.
Summary: Dean still carries a piece of hell inside him and Sam is the only one who can help him cope.
Reccer’s comments: A great balance of brutal and comforty. I love Dean here, the flashbacks and the panic and the trying so hard to be who he thinks he's supposed to be. And Saaaaam. He's awesome here too.

Title: The Ravished Minds
Author:

smilla02
Tags: post-hell issues, psychological issues, pain, torture
Characters: Dean, Chief
Genre/pairing: Gen, with allusions to Dean/OMC (Chief from 4.12)
Rating: R
Word-count: 3,300
Spoilers: Coda to 4.12
Warnings: BDSM, dark!fic, mature themes and nudity, bloody imagery, memories of torture, the whole Hell jazz.
Summary: Everything, regret and shame and every nagging doubt, are gone, gone. Gone.
Reccer’s comments: I will never, ever be over fics like this one, that expertly explore the profound and subtle ways Dean must have been - and still must be - affected by his experiences in hell. (In case you didn't notice from the rest of this rec post, lolol.) I also love the way this takes a one-off character (Chief) and builds a whole story on him.

Art:

Title: Whipping
Artist: anon
Tags: injury, physical abuse, scars
Genre/pairing: Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: watercolours
Rating: R (rated by reccer)
Warnings: See description
Description: Dean/Castiel, whipping. It's really quite schmoopy. Hardcore schmoop.
Reccer’s comments: Anything that calls itself hardcore schmoop intrigues me, and ahhdgxhsk. So good. I love the watercolours. And the... Dean. ♥

BONUS: I made a rec post awhile ago on Dean and his scars, and I wanted to re-rec a bunch of them in this post, but to keep it from being MASSIVE, I’ll just point you there instead. ;)