http://hoodietime.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] hoodietime.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] hoodie_time2010-01-21 08:49 pm

sleep deprived!Dean fic recs (all gen)

Happy Winchester Day, everyone! Have some recs.

Fyi, this post was inspired by InSecret's new fic, (featuring sleep-deprived!Dean, but of course) which is recced below. If you have any other similarly themed recs, (or self-recs), please leave them in the comments to this post so that others can check them out.

Qui Non Somnus (Those Who Do Not Sleep) by [livejournal.com profile] authoressnebula
Author's note/summary: Written for [livejournal.com profile] hoodie_time's Dean-focused h/c comment-fic meme. Prompt: Dean is hit with a curse that keeps him from sleeping and he starts to suffer the symptoms of severe sleep-deprivation, ie: heightened emotions, hallucinations, confusion. But especially heightened emotions!

Reccer's notes: As I said in my original feedback to this - I really appreciated how the author wrote this, how it let us see an openly emotional Dean we don't usually get to see, but it wasn't overdone at all. It fit, and it was touching, and it was perfect. Really nice job.

Tags: crying!Dean, curse, hallucinations, sleep deprivation

Morituri Te Salutant by [livejournal.com profile] chiiyo86 [fic challenge response]
Author's notes/summary: “If everybody contemplates the infinite instead of fixing the drains, many of us will die of cholera.” John Rich / Written for the Dean-focused h/c fic challenge on [livejournal.com profile] hoodie_time, in answer to the prompt: "Future!Dean, future!Castiel, set in the 5.04 AU, circa. 2014. The conditions under which the resistance fighters live make them vulnerable to disease. Dean, Cas, et. al. struggle to deal with the an outbreak/epidemic of some disease... Dean eventually succumbs (to the disease, to exhaustion, even to despair, but something with physical symptoms, please, not just emotional distress). Castiel is there for him." Spoilers for 5.04 "The End.” PG-13. Castiel, Dean, gen.

Reccer's notes: I loved the episode “The End,” and this fic made me love it even more! This is an amazing and poignant imagining of how Dean and Castiel's future selves might relate to each other. Every well-placed mention of Sam just made my heart clench up.

Tags: exhaustion, pain: emotional

Stay Awake All Night by InSecret
Author's notes/summary: Sam won't let Dean sleep, because when Dean sleeps, he's ... not himself. Hurt!sleepdeprived!Dean. 2,139 words. Set in season 5. Rated PG-13 for swearing. Gen.

Reccer's notes: This was fantastic! Sam is protective in this simultaneously tough and gentle way, which is exactly how I imagine season 5-era!Sam would react to such a situation. And we get bonus protective!Bobby, who I love aaaalmost as much as protective!Sam.

Tags: blood-loss, cold, fainting/collapse, injury, possession, sleep deprivation

Sleepless by JennK528
Author's notes/summary: After a hunt, Dean finds himself unable to fall asleep. Just a little insomnia, right? 15,152 words. PG-13, gen.

Reccer's notes: This is a neat little casefile. I especially love the part where Dean, critically sleep-deprived and knowing that it's only going to get worse, tells Sam to take a break from research/finding a cure for him, that Sam looks worse than Dean does. That's so THEM.

Tags: curse, dehydration, insomnia, nausea, supernatural illness

Green Tea and Ice by [livejournal.com profile] katriel1987
Author's notes/summary: Everybody’s gone in the cotton and the corn, didn’t leave nobody but the baby. Written for the [livejournal.com profile] spn_hurtcomfort h/c comment-fic meme prompt: Exhausted-to-the-point-of-collapse Dean. PG, gen.

Reccer's notes: The stream-of-consciousness way this is written really conveys that awful, trance-like state of being sleep-deprived. I may have actually cheered when Sam showed up. Yay, Sam!

Tags: broken bone, fainting/collapse, possession, exhaustion

[identity profile] glenien.livejournal.com 2010-01-22 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
My love for this comm is epic. Seriously, you came up with best recs and rec lists ever, I'm kinda new into the fandom and all I need to go through the tags- voila, I'm a happy persona.

[identity profile] ladybria.livejournal.com 2010-01-22 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I can't wait to read all of these! ♥I love this site♥

[identity profile] roque-clasique.livejournal.com 2010-01-22 10:50 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the recs! Can't wait to check them out.

Have you read Katriel1987's "Shadows on the Wall"? For me that is THE sleep-deprived fic, it's excellent. http://katriel1987.livejournal.com/17878.html

and as a podfic here by twasadark, also excellent: http://audiofic.jinjurly.com/category/authorkatriel1987

[identity profile] kai-pon.livejournal.com 2010-01-22 12:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I really love the recs in this comm *___* There is always at least one fic I haven'tread XD

Here is another sleep deprived fic: Insomnia by Onari http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4462427/1/Insomnia

[identity profile] crimsonkitty88.livejournal.com 2010-01-23 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
This is something I never knew I wanted until now.

[identity profile] jennk528.livejournal.com 2010-01-23 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey, thanks for another lovely rec and the kind comments! What a nice surprise. :)

Thanks for the rec!

(Anonymous) 2010-01-24 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Hey :) I deleted my LJ a while back (am gonna make a new one... eventually), so I have to comment anon (and you anon commented over on ffnet so I couldn't thank you there, LOL) but wanted to say thanks so much for the rec and for your review!

And now I get to go and check out all these other fics... *yes pose*

InSecret.

Re: Thanks for the rec!

[identity profile] insecret-ly.livejournal.com 2010-01-26 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
I just hate how ff.net won't let you leave actual links back to here. GRRRRRRR.

I know, right? Drives me crazy.

Hi, by the way, from my shiny new LJ. I finally got around to it, LOL. Will be back to add this comm very soon!

[identity profile] witchy78.livejournal.com 2010-01-24 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Just stopping by to thank you for all those recs. I always appreciate the effort you make and never commented before, so yeah now it's done. So thanks again ;o)

(Anonymous) 2010-01-25 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
Title: Sleeping Sickness
Author: felisblanco
Rating: NC-17. Warnings for incest, I guess. General S4 spoilers through approx. half the season
Word count: 1864 words
Summary: Ever since Hell Dean has had trouble sleeping. It's come to the point that Sam is willing to do just about anything to give his brother some decent rest. Even if it means... that.

Link: http://felisblanco.livejournal.com/925047.html?format=light