like a fever that just won't break.

Title: Demon!Dean
Artist: cheuwell@Tumblr
Character: Dean
Rating: Safe For Work
Medium: digital painting/portraiture

Reccer's Comments: I have never been so aroused by a piece of fan art in my entire life. Holy moly, guys, this is AMAZING. JUST CLICK ON IT, OKAY. (Which I just typo'd as "LICK ON IT"--this may also be a viable option, though I'm not sure how your computer screen would feel about that. The color palette, the texture to his fabrics, his demony eyes and his eyelashes (and surely we're all aware of Dean's eyelashes), his cool-ass expression. Words cannot describe how much I love this piece, they really can't. And the demonsmoke filtering past his lips is shudderingly awesome.

This is backroom, dive bar, bad boy kinds of sexiness.


Note: I'm using the "smoke inhalation" tag in a non-traditional way, but you know what? STILL ACCURATE.

With hoodie_time's themed week starting tomorrow, I thought I'd unofficially wrap up last month's comment meme with a few recs. (Unofficially, because it is never too late to fill a prompt. ;D) In an effort not to simply rec basically the entire masterlist, I figured I'd start by reccing the entire masterlist. Because really, I rec everyhing! Check out everything!

To help express the tremendous variation and experimentation of this meme's fills, however, I've highlighted a few pieces:

Home by annonwrite
Genre: Stanford!era alternate timeline
Characters: Dean, Sam, Jess
Pairing: Sam/Jess
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~1200

The gorgeous specificity of language, pristine dialogue, and understated--yet extremely evocative--tone of this piece really emphasizes each brief encounter between Dean, Sam, and Jess during Sam's time at Stanford. Each scene feels painfully delicate (in the best of ways), and yet, is undergirded by unmistakable love, security, a sense of 'home' you don't often expect, or find, in SPN.

How to Get Over a Broken Neck (and other advice for hunters with homicidal family members) by i_speak_tongue
Genre: 1x10 "Asylum" tag!fic, alternate timeline
Characters: Sam, Dean, OCs
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~3000

Immaculately situated in S1 canon (plot-wise as well as emotionally), i_speak_tongue's fic excavates fresh ground alongside 1x10 "Asylum," which is particularly impressive given the massive corpus of excellent and variegated fanworks that have sprung from these same roots over the last nine years (!). A combination of deft character interactions and exquisite internal dialogue, this fic balances vulnerability, fear, and steady un-histrionic humanity in a way that makes me fall in love with Dean all over again.

Submerged by ever_dimming
Genre: S4 hell/post-hell issues, outsider!POV
Characters: Dean, OCs, Sam
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: ~4700

There's a horizon to the speaker in this fic that stretches beyond the moment of her encounter with Dean, without diluting the intensity of the immediate narrative. And more than that, there's a horizon to the world into which that narrative intervenes. This is a fic with an ER that can't necessarily promise 24/7 supervision of one patient amongst many. Sure, it's a small detail, but it speaks to more than its face value; and this fic turns expertly on minutiae--from the taste of coffee to what the speaker does and does not see in Dean, to a dim smile of Sam's, which "must have been lovely once."

( 3 more! Dissociation feat. Dean+Sam, threat of possession/aftermath/TERRIBLE S9THINGS feat. Dean+Abaddon/Dean+Sam, and wonderful H/C fic that is Definitely Not Crack!fic... )

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REC YOUR FAVORITES, TOO! You can either link them here in the comments, or put together your own separate rec post. :)

Additionally everyone should ALSO DEFINITELY FEEL FREE to cross-post your fills to the main comm, too! Don't be shy--let the world see what we've wrought, nyeh heh heh heh. >:D