Have you ever met a duck named Brett? I didn't think so.
1. I LOVE MY JOB SO MUCH.
2. Big Tree's new album came out! My pre-ordered copy arrived in a hand-addressed envelope. Hearts in my eyes.
3. I NEED A MILLION JESS ICONS. This is fact.
4. Fic recs!
James Bond
Untitled ficlet by elspethdixon
Summary: Wherein Bond and Felix are stuck in the Panamanian jungle.
Rating: PG-ish
Pairings: None
Star Trek
Happy Families Are All Alike by ayalesca
Summary: How Leonard McCoy was brought up to be such a fucking piece of work.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Minor McCoy/Jocelyn
The Virtues of Caffeine by caitri
Summary: Leonard McCoy is less grumpy when he has coffee. Jim Kirk makes sure he has some.
Rating: PG
Pairings: Jim/McCoy, minor Gaila/Sulu
Bonus: Podfic’d by reena_jenkins here!
Vid recs:
Marchin On by jactrades
Song: “Marchin One” by OneRepublic
Summary: Because Starfleet officers are all BAMFs
Supernatural
Acts of Creation by seperis
Summary: Bodies are no more a mystery to him than to Uriel, these fragile cases that clothe human souls, but to Castiel, there's never less than wonder in being permitted to share in this, wrapped in the work of God's own hands.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Implied Dean/Anna
And I Shall Become Weak by apreludetoanend
Summary: "That's what happens when you go to hell, Dean. That's what hell is. Forgetting what you are."
Rating: PG
Pairings: None
Beach Blanket Poltergeist by hansbekhart
Summary: They come from the north, exhausted by the sprawling highways and overpasses of Silicon Valley.
Rating: R
Pairings: None
Black Water by roque-clasique
Summary: In my blind!Dean ‘verse. Curtainfic in which the boys are settled in Minneapolis.
Rating: PG-13-ish
Pairings: None
Blind Spot by pdragon76
Summary: Dean’s on a slow burn after a bloody confrontation with an old nemesis. Sam’s got his hands full picking up the pieces. The Crossroads Deal isn’t the only timer ticking. Warnings for language, whump and sex.
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Minor Dean/OFC and Jo/OMC
Bonus: Podfic’d by twasadark here!
Blood by phrambles
Summary: Hell is so much more cruel when it's silent.
Rating: M
Pairings: None
Carmen and the Devil by glorious-spoon
Summary: John raises his daughters in the life. Girl!Dean, girl!Sam AU, written for capthollywood’s prompt on spn_rambleon: AU Always a girl!Deanna and John Winchester's relationship, how it changed from canon because of Dean being a woman, from her as a child to her adulthood and how she remembers him.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
Condensed Supernatural Season 4 by missyjack
Daughter of Man by trinityofone
Summary: Written for medie as part of this gift exchange. She wanted always-a-girl!Dean through a lens of Genesis 6, which I then twisted up with the fallout from “It’s a Terrible Life.” She kicks the shoes off on the way to the car.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Girl!Dean/Castiel
The Dean and Dana Saga of AWESOME by meyerlemon and onelittlesleep
Summary: Okay, onelittlesleep and I think that Dean should have this ultra-dorky thing going on with, like, a kindergarten teacher, where he'd be all "...cardigans!" and she'd be all "IS THIS GUY RETARDED?!? What is WRONG with him?" and-- oh, it's hard to explain, I don't even KNOW.
Rating: R-ish
Pairings: Dean/OFC
Devil’s in the House by glorious-spoon
Summary: In which Sam hustles pool to pay for his textbooks, and an unexpected opponent turns up. Pre-series, outside POV.
Rating: PG
Pairings: None
Dreams by rosestoo
Summary: A curse stops Sam from sleeping, ever.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
The Drive ‘Verse Series by roque_clasique
Summary: Everything's the same except Dean busted his leg when an old cabin floor collapsed on him while he was hunting a poltergeist, John went AWOL while he was in the hospital for 4 months, and Sam fetched him from Bobby's and brought him to Stanford, which brought us to the pilot. So now we're in early season 1.
Rating: R
Pairings: Sam/Jess, some Dean/OFC
Four for a boy by irnan
Summary: Dean Winchester does not get haunted. By ANYONE. There's rules about that, right?
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
Go Back To Sleep by devilyouwere
Summary: A different take on Mystery Spot: in Broward County, Dean dies each new Tuesday and he is aware he does, but Sam doesn't notice.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
The Hardest Word by pdragon76
Summary: When the boys hit the skids on a hunt, they’ve got some time to …errr, kill *cough* at the grave of Harley Simco.
Rating: M
Pairings: Makes some mention of Sam/Jess
Bonus: Podfic’d by chemm80 here!
Her Tracks Are On The Land by cofax7
Summary: The boy she's spent twenty years searching for, in memory of her dead sister, turned out to be a serial killer. How's that for a kick in the pants? Could be read as AU, but not yet entirely jossed.
Rating: PG
Pairings: Gen, with minor mentions of Sam/Jess
Bonus: Podfic’d by circadienne here!
Hot/Cold by kalliel
Summary: It's cut and dry; two days, two states, two cases, two brothers. But there's also one crossroads deal, so fresh that the ink's still drying, and to top it all off, a nasty flu virus, which makes for one sick Dean and one conflicted Sam. Set circa Season 3.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
In the Tribe (Or, How Castiel and Dean Acquired the Pet Names Peanut and Crackerjack, Respectively) by seraphwings
Summary: Castiel, it turns out, is an avid baseball fan.
Rating: G
Pairings: Dean/Castiel
In Which Direction We Are Flowing by unamaga
Summary: Pause, rewind - let’s try that one again. You’re not doing it right.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Sam/Jess
The Kindness of Strangers by unamaga
Summary: For the first spn_hols prompt, "Hot Chocolate".
Rating: PG
Pairings: Minor Sam/Jess
Life Used to Be So Hard by roque_clasique
Summary: It’s only their second month, but the girl at the grocery store recognizes Dean as he plonks his purchases on the checkout counter and starts tugging his wallet out of his jeans pocket.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
Living It Right by unamaga
Summary: June, 1989 - Connecticut
Rating: PG
Pairings: None
Monkberry Moon Delight by i-speak-tongue
Summary: There’s a jug of kittens in the lampshade. They want razor blades for lunch.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
my life’s come off its tracks by mimblexwimble
Summary: Dean tells her, things are going fine, yeah he got into a fight and no, he doesn’t want to talk about it. He’s getting better and better at this sign language thing. He looks at her brightly. Big smile. Opens his swollen eye as wide as it can go.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Gen, with very minor and vague Dean/OFC
Bonus: Podfic'd by painted-pain here!
Plant Your Flag On a Fault Line by tripoli8
Summary: Sam Holland is wearing a Packers sweatshirt in the picture on his drivers license.
Rating: PG-13/R-ish
Pairings: Background Sam/Jess
Bonus: Commentary by the author here! Podfic’d by the author here!
Proxy by kalliel
Summary: There's a woman in Los Angeles who spent three months driving with a corpse in her front seat. Dean's convinced they have to go. Sam doesn't see the resemblance. 2x21/2x22 "All Hell Breaks Loose" AU.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
Riptide by minim-calibre
Summary: Mary was a hunter, until she was not.
Rating: PG
Pairings: John/Mary
The Runaway Bunny by kalliel
Summary: If Sam learned one thing growing up, it's that Dean and Dad, they don't ever give up. Not on anything or anybody. No way they'd give up on him, really cut him loose like that. No way.
Rating: PG-13-ish
Pairings: Sam/Jess
Slight Of Hand by unamaga
Summary: When Dean wakes up on his birthday, it doesn't really seem like a big deal.
Rating: PG-13/R
Pairings: None
(Note: Chapter 2 is here)
Sunshine State by innie-darling
Summary: Sam spends three years at Stanford.
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Sam/Jess, Sam/OMC, minor Sam/OFCs
These Same Boots of Lead by roque-clasique
Summary: Sam and Dean deal, and don't deal, with Dean's loss of vision.
Rating: PG-13-ish
Pairings: None
Three Thousand Six Hundred Degrees Fahrenheit by musesfool
Summary: "As metaphors go, it's pretty on the nose, don't you think?"
Rating: PG
Pairings: Dean/OFC
The Third Sunday in June by dsudis
Summary: Supernatural! Something about Bobby!
Rating: G-ish
Pairings: None
transfixed but not transformed by i-speak-tongue
Summary: Ignoring the Apocalypse is about as easy as ignoring a Siberian tiger in your living room. And if you succeed at doing so? You’re bound to be mauled to death and eaten.
Rating: R
Pairings: Dean/Anna
Unthinkable by glassshoe
Summary: After a week of riding shotgun inside his own body, Sam needs to know that he’s the one at the wheel. This story takes place following the episode Born Under a Bad Sign.
Rating: M
Pairings: None
Bonus: Podfic’d by twasadark here!
Untitled by july_july_july
Summary: Sam's there for Dean when a glimpse of Lucifer triggers a Hell flashback
Rating: R-ish
Pairings: None
Untitled by anonymous
Summary: S4, Dean has an especially effed up relationship with pain now, Sam finds out/realises.
Rating: R-ish
Pairings: Gen, but vaguely Dean/Alistair
Whomever They Chose by trinityofone
Summary: Sequel to Daughter of Man, because the T was a little too U, even for me. Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Or, Deanna and Castiel do sex the end.
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Girl!Dean/Castiel
we could be heroes by missyjack
Summary: A tall tale is a uniquely American story form that features a larger-than-life, or superhuman, main character with a specific task. Many tall tales are based on actual people or on a composite of actual people. Exaggeration is the major element in tall tales.
Rating: R
Pairings: None
Vid recs:
Hey Pretty by astartexx
Song: “Hey Pretty” by Poe
Summary: ‘Hey pretty, don't you wanna take a ride with me? Through my world.’ The Impala is more pissed at Sam’s bitchy attitude, dad’s grumpiness and generally less forgiving than Dean.
This American Life
The October Incident by neko_chelle
Summary: It's This American Life. Each week on our program of course, we choose a theme and bring you a variety of different stories on that theme. Today's show: In the Land of the Living, stories of the October Incident, the zombie apocalypse and what happened afterwards.
Rating: G
Pairings: None
Warning: This is technically (and obviously) RPF
2. Big Tree's new album came out! My pre-ordered copy arrived in a hand-addressed envelope. Hearts in my eyes.
3. I NEED A MILLION JESS ICONS. This is fact.
4. Fic recs!
James Bond
Untitled ficlet by elspethdixon
Summary: Wherein Bond and Felix are stuck in the Panamanian jungle.
Rating: PG-ish
Pairings: None
Star Trek
Happy Families Are All Alike by ayalesca
Summary: How Leonard McCoy was brought up to be such a fucking piece of work.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Minor McCoy/Jocelyn
The Virtues of Caffeine by caitri
Summary: Leonard McCoy is less grumpy when he has coffee. Jim Kirk makes sure he has some.
Rating: PG
Pairings: Jim/McCoy, minor Gaila/Sulu
Bonus: Podfic’d by reena_jenkins here!
Vid recs:
Marchin On by jactrades
Song: “Marchin One” by OneRepublic
Summary: Because Starfleet officers are all BAMFs
Supernatural
Acts of Creation by seperis
Summary: Bodies are no more a mystery to him than to Uriel, these fragile cases that clothe human souls, but to Castiel, there's never less than wonder in being permitted to share in this, wrapped in the work of God's own hands.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Implied Dean/Anna
And I Shall Become Weak by apreludetoanend
Summary: "That's what happens when you go to hell, Dean. That's what hell is. Forgetting what you are."
Rating: PG
Pairings: None
Beach Blanket Poltergeist by hansbekhart
Summary: They come from the north, exhausted by the sprawling highways and overpasses of Silicon Valley.
Rating: R
Pairings: None
Black Water by roque-clasique
Summary: In my blind!Dean ‘verse. Curtainfic in which the boys are settled in Minneapolis.
Rating: PG-13-ish
Pairings: None
Blind Spot by pdragon76
Summary: Dean’s on a slow burn after a bloody confrontation with an old nemesis. Sam’s got his hands full picking up the pieces. The Crossroads Deal isn’t the only timer ticking. Warnings for language, whump and sex.
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Minor Dean/OFC and Jo/OMC
Bonus: Podfic’d by twasadark here!
Blood by phrambles
Summary: Hell is so much more cruel when it's silent.
Rating: M
Pairings: None
Carmen and the Devil by glorious-spoon
Summary: John raises his daughters in the life. Girl!Dean, girl!Sam AU, written for capthollywood’s prompt on spn_rambleon: AU Always a girl!Deanna and John Winchester's relationship, how it changed from canon because of Dean being a woman, from her as a child to her adulthood and how she remembers him.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
Condensed Supernatural Season 4 by missyjack
Daughter of Man by trinityofone
Summary: Written for medie as part of this gift exchange. She wanted always-a-girl!Dean through a lens of Genesis 6, which I then twisted up with the fallout from “It’s a Terrible Life.” She kicks the shoes off on the way to the car.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Girl!Dean/Castiel
The Dean and Dana Saga of AWESOME by meyerlemon and onelittlesleep
Summary: Okay, onelittlesleep and I think that Dean should have this ultra-dorky thing going on with, like, a kindergarten teacher, where he'd be all "...cardigans!" and she'd be all "IS THIS GUY RETARDED?!? What is WRONG with him?" and-- oh, it's hard to explain, I don't even KNOW.
Rating: R-ish
Pairings: Dean/OFC
Devil’s in the House by glorious-spoon
Summary: In which Sam hustles pool to pay for his textbooks, and an unexpected opponent turns up. Pre-series, outside POV.
Rating: PG
Pairings: None
Dreams by rosestoo
Summary: A curse stops Sam from sleeping, ever.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
The Drive ‘Verse Series by roque_clasique
Summary: Everything's the same except Dean busted his leg when an old cabin floor collapsed on him while he was hunting a poltergeist, John went AWOL while he was in the hospital for 4 months, and Sam fetched him from Bobby's and brought him to Stanford, which brought us to the pilot. So now we're in early season 1.
Rating: R
Pairings: Sam/Jess, some Dean/OFC
Four for a boy by irnan
Summary: Dean Winchester does not get haunted. By ANYONE. There's rules about that, right?
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
Go Back To Sleep by devilyouwere
Summary: A different take on Mystery Spot: in Broward County, Dean dies each new Tuesday and he is aware he does, but Sam doesn't notice.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
The Hardest Word by pdragon76
Summary: When the boys hit the skids on a hunt, they’ve got some time to …errr, kill *cough* at the grave of Harley Simco.
Rating: M
Pairings: Makes some mention of Sam/Jess
Bonus: Podfic’d by chemm80 here!
Her Tracks Are On The Land by cofax7
Summary: The boy she's spent twenty years searching for, in memory of her dead sister, turned out to be a serial killer. How's that for a kick in the pants? Could be read as AU, but not yet entirely jossed.
Rating: PG
Pairings: Gen, with minor mentions of Sam/Jess
Bonus: Podfic’d by circadienne here!
Hot/Cold by kalliel
Summary: It's cut and dry; two days, two states, two cases, two brothers. But there's also one crossroads deal, so fresh that the ink's still drying, and to top it all off, a nasty flu virus, which makes for one sick Dean and one conflicted Sam. Set circa Season 3.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
In the Tribe (Or, How Castiel and Dean Acquired the Pet Names Peanut and Crackerjack, Respectively) by seraphwings
Summary: Castiel, it turns out, is an avid baseball fan.
Rating: G
Pairings: Dean/Castiel
In Which Direction We Are Flowing by unamaga
Summary: Pause, rewind - let’s try that one again. You’re not doing it right.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Sam/Jess
The Kindness of Strangers by unamaga
Summary: For the first spn_hols prompt, "Hot Chocolate".
Rating: PG
Pairings: Minor Sam/Jess
Life Used to Be So Hard by roque_clasique
Summary: It’s only their second month, but the girl at the grocery store recognizes Dean as he plonks his purchases on the checkout counter and starts tugging his wallet out of his jeans pocket.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
Living It Right by unamaga
Summary: June, 1989 - Connecticut
Rating: PG
Pairings: None
Monkberry Moon Delight by i-speak-tongue
Summary: There’s a jug of kittens in the lampshade. They want razor blades for lunch.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
my life’s come off its tracks by mimblexwimble
Summary: Dean tells her, things are going fine, yeah he got into a fight and no, he doesn’t want to talk about it. He’s getting better and better at this sign language thing. He looks at her brightly. Big smile. Opens his swollen eye as wide as it can go.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: Gen, with very minor and vague Dean/OFC
Bonus: Podfic'd by painted-pain here!
Plant Your Flag On a Fault Line by tripoli8
Summary: Sam Holland is wearing a Packers sweatshirt in the picture on his drivers license.
Rating: PG-13/R-ish
Pairings: Background Sam/Jess
Bonus: Commentary by the author here! Podfic’d by the author here!
Proxy by kalliel
Summary: There's a woman in Los Angeles who spent three months driving with a corpse in her front seat. Dean's convinced they have to go. Sam doesn't see the resemblance. 2x21/2x22 "All Hell Breaks Loose" AU.
Rating: PG-13
Pairings: None
Riptide by minim-calibre
Summary: Mary was a hunter, until she was not.
Rating: PG
Pairings: John/Mary
The Runaway Bunny by kalliel
Summary: If Sam learned one thing growing up, it's that Dean and Dad, they don't ever give up. Not on anything or anybody. No way they'd give up on him, really cut him loose like that. No way.
Rating: PG-13-ish
Pairings: Sam/Jess
Slight Of Hand by unamaga
Summary: When Dean wakes up on his birthday, it doesn't really seem like a big deal.
Rating: PG-13/R
Pairings: None
(Note: Chapter 2 is here)
Sunshine State by innie-darling
Summary: Sam spends three years at Stanford.
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Sam/Jess, Sam/OMC, minor Sam/OFCs
These Same Boots of Lead by roque-clasique
Summary: Sam and Dean deal, and don't deal, with Dean's loss of vision.
Rating: PG-13-ish
Pairings: None
Three Thousand Six Hundred Degrees Fahrenheit by musesfool
Summary: "As metaphors go, it's pretty on the nose, don't you think?"
Rating: PG
Pairings: Dean/OFC
The Third Sunday in June by dsudis
Summary: Supernatural! Something about Bobby!
Rating: G-ish
Pairings: None
transfixed but not transformed by i-speak-tongue
Summary: Ignoring the Apocalypse is about as easy as ignoring a Siberian tiger in your living room. And if you succeed at doing so? You’re bound to be mauled to death and eaten.
Rating: R
Pairings: Dean/Anna
Unthinkable by glassshoe
Summary: After a week of riding shotgun inside his own body, Sam needs to know that he’s the one at the wheel. This story takes place following the episode Born Under a Bad Sign.
Rating: M
Pairings: None
Bonus: Podfic’d by twasadark here!
Untitled by july_july_july
Summary: Sam's there for Dean when a glimpse of Lucifer triggers a Hell flashback
Rating: R-ish
Pairings: None
Untitled by anonymous
Summary: S4, Dean has an especially effed up relationship with pain now, Sam finds out/realises.
Rating: R-ish
Pairings: Gen, but vaguely Dean/Alistair
Whomever They Chose by trinityofone
Summary: Sequel to Daughter of Man, because the T was a little too U, even for me. Now it came about, when men began to multiply on the face of the land, and daughters were born to them, that the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were beautiful; and they took wives for themselves, whomever they chose. Or, Deanna and Castiel do sex the end.
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Girl!Dean/Castiel
we could be heroes by missyjack
Summary: A tall tale is a uniquely American story form that features a larger-than-life, or superhuman, main character with a specific task. Many tall tales are based on actual people or on a composite of actual people. Exaggeration is the major element in tall tales.
Rating: R
Pairings: None
Vid recs:
Hey Pretty by astartexx
Song: “Hey Pretty” by Poe
Summary: ‘Hey pretty, don't you wanna take a ride with me? Through my world.’ The Impala is more pissed at Sam’s bitchy attitude, dad’s grumpiness and generally less forgiving than Dean.
This American Life
The October Incident by neko_chelle
Summary: It's This American Life. Each week on our program of course, we choose a theme and bring you a variety of different stories on that theme. Today's show: In the Land of the Living, stories of the October Incident, the zombie apocalypse and what happened afterwards.
Rating: G
Pairings: None
Warning: This is technically (and obviously) RPF