i'm strong enough to carry him (carried!Dean art recs; gen, Dean/Sam, & Dean/Cas)
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Title: Earth
Artist: a_starfish
Tags: carried!Dean, injury
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Gen
Type/medium: Digital drawing
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: Sam to the rescue! (description by reccer)
Reccer’s comments: This is protective!Sam at his best! And the way a_starfish works with perspectives here is so cool.
Title: L'ange gardien.
Artist: cafe-de-labeill
Tags: carried!Dean, hell
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen or Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: N/A
Rating: PG-13 (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: Lazurus Rising
Warnings: partial nudity
Description: AN: I think you can tell that I like Art Nouveau. ...Also, this was totally an excuse to draw naked-stretchy Dean.
Reccer’s comments: According to one of the comments in the post, this is the artist’s rendition of Castiel raising Dean up from perdition. It’s a very different from cafe_de_labeill's usual chibi-style art - which I ALSO adore, btw. A lovely, elegant piece.
Title: no stairs to be had
Artist: cuttlefish-adore/daggomus-prime
Tags: carried!Dean, phobia/fear
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: Digital
Rating: G (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: A piece for the Dean/Castiel Ever After challenge. The story was based on Disney's Tangled. This scene shows Dean and Cas escaping the tower. Dean shrieks like a lady.
Reccer’s comments: Dean does NOT like to fly. I really enjoy this one; their faces are so expressive.
Title: BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY I CAN GO TWICE AS HIGH
Artist: hoursago
Tags: carried!Dean
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen or Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: N/A
Rating: G (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: See title.
Reccer’s comments: hoursago's stuff is always so much fun, and I love this one. Dean's faaaace, ahaha.
Title: Deliver Me...
Artist: leyna55
Tags: carried!Dean, hell/post-hell issues, nightmares
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: Wacom tablet and Painter X.
Rating: R? (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: Lazurus Rising
Warnings: non-explicit nudity
Description: Cas rescues Dean from a nightmare of hell.
Reccer’s comments: This is SO evocative. And all the details are amazing!
Title: from hell
Artist: madtenka
Tags: carried!Dean, hell
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen or Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: Digital; Manga/Anime
Rating: PG-13 (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: Lazurus Rising
Warnings: shirtlessness
Description: Cas saves Dean from hell. (description by reccer)
Reccer’s comments: I should really do a rec post sometime just of art ft. Cas raising Dean from perdition. There are many depictions of that scene to be found, but this one I recently discovered, so it's new-to-me, and also I really enjoy the style used.
Title: The Last Fight
Artist: petite_madame
Tags: blood-loss, injury, carried!Dean, fainting/collapse
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen or Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: Digital
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Just a bit of blood. No Dean isn't dead (for once...)
Description: Castiel carries a wounded!Dean from the battlefield.
Reccer’s comments: A fireman’s carry! \o/ My favourite.
The angle the artist uses here is so interesting and cool. The skyline! That drop of blood! The list of things I love about this is honestly endless. <333
Title: Don’t You Die on Me, Dean
Artist: petite_madame
Tags: blood-loss, injury, carried!Dean, fainting/collapse
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Gen or Dean/Sam
Type/medium: Traditional/digital (Graphite on paper. Digital retouches on faces and clothes. Texturizing and highlights in Photoshop CS.)
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Just a bit of blood. No Dean isn't dead (for once...)
Description: Sam carries a wounded!Dean from the battlefield.
Reccer’s comments: Read the desciription; basically a Sam n’ Dean version of the above art. I LOVE BOTH PIECES SO MUCH.
Title: Carry me, I'mma be a sleepy head
Artist: pvt_zaslavsky
Tags: carried!Dean, hugs/cuddling
Characters: Dean, Mary
Genre/pairing: Gen, pre-series
Type/medium: Colored lineart
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: Mary Winchester, carrying little Dean who is all tuckered out after a hard day of not having a baby brother to play with yet, eating pie, and getting lots of wuv and hugs.
Reccer’s comments: This is so comfort-y, SUPER-ADORABLE, and very well-done too. His eyelashes and his freckles and his leeetle feet, omg.
Title: Deaged Dean
Artist: salty_catfish
Tags: age regression (physical), carried!Dean, curse/spell
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Gen
Type/medium: Traditional (watercolours)
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: N/A
Reccer’s comments: Their faces are KILLING ME. Dean's little chubby pink cheeks! I've never seen such cuteness! And he’s wearing his giant shirt from when he was an adult, naaw. Sam’s little forehead crinkle is perfection too! Also, WATERCOLOURS. <333 I love themmmm.
Title: Shoulder Ride
Artist: salty_catfish
Tags: age regression (physical), carried!Dean, curse/spell
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Gen
Type/medium: N/A
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: Prompt - De-aged!Dean. Being de-aged sucks, but Sam can literally carry this Dean around on his shoulders, and that, at least, is kind of cool. Even Dean secretly thinks so.
Reccer’s comments: This comment-art is done in a much different (very cool) style from the above one, and is ALSO ridiculously cute. Like, BB!Dean is wearing overalls; I can't even deal with that.
Thank-you for helping my de-aged!Dean obsession along, salty_catfish. You're a star!
Title: He ain’t heavy
Artist: shidspn
Tags: carried!Dean
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean-ish
Type/medium:
Rating: G (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: He ain’t heavy, but he sure is a dick sometimes.
Reccer’s comments: Lolol, Deeeean. This one makes me happy in my heart!
Title: Carried Dean
Artist: sillie82
Tags: carried!Dean, concussion/head trauma
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Gen
Type/medium: Drawing
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Blood
Description: N/A
Reccer’s comments: I love the little details, like Dean's torn jeans and bloody knuckles, and also, like, the entire background. I'm totally imagining the story behind the pic now. <3
Title: De-Age
Artist: smallworld-inc
Tags: carried!Dean, age regression (physical), death, curse/spell
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Gen
Type/medium: digital painting
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Warnings: character death
Description: "I had one job, one job. And I screwed it up."
Reccer’s comments: I am just pretending Dean is sleeping, lalalala. Either way, though, this is stunning in its awesomeness.
It's part of this fab series, btw. (Much hurt!Dean included.)
BONUS #1: Scattered Leaves by euclase (ft. Dean and Castiel, gen-ish) is an amazing piece, full of realism. It no longer seems to be available at the artist's page, although it's visible on others' pages through earlier tumblr re-blogs and such, hence its bonus status. I don't really know what the etiquette is there? But, yeah, loooove.
BONUS #2:
Art that is semi-carried!Dean, more someone-helps-Dean-walk! Each is infinitely reccable:
Antartica by august_monsoon (Dean, Cas; gen; a companion to the fic Without a Map by jaimeykay & twoskeletons; more art to be found here.)
Zine Drawing # 3 by lupe_lei (Dean, Sam; gen; it's the third one down on the page)
Everything is gonna be alright by petite_madame (Dean, Sam; gen; warning: amputation)
Title: Earth
Artist: a_starfish
Tags: carried!Dean, injury
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Gen
Type/medium: Digital drawing
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: Sam to the rescue! (description by reccer)
Reccer’s comments: This is protective!Sam at his best! And the way a_starfish works with perspectives here is so cool.
Title: L'ange gardien.
Artist: cafe-de-labeill
Tags: carried!Dean, hell
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen or Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: N/A
Rating: PG-13 (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: Lazurus Rising
Warnings: partial nudity
Description: AN: I think you can tell that I like Art Nouveau. ...Also, this was totally an excuse to draw naked-stretchy Dean.
Reccer’s comments: According to one of the comments in the post, this is the artist’s rendition of Castiel raising Dean up from perdition. It’s a very different from cafe_de_labeill's usual chibi-style art - which I ALSO adore, btw. A lovely, elegant piece.
Title: no stairs to be had
Artist: cuttlefish-adore/daggomus-prime
Tags: carried!Dean, phobia/fear
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: Digital
Rating: G (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: A piece for the Dean/Castiel Ever After challenge. The story was based on Disney's Tangled. This scene shows Dean and Cas escaping the tower. Dean shrieks like a lady.
Reccer’s comments: Dean does NOT like to fly. I really enjoy this one; their faces are so expressive.
Title: BUTTERFLY IN THE SKY I CAN GO TWICE AS HIGH
Artist: hoursago
Tags: carried!Dean
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen or Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: N/A
Rating: G (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: See title.
Reccer’s comments: hoursago's stuff is always so much fun, and I love this one. Dean's faaaace, ahaha.
Title: Deliver Me...
Artist: leyna55
Tags: carried!Dean, hell/post-hell issues, nightmares
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: Wacom tablet and Painter X.
Rating: R? (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: Lazurus Rising
Warnings: non-explicit nudity
Description: Cas rescues Dean from a nightmare of hell.
Reccer’s comments: This is SO evocative. And all the details are amazing!
Title: from hell
Artist: madtenka
Tags: carried!Dean, hell
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen or Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: Digital; Manga/Anime
Rating: PG-13 (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: Lazurus Rising
Warnings: shirtlessness
Description: Cas saves Dean from hell. (description by reccer)
Reccer’s comments: I should really do a rec post sometime just of art ft. Cas raising Dean from perdition. There are many depictions of that scene to be found, but this one I recently discovered, so it's new-to-me, and also I really enjoy the style used.
Title: The Last Fight
Artist: petite_madame
Tags: blood-loss, injury, carried!Dean, fainting/collapse
Characters: Dean, Castiel
Genre/pairing: Gen or Dean/Castiel
Type/medium: Digital
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Just a bit of blood. No Dean isn't dead (for once...)
Description: Castiel carries a wounded!Dean from the battlefield.
Reccer’s comments: A fireman’s carry! \o/ My favourite.
The angle the artist uses here is so interesting and cool. The skyline! That drop of blood! The list of things I love about this is honestly endless. <333
Title: Don’t You Die on Me, Dean
Artist: petite_madame
Tags: blood-loss, injury, carried!Dean, fainting/collapse
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Gen or Dean/Sam
Type/medium: Traditional/digital (Graphite on paper. Digital retouches on faces and clothes. Texturizing and highlights in Photoshop CS.)
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Just a bit of blood. No Dean isn't dead (for once...)
Description: Sam carries a wounded!Dean from the battlefield.
Reccer’s comments: Read the desciription; basically a Sam n’ Dean version of the above art. I LOVE BOTH PIECES SO MUCH.
Title: Carry me, I'mma be a sleepy head
Artist: pvt_zaslavsky
Tags: carried!Dean, hugs/cuddling
Characters: Dean, Mary
Genre/pairing: Gen, pre-series
Type/medium: Colored lineart
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: Mary Winchester, carrying little Dean who is all tuckered out after a hard day of not having a baby brother to play with yet, eating pie, and getting lots of wuv and hugs.
Reccer’s comments: This is so comfort-y, SUPER-ADORABLE, and very well-done too. His eyelashes and his freckles and his leeetle feet, omg.
Title: Deaged Dean
Artist: salty_catfish
Tags: age regression (physical), carried!Dean, curse/spell
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Gen
Type/medium: Traditional (watercolours)
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: N/A
Reccer’s comments: Their faces are KILLING ME. Dean's little chubby pink cheeks! I've never seen such cuteness! And he’s wearing his giant shirt from when he was an adult, naaw. Sam’s little forehead crinkle is perfection too! Also, WATERCOLOURS. <333 I love themmmm.
Title: Shoulder Ride
Artist: salty_catfish
Tags: age regression (physical), carried!Dean, curse/spell
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Gen
Type/medium: N/A
Rating: G
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: Prompt - De-aged!Dean. Being de-aged sucks, but Sam can literally carry this Dean around on his shoulders, and that, at least, is kind of cool. Even Dean secretly thinks so.
Reccer’s comments: This comment-art is done in a much different (very cool) style from the above one, and is ALSO ridiculously cute. Like, BB!Dean is wearing overalls; I can't even deal with that.
Thank-you for helping my de-aged!Dean obsession along, salty_catfish. You're a star!
Title: He ain’t heavy
Artist: shidspn
Tags: carried!Dean
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Sam/Dean-ish
Type/medium:
Rating: G (rated by reccer)
Spoilers: None
Warnings: None
Description: He ain’t heavy, but he sure is a dick sometimes.
Reccer’s comments: Lolol, Deeeean. This one makes me happy in my heart!
Title: Carried Dean
Artist: sillie82
Tags: carried!Dean, concussion/head trauma
Characters: Sam, Dean
Genre/pairing: Gen
Type/medium: Drawing
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: None
Warnings: Blood
Description: N/A
Reccer’s comments: I love the little details, like Dean's torn jeans and bloody knuckles, and also, like, the entire background. I'm totally imagining the story behind the pic now. <3
Title: De-Age
Artist: smallworld-inc
Tags: carried!Dean, age regression (physical), death, curse/spell
Characters: Dean, Sam
Genre/pairing: Gen
Type/medium: digital painting
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None
Warnings: character death
Description: "I had one job, one job. And I screwed it up."
Reccer’s comments: I am just pretending Dean is sleeping, lalalala. Either way, though, this is stunning in its awesomeness.
It's part of this fab series, btw. (Much hurt!Dean included.)
BONUS #1: Scattered Leaves by euclase (ft. Dean and Castiel, gen-ish) is an amazing piece, full of realism. It no longer seems to be available at the artist's page, although it's visible on others' pages through earlier tumblr re-blogs and such, hence its bonus status. I don't really know what the etiquette is there? But, yeah, loooove.
BONUS #2:
Art that is semi-carried!Dean, more someone-helps-Dean-walk! Each is infinitely reccable:
Antartica by august_monsoon (Dean, Cas; gen; a companion to the fic Without a Map by jaimeykay & twoskeletons; more art to be found here.)
Zine Drawing # 3 by lupe_lei (Dean, Sam; gen; it's the third one down on the page)
Everything is gonna be alright by petite_madame (Dean, Sam; gen; warning: amputation)