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This might be, to date, the most surreal thing Dean Winchester had ever been part of. But, you know. His life was made up with an unending series of surreal moments, so why balk now?
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An alternate take on what could have happened after Castiel watches the video of the Pizza man and the Babysitter, and asks Dean & Sam about it. You know the one.
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18 Jan 2023
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Dean Winchester is thirty, flirty, and thriving, or at least that's how his best friend Charlie describes him. Either way Dean feels pretty good about his life. He has a decent job, a nice house, and a great group of friends and family. Sure his brother's been living hundreds of miles away to attend law school and an internship, and yeah maybe he wasn't working his dream job, and so, okay, he spent most nights zoning out in front of the tv alone but that was fine. Dean was fine. Until he gets a call about a daughter he didn't know existed and suddenly Dean's quiet (boring) life is turned upside down.
Castiel Novak is a photographer whose passion lies in capturing the beauty of nature. However to pay the bills he works part time at the mall doing portrait photography. Sure it might not be as artistic as he'd like and his odd hours make for a dull social life but he's still doing what he loves. He especially enjoys doing the kids photos and over the last couple of years he's built a bit of a reputation for always getting the shot no matter how unruly or stubborn a child might be. So when a handsome father brings in his grumpy little girl for pictures Castiel thinks it will be just another photo shoot.
He's wrong.
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02 Nov 2021
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Dean attends a life drawing class for a case.
The nude model turns out to be Cas.
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05 Sep 2021
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01 Aug 2021
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*clap*clap*clap*clap*
Dean's perpetually single and lonely in a crappy apartment in his hometown, with no end in sight to the physical and emotional issues that prevent him from moving forward or fully participating in a life and world that's passing him by. His new roommate's turning out to be a bro. A bro who has a shit-ton of loud gay sex in the bedroom across their hall, but life seems to be progressing and Dean discovers he doesn't have to be alone as he'd thought.
Complete, posting every day or so, all due to be posted by Christmas.
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09 Jul 2021
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In his final year of college, Dean Winchester’s got a lot of decisions to make: what he’s going to do with his life, where he’s going to do it, and most importantly, which girl he’s going to do... right now. And later tonight. And the next night. And the next—
When new transfer student Castiel Novak shows up first in his class, and then his friend group, Dean can’t help but see it as an infiltration. Something is up with Castiel, and he’s going to find out what. More accurately, he’s going to enlist his best and longest suffering hacker friend, Charlie Bradbury, to do it for him.
Not a single one of Dean’s suspicions has anything to do with the fact that upon their first meeting, Castiel insults his shoes, his general existence, and his masculinity by— looking at him like that.
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- 12/12
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08 Apr 2021
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Twenty-three years of head-over-heels, devastating devotion and love, love, love for the man with bright eyes and dark hair. Fourteen years of friends, best friends, of always together. One moment of rejection.
Nine years of apart. Nine years of heartbreak, nine years of continents away, of not speaking, of no acknowledgement, no interaction, no closure, no peace. No happiness. Nine years of Dean’s life entering motions, going through them, constant, cold and mechanic, like clockwork. Nine years of alone.
God. Nine years. A lot has changed. And yet Dean still loves Cas just the same. Even if his heart hurts all kinds of different.
On the day of Jimmy Novak's funeral, Dean sees Cas for the first time in nine years. He adored Castiel the moment he met him, at only four years old. But after fourteen years of friendship destroyed by one moment of heartbreak, and after nine years of silence, Dean is convinced Cas will want nothing to do with him. And it's killing him.
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- Part 1 of The World to Come
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13 Feb 2021
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31 Dec 2020
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When on-the-rise photographer Castiel Novak gets injured on assignment, the last person he expects to be his physical therapist is his high school crush, Dean Winchester. But as their friendship rekindles and the chemistry ignites, they find themselves alone on a mountaintop where anything could happen.
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22 Dec 2020
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In a world where a new mark appears whenever you fall in love, Hollywood sweetheart, Castiel James, is known for his unblemished skin. Oh, he has the faint shadows of old crushes and childish infatuations, but no mark is that of something deep and true. No mark has ever stuck, no mark has ever become more than a hazy outline. Because Cas, well... Cas has never been in love.
The skin of bookshop owner Dean Winchester, however, tells another tale entirely. Dean loves freely, quickly, and deeply. He loves his family, he loves his friends, he still cares for his exes. While the first two don’t show on his skin, the latter do. All brushed over his body in various shapes and forms and colors. Of varying clarity. But even Dean has yet to get that one mark. That mark that sticks. The mark that is so deep, and so sharp, and so clear, it can only be that of a profound bond.
These two men share a common hope; a common desire. That one day, they might have a mark that means they have found a love that is as deep and true as love can be - just like in the movies.
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07 Jun 2020
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Dean's tattoo studio is his baby, and now this ridiculous pastel coffee shop is going to come along and ruin his bad ass aesthetic? No way. Except it's not just any old cafe, and the owner is kind of ridiculously handsome...
Castiel is in over his head, opening the Toe Bean while trying to finish veterinary school. The last thing he needs is the distraction of the gorgeous tattoo artist next door who doesn't even seem to like cats very much....
But the real question is: Will Sam Winchester ever get a moment's peace??
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02 Jun 2020
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Dean Winchester and Castiel Novak thought that their senior year of college would be the best year of their lives—until they find out the apartment they’re renting has also been rented to someone else. Given three options, they choose option C—live together for the year and make it work.
When roommate Vaughn turns out to be a conceited jerk with very different political views and values, best friends Dean and Cas scheme to push him out...by any means necessary. Those means become an elaborate game of fake-relationship antics, which would be fine if Dean wasn’t secretly in love with Cas and Cas hadn’t sworn off dating friends.
As the games escalate, will Dean be able to cope with the feelings that just won’t go away? And will Cas stick with his vow, or will his feelings force him to find another option?
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01 Jun 2020
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Resigned to drinking himself to sleep whilst his roommate, best friend, and secret love goes off on another date, Castiel is shocked by a series of text messages that will forever change the nature of their relationship. Can he and Dean get past their hang-ups to see what's been right in front of them for years?
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01 Feb 2020
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Seven short stories, wherein our boys find themselves in every-day sexual situations, from a tick in a bad spot, to attempting "The Talk" with Jack, to skinny dipping after a hunt, to finding out what Dean actually did with the Cartwright Twins. Dean and Cas dance around each other, and find each other as well. It's just a day in the life...
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- 7/7
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27 Jan 2020
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Dean and Sam are apparently captured by a djinn, but, while their mutual fantasy world gives Sam the life he'd always wanted, Dean finds himself in a world fueled by desires he'd yet to let himself admit. Faced with his unspoken feelings for Castiel, Dean may be unable to resist temptation.
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- Part 1 of As Dreams Are Made On
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After a suicide attempt the year before, Castiel Novak is back on tour with his band, trying to be happy despite the magnifying glass his team has on him. After a rebellious night, his team decides they need backup. It comes in the form of a hired body guard - someone to be with Castiel 24/7. Dean Winchester, a former Navy SEAL who prefers jobs that don't involve stuck-up, rich boy rock stars, but who could really use the money, accepts the contract. When he discovers Castiel's secret, a secret that hits a little too close to home for Dean, he has a decision to make. Push the boy away to keep his heart safe, or let himself fall and deal with the consequences.
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05 Nov 2019
Bookmarker's Notes
This fic is beautifully written and really captures mental illness well imo. Normally I don't live first person pov in fics but this was too good.
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Since he has to stay deep in the closet to protect his job as a children’s librarian in conservative Wichita, Kansas, Dean’s main outlet for sexual frustration is writing and reading slash fiction for his favorite show, Devil Boys. When he starts corresponding with AngelofThursday, another male slash writer in his ship, he really is just looking for friendship… but when it seems like more might be on the table, he’s not going to turn it down. If only he didn’t also have a crush on Cas, the hot volunteer at his library branch…
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- 9/9
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24 Oct 2019
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Dean Winchester knows everything there is to know about the human heart.
Well.
Anatomically speaking.
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Castiel’s family owns the shoddily-regulated coal mine where John Winchester works, so Dean storms Cas’s mansion, demanding answers from the drugged-out trust-fund kid. In exchange for his help repairing the mine, Cas demands Dean live with him for three months and give Cas a shot at seducing him by allowing him one kiss a day.
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- English
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- 15/15
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06 Oct 2019
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As a grease monkey turned college freshman, Dean's constantly three seconds away from being stressed out of his mind. It hardly helps that he's finally figuring out his sexuality in his thirties.
What might help with that stress is a little phone number (and a big credit card bill). If he can't figure out how to be bisexual in person, he can at least give it a go over the phone, right?
(It's probably a bad idea, but he really can't help himself.)
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- Part 1 of talk
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- English
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03 Oct 2019