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It's midnight rn

Imagine an AU where Dean is forced to write to an assigned penpal. And at first he's reactant until he finds out his penpal is a girl named Cassie Robinson and, thinking it would be a little interesting, puts a little effort into his first letter.

Only, he mails it out to the wrong state

And it lands in the hands of Castiel. A homeschooled young boy who's being watched over by his older brother Raphael

Thinking it was just a letter from one of his cousins, he opens it and gets intrigued by the stranger named Dean

Not one to be rude, he sends a letter back on reply:

Dear Dean,

I prefer to be called Cas...

And back and forth letters happen in the span on weeks

Weeks turn into months

And when Dean's penpal project concludes, they keep sending letters all throughout summer break

All through graduation

Till Dean gets his first job

Till Cas goes to college

Till they run into each other in passing. Strangers who had sparks flying when they make eyecontact from across the street. But never interacting

Slow burn, two person love square

Set somewhere in the 80s for the vibes

Goodnight

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Destiel fics are unparalleled. I’ve been reading fic off and on for the better part of 15 years and I won’t lie, nearly all of my absolute favorites so far have been within the last few months reading stories about Dean & Cas. Every time I finish another masterpiece, I think about it for days. How beautiful that we get to experience so many different versions of these characters loving each other? How incredible that people put in the time and effort to publish their art, their vulnerability, for total strangers? For free!!! Damn, the internet really is a gift. I can’t believe I live in a time where we have access to creativity like this.

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mama i’m in love with a criminal

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Episode 46 is here, in all it's flamey, ringy, possibly terrifying glory! 

Come join @malmuses and @ellen-of-oz as they chat with guest author @aishitara.

Check out the discussed fics below!

Direct website link to the episode.

The main fics we discuss in this episode are:

I Carry Your Heart With Me by @aishitara

So Says The Sword by komodobits ( @cuddlebabies )

every light he cannot see by intothesilentland ( @norestwithoutlove )

A Constellation of Wishes by Destina

For a full list of fics discussed, check out the blog post!

You can listen to the Mixtape Book Club podcast on our website, http://mixtapebookclub.com, or on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Podbean, and most other popular podcasting apps.

Enjoy!

Do you love Supernatural? Are you a fan of Dean and Castiel, and their relationship? Do you enjoy reading Destiel fanfiction? This is the podcast for you!

You can find our Mixtape Book Club Ao3 collection here, containing the stories we’ve discussed on the podcast so far.

A warning: adult themes and swear words are mentioned in this podcast.

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The thing about Dean is when do we ever see him tell anybody he loves them? Even Charlie he sidesteps with the Star Wars "I know". This is much more Dean imo, he's screaming I love you right now, wrapping Cas up like he just can't help himself and if he doesn't he might lose him again

You can see how relieved Dean is that he’s been reunited with Cas and he’s safe. Not just in his facial expressions but also how he releases a breath he’d been holding.

They should have had Dean tell Cas he loved him at this moment.

15.09 The Trap

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I'm not a RomCom girl... But if he's in it, I'll watch it.

I can see it: Single cowboy dad on his ranch, meets the new city girl who moves irrationally to the country after a break up. Needs a job works for single very very handsome dad(dy) on his ranch , slowburn, falls in love, ex boyfriend shows up needs to make decision, little Angst before happy ending...

@jackles010378 @winchesterwild78 @call-me-mrs-winchester

I can't be the only one who sees it? Maybe there is story here 🤔

UPDATE: I wrote part 1 -> check story

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some season one dean moments that make me scream

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first contribution to the supernatural fandom in years

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having one of those executive function days where everything is too many steps

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looking for fics about your favorite character on ao3 be like:

dont care

dont care

dont care

what the actual fuck

dont care

ooh that sounds- what the fuck

unfinished

don't care

the best fic ive ever read in my life. this absolutely ruined me and ill never be the same ever again

dont care

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Sam helping Dean through moments of anxiety are my jam. i don't care what anyone else says, i like to headcanon him as having anxiety that comes out in the form of anger and lashing out. He may be the protector in most cases, but when it comes to this, it's Sam who looks out for him.

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one of many reasons castiel spent the first year of knowing dean trying not to strangle him: dean’s weird little winchester-only dialect

i’m fucking obsessed with this right now, so buckle in for a meta. a cool fun (horrible) thing about dean’s dialogue is that a good 90% of what comes out of his mouth is:

a pop culture reference (“you’re just gonna take some divine bong hit, and shazam, you’re roma downey?”)

references to real life phenomenon (“i don’t wanna wake up missing a kidney in a bathtub full of ice” “try new mexico, i hear he’s on a tortilla”)

these also often take the form of nicknames, and dean has a tendency to give people nicknames in general or call them something besides their given name, whether it’s affectionate or rude (“easy there, van damme” “so i’m girl interrupted” furthermore castiel = cas, ezekiel = zeke, etc, see also frequent use of “chucklehead” “asshat” and on the nicer/endearments end “buddy” “pal” “sunshine” etc)

an idiom (“a snowball’s chance” “if it smells like a duck…”)

slang (“drinking the koolaid” “jonesing for some hooch” not to mention the literal endless amount of words dean uses to refer to killing - gank, waste, juice, ice, etc)

a metaphor (“power up your batteries” “fly me back to my page on the calendar”)

a euphemism (“cloud seeding” “i’d have given you an hour alone with her first”)

sarcasm (his habit of replying “peachy” or “super” when asked how he is)

wordplay (see: the entire “vampirate” and “werepire” debacles)

completely nonsensical (guessing what happened to a magical artifact: “it was dug up by tomb raiders? it was seized by the king of the dead by warlords?”)

said at lightning speed - if you pay attention, dean actually talks a LOT, usually a mile a minute (this makes me feel a way when you recall his year of mutism at age 4 but that’s another post)

slang IN ANOTHER LANGUAGE (casual usage of “guano,” etc)

a lie, a deflection, a joke, etc

or worse, something dean’s NOT saying, deliberately, because he’s one of the most repressed people on earth

the end result of all this being:

dean winchester is utterly infuckingcomprehensible. 

think about this. there’s an ENTIRE SECTION on EVERY SINGLE EPISODE PAGE of the spn wiki devoted to JUST explaining dean’s pop culture references, because the average viewer won’t have seen everything he’s talking about either. they have a whole page for this called “hunter’s lingo,” but honestly, it’s not all hunters, just sam and dean’s fucking batshit communication style. even i don’t understand dean half the time. SAM gets it, sam speaks it back to dean a lot in the early seasons, but that’s because sam and dean are 1. practically two halves of the same person 2. FREAKS. every time we get an episode that involves outsider POV is devoted to them going “what the fuck is WRONG with them?”

enter castiel. technically speaking, the show implies that angels are omnilingual. castiel should understand every language known to man, but knowing the meaning of words doesn’t help him understand the following:

pop culture references

references to real life phenomenon

nicknames

idioms

slang

metaphors

euphemisms

sarcasm

wordplay

you get the idea.

listen to me. look me in the eyes. castiel cannot understand a single fucking word that comes out of dean’s mouth. my guy laid a hand on dean winchester in hell and immediately fell in love with him and has no fucking idea what he’s talking about ever. because not only is dean winchester’s way of speaking CLINICALLY insane, and sometimes incomprehensible even to other human beings who are not sam, castiel is an angel, and someone prone to taking things even more literally than other angels do

go back and watch and watch seasons 4-5 especially. the reason cas does so much squinting and head tilting is because every time dean opens his mouth castiel has to open up his mental “dean winchester dictionary” and translate entire paragraphs on the fly, because again, dean never shuts up!

what makes this extra hilarious to me is this gem:

this line is from 5.13. at this point cas has known dean for AN ENTIRE YEAR AND A HALF. what you see here is my guy SNAPPING. cas made an EFFORT in this scene. he asked who glenn close was. he’s telling dean that he can’t understand him. he is doing his level best to have a normal conversation with this guy he has a crush on and for the life of him he cannot do it (equal but opposite energy to cas blowing up the gas station and motel room in 4.01, tbh)

yes, cas can understand dean’s tone. he can use context clues, and he usually gets the general idea. and when cas DOES understand dean’s jokes, he laughs at them. the first time we ever see him smile is during their 4.07 heart-to-heart when dean says “it was a witch, not the tet offensive.” since cas has knowledge of human history, he knows what the tet offensive is; he got the joke, and he laughed.

but as far as actual dialogue goes, he consistently struggles to keep up. even after metatron gives castiel the pop culture knowledge in season 9, cas struggles to put it to put it to proper use (dean: “you wanna just walk right into the death star?” cas: “what does a fictional battle station have to do with this?”). whenever he asks dean to clarify it’s always when he’s most annoyed, like most of the time he knows it would be futile but he’s too annoyed to care. (dean: “i don’t know who’s on first, what’s on second!” cas: “what IS second???”) i’m pretty sure he spends seasons 4-6 wanting to shake dean by the shoulders and ask him why he is LIKE THIS. 

it takes cas - who, again, is omnilingual - YEARS to begin to acclimate to dean’s speech and start speaking that language back to him. it’s season 8 before we start really hearing him use slang, season 9 before he begins to understand wordplay, season 10 before he starts using pop culture references (to other angels, who immediately fail to understand him, which disappoints him immensely), and season 11 before he really gets into metaphors. i don’t remember what season he started using “yeah” instead of “yes” but i do know it took a really damn long time. 

and honestly, i don’t think cas truly got the hang of it until at least season 11-12. that’s something like 7 or 8 YEARS. it’s more than half the time they’ve known each other at the point of the series finale. 

so what’s true romance, fellas? it’s falling completely and totally in love with the most inexplicable person you will ever meet in your whole 4.5 billion year life, even though you have yet to understand a single thing he’s ever said to you. thank you for coming to my ted talk

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This wonderful Supernatural fic was written by ReformedTsundere (@film-in-my-soul) and read by me for Pod Together 2023 - make sure to go checkout @pod-together for even more wonderful fics!

The beautiful art was a commission by @sea-of-eden (unsullied by my text making it into a cover below!)

Link: Homing Beacon

Rating: Mature

Pairing: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Length: 01:42:46

Summary:

Ambushed and captured on a recon mission, coalition fighter Dean Winchester is brought to an unknown location by an unknown party and thrown into a cell for unknown reasons. The only thing he is sure of is that he's pissed and that he's not alone.

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S5E10, “Abandon All Hope”