#purgatory (stuck in a car with Winner)

[starlitfunkster]

BFDI Demon AU (Part 2): BFDI Cast

It's.. well it's almost done.

Only have to complete Leafy and Firey, and then Season 1 is finished. Below is basically every contestant on Season 1.

New Facts: -Demons are what the Eliminated Constestants become. If they rejoin or have yet to be eliminated on a new Season, they become Half-Demons until they are Eliminated once more. -1st and 2nd place usually become Angels by a Seasons end. If an Angel gets Eliminated, they Fall. Gelatin is the only acception to this (but we'll get to him when we get to him). -This AU is a Humanization AU, btw. Will I draw designs? Probably not. Will I let you guys make your own interpretations to their designs? Sure!

TW: Suicide (Eraser, Blocky, Pen, Tennis Ball, Firey (maybe)), Death (Everyone)

Flower - Goddess of Spring - Buried Alive - When she first arrived, she was quite cruel and mean. But deep down, there was a hurt teenager who was buried alive by her own boyfriend. Eventually, she started to realize that being mean was what got her into this Purgatory.. so she tried to change for the better. And it all worked out! She became the winner of BFB, and even ascended at some point. However, she made a deal with Gelatin that during Autumn and Winter she would stay with Gelatin in Hell, and during Spring and Summer she would be with the others in Purgatory.

Woody - Demon - Wood-Chipper (Murder) - Woody's death may seem cartoony at first glance. Oh, he fell in? No.. it's much more sinister. It's what makes him so afraid. Someone he thought he could trust ended up taking his life that day. And after being eliminated fourth, and not being able to come back? Truly sad.

Pin - Half-Demon - Murdered - Pin was apart of a group of murders happening in her area. And now stuck here in Purgatory? After being eliminated on BFDI, she became a demon. For a while, she stayed that way until BFB (and subsequently TPOT) came along. Now she can look human, and not have those obnoxious horns in the way of her sleep.

Needle - Half-Demon - Stabbed to Death - She used to be quite the needy girl when she was alive. After being murdered by a loved one, she saw that as a sign. A sign that she needed to change. This is why she hates being called 'Needy', because she doesn't want to be like she was back then. She's at least shown that she's grown past her previous self.

Teardrop - Changeling - Teardrop was born to a colony with the same name as her. But she defected from that colony, and has gone on to become the most recurring contestant. It would be wise not to touch her toxin-induced tongue. Least you want to die a very painful and long death.

Golf Ball - Half-Demon - Ran Over (Accident) - GB died in what could be called an 'accident'. It won't stop her from saying someone in her family did it on purpose. That's because she knows her family didn't like how smart she was becoming. She was becoming too smart too fast. Oh well.

Coiny - Half-Demon - Zinc Toxicity - This is why you don't eat coins, kids. He ate multiple of them like a stupid idiot, and died. He considers it very stupid, and hates when people make fun of him for it. Low-key wants to be eliminated again so he can go back to eating the tasty demon-food that he can no longer eat in his half-demon state.

Snowball - Half-Demon - Fatal Frostbite - He, Blocky, and Eraser drove to Pen's house to keep a close eye on him. However, Blocky told him to stay in the car. And he did. And he stayed in the car even as the temperature got fatal. He would die in that car, because he didn't want to seem weak in front of his friends. And now his form is ironic, and he hates it. He's still just as strong as he was before he died.

Match - Demon - ??? (we don't talk about her and Pencil's death - She and Pencil in this universe were sisters. They played with each other, and they also died with each other. We don't talk about their death though, because it was very fucked up. As a demon, she can create fires whenever she feels her alliance is threatened.. but very rarely will she actually do this. It's probably cause she has PTSD from her death, but only her and her sister know for sure what it is.

Eraser - Half-Demon - Bled Out (multiple eraser-made wounds were seen, supposedly being deep enough to show blood.) - The pessimist who tends to get hungry at the worst possible times! He actually caused his own death, but not because he was suicidal. He admits it was caused by the stress from being a witness to one of the Liy Murders. This apparently is the real reason why he and Blocky died (which Blocky would never talk about). Anyways, he's wanting to go back to being a demon so he can eat the demon-foods, because they are apparently more filling than the foods on Purgatory.

Pen - Half-Demon - Ink Poisoning (Liy Murders) - He was the last victim that Liy hunted down. He earlier drank a vial of what he thought was 'soda' (it wasn't, it was ink), and was slowly dying from that. He went into a closet to hide from Liy, and texted Eraser, Blocky, and Snowball for help. It would be too late, and he would be pulled out of the closet. Before Liy could stab him with a pen, he began throwing up blood. He, in the end, got the last laugh. And now he and his fellow victims are in Purgatory away from Liy, and can help prevent death once and for all.

Blocky - Demon - Prank Gone Wrong - He died from being too stressed out about Pen's death.. which ended up in his prank going wrong. What was supposed to cause laughs around him and with him, instead turned into a tragedy that killed him and many nameless victims. He's a loner in Hell, usually making pranks on the living that would (normally) harm them, but since their all immortal (by the virtue of already being dead), its in the end funny for the people watching. He would cease pranking once he started dating Pencil, upon realizing that these pranks were not helping him move on from his death.

Tennis Ball - Half-Demon - Suicide by Car (He witnessed Golf Ball's death and took it very hard (since they were dating at that time)) - Tennis Ball hasn't been known to be the best when handling stress. So his peers say at least. Although he knows why Golf Ball loved him, and that's cause he was smart and didn't judge Golf Ball for who she was. That's how nice and caring he was. And that's why his death was so.. tragic.

Pencil - Demon - ??? (we don't talk about her and Match's death) - She and Match were sisters, dying together in a horribly gross and gruesome way. Aaaaand that's all the context you'd get out of her or Match. They don't like talking about it. Her tail is made of graphite, and it's sharp enough to slash and harm anyone who threatens her alliance. She would soon start dating Blocky, which was enough to mend the broken heart she had since her death (apparently her boyfriend broke up with her, the same day she would die).

David - Demon (maybe pureblood?) - This demon, alongside it's sister Dora, were observing the Algebraemons making their shows. It joined one of them because Two realized they needed 1 more contestant. Since they could mimic a humans appearance so perfectly, they assumed their dead identity.

Ice Cube - Half-Demon - Crushed (by a huge ice block) - The only reason she died was because she was spelunking with a few friends. One was Bracelety, and another was [REDACTED]. Supposedly, as the tale went, [REDACTED] found a gap and told Ice Cube to stand under it. [REDACTED] then got into an argument over safety with Bracelety, resulting in Ice Cube's death. She's very vengeful, and wants revenge on [REDACTED].

Rocky - Half-Demon - Choked on Vomit - The youngest of the first gen, and.. yikes. Their parents weren't attentive enough, and they died by their sickness. All because their parents wouldn't vaccinate them. Anyways, they are still sick until BFDIA. They just don't like vomiting as much, and prefer not being sick. And then Balloony comes along and messes that up..

Spongy - Demon - Drowned - He was bullied a lot in school, and supposedly those kids tossed him into the waters underneath the bridge. It was deep enough (and cold enough) for him to drown. Instead of holding resentment towards everyone else, he just keeps to himself. He can take pain like a champ, but doesn't like it when people betray him. He's also buoyant now! How ironic…

Bubble - Demon - Implosion - Nobody really knows how she imploded. Rumors say she ate a bomb, but others say someone hid one in her food at school. If that were the case, everyone would've been evacuated that day. But either way, this lovable chubby girl can create bubbles at will. Her hair and tail-tip are even made from bubbles! And look! She's made new friends with Pencil, Match, and Ruby!

Leafy - Fallen Angel - Unknown (went missing in a deep forest) - TBA

Firey - Fallen Angel - Burned to Death - TBA

[gettingbywithalittlehelp96]

The Price of His Mistakes Part 6: Falling For the Angel?

God blames his leaving on the mistakes and failures of his creations, but eventually he will have to face his own mistakes.

CastielxReader, ChuckxReader

Chapter Characters: CastielxReader, Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, (Bobby Singer, Lisa and Ben, and Chuck Shurley are mentioned.)

Warnings: Some language and Dean being a little bit of a dick. This part is a little bit angsty.

Chapter Summary: A fight between you and Dean makes you evaluate your relationship with Castiel.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 

Life is unfair. Who understands that more than hunters? Lately though, you were starting to think the saying “life is an endless clusterfuck” made more sense.

Sam had been brought back from hell, but without his soul, Dean lost Ben and Lisa, rejoined the life, and once that was all taken care of you got the prize of being stuck in between Cas and a civil war in Heaven; A war that would change Cas completely.  

Yep, Clusterfuck described it perfectly.

Just as you had grabbed two beers out of the fridge, Dean came in from outside, where he had been working on Baby.

“Those demons really did a number on her, didn’t they?”

“Yeah, freaking demons, they crossed a line when they ruined my girl like this,” Dean answered as he grabbed the beer from you.

As the two of you sat there sipping on your beers, the silence became deafening. You couldn’t understand how Dean was out there working on that stupid car, when you should be trying to find a way to help Cas.

“So are we going to try to reach out to him?” you asked hesitantly. “Maybe if we keep trying, we will be able to talk to him.”

“Reach out to him?” he scoffed. “We talked to him earlier and it didn’t seem to do any good.”

“Death gave us the way to help him and we have to take it. We can’t just give up..”

“We can’t give up on him?” he interrupted. “Is that what you were going to say? That we can’t give up on Cas.”

“He’s our friend!” you said, your voice growing louder. “He is our family!”

Dean let out laugh.

“Cas is your friend, Cas is your family,” he mimicked. “I think what you are really trying to say is, he is your boyfriend.”

Narrowing your eyes at him, you crossed your arms. An action that caused him to continue.

“Oh Jesus Y/n, you have fallen for that angel and you know it! You said it yourself, you and Cas got really close during that year Sammy and I were gone. As Bobby tells it, you became impossible, pushed everyone but him away.”

“Awe Deano, is someone a little jealous?” you pouted. “Did the angel get to spend more time with me than you did?”

You had no idea why and you definitely didn’t plan it, but the two of you had started fighting like you were little kids.

“No! I just don’t get how you could think it was a good idea to move from Chuck, with Cas?”

“What the hell did you just say?”

“I didn’t mean...”

You held up your hand to stop him from speaking, but it only stopped him for a minute, before he continued.

“I just meant that in our lives, we can never catch a break. Look at everything that has happened to us, to you. There was a reason why you were afraid to let Chuck in and it ended exactly how you thought it would. Now you moved on to Castiel and it’s going to end the same way.”

“I’m not talking to you about this anymore,” you said while shaking your head. “But I can promise you one thing, I haven’t moved on from anyone or anything for that matter.”

Just as you had finished, Sam walked in, joining you and Dean in the kitchen.

“Is everything okay between you two?”

You and Dean both nodded as Sam continued.

“You know Dean I agree with y/n. He is apart of this family,  and we should be trying to reach him. I even tried praying to him to get him here.”

As the next hour went by the three of you sat in complete silence, working on your own things, when the sound of wings suddenly filled the room catching your attention.

“I need your help,” Cas pleaded, before falling to the floor.

Before you knew it, the four of you had gotten Cas back to the lab and you weren’t about to waste any time getting all those souls back in Purgatory.

“Y/n I am so sorry.”

After you finished painting the sigil on the wall, you turned around to find Cas’s deep blue eyes fixed on you.

“I know Cas,” you answered walking over and kneeling beside him. “We all know.”

Reaching your hand up you brushed your fingers over his dark bangs, gently pushing them back off his forehead, just in time for Dean to come over and tell you that it was time.

You stood there frozen, as you watched the souls leave Cas’ body and return to where they belonged. Then you stayed frozen as Cas came back to life, only to be taken over by the leviathans. It felt like a bad dream, a dream that you didn’t wake up from until you had arrived back at Bobby’s.

“Y/n? I think we should talk about the fight we had earlier.” Dean said snapping you into reality.

“You really think we need to do this again?”

You had tried so hard not to let what Dean said earlier get to you but the truth was, it had. It wasn’t just the way he said it, it was the fact that he had brought up things that you were trying not to think about and it only made you more angry with him.

“Y/n,” Dean sighed. “I had no right to say what I did. I would be angry at me too.”

“Well Dean, lets just solve this right now. I haven’t fallen for Cas. I have a relationship with him, but I don’t even know what that really entails; I don’t want to put all of this energy into trying to figure it out either. It’s like you said - look at what happened with Chuck; I put all this energy into it and it backfired. However, Castiel was there for me when no one else could be and because of that he has become my friend, my companion, my lover.”

“Wait, you had sex with Cas?” he asked interrupting you.

“That’s the only thing you heard? Really?”

“No of course not,” he replied giving you a nervous look.

“Anyway,” you said rolling your eyes. “The point is that when I didn’t have you and Sam anymore, and Chuck left, it changed me. All I wanted was to be alone, to not let anyone in again, but soon I realized Cas was just what I needed.”

“So can I ask you something, without you biting my head off afterwards?”

You let out a laugh, giving him a nod to continue.

“Did you basically just tell me that you were using Cas? I mean, Bobby told me that he tried to look out for you but you just pushed him away so it sounds to me like you let Cas in because you didn’t want to be completely alone but didn’t want to have to give anything in return. He was just what you needed because he didn’t know what relationships are actually made of.”

“Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!”

Throwing your door open, you jumped out of the car and made a beeline for Bobby’s house. Making sure you kept your head down the whole way so no one could see the tears filling the corner of your eyes.  You had been using Castiel. What made it even worse was that now that he was dead, you realized you might of been lying to yourself when you said you hadn’t fallen for the angel.

@natasha-cole @narisjournal-blog @itsfunnierin-enochian @chelsea-shurley @be-fantastic @lamthetwickster @laffytaffyhumor

[menatiera]

Inktober day 7: Confusion Pairing: future StarkSpangledWinterHawk - Stucky & Ironhawk Length: ~1000 words Summary: Addition to the angel AU. Steve and Bucky finally meets Tony and Clint. It goes... well.

@akira-of-the-twilight

“You offer us what?!” Of course Tony was the one to recover sooner; Clint still looked at them with surprise when Tony was already on his feet.

“We did what?” Clint managed to say with a few moments of delay.

Bucky sighed and fiddled with his fingers, soothing his feathers again and again, but nervousness made them ruffled again, making his work worthless. He figured it was the equivalent of humans having goosebumps.

Steve beamed at them like he was announcing the winner of life’s lottery. Ironic. “Well, you died. Together, at the right time, in the right age, in the right company. You are welcome, by the way. So we offer you the chance to Rise as angels.”

“As guardian angels”, Bucky corrected on autopilot.

It was the third time Steve said these words, but the pair still seemed shellshocked. Bucky couldn’t blame them. For mortals it must have been terrifying to find out about their own death, and Steve’s radiating happiness probably didn’t help the case.

Bucky, although reluctantly, stepped closer to the trio. “I think we should start with an introduction instead”, he suggested quietly. He stuck his hand out for a shake, hoping the human greeting would be familiar and therefore calming to the newcomers. “Hi, Clint. It’s really, really nice to meet you in person. I’m Bucky, your guardian angel.”

Everyone stared at Bucky’s hand, then the humans’ gaze wandered to the angels’ faces. Clint didn’t move.

“No way!” Again, Tony was the first to recover. “Why did you get the brunette, Clint? He’s the more handsome! I should got the more handsome, plus he’d fit my aesthetic better. But I guess that means I got you, Beefcake Blondie?”

Bucky slowly let down his hand, and schooled his expression not to show his disappointment. Especially not when Tony greeted Steve in such a careless way like he was not worried at all.

“I don’t want to be picky - or maybe I do, sue me, I just died -, but doesn’t a guardian angel means that, dunno, you guys should save us or something? Letting us die is definitely not an example of very good guardianship in my book…”

“Ugh, we did, more times than you could ever imagine”, Bucky couldn’t help but sound defensive.

“You, for example!” Steve pointed at Tony, becoming high-strung immediately by the change of topic. “You nearly gave me a heart attack with your little stunt at Monaco, remember that? What the hell were you thinking, sitting into a race car without any proper training beforehand?!”

“You are not better either. Stopping a bank robbery unarmed, if Budapest rings a bell, just to impress a pretty ballerina?” It was Bucky’s turn to scowl at Clint.

“Going into an active war zone?”

“Starting a fight with the local mob?”

“Challenging a known terrorist then using an untested beta version of your protection system while waiting for him to strike?”

“Arguing with Pepper on her birthday, especially in front of Natasha?”

“Driving into a weapon exhibition while drunk as hell?”

The two angels seemed to have endless stash of complaints against their mortals.

“I swear to Him, if I would be able to gray, I wouldn’t have a single brown hair on my head!”, Bucky huffed out their conclusion, more than a little exasperated.

Clint and Tony seemed stunned, then Tony cleared his throat. “Are you… absolutely sure this is not hell?” he asked no one in particular.

“Totally”, Steve answered without hesitation.

“Because to me it seems like it. Two cuties greet us, then start to yell at us for all the dumb and awesome adventures we had through our lives? That doesn’t sound heavenly to me.”

Clint didn’t even try to suppress his laugh. “Don’t forget the cuties are hot as hell as well.”

“Yeah, never forgetting, just look at them”, Tony agreed with a grin.

Bucky growled, because he felt his knees get weak. “Stevie, they’re flirting with us!” he whispered, barely audible.

“I guess that’s an… uh, good sign?” Steve didn’t sound sure at all. “So. I repeat the offer. Either you go forward to Purgatory, because let’s face it, even with your good intentions you made some shitty mistakes through your lives and that means you can’t go straight up, or you can come with us, joining the angelic ranks.”

“The latter means becoming a guardian angel, like us. We’d serve together.” Bucky didn’t want to sound hopeful, but he could not clear all the emotions from his voice. “You are allowed to refuse, of course. Seeing a mortal’s life from start to end is not always easy. Doing a good job of protecting them is even harder”, he added quickly.

“Well, true, Purgatory is more calm”, Steve nodded slowly. “Nothing ever happens there, that’s the realm of eternal waiting. You won’t change, you won’t have to do anythi…”

“Ugh, don’t continue, blondie, I’m in, whatever you want!”, Tony practically cried. “You can’t do that to me, I’d die. Okay, I’m already dead, I can’t die anymore, but I’d do it again just to piss someone off. I’d go crazy. You know what, send me in Hell before that Purgatory thing, that would be less cruel. Fuck, I’ve got goosebumps just to think about the whole eternal waiting thing. You know how much I hate waiting?”

“I’m aware”, Steve sad dryly. Half of Tony’s possibly life-threatening troubles originated from this.

Clint shrugged. “I’m not the type of guy to sit down and twiddle either. I guess this protection thing is worth a shot.”

Tony patted his lover’s shoulder. “That’s my boy!”

Clint didn’t pay attention to him. “So I assume your offer meant we’ll be working together?” Now he was the one to offer his hand. “In this case, I’m also glad to meet you. Bucky, right?”

Instead of shaking the hand, Bucky stepped forward, and pulled him into a tight, full-body hug. He embraced both with arms and with wings, shielding themselves from everything. His wings were not bright white ones anymore, but they held the same power as before.

On their right, Steve did the same with Tony.

“Welcome home, ours”, Bucky whispered into Clint’s ear. Then he sighed, and released every barrier he had, destroyed every wall inside, everything that could have been between him and Clint, while he was letting his Light radiate free, flooding every bit of Clint’s soul.

Heaven greeted two newborn angels among its ranks.

[brazen-kenobi]

destiel/cockles fic rec

Nine Times We Met (And One Christmas We Parted) by almaasi 

Summary:  On the last day of school before Christmas vacation, Mr. Castiel Quinn discovers that one of his young students has smuggled male pornography into the classroom. Upon being told that the photos belong to the boy's uncle, Castiel vows to himself that he will keep the other man's preferences a secret. It's 1947; a man experiencing attraction to another man or fantasising about his sexual touch are transgressive faults, which could potentially result in imprisonment - or worse. But then the uncle walks in. The photos are of him: Dean Winchester, a rogue with an empty pocket and a child to feed. Castiel doesn't know it yet, but his life is never going to be the same again. Years pass between chance meetings, but even though they live their lives apart, Dean and Castiel's story is proof that absence truly does make the heart grow fonder.

The Mirror by Cloudyjenn

Summary:  When Dean touches a strange mirror, he's whisked away to one alternate reality after another and it doesn't take him long to realize the universe is trying to tell him something.

The Request by Cloudyjenn

Summary: When Sam Winchester prays for his brother, Castiel is finally sent on his very first assignment. But what should be a simple love match turns into much more and Castiel finds himself risking everything to ensure the happiness of his extremely frustrating charge.

(Dis)Affection by justkeeponwriting

Summary:  When Dean and Castiel are tricked to go on a date, neither is happy about this. To get back at their deceitful friends, they hatch the perfect plan: pretend to be dating, and gross out their friends with their over-the-top, disgustingly cute romantic relationship – and then break up in the most despicable manner imaginable. As it turns out, you can learn a lot from someone just by pretending affection.

On The Other Side by crowleyhasfeels and QuillsAndInk

Summary:  While deployed in Afghanistan, Dean Winchester writes letters to a girl who he's certain isn't listening. By chance, they are found by Professor Castiel Novak who takes the time to reply. Thus begins an unlikely friendship between two lonely souls who have nothing to lose and everything to give.

A Beast’s Perspective by Castiel_Left_His_Mark_On_Me

Summary:  Dean has told Benny a lot of things. The two had come to be close. They didn't lie to each other ... well except for once.

Our Life Through Your Eyes by destihellion

Summary:  They’re 4 years old when Dean tells his mother he’s going to marry Castiel. (My notes - this is cruel and very fluffy and I cried a lot)

In The Almost by Sir_Kingsley

Summary: Nine years ago, Dean Winchester ran away from the love of his life. Now he's back in the States for his little brother's wedding and has to face Cas for the first time since he left. He's expecting awkwardness or anger from Cas, not to be sucked right back into the effortless friendship they'd built nearly a decade ago. Dean can't help but start to see the opportunity for a second chance with Cas, to give Cas everything that he deserves. But that was the problem, wasn't it? Cas deserved the world and all Dean had to offer was a bad heart.

Borderlines by domesticadventures

Summary:  When they were gone, Cas hadn’t known where else to go. Now that they’re back, he isn’t sure he’s allowed to follow them inside. (contains spoilers for 12.09)

Cooking With Gas by Winjennster

Summary:  Castiel Novak has it all. He's rich, famous, has a top rated cooking show and restaurant, drives an expensive car and wears Armani. His producer throws a contest to spend a day with Chef Novak, cooking and learning techniques. Castiel wants no part of it, but Balthazar insists and Castiel will do as expected. What Castiel wasn't expecting was to fall head over heels for the winner. Dean Winchester hasn't had a successful relationship in his 34 years on Earth. He's got a past he'd like to keep hidden, and his life rotates around his family and his business. Winning a contest to spend a day with his favorite TV chef is a shock, but a welcome diversion from his day to day life...until he meets the guy, and he turns out to be a big jerk. Dean figures he should have expected that. What he wasn't expecting was that same gorgeous blue-eyed man to sweep in and shake up his entire world.

Get Some by sysrae

Summary:  Very slowly, Dean turns. 'How'd you know I was here about a room?' 'Power of deduction,' says Castiel, leaning against the doorway. 'I mean, you're not after pot, and I'm pretty sure we haven't slept together.' He grins wolfishly, gaze sliding over Dean's body. 'You, I'd remember.' Dean's been hit on by guys before, but never so blatantly, let alone by a semi-naked dude in a kimono. A hot blush warms his cheeks, and he covers his shock with cockiness, tilting his head and grinning. 'Sorry to disappoint you, Cas, but I don't swing that way.' Castiel throws back his head and laughs. 'And you want to live here? What, did your friends put you up to this?' 'Actually, yeah.' Dean raises an eyebrow. 'Is that a problem for you?'

Our Sweet Rapture by Chiyume

Summary:  After a hunt gone wrong leaves Sam transfigured and Castiel drained of his grace, Dean is not only left to tend to them both, but for some reason also finds himself having involuntarily and graphically inappropriate thoughts about the angel in question. Now, if only Cas could stop getting so close to him all the time, maybe he could figure out what the hell was going on? (my notes - this is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever read. I love it when you can feel the characters emotions.)

Confiteor by orange_crushed

Summary: "I have a job," he says, carefully, like Dean is not intimately fucking aware of that situation. Like Dean hasn't been googling grim statistics on gas station robberies and watching clips from Clerks on YouTube for the last few weeks like a sad dumb jerk. "Yeah," Dean says. "I know." He's mangled the check in his hand; he puts it on the table and irons out the wrinkles with his palm. "I got it."

Too Long by dshep33

12x23 coda. Don’t read if you didn’t watch it, unless you want major spoilers.

Night Exhibition by almaasi

Welcome to the world's most generic museum. In the café, you'll find Dean, putting dinosaur cut-outs on his award-winning apple pies. In the gift shop, you'll find his snarky yet devastatingly handsome friend Castiel, folding t-shirts for a living. But Castiel has a second job as a night watchman, patrolling the marble halls and protecting the museum exhibits after dark. One night, Dean asks to tag along. He could never resist a crisp blue uniform, and he'll take any opportunity to have his friend show it off. It might take all night, one dance, and a playful sex act (or five) in a few unusual places around the museum before either of them realise... maybe Dean's interest was never about the uniform. And maybe their friendship was already something else.

Satin and Sawdust by Ltleflrt

When Castiel moves out of Jimmy's house and into his own place for the first time, he saves money on buying a home by investing in a Fixer-Upper. He knows nothing about how to fix the many problems the house has, but he figures he's smart enough to figure it out. Unfortunately it's not too long before he learns that he's way in over his head.

Thankfully his new neighbor Dean is a handyman, and agrees to help him out. He knows Dean has a bit of a crush on him, but he's not taking advantage of it, really. Dean's a great guy, and quickly becomes a good friend.

But a flash of satin under Dean's toolbelt changes everything.

Best Years of Our Lives, My Ass by ireallyhatecornnuts 

AU after Season 8, episode 6, "Southern Comfort." Dean goes to sleep in a motel room in Texarkana, and he wakes up 17 years old, in his childhood bedroom in Lawrence, Kansas, 1996. He has no idea how he got there, why his parents are still alive, why his brother is an adorable freshman with no memory of his adult life, and why the only ally he has in this place is the angel he left behind in Purgatory – somehow also 17 years old. They have to get out, that's the important thing. Only, falling in love with his angel wasn't a part of the plan....

The Exception to Every Rule by MittenWraith

When Sam was accepted to Stanford, he finally convinced Dean to move to Los Angeles to pursue his acting dreams after sacrificing for four years to support Sam throughout high school. Dean never imagined landing the starring role in a Hollywood blockbuster film franchise, but in just two years he’d gone from obscurity on the Lawrence Community Theater stage to become one of the fastest rising stars in the country. He's adapting pretty well to this new life in the spotlight-- until one unhealthily obsessed fan prompts Dean’s agent to hire a specialist from Seraphim Security to watch over him.

Enter Castiel, one of Seraphim’s newest “Angels,” and the only one available to take on Dean’s case a week before Christmas. With Dean’s life on the line, Castiel does his best to maintain a professional distance, but with every passing day they’re both finding themselves making more and more exceptions to their rules.

a turn of the earth by mishcollin 

Dean’s your typical half-orphaned, monster-killing 22-year-old until a trenchcoated stranger crashes into his back windshield one September night, claiming he’s an angel that knows him from the future and that he’s on the run.

Frigging fantastic.

(Or, in which Castiel gets stuck in Dean’s timeline preseries and Dean kind of hates it—until he doesn’t.)

Method Acting (Or ‘In Which Misha Is Not, In Fact, Kidding Jensen’) by HigherMagic

There's a little surprise in the script for the latest episode, Misha is unruffled, and Jensen is not amused, but he's determined to put on the best damn performance he can, 'cause it's the last season and, hey, he owes it to Dean.

Heartland by Kalliel

To love the Winchesters means probably, today, to leave them.

Because I'm surely not the only one who heard Sam say This is everything Cas dug up in Gaza, every last bit of prebiblical lore and wondered how Castiel got there, and how long he plans to stay. Tag to 11x07 “Plush”; implied spoilers for 11x08 and 11x09.

Her Favorite Love Story by destieldrabblesdaily

The story of Dean and Castiel as seen through Mary Winchester's eyes; AKA how she witnesses her oldest son fall in love with his best friend.

Shakes-Queer: A Comedy by ozonecologne (also on tumblr as @ozonecologne)

"I’ve never talked to you before but the teacher just used us as an example for a scenario where we are married" AU.

(Conveniently, a comedy usually ends in marriage.)

Breathe Lighty by nhixxie

"To my first love, and my last, Dean Winchester. These are the things I want to tell you: the human body is 60% water. The number of neurons in one person is the rough equivalent of the number of stars in a small galaxy. There is 0.2 milligrams of gold in your blood. The heart is an elaborate engine. I love you."

(Thanks to @kinvgslayer for suggesting this to me. She just really wanted me to cry. And I did.)

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How to Hire a Muscle Car Painter & Avoid Losing Your Car to Paint Purgatory

The stories are all too common and, therefore, all too disturbing. A beloved muscle car project disappears into a paint shop for months, maybe even years, far beyond the promised turnaround time. What’s worse, the painter keeps asking for more money without being able to show evidence of progress. Or maybe the painter goes dark, refusing to pick up the phone or answer email.

When a car is stuck in painting purgatory, the best one can hope for is to get it out of the shop just like it was dropped off, none the worse for the unintended hiatus. A refund on your deposit? Fat chance. But often these tales end with insult added to injury, where owners discover cars that are torn apart, parts lost, gas tanks drained. Or if some work has been done, you later discover Hershey-bar-thick body filler under poorly sprayed primer, or what looks to be an oil slick bubbling up through the fresh paint.

To help MCR readers from falling into this trap, we interviewed three painters/restorers in different parts of the country. We asked their advice on what to look for in a collectible car painter—as opposed to a standard, collision-repair type of paint shop—and the kinds of clues you might find that could be red flags signaling potential problems down the road.

Bob Perkins in his Wisconsin shop

Bob Perkins | Perkins Restorations, Juneau, Wis.

Interviewed by Jerry Heasley Bob Perkins is head Authenticity Judge for the Mustang Club of America. He has been restoring Mustangs and Fords professionally since the early 1980s. His collection of some of the best classic Mustangs in the world focuses on Boss and Cobra Jet models. Perkins is also one of the premiere painters in the hobby. He prefers single-stage acrylic enamel, per factory issue, although he also applies basecoat/clear coat in some Ford restorations.

MCR: Can you give us some tips on picking a shop to paint your classic muscle car?

Perkins: The first thing I would do is look around to see if they have a paint booth so they can do their painting in-house. You might be in a shop that farms out paint and bodywork.

Farming out paint work is a bad sign?

Why would you want to farm out the most important aspect of a restoration? A typical restoration consumes 1,000-plus hours, and the paint and bodywork will amount to 500 to 600 hours, more if the body needs major work. So your car is going to be who-knows-where in Joe Blow’s shop down the street.

Paint and bodywork are the most important part of a restoration?

Anybody with a toolbox and some common sense can take apart and assemble a car. But most people can’t do paint and bodywork. When the paint has an issue, this is where you run into a headache. Who is going to eat the redo? The shop you paid or the shop that did the work? Usually the paint failure comes a year or two after the car leaves the shop. The shop’s response can be, “That was two years ago. I didn’t paint it. So you’ll have to ask him if you want a warranty.”

If you see the shop has a paint booth, what next?

See if the paint room is dirty and rundown. Cleanliness is one of the most important things. A new car finish dries with a slight orange peel, which requires a very clean environment. Dirt and trash in paint requires sanding and buffing, which makes the paint slick and removes the factory matte appearance. The main reason to sand and buff is to remove imperfections in the paint.

If you see several cars in primer but nothing in body color, then I’d start to wonder why they get so far and then quit. Ask the painter to see one of the cars they have finished. I would want to call a customer and ask if he was happy with the job the shop did. If he’s been on the show circuit, like with the Mustang Club of America, how did he score on paint and bodywork?

So an award would be a pretty good sign?

Not completely. Paint and body is a really hard part of judging. If the car looks pretty good from 10 feet, that’s good enough for most judges. Out of 50 points, usually a car will lose maybe two, three, or four points on paint and bodywork. Many judges don’t understand about door gaps and alignment and fit. Orange peel doesn’t mean just a little bit of orange peel in the doorjambs where somebody couldn’t get the buffer in there to buff. Orange peel means uniform throughout the car, like it was at the factory.

What questions should customers ask to get the paint job they want?

First of all, if you’re doing, say, a concours Boss 302, and the painter says he only does basecoat/clearcoat, then you have to find another painter. A lot of times they will try to talk you out of leaving orange peel in the paint. They’ll say it is a factory imperfection. That’s because they don’t have a clean enough environment and will need to sand and buff out the paint to get rid of the trash and dirt.

Of course, Fords didn’t use lacquer in the 1960s and 1970s, but GM did.

You can still get lacquer. If I were doing a Corvette it would be done in lacquer. Usually when we repair a spot in paint, we do use lacquer.

But you mostly restore Fords with single-stage paint?

I restored two [Ford] race cars in basecoat/clearcoat because they were metallic colors. If either of those cars had been a solid color I would have used single-stage paint. But back when those Ford race cars were built [in the late 1960s] they were basecoat/clearcoat too. The base was lacquer, but you just can’t take a chance with that paint. They took all the lead out of it. As long as you leave a little bit of orange peel in the clear, it looks good.

What about using a regular body shop that also paints collector cars?

There are certain people that run a body shop for most of their work. They say when we have nothing better to do we’ll work on your car, and then it sits there for five years. It happens a lot. They are working to beat the clock to make money. But at a restoration shop it doesn’t matter how long it takes.

If your car is not going to be the number-one priority in the shop, you don’t want your car there. You can always go back and add correct parts, do a little detailing under the hood, but once the car is done you’d never want to go back and have to paint it over. You’d have to start all over and take everything apart.

Paint is too big of an investment to do twice.

Ken Maisano working in MASCAR’s spray booth in Southern California.

Ken Maisano | MASCAR Classics, Costa Mesa, Calif.

Interviewed by Drew Hardin After a career as a renowned engine builder (including a stint as a machinist for Jack Roush), Ken Maisano established MASCAR as a collision repair shop in 1987, quickly building a reputation for high-quality work and satisfied customers. MASCAR applied that same work ethic when collector and muscle car projects came through its door, resulting in a number of concours winners, feature stories in magazines (including this one), and appearances on Overhaulin’ and My Classic Car. Maisano recently downscaled the MASCAR operation. “It’s more of a hobby shop now, where we mostly work on our own cars,” he says. But he will take on the occasional customer car now and then.

MCR: How should someone choose a paint shop?

Maisano: Before anything else, get referrals. Car shows are a great resource. You see a quality paint job, talk to the owner, find out who painted it, who did the bodywork. That car will likely be in your local area, so once you get that source, then start researching the company online. Internet forums are another real good resource.

Once you narrow it down to a shop, meet the owner, look at the facility. Are there old cars there? Can the owner show you anything he’s completed? They should be able to call up a client to bring a car by to show a potential client their work.

Almost every vehicle I’ve built has resulted in a friendship. These are projects. Even a basic painting job can be a project, and you need a relationship with the owner or manager. If you find he’s arrogant or you don’t like him, you probably shouldn’t be working with the guy. You won’t have a good relationship.

How long should it take to paint a car?

For a high-quality paint job, every inch of trim and weatherstrip has to come off the car. And even if the shop can focus just on your car, it still will be a 30- to 60-day job. That’s for anything worthy of being called a nice paint job, a $15,000-and-up paint job. Anything under that you might as well go to MAACO.

Is that what a paint job should cost?

In today’s market, for a paint job where you would be proud to jump in the car and say, “It’s pretty damn nice,” but certainly not show-level to our standards, it would be in that $15,000-$20,000 range. That’s what it takes to completely disassemble the exterior, strip paint down to bare metal, and fix any minor dents and creases, but not any rust repair. That would be for a 2.5-level build. Something you’d be proud to drive or put in a local weekend show.

What would stand out as red flags when looking at paint shops?

The number-one red flag is the painter asking for a lot of money up front. I could tell you about stacks of people who are beautiful craftsman but they’re not businessmen. They wind up trying to get money from you to finish the job before yours, so there’s no incentive to work on your car. That 30-day job might be in the shop for 90 days, or never get done.

The way I normally work with clients for, let’s say, a $20,000 job, is I ask for $3,000 down. Once the vehicle is stripped I’ll call the client and show the car to the client. Usually there are some surprises, so I want them to come down and look at it, understand what’s going on, maybe give me another couple thousand. As you see progress, you keep making payments on that vehicle, so at the end I’m owed only $2,000 or $3,000.

A lot of body shops will take in classic or collector jobs as fillers. But the problem with filler work is they may be slow when you pull in with the car and work on it some, but then they get busy again and your car will sit for six months. If they tell you they’ll “work on it when we get the time,” you’ll have the car there for six months. A professional establishment should be able to do a mid-quality exterior paint job in 30 to 60 days.

If you hear things like, “We’ll work on it when we get the time, it’ll save you money,” or “I want to start doing these cars and use your car as an advertisement,” run as far as you can.

Are you limited to the paint products you can use, being in California?

It’s gotten tough. We have to use a water-based basecoat, low-VOC products. The equipment has to be better than it was. You have to have a heated booth with good air movement. If not, it’s going to be more of a challenge to put out a quality product.

But almost all of the quality shows, even the judged shows, do not deduct points for modern paint anymore. If the client wants to get close to an OE finish, don’t color-sand the paint. Just nib any minor imperfections, then you’ll have more of the factory orange peel look. I like my stuff to be eye candy, but there are ways to spray product to look more textured, give it more orange peel.

Should a customer do any work on the car before delivering it to you?

I would always rather take a car as is, with no work from customer. For one thing, even on a production paint job the body shop can look at panel fitment and how the weatherstrip sealed. But if it’s all disassembled, you don’t know.

Now, if you’re looking at a low-dollar paint job, a shop like MAACO doesn’t do bodywork any cheaper than an average body shop. So if you’re talking a paint job at the low end, the best thing to do is have everything disassembled, everything outlined and taped off, all the main bodywork done. If you do all that and clean it several times, it’s going to come out looking pretty good.

Jason White restores American muscle cars out of his West Texas shop.

Jason White | Jason White Restorations, Hereford, Tex.

Interviewed by Jerry Heasley

Jason White has been restoring muscle cars for 21 years. He started out learning paint and bodywork at a shop where he worked during the day. After work he restored cars on the side at a shop at his house. His major interest has been American muscle cars of the 1960s and early 1970s. He finally moved into his own shop 15 years ago and has been restoring muscle cars for a living ever since. His shop, located in the small West Texas town of Hereford, is fully equipped, including a paint booth.

MCR: If you were choosing a shop to paint your car, what are some tips?

White: You want to pick a small shop. You don’t want a big industrial shop or a mainstream shop because they are primarily collision [repair]. You want to find a small shop and you want to find a quality shop, anything other than a massive collision shop.

So the big shops that do late-model collision are a warning sign?

Most collision shops want to roll late-models in and out, in and out. They don’t care about the cars. They just want to get that insurance check.

What do you look for in a shop to paint a collector car?

The shop should be properly equipped as far as a paint booth and tools. The shop should be clean and organized. If they are still drilling holes and using a slide hammer, you don’t want to use them. But if they have modern dent-pullers, that’s what you look for. If they have spot-welding equipment, state-of-the-art MIG or TIG welders, you want to use them. If they’ve got old equipment and it looks like it hasn’t been taken care of, then they are not going to take care of your car.

A dirty shop is a warning sign?

You don’t want to see a bunch of stuff sitting around that looks like it’s been glued to the concrete for a long time. I’ve had customers come to me from those shops where they lost quite a bit of money. They will say, “I gave them so much money and they never touched my car.” That’s very common.

Reputation is important?

Yes, you should ask around. Check for comments on the shop’s Facebook page. You should definitely contact one of their old customers and ask how the experience was. If the shop owns some of the cars they restored and displays them, that’s a good sign.

Cover Duster

When Ken Maisano and the MASCAR Classics crew started working on this 1971 Duster, Maisano wanted it to be “the best pro-touring 1971 Duster ever built,” a car that looked like a vintage Mopar but drove like a brand-new Challenger. Maybe better.

The Duster was a fairly solid car when MASCAR started working on it last summer. Media blasting uncovered some rust in the floor pans and trunk, which was easily repaired before the body was sprayed in B5 Blue. Maisano tells us the Duster’s bodywork and paint were finished in just two weeks. Given the all-hands-on-deck nature of some of the in-process photos he sent us, we can see how a normal 30-day painting timeline could be compressed in half.

The Duster is powered by a 6.4L Hemi and Tremec T-56 transmission. MASCAR fabricated the four-link rearend; the coilover front suspension is from Reilly Motorsports. Inside you will find heated and cooled leather seats and a wild sound system.

Want to learn more? Check out the May 2017 issue of Car Craft, which will feature the Duster on its cover and have a full story inside.

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Philip Parker

Themes

- Injustice :  I chose Elysium as an example to show an injustice that any person would watch  and would want to support the main character that has suffered from this injustice. During an industrial accident at the factory, Max is trapped in a chamber and is hit by a lethal dose of radiation. After being rescued, he is informed that he has five days to live before succumbing to radiation poisoning. Desperate for a cure, he and his friend Julio (Diego Luna) seek help from a human smuggler named Spider (Wagner Moura) to get him to Elysium; his only chance for survival is using a Med-Bay.

Elysium is a 2013 American science fiction film produced, written and directed by Neill Blomkamp. It stars Matt Damon, Jodie Foster, Alice Braga, and Sharlto Copley.

- Pursuit of love :  The fifth element is too me a perfect example of a person that has gotten use to being alone after a long time spent in solitude. 

It stars Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman and Milla Jovovich. 

Primarily set in the 23rd century, the film's central plot involves the survival of planet Earth, which becomes the responsibility of Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis), a taxicab driver and former special forces major, after a young woman (Jovovich) falls into his cab. Dallas joins forces with her and starts to fall in love, realising her true potential.

- The Morality of individuals :  In The Dark Knight Bruce decides to reveal his secret identity. Before he can, however, Dent announces that he is Batman. Dent is taken into protective custody, but the Joker appears and attacks the convoy. Batman comes to Dent's rescue and Gordon, who faked his death, arrests the Joker and is promoted to Commissioner. Rachel and Dent are escorted away by Michael Wuertz and Anna Ramirez, detectives on Maroni's payroll. Batman interrogates the Joker, who reveals that Rachel and Dent have been trapped in separate locations rigged with explosives. Batman races to save Rachel, while Gordon goes to save Dent. Batman arrives at the building, realizing that the Joker sent him to Dent's location instead. Both buildings explode, killing Rachel and disfiguring half of Dent's face.

- The desire for order :  In Inglorious Basterds  Lieutenant Aldo Raine of the First Special Service Force recruits Jewish-American soldiers to the Basterds, who spread fear among the German soldiers by killing and scalping them. The Basterds also recruit Sergeant Hugo Stiglitz, a German soldier who murdered thirteen Gestapo officers. Adolf Hitler interviews a German soldier, Private Butz, the only survivor of a Basterd attack on his squad. Raine carved the Nazi swastika into Butz's forehead with a knife so he could never hide that he served in the German Heer.

- The pursuit of pleasure : In The Wolf of Wall Street  Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort, has an affair with a woman named Naomi Lapaglia (Margot Robbie). When his wife Teresa (Cristin Milioti) finds out, they divorce and he marries Naomi, soon having a daughter

Fed up with Jordan's lifestyle, Naomi tells Jordan she is divorcing him and wants full custody of their children. Jordan loses his mind and tries to run off with Skylar in his car, but ends up crashing it in the driveway.

- A fear of death :  In Silent Hill a desperate mother who takes her adopted daughter, Sharon, to the town of Silent Hill in an attempt to cure her of her ailment. After a violent car crash, Sharon disappears and Rose begins her desperate search to get her back. She descends into a fog of smoldering ash and into the center of the twisted reality of a town's terrible secret. Pursued by grotesquely deformed creatures and a townspeople stuck in permanent purgatory, Rose begins to uncover the truth behind the apocalyptic disaster that burned the town 30 years back.

- Fear of the unknown/ unknowable : In the movie Donnie Darko on October 2, 1988, Donnie Darko, a troubled teenager living in suburban Virginia, is awakened and led outside by a figure in a monstrous rabbit costume, who introduces himself as "Frank" and tells him the world will end in 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes, and 12 seconds. At dawn, Donnie returns home to find a jet engine has crashed into his bedroom. His older sister, Elizabeth, informs him that the FAA investigators do not know where it came from.

- The desire for validation : Shrek , a green ogre who loves the solitude in his swamp, finds his life interrupted when countless fairytale characters are exiled there by order of the fairytale-hating Lord Farquaad of Duloc. Shrek tells them that he will go ask Farquaad to send them back. He brings along a talking Donkey, Shrek and Donkey arrive at Farquaad's palace in Duloc, where they end up in a tournament. The winner gets the "privilege" of rescuing Fiona so that Farquaad may marry her. Shrek and Donkey travel to the castle and split up to find Fiona. Once they have found her they head back to Duloc 

Despite his privacy, Shrek is devastated and misses Fiona. Furious at Shrek, Donkey comes to the swamp where Shrek says he overheard Donkey and Fiona's conversation.