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Hsgshags I just finished it With Understanding (in like, 24 hours. Only 1 of which I slept) and HOLY SHIT. This is so deliciously fucked up. I kinda wished Dean had relapsed at the end tbh, and could see it tilting in that direction a few times. Got me musing in restorative justice a lot (since this fic is pretty uncritically pro-cop and judge jury executioner hunterd I don't think it was intended but still). Also fun AU idea: kidnapped Cas manages to call Charlie before he breaks :D
GOD yeah that's the one part of WU I don't think totally works, the way Cas said "restorative justice but for ME AND DEAN ONLY." Like he does begin to question the legal system, but only for himself and Dean. Which is especially ironic given that Dean is guilty of two of the crimes that always make people balk at the idea of restorative justice.
Then again, that's pretty accurate to the show itself. Dean and his loved ones get grace and second chances, everyone else better be totally innocent and harmless or they're dead. And it could be argued the author was already dealing with a fuckton of incredibly messy and complex stuff.
I will say I'm very glad Dean doesn't relapse at the end, because I think it would undercut what the author was trying to do and at least semi-successfully did accomplish, which is to illustrate what would be necessary to go from abuse to love (and arguably make a case for why it isn't feasible to try this IRL).
Let me tell you, I have SO many plotbunnies associated with this fic. So many. I have like four drafts for fics that are just. Writing through all the what-ifs in the WU universe. It is never done with me.
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s1ep1 "Pilot"
welp here we go again! the first episode of my two year long supernatural rewatch project! im pressing play, let to fuckery begin.
bullet points are thoughts as i watch, paragraphs are my closing comments!
Why do I pay money for amazon prime if they are gonna show me ads before what im trying to watch???
happy John Winchester feels incorrect, like where’s the assholery.
And poor Mary, dying for no good reason except to forward the plot.
AND FUCK AZELZEL or however you spell his name. They were so happy, they were a family!!! And yeah so what Mary was from a line of hunters or whatever BUT THATS RETCON!!!
god its been six?? years since I first saw supernatural but still the image of Mary of the dealing face screaming out in pain as the flames engulf the room is so chilling.
DAMN??? Sam got a 174 on the LSAT??? Good for him, i assume all I know about the lsat is from legally blonde.
justice for Jessica honestly, such a great girlfriend and Sam was a little shit.
Okay sam being all home defence over dean creeping around in the dark is kinda cute.
Sam and Jess were just a happy couple, Jess didn’t deserve all that.
“Dad hasn’t been home in a few days” “dads on a hunting trip, and he hasn’t been home in a few days” two sentences that make me regret starting this rewatch project.
“not normal, Safe” YEAH YOU TELL HIM SAM!!
I try and deny it but i am a sam girl.
DEAN TWENTY SIX??? oh my god, and still that attached to daddy.
Sam and Deans upbringing was basically a cult.
“you know there’s evp on that” yeah sam, its called static.
Sam should have become a lawyer. He wouldn’t be good, but it wouldn’t be hunting.
I LOVE YOU JESS, DATE ME NOT SAM!!! I would NEVER get you killed.
Oh yeah, this episode is a woman in white.
tits out, dead a fuck, “take me home” yeah I would 100% let her kill me.
Now that I remember this is a woman in white episode, i remember the plot of it. I actually really liked this episode’s monster of the week aspect. the woman in white was a compelling victim and perpetrator, and i really felt for her.
“it’s the greatest hits of mullet rock”
“driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cake hole”
god I hate hate HATE the fbi badges, you two are babys, infants, CHILDREN!! Yall are NOT FBI agents!!!
“Why do you have to talk to police like that??” Damon Sammy? What kinda lawyer were you tryna become??
Oh yeah they are talking about dad again, this episode feels like it rapidly swings from feeling like any monster of the week episode of supernatural OR any plot driven episode.
um holy shit…. Dean shoving Sam against the pilled. Perhaps i know why wincest was the big ship until cas was introduced. (I mean like i dont ship it, but i can see why)
Okay the car driving itself was fun.
lmao dean at the edge of the river looking like a drowned fish is hilarious.
“you smell like a toilet” I’ve been reminded that supernatural wasn’t written for teen/young adult queer women and was actually written for white dudes.
“No chick flick moments” see my previous point.
“Jerk” “bitch” I hate this.
women in white are just so good, i love them.
ahhh the introduction of dads journal. The biggest problem solver in the entire fucking series.
this poor husband, kids gone, wife gone.
Jesus fucking christ, that jump scare jumped me scarred.
this poor girl, she just wants to go home.
kill him!!! I don’t want to watch another fifteen seasons of this horseshit
“Im taking you home” cringe alert 🚨
awww he’s not dead :(
Awww the kid ghosts :,(
wow that 2005 cgi does not hold up.
“If you screwed up my car, I’ll kill you” okay isnt the car the car that John brought Sam and Dean up in? How did the car become deans? John doesn’t strike me as the kind of guy to buy himself a new car when the old one will do, and he certainly isn’t the kind to give his kid his car.
JESS MY BELOVED DONT DIE
How did Sam and Jess afford this huge fucking apartment?
NOOOO SHES DEAD!!!
Well first episode done, i am not 0.00305810397% of the way done supernatural! Why have I cursed myself with this burden.
Overall I did really like this episode! I think that it does create intrigue into the storyline, while also introducing the monster of the week format. However I wish they did a better job a meshing the two together, it did feel like I was watching two separated shows that happens to smashed together. One monster of the week and one plot driven.
As for the monster of the week, I like women in white, i think they are a cool narrative function and aren’t region specific, they also aren’t indigenous folklore or spirituality significant / revered figures something that supernatural has a tendency to uh…. Lets say butcher, something that i can’t wait to deal with next episode.
For the arc’s plot I do think it does what it set out to do… introduce the plot of the show. Two brothers trying to find their father, who has gone missing. That’s really all I can say because honestly this arc was my least favorite the first time I watched supernatural I cant see that changing this time.
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theyarebothgunshot · 3 years
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ROSE I AM FREAKING OUT HAVE YOU SEEN THE PREQUEL STUFF???? WHAT IS GOING ON, my god... I was literally about to go to sleep, decided to check Tumblr one last time and see this.... what WHAT!! WHATTTT!!!!!! I don't even know if this is good bad or what but just JENSEN IS PRODUCING A SUPERNATURAL PREQUEL AND DEAN'S GONNA BE THE NARRATOR OR Sth LIKE???? -🐸
YEAH i am normal about this <3 (jk i am also freaking out) welcome to: people screaming to me in my inbox about prequelgate ft. j/2 fallout theory. let's goooo!
Another copypasta and suddenly chaos machine is full on gay I love this prophecy
you know whats funny i just checked the j/2 tag and i feel like for the first time in a long time they are starting to realise that maybe THEY should be the ones who are "gutted" *sips tea*
ROSE HOLY SHIT ROOOOOOOOSE ITS HAPPENING HOLY SHIIIIIT
YEAH
Nevermind just read prequel and well good luck I guess but just you know kind of bleh who wants to watch John Winchester well let’s have hope anyways
i know a lot of people are bummed out but i am kind of very excited actually?? i trust robbie and even though yeah j*hn winchester turned into a nasty abusive bastard, it can be interesting to explore how it all started (imo). it's just the first of many stories they can tell.
I can only accept this circus if it’s Dean telling the stories to his and Cas’ kids and then we have a revival to show that the whole finale was in fact the end Chuck wanted there Jensen I fixed it
i would not say no to this
heyloo bee anon here
um- wtf is happening?
jackles prequel series?? why? i want to be excited about this but sheesh im scared
because supernatural is never dead <3
okay, but, jensen... john winchester ≠ jdm, you don’t have to go /that/ hard for him 🙃
true true... though i am waiting for jdm to comment on this, please i need it
WAIT A SECOND J2 FALLOUT THEORY TRUE??
LMAO HELL YEAH BESTIE
Rose you really picked the worst time to sleep for real
bestie it was literally 4 in the morning, what do you expect from me sdfjsfhsf
I can’t literally can’t we were all right LMAO j2 fallout theory is real and cockles (Misha supporting Jensen) is [gunshots] I’m just laughing cause what the hell is this timeline we’re living LMAOOOOOOOOOO
we would always end up here <3
Do we have the copypaste anons to thank for JP basically confirming the J2 fallout? lol 🦚
yes, everybody say 'thanks annoying idiots!'
ROSE, WAKE UP, COME HERE,
THERE'S A LOT GOING ON FFS
YEAH I KNOW BUT I NEEDED SLEEP
Anticipating that there's going to be a lot of yelling about the prequel on here: I am cackling, but also, I mean, the first time Dean got a look into his parent's past, Cas was the catalyst: literally entered Dean's mind and catapulted him to the 70s. So idk, it's not completely unreasonable to expect some Cas cameos, maybe setting up a parallel timeline since Dean is narrating. What I'm saying is, this is Jackles, he's getting JDM and Misha in on this lmao -Honeymoon Anon
you were right lmfaooo also i fully agree. misha's tweet further cemented that thought for me. he knew about this prequel and i dont think he is cas-baiting us, i think he'll be involved. i'd also be obsessed to see jensen and jdm act together again (though idk who jdm could play seeing as it's a prequel and he is way too old to play young j*hn)
longlivethetribbles heeft gevraagd:
Heyyyyyy bestie, are you SEEING the absolute madness going on right now holy shit
well a little late but I SURE AM BESTIE
bestie wake up pls s16 finale just dropped.
- 🍯
and WHAT a great one it was
I love coming home from work to see all of the chaos unfolding on Tumblr and Twitter. I'm absolutely buzzing right now. I'll probably still be here by the time you wake up and check tumblr 😂 - 🐢
lmaooo and were you still awake?? did you see my freak out??
Oooh bestie wake the fuck up, I know you’re gonna be excited for this one jsnsjsj
god i had SUCH a morning like. it's 12:00 now and all i did since i woke up is check tumblr rip
short summary: jen and dee gain the rights, they post on ig/twitter about a prequel ft john and mary that no one asked for, the fandom loses its everloving shit as usual, they trend on twitter thanks to the beloved twt intern who missed us, misha qt’s jen about cas possibly benefiting from being in the prequel, then j*red qt’s jensen abt how his feelings got hurt by him not being told about a prequel his character as no involvement in & he initially throws a tantrum, and the rest is history - 🦋 anon (ps: i hope this helps a little, i’ve been scattered brained trying to keep up with it all night lmao so pls let me know if i missed anything, bug crew !!)
thank you so much darling i figured it out eventually but this is a helpful summary!!!
I hope you enjoyed waking up to all of this XD -🐢
i sure did!!! also that answers my question about you being awake lmao
I WILL NEVER EVER EVER FORGIVE MYSELF FOR SLEEPING THROUGH ALL OF THIS DRAMA AND NOT EXPERIENCING IT IN PERSON I DIDN'T NEED THIS SLEEP - tea anon
well the party was still going strong this morning so im not TOO "gutted" see what i did there lmaooo
Now that you are caught up with the news... So idk if you remember this but...didn't jarpad tell jackles he was up for a reboot in an online panel? And jackles answered that this was news to him??
-🍯
yeah i think you are right but he was clearly joking and didnt expect jackles to actually be working on something already
J2 anon spare more of those anons let's finish this - tea anon
please, we're having a ball in this bitch
I saw a post on tumblr where someone said now that Kripke gave J&D the rights, maybe they’re starting with a prequel just to end on a reboot in years time and honestly ? I wanna believe that so badly. This is tinhatty but what if this is all calculated in a way that makes it so that Jensen is slowly starting to fix everything that was wrong with spn - now that he has the rights and he’s slowly making spn his own story ?! I mean he did say in his ig post he wants to ‘fill in the rest’ - and maybe Mary and John’s story is only the beginning of spn related content from J&D to come ??? Maybe he wants to give spn the justice it deserves ?? Thoughts ??
i dont think this is tinhatty at all i think this is very possible and not that much of a reach. i could see this happening yeah for sure
want to hear something funny. I found out I had a ruptured blood vessel in my eye because I was sending my friend a video freaking out when the prequel news dropped and I noticed the corner of my eye was red af. and when I got back online jared had tweeted.
DJFHSJD ANON THE CHAOS OF IT ALL, HELP, are you okay? <3
rose.. bestie... how are you feeling about The News? nsfshsf being european is a curse </3 🐞
i feel GREAT im living for it i feel on top of the world tbh (and yeah it really is dsjfhs)
What am I waking up to I can't WHAT I rested my eyes for like 5 minutes help *hits reblog button* - anon anon
yep yep essentially djfhs
“Jensen and Misha are Co workers who barley talk”
I can’t be sure of course but I’m fairly certain that this is the copypasta that brought the j/2 fallout theory back to life. Who’s apparently ‘barely talking’ now? skansjsjsj. It’s almost prophetic, these j/2 anons have superpowers I’m telling ya.
-poker face anon
next time we get one of them we should be thanking them lmaooo
ok, but are we gonna talk about the "When Daneel and I formed Chaos Machine Productions, we knew that the first story we wanted to tell was the story of John and Mary Winchester [...]"-quote because the way this is phrased implies they formed CHAOS MACHINE Productions with the intent of telling this story (first), i haven't been in this dumpster long enough but the name just tickles me in that Misha way, isn't it so sus??? am i missing something???? i mean with this announcement they SURE lived up to that name... 🧩-anon
you are absolutely right, chaos machine SCREAMS misha and we are all here for it!!
hey hey hey. joining the clownverse, there's no way THEE cas girl danneel doesn't know just how much the fandom loves misha and cas. so 2 + 2 = misha in the spn prequel!
AGREED
So I think I finally managed to catch up on wtf happened while I was asleep and my brain melted. What a shit show to wake up to.
Anyway thoughts.
I don't hate the idea of a Mary&John sequel. I think it has the potential to be good (It has the potential to be really bad too, so I'm kind scared).
🕯️🕯️🕯️ manifesting Mary being badass and John being kinda useless🕯️🕯️🕯️
As for the Jensen and J*red thing.
I can see Jensen not telling J*red even if they are still friends, because J*red is kinda good at accidentally telling Secrets. He could have told him right before he announced it so, so that J*red didn't have to find out from twitter. He was on the show for 15 years, he is bound to get asked about it. The public twitter meltdown was really unprofessional so. Like you have Jensen's number J*red. You could have sorted that out in private like a normal person, but instead you choose to act like a toddler throwing a tantrum.
Is it weird that I'm actually going to be kinda that for them if the actually had a falling out, even tho I don't like J*red all that much. They seemed to be really important to each other and while I thought before that the might have triefted apart a bit, I didn't think that the where actively fighting.
- 🐌 anon
the thing is, the polite/normal thing for jensen to do was text him before announcing it on twitter. it's weird he didn't, and that makes me believe that maybe yeah they did have a falling out. especially with the way j*red responded to it on twitter. if he had no other reason to be this upset (no prior beef or falling out) you'd think that he wouldn't be responding like this. on the other hand, the man is a mysterie to me so who the hell knows. i'm not gonna mourn about it if they did/do grow apart because j*red is just.... awful imo.
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elsanna-shenanigans · 3 years
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August Contest Submission #18: The Concrete Rose
Words: ca. 5,500 Setting: mAU Lemon: No CW: Angst, brief Hansanna
October 12, 2019
From the second Elsa saw her roommate, she knew she would become her muse.
Douglas Academy of the Arts produced hundreds of graduates every year already with an astounding, artistic reputation. Anyone that had a future in the arts ran through Douglas Academy first. But that prestige came at a price, success at all costs meant that almost everyone was cold and cutthroat; no one was a classmate, everyone was competition.
It was a mantra that all the students bought into except for two people: Elsa and her roommate Anna. From a simple handshake and a peace offering in the form of a chocolate bar (“The vending machine accidentally gave me two, how lucky is that?!”), Anna stood out from everyone else in Elsa’s eyes.
They became quick friends despite how drastically different they were. Elsa was reserved and stayed in her head a lot, Anna loved people and spoke every thought that came to her. Elsa was constantly second-guessing her decisions and had a keen eye for details, Anna was more impulsive and loved seeing the bigger picture. Elsa was a sculptor who kept her works secret until they were finished, Anna was a dancer who would always post videos of her practicing for her latest performance.
The one thing they had in common was their need to support the other.
One day well into their first semester, Anna barged into Elsa’s room with a flyer that she’d gotten in almost all her classes: an advertisement for the 3-D Art Showcase in three weeks. “You’re doing this, right?” she asks, pushing the flyer in front of Elsa’s face. “You’re entering a thingie into the thing?”
Elsa plucked the flyer out of Anna’s hands and turned back around in her chair, “Not a chance. I heard first years get eaten alive at these showcases, I’ll wait until next year.”
“Oh come on! You’d kick so much ass if you entered something. Remember that clay canary you made me?” Anna pressed her palms against Elsa’s shoulders, which almost knocked the pencil out of the unexpecting sculptor’s hands.
Elsa shook her head, “That was different. I’d have to make like… something fancy and intricate if I want to even be considered for the showcase.”
“Well, can’t you at least try? Please?” Anna slid her hands down so she could wrap her arms around Elsa’s shoulders from behind. “I can help you just like you helped me while I was rehearsing my first interpretive dance.”
It took a while for Elsa to get used to Anna’s touchiness, but she learned to accept it. This was just another thing that added to Anna’s eclectic personality, and besides Elsa was a big fan of the rosemary body wash she was using. “Anna, all I did was press play on your speaker.”
“Which helped out a lot!” Anna assured her. “You know how much energy I could have wasted doing that myself?”
“… not a lot?”
“Just think about joining, okay? Knowing you, I bet you probably have like five ideas running through your head and when you pick one, I’ll do whatever I can to help turn that idea into something concrete.”
Well if thinking about it was all that Anna was asking her to do, then Elsa could do that. Less commitment that way. And she was right, of course, there were five ideas floating around in Elsa’s mind but none of them she could latch on to and say that that was the one to work on. “Alright fine,” she said after a dramatically heavy sigh, “I’ll think about it.”
“That’s my girl! Oh shit, I’m gonna be late for rehearsal!” Anna sprinted out of Elsa’s room to grab her dancing shoes. Before slamming their shared door shut, she said, “If you eat my spaghetti, I’ll kill you!”
November 5, 2019
There was something that Anna told her that day which stuck with Elsa much more than she thought it would.
Turning an idea into something concrete.
What if she sculpted something out of concrete? It was a near guarantee that a lot of the sculptors entering the showcase would be using clay, recycled metals, or wood; using concrete would probably help her stand out and better her chances of being picked. After a researching how to make this work, and some choice words of encouragement and dancing from Anna, Elsa set to work getting everything she needed for her crazy idea.
There was still, of course, one glaring problem: What was she going to sculpt?
Her answer came to her during Anna’s first performance of the semester. It was an interpretive dance that told the story of a young gladiator fighting for the freedom of his sister who was enslaved by a vindictive landowner. Her ability to tell this story without words (not even in the song she chose) wowed the audience and inspired Elsa as she waited for every beat of the story she’d seen Anna tell maybe a hundred times in their dorm.
Elsa decided to recreate one of the poses Anna did where she jumped in the air and punched her arm out like she was thrusting a spear into an unseen adversary. It was a painstaking process that tested her dexterity and her patience even more so, she shut herself in her room until it was finished. In the end, the sculpture was much smaller than she wanted it to be because she underestimated how much concrete mix she actually needed. And a piece of Anna’s skirt chipped off because it refused to stick to the wire mesh. Still, overall she was very impressed with herself.
And so it seemed was the showcase committee, because she was given one of the last remaining spots on the showcase floor.
Elsa somehow found a way to keep Anna from seeing it beforehand, so when she went with her roommate to the showcase, her reaction was genuine.
Anna gasped, “Holy shit, is this me?! She’s so pretty!”
Everyone in the building looked at them with judgmental glares, especially the judges. Elsa didn’t mind all that much, she wasn’t expecting to take a ribbon home, this was more about proving she could hang with Douglas’ best and to thank Anna for supporting her these past few months.
“I ran out of time to add details to the face, so I kept it blank,” Elsa explained. “I hope it doesn’t look too creepy.”
Anna shook her head, “No, I love it! It’s like… it fits so much with Henry’s character, the gladiator I mean. He presents himself as this nobody that could be anybody, like Henry is just a faceless idea, but he stands for justice and integrity, which can speak to anyone.”
Elsa smiled, her heart fluttering from the feeling of being understood. “I’m glad you were able to see that. I think I’ll steal that explanation when the judges come over.”
“Fine, but if you win a ribbon then you’re buying me dinner. For believing in you and for being your muse.”
“Pssh, you are not my muse.” How in the world did Anna already know that?
Anna squeezed Elsa’s shoulders and smiled, her eyes seeing right past Elsa’s thin resistance. “Yeah, keep telling yourself that, Michaelangelo.”
The judges came around a few minutes later to ask her some questions and write notes on their clipboards. Anna wanted to talk her roommate up so badly but settled on providing moral support right next to Elsa as she answered the questions concisely and with the professionalism that got her into Douglas Academy in the first place.
She didn’t win a ribbon, but decided to take Anna out to dinner anyway.
December 26, 2019
“I think concrete should be your thing,” Anna said before taking another long sip of her hot chocolate.
“My thing?” Elsa asked.
“Yeah, like the thing that makes you stand out from everyone else. The thing you’re known for. Da Vinci had his inventions and paintings, Degas painted ballet dancers, you could be the concrete rose.”
Elsa chuckled, “Concrete rose? That sounds more like you than it sounds like me.”
Anna gasped, “Why Ms. Elsa, you best be careful or I might just take that as a compliment.”
“Uhh you should because it was.” Elsa gently kicked her foot forward to keep the front porch swinging. They drank their hot chocolates in silence, relishing in that post-Christmas bliss. Elsa’s family was always a little more dysfunctional around the holidays, but when Anna told her she’d be spending her Christmas in the dorms she knew that couldn’t happen. Her best friend deserved a real Christmas for the first time in forever.
When their mugs were empty, Anna spoke again, “Thank you for letting me come with you. I… maybe I would have felt a little lonelier this Christmas. And I’m happy that I’m not.”
“Anna, you’re my best friend- heck, you’re like the sister I never had. I can’t leave my sister hanging, you know?” The confession is so raw and unusual for Elsa that it doesn’t feel right coming from her lips at first, but the more this moment sat the better it felt.
She looked to Anna, her red cheeks were a sign that the cold was finally getting to her. “I had a lot of foster siblings growing up… none of them liked me all that much.”
“Well that’s their loss.”
“Thank you, Elsa. Really. Everything you do means a lot to me, I hope you know that.”
Elsa smiled and tapped her shoe against Anna’s, “Everything you do means a lot to me too.”
Anna brought the empty mug back to her lips. “So, if we’re sisters, does that mean I get to steal your clothes and burst into your room to tell you stupid nonsense?”
“You mean you don’t already do that now?” The force that Anna pushed her with almost sent Elsa off the porch swing.
October 21, 2020
Elsa and Anna complemented each other’s strengths in a way neither of them ever expected. The 3-D showcases happened four times a year, and Elsa entered every one of them with the support of Anna. There were also four major dance performances throughout the year, and Anna entered every one of them with Elsa’s support.
Anna had taken second place for interpretive dancing at the last competition, but Elsa was still looking for her first major win. She felt confident, however, in her entry for the upcoming showcase.
“I mean I love it of course, but it’s ambitious,” Anna said while looking over Elsa’s sketch. “How are you gonna carve out the bird and the cage at the same time?”
“I was thinking of making the cage and bird separate, and then putting them together,” Elsa answered. “If I get the dimensions right, I can hammer some nails underneath the cage so it stays put.”
“Hmm, alright well you sound like you know what you’re doing.” Anna handed back the sketch. “And I’m gonna support you a hundred percent. No matter what.”
“I know you will,” Elsa said while putting her arm around Anna’s shoulder. “… I think this is the one.”
“I think so too,” Anna said proudly. “And when you come back with a ribbon-”
“You’re buying me dinner.”
Anna gasped and wriggled out of her best friend’s arm, “Rude!”
Elsa rolled her eyes, “Oh please, half my budget is spent feeding you. I’m sure you can afford to buy me dinner one time.”
She saw the gears turning in Anna’s mind, trying to come up with a rebuttal, but in the end she groaned and said, “Fine, I’ll take your bum ass out for dinner, sis.”
Elsa worked harder than she ever had before, inspired once again from seeing Anna’s latest performance. It was a soliloquy in dance form, about a bird who’d spent their entire life on the move and in the hands of many owners, but never once being allowed out of its cage. It paralleled Anna’s life story: the foster child from New York who was only getting her first taste of freedom now. She paid special attention to the bird’s eyes, wanting them to emulate the longing and ambition she saw in her best friend.
The process resulted in a lot of tiny cuts and a couple of sleepless nights, but it was all worth it in the end. She won second place at the showcase.
True to her word, Anna took her out for dinner that very night on the condition that Elsa wear the obnoxiously huge, red ribbon. They had to stick it on her shirt with a safety pin. “Alright, where does Madame Second Place want to go for dinner?” Anna asked, dressed in an adorable skirt and blouse combo.
“I was kinda joking, you know?” Elsa said. “You don’t actually have to buy me dinner.”
“Oh please, you can’t get cold feet now. I mean you’re already wearing the ribbon, that’s like… I don’t know, it’s like when your high school prom date puts the corsage on you. It’s official, no backing out.”
Elsa raised an eyebrow, “What so you’re my prom date now?”
Anna pursed her lips, “Well maybe not for prom, it’s too late for that. But I’ll be your date if you want me to.”
That answer leaves Elsa speechless.
“Ooh, I know where we can go!” Anna added before Elsa could finish catching up to the millions of thoughts running through her mind. “There’s this really good Mexican place downtown. I heard they sell this burrito that’s the size of your forearm, and I have long forearms so I wanna see that. Sound good?”
Elsa blinked and said absently, “Yeah, let’s go.” They walked side by side to Anna’s car, all the while Elsa pretended she wasn’t seeing her best friend in a brand new light.
May 15, 2020
It’s a scary feeling to know that you’re in love with your best friend. Even scarier when you’ve considered them your sister for almost two years now. It’s like being strapped in to the world’s best roller coaster against your will. Sometimes it’s exhilarating and you think maybe this isn’t so bad, but most of the time you’re screaming and want to get off.
Elsa’s been on the same damn ride for months now and it hasn’t gotten any easier. But she’s accepted it, which is something she never expected.
All of Anna’s errant touches, her smiles and glances, and even just the way she says “we”… Elsa has second-guessed each and every single one of her behaviors. And yes, she would probably stop overthinking if she’d just talk to Anna but she doesn’t know how. It’s hard enough trying to have a regular conversation with her now, it’s nearly impossible approaching her with a talk about their feelings.
And even so, she’s accepted the fact that she’s fallen in love with her best friend. For the past two years, they’ve been nearly inseparable, there’s no one in the world she knows better or cares about more than Anna. Falling in love with her felt almost inevitable.
But did Anna feel the same way? Well, she’d find out soon.
For the last 3-D showcase of their second year, Elsa had been working on a particularly special project. It didn’t have to do specifically with Anna’s last performance, but it was dedicated to her nonetheless.
Rising from a slab of concrete, she sculpted out a finely detailed rose, complete with a realistic crack where the stem breaks out and defined petals spiraling into the rosebud. It represented Anna’s ability to grow and flourish from a life of a constantly uncertain home life and rough nights on the streets.
At the base of the concrete slab, she wrote ‘For Anna, for everything’. When Anna notices the inscription, that’s when Elsa would tell her how she feels.
She shut herself out from the world for a particularly long time; Anna only saw her when they were walking to classes together, and even then Elsa remained tight-lipped so as to not spoil the surprise. Her patience had to be rewarded, she figured, or else this would have all been for nothing.
When the showcase finally arrived, Elsa waited anxiously for Anna to show up. She said she would be running late because she needed to meet someone, but that was fine because it gave Elsa more time to figure out what she’d say to the judges. Which in turn helped keep her from pacing around the showcase floor like a lonely, lovesick puppy.
When the judges came, she defended the lack of complex expression and vibrancy of her piece by quoting Henry David Thoreau’s opinion on simplicity. And she covered the etching with her hand because that was one question she’d rather not answer just yet. At least not to them. The judges looked impressed with her answers and one of them even mentioned that she had a knack for giving life to her sculptures. The high from that compliment should have lasted her throughout the entire day, but it was shot down almost immediately.
When the judges left, she saw Anna walking towards her. But she wasn’t alone, she was with a guy.
And they were holding hands.
“I’m so sorry I’m late, I was waiting for this guy to get his fucking shoes on.” Anna patted the guy’s chest with a coy smile. He was tall, proper, and with fashionably thick sideburns. The way he wore his t-shirt and jeans looked awkward, as if he was ripped straight from a 19th century portrait and was forced to wear modern clothes to blend in.
“Hey in my defense, I didn’t know I was going to the showcase until you texted me like half an hour ago,” he said while wrapping her arm around Anna’s shoulders.
“Lies. And propaganda.” Anna turned to Elsa with a softer smile on her lips, which was just another hit to Elsa’s already bruising heart. “Again, I’m sorry I was late but I figured it was time for you two to meet. Elsa, this is Hans. We’ve been dating for a month now.”
A month?
A… a month.
Elsa’s doing her best to remain polite and cordial, but it’s hard when her entire body feels like it’s crumbling onto the floor. She extends a hand out anyway, wincing when Hans takes it with more strength than she’s expecting. “It-It’s nice to meet you, Hans. Anna’s lucky to have you around.” The words come out of her mouth like a rejected poison.
Anna talked some more, so did Hans, and maybe Elsa nodded and smiled when she needed to, but for the life of her she couldn’t tell you what the hell they talked about. When it came time for the… couple to examine Elsa’s sculpture, Anna beamed at her with that same pride that was on her face since day one and Hans said she did a good job. Elsa kept her hand over the inscription the entire time.
She won another second place ribbon. When Anna noticed the inscription, Elsa said it was a thank you for being a wonderful friend. Each word felt like pulling teeth.
September 4, 2020
They met at the campus coffee shop while Elsa was isolating herself. Ironically, Anna was going there to get a hot chocolate to surprise Elsa.
She brought Anna and Hans together.
It was a very lonely summer for Elsa. Since Hans lived in New Jersey, it wasn’t that hard for him to visit Anna whenever he wanted, which is exactly what he did. They spent almost every moment of the summer together, and while Elsa pretended to be happy with getting texts, the occasional phone call, and a surprise weekend visit from her best friend, none of it could stop the constant ache in her heart.
Move-in day for their third year was especially brutal, she unpacked absentmindedly while listening to Anna and Hans joke around and kiss when they thought she wasn’t looking. She tried all summer to let go of the feelings for Anna and to just be happy for her, but it felt like the more she tried, the more she held on.
“Alright, that’s the last box.” Anna wiped her hands on her jeans and looked at Elsa and then at Hans. “Let me just change out of this gross, sweaty shirt and we can get something to eat?”
“Of course, babe.” Hans kissed her and walked out of the girls’ dorm, Elsa finally let go of the breath she’d held since they started moving their stuff in.
“You’re coming with us, right?” Anna asked.
Elsa wasn’t expecting her to to talk to her, and she had to take a second for her mouth to catch up with her mind. “Uh no that’s okay,” she finally replied. “You two enjoy yourself, I want to unpack all of my stuff before I eat.”
Anna raised an eyebrow, “Are you sure? If you’re worried about being a third wheel, trust me it’s not gonna be like that.”
Elsa tapped her fingers on the stacked boxes in front of her. “No, I’m just not hungry yet. That’s all.”
“Well… alright, but I’ll bring you back some food and I won’t take no for an answer.” Anna peeled off her shirt and disappeared in her room to find a new one. From somewhere inside the room, she added, “We’ll hang out sometime soon okay? Just the two of us.”
October 1, 2020
'Sometime soon’ turned out to be nearly a month later. It wasn’t for lack of trying, but with the third year at Douglas being notoriously difficult, they needed to spend a little more time adjusting to the bigger workload and busier schedules. And any free time Anna did have was taken up by Hans…
Elsa continued to pretend to be okay, and she actually relished how busy their third year was going to be because it gave her something else to think about. A six-page essay on contour ate up time she was going to spend thinking about the sexual innuendo Hans was 'accidentally’ adding to him and Anna’s conversations.
The busy times couldn’t last forever, though, and Anna and Elsa finally found some time to spend together- just the two of them- one night on top of one of Douglas’ parking garages. It was a place they’d gone to many times just to get away from the staunch air of pressure and competition in every corner of every building underneath them. This was a place for them to breathe, a home away from a home away from home.
“I’m sorry I haven’t been around as much lately,” Anna said, breaking the silence from their lack of conversation. “It’s just that this is the first relationship I’ve been in and… I don’t know, it’s exciting and new. Not that things aren’t like that with you, it’s just-”
“Anna, you don’t have to apologize. Whatever time I get to spend with you is just fine.” Elsa bites her tongue before she can say that she still wishes she had more time with Anna.
“I just don’t want you to feel like I’m neglecting you, that’s all.”
“Well, you’re not, so it’s okay. I’m okay.”
“Okay…” Anna scooted closer to her, their bare elbows touching made the nerves in Elsa’s arm tingle and send shockwaves through her entire body. “Sooooo, you want to know what I’m doing for my next performance? You know, so you can start figuring out what you’re gonna do for the showcase.”
Elsa looked away, “I don't… I think I’m gonna skip the showcase this time.” She wanted to say she was going to skip the showcase this year, but that would have set off too many alarms in Anna’s head. She could deal with the one alarm she saw going off behind her best friend’s eyes.
“How come?” she asked.
“It just looks like it’s gonna be a real busy year, and I think I need to focus on getting through it. Once I can do that, then I can start thinking about sculpting again.”
“I… see.” Anna looked out across the campus. “And that’s the only reason?”
“Of course. Why wouldn’t it be?” Elsa wondered if there was something she said, or some visible part of her full of pain that she’d forgotten to cover up.
Anna shrugged, “No reason. Just wondering.”
Elsa didn’t have it in her to pry, so she also went back to looking at the buzzing nightlife of Douglas Academy. With luck, they wouldn’t have to address this ever again.
November 30, 2020
Luck remained on Elsa’s side for nearly two months, and then they returned from Thanksgiving Break. Anna had declined her invitation to spend Thanksgiving with her, and instead she spent it with Hans’ family. Who, as it turned out, was exceptionally rich.
Anna spent a good hour gushing over their massive house with the hot tubs (plural) and rooms as big as their whole dorm, and then talked about all the people that were there for Thanksgiving dinner and how amazing the food was. Knowing Anna’s struggles, Elsa tried to remain supportive while she gushed over Hans and his family and his really nice house. And then she said something that should have remained a thought.
“Sounds like you dodged a bullet not joining me for Thanksgiving.”
Anna pounced on that out-of-character remark immediately. “What’s that supposed to mean?”
Gosh, what could she say that wouldn’t sound passive-aggressive? Elsa decided on, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean anything by that. I’m really glad you had a good time on break.”
For a second, that looked like it would work. And then Anna closed her eyes and sighed, “Oh god… you don’t like Hans.”
Elsa didn’t say anything, which is the worst thing she could have said.
“Elsa, we’ve been going out for months now. Why didn’t you tell me before?”
“I…I guess I…”
Anna sighed and waved her hand, “Never mind, I guess it doesn’t matter. Look, I like you both so I don’t want things to feel awkward or whatever. What can I do to help? I want you to like Hans so that things don’t suck between us.”
There’s nothing Anna needed to do, this was a problem that Elsa had to deal with on her own. That’s what she wanted to say to her best friend. But instead, there was another disconnect between her brain and her mouth and she said something that was bound to make things worse, “You don’t even know why I don’t like him.”
Anna nodded, “You’re right. So why don't you like him?”
Elsa wrung her hands together, “Anna, we shouldn’t talk about this.”
“What? But you’re the one that brought it up.”
“I know, but it’s just not… this won’t end well.”
“Is this one of those things where the protective older sister hates every guy her sister dates and thinks that no one’s good enough for her?”
“No,” Elsa replied. And under her breath, she muttered, “I wish.”
“Elsa, we’re the only two people in your room. I heard that.” She scooted across the bed to get closer to Elsa, their fingers nearly touching were enough for Elsa to feel like her arm was on fire. “Just… tell me what’s wrong. Please?”
Though it felt like the wrong thing to do, Elsa pulled her hand away. “I don’t know if I can,” she replied. “Can we drop it please? For now?”
“… okay.”
December 13, 2020
This was the longest time Elsa and Anna had gone without talking to each other. Sure, they were polite and fake when Hans was hanging out in their dorm, and they still said good morning and whatnot to each other, but they hadn’t made an effort to really talk to each other in two weeks.
Knowing this was her fault, Elsa set out to craft an apology to Anna. After deciding on recreating the canary she made her during their first year, this time in concrete, she went to work quickly on creating the mesh outline for it. One night, during this process, she heard a knock on her door. A knock that could only belong to one person.
She took a deep breath and then opened her door. “Hey Anna,” she said far too generically.
“Do you love me?”
Elsa tensed up so much she almost tore her doorknob off. Any answer would have been a good one, but instead she remained frozen in silence.
“Hans and I had a fight and he said…well I mean he thought that… areyou in love with me?”
Still as a statue, much like the concrete rose Anna’s holding in her hand, Elsa somehow found her voice long enough to say, “Anna, I didn't…”
Anna nodded, and in the darkness of their shared loft Elsa could finally see that her best friend had been crying recently. “I should have known. I’m sorry.” She walked away, pressing the concrete rose closer to her chest, and disappeared into her room.
January 20, 2021
Though their relationship had hit an all-time low, Elsa felt it was wrong not going to Anna’s performance. She still very much wanted to support her best friend even if they still weren’t talking all that much. But Anna smiled at her the other day and that… gave Elsa hope somehow? Either way, it was enough to get her to stop being a coward and show up to the performance.
She arrived at the auditorium just in time to see Anna walk on to the stage, but not with enough time to find a seat. So she stood by the entrance awkwardly as the music began playing through the speakers. What conspired for the next five minutes was the most poignant expression of heartbreak and longing that Elsa had ever seen in dance form.
It started off as a simple ballroom dance, and though Anna had no partner you wouldn’t realize it in the way she moved. But her mystery partner continued to pull away no matter how many times Anna chased after them. When the partner disappeared, Anna continued to dance alone and while her moves were perfect and calculated, she let her posture slump with every break in the song. By the end, she’s nearly dragging herself along the floor hoping to make it to the end of the song, all the while reaching out for someone. Something. The song ends with her laying on the floor breathing heavily and the audience erupting in applause.
And for the first time in a very long time, Elsa felt a jolt of inspiration.
February 15, 2021
Elsa sat by the base of her sculpture. The judges had come to talk to her long ago and spectators were slowly trickling out of the building, but she couldn’t leave yet. In fact, she’d wait all night long for Anna if she had to. The note she left underneath Anna’s door even said so.
This had to be the fastest yet most detailed sculpture she’d ever created and there were no doubts as to what inspired her. Time continued to tick away, and Elsa continued to sit.
Finally, after an eternity, she saw the familiar silhouette of her best friend walking through the door. She was wearing the same skirt and blouse that made Elsa fall in love with her in the first place.
Quietly, Anna closed the gap until they were a couple of feet apart. “I got your note,” she said softly.
Elsa nodded, “I watched your performance.”
“Oh, I… I’m sorry. I didn’t see you.”
“I was in the back of the auditorium. But it was beautiful, I’ve never seen anyone move like you do. I’ve never seen anyone express heartbreak like you did.” Elsa wrung her hands together, “I’m sorry if this is inappropriate, but did you and Hans…”
Anna nodded, “A couple of months ago, actually. But my performance, it… wasn’t about him.”
“It wasn’t?”
“No, it…” Anna took her first glimpse at Elsa’s sculpture and it completely threw her off. “Oh my god.”
Immortalized in concrete was Anna in a stunning ball gown, her face content while she swayed in the arms of her dance partner. Except unlike the gladiator sculpture, Anna’s partner was completely visible.
And it was Elsa.
“I know it’s a little forward, but it didn’t feel right having you dance alone,” Elsa replied. And with much less confidence, she added, “Is that okay?”
Anna looked at her, confusion settled on her face. But then that confusion chipped away slowly but surely until a beautiful smile was seen in its place. “It’s perfect,” Anna replied, “Y-you did it again.”
Elsa blushed, “Well, I do have a pretty wonderful muse.”
“Well, I think that muse owes you dinner. What do you say?” Anna reached out her hand, eyes telling her that this was what she wanted.
“She doesn’t owe me anything.” Elsa took her hand and a lovely, warm feeling enveloped her. “But I’d be glad to go with her.”
Anna squeezed her hand and said, “Then it’s a date.”
Elsa’s sculpture won first place that day.
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Ltleflrt’s Writing Year In Review
I say this every year, but I wish I’d written more lol.  On the other hand, I thought I was probably done writing Destiel early in the year and thought I’d go into writing hibernation until a new fandom or pairing poked my muse in the ass with a sharp stick, BUT I ended up writing a whole ‘nother goddamn 100k+ fic!  So I’m thrilled af about that XD
Total 2020 Word Count: 164,013 Estimated 2020 Kudos: 1,846 Estimated 2020 Hits: 32,193
My 2020 Fics:
Hunter’s Caress: 161,095 (18,866 written in 2020)
Castiel Jameson won’t rest until the outlaw who murdered his brother faces justice, and Dean Winchester is the only man alive who can help him track the villain down. Some say Winchester is a cold-blooded killer himself; others say he’d been wronged his whole life. All Castiel knows is that the desire glinting in Dean’s green eyes is even more dangerous than he is. Castiel fights to keep his mind on business, but during the long nights on the trail with the dangerously handsome hunter he finds himself dreaming of yielding to Dean’s illicit kisses and losing himself in lawless passion.
Dean Winchester is about to hang when Castiel saves his neck with his crazy plan. But dying might be better than spending day and night playing nursemaid to such an infuriating city slicker. He appreciates the stubborn detective’s desire for justice, but he’d appreciate Cas a lot more if he’d stop being a lawman long enough to just be a man. He certainly has all the right equipment. Dean aches to run his fingers through Castiel’s dark hair, yearns to know how Castiel’s golden skin will feel against him. And before the coming of the next dawn, Dean vows to teach him the pleasures and sweet rewards of a Hunter’s Caress.
Most of this was written in 2019, which is why my Kudos and Hits are estimated, since a lot of that came from Hunter’s Caress. 
I learned so much from this project.  It’s based on a favorite book that I read for the first time when I was 11 years old, and have re-read probably twenty times since then.  Since I had the book open for reference most of the time I was working on this story, I got to compare my writing to a professional.  And y’all know what I think?  I’m kinda better at this than they are?  Not on the story creation front, because I consider Desperado’s Caress one of the best romance adventures I’ve ever read, but on the technical side of things.  Looking at the book with the eyes of a writer, with a little bit of editing experience under my belt now too, I’m just like... this is kind of a mess?  It was actually quite a boost to my ego lol
The Thing About Heaven Is...: 2,363 words
The thing about Heaven is that even though Dean has been here before, this time he’s taking the time to enjoy the experience, and things are a lot different than he expected.
I put a note on this fic that I didn’t hate the SPN Finale, even though I didn’t love it either, but I was being generous because sometimes I’ll remember what we got and I’m filled with rage.  I wake up in the middle of the night and think of all the ways it could have been better, and lose hours of sleep.  I spend far too much time yelling at Jared in my head for talking it up, and also at the imaginary C*W that lives in my head that gets to hear me ranting about how they fucked up so bad at least once a day. 
When I say that I didn’t hate the ending, what I really mean is that Dean going to Heaven first while Sam spends time back on Earth was kinda what I was expecting, so those 2 events are not bad in themselves, but the execution and the lack of Castiel on screen completely ruined it for me.
But that’s what fix it fic is for, right?  I decided to set my fix it fic post 15x20, because I know more invested and skilled writers who enjoy writing canonverse are going to give us hundreds of post 15x18 goodness, so I’ll let them do that while I work with what we got.  This was what gave me catharsis, and even though I’m never going to watch that train wreck of an episode ever again (seriously, I want to rage scream that the last “good” episode was by Bucklemming), I feel like I can come back to this fic again someday and feel some peace when I read it.
Man in the Wilderness: 142,784
As a veteran, Dean has survived more than most people could handle without going completely cuckoo. And he hasn't exactly escaped being a little messed up himself. So he's returned home to the tiny town he grew up in, retreating from a world that has become too much. But when you know everyone in town, the dating pool is shallow and it can be a little bit lonely, even when surrounded by friends and family who love him. And then a drifter on a motorcycle rolls into town, and Dean thinks just maybe this might be the man he's been waiting for.
While wandering the country in an attempt to escape his problems, Castiel's motorcycle breaks down in a small desert town. He's helplessly drawn to Dean, the town's handsome mechanic, and the feeling appears to be mutual. After months of aimless traveling, he thinks he may have finally found his way out of the wilderness.
Technically as of today this is still a WIP on AO3, but I finished the last chapter a few hours ago, so I’m counting the words in my WIP folder too lol
This was a surprise!  It’s a SPN/Destiel rewrite of my Mass Effect/mShenko fic Feels Like Home, which is the first story I ever wrote that made me feel like a popular writer.  Early this year I was brainstorming ideas for a fic where Castiel was the mechanic instead of Dean, and I jokingly said to @jupiterjames that I should do Feels Like Home, with Castiel as the mechanic.  She was enthusiastic about it, but I just laughed it off at first because what a silly idea.  Then I started poking at it.  Like a bruise.  Couldn’t stop.
Obviously I dropped the Mechanic!Cas angle, because it didn’t feel right for the story.  But as soon as I thought y’know, what if it was Mechanic!Dean and Drifter!Cas my muse came roaring awake screaming DO IT DO IT DO IT.
So I did.  And it was even more of a learning experience than writing Hunter’s Caress!  Because now I’m seeing my older writing (7 years holy shit!!), and I’m seeing all the ways I’ve improved over the better part of a decade, and finding even more ways to improve as I go through the rewrite. 
For a couple years now, I’ve felt kind of stagnant in my writing.  I have felt like I lost My Voice, and I was struggling to figure out what was wrong.  Was I just bored?  Yes, probably.  But also, I think I needed to look back at some of my older works that I fucking loved and thought couldn’t be improved...and improve them. 
Just Keep Writing You’ll Get There is good advice.  But it wasn’t working for me, because I’ve written 1-2 novels a year since I started writing fic in 2012, so it’s not like I was just staring at my screen and not putting any words on it while I angsted.  Read And Rewrite Your Old Shit was the next step in my evolution.  I highly recommend it if you’re also feeling stagnant and stuck XD
I’m also super amused, because Feels Like Home was 112k, and at the time it was the longest thing I’d ever written.  On accident.  Like I do.  It was supposed to be for an 8k mini-bang, and I had to drop out because obviously it got away from me and I wasn’t going to make the deadline.  As I was doing the Destiel rewrite, I had to keep cutting scenes and characters out that were specific to Mass Effect, and I speculated that the new fic would be shorter than the original. Ha.  Hahaha.  HahahahahaHAHAHAHAKDJHFADKJHF... fuck I am a wordy bitch.
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oh my fucking god. I finished s8 and im having soo many thoughts. benny DIED. he fucking DIED holy shit. why didn’t they let dean cry why didn’t they let dean cry. sarah blake. they also killed sarah blake. faces from the past dying fuckkk. Crowley knew EXACTLY what sam and dean thought of themselves and the people they saved. passing mention of Rowena. Metatron is good actually he’s insane and I love him for it. let kevin REST dear god. charlie oh I hope I meet her again soon also she was so good with guns. she called cas dreamy after reading the books…. also in the starting of the s8 finale in the intro when they say ‘lay your weary head to rest’ sam and dean cutting off people’s head is shown. the people in sea we double ew are insane. cas put that tablet inside him LITERALLY inside him how did he do that. did he like. swallow it whole. jody thought Crowley was hot????? I do not like her taste in men. when Crowley said that he and jody have a lot in common. the only thing they have in common is that bobby kissed them. and damn, almost-human Crowley is a whole new person he definitely had some kind of feelings for both sam and dean. and cas oh my god CAS. he asked that guy if he was into roleplaying. just. I love him so much. dean also met gay people... I don’t know if those were the jacting joices or if his reaction was supposed to be like that but. this is so funny. and the implications of naomi saying she has seen inside every angel’s mind that she has lobotomized every single one of them. even if it was just for a moment, ALL angels questioned once. every single one of them and cas still managed to question once again, to defy once again the writers go crazy sometimes. also cas doing that v sign or whatever towards that guy. I have so much love for that angel. cas’s ‘the WHAT’ when sam mentioned the dungeon. ‘I thought I was doing the right thing’ ‘yeah you always do’. and the shot where the angels started falling and cas looked up at the sky? effervescent.
YEAH!! AND THEY SHOULD LET DEAN CRY MORE I AGREE SO HARD!! "People around me tend to get hurt. Physically." The worst crime spn did to Sam was repeatedly prove this in every way possible (+f*nale). YES!! THEY BASE THEIR WORTH OFF OF THE PEOPLE THEY SAVE AND YEAH--
HE'S A SON OF A WITCH, ACTUALLY!!
DFSJDSJSJKDLFFJSKDLJKLSFD
justice for kevin tran 2k21 t-shirts
So true
literally-- like. Yeah.
CAS IS INSANE HE'S INSANE I LOVE HIM FOR IT!! I DON'T WANNA PICTURE HOW HE DID IT THOUGH IF I'M NOT GONNA LIE
I FORGOT JODY AND CROWLEY WERE A THING SCREAM!!!! And Jody and bobby and Crowley is something I NEVER thought of oh my god.
Yes he DOES
Cas is literally amazing oh my god. He inventing free will is something I can never get over jfc-
Yes either way the implications T^T
*SCREAMS* IN THIS BLOG WE BELIEVE IN S8 FINALE SUPREMACY
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Pinch Hitter
Written for @codesecretsanta 2020!!
Hey, @nemesisadraste!! It’s me, your secret santa!! I heard you wanted a slice of samodd so I was ofc 100000% down to clown. Hope you enjoy!!!! It’s a little group chat heavy and I apologise, but there’s some actual prose around the halfway point haha
Can also be read here on AO3!: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28323549
ngl I would actually recommend reading it on ao3 because of formatting hahaha but anyway enjoy!!
Pinch Hitter
DIRECT MESSAGE: Odd Della Robbia
(11:43PM) Odd Della Robbia: SAMMMMMM
(11:45PM) Sam Suarez: yyyyea?
(11:45PM) Odd Della Robbia: XANA ATTACK. NUCLEAR SHIT. COVER FOR US PLSSSS SHOULDNT BE TOO LONG 🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀🙀
(11:46PM) Sam Suarez: sure thing sure thing go save the world n shit 👍👍
(11:46PM) Sam Suarez: was only going to stay up late rewatching good omens anyway
(11:47PM) Odd Della Robbia: hero. incredible woman. love of my life
(11:47PM) Odd Della Robbia: and say hi to you know who for meeeee 😻
(11:48PM) Sam Suarez: crowley is a fictional character odd, he cant hear you
(11:48PM) Odd Della Robbia: but he's so sexy and strong 😻😻😻
(11:48PM) Odd Della Robbia: not as sexy and strong as you, ofc ofc
(11:49PM) Sam Suarez: jesus odd go save the world already and leave me alone
(11:49PM) Odd Della Robbia: SO COLDDDD 🙀🙀🙀
(11:49PM) Odd Della Robbia: still love you tho
(11:49PM) Sam Suarez: still love you too ok NOW GO
DIRECT MESSAGE: Jeremie Belpois
(1:24AM) Jeremie Belpois: Samantha?
(1:27AM) Sam Suarez: sup belpois
(1:27AM) Jeremie Belpois: Motion sensor went off. Pretty sure Jim is out and about. Try to buy us some time?
(1:28AM) Sam Suarez: shit alright. i'll see what i can do. b-team already know???
(1:29AM) Jeremie Belpois: They do. The four of you work something out, please? Thanks.
(1:30AM) Sam Suarez: ofc. hey btw hows odd doing??? ok???
(1:30AM) Jeremie Belpois: 80 life points and going strong, Sam.
(1:30AM) Sam Suarez: sweet 👍👍
GROUP CHAT: Lyoko B-Team REPRESENT
(1:31AM) Sam Suarez: what's our plan then home slices!!!!!!! 💪😤
(1:32AM) William Dunbar: Still don't know why I'm considered a b teamer but okay 😒
(1:32AM) Sam Suarez: don’t fucking complain william at least you get to be in the main group chat, 🙄🙄
(1:32AM) Elisabeth “Sissi” Delmas: ^^^^^^
(1:33AM) Laura Gauthier: Try getting added, then removed, and still being on the waitlist to rejoin
(1:33AM) Sam Suarez: ouch lol
(1:33AM) Laura Gauthier: ANYWAY, we need a plan of action. Jim’s doing the rounds. Any thoughts?
(1:33AM) William Dunbar: I’ll go stuff Jeremie’s duvet 🙋♂️ Laura you go to Aelita’s, Sam come up with some sort of distraction 👉
(1:33AM) Sam Suarez: hold on WHY DO I GET STUCK WITH THE HARD JOB?? 😠😠
(1:34AM) William Dunbar: to prove yourself, young one. how else do you plan on getting into the lyoko warriors group chat?? 🤷♂️
(1:34AM) Sam Suarez: SHIT U RIGHT… 👀
(1:34AM) Sam Suarez: its my chance… to shine
(1:34AM) Elisabeth “Sissi” Delmas: Why does everyone forget im fucking here?? Give me something to do????? 🙋😤🤦♀️
(1:35AM) William Dunbar: nobody forgot you sissi, shit 🙄 take odd and ulrichs room, if u think u can wrangle kiwi 🥝
(1:35AM) Sam Suarez: i would like it on the record that i did in fact forget about sissi 🙋🙋
(1:35AM) Elisabeth “Sissi” Delmas: FUCK NO. THAT DOG DOES NOT RESPECT ME 😤😤😤😤😤
(1:35AM) Elisabeth “Sissi” Delmas: Also RUDE..
(1:35AM) Sam Suarez: priorities babe or the fucking world ends. your call tho!!!!!! ✌️🤪
(1:36AM) Elisabeth “Sissi” Delmas: ………………. F I N E 🤦♀️
GROUP CHAT: Lyoko B-Team REPRESENT
(1:59AM) William Dunbar: @Sam Suarez What did you tell Jim?????? He’s 100% doing head counts now you dumb fuck 🤦♂️
(1:59AM) Sam Suarez: don’t take that tone with me dickbar, he’s looking for a sick GIRL. if you stuffed the fucking duvets properly we won’t have a problem, he’ll only be peeking into rooms anyway 😠😠
(2:00AM) Laura Gauthier: And what do you suppose happens when he finds NOBODY and comes to the conclusion that you lied to him? You have to think these things through, Sam, Jeremie’s not planning on doing any return trips if he can help it.
(2:00AM) Sam Suarez: yall are jerks, YOU put me up to the task of cooking up an excuse, don’t complain that it was shit!!!! geez!!!!
(2:00AM) Elisabeth “Sissi” Delmas: God you’re all useless. I can fake-cry, I took a drama workshop over summer. I’ll take the hit but you OWE ME. 😤
(2:01AM) Sam Suarez: there are no favours in this sissi, we took an oath. we are heroes of justice now and you don’t get compensation for saving the world, its superhero 101
(2:01AM) Elisabeth “Sissi” Delmas: Shut up Sam, you’re buying me dinner tomorrow. Take me somewhere nice 💅🙆😘
(2:01AM) Sam Suarez: but i don’t date girls who only save the world to reap the benefits, this simply won’t work out 😔😔
(2:01AM) William Dunbar: Take your flirting to private message, I don't want to be implicated in this sordid affair if Odd finds out
(2:01AM) Sam Suarez: ahahahahahahaahahahaha we got a funny man over here
(2:02AM) William Dunbar: Lololol
(2:02AM) Laura Gauthier: SHUT UP ALL OF YOU.
(2:02AM) Laura Gauthier: I can hear Jim coming, play it cool
(2:02AM) William Dunbar: Hahahaaha good luck 😂😂
(2:07AM) William Dunbar: You all alive……………..? 👀
(2:07AM) Sam Suarez: we sure are, listen to this
(2:07AM) Sam Suarez: sissi fake cried, told Jim she was having the worst cramps of her life and started listing off the side effects of the birth control she’s on. It was the greatest thing ive ever heard and im absolutely buying her dinner tomorrow, and yes it will be candle-lit 🍽️🍷💍
(2:07AM) William Dunbar: Holy shit. 👀 My deepest respect. 🙏 I will put in a good word with Master Belpois Himself, she deserves a seat at the grown ups table for this 🤷♂️
(2:07AM) Sam Suarez: no doubt no doubt
(2:08AM) Laura Gauthier: That was a close one. Sissi’s methods are unorthodox but hey, it worked. Next time find an excuse that doesn’t create more work for us, all right, Sam?
(2:08AM) Sam Suarez: shit you’re ungrateful as fuck. Damn . 🙄🙄
(2:08AM) Laura Gauthier: I’M JUST SAYING
(2:08AM) William Dunbar: Come on, lets not fight, I’m too tired for this shit 😴
(2:09AM) Sam Suarez: so go to bed, dumbass
DIRECT MESSAGE: Odd Della Robbia
(2:59AM) Odd Della Robbia: guess who just got DEVIRTUALISED!!!! 😹😹🔫🔫
(3:02AM) Sam Suarez: oh no, poor baby, you were doing so well
(3:03AM) Odd Della Robbia: right????? fucking megatanks, im telling you, they suck so much 😿
(3:03AM) Sam Suarez: well, if you’re out of points now, come by my room and we can play animal crossing together
(3:04AM) Odd Della Robbia: would that i could, sam, would that i could
(3:04AM) Odd Della Robbia: but theres a fucking building contractor lurking somewhere in the factory, xana-possessed, trying to take me the fuck OUT 🙀🙀🙀
(3:04AM) Sam Suarez: just tell him you’re not interested????? Its what i told sissi earlier
(3:05AM) Odd Della Robbia: ahahahahahahahaha
(3:05AM) Odd Della Robbia: first of all, WOW WE GOT A FUNNYMAN OVER HERE
(3:05AM) Sam Suarez: lololol
(3:05AM) Odd Della Robbia: second of all, i demand to hear that story as soon as i get back. Nobody turns sissi down and gets away with it 👀
(3:06AM) Sam Suarez: well, i cant help it
(3:06AM) Sam Suarez: my heart… belongs to another… a mr odd della robbia… im in the throes… of love… 💓💓
(3:06AM) Odd Della Robbia: OH!!! SAM!!!!!!! 😻😻😻💓💓💓
(3:06AM) Odd Della Robbia: luv u. So much
(3:06AM) Sam Suarez: same same lololol
(3:07AM) Odd Della Robbia: when i get back we ca
(3:07AM) Sam Suarez: ????
(3:07AM) Sam Suarez: odd????
(3:07AM) Sam Suarez: come in, funny man????
message failed
(3:08AM) Sam Suarez: odd if you die i will be so mad
message failed
DIRECT MESSAGE: Ulrich Stern
(3:10AM) Ulrich Stern: Hey Sam, it’s Ulrich
(3:10AM) Ulrich Stern: Einstein has another favour to ask
(3:11AM) Sam Suarez: first of all you dont have to tell me its you, the app TELLS me whos messaging me, this isnt a text
(3:11AM) Sam Suarez: second, tell me my boyfriend isn’t getting fucking murdered by a building contractor 😠😠
(3:11AM) Ulrich Stern: Huh???
(3:11AM) Ulrich Stern: Oh yeah. He’s holding his own but there’s not much time. You need to go keep watch outside Jeremie’s door while Laura transfers some files. If we get busted and she can’t complete the file transfer… well. The world does actually depend on it, so. Yeah
(3:11AM) Sam Suarez: isnt william the better option anyway?? Isnt he only like 3 doors down from you 🙄
(3:12AM) Ulrich Stern: He’s not answering. Probably asleep already, he’s a dumbass. Please, you’re our only option, Sissi isn’t answering either
(3:12AM) Sam Suarez: oh theres a GREAT story behind that but i’ll let her tell it tomorrow
(3:13AM) Sam Suarez: and fine, but seriously is odd okay?? If this dude is more than 5’5 he’ll have a problem taking him down, you know how scrawny he is
(3:13AM) Ulrich Stern: He’s tougher than you think, Sam. Trust me on that one.
(3:14AM) Ulrich Stern: (Also I am about to go save him from getting his ass beat)
(3:14AM) Sam Suarez: all right all right
(3:15AM) Sam Suarez: but hey stern, when this has all blown over, we’re having a serious talk about promoting me to the big leagues
(3:16AM) Ulrich Stern: ...Big leagues?
(3:16AM) Sam Suarez: im talking main group chat, my guy. MAIN. GROUP CHAT. 👏👏
DIRECT MESSAGE: Odd Della Robbia
(3:30AM) Odd Della Robbia: im coming mi amore… i beat up a fully grown man with my bare fists… pushed him down some stairs… it was amazing 😼💯
(3:31AM) Sam Suarez: please say you didnt break any bones, belpois isnt planning on reversing time right???
(3:31AM) Sam Suarez: like even if was going to kill u he was only possessed by xana
(3:32AM) Odd Della Robbia: heh i broke nothing!! Im a hero of justice after all 💪😼
(3:32AM) Odd Della Robbia: ulrich may have given him some bruises tho 😹
(3:32AM) Sam Suarez: ehh i’ll take that over this guy waking up with fucked up limbs and shit
(3:32AM) Odd Della Robbia: no doubt no doubt
(3:33AM) Odd Della Robbia: …
(3:33AM) Odd Della Robbia: anyway, night sam 💞
(3:33AM) Sam Suarez: oh, ok 🙄
(3:33AM) Sam Suarez: night, stupid. love you ❤️
Despite his parting message, Odd shows up anyway.
He slinks into her dorm room as it draws to 4:00AM, half-heartedly kicking off his shoes at the door and closing it with a softness that’s surprising given how exhausted he looks; almost as though it is second nature at this point to keep quiet, avoid drawing more attention. Her boyfriend is a professional, after all, when it comes to saving the world on the down-low.
Samantha watches Odd from her desk, where she is sat up browsing Twitter and waiting for the inevitable ‘we need you to do something else before the night is through’ messages from Jeremie. She’s been listening to the same Jay Som song on loop for over an hour now, and it leaks quietly from her laptop speakers, a strange extra layer of ambiance to the puzzle that is the hour before birdsong begins. A Baymax-patterned blanket is thrown around her shoulders for warmth, and there’s an empty can of energy drink within arms reach.
“Wrong room,” she says in a low voice, expecting him to jump anyway; he doesn’t. Instead he squints at her in the dim light, leaning back against the door with a weary sigh. “Didn’t think you were coming.”
“Wasn’t, but… here I am.”
He doesn’t really elaborate further than that.
“Ulrich know you came this way?”
“He stayed behind to talk things over with Jeremie. The overbike got fucked up in Lyoko and they’re gonna upgrade it or something. Jer-bear needed to know the specifics about his experience driving it so they can do some fine-tuning, I think. Y’know, so he doesn’t drift too far and plunge into the digital sea. Shit can get real bad, real fast.”
“I’ll bet. So, you triumphed over evil tonight?” she guesses, shutting her laptop lid and rising to her feet. Her blanket trails behind her as she does. “XANA can’t attempt to destroy the world for another 24 hours?”
“You know it,” he says, yawning. “And now, it’s bedtime.”
Thank fuck they don’t have classes tomorrow. She’ll happily lie in til noon with Odd, catching up on these lost hours.
Sam steps over her skateboard and some laundry she kicked aside earlier, a little embarrassed that her floor is so messy, but she knows Odd is too tired to even comprehend the state of her room right now. As it is, he’s swaying a little while standing, stifling a yawn against his hand - it’s only a matter of time til he crashes.
“All right, guess you’re here to stay. Hop in.”
“Did you know? You’re a goddess. An angel. A truly spectacular woman among women,” he mumbles.
“Flattery won’t give me back the hours of sleep I lost sending Jim on that wild goose chase earlier,” Sam muses, wiggling under her covers, still bundled up in the blanket like a crepe. She doesn’t know the full story, nor does she imagine she’ll get it until tomorrow when the group meet up for lunch - something about XANA threatening to blow up a reactor on some nearby building site, creating some devastating damage to the local area - but at this point she’s too tired to listen and Odd is too tired to explain.
Odd flops down on the bed beside her.
“Thank you for helping us out,” he sighs, too tired to even look at her. His limbs are all floppy. If she nudged him off the edge of the bed now, he’d probably just fold up like a pair of pants and stay there til morning. “What did you do, exactly?”
“Told him I heard someone crying in the bathroom and thought maybe someone was unwell,” she says with a shrug. “Jim checked the girls bathroom and did room checks, which gave me, William and Laura some time to sneak into your respective rooms and act as extra head counts. Just being under the covers was enough, I don’t think he was doing anything more than cursory peeking into rooms with a tiny flashlight. Wasn’t the most innovative red herring to give him, but it did the trick.”
“If it keeps them off our backs, the creativity isn’t worth factoring in,” Odd murmurs, tugging off his jeans and chucking them at the wall opposite. The impact scuffs the wall slightly, but Sam doesn’t care. Delmas doesn’t give them shit about damages to the room unless it makes the room completely uninhabitable anyway, which is why there’s a literal hole in her wall through to the room next door that she’s had to artfully cover with a Front Bottoms poster.
“Anyway, Sissi distracted him. I’ll let her tell the story herself, it was fucking hilarious. Then Ulrich messaged to say he needed me to keep watch while Laura sent over some files from the computer in Jeremie’s room to the supercomputer, which - I mean, in this day and age, why the fuck doesn’t he keep everything on the cloud anyway? So I was stuck doing that, because apparently, William had already fallen asleep again, the fucking lug. Can you believe that? You’d think, being your Lyoko pinch hitter and all, he’d be better at staying awake.”
“Oh, I can believe it,” Odd drawls, tugging off his shirt and balling it up, sending it to land atop his crumpled jeans with a flourish. He rubs his eyes and peers around. “Got that old shirt for me to sleep in?”
Rolling her eyes fondly, Sam reluctantly peels back the bedsheets once more and pads over to her wardrobe, pulling it open and sifting through until she finds what she’s looking for; an old Hootie & The Blowfish T-shirt, handed down to her by one of her older brothers. It always hangs right off of her, so on Odd’s scrawny frame, it’s basically an Ebenezer Scrooge nightgown.
“Here.” She tosses it over to him and he wriggles into it happily. “You might as well keep it, these days you wear it more than me.”
“If I walked around in a band shirt that hangs off me like a smock I’d never hear the end of it from Ulrich,” he says with a laugh, flopping back against the covers and sighing deeply. “He makes fun of my little chicken legs enough as it is.”
“Well, I love your little chicken legs, so he can keep his opinions to himself.”
She slides into bed beside him and he’s cold to touch; the freezing factory, coupled with walking back in the chilly night air, must have really done a number on him. He snuggles against her happily, mumbling, “Can I warm my feet on you?”
“Will you respect my wishes if I say no?” she retorts. He grins as she sends him a knowing look, before placing his feet, two tiny, stinky blocks of ice, against her shins. They both pull the covers up over their noses, staring at the ceiling in dazed silence for a few moments, before she adds, “He won’t miss you when you get back?”
“Not likely, I don’t fucking spoon him to sleep, Sam,” he snorts. “He’ll be too tired to care where the fuck I’ve snuck off to, and he can handle anything Kiwi throws his way, so it’s fine. I’m sure he’s capable of connecting the dots.”
“Fine, shithead, I’ll drop it.”
She continues to stare up at the ceiling, but she can feel his keen gaze on her, and rolls over to face him. He watches her carefully.
“Are you mad at me?”
“What? No.”
“Even though it’s nearly four in the morning and you spent the whole night covering for us?”
“It’s what happens when you agree to saving the world, isn’t it?” she points out. Sam’s eyes adjust to the darkness, and she notices for the first time that there’s the beginnings of bruises around his neck. She reaches up to trace them with her fingers, and he instinctively wriggles away. Her breath catches in her throat. “…XANA did this to you?”
“Actually, it was a building contractor,” he corrects. “He started to choke me, but then Ulrich got him in a headlock and next thing you know… we pushed him down some stairs.”
“It must have been scary,” she mutters. At that, his face melts into a smile, and he prods at her face.
“You’re so serious! Sam, trust me, this happens all the time. I’m indestructible, so it’s fine.”
“How else am I supposed to react, huh? My boyfriend comes home with strangulation marks on his neck and you want me to be all cavalier about it…”
“Because I’m used to it.” Odd pauses. “Well, not strangulation in particular, but getting hurt on the job is kinda everyday stuff.”
Sam scowls. “You're not supposed to pretend like this is normal, Odd.”
“What, you want me to cry and be vulnerable on you?”
“No.”
“You do.”
“Okay, fine, I do! What about it?!” She fixes him with a stern look. “You have to be careful! What’s the point in me staying awake and making distractions and shit if you’re just going to fucking die at the end of it, huh?”
“I’m not going to die.” He cups her face in his hands and fixes her with his own stern look. “Look. I know you haven’t been doing this long, but this happens, okay? Not always, but it does. I mean, you remember the kind of fights you used to pick with me when I would come over with these bruises without telling you why.”
She thinks back to the months leading up to him finally telling her the truth. How scared and hurt she felt, seeing him with these cuts and scrapes, bruises, occasionally even a sprain. She’d gone through all the possibilities in her head - bullying, hate crimes, mugging even. Still, he refused to budge, until one day he just… stopped pretending it was all some big coincidence.
“It was scarier not knowing,” she decides. “At least this way I know what you’re up against, but… I don’t know.”
He leans forward and kisses her on the nose. “I promise you I’m fine. But look, part of being a Lyoko pinch hitter is knowing things get hairy sometimes. I’m gonna get hurt from time to time but if I don’t, the whole world explodes. Or, okay, maybe not literally , most of the time, but I’m like, a drop in the bucket.”
“Well, you’re a drop in the bucket who matters to me,” she reinforces. Staring into his eyes, she can feel her body relax slightly. “Look, I’ll drop it. I’m just glad you’re okay.”
“Good. Now, can we please sleep? I am so tired, I’m starting to forget who I am. You’re about to encounter Grinch Odd, and he’s no fun whatsoever.”
“Oh, is he the one who said my face looked like a beet that one time?” she wonders, raising her eyebrows at him. He groans and pushes her away, covering his face with his hands.
“How many times do I have to tell you XANA fucked with my speech?” he grumbles. “Completely scrambled my words. I was going for beautiful.”
“Sure, sure. When in doubt, blame it on XANA?”
“I mean it! I would never call you a beet! A potato, maybe…”
She shoves him and he both winces and laughs. “Oof, that guy did a number on me.”
“Yeah, well, I’ll beat him up for you then.”
“You’re going to beat up XANA?”
“Sure, how hard could it be? I’ll just like, reach into the supercomputer with my full fist-”
They both burst out laughing and fall back against the pillows.
Once it trickles out, she blinks sleepily at the ceiling.
“I never really thought about how long you guys have been going without us, though.”
Odd quirks an eyebrow. “What do you mean?”
“Us. The B-Team, the Pinch Hitters. The Lyoko Warriors’ freaking PR Team! Without someone pulling the strings you must have run into all sorts of trouble, right?”
“Oh, yeah,” Odd laughs. “We used to have the authorities trying to invade the factory. Almost got expelled by Delmas. I almost got sent to a psych ward before, that was fun.”
“Jesus, Odd. Why did it take you so long to introduce other people to the fray?”
He shrugs. “No clue, really. One day we just kinda realised… sometimes it’s better to have people around. No man is an island. That can apply to groups too, I guess.”
“And why would you trust me?” Sam presses on, arms folded over her chest. “Sure, I’m your girlfriend, but I’ve hurt you before. I mean really fucked you over. That whole thing with William…”
“You had no way of knowing,” he says firmly. “It was stupid and immature, sure, but how could you have known?”
She shrugs. “I’ve just been thinking about it, I guess.”
They both lapse into silence, but beneath the covers, Odd reaches for her hand.
“I trust you because I trust you,” he says eventually. “And because if we need some big Lyoko Warriors PR Team, I’d want you at the helm. Who else is going to keep William from swaggering off the side of the planet? He can be kinda self-absorbed.”
“Sissi,” Sam deadpans.
“And who else is going to keep Sissi from turning every XANA distraction into a fucking performative art piece?”
“...Okay, fair.”
“By the way, you still taking her out to dinner tomorrow?”
“Apparently. You should tag along as my date.”
He laughs. “No way, I’m no third wheel.”
Sam leans forward and kisses him gently, before muttering, “By the way, I told Ulrich to get me in the main group chat. Think he’ll do it?”
“Absolutely not,” Odd says cheerfully, kissing her back. “But nice try. Here’s to next time.”
GROUP CHAT: Into The Lyokoverse
(9:48AM) Jeremie Belpois added Sam Suarez to Into The Lyokoverse.
(9:48AM) Jeremie Belpois: @Everyone Look who decided to show up!
(9:52AM) Yumi Ishiyama: Oh Hi Sam
(9:59AM) Aelita Schaeffer: hey, look who made it to the big leagues!!
(10:10AM) Odd Della Robbia: SAMMMMMMMMM !!!!!!!!!!
(10:12AM) Sam Suarez: !!!!!!!!
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mxrcayong · 3 years
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tag game; the interview
Tagged by: @lucas-wongs
Tagging: @pastelsicheng @kopikokun @stayinzencity  @urlocalnctstan @sunflowerhae 
n. 1 | Why did you chose your URL?
I kind of combined all the NCT members who got me really involved with NCT in the first place. So namely, the person who peeked my interest in NCT was Taeyong after my friend showed me his solo stuff and black-on-black but my first ultimate bias was Mark and then my friend’s bias (who showed me Taeyong) was Lucas (and he later became one of my major biases) So it was mxr for Mark, ca for Lucas, and yong for Taeyong (so I pronounce it mark-ah-yong) And then I was debating changing it now that I’m basically biased for all 23 members (some to different extents to others but I’m always tied with like 7 people for ultimates) but then it just felt catchy and I didn’t think I could come up with a better name than that that isn’t taken already.
n. 2 | Any side blogs? If you have them, name them and why you have them?
Initially no. Technically this is my side blog. I had a private personal blog I used to treat as a journal but then after too long with my focus on NCT and way too many “I am following you, just in a personal blog”, I basically wiped it and turned it into a random blog where I repost content that excites me / stories I like to read / whatever I want thats less personal and depressing as it was before haha… It’s @mxrcayong-main. TBH the main reason was to build better relationships with my mutuals - like they never see if I read their posts or like their stuff because my personal blog was just strange and I didnt want people to really see it. 
n. 3 | How long have you been on Tumblr?
Honestly…very long. This blog hasn’t been too long though. This started as an NCT blog March 2020, but my first ever post was about Sehun in February 2020 (which was supposed to be a one off post haha). I once had a 5SOS blog, and then a Tom Holland one, and then now this haha. I have deleted the 5SOS one, unable to delete the Tom Holland one bc I lost access to it, and now I am on this :) I low key wanted to regain access to my Tom Holland one because I’m simping again but I lost details to the email I signed it up to.  
n. 4 | Do you have a queue tag?
I have a queue post? Does this count? 
n. 5 | Why did you start your blog in the first place?
Honestly, it was the first lockdown and I was bored. 
n. 6 | Why did you choose your icon / pfp?
For the Lucas one; I liked the aesthetic. My favorite kind of aesthetic is this vintage, faded, film kind of look. For me, I think one of the most profound and important things we have as humans are these vivid memories so any photo that kind of mimics this feel is super gorgeous to me. Also Lucas is stunning.
I used to have a Haechan matching aesthetic to the Lucas one, but I recently decided to turn it blue. I chose Mark because I’m the biggest simp for him (alongside with Jeno and Haechan mostly). This is purely because blue is one of my favorite colors; it always calms me down, and I just thought the aesthetic and composition of this photo really pleases me. Like, it also fits my vibe a bit more of the ‘softie’ and my friend even says I fit the ‘blue vibe’ more idk haha. I just come onto Tumblr for escapism and write for escapism, and blue helps calm me down so I wanted this escapism to be calming y’know haha 
n. 7 | Why did you chose your header?
I don’t have one!
n. 8 | What’s your post with the most notes?
My post with the most notes….honestly isn’t one im the happiest with but someone requested it so I tried to do it justice but idk I dont like writing fics too far in the future yk?? but the one with the second most notes that I really love is called “Come Home To Me” 
n. 9 | How many mutuals do you have?
I can probably count on one hand haha I want to get to know people, but I’m really scared to. I gotta say tho, I’m so grateful for all the mutuals I have - but especially @pastelsicheng and @kopikokun because they really stuck with me through some bad times I’ve had. also, tons of love for @sunflowersora for being my first supporter on this app and low key motivation to keep staying on the app <3 
n. 10 | How many followers do you have?
Just around 200, so not too much compared to others, but I still can’t believe that there’s 200 people who like my stuff. 
n. 11 | How many people do you follow?
A lot! 
n. 12 | Have you ever made a shit post?
…probably? 
n. 13 | How often do you use tumblr each day?
When I don’t have exams, I use it everyday. Just because I’m in a somewhat bad headspace right now, I check it maybe every second day or just have shorter use sessions. But when I have exams, maybe once a week or two weeks. 
n. 14 | Did you have a fight/argument with another blog once? Who won?
Not really? 
n. 15 | How do you feel about “you need to compare this” posts?
I’ve never seen these posts but the title suggests that I’d dislike them. Especially with the words “you need to”. Like, let people live how they want to; don’t compare to others. 
n. 16 | Do you like tag games?
I really do! Honestly, I have to say I still don’t feel like I belong on the Tumblr community? Like I feel like I’m a newbie still finding their place. Theres a lot of times where I question that if I just leave, no one would be excited to see my posts anyway / no one will notice. So having tag games just kind of reminds me of the moots I’ve made who are a big part in making me feel like I have a place here <3 
n. 17 | Do you like ask games?
I haven’t done one yet!! I want to do it but I’m just nervous I won’t get any responses? 
n. 18 | Which of your mutuals do you think is tumblr famous?
…All of them lol. I think @pastelsicheng is hella known for the murder replay story she did and I was a huge fan of a lot of them before they followed me back
n. 19 | Do you have a crush on a mutual?
Not a crush-crush but a platonic crush? Idk if its a common idea but basically like “holy shit I wanna get to know them” but i have social anxiety lol
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castielscarma · 4 years
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https://archiveofourown.org/works/24827896 Kudos and comments are deeply appreciated but not necessary <3 Cockles/Destiel fic 2.7k Rating:M
“So we're doing the thing today, Mish? Are you ready?” Jensen was pacing back and forth in Misha's trailer, glancing at Misha from the corner of his eye.
Misha nodded, a mischievous look in his eye. “Been a long time coming.” He walked over to Jensen and put a hand on his chest, stopping his furious pace back and forth. “We can call this off, Jen. Do another scene first or – “
Jensen shook his head. “Nah, nah, I'm good. I'm good. I just want it to be good, I want the thing to be every –“
Misha placed a finger over Jensen's lips. He smiled but Misha could see the worry in his green eyes. It was subtle but Misha had known Jensen long enough to know that something was off.
“You keep calling it the thing. How about just calling it what it is?” Misha's eyes held softness and Jensen finally relented.
“I know it's a kiss, Mish. It's just, what if it doesn't turn out good, what if the fans don't – “
“Have you ever doubted where we were going with this?”
There was a gleam in Jensen's eyes as he trailed his fingers down Misha's shirt. He was still in his own clothes – wearing an orange shirt that Castiel would never be caught wearing – and Jensen had every intention of divesting him of the fabric. “No, I mean I had my doubts and I know Andrew had the talk with us” – Jensen smiled, “but I knew. I know.”
Misha leaned in close to Jensen, capturing his fingers in his hands. He leaned in close to Jensen and grinned when Jensen licked his lips. Misha angled his head, whispering in Jensen's ear. “Just pretend it's me.”
“That's what I'm afraid of, “ Jensen muttered.
Misha just laughed. “We'll do fine, Jen. We're professionals.” He kissed Jensen on the lips, almost chastely.
“We're professionals at pretending we're professionals.”
Misha pulled away from Jensen.
“If Cas kisses Dean like that, he'll be disappointed. He's waited a decade, Mish!”
Misha erupted in loud laughter as he exited the trailer.
*
Jensen could hear Singer in the background, mumbling something about makeup. Jensen was pretty sure that everything was in order. They hadn't started yet so it wasn't like anything was messy. Although Jensen was a mess. Not on the outside thought, everything was fine on the outside. It was just a big moment and he wanted to do it justice and his stomach churned, turmoil rolling through him. Jensen exhaled softly. It was just Misha.
Singer's familiar voice sounded throughout the set. “Rolling, stand by. Three, two, one, action!”
Jensen felt himself enter Dean's headspace, an act that felt as natural as breathing by this point. Misha, no Cas – this was definitely Cas – stared at Dean, his eyes flitting to Dean's lips before finding his eyes again.
“Look, Cas, we don't need to do this, don't need to do anything.” Dean swallowed and tried to slow down his breathing. That was easier than calming his heart that thumped against his chest like a skittish rabbit.
Cas tilted his head slightly and his blue eyes seemed to stare into Dean's very soul.
There was so much staring.
Jensen opened his mouth, singing, as a smile touched his eyes. “It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes...”
Cas' stoic and somber facade broke as Misha's face split into a grin. He pulled up his shirt and his hips moved seductively. Unbuttoning his shirt, he pressed his groin towards Jensen's. The crew started laughing in the background. Jensen and Misha both started giggling as Singer yelled “cut!”.
*
Dean pushed Cas against the wall roughly, a pleased smile on his face at Cas' surprised grunt. His hands found the lapel of Cas' trench coat and pulled down. He got momentarily distracted as Cas stared at him with an intense look. It was as if Castiel had finally found the answers to a question he'd been asking for years.
Castiel breathed out, his eyes wide with lust. “Dean!” His name was a prayer on Cas' lips
Dean smirked. Now that he finally knew that Cas had felt the same thing for him, the same feelings, the same love as Dean had for Cas, it was like a dam had burst open. All Dean wanted was to claim Cas and let the whole world know that this former angel of the Lord was Dean's.
Slowly, Dean leaned in, finally ready to taste those lips that he'd been having dreams about for years. So many times had he fantasized about this moment, of how Cas' lips would feel against his own skin, of what Cas would taste like. He almost groaned at the mere thought.
Again, a puff of breath caressed Dean's face and Cas' body seemed to be on fire. Heat emanated from him like the sun itself but to Dean, Cas would always be the sun; his presence bringing hope and joy into Dean's life.
Dean pushed his knee in between Cas' legs, his body pressed against the angel's. He was so close to tasting those lush lips, to finally claim Cas when Cas' lust-filled expression broke off. Misha smiled one of his gummy smiles, his frame shaking with laughter. Jensen shook his head as he leaned his forehead on Misha's shoulder. There was amusement in his voice. “Mish, look it up.”
“Sorry, Jensen. We need a break.” Misha continued laughing.
Singer shouted again. “Cut!”
*
Dean moaned against Cas' lips. To finally taste Cas was almost surreal but Cas made sure to ground him with every touch. In the way his fingers carded through Dean's hair, in how his hands ghosted over Dean's chest, pulling at his flannel, in how eagerly his hands flew to Dean's belt fumbling there before Dean got impatient and pushed his hands away. “Hold on, Cas, one second.” He grinned and unbuckled his belt, unbuttoning his jeans swiftly.
“It's been a second.” Cas was on him in seconds, grabbing the ends of the belt and yanked Dean towards him.
A gasp escaped Dean as he felt Cas' body against his, their groins slotted against each other. There was fabric in the way but just the feeling, the press of Cas on him was enough for heat to course through him. Christ, he wasn't going to last for long if this kept up.
Cas claimed his mouth, banishing all future thoughts. The kiss, his tongue in Dean's mouth demanded that he stay in the present.
Dean groaned and pushed Cas against the wall, humming in agreement.
Misha suddenly jumped away, leaving Jensen stumped. His pulse raced suddenly, but not due to something sexy happening. “Misha, you OK?”
Misha was holding his hand over his mouth.
Shame burned Jensen's cheeks and horror turned his mouth dry. Finally, he uttered the words. “Did I – Did I just bit you?”
“I think you did.” Misha moved his hands away slowly and licked his lips. “Am I bleeding?”
“Oh, fuck, Mish, I'm so sorry...” Jensen could hear some of the crew chuckle awkwardly
Misha grinned, his eyes gleaming. “Slow your roll cowboy, we haven't even made it to the bed yet.”
Jensen's cheeks turned red again, but not from shame this time. He turned his eyes down to the floor, shaking his head softly. The crew chuckled again but what brought the broadest smile to Jensen's face was Singer's tired sigh. “Cut!”
*
Dean's hands roamed over Cas' chest and his stomach. “Look at you, Cas...”
Cas hummed in response, thrusting his hips down. “You like what you see?”
Dean moaned as he felt Cas' groin against the thick evidence of his arousal. He wanted to slow down, take it all in but at the same time he wanted to fuck Cas into oblivion. “Yeah, I do. Like the things I feel even better.”
Dean grinned and went for Cas' belt.
“Alright guys, we better cut!”
Jensen sighed in frustration as Misha stilled on top of him. “Why? Something wrong? I thought that was good.”
Misha turned his head to the side, a slight smirk on his lips. “Good call with the cut.”
Jared walked into the set, nodding at the crew. “Hi everyone, hi Bob. Fucking finally. How's it going, guys? Sailing my ship I see.” Jared grinned and waved at Misha and Jensen still laying in bed. “You know, this sight looks fam – “
“Shut up, Jared,” Misha called out.
Jensen rolled his eyes and slumped back down into bed, but couldn't fight the smile coming unbidden. It was going to be a long day.
*
“It's OK, Cas, fuck the shirt. It's not a favorite.”
Cas ignored Dean and continued to unbutton his flannel shirt, his fingers working hurriedly. “I like it,” he said, his voice husky with desire. He pushed it off Dean's arms and the momentary chill Dean felt was replaced by Cas' hands stroking, burning his skin with heat.
Cas pushed Dean gently towards the wall, never stopping with his caresses. Where his fingers trailed over his skin, Dean caught fire. “Fuck, Cas, I need you. I want you.”
A slow smile spread over Cas' face and if that wasn't the most beautiful thing Dean had seen. “I want to take my time, Dean.”
“Time, we've had nothing but time, Cas. We've waited forever, both of us.”
“Well, technically as a celestial being, I have a firmer grasp of the concept of eternity and I can assure you, Dean – “
Dean carded his fingers through Cas' hair and pulled him closer. “Shh.” He grazed Cas' lips, slowly at first, a teasing fleeting kiss but Cas opened up and Dean accepted the invitation. He invaded Cas' mouth and groaned as the taste of Cas was everywhere.
Cas was finally his, and he was going to enjoy every goddamn minute.
Dean's heart agreed and each kiss ratcheted up his pulse until he had to break off the kiss, breathing wildly. “Holy shit.”
Cas's hair was tousled and his lips puffy from all the kissing. His eyes sparkled. No, it was more than that. They shone, and it was not the cold blue glow from Cas' grace within. No, this was a shine that blinded you, that screamed adoration and love and for a brief second, Dean felt like it was too much. That all that love and passion that he knew was aimed at him was not his to bear. Not his to know.
Dean angled his head away. Away from that look that threatened to incinerate him with its honesty and pure, blinding love. He was amazed that Cas had managed to hide that light for so long. And he'd cursed himself a hundred times for failing to see that that brilliant light had been aimed at him. At him. All along it had been aimed at him.
Cas grasped his jaw lightly and urged him to look at him again. “Don't Dean. Everything is alright. Look at me. I love you.” He smiled as if that simple declaration was enough. As if it contained everything that Dean needed to know.
“Don't know when you became the smooth talker.” Dean smiled and kissed him once on the mouth, then trailed kisses down his throat. Each subtle moan escaping Cas' lips was further fuel on Dean's fire. Fuck, he was going to explode soon. “You have way too many clothes on, Cas. Let's get rid of this.”
Dean grabbed Cas' tie and yanked it downwards.
Misha broke and stumbled into Jensen's arms, making choking noises as Jensen continued to pull on the tie.
Jensen's eyebrow shot up.
“Cut!” Singer's voice was laced with frustration but Jensen could hear the amusement beneath.
Jensen glanced down at Misha who was bent over, laughing hysterically. Jensen looked into the camera and shrugged. “Wasn't that supposed to come off?”
The room erupted in laughter.
*
Jensen looked down at Misha and rolled his hips, a frown on his face.
Misha shook his head. “Sorry, Jensen, nothing happening. Not even a wiggle down there.”
Snickers from the crew filled the set.
Jensen smirked. “Damn, Misha, I even slipped you the blue pill and all.”
“My arthritis med must have counteracted it.”
Jensen fell down on Misha's chest, laughing with elicited more cheers from the crew.
“Cut!” Singer sighed, his shoulder slumping. “Okay guys, it's a cut. I think I need a drink.”
*
“We should have practiced more, Jensen.”
Jensen shrugged. “I figured we improvise, like we usually do.”
Singer called out. “Please tell me you've read the script at least. It's an important scene, guys.”
Jensen grinned as he waved at Singer. “Don't worry. We're pros. Of course we read the script.”
Misha grinned and adjusted his position. His smile died down as he turned into Cas. A few seconds passed and he sighed. “Where do I put my hands?”
Jensen leaned in close to Misha and winked. “Wherever you want, baby.”
Singer who had agreed to direct this whole mess was not amused. “We're still rolling, Jensen!”
Misha stared at Jensen and deadpanned. “I'll stick them in your pants then. No one will notice.”
Jensen turned away from the camera and burst out laughing.
“Oh for the love of... Cut!”
*
Cas looked up at Dean and Dean could see the uncertainty there. It killed him.
He took Cas' cheeks in his hands, whispering to him. “It's OK, Cas. I've got you. I got you...” He leaned in and kissed Cas on the corner of the mouth. Trailing kisses further down his neck, he sighed in relief as he felt Cas' strong arms embrace him.
He hugged him back.
Misha clung to Jensen and wrapped his arms tighter around him. He whispered in Jensen's ear but spoke loud enough that the crew would hear him. “Never let go, Jack!”
Jared burst out laughing in the background.
Singer sighed deeply, bone tired. “I'm starting to think this was a mistake.”
*
Misha sank down in the armchair in Jensen's trailer.
“Water or beer?”
“Water. I need to cool down.”
Jensen laughed and grabbed a chilled water from the fridge. He handed it to Misha and sat down next to him. “So... done for the day. You think the scene turned out good?”
Misha scoffed. “With how we goofed around I'd be surprised if they even have any scenes.” He took a sip of water and nodded. “Yeah Jen, I think we did good. How about you, how did you feel?”
Jensen sighed. “I feel drained. I mean don't get me wrong, I think we did good but... We've been building up to this for so long and now when it's shot and done. It feels like I've run a marathon honestly.”
“Ouch, I hope not. I need my hips.”
Jensen laughed and took Misha's hand, squeezing it. “You know what I mean.”
Misha turned solemn. “I do.”
Jensen leaned in and kissed Misha quickly on the lips.
“Not enough kissing for the day?” Misha quipped.
“My lips are raw. No more kissing for a week, Mish.”
Misha laughed. “Somehow I doubt you'll make it a week.” He took another sip of his water.
Jensen raised an eyebrow. “Wanna bet?”
“Jensen, you of all people should know not to make bets with me. Remember how the last one ended?”
Jensen licked his lips and nodded but couldn't keep the smile off his lips. “Yeah, I remember. It was worth it.”
“You brat.” Misha smacked him on the shoulder.
They sat there in silence for a while, just absorbing the day that had passed on set. Finally, Jensen spoke. “Do you think they'll like the ending?”
Misha stilled and looked at Jensen. “Do you want to hear my honest opinion?”
“You know I do.”
“I think the most important thing is how you and I feel. Do you feel that this was an honest and true ending for Dean Winchester?”
Jensen paused and tried not to get too emotional. He still had a really hard time processing the words “ending” and “Dean Winchester” in the same sentence. “I do. And I think the majority will be satisfied with how the show ends too.”
Misha nodded. “And if they don't?”
“Then I'll rest in the knowledge that I think we honored Dean Winchester and his journey. And that is enough. How about you?”
“Cas' journey has been perfection. He's the fan favorite. Of course, the fans will love it.”
Jensen burst out laughing and leaned in to kiss Misha. “Shut up.”
Misha grinned. “Make me.”
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Carols and decorations
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Pairing: Dean x Castiel
Written for: @spnchristmasbingo​
Square filled: singing Christmas songs
Warnings: none
Summary:   When he has to put on the last touches around the bunker, Dean finds himself thinking about several things and humming holiday songs. Castiel doesn’t seem too enthusiastic about it, and Dean’s singing talent is not the only reason.
Words: 2246
This can be found on AO3, here! If you’re interested in the whole series, you just have to click here!
The atmosphere in the bunker is mostly happy and relaxed. The accident with the haunted Christmas tree has been quickly forgotten, and everything seems back to normal, as far as normal goes when a family of hunters is involved.
While you and Jack are gone to pick up chestnuts, luckily bringing Crowley along with you, Sam, Dean and Eileen are in the kitchen. They’re currently working on thinning out the endless provisions of Christmas cookies bought by Jack and Castiel along with the ugly Christmas sweaters.
When Dean catches the stares between Sam and Eileen, and he notices how their hands keep touching under the small mountain of discarded wrapping, he knows that's his cue. He grabs a handful of candies and stands up.
“Well, guys, I'll go check if Cas needs help with putting up the rest of the decorations. You stay here, we'll call if we need help.”
The happy couple barely look at him while he leaves the kitchen, mindlessly popping another candy in his mouth. He heads for the library, finding Castiel sunk in his favourite armchair, reading “A Christmas Carol”. For a second, Dean stops chewing on whatever it is in his mouth, and looks at Cas.
He looks deeply absorbed by the book, the inseparable trench coat gathered under his body, half covering him, half draping his figure. Dean feels a sudden lumps in his throat, and unconsciously wets his lips. He's done it a million times before, in every kind of situation, but the idea of calling Cas now... it bothers him.
Besides, he knew what would happen. Cas would lift his head, and he'd look at him. At the thought, Dean feels the knot in his throat getting tighter, and he's frustrated with himself. He's Cas. He's his best friend. He's the angel that's been in countless battles with him, whose eyes Dean can read as much as he can read Sam... and now he's being childish about looking at him. That won't do.
“Hey, Cas?”
Exactly like he predicted, Castiel stops looking at the page and lifts his gaze, moving his attention on Dean. The moment their eyes meet, he automatically smiles.
“Yes, Dean?”
“Uh... why are you reading?”
“I don't understand the nature of your question” Cas answers, tilting lightly his head on a side. Dean's stomach is surely making a number right now.
“I thought... uh, Metatron didn't kind of... poured every bit of human culture in your head?”
“Oh. Yes, he did, but you know I like doing things my way. Besides, Jack was asking me about Christmas stories earlier. There's a version of this book with puppets and another with... ducks, apparently?”
Dean smiles at Castiel's confusion. “Yeah, the Disney one. It's pretty good.”
“Another childhood memory I can shatter?” Castiel asks, making Dean grin like a schoolgirl.
“No, you'll have to do better than that, this time. But if you were planning on zapping me to Disneyland, I might make up some shit.”
“I never pegged you for a man who might want to go to Disneyland.”
Dean just scrolls his shoulders. “Believe me, it's not the first surprise of these holidays. Anyway... I was about to put on some decorations. Wanna help?”
The way Cas casually throws his legs off the armrest has Dean wondering about how long he needed to master his vessel to such a level of grace. He zones out for a moment, trying to think about the times he's seen him doing something graceless or even just slightly clumsy. He can't recall any, but when he comes back to reality, he finds Castiel intently observing him.
“Dean? Are you ok?”
Forcing his brain to start working again, Dean swallows hard. “I... yeah. I'm great. This way, there's a lot of stuff to do.”
“Like what?”
“We gotta... hang the lights, check the baubles in the tree, and... you know, stuff like that.”
“Fine. Any inspiration?”
A wide grin spreads on Dean's face while he answers “Yeah. I was thinking about something looking a bit like... you know, the huge one in New York, with the ice skating thing under it.”
“Don't you think it's a bit ambitious?” Castiel teases him, but he's actually slightly worried. Dean has been on a sort of Christmas high for days. He might actually try something extremely over the top.
“I stopped the Apocalypse three times, and I killed Hitler. I can deal with a Christmas tree.”
“Sure. The same Christmas tree from which I had to save you?”
Dean rolls his eyes, slightly exasperated. “Will I ever hear the end of it?”
“... would anyone in this bunker hear the end of it, if they brought along something haunted, and almost wreck the whole festivities?”
“... probably not.”
“Then probably not” Castiel states. Dean could swear that he's trying not to laugh.
“Alright, sassy pants, you know what? I don't have to stand here and be treated like this.”
“You asked for my help.”
“Yeah, to hang decorations, not to become the punchline of your jokes!”
“I'm just doing what you usually do with me. Friendly banter, right?”
Incredulous, Dean is now absolutely sure that Cas is making fun of him. He's also very surprised in finding out that he might actually find the whole thing quite pleasant. “You're getting too used to this humanity thing, you know? Get back to your book, I don't need no judgement while I hang my Christmas decorations.”
“Your decorations? You mean those Jack and I bought?”
“Shut up.”
After a couple of hours, Dean is humming Christmas songs again. He's surprised when Castiel starts humming in tune with him, and shoots him a weird look before laughing.
“Come on! I'm a great singer!” he declares, balancing some delicate glass ornament in his hand. Castiel just nods, unusually quiet.
“Guess that Emmanuel thing really stuck on you, uh?”
“The... Dean, how did you find out about that?”
Castiel stammers, looking at Dean like he just casually confessed some incredible truth. Dean has rarely seen the angel so surprised, especially when he's not even supposed to be.
“You... you were called like that, when you were a healer, after Leviathans, weren't you? We came to find you, remember?”
“... oh, that... that's correct. Yes, indeed, I was called Emmanuel. I... forgot about that.”
“Yeah? Then why did you freak out that I knew?”
“Because I didn't remember that you knew.”
“Cas, you still are a shitty liar. What are you not telling me?”
Castiel seems uncomfortable, but ultimately sighs and starts talking. “Well, that... that song you were singing... I might have been the one involved in his creation.”
“... you... what?”
“The person who wrote this... John Mason Neale. He was a pious boy, who was challenged to write a new hymn because he told the old ones in his community that he felt the old ones didn't make justice to the Lord.”
Dean seems genuinely curious and moves a hand to encourage Castiel to go on.
“So... I showed up. To help him.”
“... wait, what?”
“I was supposed to inspire him with holy visions, appropriate to his religion, of course, and... that song was the result.”
Dean scoff, incredulous. “You are telling me that you inspired one of the most... I don't know, world-spread Christmas songs of all the frickin' times, and you never once thought to tell me?”
“Dean, I also discussed poetry with Christopher Marlowe and tried to convince him not to take that deal, but you never once asked me about it.”
“... Christopher Marlowe? The... the dude who died with a knife in his eye?”
“Yes. How do you know that?”
“I dated a chick who was pretty into English literature and... and...”, Dean stammers, reading a certain annoyance in Castiel's eyes. Not the best move to talk about her, probably. “It was like... a lifetime ago. High school, go figures. It just stuck.”
“Yes, I guess so.”
“So... is that why you picked the name Emmanuel after you came back from the Leviathans thing?”
Castiel tilts his head, almost surprised. He never made that connection. “I don't know, actually. It must have been set somewhere in my memory. I couldn't remember anything, but that name just felt... right. It must have been called in joy and devotion, to stick so deeply.”
The notion that Castiel remembered the name some random guy gave him centuries ago, and not the one he used around him, makes Dean feel terrible.
“Well... I hope next time you have an amnesia you can remember your name, after all that we've been through together.”
“What do you think I'm implying here, Dean?” Castiel's question is asked with an unusual kindness, almost with care. It catches Dean by surprise, and forces him to articulate his thoughts.
“I don't know. That you forgot your name because we never used it with enough... reverence, or devotion, or whatever else?”
“I surely wasn't implying anything like that.”
“Well, it sounded a lot like it, actually.”
Castiel must make a real effort to stop himself from smiling. Of all the new things that are happening, seeing Dean uncomfortable around him might be the most surprising.
“Dean... you're being needlessly defensive. I have no idea why that name stuck with me, but I was just referring to the fact that, for about three hundred years, that hymn that I inspired has been sung all around the world, to sing praise of my Father. Can you understand what I was trying to say, now?”
Of course Cas was talking about a bigger picture. Of course he made a fool of himself. “... I think so.”
Castiel puts a hand on Dean's shoulder, squeezing lightly, prompting a curious stare. “Dean... I understand. I know what you've been through, and I know what you are trying to do. This new world, this new life... it's strange. Even for me. It's difficult to think that the absentee father I praised my whole existence is not what I thought I'd be...”
Fighting the lump forming in his throat, Dean scoffs, thinking about his own father. “Eh. You'll survive that one.”
“... and it's almost impossible to understand that we truly and well overpowered God himself. If these events are almost out of my comprehension, I understand that they must be even more unsettling for you. But that's not all, isn't it?”
Dean lets out a strangled sound, followed by an incoherent mumble, from which Cas can only make out “change”, “family” and “safety”. He nods and goes on.
“Adjusting to something new, learning new things about yourself... it can be hard.”
Suddenly awkward, Dean snaps at him, but he doesn't pull back or shy away from the reassuring touch on his shoulder. The awkwardness has shifted to something else. Frustration. Confusion, and, most of all... impatience.
“Cas, you plan on gettin' somewhere or just on my nerves? I'm not Jack. I don't need pep talk.”
“Sure. I'm just saying... don't be too hard on yourself. The whole world changed. If you changed along with it... it would be natural. Perhaps even better. I, personally, am very curious to see the new Dean Winchester.”
“... yeah, I don't know, man. I doubt it'll be a showstopper.”
“Showstopper was the starting point, Dean.”
Just while Dean's cheeks turn to a bright red and his jaw drops a little, Castiel presses a light kiss on his unshaven cheek before drawing back just as quickly.
“Come on, we have many things to do.”
Dean is spared from finding some adequate response to Castiel's gesture by the door of the bunker opening. An instant later, an overly excited Jack rushes down the stairs, holding a basket and running to Dean and Castiel.
He shoves the basket in Castiel's hands and proudly beams at him and Dean.
“Chestnuts!”
Cas nods, looking down at the basket. “Yes, I see that.”
“I picked them up! And I petted a hellhound! Two, actually.”
Dean looks at him, surprised. “You did what?”
“I picked up chestnuts! And we roasted them, too! Have you ever tried them? We could roast them. Maybe lighting a fire outside?”
“No, Jack, go back to the hellhound thing, please.”
“Oh, yeah. Crowley brought his two along, and I played with them. Y/N did, too.”
Dean groans, seeing you and Crowley walking back inside together. He snaps at him as soon as you two move closer, joining Jack.
“Crowley! Hellhounds? Really?”
Imperturbable as ever, Crowley speaks. “Pets are excellent to help children with their development, Squirrel. Everyone knows that.”
“Pets! Regular animals! Not... Cerberus!” It's clear that Dean's nerves come from something else, but you're all far too used to those little outbursts.
“You'll be happy to know that both Juliet and Banquo only have one head each. They're perfectly trained and capable of behaving properly. Perhaps I might interest you in some sessions, Squirrels? Your manners might improve...”
Dean seems about to leash out, but instead he shoots you a deadly glare
“Damn kid, I hope you know what you're doing” is all that he mutters before turning tail and marching away, followed by Castiel.
Too surprised by that jab, you just head to the kitchen to get some water, hoping that Crowley didn't notice your surprise at Dean's words. On his part, Crowley chuckles and looks at you walking away. He then places a hand on Jack's shoulder.
“Come on boy, let's see how we can poke some fun at your fathers. All in good spirit, naturally.”
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justsparklingwords · 5 years
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Being The Middle Child Would Include
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Having light brown hair and green eyes
Being the shortest tbh
Being made fun of your height
“Awww, does someone need help getting the cup from the cabinet?”
“Fuck off.”
Stealing the boys’ flannels
Them being HUGE on you
Being equally close with both boys
Helping the boys with girls
Helping Dean and Cas get together
“Just tell him you like his smile.”
“It’s not that easy, Y/n.”
“iTs nOT ThAT eASY Y/n.”
Eventually pushing them enough to make destiel canon
“Okay, I’m glad you both are happy and in love, but please go make out somewhere else.”
Cas being your best friend
Being protective of Sam when he was younger
Now that you’re all older, the boys being protective over you
Being the best fighter (I said what I said)
John being harder on you because you’re a girl
Prank wars
Patching up the boys when they get hurt
Having a lucky charm
Always carrying a picture of you and the boys wherever you go
Nicknames
“Hey rapunzul!”
“Hey freckles!”
Never keeping secrets from the boys
Doing anything for Sam and Dean if it means saving their lives
Being very athletic
Singing them to sleep
Spn Tags:
@greys-all-over-stuff @mannls @mersuperwholocked-lowlife @meangirlsx @emberlei @bluewolf459
This was anonymously requested and I hope it meets yalls standards 😊 the requester wanted some destiel too so I hope I did you justice 😂
Also, HOLY SHIT
THE AMOUNT OF FEEDBACK AND LIKES I GOT ON MY TWINS POST WAS SO AMAZING THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR YOUR SUPPORT ESPECIALLY BECAUSE I JUST STARTED POSTING ON HERE. I LOVE YALL ❤️
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saywhatjessie · 6 years
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“Dr Sexy, no!”
“How can you watch this?” Castiel asked, feet in Dean’s lap. “You’re a surgeon! This show has to offend every medical sensibility you have.”
Dean scoffed. “Why do you think I became a doctor?” He pointed emphatically at the screen. “That sexy motherfucker.”
Castiel rolled his eyes. “Oh, yes. I’m sure it wasn’t your caretaking nature or your pathological need to fix things at all.”
Dean shushed him, leaning forward and clutching Cas’s feet to his chest as a particularly tense conversation on screen picked up.
“You switched the samples, Gregory!” Dr. Sexy snapped at his intern, his voice whispered and fierce. The music in the back was heavy with strings. “That woman could have died and for what?”
“I’m not going to apologize for protecting you.” The character that Castiel had never seen before but assumed was Gregory responded, tearfully but equally as fierce. “You are the best goddamn doctor in this hospital. Without you I–” He cut himself off.
Castiel sensed something gay afoot.
Dean apparently did, too. “Holy shit… is this.... Are they really…”
Cas had no idea. He didn’t even have any context for this scene other than the snatches of dialogue he’d caught between paragraphs of his book. He didn’t know what samples had been switched or what woman could have died or how any of this affected Dr. Sexy.
All he saw was a young intern looking at Dr. Sexy with stars in his eyes. And Dr. Sexy – a character Castiel and everyone had assumed all this time was straight – was staring softly back.
“No matter what happens in this hospital, Gregory,” Dr. Sexy said, approaching slowly. “Nothing will take me from you.”
Dean was smacking blindly at Cas, eyes glued to the screen. Cas gave him his hand and Dean clutched at it desperately
“How can I be sure of that?” poor Gregory asked in a whisper.
Dr. Sexy took poor intern Gregory’s face in his hands and said “Because I love you.” then kissed him.
Dean shrieked.
“Oh my God! Oh my god they did it. Oh my God. After thirteen seasons we have bisexual Dr. Sexy. We have a bisexual surgeon.”
Castiel couldn’t feel his fingers from how hard Dean was clutching them but he just looked over fondly. “Dean, you’re a bisexual surgeon.”
Dean punched him with the hand that wasn’t currently arresting Cas’s and shushed him as the good doctor pulled away, delivering a monologue that was melodramatic enough to do justice to the name of Dr. Sexy.
Castiel didn’t pay attention to the rest of the scene, too busy watching Dean’s face as all his dreams came true.
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bishopsorphan · 5 years
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Justice. Peace. (Epic Ducifer AU fic)
The chill in the crisp air had nothing to do with the coming autumn months. It had everything to do with the Seals.
57 of the 66 had been broken, despite their best efforts. 
57 Seals, and he could feel every last one of them as they cracked. Had felt Dean break in Hell. That had been the hardest. That had been the thing he’d dreaded most. Before he could have saved the hunter, if he’d just gotten to the reaper fast enough, if he’d just played his cards right, played his hand a little better...
He had enough regrets.
Time to keep a promise.
The gate creaked as Lucifer pushed it open, striding toward the house. They were probably about three weeks from the big light show. The angels were losing. The Winchesters were losing. And if his timeline was right, someone else was about to lose big time if he didn’t step in.
He unlocked the front door with a thought and walked into a house that he’d only ever walked out of. But that had been a different time, a different life. A different him, a version of himself that he could no longer even comprehend.
He hated to admit it, but he’d been wrong. And worse, he’d broken a promise. Twisted his own words and meaning.
The face he saw when he looked in the mirror wasn’t his True Vessel’s. It wasn’t even close to his own true face. But he was starting to think of it as such. He owed the man a debt of gratitude. A life for a life. Or two.
“Nick?”
Lucifer shut the door behind him and turned, smiling. “Hey, hun.”
Sarah frowned. “You’re home early. And surprisingly sober.”
“Yeah, some guy’d been drinking since noon, tried to leave, and smashed up a bunch of cars. Bill cut his party short. Once the guys who got hit are done with the cops, Bill said he’d call and we’d move it to a bar or something.” He pulled his cell phone from his pocket and waved it briefly, as if to help explain.
“Ok, well, I just put Teddy down. I was gonna go up and read for a while before turning in.”
“I’ll keep the TV down.”
She smiled at him and headed up the stairs toward their room. “Don’t stay out too late, love.”
“I’ll be safe.”
Lucifer flopped down on the couch and clicked on the TV as Sarah’s footsteps faded up the stairs. Nick was still at the Elks’ getting smashed, he’d checked before stopping by.
It was maybe half an hour before something thumped beside the house and a shadow passed by the window. 
Showtime.
“Nicky?”
Sarah was standing at the top of the stairs, white nightgown flowing around her.
“Sorry, just heading to Bill’s. Sleep tight.”
The woman mumbled some sort of response and wandered back off to bed as the angel wearing her husband’s face slipped out of the house.
He rounded the corner of the yard and found himself face-to-face with a regular-Joe sort who was so, so much more. “Hey, Abe. Long time, no see.”
The demon squinted at him. “You’re not supposed to be here.”
Lucifer flexed his wings. “Oh, I know.”
Abraxas was dead before he knew what hit him.
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SEVEN YEARS LATER
So this was what forgiveness looked like. 
It looked like Nick Campbell. Felt like Nick Campbell, but stronger. Built for him. Built... special. An actual, honest to Dad, True Vessel.
Holy shit, he’d managed to get himself the Castiel treatment, and it had only taken a trip through time, a complete 180 on his very worldview, and falling into bed with Dean Winchester.
Speak of the Devil....
Dean happened to walk into their room to find Lucifer standing in front of the mirror, stunned at the way he finally fit.
“You...?”
Lucifer smiled. It seemed like an eternity since they’d last seen each other. He’d been ripped from Cas’ body only to be invited into Dean, who kept his Grace in a vice grip until they’d gotten to safety. Which was a good thing. Turns out it’s a whole lot easier to turn yourself into a bomb with an archangel holding you together.
But that hadn’t been necessary, and Chuck had dispelled the excess souls swirling around inside Dean. He’d sent the angel away, too, only to give him back with a shiny new meatsuit.
And then Dean was in his arms and everything was good. Everything was better than good. No more rotting away like he had been before the Leviathan had banished him back to the Cage. No more using Castiel as a vessel. Nothing left to come between them.
“How?”
Lucifer shrugged. “Dad finally made up for all the missed birthdays, got me a gift.”
Dean smiled. It was radiant. “Weird. Your aunt gave me something, too.”
“Yeah?”
Dean took his hand and tugged him from the room. “Yeah. Come on.”
The hunter pulled him down the hall and into the kitchen, where a very confused looking blonde woman in a white nightgown was standing. “Mom? I’d like you to meet my, uh -”
“Nicky?”
For the second time in ten minutes, Lucifer found himself with his arms full of Winchester. “Did you say mom?” Yeah, come to think of it, she did look familiar. Dean kept a photo of her tucked away in his duffel, now in their room.
Wow. Good going, Auntie Amara.
Dean ignored him. “You two know each other?”
Mary frowned, pulling back a bit to eye her son. “He’s my little brother. Your uncle. Where’d you even find him? He ran away after our parents died.”
Lucifer gaped. He turned to Dean, who was also standing with his mouth hanging slack. “Did you know that?” The hunter asked.
“Of course not. What, you think I take a detailed family and medical history for each vessel I take?”
Mary backed fully away, disentangling herself from the angel and narrowing her eyes. “Vessel?”
“Mom, meet Lucifer.”
It was impressive how a fiery death and unexpected resurrection had done absolutely nothing to dim Mary Winchester’s hunting skills. Lucifer hadn’t even seen the knife until it was sticking out of his chest. He didn’t even know where she could have gotten it.
“Mom!”
He wrapped his hand around the knife ad pulled it slowly from his (brand new!) flesh. “You just stabbed your baby brother. That’s cold, lady. You’re cold.” He smiled. “I like it.”
“Give him back.” Mary’s fists were balled up at her sides, her teeth clenched. She was shaking.
“Relax.” The knife disappeared, his shirt repairing itself, blood fading, skin knitting back together. “He’s fine. This is,” Lucifer gestured down at himself, “new. It’s just kinda how I see myself now. Happens when you spend too much time in one vessel.”
“What are you even talking about?” There were tears in her eyes now. And, wow, yeah, it must be a lot to take in at once.
“I can show you,” Lucifer offered, holding two fingers out toward her head, hovering awkwardly in the space between them. “It’s kind of a long story. There’s time travel involved.”
Mary looked to Dean, who nodded. “It’s ok.”
She looked back to the angel. “No tricks.”
He tapped her forehead and gave her a crash course in alternate universe creation. How he time-hopped, found her boys, wormed his way into their lives. How they wormed their way into his very being, changed him at such a base level that he couldn’t even imagine he’d ever considered manipulating them like that.
“Threw in some pop culture knowledge, too,” he said as he drew his hand away. “Didn’t spoil anything too big, though. You’re gonna love The Walking Dead.” He glanced at Dean and grinned. “Can’t wait til she gets to Negan.”
“Thanks for the change of clothes, too,” Mary muttered, looking down at her jeans and flannel combo, a Winchester classic. 
“Can’t go running around in your nightgown. I assume you’d like to see your brother?” He held out his hand to her, and this time there was no hesitation.
They were in Delaware in the blink of an eye, standing in the middle of the Campbell kitchen.
“We can see them, but they can’t see us,” Lucifer explained as Mary surveyed the scene.
Sarah was busy making dinner for the family - mac and cheese by the look of it - while Nick sat with the kids at the table. Their son was getting help on his math homework while their daughter colored a picture in a Frozen coloring book. A perfect nuclear family.
Lucifer couldn’t help but smile seeing it. He’d done that. He’d made it a possibility. He’d done what he’d once said he couldn’t; he’d given Nick his family back, even if the man didn’t even know it. He had his justice. He had his peace.
“I’m an aunt?”
“Teddy and Gwen.”
“They’re beautiful.” She turned to the angel and smiled, tears in her eyes for an entirely different reason now. “Thank you.”
Lucifer shook his head. “No. Thank you.”
He could have sworn, in that moment, that Nick looked up from the table and met his eyes.
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