16 Bookmarks by Zeke21
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Chuck may be gone, but the story isn't over yet. When Dean dies on a vampire hunt gone wrong, Cas goes against the new hands off policy to resurrect him. Meanwhile, the new order in heaven isn't all it's cracked up to be, Sam and Eileen work a case that brings up old baggage, and Dean tries to find meaning in a world that will never be free of monsters.
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02 Sep 2025
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Mormon Bishop Castiel Novak keeps his doubts muted and his obedience levels turned up high. He's been in a mixed-orientation marriage with Hannah for 18 years now, in an effort to cure himself from being gay. All is well and things are under control.
And then Dean Winchester moves in next door.
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18 Jun 2025
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First, before anything, there was want.
In one version of this story, Dean Winchester hasn't stopped moving since the day his father died. He hunts across the country but always comes back to California with the half-hearted hope of visiting Sam at Stanford, and an endless, restless, ceaseless pull to the desert.
In one version of this story, Dean Winchester finds himself in the scorched heat of a Death Valley summer, on a hunt for a ghost. Or a purpose. Or an answer to the question that’s been tugging at his tendons for as long as he’s lived.
In one version of this story, all Dean Winchester has ever done is want, and all Castiel has ever done is wait.
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17 Oct 2024
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Chuck has gutted the world. With no options left, Sam and Dean drop their weapons, waving the white flag of surrender. Their final stand leads them to Hastings, Minnesota. But when Dean pleads for Cas's life, Chuck snaps, making a brutal declaration: that Dean’s beloved angel was just his self-insert all along.
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07 Oct 2024
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When a coven of witches find themselves on John Winchester's radar, they hatch a plan to distract him. Using some old, untested magic, they banish John's oldest son to Purgatory, derailing John's hunt and sending him on a wild goose-chase for his lost child that lasts for years.
Dean is twelve years old when he disappears and twenty-four when he returns from monster hell, covered in scars, with a Bible in his front pocket and a vampire on his arm. Sam has become a hunter in his absence and regularly partners with an enigmatic psychic named Castiel who immediately becomes fascinated with Dean. But although Dean's long exile is over and the brothers have finally reunited, their troubles may just be getting started.
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12 Aug 2024
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a happy place to dream about by handsliketruth, whiskeyjuniper
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005), Supernatural
04 May 2026
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No monsters, no codependent little brother, no angels (devastatingly handsome or otherwise) — and for Dean, there never have been.
It’s a little lonely sometimes; somehow a little… existentially wrong, sure, with a past he’s still burying and a future he can’t figure out, but he’s not going to bitch about it. He can even work around the nightmares bleeding in from another world; they feel enough like his own to fit in. It’s still better than before.
Then, Chuck Shurley shows up at his dive bar. And Dean lets the monster in.
AKA
Chuck attempts to cure his own case of Dean Winchester Derangement Syndrome by creating a rom-com alternate universe— and writing himself into it as the love interest. But Chuck should know by now: AUs tend to fall into old grooves, no matter how out of tune they're played… and Dean can never seem to escape the horror genre.
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10 Apr 2024
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After a hundred years in the pit, he's long past caring about what happens on earth between hunters, angels, whatever. They’re not his kind anymore. “I’m spoiled merchandise,” Dean says finally. “I’m not the droid you’re looking for. I can’t help you. This isn’t my fight. It doesn't matter what your daddy told you."
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14 Mar 2024
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“Hey,” Dean said. “I’m not ashamed of you, okay?”
Cas raised skeptical eyes to meet his.
“I mean it,” Dean insisted.
“I understand you mean it,” Cas said. “But I don’t think it’s any better if you’re only ashamed of yourself.”
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18 Feb 2023
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Cas doesn't know Dean loves him. And Dean's not gonna ruin things by telling him.
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18 Feb 2023
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“Dean. You have been overly affectionate towards me this morning,” Cas states with his brows pulled tight. Embarrassed, Dean pulls his socked foot back from he’d been teasing Cas’s ankle with it.
“What, a guy can’t show a little interest in his partner?”
“You do not appear to be interested in sex today.”
Dean feels a pit form in his stomach and he looks away briefly before forcing himself to meet Cas’s eyes. “I’ve been coming onto you all morning,” he argues.
“You haven’t smiled once while you did it.”
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01 Jun 2021
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When Dean is fourteen, Dad marches into a motel room and shoots a shtriga feeding on Sam. Dean pokes his head around the doorway after the fact and Dad looks at him and hates him. And Sam is alive. Dad’s shotgun aims casually at Dean from where it was set on the floor by Dad’s uncautious, desperate, terrified hands. And Sam is alive. And Dean thinks— thank God for that bullet.
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01 Jun 2021
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In which Dean is forced to deal with his trauma and come to a reckoning with himself. Also, Cas is there.
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"No one hates you as much as you do," Crowley told him once. That's Dean's whole M.O. right there. His two fundamental truths are that it is his job to save everyone, and that no matter how many people he saves it will never change the fact that he is 90% crap.
Dean knows who he is. Yeah, he's done some good for the world, okay, he gets that. But deep down? The person he is inside is still worthless. Dean will never be good enough, never be any kind of role model. He's never going to shake that, so if that's what this whole seven trials angelic bullshit is about, then he and Cas might as well hold hands and drive off the cliff now.
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- 6/6
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10 Jan 2021
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Six Months Ago, Dean received the stigmata- wounds that suddenly appeared on his body, bringing with them visions of crucifixion and the sickening smell of roses. He hoped turning water into wine and fighting Lucifer would be the extent of being The Second Coming, but he was wrong.
The Apocalypse is here and Dean will have more to fight than he ever imagined.
Dean may be the Messiah, but he doesn't feel like it.
Here are some companion character playlists:
Dean
Castiel
Sam
Enjoy!Update 9/11/2024: Chapter 7 is up.
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- Part 2 of Lazarusverse
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12 Jun 2019
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Angels are watching over you.
It’s dark outside, but she can see the stars. Castiel, angel of God, is kissing her son.
They’re leaned up against the Impala, Dean’s back to the door. He has Dean’s face cradled reverently in his hands, and Dean is crying. Dean has his arms wrapped around Castiel’s shoulders, underneath his arms, as if he’s trying to pull him in as close as possible. He’s rubbing his thumbs distractedly against Castiel’s neck, while Castiel runs his hands all over his face, occasionally wiping away tears that trail down his cheeks. They pull apart and breathe in and she sees, rather than hears, Dean sigh soul-achingly deep. Castiel strokes his thumbs gently underneath Dean’s eyes where tear stains have gathered. Dean laughs, the sound watery, and they press their foreheads together. He turns his face inward, his eyelashes brushing Castiel’s cheek. His arms cling tighter and Castiel rubs the tip of his nose gently against the side of Dean’s.
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- Part 7 of season 12
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13 Apr 2019
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Dean goes missing on a routine hunt. After six months of fruitless searching, Castiel is clearing out a nest of vampires when he feels the touch of a soul he knows well. The Dean he finds there is battered, barely intact, but Castiel isn't about to let him go. Not without a fight. They're far from home and Sam isn't picking up the phone, but Castiel will do whatever it takes to put Dean Winchester back together, piece by piece.
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31 Jul 2018
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Three weeks ago, Dean woke up in a pine box. He thought dealing with the nightmares was going to be the most difficult part of his new life after Hell, but at least they were something he could understand. Something he could deal with. Something he deserved.
Then he began having agonizing visions of crucifixion. Wounds appeared on his body out of nowhere. Wounds that refused to heal and coated his skin with the sickly sweet smell of roses.
Stigmata are said to be the marks of saints, but Dean is not a saint and the wounds are only the beginning.
Here are some companion character playlists:
Dean
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Sam
Enjoy!Update 9/11/2024: Chapter 7 of the sequel is posted.
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- Part 1 of Lazarusverse
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Bookmarked by Zeke21
01 Sep 2017