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Two decades of performing the role of a functional adult is a grueling amount of work for anyone. For a disaster-waiting-to-happen like Dean Winchester? It’s a constant, white-knuckle strain of self-restraint. He needs Ozempic for the soul or some shit — a pharmaceutical-grade suppressant for his worst impulses. Instead, he has a dead father and a renovation project.
Going back home to sell the family place was supposed to be about fixing up a house, not a total identity collapse. But that best-laid-yet-not-thought-through plan is currently circling the drain for the sake of a bad habit named Castiel Novak. While Dean’s husband, Benny, is preoccupied with the aesthetics of domesticity, the guy they hired to do the roof (coincidentally, the love of Dean’s life) is busy reminding Dean exactly who he really is.
Dean knows logically that he should be protecting the life he built. Turns out, he’s holding the door open for the man who’s going to demolish it.
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13 May 2026
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Swimming to the Light Series - A sequel to DEA by Natsgirl
Fandom Southern Vampire Mysteries - Charlaine Harris, True Blood
14 Aug 2016
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19 May 2023
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Alice returns to Underland and chooses to stay. This is the story of the friend, the lover, the wife, the mother, and the Champion she becomes there.
Genres: Romance (Alice and Tarrant), Action, Adventure, Suspense, Angst, Mystery, and just general Epic-ness (^_~)
WARNINGS: Violence, Sexual Situations, Mature Themes, Mild Language
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25 Oct 2022
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CHUCK WON: An Analysis & Explanation Of Supernatural’s Tragic Finale by chuckwon (alwaysanoriginal)
Fandom Supernatural (TV 2005), The Winchesters (TV 2022)
20 Dec 2025
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This project is a love letter to all who made Supernatural what it is today–its creative team AND its fans.
You do not need any prior knowledge of “Chuck won” as an angle of analysis–or even any prior familiarity with Supernatural meta–
to read this. Knowledge of season 15 is encouraged, but hopefully my descriptions are enough to clue you in or refresh your memory when needed.For a lot of people, chunks of this won't be new to you. That's cool. But I do think there is value in seeing all of the pieces together in one place to create the full picture. Regardless, while the sections and chapters are written to build upon each other in an order, they also stand on their own merit if you want to skim or skip around.
My goal was to make this concept as accessible as possible to anyone who may be interested in it.
Thank you in advance for reading, and I hope you enjoy it :)
If you need a shortcut link to this series, you can use "www.tinyurl.com/chuckwon."
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08 Oct 2022
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Dean had prided himself on making sure things usually worked out. He was good at hustling, he’d become a master at squeezing just those few extra dollars out of anyone, whether it was a guy at a bar or a customer in a restaurant on one of the few honest jobs he’d ever gotten.
But that wouldn’t do anymore. Sam was starting college in less than two years and Dean had enough student loans to bury a cruise liner in and he hadn’t even finished his degree yet and wouldn’t for some time.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 46,382
- Chapters:
- 46/46
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- 2
- Comments:
- 405
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25 Sep 2022
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A Different Kind of Monster by roadtonowhere (lastoryx), xfancyfranart
Fandoms: Supernatural
10 Nov 2021
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Something in Bodie, California is luring truckers to their deaths and Dean’s on his way to take it out. It’s the first time Bobby’s given him a case and, with Sam at Stanford and his dad off chasing demons, he's finally hunting monsters on his own. When an accidental encounter puts an as-of-yet-unknown monster in the passenger seat of his car, Dean decides to ice him, taking his dad's old adage to heart: a monster is always a monster. Unfortunately, Dean can’t seem to figure out what kind of monster "Castiel" is and he certainly can’t shake him.
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- English
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- 89,497
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- 17/17
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24 Sep 2022
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And finally, Dean thought about Cas.
What it would all mean to have Cas in his entirety, in every way imaginable. To have him sleep caressed and sun-kissed beneath early morning sheets, the weight of his fingers tracing Dean’s palm down peaceful corridors, his scent cloaked in Dean’s very bones. To have his warmth as comfort and his hands as a guide that slid over Dean’s skin with familiarity. No more tentativeness, no more skimming the edges and tracing the seams of their story.
Peace. He wanted peace. But with Cas back from the Empty with his memories shredded, and Jack nowhere to be seen, what would peace even look like? And, after everything, was it something Dean deserved?
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- English
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- 123,624
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 5
- Comments:
- 395
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30 Jul 2022
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How Dean Winchester - mechanic, shitty cook, single father - became the power behind the throne in one of the biggest crime syndicates in the Midwest.
With gorgeous artwork from reaperlove
And more stunning artwork from complexlysimplekiddo
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19 Jul 2021
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02 Apr 2021
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Castiel comes home from a business trip to learn that Dick, his boyfriend of five years, has been entertaining paid company while he's been out of town, and it's not the first time. They break up, but keep living together while Cas looks for a new apartment.
At a business dinner soon after, Cas runs into someone he’d never expected to see again: Dean Winchester, his unrequited high school crush. He’s surprised when Dean gives him an enthusiastic greeting, and annoyed when their talk is interrupted by Dick, who acts a little possessive. Despite that he and Dean reconnect, and quickly become close friends.
Each of them harbors a secret about the other that prevents them from voicing their desire for more, and the awkward living situation Cas is still in doesn’t help matters. With a little prodding from mutual friends, maybe these two can finally find their way back to a path they missed the first time.- Language:
- English
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- 32,855
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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19 Oct 2020
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06 Sep 2020
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Dean and Castiel are thrown together by fate one summer before either of them have presented the true nature of what they really are. They soon form an unlikely friendship and promise never to break the special bond they once believed would last a lifetime.
The social divide between alphas and omegas is growing and everyone seems determined to keep them apart just when their friendship starts to develop into something more.
One last summer together at dragonfly pond marks the end of their childhood and the freedom to make their own choices.Maybe one day they will meet again.
This story is in two parts.
Part One is set in the Summer of 1992 when Dean and Castiel meet for the first time before either of them have presented. It details their transition into adulthood and how their relationship develops over time.
This is the background story for Part Two which is to come later. More than twenty years will have passed and society is a very different place when the boys are all grown up and dragonfly pond is just a distant memory.Series
- Part 1 of Dragonfly Pond
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- English
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- 224,000
- Chapters:
- 80/80
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05 May 2020
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Castiel is an omega panty blogger, who desperately wishes he could meet his favourite follower: Mr Smith. The alpha is sexy, smart and very, very secretive...
Dean Winchester is an alpha with a problem. He's crushing hard on a hot as hell twink on Tumblr - the omega is everything Dean dreams about...
But dreams don't come true, right?
A collection of interlinked shorts for the SPN Kink Bingo 2018.
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- English
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- 28,171
- Chapters:
- 24/24
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- 316
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27 Apr 2020
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Hiatus fic set after the S11 finale. Dean's alive, Sam's alive, they're going to get Cas from wherever he got zapped to, and everything's finally gonna be all right. Dean's on top of the world.
A little voice in the back of his head is whispering "It's never that easy," but Dean ignores it.
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- English
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- 352,388
- Chapters:
- 53/53
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- 3
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- 5,233
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18 Jan 2020
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Non stereotypical alpha and omega falling in love and the shenanigans that follow- Words:
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20 Dec 2019
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Destiel AU. While working on a housing project in Brazil, Dean makes some new friends. Who wouldn’t want to be friends with the hot-as-sin carpenter who keeps taking his shirt off??? One of his new friends gets a bit more friendly than he’s prepared for.
This fic is so fluffy and feel-good, you should schedule a dentist appointment to check for cavities!
- Language:
- English
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- 131,732
- Chapters:
- 23/23
- Comments:
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15 Dec 2019
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Dean enjoys his life in Southern California. He loves his job, has his family close by, and has some pretty awesome friends. There’s nothing in his life to complain about, so why does he feel like something is still missing?
That something comes into focus when Dean meets a dark haired, blue eyed stranger on the beach and is left feeling off kilter after their encounter. What follows is a series of random circumstances in which Dean and Castiel keep finding each other in the same place at the same time, and Dean can’t help but feel drawn in by everything that is Cas… and that’s how the dreams start.
He can’t explain it, but he dreams about Castiel often, in different time periods and of different versions of him - it’s always Cas, but it’s not always his Cas - and when the dreams begin to feel like intense deja vu, he’s not sure what to think.
But all it takes is for one dream to change everything, to force Dean to ask himself the questions he’s been avoiding. One dream will have him wondering what it all means.
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- English
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- 58,619
- Chapters:
- 9/9
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- 4
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12 Nov 2019
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Dean Winchester lived a quiet life running his bakery. Aside from family, Dean had no desire to let anyone inside. The more people you cared about, the more you had to lose; A hard lesson he'd learned at the tender age of eight when Dean’s best friend was kidnapped right before his eyes.
Dean was forever haunted by the event, although he hadn’t realized quite how much until Emmanuel James Milton breezed into his life; waking his sleeping heart with a complete lack filter and achingly familiar eyes.
An author, with no family and traumatic past of his own, Emmanuel never felt like he belonged anywhere until he walked into The Honeybee Bakery and met Dean. It’s not long before they find out that there is a reason for their profound bond.
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- English
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- Chapters:
- 16/16
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- 3
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29 Oct 2019
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Under the cover of a masquerade ball, Castiel has five nights to recover the key to his people's freedom. The world has changed greatly in the six centuries since their banishment into the void, but the task isn't impossible. Unfortunately for Castiel, this is going to involve talking to people - especially the Knight Prince who has taken an interest in Castiel and his "costume" wings.
(Destiel Cinderella AU)
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- English
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- 181,619
- Chapters:
- 14/14
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10 Oct 2019
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Dean is a novice in the dom/sub world asked by his employer as a desperate last resort to be a sub for his recluse of a brother, Castiel. Castiel is a diagnosed OCD suffering from PTSD and agoraphobia, mysophobia, and dystychiphobia. Needless to say—he’s a mess who hasn’t stepped out of his home in literally seven years. The only times Gabriel can see traces of the way his brother used to be is when he feels in control—specifically when he has control over a sub. However, due to his idiosyncrasies and paranoia, keeping a sub around has been impossible. Enter Dean, who’s not a very traditional submissive, to try his hand at subbing for the hermit.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 142,717
- Chapters:
- 17/17
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- 15
- Comments:
- 987
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- 7,278
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09 Oct 2019