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    “Courage is grace under fire.” -- Ernest Hemingway

    This is not just a story about how a shy History teacher and a hot-headed Firefighter meet and fall in love. It's also a story about learning, about having the courage to throw caution to the wind and fight for what you really want. With a little help from some meddling friends, of course.

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    “Now. You will only speak when spoken to, and then the only words I want to hear out of your mouth are ‘Yes’, ‘No’, or ‘Please’ if you want to beg.” (In which Dean is a dom and Cas is... an anonymous stranger in an angel costume, an instant obsession, a nameless one-night stand, more than a nameless one-night stand, Dean's perfect sub, Dean's perfect top, and the love of Dean's life.)

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    High School 'verse in which Dean and Cas meet on the first day of Senior Year, and are desperately in love and pining for each other by Graduation.

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    When Castiel is stuck without a model for his life-art class, Dean volunteers. What Dean doesn't know is that Castiel has already been sketching the young barista for months...

    (Or the one in which a creeper who takes pictures and a creeper who watches people sleep cancel out each other's creepiness by falling in love.)

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    A week ago, Dean was pulled out of Hell. Now, he’s apparently woken up in 2018, and the angel that a mere twenty-four hours beforehand had threatened to chuck him back into the pit is sleepily pouring himself coffee and wearing Dean’s second-favourite Zeppelin shirt. It all seems like a perfect happy ending, but with Hell’s scars still so fresh, Dean can’t imagine how he could have possibly gotten there.

    At the same time, the Dean who went to sleep in the bunker, right next to Cas, wakes up on Bobby’s couch in 2008. He’s instantly bombarded with questions by a Lilith-obsessed brother and a man who’s been dead for years, and must decide between keeping his finally-perfect life intact, and the lives he could save by re-writing history.

    Regardless of these choices, both Deans are trapped in the wrong decade, and their only way back lies with a Castiel still very much under Heaven’s thumb – one who might find the future Dean describes difficult to believe.

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    08 May 2025

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    Bruce and Clark deal with kryptonite, get a coffee, are undercover, share a bed, face off against some tentacles, have feelings about holograms, and dream together.

    Or: six times Superbat didn't quite happen, plus the time it finally did. (Written for Superbat Week 2019.)

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    18 Apr 2025

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    Castiel's spent most of his adult life keeping his head down and staying out of trouble. This is a deliberate choice on his part, because as a cousin of the King, he'd rather stay unimportant and forgotten. This changes abruptly when King Michael decides that he has a better use for Castiel: he is to be wed to a noble member of the neighboring Republic, as part of an agreement between their two nations.

    Castiel knows he has to obey, but that doesn't mean he won't rebel in what small ways he can. Unexpectedly, his actions end up having far-reaching consequences.

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    18 Apr 2025

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    It takes a while for Batman and Superman to work things out, once Clark comes back from the dead. Pretending to date each other in order to explain why Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent are in the same place so often? Doesn't help as much as you might think.

    Written as a fill for the dceu_kinkmeme prompt, summarized: Bruce/Clark, fake dating. (Full prompt in author's notes.)

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    18 Apr 2025

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    Clark struggles with something his Ma might call jealousy after walking in on Bruce and Hal together after a mission. Instead of letting Clark's feelings ruin the Justice League's hard-won team cohesion, Bruce suggests an alternative arrangement: sleep together once, work the tension between them out of their systems, and then go back to normal afterward.

    The problem with that plan? It's not just casual, and neither of them can ever go back to normal once it's all said and done.

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    18 Apr 2025