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Dean's always loved books.
(OR: You know how Dean Winchester is an autodidact who built an EMF machine out of a Walkman, got his GED just because, knows the difference and nuances in Vonnegut's works, is good at strategy and LARPs, easily references Tolstoy and ancient Greek fables, has a favorite Zeppelin song that's about a book, and has a huge pop culture knowledge base because he soaks up everything like a sponge? Me too. And you know how Supernatural usually wants us to pretend that's not true? Yeah ... how about fuck that?
A #DeanStudies fic that proposes Dean has an interior life, a brain in his head, and the urge to do better. Oh and, of course, it fixes the finale!)
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- Part 1 of read between the lines
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- English
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- 44,344
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- 11/11
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02 Nov 2024
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Former CIA agent Dean Winchester had earned a quiet retirement. Problem was, retirement was lonelier than he’d expected.
Things take a turn when retired SVR agent Castiel Novak suddenly drops into his sedate life, letting him know that all may not be as it seems.
Or
The one where Dean finds out he’s got a guardian angel.
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- English
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- 120,310
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- 18/18
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- 1,006
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13 Sep 2024
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Since a traumatic incident six years ago, Castiel Novak’s face has been disfigured by a scar. He’s resigned himself to being someone people can barely stand to look at, let alone love.
Except his heart doesn’t seem to have gotten the message. When Dean Winchester takes over the convenience store down the street from Castiel’s bookshop, Castiel falls helplessly in love with his new neighbor.
To make matters worse, Castiel’s sister Anna is also interested in Dean. Believing that Dean could never love him, Castiel decides to help Anna win his heart instead.
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- English
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- 45,173
- Chapters:
- 10/10
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- 1
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- 474
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- 1,057
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- 11,161
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25 Apr 2024
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Dean Winchester doesn't ask for much in life but a few hours of uninterrupted sleep. His new neighbor’s rooster, however, has been ruining his beauty sleep, and that he cannot stand for. When facing his feathered foe however he comes to meet the handsome new farmer next door and gets a lot more cock than he bargained for.
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- English
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- 6,384
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 2
- Comments:
- 84
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- 1,449
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09 Apr 2024
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After a blowout at his parents' house on Christmas Eve, Castiel resigns himself to a lonely, miserable holiday. On his way home he finds himself at a dive bar, spilling his life story to the handsome, charming bartender he's just met. It's an unlikely set of circumstances, but when the bartender invites him to come home with him, Castiel says yes—and it looks like he might not be spending his Christmas alone and miserable after all.
Inspired by the 30 Day Cheesy Tropes Challenge #5- Bartender AU.
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- Part 2 of 30 Day Cheesy Tropes Challenge
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- English
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- 15,181
- Chapters:
- 2/2
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- 1
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- 95
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- 1,268
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- 11,701
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02 Feb 2024
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Castiel Milton is tense, ticked off, tipsy, and trolling. Or he thinks that’s what it’s called. The divorced man has never had a one-night stand, but he believes it’s just what he needs to get out of his funk and get to feeling something like himself again. He meets Dean Winchester, a selfless, kindhearted man who’s down and drunk after yet another betrayal, the relationship one in a line of failed relationships in which he’s ended up on the losing end. They get along well, and they agree to a one-night stand... no commitments, no complications. But through a series of events, their one-night stand gets delayed... and delayed... and delayed. And while they’re waiting for their inevitable hookup, Cas finds himself falling for the man he’s only meant to have for one night, a man who said he was swearing off relationships. Can he convince himself that the agreement they made is all he really wants?
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- Part 1 of One-Night Stand
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- English
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- 59,930
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- 18/18
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04 Nov 2023
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That title is a lie, there’s nothing romantic or fantastical about prince Castiel's life whatsoever. Married off to king Dean for political reasons, his role is to manage the castle and help raise prince Ben, the son of Dean’s first wife. Lisa was the one Dean truly loved, her loss years ago bereaved the entire kingdom. Castiel is a pale replacement nobody cares for much unless they have a problem or something to complain about. Castiel, for his part... well, it was stupid to fall in love with his husband, but he’s always been a dunce and an embarrassment according to Michael. Why change now.
Then Dean’s sister by marriage, Queen Eileen, decides to show Castiel what his true place in the castle is…
… and maybe he is in a romance and a fairy tale after all. Just a little bit.
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- English
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- 29,975
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- 3/3
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- 207
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29 Oct 2023
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The kingdoms of Calorna and Hiemere have been at war for centuries. Dean and Castiel, princes of those embattled lands, have never known peace, but when they inherit their respective crowns following a devastating battle, it suddenly lies within their grasp. The best way to ensure that peace is a formal alliance-- in this case, a marriage between the two newly-crowned kings.
Though their union begins as a political arrangement, it soon deepens into something more. There is only one problem: some strange incompatibility means that they cannot touch without causing each other intense pain. As they struggle to adjust to the realities of their new situation, it becomes clear that peace is not the only consequence of their alliance. Long dormant powers are stirring, and if Dean and Castiel can hold fast to one another, their love may remake the world as they know it.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 77,488
- Chapters:
- 18/18
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 166
- Kudos:
- 595
- Bookmarks:
- 181
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- 9,450
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28 Sep 2023
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Raise the Black by emmbrancsxx0, valleydean (emmbrancsxx0)
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
30 Sep 2022
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Nassau, 1717. Captain Dean Winchester of the Impala is a born and raised pirate, committed to disrupting commerce and civility on a global scale. After a battle at sea with the Royal Navy, Dean discovers a stowaway on his ship: Castiel Novak, an officer from Carolina with a secret. As their relationship grows, so does England’s determination to end piracy in the New World. This is the story of how men can become legends and how love can ignite a revolution.
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- English
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- 16/16
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- 3
- Comments:
- 920
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- 995
- Bookmarks:
- 433
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- 34,826
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22 Mar 2023
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"Hello, Dean," Castiel rumbles at him, and God, the way his name sounds in Castiel's mouth. Dean could drop a rock down the well of that voice and never hear it hit bottom. "Charlie said you might stop by. Is there anything new I can help you find?"
"I just wanted to check you out, uh—check these out. The books. For my brother. Sammy needs more books." Fuck Dean's life.
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23 Nov 2022
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When Sam gets his life together and fucks off to live in a hippy-dippy self-sustainable commune in Costa Rica, Dean never considers following suit. That life isn’t for him. But after years of being away from his brother and withering his own life away at his monotonous, soul-sucking job, Dean finds himself caving to Sammy’s pleas, accepting a job offer he can’t refuse, and boarding a plane to the exotic island.
It’s nothing like Dean could have ever imagined, full of vibrant life and color, foods he’s never heard of, and animals he’s never seen. It’s a tropical paradise… a paradise that becomes a hell of a lot more interesting when a dark haired, blue-eyed commune native catches his eye. After a rather upsetting first meeting with the grumpy stranger, Dean must continue to navigate life on the island, his new career as the school’s music teacher, and the ultimate feat of dislodging his foot from his very big mouth.
With a community of characters as familiar as his brother and as wild as a capuchin monkey with a flair for mischief, Dean will discover that maybe it wasn’t just Sam’s life that needed a reboot.
Still, the question remains; will Dean be able to win over Casa Nova’s most reclusive resident?
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- English
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- 54,429
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- 11/11
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- 1
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- 173
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- 747
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- 9,999
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27 Jul 2022
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Dean’s finally come to the conclusion that his life will benefit from him getting rid of the old to make room for the new. He starts by donating a bunch of things to charity, only to see one of the blankets he’s donated wrapped around someone sleeping in the street a couple of days later. He can’t know that, when he approaches the cocoon lying on the sidewalk that first time, but giving away his old blanket has started a sequence of events that will bring into his life all the new he could hope for, starting with the man sleeping under it.
Castiel's lost everything. He’s homeless, living in the street and determined to keep going until he won’t be able to go on any longer. And then, he’ll see. For now, he finds solace in the little things, desperate for any scrap of hope that might come his way. Like the blanket he got from the shelter, with the ugliest dog face that ever existed, complete with flapping ears, that has made him smile for the first time in weeks. He couldn't have possibly known, when he chose that particular blanket out of those available, that that choice had started a sequence of events that will bring into his life all the hope he was looking for, starting with the man who sewed and donated it.
- Language:
- English
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- 29,402
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 434
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- 1,684
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- 360
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- 19,562
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15 Jan 2022
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Just a smol, unbeta'd tropey drabble that is mostly in existence to provide context for a pic I made. Dean gets healed.
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10 Oct 2021
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When Castiel starts getting beaten up at school, his neighbour Dean knows that he has to do something. Cas has it hard enough already - his blue hair, piercings, and unique attitude mean that he spends most of his time at school alone, anyway. Meanwhile, Dean's popular enough to bring Castiel some respite from the bullying; or, that is, he would be, if only Cas was connected to Dean in some way. As a friend, perhaps. Or even as a boyfriend, maybe...
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 18,382
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Collections:
- 1
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- 141
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- 2,334
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- 17,213
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30 Aug 2021
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‘Alpha Needed: Looking for an alpha with a calming scent, preferably mated, for scenting purposes. Twice a week, one hour. Pay: $20 per hour plus expenses.’
In order to get his anxiety attacks under control, Cas is supposed to regularly scent an alpha whose scent makes him feel safe.
Dean could really use the extra cash and the ad sounds like the easiest 20 bucks an hour Dean has ever made.
But then things get complicated…
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- English
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- 34,634
- Chapters:
- 24/24
- Collections:
- 16
- Comments:
- 3,987
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- 14,303
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- 149,851
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19 Jul 2021
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Leading his regiment across the continent against Napoleon was all Dean Winchester cared about, for years. Until his father died, and the Earl of Winchester was needed at home.
A letter out of the blue saves Dean from having to face the ghosts that await him at Winchester Hall. Castiel Shurley, who has fallen from the heights of society, makes an exceptional Estate Steward, enabling Dean to keep his position in France for at least a while longer.
“A while” becomes a year, and then more, as the war trudges on.
But one day, Dean must return home. And there waits the man whose letters have kept him whole while the war took a piece more of him every day.
Now, away from his men and his guns, Dean needs a different kind of courage. How does Dean tell Castiel that he didn't return for his title—he returned for him?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,357
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 216
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- 1,077
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- 9,649
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23 Jun 2021
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To tie up the loose ends of a hunt, Dean is forced to go undercover and visit Brock Pleasure Ranch, a horrifying establishment that markets its inhabitants to people with ‘monstrous’ tastes.
It should have been a simple thing, to persuade a mer to give him a few scales for a spell. All part of the usual Winchester byline: saving people, hunting things.
But Castiel is far less of a ‘thing’ than Dean expected. He might not be human, but he’s definitely a person.
And that means he needs saving, too.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 64,907
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Collections:
- 7
- Comments:
- 3,001
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- 5,679
- Bookmarks:
- 1,317
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- 108,813
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11 Jun 2021
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Dean has one job: protect the princess. And he’s very good at it. Until Claire disappears in the middle of the night, along with Jack, the prince of the neighbouring kingdom, who everyone expects she’ll marry someday.
Dean’s next step is clear: find Claire and bring her home. But in order to do so, he’ll have to team up with Castiel, Jack’s bodyguard, the most frustrating (and attractive) man Dean knows. As they bicker their way through a sprawling, slightly magical forest, they also confront their own thorny past, leaving Dean with the uncomfortable feeling that maybe he’s been wrong about Castiel all along.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 58,300
- Chapters:
- 15/15
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 138
- Kudos:
- 830
- Bookmarks:
- 201
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- 11,601
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11 Jun 2021
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Every night when the clock strikes twelve, all the toys in the toymaker’s workshop come to life. Dean is a little wooden soldier, so easily distracted by the pretty dolls. However, in the nights leading up to Christmas, he feels drawn to a very different kind of toy: Castiel, a kindhearted cowboy displayed on the other side of the store. Dean and Castiel spend all their time together, spreading joy and festive cheer throughout their miniature community. But once the Christmas rush comes around, will fate allow them to stay together?
(Perhaps... with a little sprinkling of Christmas magic, even the wishes of simple toys can come true.)***NOW COMPLETE!***
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 28,062
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 181
- Kudos:
- 641
- Bookmarks:
- 146
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- 7,984
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11 Jun 2021
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Resigned to drinking himself to sleep whilst his roommate, best friend, and secret love goes off on another date, Castiel is shocked by a series of text messages that will forever change the nature of their relationship. Can he and Dean get past their hang-ups to see what's been right in front of them for years?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 10,370
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 185
- Kudos:
- 1,155
- Bookmarks:
- 210
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- 14,617
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11 Jun 2021