Mostly Supernatural... I also write big people books, tend to yell a lot, and have a list of laws I'm willing to violate for a decent pie. Wooing Scheherazade like a boss. Yes, I am MittenWraith on AO3.
Maybe it’s the little girl whose disappearance turned into a murder, and whose murder turned into a cold case, and who has now apparently decided to move in with him. Maybe it’s the unacceptable hole left in his life when his dumb best friend and partner in (the prevention of) crime decided to go and get himself killed. Maybe it’s his brother, whose high-profile career and fantastic girlfriend and first-child-on-the-way are steadily leaving Dean in the dust. Pick one. Pick all of them. The why doesn’t matter so much as the what, and the what is this: Dean is pretty sure he’s going completely, certifiably insane. Sure, he hasn’t started wearing all his clothes inside out, and he still showers on a regular basis (anyways, that’s not crazy, just a little eccentric); but there’s no getting around the fact that he just threw away his life, his career, and his reputation by dragging out his mom’s old necromancy book and summoning a Class A Forbidden Entity to his attic. A cranky one, too. With horrendous bed-head.
Okay, my friends, if you haven’t read this one yet, drop everything now and click on that link!! Don’t wait around, just do it!
(And even if you already know the fic, I’m pretty sure it’s time for a reread, don’t you think? Since it’s always time for a good reread!)
Because this story, it’s simply something else.
It is told from Dean’s POV who is in a kinda dark place at the beginning. Either everything is going to shit around him or everyone is living their best lives without him and the gruesome murder case that lands on his lap one day surely doesn’t make things any better. Soon enough he finds himself at his wit’s end and in a desperate attempt to get justice for the victim he does something very, very stupid - illegally summoning an entity that should never be summoned, that is.
Dean isn’t really sure what he expected, but the blue-eyed, grouchy creature certainly takes him by surprise. Castiel seems devoid of emotions and alienates everyone in his vicinity without even trying which, of course, makes it extra hard for Dean to hide his true identity from his colleagues and family. Over time, however, he learns to appreciate Castiel’s uniqueness and Castiel in turn starts to change the closer his relationship with Dean becomes.
The worldbuilding of this fic just sucks you right in, transforming the whole thing into some sort of extraordinary urban fantasy crime novel. Thanks to Dean’s POV the writing style is witty and oftentimes hilarious in that special Dean sort of way and often enough you can’t help but laugh even in the grittiest of situations.
The development of Dean and Castiel’s relationship is simply captivating, both a nod to canon as well as its own special kind of insanity. It’s just addicting to watch those two slowly but gradually get their shit together.
And on top of that the actual case is truly riveting, keeping you on the edge of your seat the whole time.
So yeah, what are you waiting for? Happy reading 😁
no but the way you can literally see Aaron thinking “oh shit he’s actually gay. goddammit” while Dean is going “okay citizen” like his brain just dropped on the floor and knocking over tables
My favourite thing about the latest Twitter meltdown is all the artists reanimating their dead Tumblr accounts today and immediately being greeted with hundreds of notes because even a Tumblr account they literally have not posted to in 3–5 years has more active and engaged followers than the Twitter account that they’ve been updating daily.
Due to a laggy server, a lot of you got the email about my yard sale late (and even more of you don’t know the difference between AM and PM), so I’m going to extend my little yard sale one more day:
Text me “YARD SALE” TOMORROW, July 2, between 10-11 AM PT (that’s morning, for the confused) and I’ll give away a few more things.
I do think it’s fascinating that after Dean has told Charlie about what’s been up in their lives since they last saw her, based on her response of “damn, Sam no longer has his cool normal life thanks to you” it really says something about how Dean must have presented the whole Dean vs Sam/Benny/Amelia/Martin dust up fiasco.
it’s such an obvious rewriting of history because Sam very much did not leave Amelia because of Dean. he did that while Dean was still in purgatory, and while certainly the pair of them did have a brief reintroduction to each others’ lives as a result of Dean’s actions… like. Sam is nearly thirty years old. he’s a grown adult and he made the choice not to meet Amelia at the motel to continue their relationship. only one brother actually issued an “it’s me or your partner” ultimatum last episode, and it sure as hell wasn’t Dean.
and yet somehow in the time since the preceding episode, Dean has yet again rewritten this to make it all his fault that Sam doesn’t get to have the things he wants, even though it was very much the direct result of choices Sam consciously made as an active participant in his life.
like, I’ve talked about how John spent most of Dean’s life rewriting things to be Dean’s fault. and I’ve talked about how Sam also spends a lot of time rewriting history to make Dean at least equally culpable for Sam’s own choices. but Dean is clearly so used to this pattern that he also has a habit of rewriting history to take responsibility for decisions that he actually has no right to claim ownership of because other people made those choices.
no wonder the deancrits are so convinced that everything in the entire world is Dean’s fault: damn near everyone in the world* acts like it is even when that directly conflicts with reality we as the audience witnessed with our own eyes literally one episode ago.
@monstermoviedean never apologize for tangents like this because you’re right and you should say it. Cas and Dean are so often breaking their own patterns and bad habits for each other, and this is one way it’s really really important, because Dean will get in this cycle of just blaming himself for everything that goes wrong because he’s spent his whole life having it reinforced by every member of his family (including Bobby!! let it be said!! I love Bobby and he is #1 dad in my heart but oh my god did he ever reinforce this!!) but then Cas comes in and says no, nuh-uh, this is not something you can blame yourself for and it’s so important.
like. they provide each other with an exit ramp. they provide each other with a safe place to set down their unhealthy habits and bad coping mechanisms and just… be seen, and cared for exactly as they are, flaws and all.
This week, the Trump-appointed Supreme Court ruled that it’s not okay for private or public institutions to level the playing field for people of color with affirmative action, but they also ruled that it IS okay for private institutions to discriminate against the LGBTQIA community. On this last day of Pride month, I’m just pledging to do my part to keep fighting for equity, to keep fighting to make this society we can be proud of. (Also, Cas is gay.)
Pride Cas with rainbow wings fanart by Gio aka @sketching-fox! Check out the original art post here.
