A whole lotta Dean, my birthday wishlist

[shax92.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna turn 20 tomorrow, and I thought I might celebrate leaving my teen years behind with a bunch of Dean fics. Hopefully, I'll be lucky and get lots of recs :) Some of these are actually regurgitated versions of my old searches, but I wanna see if I can get new fics outta them.

1. Smart!Dean is canon to me, and I love reading fics that have this. School fics would be awesome - high school or college, I don't mind either way - but this sort of fic can be set whenever and wherever.

2. Considering up top, I have a hankering for Destiel fics where Dean is practically cliche. You know the type - smart, popular, awesome, kind... an amazing older brother. I only ask that he's not an asshole, since popular!Dean is sometimes written as that.

3. Fics that basically have the world finding out just how important to the grand scheme of things Dean is - and I'm talking Messianic connotations here. Fics that grounds in the fact that a whole lotta extraordinary things (even by hunter standards) seem to revolve around this BAMF. Outsider POVs are loved.

4. Related to #3 - any fics out there that deals with how the supernatural world views Dean. Like how his soul was shining brightly even when the Pit, or how some angels consider Dean damn near holy.

5. Stories where Castiel, through his own ignorance to social norms or maybe a lack of faith in Dean's own commitment, cheats on him. AU or canon, I just wanna read fics where Dean is the one who wants to commit, and Cas is the one who screws up. Happy endings, though I want to read guilty!Cas and hurt!Dean.

6. Rockstar or celebrity AUs where Dean defies stereotype. Destiel please.

7. Girl!Dean fics are loved. Especially irresistible, totally aware of her own hotness girl!Dean. I would really prefer Destiel, but this is also the only way I'll read Wincest, so I'll accept those too.

8. Chef!Dean, or maybe baker!Dean. IDK, just want to read fics with him like this.

9. Michael!Dean? Not fics where Dean says yes to Michael, but fics where he was Michael all this time. Oh, since I'm on this anyway, any fics out there where Dean is actually God or something, or his vessel.

10. This one is the orange in a bushel of apples - I'd love to read fics where Dean has both younger brothers with him. Like, it can be from Adam's POV, or even just fics where he has a brotherly relationship with Dean.

** If there's a pairing, Destiel is my OTP ^^ No Wincest recs please, except for #7.

Whew! That was a lot, and I don't know if I'll get any bites, but I can hope! So please, make this birthday girl's wishes come true, and rec me some Dean fics! :)

Thanks!

Comments

[gluisa88.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday!!

Request 8:

Here's a baker!Dean - it's a light crossover with Pushing Daisies but really, you don't need to know anything about the show to enjoy this fic. The only similarities is the location, the restaurant (which Dean and Sam buy from the Pie Maker) and one character.

Coeur d'coeurs (http://lyra-wing.livejournal.com/179115.html)

And here's my smart!Dean (https://delicious.com/gluisa88/smart!dean) tag on Delicious

[shax92.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[semaniac99.livejournal.com]

#4 Unexpected Destinies (http://otp-destiel.livejournal.com/571.html): They thought It was over. They thought they'd averted the Apocalypse. They thought they'd won. They were wrong...
people admiring: angels, Death, Crowley...
also some of #1

[shax92.livejournal.com]

Haha thanks! I'm already reading this one actually, been following it for about a year :)

[violue.livejournal.com]

#6 ok I wouldn't say he's defying any stereotype, but I love this Rockstar AU. Shootin' You Straight (http://rockstarpeach.livejournal.com/96571.html) ... it has vague elements of #5 and bit of #10, as Adam is in Dean's family band

#7 pure porn: Delve (http://hollybennett123.livejournal.com/5496.html)

#9 Ahhh I feel like reccing these fics under this category is essentially also spoiling them... but This fic (http://apokteino.livejournal.com/11285.html) and This fic (http://archiveofourown.org/works/137551/chapters/197455).

for the second part of #9 On the off-chance you haven't read this fic (http://mclachland.livejournal.com/21656.html)...(elements of #3)

[shax92.livejournal.com]

Aww thanks!

I've actually already read Shootin' You Straight, it's one of the main reasons I asked for #5 and #6 actually >_< and who hasn't read Named, right?! But the rest are going straight to my reading list, thank you!

[elfgirljen.livejournal.com]

#3 Are you there, Dean Winchester? It's me...God" (http://archiveofourown.org/works/562399)
and the sequel
Dean Winchester's home for Wayward Angels (http://archiveofourown.org/works/562407)

[gilesbabe.livejournal.com]

For #9 Dies Irae, or Something. Summary: It starts with headaches, and it ends in a clusterfuck. So, business as usual, Apocalypse-wise.

http://alchemyalice.livejournal.com/5255.html

For #3. Anything Worth Dying For. "Lawrence, Kansas had significance not just for the Winchesters, but for the entire movement. For the hosts of Heaven and those who follow, the city had the relevance of Jerusalem; it was the place where the Messiah was born. Dean Winchester was of Lawrence, and that marked it holy. "

http://archiveofourown.org/works/7500

[catnthecradle.livejournal.com]

Since I don't read Destiel, (Wincest is my poison) I can only offer you Gen.

1/ Infrangible Road http://ddayspring.livejournal.com/26140.html
Summary: A Supernatural Gen AU in which John raises his sons in Lawrence.

10/ Brothe Mine http://etrixiswriting.livejournal.com/52273.html
Summary: John was out on a hunt when the call came: Kate Milligan was dead, and John was named in her will as the guardian of her son—his son—Adam. Pissed but knowing his duty, Dean pulled Sam out school during exam week, and they went to Windom in the thick of the Minnesota winter. 7-yr-old Adam was a lot like Sammy at that age, but Dean wasn't ready to accept him as another Winchester. Then the boy's life was threatened and all bets were off.

[shax92.livejournal.com]

Awesome, can't wait to read them. Thanks!

[shax92.livejournal.com]

I've actually already read both of these, but thank you!

[shax92.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Infrangible Road is one of my all time faves. Dayspring is like my god.

Already have Brother Mine on my reading list, but gonna bump it up to the top since you rec'd it.

Thanks!

[layne67.livejournal.com]

#9 The Firstborn (http://justforspite.dreamwidth.org/188284.html) by justforspite.

I really hope someone would come up with #5 *WANTS*

For number 8,I once read an AU in which Misha is a chef and Jensen is a waiter. It's a very lovely fic but since you didn't mention anything about Jensen/Misha?

[shax92.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

And I hear ya, I really want to read something like #5!

Oooh, Jensen/Misha? Gimme~! *flails*

[layne67.livejournal.com]

Here (http://nanoochka.livejournal.com/58832.html). And it *is* Dean/Cas. For some reasons, I thought it was a Jensen/Misha, maybe because it was as AU as you can get lol. But it was really good!

[shax92.livejournal.com]

Ahh, In the Weeds :)

I've actually already seen this rec'd before, but have yet to read it. Will soon, though. Thanks!

[blondie66666.livejournal.com]

Try this one for #9. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6879807/1/Voice-in-my-Head-Power-in-my-Soul-Love-in-my-Heart

[orange-8-hands.livejournal.com]

#7:

- Wayfinding (http://archiveofourown.org/works/499589) by rageprufrock (WIP, girl!Dean, guy!Cas, Destiel)

self-rec: I have a series (http://archiveofourown.org/series/15877), but it's all girl!verse not just Dean. Destiel though still in pre-slash stages.

#3:

Anything Worth Dying For (http://archiveofourown.org/works/7500) by waldorph

#9:

I Got Soul But I'm Not a Soldier (http://archiveofourown.org/works/137551/chapters/197455) by starandrea
- also fits with #4; also ze's Light Up the Sky for Me (http://archiveofourown.org/works/28187) fits

Adventures in Diplomacy (http://peroxide-fic.livejournal.com/185233.html) by peroxide_fic

[shax92.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I started reading like a couple of paragraphs of this ages ago, but lost it completely. Glad to see it again so I can continue reading! :)

[shax92.livejournal.com]

LOL, I've read all of these EXCEPT yours, so the self-rec was much appreciated ;)

Btw, Wayfinding is my all time, favorite girl!Dean fic... ever!

[orange-8-hands.livejournal.com]

LOL well I'm glad I self-recced then.

Wayfinding is my favorite girl!Dean fic too. Well, it's rageprufrock, how could that go wrong? ;)

BTW forgot to say but Happy Birthday!

oh and I forgot these too, though you probably know them:

#7
Daughter of Man (http://trinityofone.livejournal.com/181708.html) by trinityofone
- girl!Dean, boy!Cas, Destiel; I think it had two other stories loosely linked to it

Must Have Been The Way (http://archiveofourown.org/works/154622) by twentysomething
- girl!Dean, boy!Cas, Destiel

Doctor, Doctor, Gimme The News (http://archiveofourown.org/works/154479) by twentysomething
this is more girl!Sam/Gabe, but it has background girl!Dean/Cas and Gabe thinking Dee is the best thing since ever

ETA: and starandrea also did Ship's Code (http://archiveofourown.org/works/579842), though in this case girl!Dean is also a ship. (also girl!Cas) I'm about halfway through and enjoying and you've already read ze's work so I figure I'll throw it out there

shortskirt verse (http://archiveofourown.org/works/154453/chapters/221971) by twentysomething (for #2)

[shax92.livejournal.com]

Thank you XD

I know, right?! rageprufrock seems to be a big name in all my fandoms~

Haha, I've read all of these too, except Ship's Code, which I wasn't sure about since Dean was, y'know, a starship. But I'll give it a go since you seem to like it *grins*

And man, twentysomething is one of my favorite authors. I'm like in love with their version of Dean, which is the reason I prompted for something like it.

[orange-8-hands.livejournal.com]

I owe rageprufrock, because ze's really how I got into fanfiction. And her smallville stuff is my favorite. (And yeah, twentysomething is another great one.)

I'd place Ship's Code between I Got Soul and the Light Up series. (As in, 1. I Got Soul is my favorite, but I enjoyed Ship's Code more than the Light Up verse and 2. the style is somewhere between the two of them.) Eh, give it a go ;)

And I found two for #1 (which if we're going bny oattern you've already read):

Geek is Sexy (http://jedi-diplomat.livejournal.com/176000.html) by jedi-diplomat

Levels of Achievement (http://wee-chesters.livejournal.com/19003.html) by gwendolyngrace

[shax92.livejournal.com]

Waitaminute - what's I Got Soul and the Light Up series?! Can you link them to me please? I feel like I've read them already, but I've been reading so much, I can't tell which is which anymore.

On a completely opposite spectrum however... Man, it seems like I sucked the SPN fandom dry re: all the fics I wanna read. Seems like I've read almost everything rec'd to me here... not that I'm ungrateful of course :) It's nice to find some of these fics again.

Haha, yeah, I've read both of those though XD Thanks anyhow.

[orange-8-hands.livejournal.com]

No, no, those are the shortened version of the names of I Got Soul But I'm Not a Soldier and Light Up the Sky for Me by starandrea; sorry, no new ones :( I was just comparing her new one Ship to those two. Liked it better than Light Up, liked it less than I Got Soul; and the style is somewhere between the two.

You have read a ridiculous amount; I feel like I could do a better job finding something you haven't except 90% of my bookmarks aren't sorted and are just in my firefox saved as "add" (which, you know, is soooo helpful) and my rec lists at the moment are pretty basic.

Ok, for #1:

Open Mind for a Different View (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3832024/1/Open-Mind-for-a-Different-View) by psychochick1

Sour Cherry Pie Life (http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7050961/1/Sour-Cherry-Pie-Life) by FaithDaria
- crossover with Criminal Minds. not my favorite but hell worth a try