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    any and all fics set in my brainworld daydream that originated with "Enchanted"

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    a collection of random short blurbs I come up with that don't really fit anywhere else

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    Dean Winchester has been alone for a long, long time.

    When he and Castiel happen to find each other - a couple of survivors in a world that’s been all but wiped clean - Dean’s looking for his brother; Castiel is looking for something to look for. They stick together, because neither of them much wants to be alone. They hate each other at first, of course. Dean hates Castiel for being weird and quiet and ironic and antagonistic and proud. Castiel hates Dean for being blunt and reckless and coarse, for drinking, for refusing to talk about how he feels and just pretending everything is fine. Most of all, they hate themselves and each other just for being alive. What right do they have to be alive? No one else seems to be.

    But against his own will, Dean starts to notice things about Castiel that he likes. Starts to hope that Castiel might like him, too. And together, they start to fight for a world where they're both alive - and that's a good thing.

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    23 Nov 2025

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    Oh. My god.

    Stories with no endings - just beginnings that stopped, as they must.
    There’s something special about this fic’s plot and how it ends in the middle of the action, or even the beginning of it. Cas and Dean have their whole lives ahead of them, the whole world. This ending could feel ambiguous and untethered, but instead it feels grounded and secure. Dean and Cas have each other, and that’s what matters.

    This fic also has a soft apocalypse feel to it. I think it’s because, despite the discomfort of an apocalyptic world—dirty clothes, sweaty skin, cold food out of a can, aching shoulders from carrying a pack all days and aching feet from walking for miles—Dean and Cas are comfortable with and in each other.

    Part of it also comes from the concentrated, absurd emotion apocalyptic settings bring out, and the required vulnerability in that. When you don’t understand what you’re feeling and it’s just an overwhelming flood of too much, a different side of you is forced into the light. Dean and Cas accept this in themselves and in one another. They build a giant bonfire cuz why the fuck not? They say, “I love you.” They ask, “Can I?” They tease each other and come up with silly stories of Ears’s life and bicker over stupid stuff.

    I also want to take a moment to applaud how well emotions are written in this story. Dean and Cas could have never kissed or slept with each other or even held hands or said the words and I would have still known they loved each other. When they said, fuck it, let’s light a bonfire and draw in a huge horde, I just shrugged my shoulders with them and went along with the crazy, because in the context of everything, it made sense. Dean’s sudden anger over Cas’s platitudes didn’t feel like it came out of nowhere. Even though the emotional switch was flipped in an instant by such a passing, minuscule trigger, it was completely understandable. In all honesty, I don’t know what writing wizardry you did to achieve this absurd, immersive emotion, but I applaud you regardless.

    Also, I’m officially joining the Ears Fan Club. This is my seal of membership.

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    He thinks, not for the first time, that the produce aisle of a supermarket is not where he thought he'd watch the world end.

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    21 Sep 2024

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    THE APOLLO ICARUS METAPHOR

     

     

    this author is a literary genius, end of story.

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    It's a new year and hope is hard to find for some.

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    11 Nov 2024

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    relatable in the queer, mental illness, and religion ways

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    Post-war, not canon-compliant.

    On a stormy morning, Levi gets sick. He tries to hide it from Erwin, but he can't.

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    21 Nov 2024

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    ouch but also sweet

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    No matter how many times he does it, no matter how hard he tears into his own body with soaps too harsh for his skin, he never feels any less disgusting. He never feels any less awful.

    He never forgets the blood, or the mud, or the shit.

    He never lets the people out of his head, and never forgets their names, and he certainly never forgets their corpses.

    ((AKA: After sustaining a head injury which results in temporary, but severe, short-term memory loss, Levi is forced to confront events from his past that he had always used to push himself forward. Living alone in his mind proves to be almost unbearable.))

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    29 Dec 2024

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    awesome Levi character study ft lots of whump and Eruri