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    “I think,” Cas grits out, “that the spell requires me to say the truth. I’ve been trying to suppress it with my grace, but it’s… not working.”
    “Got it,” Dean says, nodding, because he can work with this. “Yeah. Sure. So give me some truths. Some stupid little ones.”
    Cas narrows his eyes. “Such as?”
    “Like, I dunno, what’s your favorite color?”
    Cas’s face somehow goes stonier. “Green,” he ekes out.
    Dean clears his throat. Blinks a few times. “Oh.”
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    Or: when Dean and Cas investigate a group of high school students getting mysteriously ill, Cas gets hit with a truth spell.

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    16 Jan 2026

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  2. Rec 13

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    Castiel sees his a coworker on a dating app and swipes left to avoid humiliation. Months later, a stray comment outs him to the same coworker, Dean Winchester.

    As misunderstandings pile up and avoidance becomes its own kind of harm, Castiel is left asking: how much of the life he’s built is peace and how much of it is just practice at staying unseen?

     

    Updates remain weekly on Thursdays. Unfortunately, Thursday has begun repeating, folding in on itself, and occasionally masquerading as Tuesday Wednesday.

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  3. Rec 32

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    A con goes wrong, and Nate must work out what happened from the few pieces he managed to catch.

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    19 Nov 2025

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    Delightful logic puzzle to spend time with, thank you!

  4. Rec 20

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    Dean Winchester is on the run from the cops after a series of petty crimes. While looking for a place to hide, he catches the eye of his former junior college classmate, the socially awkward Castiel Shurley, and asks to crash at the Shurleys’ house.

    Unbeknownst to Cas, Dean is the face behind John Q. Public—the anonymous frontman of a local punk band—with whom he has been sending suggestive photographs and love poems for the last few years under a pseudonym.

    But secret identities are the least of their worries when the police are closing in, the band’s next show is drawing near, and the Shurleys refuse to let Cas fly the coop. They grow close as they rail against the expectations that stifle them both, teaching each other what it means to be a real punk rocker.

    A Dinner in America inspired AU.

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    16 Oct 2025

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    Cas is back from the Empty, and Dean knows how to be grateful.

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    24 Aug 2025

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    Helluva good fic; really dig the emotion, that familiarity in the writing of dean’s internal self & despair & exploration, the reality of the messiness & joy of relationships. Also so happy with how present and well-characterized Sam is (and everyone, tbh, but I always love seeing Sam having a solid place in a destiel fic).