Supernatural Fanfic

Supernatural fanfic

I had my first browse for Supernatural-flavoured fanfiction over the past couple of days. I don't know why I'm surprised to find that so much of it is out-of-universe-AU: coffee shop, college, high school setting and so on. 'Uber' fic as we called it in ye olden days.

I guess the canon timeline of the show doesn't actually leave much wiggle room for bigger fanfic storylines to drop in out of nowhere and fit nicely as canon-compliant works. It's ideal for absorbing character oneshots, reaction stories, fix-its, and PWP style smut, short works that fill short spaces of time, but the central characters are crazy busy for all those seasons. I'd have to think pretty hard to find a good spot to insert a character-rich and canon-compliant first time smut wallow, for example.

Innnteressssting.

Look at the sheer number of Supernatural fanworks on AO3 though. That's incredible.

Will your GO story get a happy ending? Please!

Absolutely! They love each other. Everything else is just pesky details.

I... I can't with this episode. Even if I get past the extreme Cas 'n' Sam whump, I still can't.

I'm not sure what I expected to see the next time we saw Cas after breaking free from Naomi's mind control, after that devastating scene with Dean in the crypt, after touching the actual Word of God and getting all glowy.

Cas looking exhausted and sickly but retaining enough good grace to chat pleasantly with the waitress while drinking endless cups of coffee, politely ordering food he doesn't need to eat, hiding in plain sight in a neverending series of cookie-cutter fast-food restaurants he chose to confuse the birdsyeye gaze of Heaven was not it.

Naomi slaughtering a restaurant full of humans to make him stop running was not it.

Cas saying "Bite me" to Naomi without messing up the delivery was not it.

Cas sticking that huge lump of rock inside his own body to conceal and protect it (then getting it ripped out again) was not it.

Cas hardcore digging an angel-killing bullet out of his gut with his fingertips while being interrogated, then manually shoving it in his brother angel's eye was not it.

Cas ending up asking Dean and Sam to help him because he was so badly injured by the end was not it.

I watched this about a month ago now and I still can't even thoughts. Nope. And don't even get me started on hermit!Metatron and his stories and the Sam hurt/comfort fever crazies, or Crowley being singlehandedly smarter than the combined forces of Heaven.

"Uh, been on the road a long time, huh?" ↳ 8.21 - THE GREAT ESCAPIST

This whole episode deserves essays written about it, books written about it, both as a pivotal moment in Supernatural's evolution and as an episode of network television at its finest, but my brain stopped working because Christopher Heyerdahl.

4 / ∞ — oh, buddy, it’s only monday

Amen

HOLY TRINITY OF TRADITIONAL BALLADS

#This hit me like a brick