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This has got to be the best AU I've read in Supernatural fandom, at least in terms of worldbuilding: Below Skyscrapers is set in a world where the supernatural is common knowledge, so there exists organizations like the FBSI (Federal Bureau of Supernatural Investigation), and all public buildings are warded against demons (though some are too cheap to maintain the wards). In this world, Dean is an ordinary cop who has to deal with extraordinary events--like demonic ritual murders--and occasionally has angelic consultants to help out.

The story is Dean/Castiel, but even if you don't like the pairing you might give this a try, because of the excellent worldbuilding and plot (and the fact that it isn't really so much a shippy story as a plotty story with relationship trimming).

Or a summer's day, if you're in the southern hemisphere. No actual seasonality implied in the recs; I just suck at titling my posts.

Anyway, here are some RPS recs of the CWRPS variety, generally involving the J's in some manner, though also including het, threesomes and foursomes: ( Read more... )

Thanks very much to latxcvi, lonelywalker, cormallen and ciaan for even more snowflakes!

This particular rec post is in honor of slinkling, who is finally current with SPN in real time (yay!) and looking for recs. These are all episode codas for season 5 episodes--the vast majority of them are gen. This has truly been an excellent season for codas; these are just a few of my favorites, organized by episode:

( A coda to Free to Be You and Me )
( Codas to The End )
( Codas to Abandon All Hope )

Ok, wow, I did not realize when I started compiling these that every single damn story was a giant angst-fest, so I must recommend something light and funny so you all aren't burying your heads under your pillows for a week after reading these. So here: LIGHT AND FLUFFY SPN AU FIC of the Dean/Castiel variety:

( in the form of romantic comedy )

Some of these are remixes and some of these are the stories the remixes are based on that I hadn't read before. A mixed bag: Harry Potter, Firefly, and SPN: ( Read more... )

I thought about recommending my favorites over at the spnkink_meme, but decided that was a little personal. Returning to that meme every few hours simply reminds me of that truism, my kinks are hot, other people's kinks are hilarious and/or squicky. Though sometimes the squicky ones produce the best fic; I don't really understand how that works. And speaking of which, everyone's seen the Lucifer/Sarah Palin one , though, right?

I will link to one that got posted outside the meme, though: pandarus's amazingly hot and hilarious Jared/Jensen crossdressing Regency Romance is definitely worth reading.

And in no way am I linking to the meme in the hopes that people not already writing over there will go and fill a whole bunch of anonymous prompts I might have left. I would never be that blatantly self-serving.

So, in addition to today being the opening of Half-Blood Prince and the season premiere of Leverage (both of which I very much enjoyed--more on that in a later post), I've been looking forward to this day for weeks because it was the posting date for hansbekhart's Victor Henriksen epic, The Passenger. Technically this story is Dean/Victor, but the focus of the story isn't on the romance. In this story, Victor survives Lilith's tortures and is thrown into the world of hunting, in the middle of events he doesn't understand with only Dean to guide him.

I love this story to pieces. Not only does it create a terrific backstory for Henriksen (who's always been one of my favorite SPN minor characters), but it also goes AU after the events of Jus in Bello, leading to a very different series of events with respect to Dean's deal that I found very satisfying.

Well, I said I'd been reading like a madwoman, right? So I'm starting to catch up, and can finally get back to recommending stories.

( First, some stories to break your heart )


( And then some fluffy stories to cheer you up afterwards )

One bigbang story and a few shorter ones. ( Read more... )

Well, lately every day is SPN rec day here, so why should Friday be any different? A few more bigbang recs, including one potentially controversial one. ( Read more... )

but I bet all you spn_j2_bigbang readers will love me for it. I got tired of not knowing what particular stories were going to be posted when, since the master posting schedule on the comm doesn't give summaries, and the summaries don't seem to be arranged in any logical order (ie by date or alphabetical) other than the breakdown into gen SPN, slash SPN, and RPS. SO, I thought, I'll just make my own list of the authors by date and cut-and-paste the summaries. Easy peasy!

Ugh. Four hours later, I am wondering why I thought this was a brilliant idea, but it's done. It's a huge file (46 pages in word) so I posted it over on Dreamwidth here. I didn't proofread anything--literally I just cut-and-pasted the author summaries by date--but since it's all one file it's searchable, so if you absolutely need to know when the next Dean/Castiel story is going to be posted (July 2) or when the fantabulous-sounding Jedi AU is coming (June 17) or whether there are going to be any stories featuring the wonderful Victor Henrickson (yes! One June 26, one July 13 and one July 15, though everybody is still spelling his name differently), or what, exactly, the brilliant lazy_daze is writing about this year (a J2 Wimbledon AU), you can easily find it.

Doing this also made me realize (a) what a disappointing amount of het there is this year (dammit! I wanted more Sam/Ruby) and (b) there is an absolutely ridiculous number of J2 AUs to look forward to.

Even more awesome bigbang recs--and one bonus non-bigbang rec (all CWRPS or SPN) behind the cut: ( Read more... )