1) My Eyes Are An Ocean
Author: entangled_now 
Characters/Pairing: Dean/Castiel, Sam
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: None
Summary: It's amazing what you decide you can get away with when you can't see a damn thing.
My Notes: The first section is such a perfect mix of humor and angst and the second section has you holding your breath. The characterizations are so well done.  

2) Signs and Portents
Author: aesc 
Characters/Pairings: Dean/Castiel, Sam
Rating: PG13
Summary: Inspired and encouraged by the brilliant and persistent trinityofone. We were thinking back over several seasons of Sam and Dean being mistaken for boyfriends, and got to wondering what happens when Castiel comes into the picture.
My Notes: So many awkward and humorous situations. Features Clueless!Dean and BrattyBro!Sammy.

3) Unto Certain Poor Sheperds
Author: tseecka 
Characters/Pairing: Dean/Cas, Sam
Rating: PG
Spoilers: None I can think of, but let's say up to most recent episode, just to be safe.
Summary: An angel's gift at Christmas; to humanity, whom he already loves, and the human he's learning to.
My Notes: Beautiful and moving. Heartwarming holiday fic.

4) Twitterpated
Author: fledmusic 
Pairing: uhh, slight Dean/Castiel but it's very tame, Sam
Rating: PG
Spoilers: 5X02 to be safe
Summary: Castiel insists that Dean and Sam start using twitter as a means of communication (seriously). Okay, this all stemmed from a conversation minor_fifth  and I had after the season 5 premiere about how hilarious it would be if Castiel got ahold of a cell phone. And of course, that lead to the question "what if Castiel had a twitter?" And well, since the show delivered on the cell phone, I figured it was meant to be.
My Notes: Hilarious. I love me some crack, but this isn't even cracky. It's so in character and awesome.

5) The Uncomfortable Truth About Being Prophesized
Author: luchia13 
Rating: R
Genre and/or Pairing: Dean/Castiel, Sam, Chuck.
Spoilers: 4.18.
Warnings: Profanity, boys kissing, shmoop, semi-crack, non-graphic porn, not-quite-angst, and candy.
Prompt: Dean/Cas with voyeur Chuck - Dean realizes that Chuck is watching and he tries (and fails) to find ways around that. Bonus points for any conversations between Dean and Chuck in which Dean tries to apologize to him for all the free porn.
My Notes: Dean's attempts to "hide" from Chuck are hilarious. Also, TinFoil!Hats!!! Deliciously sweet without being syrupy.

CHRISTMAS BONUS FIC:
This and So Much More
Author: rockstarpeach 
Rating: Adult
Characters/Pairings: Dean/Castiel, Sam
Spoilers: Season 5
Warnings: None really. Boy!love and violence and schmoop and idiocy...the usual suspects.
Summary: It happens to take place over the holidays, but it’s not a holiday fic. It’s sort of the story of how Dean admits how he really feels about Cas, and he may or may not have Sam to thank for it. Probably not though, ‘cause Sam can be kind of a dick, especially when he’s trying to be helpful. Castiel figures some things out as well, but it’s never as easy as you hope. Denial and misunderstanding abound, but can love kick their asses?
My Notes: Really fun series that takes place during Christmas and New Years. There are Christmas parties and bar visits for New Years Eve and awesomeness ensues. Features Jealous!Dean (who I always love to pieces). Matchmaker!Sam and a more self-aware Cas than either had any idea about.  

Monthly Dean/Cas fic recs!





1) A Yellow Wood
Author: trinityofone
Rating: PG
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Spoilers: General S4
Summary: In which two roads converge.
My Notes: Amazing imagery throughout and has a great twist.

2) Wing!verse
Author: savingfaith333
Pairing: Dean/Cas (and a whole bunch of others throughout)
Other Characters: Sam, Lucifer, Bobby, Michael, Gabriel… the list goes on.
Warnings: Minor character deaths. Also, this is AU post "Wishful Thinking," but certain parts of canon were sprinkled throughout so spoilers might linger.
Rating: NC-17
Summary: I keep using the tagline of “Love in the Time of Apocalypse” a lot lately, but this is basically Dean and Cas’ epic love story, set before, during, and all around the rising of Lucifer and the resulting Apocalypse.
My Notes: Are you someone who wanted an actual dark, brutal apocalypse instead of Paris Hilton, old guy Dean, and meta hijinks? With apocalyptic characters like Luci, Gabriel, and Michael actually doing things and playing a part? Plus appearances by Bobby, Ellen, Jo, Uriel, Ruby, Anna and many many more! Covers the fight for the seals, Lucifer's rising, and the battles and mayhem that ensue afterwards. This series is a work of art - spanning 5 major arcs and over 100 chapters of awesomeness. Also of note, she started writing this shortly before the halfway point of S4 and finished the last chapter before this season started - amazing.

3) Fourth Wall series
Author: entangled_now
Pairings: Dean/Castiel, Sam/Lucifer
Rating: PG-13
Summary: In which Castiel misses the internet, Sam marvels at the levels of denial, and Dean finally gets hit by the clue bus.
My Notes: Cracktastic and fun filled series where the boys become obsessed with reading fic about themselves and Cas gets more obsessed than the both of them. Hijinks ensue and much amusement is had. Fun with the internets = epic lulz.

4) Make The Man
Author: trinityofone
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Castiel/Dean Smith (Dean/Castiel)
Spoilers: Let’s say to the end of the season to be safe, though the focus is 4x17
Summary: He realized he was attempting a level of subterfuge for which he was unprepared. It was one thing to walk among humans. It was quite another to pretend to be one.
My Notes: Interesting take on 4X17 and has a nice twist to it.

5) Fire of Heaven
Author: trinityofone
Rating: R
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Spoilers: Through 5x03
Summary: Five years after her run in with Azazel, Mary Winchester makes another deal.
My Notes: I've been intrigued by the theory that this fic runs with since early S5 (don't want to spoil anything). She gives it an awesome backstory and meaning in this fic.

And I'm gonna cheat and include an honorable mention:
Touched (Pushing Daisies/Supernatural Fusion)
Author: seahorse_4215
Characters/Pairings: Castiel (Ned), Dean (Chuck), Sam (Olive), Bobby (Emerson), Anna (Digby), John (Charles), Mary (Aunt Vivian) Ellen (Aunt Lily), Zachariah, Dean/Castiel
Warnings: Angst, character death (well it is Pushing Daisies)
Summary: A lonely pie maker, Castiel, with the ability to raise the dead resurrects his childhood sweetheart
My Notes: Awesome fusion of Supernatural characters into the Pushing Daisies universe. The author does an amazing job of melding the details of both verses into one.

IT'S SUPERNATURAL THURSDAY!!!
(Although not rly looking forward 2 moar Crazy!Becky)

1) The Waste Land
Author: savingfaith333
Pairing: Past!Dean / Future!Cas plus mentions of Past!Dean / Past!Cas and Future!Dean / Future!Cas
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Blanket spoilers for all aired episodes of SPN & character death-ish sort of maybe possibly but not really (trust me, this will make sense). Boatloads of angst but a happy ending this time, I swear on a stack of Cas’ Bibles!
Summary: Dean gets sent back to the future where he learns that there might be some things worth saving there after all.
My notes: This is one of the best fics I have read in forever. It’s darkly beautiful, angsty, and powerful. You feel what Dean is feeling throughout the whole thing.


2) Welcome To Oz
Author: bauble
Rating: NC-17
Genre and/or Pairing: slash, Dean/Castiel
Spoilers: All of season 4.
Summary: Dean wakes up in the cheerfully painted yellow kitchen of a middle class home in Suburbia, USA. There are two things that tip him off to the fact that he’s in a state that ain’t Kansas or reality: one, the fact that he can’t remember how he got to this kitchen or what happened immediately preceding his arrival (such as falling asleep or being hit in the face with a squirt of hallucinogenic demon juice); two, the way everything seems too bright and perfect to be real—from the picture window above the sink to the sliding glass doors that .
My notes: Dean and Cas are transported to an alternate universe and don’t know how they got there or what is going on. It’s a fascinating idea and draws you right in to the surreal, dreamlike quality of it all at the start. It just builds and builds on itself and it’s interesting how Dean and Cas both try to adapt.


3) Beneath The Sheets of Paper
Author: misslucyjane
Pairing: Castiel/Dean Winchester
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: Set sometime after 5.04, “The End.”
Summary: Castiel never asks for anything for himself. Dean finds this frustrating.
My notes: Cas is so adorably Cas in this. Even the Sam/Cas interactions are super cute. The detail and mood of this is just awesome and it leaves you with warm fuzzies.


4) Gained In Translation
Author: aesc
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating: NC-17
Spoilers: For all of S4, set in some point during S5 but no specific spoilers
Summary: Possibly, Dean thinks when he flips off the radio and the kitchen falls into a buzzing, anxious silence, he is going nuts. Only maybe he's got some serious denial going on, that he's pushed the end of the world back underneath work, fixing the Impala, fixing other cars for Bobby's few customers.
My notes: The use of language in this is beautiful and hot and gorgeous. There is this sense of tranquility and love and emotion throughout it.


5) In The Silence Afterward
Author: ibroketuesday
Rating: NC-17
Genre and/or Pairing: Dean/Castiel, with Anna, Lucifer, Zachariah and Sam along for the ride
Spoilers: Up until the end of 4x22. There are no spoilers for S5.
Warnings: Violence, brief torture, angst and darkness up the wazoo, character death.
Summary: After Lucifer rises, Dean goes mute.
My notes: Don’t let the fact that Special Snowflake is in this dissuade you, this fic is extremely poignant, moving and powerful and has such beautiful imagery.