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Sam will - and does - go to any lengths to save Dean. Very cool story.

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Michael, Fi and Sam banter over the morning news, in which they figure prominently after foiling a bank heist. Highly enjoyable, sounds just like the show.

After a plague decimates the US, Michael finds himself basically running post-apocalyptic Miami. Very cool story. Could use a good beta - there are some inexplicable typos and tense issues, but not enough to stop me from reading and enjoying.

AU where Sam and Dean are conmen (well, for a living, not to pay for hunting) and Sam has a really frustrating crush on Dean and then Bela enters the picture and hilarity ensues. (Wincest)

"You got quite the rumble in the engine there, big guy. Oh yeah, that feels good, doesn't it." Sam could feel the tips of his ears start to heat up. His brother was on his lap being felt up by a state trooper. Okay, his brother was currently a cat but somehow that didn't help. Dean gets turned into a cat. Hilarity ensues. Well, hilarity for us. After the first few minutes, Sam's not really laughing.

Luke and Lorelai attempt to go on a date. It goes about as well as can be expected. Adorable and sounds just like them. "I think," Lorelai panted as Luke's hand snaked under the hem of her spaghetti-stained top, "maybe we should just skip the dating and go straight to the kissing next time."

He loves her more than the ice, and he sniffs her, just to prove it. Awesome Kate/Doug fic. What more do I need to say?

Sweet ficlet in which Zack tries to connect and Angela helps. Lovely.

Adorable snip of a Leverage/SPN crossover - Bela and Parker are after the same artifact. It goes about as well as you'd expect.

I really enjoyed this look at Sam from the POV of Mr. Wyatt, the teacher in Afterschool Special. Feels really true to both of them.

"Well how was I supposed to know, Sammy? It was pie! A hot chick giving away free pie!" // "Free evil pie." // "Pie, Sammy," protests Dean, plaintively. "Pie!" he sounds like he's been betrayed by his one true love. Utterly adorable.

At first glance, the myth of Hyacinthus, with its tale of love, obsession and murder, reflects on the Siren of Sex and Violences capacity to impel a lover to kill that which he most loves. The Death of Hyacinthus True, the Siren is jealous of the kind of devotion that comes with a deep and…

Fantastic crossover with the Graveyard Book, gets Silas's voice just right.

Supernatural renders class difference and working-class alienation in gothic terms. "Overcompensating" through masculine performance for a childhood trauma tied to downward class mobility, a gun-toting hero who is chastised by powerful male figures for his pathologically low self-esteem, Dean Winchester functions as the site at which popular depictions of class and masculinity unravel

Dean knits. *heart*

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Parker goes to Eliot for help in wooing Hardison. Absurdly adorable and practically perfect in every way. ♥ ♥ ♥

Adorable missing scene from Phantom Traveler. Dean's ordeal with air travel is not quite over yet.

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Lovely, melancholy Dean/Bela coda to Red Sky at Morning.

She’s not sure what she’s doing here with them, now, because there’s no real reason to be. There isn’t anything on her radar for now, and they don’t have a job that needs her kind of help. If she’s honest with herself, she’s here to be near them, mostly Sam, but she’s never been good with honesty, anyway. Ruby, and her place, or lack of one, with Sam and Dean. Sharp and heartbreaking. (Sam/Ruby, Dean/Ruby, Sam/Dean)

Short, lovely meditation on how Sam and Dean deal with having a sexual relationship. (Wincest. obviously.)

Bite me, Cthulhu. Sam and Dean hunt a sea monster, but what makes this story is the lovely Lovecraftian narration. (Wincest, which feels completely unnecessary, but it's g-rated so...)

After the end of everything, Sam takes Dean to Europe. Lovely.

Sam gets turned into a fluffy duckie. Dean deals. Adorable.