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Wonderful, hot Max/Alec. "Dollars to donuts it was the best sex you’ve ever had. You’re afraid of how strongly you felt? You didn’t expect it to be like that, and now you don’t know how to act. Because you want more."

In Google’s world, there’s little place for the fuzziness of contemplation. Ambiguity is not an opening for insight but a bug to be fixed. The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive.

Bobby and Sam in the aftermath of No Rest for the Wicked. "I have no intention of dying for Dean. I'm planning on making him live for me." // "Send the sentiment to Hallmark, son."

Really interesting AU set in the middle ages, where Sam is a monk and Dean is a mercenary, and the YED is still after Sam. The dialogue straddles the line between too modern and just different enough to be believably archaic, and the artwork is lovely.

The thing that he doesn't remember is that when he was 26 and she was 19, he picked her up and they did the sorts of things that one does when one is a beautiful, tipsy young woman brought home by playboy wunderkind Tony Stark. I totally believe th

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I really enjoyed this story, the way the past informs the present and the slow way the story unfolds. I wish the bit about Jess being a replacement for Dean wasn't there, but otherwise, I really liked this, esp. Dean's journal entries. (wincest)

Hermione stumbles through an old wardrobe at Hogwarts and ends up in Narnia, where she falls in love with Peter. Beautifully done, wistful and sweet.

She hates herself for this, a little -- not for wanting to get laid, but for thinking Tony would be different with her -- but it doesn’t seem to matter. Fantastic, fucked up Tony/Pepper, sort of. Feels true to their fucked up co-dependency. Hot a

Fantastic Booth/Brennan that gets the voices and the humor just right, and the banter in the car at the end is hilarious. *hearts*

Various times Tony gets stuck in the suit and needs help getting out. Absurdly hilarious, with spot-on voices.

Sam's gotten Dean back from hell, and slowly he puts him back together. I love Sam's strength here, how he cares for Dean, and how Dean is slowly coming back to himself. The casefile is cool, too. And Bobby and Ellen are wonderful.

Sequel to "Ghost in the Machine." Dean + haunted suit + Jarvis = hilarity.

Ficlet in which Tony's suit is haunted. Who's he gonna call? Hee!

Short, sharp look at what happens immediately post-No Rest for the Wicked. Sam has to deal. He's not alone.

Girls, John decides, would definitely have less toilet humour. The Winchesters are stuck in a traffic jam and Sam and Dean won't stop talking and it's driving John a little nuts. Utterly adorable.

Sometimes Dean wishes he could close his eyes and see nothing ever again, but he's glad that whatever it is, it doesn't work when he looks himself in the mirror. Dark, hard and heartbreaking. Dean's back, but he's not the same.

Tony and Pepper in a bookstore. Banter ensues. Adorable. "Tony spends at least half this time reading out the dust-jacket blurbs on the books in stupid voices, and he gathers a pretty large following of children thanks to this performance."

We kind of go the other way. Oh, that'll piss them off? Well let's really piss them off. This'll really piss them off, that'll drive them insane. [...] all he talks about is how much he hates Starbuck. Oh, yeah? OK. Let's do a Starbuck episode.

"Demonic mac and cheese, Sam? Seriously?" // "It fell out of the sky, Dean. It smells like sulfur. This is atypical macaroni behavior." *dies laughing*

Heartbreaking and suspenseful story about a hunt that finds the Winchesters, rather than the other way around. Dean is, of course, heartbreaking and awesome all at once.

Mutt doesn't really believe his mom's stories about this guy named Indiana Jones. *hearts*

Every boy's first love should be his mom. Lovely, achy look at Tony and why he is the way he is.

Tony can be perplexing and changeable like seasons and traffic lights. He has a thousand variations, specific personas for specific people and situations, and Pepper can picture him switching between these different Tonys as circumstances warrant.