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It’s not something they talk about, ever. It exists outside the rest of their lives, a little like fake identities and fleeting platinum credit, not quite real but…useful. Necessary sometimes. Just another secret to keep. Intense, sad, evocati

Really cool little BSG/TWW crossover. Jed's voice, in particular, is spot-on.

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A heartbreaking look at how Sam tried to live Dean Forrester's life. The ending is a real kick in the gut.

you love your brother more than the perfect corner shot, the weight of a gun in your hands, the salt-sting that reminds you that you are alive. Tight, lyrical, gorgeous snapshot of Dean. (Wincest)

And I'm willing to raise that to a general principle. It's better to do something than to do nothing. Even lolcats, even cute pictures of kittens made even cuter with the addition of cute captions, hold out an invitation to participation.

The story of how Booth and Brennan finally get it together. Perfectly, wonderfully them.

Adorable Sam Winchester/Jess Mariano story (yes, you read that right), where they work in a record shop together the summer after Sam's freshman year at Stanford.

Lovely look at Chloe as she uncovers the truth about Sam and the supernatural, and introduces him to aliens in the process.

Television has previously given us a single family, a school, friends, sisters and brothers, the bar, the corner, law firms, a lane, a ZIP code, even rich men, poor men. But never has television provided such an all-encompassing and realistic portrait of

Lovely, wistful John/Mary/(Impala). All he sees from under the car is a shapely pair of legs. Curves in all the right places, just like this Chevy.

It's the religion of the road - drive hard enough and far enough and everything comes full circle and you'll find your faith right back where you lost it again. Dean used to know that, and because he did, so did she. The Impala gets her own ending.

"Did you just put me on the couch for being crap at a gay incestuous relationship we're not even having?" // "Oh, I think we're having it. Thanks to you being an ass, we're just not enjoying it." This is hilarious and adorable.

Scars and a lovely, fraught first kiss. "It's gonna scar," he says. // Sam says, "Yeah," like Dean's just said the sky is blue, or he really likes his car. (wincest)

Fantastic remix from Death's POV, really captures all the Endless, and I especially love the relationship Death and Dean develop, and the confrontation between Death and Desire. Really excellent work. *hearts*

It's him and Sam, taking a shot at the impossible, making hope where there's none to be had, and maybe that's kind of a miracle on its own. Sam saves Dean. lovely. (wincest) (rec w/original)

...and they have a plan

Henriksen tries to put together the pieces and keeps coming up with nothing that makes sense. (rec original, as well)

and the original (http://www.newredfic.oscillating.net/fic/?p=29), Dean + zombie coyotes = good times

The original is one of my favorite crossovers, and this remix is a lovely look at the story from Oz's pov.

"Some things," he says, and looks Dean in the eye and looks so lost that Dean doesn't know how to answer, "are bigger than we are." / But Dean already knew that. Lovely. (original previously recced)

Absolutely hilarious and spot on Percy voice. Percy vets the twins' catalogue. (rec with original)

Dean could talk his way across the whole country with stuff like that. The drive back to South Dakota alone is like their own personal Weird America, invisible ink, why they always do this or never go there; in-jokes and over-told anecdotes

There's a building ahead of you, its windows smashed and its roof burning, and you know that it's a library, and that there's nothing you can do to save it. An older story (I thought I'd recced it already), powerful and heartbreaking.

Dean's dead. Again. Dean is always dying. And that's when he realizes it's always been Tuesday. It's always going to be Tuesday. Enjoyable casefile that ties into Sam saving Dean from hell.

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the act of hosting social software, the relationship of someone who hosts it is more like a relationship of landlords to tenants than owners to boxes in a warehouse.

"Chuck, I don't know if I can keep myself from touching you." Lovely, atmospheric, bittersweet.

Quiet, understated look at Sam and Dean before Stanford, through the various typewriters (seriously) they own over the years. Possibly my own nostalgia for my dad's manual Underwood makes this story resonate for me.