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[deancaspinefest]

Stay In My Arms (If You Dare)  |  Explicit  |  66,490

Author: FollowingButterflies/achillestiel

Artist: comfycowboy

Grammy award-winning singer/actor Dean Winchester is on top of the world. His latest role has him tipped for an Oscar nomination and his life is damn good, thank you very much. That all comes crashing down after a series of death threats forces his manager, Bobby Singer, to hire a bodyguard. Bobby knows just the man for the job. Castiel Krushnic, former CIA field agent and the only person Bobby would trust to protect Dean.

Tensions are high and personalities clash from the first meeting, with Dean unwilling to change his lifestyle and Cas just wanting to do the job in peace. A series of events turns the pair into reluctant friends while both try to ignore their growing attraction for each other.

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Pairings: Dean/Cas, (Dean/Lee),(Cas/Balthazar),(Claire Novak/Krissy Chambers)

Warnings: No Warnings Apply

Tags: Enemies to Lovers, Bodyguard AU, Famous Dean

[achillestiel]

IT'S HERE IT'S HERE IT'S FINALLY HERE!!!

This fic has been a total labour of love and something I've wanted to write for literal years so I'm so happy it's finally posted.

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@sobernatural @hauntedpearl @desitel @demonmary @hornystiel @casblackfeathers @chaoticdean @machine-slays-dragonss @bloodydeanwinchesterr @one-more-offbeat-anthem @emeraldcass @magickastiel @pointyearedelvishprinclingg @saintedcastiell @hellfireduchesss @rustymcpeopleskillss @bisexualstiell @passengerseatcass @casdeanell @faithdeansns @raytoroinmybackpackck @jjudaslipss @cas-as-in-assss @blue-eyed-cutiepatootiee @gilmorenaturall @fried-berries @duraffinityy @naughtystiell @butchbennylafitte @buying-panini @buckticknatural @squirrelsarecoolol@cvsnovakk @wormstacheangell @tsoanaturall @starcrosseddeancass @morganofthefairies

[blanketforcas]

gonna be brave and say it. jensen ackles is to eric kripke what darren criss is to ryan murphy

[blanketforcas]

jarold is lea michele btw

[noodles-07]

the symbiotic relationship between tumblr and AO3 should be studied in a lab

[noodles-07]

hey you. tumblr user. do you have an AO3 account

yes

no

Voting ended onMay 25, 2025

[achillestiel]

ALSO the AUDACITY of my previous employers advertising my job just changing the job title so they can justify paying less

[achillestiel]

one of my new coworkers has an spn tattoo.... I can be so normal about this

[captainchilly]

"Yeah, well, I've lost the black eyes, so that's a plus." ↳ 10.09 - THE THINGS WE LEFT BEHIND

[bipdf]

what's a tumblr influencer? what am i influencing? my mental illness? 😭

[werkwerkelizaaa]

[joshpeck]

still being active on tumblr is camp

[fucignwimdy]

this post is gonna blow up even more when op deactivates

[joshpeck]

i'll outlive everything you love

[achillestiel]

I GOT THE FUCKING JOB!!!!! I CAN QUIT MY HORRIBLE HORRIBLE HORRIBLE JOB

[achillestiel]

got a second interview for a job I really fucking want

lets ✨ manifest ✨ this shit

[brehaaorgana]

I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

[brehaaorgana]

If I was a sociologist, I would definitely be doing a study on the methods and language of charity scammers. Especially the use of emojis, and identification by copied messages vs stock phrases.

For example, these four are all the same, with only slight variation in #1:

(I actually have duplicates from some of the "self-identified" anons above.)

But these two anons share the same new stock phrases:

"days are heavy" / "days that feel impossibly heavy."

[brehaaorgana]

Fascinated with the random person who commented on this post saying they've reported me for "genocide denialism."

Not to put too fine a tin foil hat on it, but:

That is the kind of threat someone involved in these kinds of financial scams and the social engineering behind them *would* make! It's a threatening statement to the existence of my blog which usually means heightened fear/anxiety of the target, which makes people more likely to fall for a financial scam. Social shame and embarrassment are also heightened emotions! Bullying works! This would make an excellent social engineering counterpoint (if tugging on heartstrings doesn't work!) and might even be effective on many people!

Sure, you can search the supposed connected usernames those anons claimed and find out specifics that way — but not a single one of those screenshots I showed specifies what they're referring to! The IDENTICAL messages from four "different people" never actually mention what their "family's struggle" even is! There's zero fucking context in the space of those messages. They're all IDENTICAL. I literally cannot be committing denialism about anything specific because those asks don't actually say anything I could be denying. How does this person know that these anons aren't a recently impoverished Nigerian prince?

So now you're asking why don't I just click on the usernames and find out more details? Simple. Because they're fucking fraudsters who sent me the same message like, six times with 4 different usernames attached AS ANONS. Why as anons if they have their own blogs and could send the messages that way? SIMPLE AGAIN: because if they're not logged into the blog accounts, you could have whole teams of people copying and pasting these anon asks to various Tumblr users constantly, and you can probably just bypass the ask limits by changing VPNs or going incognito or something. This is a DEDICATED scam. Is it a bot? MAYBE! But that also would explain some of why it doesn't work *while logged in* to the blog accounts — because being anon probably makes it easier to focus on volume.

Anyways a fool and their money are soon parted.

[penrosesun]

While we're on the subject of the incredible gullibility some people display on these scams, I'd just like to remind everyone that most online scams these days are being run out of massive scam farms, which often employ human trafficking.

Falling for these isn't just an 'oopsy doopsy, you're out some money' sort of a thing. If you send money to obvious scammers and if you platform obvious scammers, you are very likely directly financially supporting modern day slavery. That's not an exaggeration, and I'm not being alarmist. Please read any of these articles on the subject if you don't believe me:

Human Trafficking’s Newest Abuse: Forcing Victims Into Cyberscamming

Tens of thousands of people from across Asia have been coerced into defrauding people in America and around the world out of millions of dol

7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp (Published 2023)

A man was abducted by a Chinese gang and forced to work in a scam operation. He gathered financial information, photos and videos and shared

Cambodia scams: Lured and trapped into slavery in South East Asia

Traffickers are forcing thousands of people from across Asia to work in online scam centres.

Trapped in Myanmar’s cyber-scam mills

Myanmar youth recount life inside a cyber-scam mill before a city’s fall brought the scheme crashing down.

This is what you are supporting when you send these people money. It's not a neutral act to give to these scammers; it's a horrible, evil act, because in most cases, it directly supports horrific exploitation. And if you really were fooled? If you gave to one of these scammers and you really had no idea what you were probably supporting? Then I'm sorry, but digging your heels in and insisting that the lies you were fed are the truth helps no one. Take your blinders off and face reality, and start doing better.

[spoonietimelordy]

Again for people who actually want to help people in war zones, there is a lot of genuine grassroots and nonprofit organisations to give money too, not those scams.

And yes there is also real people asking for money on here, those anon spam messages are not that. And if some real people are copying those scammers to get their gofundme seen, please don't, no one will trust you if you look like a scam.

[achillestiel]

yet another job rejection. Id LOVE to know what the universe is trying to tell me because bitch, I'm close to losing it.

[achillestiel]

curing my depression with gig tickets London like it's 2013 ✌🏼

[joanjongot]

look into his angel eyes!

[interested for art commission, dm!]

[achillestiel]

the devil works hard but my sister trying to get Alex Warren tickets works harder

[achillestiel]

when your younger sibling asks you an unhinged question and you're like "bitch, who tf raised you??" and they fire back with "bitch, you did"?!??!??

[xenafay]

Some parapet quick render

3D done in Blender.

Overpaint done in Procreate.