content generation & celebration festival for cassie robinson and dean winchester, started in 2022. see pinned post for more information, & join the festivities from april 23rd to 29th!
this event is for celebration of and content generation for deancassie. deancassie is a pretty popular ship as far as rarepairs go – posts about them get a decent amount of attention – but fan content that’s about them is actually pretty sparse. let’s fix that together!
interested in joining the event mod team? applications are open! more information through this link. primarily seeking a Black mod of age 18 or older. mods found! thank you to everyone who applied!
no w*sties, adjacents, apologists, or RPFers. content produced by these kinds of fans will not be boosted onto this blog.
this should go without saying, but the content must be deancassie-centric. a lot of deancassie content that exists on ao3 has only background or past deancassie. themes of nostalgia and regret are one thing, but if the focus of the work isn’t on their relationship (e.g., a des/tiel fic with past deancassie, a dean study that mentions cassie), this isn’t the event for it.
there are two themes for every day, as well as color pallets. feel free to pick and choose, mix and match, interpret them how you want, or not use them at all! the prompts are more suggestions than rules; the point of this event is to generate content, so anything to that end, really, is welcome.
nsfw content is allowed, but please tag your posts with #nsfw and #minors dni, to keep the tag safe for underage fans, as well as fans who are not comfortable seeing nsfw content for any reason.
THEME/PROMPT SCHEDULE:
day i/april 23: national day of lovers / first meeting
– magenta, pink, & patina green (x)
day ii/april 24: athens era (pre-series) / library/dorm dates
– gray blues & greens (x)
day iii/april 25: national kiss and make up day / hope for the future
– green & gold (x)
day iv/april 26: au day / post-route 666 reunion
– sepia (x)
day v/april 27: slice of life / sharing food
– teal & yellow (x)
day vi/april 28: t4t/bi4bi pride / tattoos
– purple, pink, blue, & yellow-green (x)
day vii/april 29: free spot!
– opal (x)
tag your event posts with #deancassieweek22 so everyone can see it! you may also feel free to @ this blog directly :)
thank you to everyone who participated in deancassieweek 2022! it was great seeing everyone's creations and having everyone come together to celebrate cassie robinson and dean winchester's love. we couldn't have made this happen without your contributions. thank you to those who reblogged content too and kept the deancassie spirit going! <3
also extra special thanks to @cassiesboy for putting this whole event together and @zorelle @westernwoodblogs for helping out so much! please show them some love!
without further ado, masterlist of everyone’s creations is below the read more. :)
national day of lovers w/ magenta, pink, & patina green art by @fruitmixtape
in love amv by @castinkywinky
national day of lovers art by @bobbypala
i would take it back if i could graphic by @jimmynovac
first meeting gifset by @xofemeraldstars
archival quality first meeting fic by @tendencyblue
i keep on fallin' in and out of love with you amv by @lllorona
national day of lovers icons by @casitito
magenta, pink, & patina green icons by @spniconhub
athens era (pre-series)/dorm dates w/ gray blues & greens art by @fruitmixtape
athens era art by @cassiesboy
what the hell i'm supposed to do library dates fic by @tendencyblue
gray blues & greens icons by @spniconhub
hope for the future amv by @soysaucecas
national kiss and make up day art by @dualityofcastiel
kabhi toh nazar milao amv by @fangurl
humnava amv by @bobbypala
always by blink 182 amv by @im-the-cause-of-my-own-headache
hope for the future w/ green and gold comic by @fruitmixtape
green and gold and hope for the future art by @cassiesboy
national kiss and make up day + green & gold gifset by @xofemeraldstars
kiss me more amv by @castinkywinky
our beauties are not ours hope for the future fic by @tendencyblue
national kiss and make up day - green & gold by @youre-only-gay-once
green & gold by @spniconhub
au day & post-route 666 reunion w/ sepia art by @fruitmixtape
happy ending au fic by @emmamarywinchester
the freshman experience fic by @tendencyblue
sepia gifset by @youre-only-gay-once
sepia icons by @spniconhub
easy as pie fic by @tendencyblue
slice of life art by @gallifreyanwriter
teal & yellow icons by @spniconhub
t4t/bi4bi pride icons by @transnaturals
bi4bi tattoos art by @emzwolf
bi4bi pink, purple, and blue gifset by @greatcometcas
trans/bi4bi pride w/ purple, pink, blue, & yellow-green art by @fruitmixtape
t4t/bi4bi pride, & purple, pink, blue icons by @spniconhub
more t4t/bi4bi pride, & purple, pink, blue icons by @spniconhub
more t4t/bi4bi pride, & purple, pink, blue icons by @spniconhub
more t4t/bi4bi pride, & purple, pink, blue icons by @spniconhub
more permanent than the things that came before tattoo fic by @tendencyblue
free spot amv by @eileenguy
free spot amv by @castinkywinky
keep me warm, love me long, be my sunlight amv by @billiewena
“the guy i’m with, the guy i’m hoping might be in my future, tells me he professionally pops ghosts.” - cassie
for @deancassieweek day vi: t4t/bi4bi pride & purple, pink, blue
[Image ID: 8 different icons of DeanCassie. Each background alternates between a purple background and a pink/blue paint splatter background. The first pair of icons are close-ups of Cassie. The second pair of icons are close-ups of Dean. The third pair is of Dean and Cassie with their foreheads touching. The fourth pair is of Cassie looking at Dean. /End ID.]
“no more excuses okay? not from me or you.” - cassie
for @deancassieweek day vi: t4t/bi4bi pride & purple, pink, blue
[Image ID: 8 different icons of DeanCassie. Each background alternates between a purple/blue paint splatter background and a pink mineral background. The first pair of icons are close-ups of Cassie. The second pair of icons are close-ups of Dean. The third pair is of Dean and Cassie with their foreheads touching. The fourth pair is of Cassie looking at Dean. /End ID.]
for @deancassieweek day vi: t4t/bi4bi pride & purple, pink, blue
[Image ID: 8 different icons of DeanCassie with alternating blurry trans and bi flags as the background. The first pair of icons are close-ups of Cassie. The second pair of icons are close-ups of Dean. The third pair is of Dean and Cassie with their foreheads touching. The fourth pair is of Cassie looking at Dean. /End ID.]
“the first love is the sweetest and also the most bitter. it’s sweet because we will always remember it well, but it is also bitter because when it is over, there won’t be another one like it.”
for @deancassieweek day vii: opal
[Image ID: 9 different icons of DeanCassie with various sunset backgrounds with yellows, pinks, and purples. From top to bottom and left to right, the first icon is of Dean and Cassie almost kissing. The second icon is of Cassie standing behind Dean, holding a mug. The third icon is of Cassie looking at Dean. The fourth icon is of Cassie with her arms folded. The fifth icon is Dean and Cassie kissing. The sixth icon is of Dean. The seventh icon is of Dean and Cassie looking off into the distance, and Dean on his phone. The eighth icon is of Dean and Cassie looking at each other and the ninth icon is of Dean and Cassie’s foreheads touching. /End ID.]
Summary: A year after Cassie last saw Dean Winchester, she gets an unsigned letter in the mail. Normally she wouldn't permanently mark her body on the say-so of a letter with no return address and no way to ask questions...but, well, she trusts Dean and feels sure he has a good reason. (But that doesn't mean she's about to just ignore her curiosity about this symbol, even if Dean does say she'd be safer if she stays out of things.)
2k words | rated T | read on AO3
It's been a year since Dean Winchester drove out of her life, and yet Cassie still recognizes his handwriting instantly when the letter with no return address shows up in the mail. He didn't sign it, either, which is probably for the best because these days, when she googles his name, more and more wanted posters show up. (Even the murder charges don't phase her, though; Dean proved himself trustworthy last year—he came when she called and it turned out he'd never lied to her, not about anything—and she doesn't plan to stop trusting him any time soon.) But she doesn't know what all Dean might be mixed up in these days, so she makes sure to take the mail inside and bolt the front door shut before slitting the envelope open.
Two pieces of paper fall out. One is a short letter, also unsigned but in that handwriting that she would know anywhere, after any amount of time had passed. The other is a drawing, a simple black-and-white design of a five-pointed star inside a circle of flames. It's not a symbol Cassie's ever seen before. She sets it aside and picks up the letter.
Hey Cassie,
I hope you're alright. I promise I'm not trying to push my way back into your life but I wanted to warn you about something. I probably shouldn't give you all the details because you're safely out of it all and I don't want to drag you into a mess you don't deserve, but you should get a tattoo of this symbol. It's a safety thing. I don't think anyone would come after you (Sam's the only person in my life who even knows you exist and he wouldn't risk your safety any more than I would) but if someone did and I left you unprotected I couldn't forgive myself.
There's another short line below that but it's scribbled out. Cassie thinks it might say "I miss you" but maybe she's just deluding herself. After all, she misses him; she hadn't realized it, hadn't even really thought about Dean very much over the last year (mainly because it hurts a lot to think about him, even though it's a different sort of pain than it had been over the previous year, after they'd broken up but before she'd realized he'd been lying). But now as she touches the piece of paper that he'd touched, all that longing comes flooding back.
She crinkles the rough motel notepaper between her fingers. She's never gotten a tattoo before; there's never been anything she felt strongly enough about to be worth permanently modifying her body. She doesn't like pain, either, and as she pushes away those initial thoughts of Dean (and his mouth on hers, his hands on her back, and oh she misses him so) and thinks about what the letter had actually said, her first inclination is that she really doesn't feel like getting a tattoo. She's experiencing equal parts fear and frustration, that she doesn't want to put herself through that pain but also why does her ex-boyfriend who hasn't spoken to her in a year think he has the right to send her an anonymous letter insisting that she mark herself with a symbol that certainly doesn't fit her aesthetic. What right does Dean—Dean who used to have permission to touch her and to hold her and to love her, and she knows that if he came back she'd let him do all those things again in a heartbeat—what right does he have to tell her what to do with her body now that he's left her behind?
But of course she knows it's not about control, that he has good reasons to ask this of her. And now all the memories of their relationship are flooding back, and Cassie can't deny that Dean's presence in her life has had far more permanent effects than just surface marks on skin, no matter what those marks look like. If she'd never met Dean, she might be grieving both her parents now, and who knows how many other people from her community—or she might just be dead, tattoo-less skin cremated into ash with the rest of her after her father's murderer killed her too. So in the greater scheme of things, what do a few lines on her skin really matter? Besides, there's so many good memories from her senior year, of joy and belonging, and doesn't every relationship leave the people in it different than they were before they met? So why not have a physical reminder to go along with it?
Besides, Dean wouldn't have asked this of her if it weren't important.
She waits till the next time she's going shopping up in St. Louis. This tattoo is just for her, and she doesn't want anyone in town knowing about it, whether they'd think differently of her or not. The artist seems bored when she shows him the photo of what she wants (she left the paper Dean sent her locked in her desk at home, just in case); he asks her if she's sure she doesn't want any colors or more details or maybe stick a flower in there, and a multitude of other suggestions until Cassie finally cuts him off with "Just exactly like in the picture, please." He does a good job, though, quick and competent, and it doesn't hurt as much as Cassie worried it might.
She gets to peek at it there in the shop, to make sure he got the lines right (they look close enough as far as Cassie can tell, though she's never had a particularly strong eye for art; her specialty has always been words). Then the artist bandages it up with Tegaderm and some other stuff Cassie's never heard of, and she keeps it covered up for the rest of her shopping trip and for the week that follows, until it's finished with the initial healing. There's no further word from Dean. She wonders if he wonders whether she got the tattoo. She's not sure whether she'd rather if he assumed that of course she would understand that it was important and do what he said; or if maybe he's out there somewhere terribly nervous because he assumes that she threw the letter in the trash (after all, he didn't even say please) and remained unprotected from whatever unknown danger this symbol is supposed to protect her from.
Once a week has passed, she finally takes off the covering and looks at this newest addition to her body. She's locked up everything that Dean sent her in the bottom of a drawer in her desk, and so the little circle of flames on her hip is the only indication that the whole thing wasn't some sort of absurd dream. It itches a bit, though not as bad (yet, she warns herself) as the artist had warned her it might. She runs her fingers along her hip bone, tracing the circle. She can't quite stop herself from imagining that it's Dean's hand there, gently caressing the marks that he had asked (told) her to put on her skin. She wonders if he has one just like it, and where it is. He hadn't had any tattoos when she'd known him, or if he had he'd hid them very very well. She thinks a tattoo would look good on him, dark ink spilling over pale skin on his...well, somewhere, she's not really sure where on his body to picture it. Somewhere hidden, definitely. Would he have put it on his hip, like her? She runs her fingers over her hip bone again, imagining Dean's fingers in place of her own, not pressing hard enough to hurt, but firmly enough that she couldn't forget he was there.
Does she even really remember what his touch felt like anymore? It's been a whole year. She can imagine that the fingers on her hips are Dean's, but perhaps that's only because she's forgotten what they truly feel like, that she's only deluding herself when she imagines that her hands are anything like his. His hands are strong and sturdy. And probably dirty and bloodstained too, but perfect nonetheless and she wishes they were here on her body right now.
She takes a photo of her hip and texts it to the last number she had for Dean. She hasn't heard anything from him since the day he drove away from Cape Girardeau, and although she waits patiently he doesn't reply to this text either. She hopes he received it at least, that maybe that little glimpse of her skin reminded him of what he's missing. (Who is she fooling? He probably lost that phone or threw it away months ago. She just hopes the number hasn't been reassigned to anyone else, but if so they at least have the politeness to just ignore the suggestive photo instead of dumping cold water on her with a "wrong number" text.)
She wonders what the significance of this symbol is. Now that she'll be carrying it on her body for the rest of her life, she figures she has a right to wonder about something like that. Sure, Dean said he didn't want her to get mixed up in whatever situation the symbol has to do with, but then Dean gave up the right to tell her what to do a long time ago. (She'd done her best to make him think he'd never had that right at all because she was an independent woman and he was her boyfriend of barely more than a month at most—but if she's honest with herself, she'd always trusted him enough to listen when he asked her to do something. And here she is permanently altering a part of herself just because Dean sent her an unsigned note, so she has to admit she still grants him that right more than she might try to tell herself she does.)
She's not entirely certain how best to go about finding out more when all she has is a symbol. There's no text she can just google, and using image search ("circle star flames", "star inside a circle supernatural") to look for anything that might resemble it only turns up a couple of paranoid-sounding blogs full of all-caps ranting. She bookmarks them to take a closer look at later (maybe they'll at least help her generate some better keywords she can use for future googling) but they don't seem particularly informative at first glance.
She doubts Dean would respond if she texted or called him, considering his letter—besides its lack of signature—didn't provide an address or a new phone number or any way of contacting him at all. But on the bright side, that means it's going to be a bit harder for him to talk her out of doing this. She's a journalist: she's supposed to be curious. And supernatural things have already stolen her dad from her, so no matter what Dean says about "I don't want to drag you into a mess" she's already in that mess, has been since the day her dad died and always will be.
Cape Girardeau's library is nothing much to speak of, and besides she already went looking there for information about supernatural things last year and found nothing. The state's best libraries are all up in St. Louis, with a much bigger public library system but a sizable university library as well. She thinks she'll drive up there again sometime soon, next time she has a free weekend. Because why not? Dean tells her she's safely out of it all, but is she really? When her mother still cries herself to sleep almost every night, and when Cassie herself just got a strange symbol permanently etched into her skin to protect herself from some unknown threat. And if she's not really safely away, then isn't the best way to be safe to learn even more about what she's facing?
There's a dangerous world out there. Dean had tried to pull himself away from it once, when he'd dated her, and obviously that hadn't worked. Now Cassie is beginning to think that hiding from that world isn't working for her any more than it worked for him. She wants to know more. She needs to know more.
She traces a finger—no fantasies of Dean this time, just her own small index finger, slim but unyielding—over the marks on her hip. She's going to know, and that's a promise.
“pride is about resistance, and specifically resistance through community solidarity” - joanne zou
for @deancassieweek day vi: t4t/bi4bi pride, & purple, pink, blue
[Image ID: 8 different DeanCassie icons, alternating between the bi and trans flag as the background. The first pair of icons are close-ups of Cassie. The second pair of icons are close-ups of Dean. The third pair of icons of Dean and Cassie’s foreheads touching. The fourth pair of icons is of Cassie looking at Dean. /End ID.]
