dean/cas tropefest

A 15k fic & art challenge featuring all of your favorite tropes. We're on hiatus, but please check out the works from our past rounds! 2018/19 15k Tropefest 2017/18 Mid-Winter 5k 2017 15k Tropefest 2016/17 Mid-Winter 5k 2016 15k Tropefest For complete information, please visit our wiki. ♥ muse & jojo

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It's that time of year

The 5k is now open for sign-ups!

🍍 write any AU in no more than 5,000 words 🍍 it's an AU if you say it is! 🍍 all fandoms, all ships + ofic welcome 🍍 post any time in August 🍍 open to writers 14 & up. discord not required

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This two-tier bang is designed to encourage long-form works of fiction, with options for novelettes and novellas—or longer! Authors will be paired with artists who will illustrate their stories, and teams will post together in July.

Author & Artist sign-ups will formally open in January, but the author brainstorming channel is already available!

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It's back, my favorite event of the year: write an AU for any fandom using no more than 5,000 words!

Open to anyone 14 & up

It's an AU if you say it is!

Open to all fandoms & ships. Original fiction also welcome

No minimum word count or content restrictions

We'll accept works written in any language

Post any time in August!

The @ficwip5k officially opens on June 1st, but tumblr gets to sign up early! The sign up form linked from the documentation is still locked until June 1st, so make sure you use the one below.

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Did you know that the Tropefest's Mid-Winter 5k is still around in an all-fandoms format? It's running again soon if you'd like to join!

[i-had-bucky]

A snippet teaser for @deancastropefest

Dean doesn’t have to wander far before he’s stopped short, breath catching somewhere in his chest as he catches sight of a familiar tan coat, messy wind-blown hair, the moon lighting up Cas’s face, making him look every bit as ethereal as the angel who walked into a barn all those years ago, sparks flying around him. He’s a little more touchable now, though, and Dean’s fingertips itch with the need to reach out; it’s always been hard to resist touching Cas, to push and pull and hold onto him, but it’s even harder to resist now that he’s allowed.

[amonstershow]

Posting for the @deancastropefest midwinter 5k starts tomorrow! And I am *so freakin’ excited* to share my contribution with everyone (and, obvi, to read all of the brilliant fics the other brilliant authors will be posting). 

My story is called Slow Drip and it’s a coffee shop AU that isn’t really an AU at all. Here’s a little snippet to wet your whistles…

It was smooth and rich and slid down his throat without him having to choke it down or grimace. He’d never known anything outside of diner-thick sludge, considering the drink to be nothing more than a source of fuel. John had started feeding it to him when he was eleven, telling him to drink up so he could stay awake with him on some hunt and he’d never bothered with sugar or cream so Dean hadn’t either. It was gasoline. 

This. This wasn’t that.

Or if it was, it was fucking premium. 

[lovetheirloves]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Supernatural Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel Additional Tags: Character Death In Dream, Fix-It, Character Death Fix, Love Confessions, Dreams and Nightmares, dreams vs reality, Best Friends to Lovers, Episode: s15e18 Despair - Castiel’s Confession Scene, Episode AU: s15e18 Despair, First Kiss, tropefest2021, Everything is Beautiful and Nothing Hurts Summary: Dean has another chance to tell Cas “I love you” back. Can he let himself take it?

Written for the @deancastropefest

[natmoose]

Mid-Winter 5k Tropefest

Cas keeps eyeing the sandpit and it drives Dean insane.

Firstly, because it’s just plain weird. Secondly, because there is an odd sort of longing in Cas’s eyes when he looks at it that shouldn’t be in any adult bodied face when looking at a sandbox that is specifically designed for children. 

But then again it’s Cas, he might be entitled.

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A little sneak preview of my canonverse wing!fic I will be posting tomorrow on my Ao3 titled ‘Cas in the Box’. I’m looking forward to posting it for the midwinter5k tropefest!

@deancastropefest

[amonstershow]

My fic for the @deancastropefest midwinter 5k has been p-p-p-posted. If you’d like to read about a canon-compliant bi-disaster drinking coffee and pining over his BFF, you can do so here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28705260 Title: Slow Drip Synopsis: Dean stays behind in Tacoma to keep an eye on Cas—who seems to have found his niche at the local coffee shop where he’d gone undercover during their case. Dean’s strictly a diner coffee guy, but as he impatiently sits through Cas’ last few shifts, he starts to realize how much better life can be when you try something a little different. Tags/warnings: Angst with a happy ending, Coffee Shop AU (that isn’t really an AU), first time, first kiss Rating: Explicit Word count: 5016 (but under 5K on Google Docs I assure you)

[friendofcarlotta]

(You Make Me Feel) Like I Am Whole Again

It’s here! My entry for the @deancastropefest​ 2021 Mid-Winter 5k!

Summary:

Dean’s relationship with his soulmate was a complete failure. Going to group therapy was supposed to help him move on, but Dean hates every minute of it - until a blue-eyed, gravel-voiced newcomer joins the sessions. As Dean learns more about Cas and his own soulmate troubles, he realizes it just might be worth giving love another chance. (Rated E)

Read it on AO3.

Preview:

“The first thing you have to understand,“ Dr. Mia Vallens says, "is that there’s nothing wrong with you.”

Dean’s heard it all before, so he counts the dust motes floating in front of him to keep from letting his irritation show.

Dr. Vallens takes her time studying the roughly ten people gathered around her in a circle of hideously orange plastic chairs. When she gets to Dean, he shifts impatiently in his seat until she moves on.

“Just because you couldn’t make it work with your soulmate,” Dr. Vallens continues, “doesn’t mean that you’re broken.”

Dean doesn’t mean to scoff, but it comes out anyway. Ever since he and Nick broke up, he’s gotten about a hundred less-than-sincere versions of “there’s no guarantee, even with soulmates” or “at least you had some good years together, right?”

Of course, Dr. Vallens hears him, because she’s got some kind of fucked-up super hearing. “Anything you want to share with us, Dean?” She gives him that look: the one where she dips her chin and narrows her eyes, as if to say, Do as I tell you or face awful consequences.

She missed her calling, Dean thinks grumpily. Should’ve been a middle school teacher, instead of a therapist who specializes in counseling people with failed soulmate relationships.

“It’s just,” Dean says, licking his lips as he revs up for his pet speech. “People say there’s nothing wrong with fucking it up with your soulmate, you know? But they don’t mean it. They get to go home to their perfect marriage or relationship or whatever, and pity that poor, miserable bastard who couldn’t even make it work with the one person the universe specifically picked for him.”

Dean doesn’t have to look at the rest of the group to feel the force of the collective eye roll. He’s come to expect that reaction, because it’s not the first time he’s gotten on his soapbox during one of these sessions. Not by a long shot.

What he doesn’t expect is a gravel-deep, heartfelt, “Exactly.”

His head whips around, eyes snagging on the guy who showed up to the support group for the first time today. He’s not a chore to look at — nice, sharp jawline, messy dark hair, and the most striking blue eyes. Something about the way his suit is just a little big on him and his tie is just a little loose at his neck is working really well for Dean, too.

Dr. Vallens turns to address the newcomer. “Castiel. You agree with Dean’s assessment?”

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Summary: Cas wanders the perimeter of his childhood bedroom, running his fingers over the spines of his favorite books, smoothing down the flipped corner of a long ago hung poster. Pulling up the blind, he looks out over the snow-covered yard illuminated by the street light. He remembers seeing Dean there, standing in jeans and a t-shirt on a hot summer night, rocking on the balls of his feet after tossing pebbles at Cas’s window. Waiting for Cas to tiptoe his way down the stairs, holding his shoes and his breath as he slipped out the back door.

Written for the @deancastropefest midwinter 5k

Read it on ao3

[rathskitten]

Title: The Resident Guinea Pig Expert

Author: raths_kitten

Pairing: Dean/Castiel

Rating: GA

Word Count: 1.900

Written for @deancastropefest Mid-Winter 5K

Summary: Just a meet-cute in the pet store. Castiel is inquiring about guniea pigs

Read it on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/28720017

[one-more-offbeat-anthem]

My fic for the @deancastropefest midwinter 5k is up now, and you can read it here!

Title: My Love is Carried to You By My Feet Synopsis: Dean and his roommate and best friend, Cas, are snowed in together for the time being, which wouldn’t be so bad if Dean hadn’t been hopelessly in love with Cas for years. And then Dean gets a cold. Tags/Warnings: friends to lovers, snowed in, sickfic, and they were roommates, author!Castiel, nursing student!Dean, so much fluff Rating: Teen and Up Word Count: 3337

tag list under the cut! lemme know if you want to be added!

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[tragidean]

oíche chiúin [4.1k] (ao3) Rating: T written for the Dean/Cas Tropefest Mid-Winter 5K!

Over the years, Dean has spent Christmas alone more often than he’s wanted.

It’s sometimes not of his own free will, but more often or not, something comes up and Sam leaves, or a hunt splits them up, or someone ends up in the hospital. Fearing for his life, drugged up on morphine, unconscious for more than twenty-four hours—he’s run the gamut. There are an entire myriad of reasons, but in the end, Dean seems to always end up alone.

It never does make it easier, though, especially this year. This year, he sits alongside someone else’s hospital bed, hands fisted in prayer. A crucifix dangles from his grip, shaking with the force. Whispered words don’t work anymore, but it helps him feel better. Softly, Dean hears the hum of Christmas carols being sung on low through the speaker system; outside, snow falls, dusting the rooftops throughout Kansas City.

Castiel is supposed to be discharged in the morning. Just a broken foot, but something that his Grace can no longer heal. At the most, Dean gives him another month or two before the rest of it fades away, leaving nothing else in his body other than the things humans have. Bones, veins, blood. A soul. A beating heart. Castiel will have a nice scar, after the doctors pinned his bones back in place. Angel’s first battle scar. One day, this story will be hilarious.

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Posting has started for Tropefest 2021!

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Signups for the 2021 DCTF Mid-winter 5k are now open for authors and artists!

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Reasons to do the 5k: 

 Our max is 5k. You can whip that out in a weekend. 

 No penalties! None. Post only if you finish and want to share. 

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