The ultimate Djinn Dream list
@olliaaron, I think you made a huge mistake by asking this :’D So, you wanted a few djinn fics where they live a domestic life and so on? Well, what you get is the ultimate Djinn Dream list featured by a few other creatures causing similar circumstances. This, my friends, this is hands down the longest rec I have ever made, and I sincerely hope I left nothing important out by accident.
Quite many of you have asked how do I find these, and my answer is always the same: I just read a lot. I scroll through different tags and start to read, and sometimes it just turns out to be a Djinn dream or some other spellwork like that, and then I’m just miserable (and happy at the same time because I love these fics). If you have some I didn’t include into the list, please do share in the comments!
SPOILER ALERT! Reading this rec will definitely ruin the storyline for you.
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: This is actually one of the fics I have found by an accident. No tags and no nothing that could tell this isn’t just an AU story but a Djinn fic, but I’m so glad I found it since it’s one of my favourite Djinn stories ever! It’s funny and I love the basic idea, and it feels so much longer than just 8k. It’s maybe not as domestic as you would have wanted, but oh well, it has Grease which is one of my favourite musicals, so I took a liberty to add it in… :’D
Summary: Some romances, Dean finds during his senior year at Rydell High, are ostentatious, filled with public arguments and lots of singing, while others are hidden things kept tucked away.
Title: ‘Stonehenge’: Post-Apocalypse
Author: strangenessandcharm
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: Breaks my heart every time I read this fic and Dean says to Cas ‘I don’t swing that way’. This fic seriously doesn’t feel like less than 5k, it’s so well-written. The characters, especially Dean, are very IC and it’s just amazing.
Summary: Do happily-ever-afters work on angels? Castiel gets to find out, but it’s bittersweet…
Title: The Apple Pie Dream
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: For some reason, I’m not a big Claire fan, and I quite often find Claire of the fics even more annoying. However, in this fic Claire was well-written and she didn’t bother me this much. Still, not my favourite Djinn fic, but hey, all the elements are there!
Summary: Dean Winchester is the absolute last person Claire wants to call. The man is a monster, no matter what the guy playing her make-believe dad says.
But the thing is, said make-believe dad is missing. And she’s kind of worried about him.
And she doesn’t know who else to call.
Title: How Did I Get Here?
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: Yet again one of the shorter fics that don’t feel short because everything is there: the sadness, the storyline, the character building… I wanted to add this one, even if it’s not a Djinn causing the trouble. All the elements are still there, so I personally feel that this fits in, except if you just have some weird kink for Djinns in general :’D
Summary: Dean wakes up in his bed feeling very, very odd. Though his boyfriend and son are where he left them, he can’t quite shake the feeling that something isn’t right. Worst of all, he can’t quite wrap his head around the fact that this is his life.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: I’m a terrible person who took a star away because Dean was bisexual :’D Don’t get me wrong, I am one too, but the fic somehow changed after that and it wasn’t as good anymore. Besides, I like the straight Dean who only goes gay for Cas, because helloooo gay panic.
Summary: Sam and Dean go on a search for their friend after they realize he’s been missing for two months. When they find Cas in a deep sleep due to a djinn’s poison, Sam slips into his subconscious to help get him out.
Unfortunately saving him comes with a few ramifications that nobody knows how to handle.
Title: The Story of You and Me
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: You all probably know by now that The Path of Fireflies is my favourite fic ever, and let me tell you, this fic isn’t much behind. It’s similar in some ways, but definitely not a copy, and it touched my heart. I love the idea of the journal, and I just love everything in this one. One of my go-to fics.
Summary: Dean wakes up in a bed next to very human Castiel, and a journal in his own handwriting that tells him it’s two years in the future. The house looks like Bobby’s, and Sam lives there too… He just can’t remember how they got from the angels falling from the sky to comfortable domesticity. While there is much in the journal Dean doesn’t remember, there is much of their story he’s always known. And she settles into the routine of his new life and relationship with Castiel, it quickly becomes something he doesn’t know how to live without.
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Admin J’s notes: I actually managed to add a fic into this rec that I really didn’t find all the good. Let me tell you, I’m surprised because I was somewhat sure that I love all the Djinn fics I have in my folders. Maybe the thing was that the fic kind of ended before it even started :’D
Summary: Dean is taken by a Djinn and Castiel finds him.
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: The first time I was reading this, I was a bit sceptical. I knew from the beginning that it was a Djinn dream, so I was thinking that maybe I don’t get attached to the characters and it will end up a bit flat. Oh boy, how wrong I was there. The truth is that I cried like a baby. This goes into the same category than The Path of Fireflies and The Story of You and Me, meaning it’s amazing.
Summary: Dean’s life is beautiful. He wants for nothing, has the pleasure of his family and friends, and is desperately, irrevocably in love with his husband. Everything is perfect, just as it should be. Then he wakes up.
Title: For One Single Yesterday
Author: wannaliveindeansdimples
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: I’m always adding comments to my own little excel file of fics I’ve read, and sometimes they’re very confusing. The only note for this one is: ‘I fucking loved the last sentence’. I think you need to read the fic to find out what was so special in that sentence :’D
Summary: Don’t imagine Cas being kidnapped by a Djinn.
Don’t imagine Sam being the one who goes inside his head to save him and finding that Cas’s dream world is living a normal life with Dean.
Don’t imagine them all hanging out and when Dean finally leaves them alone for five minutes Sam trying to explain to Cas that this isn’t real and Cas saying “I know.”
Don’t imagine Cas clinging to the Djinn Dean, begging Sam not to take him back.
Don’t imagine Cas waking up and Dean yelling at him for letting the Djinn get the drop on him.
Don’t imagine neither if them telling Dean what happened.
Don’t imagine the sadness Sam would see on Cas’s face everyday from then on and the pain when Dean goes home with random women.
Title: The Apple Pie Life
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: Sometimes a fic has all the potential: no big grammar errors, good idea, nicely written text, Djinn dream, a daddy Cas… and yet, it’s not my favourite. I don’t know what was off with this one, but for some reason it just didn’t make it into my favourites.
Summary: A car accident took Dean’s memories. He can’t remember closing hell, or saving the world… again. He doesn’t remember his two children or marrying Cas. But he wakes up to a life he’s always wanted, a life he never thought he would have. He’s being handed a chance to have the normal life he should have had. But when has luck ever been on his side?
Title: The Day the World Went Away
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: Alright, yet again one of my favourites. I’m not ashamed to admit that I have a type when it comes to fics :’D This doesn’t have a Djinn, per se, but something else is fucking up the reality, so I decided that it fits.
Summary: After being reunited with Sam and leaving Lisa, Dean is finding that adjusting back into the hunting lifestyle is harder than he thought it would be. When a particular hunt goes badly, he gets knocked out, only to awaken five years in the future. Things are definitely different; Castiel is a hunter, Sam is married and things between Dean and Cas had gone somewhere Dean really hadn’t expected. And somewhere in all of this, there is a lesson to be learned.
Title: Dream a Little Dream
Author: destieldrabblesdaily
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: No major sadness here as the fic is from Dean’s POV and Cas is the one captured, but some awkwardness as Dean ends up in Cas’ domestic yet sexy dreams. I heard that ‘domestic yet sexy’ in Dean’s voice as he was explaining Sam the Dr Sexy M.D characters.
Summary: Written for the prompt: Castiel goes after a Djinn but gets captured, and of course his dream world is all about Dean and him being happy together, so he’s very disappointed when Dean and Sam save him and he wakes up…
Title: Gonna Be A Fireman When The Floods Roll Black
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: This is also one of the fics I found by accident., I was probably just out there looking for some firefighter smut but ended up with this :D I like the different approach, even if I’m not quite sure why that was Dean’s happy life.
Summary: Firefighting is Dean’s dream job and he’s damn good at it - still, there’s something about his most recent call he can’t quite shake. Or to be more specific, a certain blue-eyed rescue he can’t keep out of his dreams.
Title: Only if for a night
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: I want to give a huge applause for the author for leaving the ending of the fic like it is. Points for the author for leaving it like that. I was just staring at the screen, thinking if they really did it. Good job!
Summary: Castiel is captured by a djinn. Dean goes slightly crazy, and Cas discovers a thing or two about himself.
Title: Catch the Wind, See Us Spin
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: This one of the most recced and most talked Destiel fic in this genre, but I personally prefer many other fics over it. It doesn’t mean, though, that I wouldn’t love it. It’s sad and I every time feel so bad for Dean, but there are fics that I find better (like, The Path of Fireflies, for example).
Summary: Dean is given an out, but reality is a strange, fickle bitch.
Title: The Path of Fireflies
Admin’s assessment: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Admin J’s notes: Ah, and here we go. I’ve got a question. Could someone get me a signed copy of this fic from museaway? What happens if I just tag @museaway? I promise to place the signed copy right next to my Enochian Dictionary that Misha signed. Let’s just face the facts, I have recced this fic for probably hundreds of times within the last years and I’m not even ashamed of that :’D This is the best fanfic I have ever read, and I started to read back in 2002. If you have somehow managed not to read this yet, go and do it now (even if it’s not a Djinn fic, but I think you get the idea why it’s in the list)
Summary: After his humanity is restored, Dean wakes up bed with Castiel, a wedding ring, and no memory of the past twelve years.
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