freedom is a length of rope

they/she/32 destiel brainrot has taken over

[fluffsnake]

𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘵. 𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵—𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘪𝘮. 𝘌𝘢𝘴𝘺 𝘢𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵.

*whispers* you know you want to read Ninety One Whiskey ooooo you just know it

oh hey where's this link lead to I wonder 👀

Anywhoo, I saw this art meme on twitter and I just knew I had to do it to with them 😩

here's some process stages since I was terrified it wouldn't turn out right :,) it's not perfect but I am happy with the final result ;w; stop thinking about how Cas could've been scruffier and both could've been sweatier or how some grass in the bg might've looked nice maybe STOPPP

[kisris]

quiet ride

[mitskinaturalbang]

Title: every night, baby, that’s where i go Author: @rupertgayes Artist: @kingdumbass Song: A Pearl Posting date: April 30 Rating: Teen Word Count: 4k Pairing: Castiel/Dean Winchester Any archive warnings: Author Chose not to Use Warnings Top 10 main tags: Goodbye Stranger, Canon Compliant, Canon Divergence, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt no Comfort, Temporary Character Death, Choose your own Adventure Summary: What really broke the connection?

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[putridumangelum]

this little comic is inspired by what Ben Edlund said about Castiel and the bees 🖤

Ben Edlund posting about Destiel and still obsessing over Cas in the year 2024... truly one of us 🥺😭

[rabid-transcendentalist]

[thestarsmakemedream-art]

There'll be happiness after you, but there was happiness because of you. Love, heartbreak and a crying baby. If you would like to witness a beautiful love story you should definitely read You're Home To Me by @queenbryt.

In the beginning Bryt told me so many fantastic ideas for the art, I couldn't resist to take three. (And we had to say goodbye to a fourth concept.) Each of them is close to my heart. My favourite is Cas in the light of the television. It feels like it really captured the atmosphere of the scene with the exhaustion, melancholy and the sudden silence. Plus it has a lot of little details I like. (Also it's a fun fact, my brother and nephew were the models for the pose.) The comic cover has a funny background because in the moment I read the title of it I knew the concept: the famous shot from Der Himmel über Berlin. And luckily Bryt liked the idea too. The third one, the Purgatory scene is just cute, the best part is in my opinion Dean's pink ears ;)

@mitskinaturalbang

[mitskinaturalbang]

Title: you're home to me

Author: @queenbryt

Artist: @thestarsmakemedream-art

Song: Wife

Posting date: April 29th

Rating: Mature

Word Count: 42k

Pairing: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Any archive warnings: Major Character Death

Top 10 main tags: AU, Widowed Castiel, Grief/ Mourning, Flashbacks, Heavy Angst, Parenthood, POV Alternating, vintage 90s vibes, Romantic Tragedy, Baby Jack Kline

Summary:

Late one night, Dean gets in his beloved Chevy Impala and heads to the store for an extra pack of diapers and after a tragic turn of events, he never makes it back home to his family. Castiel's life is completely turned upside down as he struggles to find balance between dealing with his grief and raising their 3 month old baby.

This is a story about a forever kind of love. How it begins and how it continues on, even past death.

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[queenbryt]

the memories come, and come.

[mitskinaturalbang]

Title: a prayer for the departed and destroyed

Author: TakeThisWaltz

Artist: BasketcaseBetty

Song: I’m Your Man

Posting date: April 28th

Rating: T

Pairing: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Any archive warnings: None

Top 10 main tags: Post-Season/Series 12, Dean Winchester’s Season 13 Widower Arc, Hurt No Comfort, Suicidal Thoughts,Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Canonical Character Death, Angst, POV Dean Winchester, Grief/Mourning, Canon Compliant

Summary: Dean, lost and grieving after Cas’ death, stumbles upon a chapel in the bunker. He offers up a prayer to a being he believes in more than he ever believed in God, speaking to the empty air feelings he was unable to give voice to before it was too late.

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Find the artist here: basketcasebetty

Find the author here: watchinghimrakeleaves

[mitskinaturalbang]

a stray's devotion

Title: a stray’s devotion

Author: preetkiran1016

Artist: e-mio

Song: i bet on losing dogs

Posting date: April 27th

Rating: E

Pairing: dean winchester/castiel, dean winchester/lisa

Any archive warnings: none

Top 10 main tags: Voyeurism, betrayal, requited unrequited pining, angst, hurt no comfort, god complex, heaven’s civil war, unhealthy ideas of love, animal death, original characters, non-linear narrative, someone give these guys a hug, the road to hell is paved in good intentions, godstiel

Summary: Castiel doesn’t understand how his actions could’ve been wrong. Standing in a ring of holy oil, unable to look Dean in the eye.

How his devotion could be so readily thrown away.

A dog, thrown to the street after years of loyalty.

Humans were fickle things.

Author tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/preetkiran1016

Link to Fic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/55492609

Artist tumblr (or other SM link if no tumblr):  https://www.tumblr.com/e-mio

Link to Art: https://e-mio.tumblr.com/private/747128071607533568/tumblr_RXPZe96UET5BJsggl

[thence-we-came-forth]

Safest hunter in the world

[papillon-de-porcelaine]

I rewatched Howl's moving castle this weekend and got inspired.

[mitskinaturalbang]

Title: Too Frail for Me to Touch

Author: Artemis73

Artist: BasketcaseBetty

Song: Humpty

Posting date: April 26th

Rating: Mature

Pairing: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Any archive warnings: None

Top 10 main tags: Dean POV, alternate universe - modern setting, Dean Winchester has self-worth issues, relationship problems, implied/referenced alcohol abuse, John Winchester’s A+ parenting, getting back together, fake/pretend relationship, Castiel and Dean Winchester use their words (eventually), angst with a happy ending

Summary: Dean has a good life: great friends, a perfect partner, and a baby brother who’s getting married, but his happiness is threatened when, just weeks before the wedding, his relationship is torn apart by a job offer on the other side of the country. In the aftermath, Dean and Cas have to keep their breakup under wraps and figure out how (or if) they fit together.

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Find the artist here: @basketcasebetty

Find the author here: @artemis-73

[mitskinaturalbang]

Song: Heat lightning

Tags: Post canon

15x20 does not exist

Except for Cas to subvert

Late night conversations

Motels

Wine bar dates

Author: norahastuff

Artist: kingdumbass

Pairing: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Rating: Mature

Word count: 14k

Posting date: 23rd April 2024

Maybe Dean was crazy. He was smoking a Newport that had burned down to its filter and having a one-sided conversation with a potentially non-existent celestial being that lived in the sky. He owed the bible-thumpers an apology; turned out faith was easier to fall victim to than he’d thought.

Winning is the easy part. Since the end is no longer nigh, all that’s left to do is live. Easier said than done, but Dean’s not giving up. Not when he’s on the verge of getting everything he’d never even dreamed of letting himself want. There’s no margin for error here. Not now. Not with Cas. He has to get it right this time.

For Castiel, duty has always come before anything else. His wants, his desires have never really been relevant. Dean seems to think they are, though, and Castiel has no idea what to with that. Though, maybe it’s about time he let himself figure it out.

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Find the author at @norahastuff

Find the artist at @kingdumbass

[mitskinaturalbang]

Title: Gentle Wings for a Nervous Dog

Find artist here: @thestarsmakemedream-art

Find author here: @cowboylikecas 

Song: Cop Car

Posting date: April 24th

Rating: Mature

Pairing: Castiel/ Dean Winchester

Any archive tags: None

Main Tags: Alternative Universe - Canon Divergence, Season 15 Divorce Arc, But they are friends with benefits to make things even more complicated, Case Fic of Sorts, Angst with a Hopeful Ending, Mutual Pining, Hurt/Comfort,  Cain/Colette parallels but no one dies at the end I promise, John Winchester A+ Parenting, Food as a Metaphor for Love, Animal Metaphors

Summary:

Dean has been a mess since Cas left the bunker but he’s not ready to face him just yet. In an attempt to quiet his mind after a tough hunt, he decides to work on a salt-n-burn in what appears to be the western town of his dreams. Turns out running away from your problems will often bring you closer than ever to them. 

Cas left the bunker two weeks ago and he’s been avoiding Dean ever since, but that doesn’t mean he can get him out of his mind. So when he hears about the ghost town in the news he can’t help but think about their time in Dodge City, just before everything went wrong. The last thing he expects is to find Dean there.

The town is not what it seems and it has lured them in, so they will have to work together to figure a way out (and try to figure themselves out in the process).

Note from the author:

Being part of this project has meant a lot to me. I have been reading destiel fics for quite a few years now, but I had never gathered the courage to publish my own work before. Mitski is one of my favorite artists, so when I first heard about the bang I realized I couldn’t miss the chance to participate in something so special.

The dog motif, which has become a recurrent theme in mitski’s music, always makes me think of Dean, so I figured the best company for a lonely dog would be a crow, as they are known to form lifelong bonds with humans despite being regarded as a bad omen in popular culture. Gemma’s beautiful art truly captures the way the dog and the crow echo in Cas and Dean’s relationship throughout the fic. 

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Find artist here: https://www.tumblr.com/thestarsmakemedream-art

Find author here: https://www.tumblr.com/cowboylikesawyer https://twitter.com/evermorecas

[mitskinaturalbang]

Title: all i ever wanted (is here)

Author: averysoftno (purgaytorysupremacy on Tumblr)

Artist: e-mio

Song: I Will 

Posting date: April 25, 2024

Rating: Teen

Pairing: Castiel/Dean Winchester

Archive warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Top 10 main tags: Post-Canon, Post-Episode: s15e19 Inherit the Earth (Supernatural), Not Canon Compliant with Episode: s15e20 Carry On (Supernatural), as in it didn’t happen okay?, Comfort No Hurt, Angst and Feels, Dean Winchester Saves Castiel from the Empty, Castiel/Dean Winchester First Kiss, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Inspired by a Mitski Song

Summary: After Castiel confessed his love for Dean Winchester and was condemned to The Empty for eternity. After Sam and Dean Winchester save the whole damn world. (Again.) After all the people who were snapped returned, getting back to their lives never even knowing the world ended. After Sam and Eileen got together and Dean spent the required amount of time drinking himself stupid. After all that, Dean pulled Castiel back to Earth.

They may be covered in thick black ooze and years of Almosts and Maybes, but that’s all over now. They’re in the After, and in the After, they don’t have to be brave. They can choose to save each other instead.

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[queenbryt]

deancas dynamic of all time is weirdo4weirdo

they find so much freedom in each other. dean's allowed to be as goofy as he wants to be, press all of cas' buttons and tease and flirt and yap. he can also open up and share all the shit he normally keeps locked away. and he knows that cas won't ever hold that stuff against him. he knows he'll still be his friend afterwards. and conversely, cas is allowed to express himself. to be exasperated and confused. he's allowed to act however he wants. he doesn't have to be stoic or obedient or impersonal like heaven trained him to be, he can be bitchy and fond and curious and funny. and he knows that dean will appreciate the honesty of his expression. dean knows what it's like to repress himself, and he doesn't want cas to live like that.

they really are best friends :')