so you think you might be into wincest: a beginners guide
two queens [adult / 7,843 words] Dean tries to figure out why so many people think he and Sam are a couple. The answer is…surprising.
coast on through [nc-17 / 7,857 words] A post-first-time fic. With a lot of sex.
the art of manly hugging [nc-17 / 1700 words] Sometimes, you know, Dean just needs a goddamn hug.
the little spoon [nc-17 / 2,323 words] To his horror, Sam discovers that he’s a stealth!snuggler.
fall for nothing [john’s pov / pg-13 / 2,372 words] But John can’t help but notice the way they are around each other, and it changes the way he sees everything.
treat her like a lady [r / 6,042 words] You can never tell when a conversation with a really smokin’ woman is going to come back and bite you in the ass. Dean gets cursed into dating Sam.
he wasn’t there again today (i wish, i wish he’d go away) [pg / 2,700 words] The story of that year.
the man of law [pg-13 / 5,101 words] Sam is cursed into acting out his most repressed urges. Dean points and laughs and enables, until things get a little too personal.
this thing that aches like dying, this thing that burns like light. [r / 2nd person dean pov / 1,080 words] He’s your brother.
keepsake [nc-17 / 5,400 words] Sam has a plan.
the wind always at your back [r / 700 words] * Sam loses Dean. Sam never loses Dean. Sam lets go. Sam hangs on.
a thousand shades of red [r / 10,021 words] Growing up is hard. Sam knows it, can feel it beneath his skin as his bones stretch and his baby fat fades and he’s perpetually hungry.
the king of imperfection takes back the prince of mistakes [nc-17 / 3,600 words] And they lived happily ever after.
the air moves in to fill the spaces where my body’s been [nc-17 / 5,300~ words] It’s not about Dean. Really. sequel: the frightened inch between our skin [nc-17 / 5,720 words] So, now that Dean knows what Sam’s been up to, they’re fucking like bunnies. They play footsie under the Formica table in the diner while Dean eats waffles, they make out in the backseat when they’re tired of driving, and Dean wants to know if they can have deep-fried Twinkies at the reception when they get gay married in Massachusetts. Or, well. That’s how Sam had imagined it.
you have one saved message [teen / 3,109 words] * A tag to episode 6.18, “Frontierland,” indirectly. Sam gets a new smart phone.
artery [mature / 11,111 words] Eyes on the road, thought you knew how to drive this thing. Season 2, lost with a map.
recall [nc-17 / 6,300 words] * Sam’s having a hard time telling what’s real and what isn’t, especially when it comes to some voicemails from Dean.
speechless [teen / 11235 words] Dean loses his voice and their rapport is only moderately impaired.
baba o’riley and eleanor rigby walk into a bar [nc-17 / warnings: attempted suicide, bullying, religious overtones, underage sex / 33,300 words] AU: Mary never died and if the supernatural exists, it leaves the Winchesters alone. When Dean Winchester was four years old he almost lost his younger brother for the first time to a fire. When Dean Winchester was eighteen he almost lost his brother a second time to a full bathtub and a pack of sleeping pills, citing some decidedly unbrotherly feelings in his suicide note. At twenty-two he’s about to lose him for a third time to Stanford University. He and Sam’s therapist sit down and talk out the chain of events leading up to and proceeding after what Dean considers to be the worst day of his life. He figures out a few things along the way.
i’ll kill you, honeymuffin [r / 1,150 words] Sam is cursed into addressing Dean by pet names. Lots and lots of embarrassing pet names, such as Pookie and Snookums.
last outpost of all that is [nc17 / 60,818 words] * The world ends while they’re asleep.
crown and anchor me (or let me sail away) [nc-17 / warnings: underage / 23,749 words] * Sam Winchester is fifteen years old, at yet another new high school in yet another state, he doesn’t get along with his distant, distracted father, he’s figuring out that he likes guys just as much as he likes girls, his clothes never fit and his limbs ache at the joint ever since his growth spurt started, he has to study for the PSAT and, oh yeah, he’s a little bit in love with his brother, Dean, who’s taken a break from hunting monsters to work at a local garage for minimum wage.
eight things you should know [teen / 7,703 words] Being in love with Dean is the most annoying thing.
are you now, or have you ever…? [nc-17 / 5,000 words] * Dean’s subconscious is showing. (After a creature attack that leaves Dean feverish and hallucinating, his subconscious makes a connection between he and Sam that his conscious mind can’t seem to shake once he’s well. His newfound realization keeps coming out in the strangest of ways—really strange.)
insert tab a in slot b [r / 1,462 words] Dean and Sam attempt sex. How hard can it be?
consider the hairpin turn [nc-17 / warnings: violent imagery, PTSD / 27,692 words] AU of 6x22: Sam’s wall has shattered and the memories in his mind have splintered. When the Sam who remembers Hell tells him to go find Jess and be happy, Sam knows he can’t stay while Dean needs him. But when the Sam from Hell says that Dean is already there looking for him, Sam leaves his memories of the pit behind to find him. What he finds is a life he doesn’t remember: a house that he shares with his brother (and has for years), a law career he thought he’d left behind at Stanford, and a relationship with Dean he never dreamed he could have. Life is almost too good to be true, at least until Sam begins to hear his brother’s voice calling to him, begging him to wake up.
samulet fix it *
another samulet fix it bc you can never have too many *
dean winchester’s rules for the road [nc-17 / 16,800 words] If there’s one thing Dean’s learned, it’s that there are rules you have to follow in order to survive. But while hunting zombies on an island off the coast of Georgia, he’s forced to reexamine what might be the (second) most important rule of all.
couples’ counseling [nc-17 / 6,000~ words] * voicemail fix it
you’re possessing me [nc-17 / 3,232 words] Dean goes looking for something to get himself off to—he’s in no way expecting to stumble on porn vids of Sam. But now that he has, he’s becoming obsessed.
blow me ‘verse [ranges from pg-13 to nc-17] Series of fics in which Sam and Dean sometimes have sex with each other but are totally not gay. According to them, anyway.
a bleak understanding in reverse [nc-17 / 12,316 words] It was hard to imagine that life without monsters could still kill them…
leaving the comfort-zone [adult / 4,670 words] * There was a problem in their relationship. Well, not so much a problem as a hitch, a slight bump in the road that was supposed to lead to freaking great sex and, by that way, to a healthy, normal relationship. Can you say ‘normal’ when you’re referring to a relationship that features fucking and being in love with your brother?
flying weight [nc-17 / warnings: serious consent issues, consensual abuse, violence, bloodplay / 48,747 words] Sam wakes after being soulless for three years to discover that Dean and his relationship with him have undergone some serious changes. Through traveling and hunting with Dean, Sam struggles to put his life back together after events he has only limited memory of.
ascalon [teen / 7,855 words] You and your brother are hunting dragons.
fade to black (not while your hand’s in mine) [nc-17 / warnings: violence and non-con situations / “long…18 chapters”] * The brother that Sam gets back isn’t the same, but Sam’s love is. Sam risks everything and leaves everyone he’s ever cared about behind in the desperate hope that the bond between him and Dean might just be strong enough to transcend what hell did to his brother. Set post Season 3, seven months after Dean’s deal came due and written over the summer before it was AU, this story just kept writing itself and wouldn’t let go until it was an epic love story in every sense, eventually spanning five decades with enough twists and turns to make me dizzy. sequel: black is the color of my true love’s eyes [nc-17 / 34,000 words] * Sam tried to thwart death in a desperate attempt to keep his brother human. Did it work or did heaven come between them the way hell never could?
fumbling in the dark: love advice for the romantically impaired [nc-17 / 72,009 words] * True Love really is blind…
the incestuous courtship of the antichrist’s bride [nc-17 / 48,000 words] * Sam is trying to become the Antichrist in order to save the world. He has a small army of angels and demons, he has an adoring cult, he has a work of prophecy by Jack Kerouac, and he has Dean. Things are going pretty well until he accidentally signs Dean up as his Beloved Consort, a role that requires sex with the Antichrist on an altar. And that’s when things stop going pretty well. Also, the soundtrack to the Apocalypse sucks.
no line on the horizon [teen / warnings: you’re gonna fucking cry / 9,642 words] AU. One-shot. It’s the middle of May when Dean shows up at his door at six a.m. with a huge smile on his face, and Sam knows something is wrong.
the bright lights of disturbia [nc-17 / warnings: rape/dark fic, you’re gonna cry and probably have flashbacks from this when you watch parts of season one / 373,399 words] Not all of our scars are worn on the outside…
(*fics i haven’t read yet but have either been recced or written by awesome people)
bonus- rose’s recs for noobs:
basorexia this has gotta be one of my new all-time faves. it’s fairly new, takes place in s7 with cas cursing dean so that he kisses sam whenever he feels like— except he doesn’t remember kissing sam after. IT’S SO HEARTWRENCHING AND FLUFFY AND PERFECT FOR THEIR RELATIONSHIP IN THE LATER SEASONS. JUST PERFECT.
monumentally stupid this is another perfect first time wincest fic, literally everything about it is delicious. this one doesn’t have as much humor but it’s so sex is hot and needy, the voices are so THEM, and it takes place in s7, too. also, SHAVING KINK \O/
when it’s over end all, be all of s8 fix it fic for me. this one has it all.
mind’s eye same sort of genre as “consider the hairpin turn” fantastic, angsty, first time wincest fic with dashes of hurt!psychic!sam. another one that takes place in s7.
coupons starts off funny and kinky when sam gives dean a coupon book of sexual favors for his birthday, but leads to emotional exploration between the boys. everything by this author is fantastic tbh, she wrote that 2nd fic i recced, the one with shaving kink
mended and whole a great s8 fix-it fic by the same author as above
long lay the world lovely earlier seasons curtain fic what could go wrong (no i kid, it’s actually quite angsty!!!!)
if we keep living this fast, no one will have time to die gorgeous one-shot of sam and dean falling in love on the road. i get nostalgic for the early seasons when i read fic like this, makes it feel like sam and dean are the only two people in the world.
free and clear gorgeous one-shot of sam saving dean from hell. the focus is on their relationship and reunion, not the mechanics of sam getting dean out of hell. very s2 feel to it.
all along, there’s you and me stunning portrayal of the boys’ relationship through the years. you’ll prob tear up xoxo
treasure zombie apocalypse-ish au (croatoan virus apocalypse au?) with badass soldier dean and scientist sam. like, the world building and sam and dean’s relationship in this new situation they’ve been thrust into— it’s fucking awesome.
when it happens ‘verse i feel like i have to have recced this, i rec it to everyone. it’s one of my go-to fics for wincest angst. takes place after sam comes back to hell, it’s just a double whammy of angst and hurt boys and and curtain fic (and dean getting sam a dog!!!!!!!) and them finding their way back to each other. unfortunately the author doesn’t have a masterpost to the verse or link them one after the other so this post is your best bet for that.
the firefly that loves metallica the firefly that loves metallica. you’ve read this one. i know you have. (if not, sam gets dean’s soul from hell and it’s in the form of a little pink glowing ball \o/)
a man with his insides out and his outsides off sam travels back in time in an attempt to save dean from going to hell. huuuuurts so fucking good, you will cry a gd river of tears. at least the sex is fucking hot.
or die trying funny, hot, and sweet first time fic where sam and dean try and figure out how gay incestuous sex works. def a classic.
moving your body so brave and so free requisite sam in panties weecest fic, gotta be the hottest one i’ve read (it’s johnny’s)
all in the game, yo same author as the zombie apocalypse au. amazing, amazing world-building in this non-hunting au. sam and dean grow up in the foster system of baltimore’s westside and are fucked up in more ways than one
home not sure if you want to rec a knotting fic, but if you do, this is the one to go with. preseries, alpha!dean.
support and freedom classic weecest fic by lazy-daze with jealous!dean. no wincest starter pack is complete without it.
shepherd of the stray hearts absolutely gorgeous sam pov fic pre-stanford
dating for dummies dating for dummies, another fic along the lines of “treat her like a lady” and “two queens”
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the art of manly hugging
this thing that aches like dying, this thing that burns like light
