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Tags: Multiverse, Time Travel, Fix-It, Castiel Comes Back from the Empty, Significant Character Death (several AU Castiels die), Angst with a Happy Ending, Canon-Divergent After s15e18, Explicit Sexual Content, Each Chapter Takes Place in a Different Timeline/Universe, Top/Bottom Versatile Castiel/Dean Winchester
Summary: Sam keeps reading the spell, doing a quick and dirty translation in his head. “Dammit,” he curses when he gets to the last line of the incantation. “It won’t work. It says we need ‘The blood of one who died for love.’ But everyone’s just gone—there’s no blood anywhere. Certainly not ‘of one who died for love.’”
Dean recoils like he just got punched in the gut. He backs up a couple of steps and then turns and staggers back down the hall towards his room, wordlessly. Sam can’t tell if he’s drunk or just… distraught.
But a few minutes later, he re-emerges with something clutched tightly against his chest. His jacket. The one he was wearing when Cas died, the one stamped with Cas’s bloody handprint. He holds it out to Sam like a precious offering.
“There’s blood, Sam.”
(A post-’Despair’ fix-it fic in which Castiel’s sacrifice for Dean defies time and space to save the entire Supernatural multiverse.)
Sneak Peek: The second Cas, though… he’s with his Dean, standing behind him, chin hooked over that Dean in the space between his shoulder and his neck, one arm wrapped protectively around his middle. They’re both touching the stone, and they’re both shirtless, and they look much younger.
Dean balks. Seeing them… that Dean and Cas, so intimate, clearly together in the way that Dean only recently learned Cas wanted with him right before he was gone forever, cracks his heart wide open and makes him want to die. They have no idea that they’re rubbing salt into the worst wound Dean’s ever gotten. He burns with rage and grief and jealousy, and hot tears slide down his face before he can do anything to stop them.
But then this Castiel’s eyes change and he appraises Jack with a gaze that’s pure and black—he’s a demon. And there’s blood smeared across the other Dean’s mouth like—like... then finally Dean notices the bloodied cut on Castiel’s forearm, all messy and smeared just like the other Dean’s mouth.
He’s hit with a roiling wave of sickness at the idea.
“What the hell…?” Sam breathes. Then he purses his lips, shakes his head a little bit, and refocuses on the task at hand.
Jack waits for a few more long, agonizing moments. Dean can’t stop staring at the way the demon Castiel’s chin rests on the curve of the other Dean’s neck, like it belongs there. Like Dean belongs to him. In his periphery, he sees Jack give a short, stiff nod to each and every Castiel, and finally the demon Castiel and the tagalong Dean, before closing his fist around the stone.
Then they all vanish in an instant, leaving Michael, Jack, Sam, and Dean alone and Castiel-less once again.
The small Baltic country has refashioned the relationship between citizens and the state for the current moment.
One of the pitfalls of diplomacy, so the traditionalists assert, is when the representative of the foreign nation goes native. It is one thing to understand the country in which you are stationed; it is quite another to appreciate it too much. But what happens when, by all the available indices, that country really is a model to be emulated?
That is the problem that Ross Allen has grappled with during his five-year tenure as Britain’s ambassador to Estonia. As his posting comes to an end, he has written a eulogy toward the Baltic nation, which in foreign and security policy and the delivery of public services is setting the example for the world. It is appropriately called Estonian Lessons.
His analysis broadly accords with mine in Braver New World, my new book, which looks at expressions of political courage, imagination, and resilience around the world.
Much of Estonia’s strength revolves around digital technology. It has the highest number of start-ups per capita and the second highest number of “unicorns” (start-ups that have grown to over $1 billion in value) per capita, after Israel but in front of Singapore and the United States. It is ranked among the most efficient systems of e-government, alongside one of the strongest systems of cybersecurity. It is also a perpetually good performer in human rights and press freedom, backed up by a modern approach to education.
Why did Estonia become so advanced? Allen provides one theory from an official who said his countryfolk “avoid small talk and go out in bad weather.” Other factors in helping create social cohesion and inclusion that are offered, largely tongue-in-cheek, include singing and saunas.
With most major European economies floundering—and with Germany, France, and the United Kingdom looking over their shoulders at surging populist parties—there seem to be few examples remaining of successful mainstream politics. It has become commonplace to highlight the performance of Nordics and Baltics as a counterweight to the gloom, but the reasons underlying the strength of these countries are often not properly understood.
Digitization plays a major part. When the Iron Curtain fell in 1991 and Estonia regained its independence after 50 years of occupation under the USSR, it had almost no money and no resources. It hadn’t always been like this. At the end of the 1930s, Estonians and Finns had almost identical incomes and life expectancy. However, by the end of the 1980s, Finns lived four years longer and earned eight times more.
That’s why Estonia took an all-out bet on digital—every aspect of it. On e-learning, e-government, and e-security. In English it was known as the “Tiger Leap.” There was no blueprint when it started, yet within a decade and a half the country had become one of the world leaders in digital literacy, cybersecurity, internet freedom, and e-government.
Each of Estonia’s 3,000 state services can be accessed online, and at the latest count, more than 97 percent of Estonians do just that. The intriguing result is that people are potentially glued to their computers for less time than in other countries because it takes them far less time to do the basic, often boring, things.
The government estimates that the average Estonian wins back five days a year by not having to deal with a stifling bureaucracy. It takes no longer than five minutes (some do it in three) to fill out tax returns because they are pre-populated with answers from previous years. Compliance has increased. The tax agency has shed nearly half its staff. Some 2 percent of GDP is estimated to be saved each year by e-government.
Yet it is about far more than economic efficiency and personal convenience. What Estonia has done is to refashion the state and its relationship to the citizen. Through digital ID and a series of passwords, individuals control their data. They can check if anyone has snooped on them and can challenge that access if it lacks a sound reason. Intelligence services have certain exemptions, while police do not need permission during a criminal investigation, but once the work is complete, its actions are disclosed.
This belief in a benign role for government strikes me as remarkable, even more so in these darker times. Estonia is also doing what it can to help other young democracies that are at risk.
After 1991, its second big moment of change happened 16 years later. The year 2007 is remembered in Estonia as Web War I, the outbreak of Russia’s hybrid war on the West. Amid a dispute over the moving of a Soviet war memorial from a prime spot in the center of Tallinn, much of Estonia’s digital infrastructure was taken down in a massive wave of distributed denial-of-service attacks. Ministries, parliament, banks were taken down. Much of the country was shut down.
A year later, NATO founded its Cooperative Cyber Defense Center of Excellence (CCDCOE), locating it deliberately in Tallinn. Estonia also established its own Defense League Cyber Unit, a voluntary organization of programmers, computer scientists, and software engineers. It is part of a larger national Defense League that incorporates reservists across society, all of whom function under a unified command in times of war. The cyber experts carry out regular weekend exercises on behalf of the military to prepare for contingencies as part of larger units of regular and irregular soldiers.
Then came the Russian attack on Ukraine in 2014. Through CCDCOE, NATO more widely, in the EU, and bilaterally, Estonia has become one of the staunchest and most practical supporters of Ukraine.
The sharing of digital and cyber capabilities is not seen as an act of generosity but mutual dependence, a relationship that has grown even stronger since the full-scale invasion in 2022. Within weeks of Russian troops marching in, the Estonians sent the Ukrainians valuable software and hardware, including generators and drones.
Ukraine’s use of digital technology has been vital for its self-defense, not just militarily but also in terms of more basic day-to-day services that would have been hard to deliver under constant fear of bombardment. Its main portal is Diia, an acronym for Derzhava i Ya (the State and Me), an app and website that provides more than 130 online services.
This newfound trust is born of need. It is easier to carry out radical change at times of adversity—pandemics, famines, threats, or wars. In the meantime, larger European countries languish in a sour mood of incrementalism and suspicion; many citizens see government as either hostile or weak. This leads to a vicious circle—paralysis and obduracy of the state, frustration and anger of voters, and a fertile base for extremism.
Estonia and other countries—small but also large—have examples to share across a wide range of policy areas. It requires humility and self-awareness (but not self-flagellation) to tap into them. States that are open to best practice from afar will provide greater protection from perils ahead: a little less lecturing others and a little more learning from others.
Nothing Personal
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by borrowedlifeonearth
Dean sits in a bar after a solo hunt. He wants to let off some steam and flirts with the waitress, intending to have some fun with her. He gets distracted by a mysterious man in a trench coat, though.
or: Dean meets Cas and blows him in an alley, until his internalized homophobia takes over and cripples him.
Words: 1952, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence
Categories: M/M
Characters: Dean Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural)
Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester
Additional Tags: Stanford Era (Supernatural), Pre-Canon, Sexual Tension, Alley Blow Jobs, Masturbation, Internalized Homophobia, Mentioned John Winchester, john winchesters A+ parenting, Castiel/Dean Winchester First Kiss, POV Dean Winchester, Hurt Dean Winchester, Guardian Angel Castiel (Supernatural), Canon-Typical Violence, Under-negotiated Kink, Alcohol, Cigarettes, Mildly Dubious Consent, Angst, Smut, Repressed Bisexual Dean Winchester, Rough Oral Sex, Dean Winchester Likes It Rough
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June 7, 2026 at 04:19PM
The idea Jensen ruined the world by existing and not seeing Dean as bi is so childish but the mysoginy bit pissed me off so much. Jensen was in defense of Charlie. Jensen told Bobo he wanted Kaya addressed. People need to understand destiel isn’t the only queer ship in the show. https://x.com/endverse_dean/status/2063671888665039291?s=46
First, let me say that isn’t the first time Jensen showed his discontent with a show runner. He showed it with Sera Gamble when she was asked about Castiel being killed off. Maybe not as theatrical a display as his Charlie reaction, but it was all over his face and demeanor.
Secondly, people in fandom spaces will always be extra dramatic and extra loud for 1) attention and 2) to feel controversial.
NO I AM NOT SAYING PEOPLE DON’T HAVE A RIGHT TO BE UPSET OR MAD OR CRITICAL OR WHATEVER ELSE THEY ARE FEELING. BUT GOING THE EXTRA MILE TO BE LOUD AND SHITTY (I HAVE ALSO SEEN THE SPREADING OF MISINFORMATION AMONG NEWER FANS JUMPING ON A BANDWAGON) IS A WHOLE OTHER CHOICE. LET’S NOT GET THAT TWISTED.
I had to yell because apparently it’s the only way some people pay attention (not directing it at you, nonnie).
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