#maryamara

[mrcowboydeanwinchester]

sapphicnatural fics - the modern classics

for day 7 of sapphicnatural week: free space.

i wanted to celebrate some of the fics which have meant the most to us in the sapphicnatural community over the past few years! they have pioneered rarepairs, resonated among the masses, and often provided longer fics where there aren't many. we would be lesser without them, and i'm so grateful for all these modern classics. i also included some art from monumental sapphicnatural artists, who have brought the ships to life with such visual beauty. sapphicnatural week 2024 has been so wonderful and i'm so honoured to be a part of this community !!

links to full fics and artworks below the cut!

Violet by ghost_roads @queerstudiesnatural with art by @limbel

Faith Undone by iamfoxfire @supersapphical

Black Eyes by knifegirlruby @lesbianjoannaharvelle

Growing a New Half Soul by HeddersTheOwl @kerryweaverlesbian with art by @sheepstiel

Jo Daily by thereweresunflowers @mrcowboydeanwinchester

Amist Ashes and Feathers by anarachistamara @roublardise with art by @sheepstiel

[billiewena]

Mary/Amara

AMARAMARY. I love it, honestly probably my ideal endgame pairing for both of them (though I love Billie/Amara too...tbh any combination of billie/amara/mary/rowena makes my brain go brrrrrr.)

I LOVE that Amara was the one to bring her back, it’s just such a middle finger to Chuck for 1) thinking he’s all powerful and the only one with true control over life and death 2) killing and using women figures in the Winchesters’ lives for plot. I would’ve loved if the show explored that connection, we never even get to see them meet. Like imagine that diner scene with Dean and Amara talking about why she brought Mary back but it’s with Mary and Amara instead. Would Mary thank her? Would Mary ask why she did? Would Mary think she shouldn’t have been brought back?

There’s also a lot of similarities to them too. It’s like they both fulfilled their original narrative purpose as the martyr and chuck's foil and are just figuring out what a life after that looks like. But at the same time, their brief taste of free will is short-lived because they end up back in the role Chuck wrote for them by their last episode. Mary is dead and back with John in Heaven, Amara is trapped by Chuck, and they are no longer free.. It’s just so tragic and it would’ve been such a good exploration of the last season's theme to see them teaming up to break out of Chuck’s narrative together. Maybe Amara realizes Chuck can’t kill Mary and keeps her alive, maybe Amara helps Mary escape Heaven, etc.

I also like that it has the appeal of most of the “cosmic entity and just some guy” ships on the show but sapphic, and also that they’re both fishes out of water. amara is so new to humanity and mary is out of touch, out of time. it's almost similar to midam in that way; like yes, adam and mary had a life on earth once but it's been a loooooong time. so it’s like they can learn from each other but also experience this new world together too and I LOVEEEE that

anyways, 10/10 amazing pairing all around. definitely reccomend the one fic I’ve read for it (and also the ship has the young mary’s actress stamp of approval, so...)

send me a ship and I’ll give you my (brutally) honest opinion on it