list (for my own reference) of spn fanfics im pretending ill write some day in the future (and has also somehow become a list of some of my favorite fics??)
disclaimer that this is going to be long and will probably never actually get done but i need a place to put this all so they stop bouncing around my head ; you will almost definitely see a trend, yes i know its there, shut up let me have this ; if you have thoughts / suggestions / etc feel free to let me know
s5, sam drinks cas or gabriel's blood to kill lucifer like he did lilith
idk i like a nice!lucifer au where sam doesnt end up in the cage bc fuck u :)
s5, lucifer comes out of the cage not wanting the apocalypse or to fight his brothers (rehabilitated, somehow removed mark of cain, some other evil god!chuck theory?) and teams up with sam to try to stop michael and raphael
s4 au where both John and Dean get resurrected bc that'd be so fucked up
going off the one above, What If? and Watching Over You as inspiration / spinning off of them
s2, sam keeps contact with all the special kids he talks to and they have a group chat going, work together to stop azazel (a bundle of sticks my beloved)
idk what exactly but i just really love Sam Winchester School of Hunting and Sam's Network of Baby Hunters so some kind of take on that, sam collecting all the kids esp the not-exactly-human ones under his wings
s5e6, sam goes with jesse / takes jesse and runs from cas and dean, now he has a reason to live and not self-sacrifice
s2e14 buabs au where sam is possessed longer than the few weeks that meg has him, he ends up pregnant with a cambion (trans man sam probably, but cis man sam if i want even more of a body horror angle)
wtlb au where sam does die in the panic room, gets resurrected by probably zachariah because ew, does dean even realize what happened, sam refuses to rejoin dean and bobby after lucifer rises
Last Minute twist, of sam realizing at the last minute that lilith isn't fighting back, refuses to kill her
a la Babel and A Father's Protection and Learning to Live Again, sam gets help from others during s5 and probably gabriel as well to put an end to the apocalypse
sam keeps in contact with missouri and is better prepared for cold oak, doesn't die
even more divergent from canon or pre-canon:
pilot, jess is a witch / in the know, sam has developed his psychic abilities more, so jess doesnt die - would sam stay or would jess go hunting? unsure. just want witchy jess
re above, You Can Always Go Home my beloved as inspiration
some sort of not-human sam, either cambion or nephil sam - developing powers early, hiding them from d&j, etc etc etc
a combination of this post and Been Away Too Long because im so weak for samjess and i refuse to apologize for that
some sort of boyking sam because its a classic (inspiration from Demonic Politics Verse)
post s3 au where instead of going off with ruby, sam realizes hes spiraling hard and actually tries to stop doing that by bunkering down with the harvelles (he and jo become besties, he discovers his psychic powers can work without the blood, jo calls dean out in metamorphosis, etc etc etc)
Ties That Bind by monpetittresor as inspiration for sam&adam post-cage (just gonna rec basically anything by this author bc love love love love love)
one of them "sam is actually lucifer and just doesnt know it like anna didnt know she was an angel" aus
criminal minds of course - they cross paths with the bau on a hunt, you know how it goes, and obviously samspencer
lucifer (tv show) - so many ideas for this one
s2e18 hollywood babylon lucifer is on a case with chloe and crosses paths with sam, instant connection
s3 au where sam hears about this guy calling himself lucifer and sneaks away from dean to try to see if this guy is the real thing and if he could break deans deal
s4 au where lucifer realizes the seals are breaking (my favorite explanation of the cage lucifer vs lucifer tv is in The Real Devil, basically the caged version is the part of his grace that he cut out because it has the mark of cain on it, but lucifer himself isnt in the cage) and goes to find his "true" vessel to see if he's reasonable enough to try to help stop this
s5 au where the caged grace is released and lucifer in LA is like "oh shit oh shit oh shit put that thing back where it came from or so help me" and helps sam out with that whole thing
