Omg So For Lesser Known Fics, A Lot Of People Know The "bloody But Unbowed" Stanford Era Masterpiece

omg so for lesser known fics, a lot of people know the "bloody but unbowed" stanford era masterpiece but the author posted a prequel AND sequel fic like 5 years later and they're even better!!! Ahh the way they write dean and cas.... but they have so few hits because of the delay. i want 2 spread awareness

ooo this series looks so good!! I thought you were talking about the Sherlock fic with the same name at first because it's one of my favourites 💀 but I think this is the one you mean!!

bloody, but unbowed by shootingstarcas (9.4k)

Sam doesn’t know what to expect when he walks into the courtroom. But of all the possibilities, he would never have imagined this one: his brother, grinning like the devil, in the defendant’s chair.

Or, the one where Sam never goes to Jericho with Dean, but instead pursues law school and a life with Jess. Dean falls in love with a gas station attendant named Castiel.

Six years after they last saw one another, Sam and Dean meet again in a courtroom. A lot can change in six years.

and then here is the prequel...

the beams of our house are cedar, our rafters are pine by shootingstarcas (7.5k)

Long-overdue prequel to "bloody, but unbowed". Dean meets Cas two years before the series starts, in a Gas-n-Sip in Rexford, Idaho.

Sorry it took five years and a pandemic. Stay safe stay home everybody.

and the last one!!

a flash of golden fire by shootingstarcas (4.1k)

Dean and Sam and Cas and Jess team up to go after the demon.

Sequel to "bloody, but unbowed," and an alternate version of late season 2.

thank you so much for sharing these with me!! I will have to check them out, I love stanford era stuff but supernatural as a law show too? these look amazing!!

Lesser Known Supernatural Fics

Hii! This list is a bit shorter than the others, but I still thought I'd share all the SPN fics with fewer hits in my bookmarks. None of these are Destiel fics, but they do feature a range of other ships!

Building the Michael Sword: Some Assembly Required by Sequesters (1.7k)

Castiel gripped Dean tight and raised him from perdition, everybody and their mother knows that. What is less well-known, however, is that he was also responsible for re-assembling the body.

Which he did with all the grace and patience of a man putting together a particularly difficult IKEA bunk bed.

Love and Politics by BeautifulLife (1.8k)

“That’s the prepared speech,” Cassie says. “Now let’s talk about why the Midwest’s getting hit with earthquakes, forest fires, and rains of frogs. Is this the kind of thing you know something about?”

Dean’s mouth snaps shut. “Global warming?”

When Dean shows up on Cassie’s doorstep, not Lisa’s, at the end of 5.17, nothing in his big moment goes according to plan. What did he expect, telling a reporter about the biggest story of the millennium?

Say Yes by MaggieMaybe160 (7.9k)

Endverse!Dean's life is going pretty well with Endverse!Cas until Dean's past self shows up.

A look at the episode "The End" from Season 5 from Endverse!Dean's point of view.

Uniform of a Winchester by monsterfuckerdean (20k)

We all know the story of the amulet Dean wears around his neck. But what about everything else he wears?

Supernatural Fics

Welcome to my Supernatural fic rec masterlist! Please use CTRL+F to search if you are looking for something specific. All of these fic recs are Destiel-centric, unless stated otherwise!

Contents:

Alternate Universes

Angst + related tags

Character-centric fics

Episode Specific

Holidays

Other ships

Tropes

Word Counts

Misc

Alternate Universes:

Apocalypse/Dystopia AU

Café/Coffee shop AU

College/University AU

Soulmate AU pt1 // pt2

Angst etc

Angst with a Happy Ending

Dark fics

Hurt/Comfort

Hypothermia

Major Character Death

Character-centric fics:

Bisexual Dean

Writer!Castiel

Episode Specific:

15x18: Despair

15x19: Inherit the Earth

15x20: Carry On

Holidays:

Halloween

Christmas pt1 // pt2

New Year's

Other Ships:

Sabriel

Saileen

Dean/Other or Cas/Other

Tropes:

Bed Sharing

Case fics

Domestic Fluff

Enemies to Lovers

Established Relationship

Fake/Pretend Relationship

Fix it fics

Fluff

Humor

Friends to Lovers

John Winchester is an Asshole

Love Confessions

Marriage

POV Outsider

Slow Burn pt1 // pt2

Word Count:

Under 2k

Under 10k pt1 // pt2

50-100k

Over 100k

Misc:

A-Spec

Cockles

Faves

Lesser Known fics pt1 // pt2 // pt3

Podfic

Wattpad

Grishaverse Masterlist

Welcome to my Grishaverse fic rec masterlist! Please use CTRL+F to search if you are looking for something specific. The lists include a mix of fics based on the Shadow & Bone TV show as well as the book series, so be wary of spoilers.

Fave Kaz/Inej fics

Kanej fics

Modern AU

Wesper fics under 10k words

Lesser Known Destiel Fics pt 2

Hi everyone! Here's the second part of Destiel fics which have fewer than 5,000 hits. I hope you enjoy them!

Once a Day by followthattardis (2.4k)

Castiel has just enough control left over his body and mind that he steps into the Ma’lak Box on his own.

L’Oréal Féria 1-Step Lightening System for Men by gayliens (2.5k)

His hair had been the same since he was eleven, a tight almost-buzz on the sides, a little longer on the top. Brown, unassuming, military-issue. Never long enough to fall in his eyes, not like whatever Sam had going on on that head of his. His face had been changed by thirty-something years of slicing and dicing, aging out of those delicate features. If he dropped dead now on the bathroom floor, the coroner wouldn’t call him pretty. But his hair stayed Ken-Doll-identical all the way through.

or: dean fucks up dying his hair. cas helps

Rinse, Repeat by Ias (3.3k)

He's killed Dean hundreds of times. What's one more?

Extra Sauce by anomalation (3.4k)

Cas confides in a poor unfortunate McDonald's cashier, who is a little shit and makes Dean jealous to prove a point. Nothing but fluff and gritty fast food realism.

Mary Winchester, Lesbian at Large by alectolee (4.2k)

Mary Winchester is a lesbian. She has no idea how to tell her children.

The Passion of the Christ (and his angelic ex-boyfriend) by Bzzee (4.9k)

Dean and Cas are happy in heaven until Cas's ex-boyfriend saunters in. Dean discovers you can be jealous in heaven and that, apparently, Jesus fucks.

New All Over Again by Castielslostwings (5.7k)

Dean and Cas as childhood sweethearts separated as teenagers who have been searching for each other for years without success. Against all odds, they reunite in the middle of Times Square at midnight on New Year’s Eve.

preaching to the choir by piesexuality (7.9k)

“So, tell us—are you a religious man?”

Steve grimaces. "It's, um. Complicated. Very complicated."

or, There's no way Castiel lived that close to BYU-Idaho without running into some Mormon missionaries.

Speak Silence No More by rea_of_sunshine (8k)

When Dean imagined this moment, it went like this:

Dean bursts into the Empty—guns blazing, chin high, righteous anger coursing through him. No matter what form his plans and fantasies and whiskey-drunk-whispered-promises took, he is always, always successful. When he imagined it, he was finally the hero Cas deserved.

The reality of the moment is this:

It’s fucking cold.

Veil by evol_love (8.1k)

Not that Ed keeps tabs on anyone from his past life as a paranormal investigator, but he’s about 99% sure he heard through the grapevine that Dean Winchester fucking died, so getting a text from him on a random Thursday inviting him to his wedding is in the top ten weirdest moments of his life. And that’s really saying something. Ed’s had weirder weird moments than most.

His first instinct is No, absolutely fucking not, why on earth did you even invite me we’re not friends and we haven’t spoken in six years, but. But.

Maybe he misses the weird a little.

the pie isn't a metaphor (it's just pie) by noviembre (9.3k)

“I watched the Garden of Eden grow out of the desert,” Cas informs him. “And I’ve read everything Stacy has written on Bumbling Bee Gardener dot net. But please, Dean, share your wisdom about apple horticulture.”

Every Road Leads To You by songbvrd (9.9k)

When Cas gets poisoned by a djinn and is unable to be woken, Dean gets sent into his head to wake him up.

While Dean is expecting something that's hard to pull Cas from, he never expected to find Cas married with kids and a dog.

Dean has to confront what all this means to him and Cas has to decide whether to stay or go.

Won't You Stay? by allmystars (18k)

A week before Christmas, a weekend with his brother, and a hike into the mountains shouldn’t change a single thing about Dean Winchester’s life. It’s just a trip, just to distract Sam from everything he’s lost.

But, when a blizzard blows in, stranding the Winchesters, Sam finds a crack in the rock-face, and everything changes.

A pit, and pain, and every broken thing inside Dean, discovered by angels.

Well, one angel. One powerless, exiled angel.

Angel Recovery Project by keylimepie (20k)

An ordinary woman attempts a very extraordinary spell and brings back the wrong angel. But he's here and he needs help, from sandwiches to love advice, so what else is a girl to do?

5 Times a Member of Team Free Will Kills John Winchester and the 1 Time he is Kicked out of Heaven by bisexualsharks & Hazloveshisboo & jeremycarver (21k)

The 5 times different members of TFW (and a few others) got the chance to murder John Winchester, and the 1 time he was kicked out of Heaven because it was too late to kill him.

These are all separate one-shots that are not connected or set in the same timeline.

No need for dreaming by AsphodeleSauvage (24k)

Castiel loves his job as a wedding photographer. He loves nothing more than to capture the pure love in a couple's eyes as they say 'yes' - soulmates or not soulmates, he doesn't care. Yet, he can't help wondering about his own soulmate and about the mark on his chest that promises him a love story for the ages. There is also the fact that he keeps bumping into the charming Dean Winchester at every wedding he goes to...

A Hard-Won Peace by patheticfangirl (28k)

“Afterlife” no longer means forgetting what happened during life.

In Heaven, Dean is tormented by peace and freedom until he reunites with an also-struggling Castiel. Together, they work through issues they couldn’t leave behind, hoping to find something resembling happiness.

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe by TheBlackLagoon (37k)

Cas Novak can’t see an escape from the life of hunting. Even with the frequent pleas from Jessica to leave it all behind, where in the world is he supposed to fit in? Dean Winchester can’t see a life beyond pencil-pushing for the Men of Letter’s Midwest branch. Even with the responsibility he holds to upkeep his family name, is it really what he’s meant to do? The two duos meet on what appears to be an easy salt and burn but which quickly spirals out of control.

Just for the Holidays by Fallen_Angel_Meg (41k)

After going through some tough times, Jess, Castiel's best friend, decides the best thing for him to do is to get away for Christmas. She secretly signs up their shared house on a home exchange website and it doesn't take long for them to get some interest. Castiel ends up trading houses with Sam Winchester, despite his hesitations to do so. So now Castiel has to spend his Christmas alone in Lawrence, Kansas. Which isn't so bad because Castiel is looking for some alone time right now, not wanting to get romantically involved with anyone. That is, until he meets Dean Winchester and things get complicated.

And that's it! If you have any other fics with under 5k hits that you love — whether they be your own or your friend's — please share them with me! Often these fics are swept under the rug when the authors put so much time and effort into them, so I hope you enjoy reading them :)

hi this is an ask for a good fic recommendation. I just read a Destiel fic based on beauty and the beast and I was wondering if you had any other recommendations for a Disney hybrid story? Thanks :)

hiya anon!! this is a great idea for a rec list, but unfortunately I only know two! Hopefully someone else can help us out by reccing some amazing Disney AUs :D

Once Upon A Time in a Disney Store by noxsoulmate (23k)

When Castiel Novak gets sick and loses his voice for a few days, he comes up with a clever trick to explain his lost voice to the kids in the Disney Store he works at. One little Mary Winchester, however, takes his note too serious and promptly starts a quest for his prince. Will her charming uncle be able to break the curse and be his one true love?

(This whole series is so cute!! And the second one is Christmas-themed, just in time for the holidays!)

Happily Ever After by Castielslostwings (31k)

Police Officer Dean Winchester’s younger brother Sam and his best friend Charlie Bradbury have had enough of watching him pine over his best friend, roommate, and partner on the force, Castiel. Especially when it’s so obvious to everyone but the two of them that the feeling is mutual. Subtle hints and encouragement just aren’t cutting it anymore. Now, it’s time to get drastic. It’s time… for Disney.

And I think this might be the fic anon is referring to, if anyone is interested! (If it isn't, you just get a bonus rec lmao)

Beauty and the Beast by seraph_castiel (49k)

Castiel hated the rules of the Royals.

"Do this, do that." It was like they were better than the people who lived in the township. He always loved humanity, and he never knew what would happen when he unleashed it. His family has more to it than he thought, and when he met a firey Omega to keep him in line, the Alpha was absolutely in love. Even though the Omega was a peasant. Whats wrong with being human? Aren't they all?

If anyone knows any others, please let us know and I'll make sure to give them a read!! And thank you for the ask, sorry I couldn't be more helpful :D