“The Dreamer”
They’ve promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. -Oscar Wilde
This painting was inspired by Cas’ first appearance in @fullvoidao3 ’s fic “Revelation 13” (a destiel murder husbands AU inspired by Silent Hill!)
Front cover art poll !
Choose one of these beautiful artworks to be on the front cover of the zine.
Art # 1 “Driving through the night”
Art # 2 “ A hurt dad is a mountain”
I came into this fandom really late; Castiel was and will always be my favorite character, but back then, I called myself a JA fan. I wasn't involved in fandom spaces; I was just a lurker on Twitter and on here, and my only contact with the fandom was YT videos of J singing. I didn't watch panels or anything.
Then Nov 5 happened, and everything went bananas, and I started getting more involved in the fandom, still a spectator, but I consumed every single meta post, edit, and all the art, and I felt even more in love with Destiel. Then I found the kind of man Misha Collins is.
Once I found him, I never looked back. He is not like any other celebrity I used to idolize. Yes, he has no filter, and he is irreverent and careless sometimes and has a lot of flaws; in the end, he is human. But what I like the most about him is that he cares. He cares about the people he loves and about this world and this fandom.
You can say whatever you want about him; you can hate him and fault him for everything. If you want to live your life hating on a complete stranger, whatever, who am I to tell you how to live? If that makes you happy, if that makes you feel important, good for you, go ahead.
But I will always be a fan of this man. He makes me feel that it is ok to be weird, that it is ok not to be 'normal,' that it is ok to care."
A 2016 Dean/Cas Big Bang Fic
Despite their age gap and differing social circles, Castiel has struck up a warm friendship with Mary Winchester, a wealthy widowed socialite. When Castiel needs a place to stay, Mary invites him into her house, where there’s loads of spare room. Castiel’s aware that they make an odd pair, but he doesn’t fully realize how things look to outsiders, especially to Mary’s eldest son. All Dean Winchester sees is that his mom has apparently hooked up with a hot young guy (who is totally Dean’s type) and that makes things… weird.
– guys I am just giddy about this year’s DCBB … since I had the sheer, dumb, random luck to illustrate a story written by the AMAZING Annie D (scaramouche), aka no-gorms on tumblr. I’m sure you’ve read her stories – including Not Part of the Plan, Convenient Husbands, and my fave, What Has Eight Tentacles and Isn’t Allowed to Eat Pie. This new romantic comedy-of-errors fic is awesome, and her Dean and Cas characterizations are just perfect. (And Mary Winchester is so great too!) While I spent most of this DCBB season internally screaming I am not worthy, it’s been so cool to have a chance to create art to match her vision. I know you guys are going to love reading it!
“Painted Destiel: Page Twelve” - Digital Oil Painting
Okay, so this was supposed to be the last page, but then it got REALLY long so I decided to cut it in half. The last page WILL be posted next week! Please see my reblogged post for the links to the other pages.
Please see the notes for my links, I always double post my art because Tumblr is excluding all links from tag searches. You should find my post tagged ‘licie links’ right under my original post in the notes. I know it’s annoying, but this extra step helps me out a lot.
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“Painted Destiel: Page Thirteen” - Digital Oil Painting
At long last, the final page! Thank you to everyone who stuck with me all this time, I hope you enjoyed this hodgepodge that spiraled into a full story. Please see my reblogged post for the links to all the other pages.
Please see the notes for my links, I always double post my art because Tumblr is excluding all links from tag searches. You should find my post tagged ‘licie links’ right under my original post in the notes. I know it’s annoying, but this extra step helps me out a lot.
“Painted Destiel: Kiss 1″ - Digital Oil Painting
Another detail frame from my Painted Destiel comic series, I figured you guys would want to see the kiss without all the special effects on top of it! Esp considering that this was the reunion we should have gotten COUGH COUGH Oh, whoops, what was that?
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Dean & Cas
A profound bond ~
A painting from @misskittyspuffy post that inspired me ✨
Destiel, as a ship, is thirteen years old, and those years have seen vast changes in the nature of fandom and the way people share their works. They’ve also seen a constant stream of people entering and leaving the fandom, bringing their creativity with them, contributing their knowledge and skill to one of the richest ship fandoms on the entire internet. There are currently 94,000 works tagged Destiel on Archive of Our Own, and the ship was years old before AO3 was founded, so it’s safe to say that in the past thirteen years more than 100,000 works have been created featuring our beloved Dean and Castiel. And while we still have many, many fics, countless works from the past have been deleted, or effectively “lost” by other means. This is tragic (well, aside from the ones that have been made into original fic and published, that’s awesome) and work attrition continues to this day, with the most recent, public, high-profile deletion being apokteino’s decision to eliminate their account on New Year’s Eve of 2020.
The Fic Archive Project seeks to find, preserve, and archive as wide a range of Destiel works as possible, with an emphasis on:
I (hi, I’m @unforth and this is my pet project) founded this project in 2018 as a spin off from the Destiel Favs Survey I administer yearly. I downloaded all works that received a vote, and tracked down any that had been deleted. That collection forms the core of the Archive, but over the years it has grown well beyond that. I now have a repository of nearly 15,000 Destiel works, and it grows all the time. Up to now, I’ve kept this project largely private; the only place it’s been available to the fandom is on the Profound Bond Discord server. However, in light of apokteino’s deletion, I’ve realized most people don’t know this is something I do, and don’t know that if they’re looking for a deleted fic, they can contact me. As such, I decided it was time to make a side-blog dedicated to the Archive, to help publicize it, grow it, and disseminate its contents.
I’ve created a spreadsheet to help navigate this collection, which you can access here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SWRvyj4DIAGGfo04_ba8LaDsJmlIfSxb2fn9TtqnlYM/edit?usp=sharing
Please be aware this is a living document so while I’ve done my best to keep it neat and organized and suitable for public viewing, I can’t promise everything will always be in ship-shape when you view it. The first sheet of the linked workbook, “About This Workbook,” contains extensive information about how the Archive is organized, decisions I’ve made on what and how to collect works, my personal to-do list, and numerous ways that anyone accessing the collection can help. If you’re interested in helping, or if you have copies of any of the works on my “lost fic” spreadsheet, please get in touch with me!
Feel free to drop this Tumblr an ask if you’re looking for something, or DM me for things that are available.
If you want a file, you must be willing to contact me off anon, as I will not be putting any files up for general distribution. The entire collection is backed up on g-drive but I do intend to open access to it - currently myself and cryptomoon (who has been beyond helpful throughout this and offered me server space) are the only two people who can access the actual archive. I send files by Discord message and/or e-mail.
Please note
Thanks for reading, welcome to the archive project, and I look forward to helping people find the fics they’re looking for!
Rapid Ragu
DISCLAIMER: Y’all, those conversions confuse tf out of me. When it comes to meat and veg, it should be fine. When it comes to fluids, I used a conversion website to help me set it to US fluid ounces. Maybe double-check or you know, follow your nose when it seems off to you.
This one is basically Nigella’s rapid ragu, so all ownership is hers. We eat a lot of pasta in our household, though you can also eat this with rice or dark bread or simply on its own!
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Art Masterpost: One Drop, when What You Need is the Ocean Written by: Baileys (@baileys101) Art by: sidewinder (@hawkland) Pinefest season is here again! It's my third year participating, and this time I'm excited to be doing art for two fics and writing a story of my own for it, for the first time, too! Those other collabs will be posting later in April, but today it's Baileys' and my day, so let's get to it.
This was the first piece I did for the story, Dean on the shoreline at Fort Foster in Maine. My original plan was to feature the loons in every artwork in some way, but as the story developed I changed my mind a bit and decided to just go more atmospheric in general. I really was struck by the role nature, the elements, and various settings played in the story repeatedly. So I decided to focus on that and it gave me a chance to play with some different watercolor techniques, maybe go a little looser than I usually do.
This piece came together super-quick after I had it visually planned in my head: Cas on a lake shore under the moonlight with mist coming off the water. In fact it was mostly done in one quick, maybe 10 minute wet wash once I'd drawn Cas in place and marked the horizon line. Just a little final detail work on the moon and relection as I feared ruining it by reworking it any further than that.
This last piece was mostly about trying to capture the motion of the parting waters and Cas with his post-Fall wings...I am always 👀 👀 👀 at a chance to paint them. It's a small painting like the one under moonlight (12" x 6") so I couldn't really get into heavy details, but I like how the water/parting of the waves turned out.
The cover piece was really where I put a lot of my heart and fussiness into...more of my usual over-obsessive detail work as I wanted to do one piece with Cas & Dean together. I had to bring the loons in for this one and wanted Dean & Cas to sort of mirror the pose/positioning of our feathered friends....those birds were NOT easy to paint. But I really like how it turned out so here's the image without any title text, too.
Please go read the story and enjoy!
Author: seidenapfel | Artist: Kit Shay
Everything seemed easy when Castiel landed a job in Lawrence as a literature professor at KU. He even found a place to stay with his cousin in Topeka. But the daily commute quickly gets on his nerves and he begins looking for a room in town. When he finally lucks out on a house, it comes with a catch. His mysterious landlord/housemate works and lives in Topeka during the week, and will only be at home for the weekend while Castiel is back at his cousin’s to honor a promise he made.
When Dean walks into his favorite pie shop, the new sales assistant takes his breath away. Steve is gorgeous, and part of the owner’s family. Dean doesn’t even mind that he picks up Gabriel’s stupid moniker for him. After all, Deano has one syllable more, and Dean will do anything to hear Steve’s voice just a little bit longer.
Though, as breathtaking Steve might be, he isn’t Angel. If only Dean’s book-loving best friend weren’t a mystery in himself — a guy who Dean has only met online, but who has slowly taken his heart away. And it seems that Dean isn’t alone in his feelings.When the lines blur and fantasies merge three guys into one, disappointment and heartbreak seem to be inevitable.
Pairings: Dean/Cas (blink and you miss a minor mention of Rowena MacLeod/Sam Winchester)
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Tags: Two Person Love Triangle, Misunderstandings, Idiots in Love
Author: dothraki_shieldmaiden Artist: NeverSleepUntilFive
When Dean Winchester met Castiel Novak in college they were both headed for amazing things: Dean was a rising star in the art world while Cas was a promising medical student. Now, thirteen years and one marriage later, none of those dreams have come true. Cas works twelve hour shifts as a nurse while Dean works as a mechanic, his art supplies wasting away in a dusty room. With his marriage to Cas on rocky ground, Dean starts to feel like he made a mistake all those years ago.
A chance encounter and a hasty wish land Dean in another world – one where his art career is skyrocketing him to fame and fortune… And one where he never married Cas.
Now Dean has to make a decision – whether to go back to Cas and his mundane life, or whether to stay… and lose Cas forever.
Pairings: Dean Winchester/Castiel, Castiel/April Kelly, Background Sam Winchester/Eileen Leahy
Warnings: Infidelity (not between Dean and Cas)
Tags: Wishes, Artist!Dean, Doctor!Cas, Established Relationship, Married Dean and Cas
My (first) art for this years DCRB!! Make sure to read shineforthee's wonderful fic ''virga(e)". Working with them was so much fun. :)
Author: @friendofcarlotta Artist: @xfancyfranart Rating: E Word Count: 20,011 Pairing: Castiel/Dean Winchester
Tags: Alternate Canon, Dean Stabs Cas, Ava Stabs Meg, Bottom Castiel/Top Dean Winchester, Human Cas Endgame
Dean Winchester is a demon hunter. And even though he doesn’t have fancy demon-slaying powers like Sam and Ava, he’s really fucking good at his job. But then he gets himself all tangled up with an angel named Cas, who’s on the run from Heaven and also in cahoots with a demon. Let’s just say Dean’s job is about to get a hell of a lot more complicated.
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