Personal Favourites:

* = stars indicate the level of urgency with which you MUST read, 1-5.
(btw - a one doesn’t mean don’t read. Because holy shit, everything on this list fdgxgffxhfghcgf it wouldn’t be on here if I didn’t want you desperately to read them)
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300 Things *****

Rating: NC-17 overall

Warnings: Language, angst, sexuality, alcoholism, real life.

Word Count: ~76,500 overall

Summary: Dean’s life at twenty-four makes him feel like he’s forty—he works two jobs to help pay bills for his house and put his genius little brother through private school, and has spent six years (on and off, let’s be honest) working on his mechanical engineering degree at KU. With so much of his life devoted to his family, Dean has little time in his schedule for class and no time for social interaction. Then, while getting his classes together for the fall, he finds himself in a do-or-die situation: He must take his last literature class now, his spring already filled with those left for his major…except that none of the English classes will fit his schedule.
This is how Dean grovels and begs Dr. Castiel Milton to make a special arrangement for him, and Dr. Milton does.

READ EVERYTHING THIS GIRL WRITES !! ***

But start with The Soul Piece. It’s. szfgsdf. Indisputably the best fanfic I’ve ever read.

Title: The Soul Piece *****

Author: CloudyJenn

Rating: R

Word Count:

Summary: When a human child is born, their soul is shattered into bright gleaming pieces that scatter to the winds.

Title: Play it All Night Long ****

Rating: NC17

Word count: 43,000 ca

Summary: the rom-com-ish one where Dean hosts a late night radio show, Castiel is a regular listener of his who starts calling one day and ends up calling more often than not and Dean finds himself liking it.

Title: Think I Know Where You Belong *****
 Word Count: 7k and change.

Summary: “Castiel wishes he wasn’t this excited, but it’s the best part of his night when Dean Winchester gets home from baseball practice.”

Warnings: She wears short skirts- he wears sneakers.

Notes: So, I have a sickness and can’t stop listening to Taylor Swift. I was watching the video to “You Belong With Me” on repeat in a deranged haze and this happened. High School AU.

- This is part of the shortskirts verse, which is all TOTALLY worth reading

Title: Peanut Butter-Pumpkin Wedding Cake ***

Author: sparseparsley

Rating: NC-17

Genre/Pairing: Total AU, Romantic Comedy, Dean/Cas

Wordcount: 31k total

Spoilers: None

Warnings: Sex, movie cliches

Summary: The good ones are sometimes assholes and always taken.

The Girlfriend Experience ***

Rating: NC17

Word count: 15, 393

Summary: While it’s not like Dean hasn’t had a couple of truly regrettable hit-and-runs in his sexual history, this is probably the saddest fucking thing that has ever happened to him.

Title: The Day the World Went Away ****

Author: pyjamagurl

Genre: Time travel, future-fic, with some domestic-fic and case-fic leanings. 

Rating: NC-17

Word Count: 59, 658 

Summary: After being reunited with Sam and leaving Lisa, Dean is finding that adjusting back into the hunting lifestyle is harder than he thought it would be. When a particular hunt goes badly, he gets knocked out, only to awaken five years in the future. Things are definitely different; Castiel is a hunter, Sam is married and things between Dean and Castiel have gone somewhere Dean really hadn’t expected. And somewhere in all of this there is a lesson to be learned.

Title: It’s Always the End of the World Somewhere ***

Genre: Highschool AU

Rating: NC-17/Explicit

Words: 21,000+

Summary: The status quo is this: Dean is the popular captain of the football team, and Castiel is the off-kilter nobody who doesn’t so much as breathe the same air as Dean. Then senior year happens and the status quo is shot to smithereens.

(ie, think 5x04!Cas in a high school au.)

Title - Jump the Track ***

Chapters: 12

Author - lafleurdumal85 

Rating - NC-17

Summary - High school AU. It’s Dean’s senior year at Lawrence High, and he’s already given up on himself. It takes the arrival of the strange, intense, awkward Castiel Delacroix at the school to prove to Dean that maybe his life is worth saving after all.

(here’s a link to the pdf. it doesn’t give the link til the end and it pisses me off because i went through all 12 chapters and made my own, only to find the link to the pdf at the end

Title: J. Alfred Prufrock Grows a Pair **

Author:  blue_fjords

Rating: PG-13

Word count: 9,800

Summary: Dean’s a new student and Castiel is God of the high school. They get paired together for an English project and sparks fly.

Title: The Voice of The Turtledove ****

Rating NC-17

Word Count: 60,645 

Summary: Castiel was eleven years old when he first felt there was something wrong with him. He’s twenty-nine, a Roman Catholic priest in a small New England village, before Dean Winchester shows him that there isn’t. AU.

Title: On the Cusp of Becoming ***

Rating: PG-13

Summary: Dean’s a senior with adult issues on his mind.  He’s got a little brother he’s basically raising and an absentee dad.  He’s got a plan for his life and he doesn’t need the new kid in town messing it up.  Too bad Castiel Novak is so fascinating.

Title: Good Things Do Happen ***

Author: trinityofone

Rating: PG

Word count: 11, 000

Summary: A Winchester Family Christmas, 2010. AKA, Best zombie Christmas ever!

http://jollysnidge.livejournal.com/2074.html#cutid1

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These are a bunch of deancas fic recommendations I’ve gathered from various friends. I’ve yet to go through most of them, so I’ve gathered them all here for safekeeping. If there’s descriptions on any of them, they’re written by the person who rec’d it to me

From Whitney

http://liadan14.livejournal.com/54593.html - that one’s based on the Princess Diaries!

http://cloudy-fic.livejournal.com/39429.html - just random cuteness (sentence ficlet thingies)

http://www.scattering-ashes.com/post/5126740713/faithfully-dean-castiel-for-schmoop-week-11 - they adopt a kid and it’s beautiful

From James

http://deancastiel.livejournal.com/

http://libraryofsol.livejournal.com/103321.html - blind!dean

http://glassyskies.livejournal.com/tag/don%27t%20let%20go%20for%20the%20world (basically the end!cas/business man!dean)

http://glassyskies.livejournal.com/126912.html#cutid1 and http://glassyskies.livejournal.com/125954.html#cutid1 (post finale)

http://moorishflower.livejournal.com/179572.html ( destiel and sabriel and college au and full of cute)

http://homoerotics.tumblr.com/post/6643955752 - fluff

http://zoemathemata.livejournal.com/11052.html - fluff

From Frankie

http://purebloodprat.tumblr.com/post/9741076220/frankies-deancastiel-fanfiction-reclist

http://www.delicious.com/tracy_loo_who/dean%2Fcastiel+recs

http://swing-set13.livejournal.com/tag/master%20au%20reclist

http://spn-redemption.livejournal.com/1552.html *

From Rori

http://gedry.livejournal.com/29784.html

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7552282/1/Ship_Wars

http://destielmybeatingheart.tumblr.com/post/8581258350/destiel-highschool-college-au-rec-list

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other really great rec lists

http://tracy-loo-who.livejournal.com/89415.html *

http://sassygaymisha.tumblr.com/post/7101704572 *

http://letmetouchit.tumblr.com/post/6750369772/i-give-to-you-my-destiel-fic-rec-list

http://cloudy-fic.livejournal.com/43789.html#cutid1

http://www.livejournal.com/tools/memories.bml?user=discernibility&keyword=supernatural%3A%20dean%2Fcastiel&filter=all

http://-everybodybutme.tumblr.com/post/720954151/dean-cas-fics

http://destielmybeatingheart.tumblr.com/post/8581258350/destiel-highschool-college-au-rec-list

http://www.delicious.com/amicita/dean%2Fcas

http://archiveofourown.org/users/FayJay/pseuds/FayJay/works?selected_tags[]=27

my own fics: 

http://saidtheking.livejournal.com/