Sixteen-year-old Sam Winchester seems hell-bent on spending his entire winter break sulking and feeding his inner freak until he comes across a list of New Year’s Resolutions he wrote the year prior. This was a new year and he was a new Sam. He needed a new list.
My Comments:
This was my gift at the@spnj2xmas and words cannot express how much I love it. Its so evocative of how miserable it can be to be a teenager, and how your emotions just jump about all over the place. And it’s also hot as hell!
Summary: When John gets a call to investigate a series of grisly animal killings, he drops Sam and Dean at an abandoned cabin two towns over. The boys find ways to keep busy — playing cards, watching movies, chopping wood — but with a howling winter storm on the way, there’s nowhere for Sam to hide his illicit feelings for his older brother. As the lure of desire threatens to devour him, Sam must learn to face the wolves that lurk outside and the monsters within.
My comments: I raved about this story when I first read it, and it definitely makes my 2017 list. This story is everything I want in first time Weecest – angsty, possessive boys who are so wrapped up in each other that nothing else matters. It’s also beautifully written and super evocative of the winter environment it’s set in – a perfect read at this time of year.
Sam is glaring at him and Dean is puzzled for half a second before he realizes: this Sam and Dean aren’t there yet. It’ll take two more years, a demon deal reaching cash-in, and a bottle of whisky – the good kind, no time left to waste on the bad shit – before they get there. Right now, it’s still just sideways looks and godawful tension, sitting a bit too close and lingering a little too long.
My Comments:
I’m such a sucker for stories like this – older Sam and Dean meet their younger counterparts, and can’t resist. This is a wonderful exploration of their relationship and characters as well, all wrapped up in lovely hot porn.
Summary: Sam has never been able to hold onto Dean the way he wants to. He tries. It’s never enough.
My comments:
We both had the same prompt for @wincestwritingchallenge for this, and it was so unfair, because this was so much better than mine. Angsty, desperate, jealous Sammy desperately trying to attract Dean’s attention is so my jam.
“Cas wonders, as he often does, if he should tell Sam that he knows what it really is that he needs. He decides that tonight, after all these years, he finally will. They’re not getting any younger, after all, and he’s mainly stayed out of it because he didn’t truly believe that two people so singularly and utterly devoted could be that stubborn and obtuse. It’s maddening, and it almost seems purposeful, how they ignore each others’ signals, like they each have that secret locked down so tight (out of shame, probably, or guilt), each other’s light can’t get through. It’s tragic, almost, if he’s being completely honest.” Coda to 12×11: Regarding Dean.
My comments:
This is one of the fics that remind me of why I loved Cas as a character, and still love him when he’s written right (i.e. not on the show). This is the Cas who loves the Winchesters, who agonises over what to do for the best for them. It’s also one of the best late-season Wincest fics I’ve ever read; focusing on their bond and what they mean to each other in a way that’s utterly beautiful.
Sam wakes up in a strange bed, a strange apartment, and living in domestic bliss with Dean and a dog named Mothra. Obviously, either he’s lost his mind or all of this is a dream.
My comments:
This is my favourite of Paula’s fics this year. I love the world that’s created for Sam, and the ending hurt so, so good for such a gentle fic. I wanted Sam to have this so bad…
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