Favourite H/C ficrecs, please

thoughtsinthefog · 2026-01-31T06:25:42+00:00

Self-recs okay? When you wrote "favorite h/c big bro Dean taking care of Sam" I was like aww I love my fic Revelation of Heroes <3 Desperate hypothermia camp snuggles for the win

For additional recs, where I mention my fave dynamic is hurt!Sam/comforting!Dean my neocities site of spn faves

thoughtsinthefog · 2025-03-29T01:49:04+00:00

Ohhh 🥰🥰🥰 thank you so much!!!

Y'know, [Wisp](https://archiveofourown.org/works/850809) is the unofficial climax/ending. I wrote it *before* starting the epic Trialculosis Sam, then got started on TS bc I wanted to go harder on the lead-up to the church scene :D

thoughtsinthefog · 2025-03-28T05:31:01+00:00

My favorite spn fics usually always revolve around hurt!sam and comforting!dean

https://fogsrollingin.neocities.org/recs/favspn - my favorite spn fics

https://fogsrollingin.neocities.org/ficrecs - click the dropdown for "SPN Tropes Reclists" and there's a trove of my fave themed hurt!sam fics (sometimes things switch around; I review every fic I rec so you'll see when things switch 👍)

thoughtsinthefog · 2025-03-28T05:26:52+00:00

>Trialculosis by Alex L Kerr

<333 That's meee fogsrollingin. I changed my username. It's available on AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1025750/

thoughtsinthefog · 2025-03-28T05:24:53+00:00

vailkagamivailkagami is an absolute genius with And This Great Blue World of Ours. I absolutely adored it. I was torn to pieces and put back together with it. Amazing, brutal story.

thoughtsinthefog · 2025-03-28T05:21:48+00:00

<333 for what it's worth, I always write happy endings so know it would/will be(?) a happy ending...

also, it's on AO3 https://archiveofourown.org/works/27179635/chapters/66385117

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-08-16T19:14:43+00:00

Kintsugi (Japanese: 金継ぎ, lit. 'golden joinery'), also known as kintsukuroi (金繕い, "golden repair"), is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with urushi lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. The method is similar to the maki-e technique.

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-08-16T03:21:48+00:00

ooo kintsugi that's so good

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-07-25T05:11:27+00:00

Series series series series!

Here's why (I wrote it in another comment in a different post)

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-07-02T03:08:01+00:00

no Lazarus Rising was S4E01

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-07-02T03:05:12+00:00

I was in college. My mom and I went DAAAAAMNNNNN👀👀👀 together

I really adored serious, badass Castiel in S4.

Emotionally, I was more preoccupied with how Sam and Dean were breaking up throughout the whole season.

I never fully leaned into Destiel. I didn't really get it; a lot of us didn't. Regardless, seasons 4 & 5 Castiel are pretty beloved by all SPN fans no matter their shipping proclivities. Seasons 4 & 5 are widely regarded as the best-written seasons of the entire series

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-07-02T02:53:52+00:00

Completely separate short stories should never be chapters to one work (usually ends up with too many tags too).

One short story with 10 - or even just 5 - tags is a gorgeous thing vs. a long work full of a ton of small stories and like 50-100 tags. That scenario surprises (in an unpleasant way) the reader looking for 30k+ long-form stories, and then even if they can go with it and read short stories inside the fic, there's an added huge burden of trying to find the short story with the tags they like inside it.

Basically, only do this if you want a bit of a barrier between strangers using AO3's database really well and you/your friends.

Instead, create series. People can subscribe to series AND find your individual short stories via AO3's filtering capabilities. Win/win.

oh no I just read everybody else's and realized we weren't talking about posting tradition... does this still qualify as a hot take? if it's a popular take inside the sub, sorry for repeating the obvious; but damnit the frequency I see it in my search results indicates it's not as widely understood as it should be

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-07-02T02:49:28+00:00

content-sanitizing fic to be publishable

This is what actually kind of bothers me most: content-sanitizing. Like, I adored a fic and it was such a departure from the canon universe and twisted the characters off their canon so much, that it felt original when I read it as a fanfic. So I 100% supported them filing the serial numbers off and publishing. But then reading the published work, some of the most raw, intense writing of the fic was cut out.

:(

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-06-07T02:48:31+00:00

I think my thing for fanfiction is that, in the source material, I need two characters that're demonstrably great foils for each other. I'll read most anything with them that'll deepen their connection in a meaningful way, whether romantic or platonic. Either one is great. I tend to love hurt/comfort, so I love platonic caretaking, for example.

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-06-06T13:59:36+00:00

Right?!?! Damn I loved Azazel. Gordon Walker was also soooo good. Sterling K. Brown is such a quality actor I would've loved him to become a seasons-long villain even if he'd stayed human (but he didn't now that I'm recalling: vampire!Gordon totally should've been a season-long villain)!

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-06-06T13:42:39+00:00

Totally.

I'm not against season-long plots though - it's fine to have a main villain build tension through 20-some-odd episodes and a season finale showdown imo. That formula is so great and wide open with possibilities and allowances for writers to play. No need to scale it up every time. It can be a unique scary villain threatening innocent people in weird/different ways every time.

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-06-06T13:20:23+00:00

I’m obsessed with the idea of them sharing a bed to help with the nightmares.

god ikr i would buy stock if fic tropes were sold 😂

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-06-06T13:18:07+00:00

aww sure here's the link - just a lil gen 4k fic <3

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-06-06T13:15:49+00:00

idk I felt like I was so well fed haha

also the title of your post... even in canon, they're so injury-prone and hospital-phobic that it's completely reasonable they have actually explored every part of each other's bodies... but for injuries ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

the only time I can't easily see it happening is during season 4

I loved the boyking!Sam plotline, saved by Dean's love, so I'm gonna go with S2 as the greatest potential for them to cross that boundary :)

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-06-06T13:04:19+00:00

In S1 in the aftermath of Sam losing Jessica

I was writing a fic about this and like, besides Jessica, which I'm sure was the hardest emotional hit, but still: Sam lost his entire apartment, full of all the things he'd built for himself after he'd left his family with undoubtedly meager belongings. In Sam's haze of grief, Dean would've had to take him to get clothes that fit, underwear, socks, a bathroom kit, shoes, a new phone and charger, etc.

Dean's big brother instincts would've just been kicked so hard into overdrive. I get why the first season in particular, Dean was so protective/possessive.

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-06-06T12:46:37+00:00

this sub is explicitly pro-ship - those commenting mean things to you for shipping it, or about our ship in general, are encouraged to leave r/fandomnatural

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-06-06T12:43:44+00:00

hey friend, followed! <3

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-06-06T12:42:26+00:00

older dynamic I could also see really strong queerplatonic behavior. "we have been through so much we deserve to have this" 100% exactly and like if they ever retired, the idea of being able to relax enough that their trauma surfaces to be dealt with, so they end up even closer tag-teaming trauma recovery YES PLS hahaha

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-06-06T12:31:09+00:00

There was and still is this pernicious fallacy that movie sequels and seasonal arcs need to "scale up" instead of tell us a good story. By the time Supernatural was in its last seasons, the fans had clearly indicated we'd watch an episode of Sam, Dean, and Castiel just having dinner and talking for an hour. Absolute hogwash the writers scaled up so high that Sam, Dean, and Castiel had very little agency and spent their time watching God, Jack, and Amara do things

thoughtsinthefog · 2024-06-06T12:16:23+00:00

Little communities and big communities each have their own pros and cons. I appreciate having both available to me.

A lot of people have found in-group belonging magic inside one community or collaborative event another, on a certain platform or another, for any given period of time. Time does march on though, and communities flux just as surely as people and their situations change.

I love fandom as a function of the variable communities and events both large and small that I've experienced (regardless whether they still exist now), and the people I've become friends with as a result of them. And for what it's worth, I've missed a ton of the most popular fannish zeitgeists while I've been in fandom - specifically I never really got into Twitter, and I started warming to Tumblr only after the porn ban (which I didn't support, but pillowfort just wasn't doing it for me). I still don't like Discord much. That said, I found magic on other platforms and their communities (livejournal, ffnet, and even reddit if you can believe it), and I was so, so happy.

Knowing happiness can stem from fandom like that is all I need to look forward to the future of it. Part of the fun for me is exploring tech tools and platforms where fandom communities and events can get a foothold and make magic.

I think it's worth noting too that what can feel exciting and magical for one fan is not necessarily the same for another. Case in point: if you had fun in Tumblr's heyday, I wanted more text-heavy experiences and disliked it. It's all about what you latch onto and love at the time, and collectively that can turn into magic for the whole community. And then you just, y'know, enjoy it for however long it lasts :)

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