
Every time I opened up a tab to read/view and comment, you had my full and complete attention.
You were my first priority. If I only had time to do one thing in fandom on any given day, I wanted to make sure that it was you.
I value so much the time you give, the effort each and every one of you put into your gifts, and the amazing, thoughtful, artistic, expansive, multivalent and many-faceted life you bring to this challenge, to Hellatus, and to fandom. <333
Thank you to all of the pinch-hitters, especially to
And thank you to all the people who betaed works, cheerled their flists, advertised the challenge, recced works, and especially those who commented (especially

Beyond the cut, I'd like to round up all of my personal recs for this year's round, all of which are first-class, but are only a sampling of what should be on this list, probably. There are so many more things I'd like to rec.
But if I'm going to be honest? The #1 rec list you should be checking out? The masterlist for the WHOLE challenge! 8D
[VID] We Make Our Own Future by
Midnight. A bloodied, battered, and stricken MoC Dean stands at a crossroads. What deal is he making, and will anyone take him up on it?
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[FIC] The Piper's Calling You to Join Him by
The year Sam spent in Texas could have gone an entirely different way. Sometimes imaginary!Dean is better than no Dean at all.
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[FIC] Finding Linda Tran by
A day (or more) in the Un-life of a Prophet of the Lord. At some point, those are actually supposed to get easier, right?
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[FIC] Undine by
This fic finds Sam post-10x23, Dean wrenched from him once again, holed up on an island in Michigan in storm-time, and deep into some incredibly dark shit.
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[FIC] Strangerland by
It starts with the arrival of an invitation. Set immediately after 9.20 – Bloodlines. Inspired by the prompt: "It’s Death’s birthday – whoever would have thought it? Dean is determined to help him celebrate."
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[FIC] Down by the Lake by
“I’d stay away from the water while you’re here. Things down there you don’t want to get near."
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[FIC] Run Aground by
It’s February on the Maine Coast. John’s away, Sam’s sulking and Dean’s feeling fed up. Oh, and there might just be a case in town.
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[ART] Infinitesimal by
Sam & Dean camping/cooking out next to the Impala in the middle of nowhere.
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[FIC] Even Losing You by
The art of losing isn't hard to master. Lisa's getting quite good at it.
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[ART] "We Had an Agreement, Giant!" by
"Mess with the bull, you get the horns."
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[FIC] Paying for Time by
Where nobody gets hurt, no one falls in love because they are there already, and someone dies but kind of doesn’t. Oh, and pretty much everyone gets confused: Dean is old and forgetful, Sam is dead and maybe a ghost. With Death long gone, and all the rules broken, Time has become fluid and ancient gods like Vertumnos have no constraints. So when Vertumnos offers Dean a chance to buy some time, he takes it.
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[FIC] Feed the Blood Garden by
The Darkness is closing in, and the Winchesters' only hope of fighting it is in a haunted house deep in the West Virginia mountains.
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[FIC] Over the Rainbow by
For the prompt: "French Mistake" AU - for whatever reason, Sam and Dean cannot jump back into their own reality and have to stay in the other dimension instead. They think having to act is bad. But then they find out that they're expected to attend a con the following weekend - and it's NOTHING like the one Becky forced them to attend many years ago based on those blasted Supernatural books!
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[FIC] City Lights Fading Fast by
Stanford!Sam being a BAMF. Now with 100% more Tyson Brady.
For someone so dedicated to eventually becoming an adult who will serve and save people with his medical expertise and his glistening, toothpaste-commercial smile, Tyson Brady is strangely attracted to the undercurrent of violence in backwater highway bars.
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[FIC] The Rose-Colored Glasses of Life by
There’s no such thing as Retiring From Hunting Monsters For Dummies. (Mentions of alcoholism and suicidal ideation. Multiple POVs.)
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Again, thank you everyone!