Maygra brings the creepy more than a lot of authors in the Supernatural fandom, and it never fails to make me happy. This is a little less on the creepy side than on the oh hey that’s cool side.

Reminders of Echoes

The Winchester version of a happy ending after they get the demon. This is gen but it could just as easily be labeled non-explicit slash. Such a lovely story, good characterization, interesting, well detailed.

the only people for me are the mad ones

So I don’t read a ton of gen in this fandom (or any other really) because I’m OTP enough to prefer to see Sam and Dean be SamandDean, but Trollprincess is one of those authors whose fic is guaranteed to be good no matter what. In this one Dean gets cursed with that ancient proverb: May you live in interesting times. This is almost a five Sam’s that didn’t exist type story and it’s really fucking awesome. The kind of story which would make for a damned interesting episode.

Interesting Times

This is cool. Toby and Leo on the campaign when Bartlett first runs. I like this because we see how Leo gets Josh on the campaign, and we see how Josh gets Sam and how Donna gets herself, and even how Toby gets CJ, but we never see Leo recruiting Toby so this is some good backstory. The voices are, if maybe not absolutely pitch perfect 100% of the time, pretty damned close. There are a lot of lines that I can just hear Leo saying and that is never a bad feeling.

Playing the Game

This is just a short vignette without much plot to speak of but it’s just to cool. Logan and Dean, while not the first combination of characters that come to mind when imagining Supernatural crossovers, play off each other in some really interesting ways. This whole story is just delightfully inventive. And it all takes place at the Fitzpatrick bar, The River Stix, which is so wonderfully Dean to have picked that bar when he goes to Neptune.

In Harm’s Way

Canon gives us hints of Wilson not being the good, nice guy he seems to be and this story expands on that in some really cool ways. Missing scenes from eight episodes in which Wilson is at his manipulative best. I couldn’t remember all of the details from each of the episodes Descrime wrote about, but I remembered enough.

Shape of the Universe

Niz4 has a solid Dean voice and weaves the perfect amount of meta into her stories.

“I don’t know Sam…” And he can hear it in your voice – didn’t mean for it to sound so bleak – it makes him turn to watch your face. “Sometimes I feel like the fight is already lost, the rest of the employees got their pink slips, and we just never got the memo…”

The World So High

A good post-Devil’s Trap story, note: this is, obviously, chock full of spoilers for the season 1 finale.

Crash

I love that this is a fandom that gives good gen fic, This is exciting and well told, and Sam and Dean’s voices are spot on. There’s fantastic banter and a spooky bad guy and some really cool spell mythology.

Crossing the Line

Dean gets cursed and turned into a seven year old kid. The author calls this crack!fic, and the premise totally is, but this is a surprisingly insightful and complex story for a premise as potentially one-dimensional as some writers may have made it. Emily Brunson is in no way shape or form that writer. We all wonder about exactly what Papa Winchester was teaching Dean when he was growing up and this story goes into that in some really interesting ways. Sam is amazing, sympathetic and perfect in the situation because this opens his eyes up to so many things about how Dean must have grown up (something he sure as hell never thought about from Dean’s perspective ever before.) Plus, Dean is pretty much the most adorable thing on the block no matter how old he is, and at seven I just want to pinch his cheeks and play flashlight tag with him until Sam comes to feed him dinner and glare at me like the over-protective brother he is.

Under a Haystack

I love a good, solid gen fic and this is a great one. I especially love this because Lyra gives Dean superpowers and who the hell could resist pyro!Dean? note: I’ve linked to part 2 because there’s a link to part 1 from there.

Works in Mysterious Ways

This isn’t a crossover per se but it takes some elements from Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy and puts them to very cool use. This is a really neat story.

Sever, Mirror, and Mend

OMG Dean and Sam and an orphaned kid and the metallicar and omg. Dean is so, so awesome when he’s all protective and grudging.

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This is such a fantastic story. Dean and Sam go up against a colony of faeries and it’s just, so, so good. Also the last line? Cracked my shit up so much. The dialogue in this is especially good.

Bargains

Spoilers for Season 6, Episode 2: The Birnam Woods This episode killed me a little bit. Leo has always been at the heart of the West Wing, whether we saw it or not, and well, I guess I feel like this is how the episode should have been shot. (Or maybe I just think that this is what happened and we didn’t get to see it.) It’s hard for me to explain this story actually. It’s brilliant, and absolutely heartbreaking. Seriously, it gave me shivers.

The Things You’l Never Say

This series is really good. Spoilers for the first two episodes of Season 2 In the Shadow of the Gunmen 1 &2 it’s a gen story, no pairing but the characterization is good and she’s added a lot of interesting depth to the events post-shooting.

Time and the Fates of Man

There’s something really hot about John Sheppard’s brutal competence. This story goes into what we saw of Sheppard during The Storm/The Eye in terms of exactly how far he will go to save his people, how ruthless he can be, and how good he is at doing it.

Exigencies

Rodney’s an addict in the best way:

his urge to eat their heads mellowed slightly if they sacrificed two cups of freshly brewed Blue Mountain to him before they pleaded their cases.

C₈H₁₀N₄O₂

A fascinating take on Heightmeyer’s experiences in Atlantis, and her diagnoses of the main cast. Make sure to read the comments for some interesting meta.

Ni A Sabios Ni A Ricos

This is one of those stories that really helps solidify the characters in your mind. Basically, it’s Jack’s take on John after their post-Seige III return.

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