next to the last true romantic

Title: Start Quoting Shakespeare and We're Done
Author: pyrebi
Fandom/Genre: Supernatural AU
Pairing(s): Dean/Castiel, Sam/Gabriel
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 15k
Warnings: Gleeful profanity, rampant rom-com scenarios, and a decided lack of porn.

Artist: sijay
Art link: Art Masterlist

Summary: In which Dean has the hots for a librarian named Cas, Cas may or may not have the hots for a mechanic named Dean, and Gabriel joins Sam in the peanut gallery in the hopes that he might just get to do a horizontal tango of his own.



This fic is based off of three different prompts from comment_fic 's AU day, all of them from sycophantastic :

1) Dean/Castiel, Sam/Gabriel, romantic comedy
2) Dean/Castiel, Cas is a librarian
3) Sam/Gabriel, they meet for the first time in a candy shop

Happy reading!

Let's recap my ships of the moment:

Dean/Castiel
I am going to create a Dean/Castiel fanmix. The first two songs on it will be Air Supply's "Making Love Out of Nothing At All" and Erasure's "Always." As I find other traumatizingly cheesy songs, I will add them. It will become my playlist for every crack story ever. (I am not sure why I am so convinced that their EPIC LOVE STORY is hilarious. They're both such dense bastards. Castiel's cold and Dean's ragey and both of them are kind of horrible and uncaring people to those around them, including each other. And yet I'm willing to overlook that, and the way that, although they seem to like each other in some sort of moderate way, there's nothing actually shippy about them other than the writers poking fun at the fanbase.  I don't know. I don't know. My logical mind is going "what? no. stop that, you're being stupid" at me, and then my fandom mind is being all "AHAHAHAHAHA DEAN/CAS 4EVA," and the latter's more fun, so. Plus, the DEEP DARK ANGST of their on-screen relationship annoys the hell outta me, so it's amusing to me to think of all of that ~drama~ carrying over to a romance.)

Transition note: I feel bad for enjoying both Dean/Cas and Jimmy/Amelia.

Jimmy/Amelia
So, the set-the-mood playlist I'm amassing to help me write the big hunter!Amelia/Jimmy fic for my het exchange assignment already contains three songs with "wolf" or "wolves" in their titles. This brings up two thoughts for me: a) wtf, self? what do wolves have to do with anything? and b) ...I have that many songs that talk about wolves? This whole thing makes no fucking sense to me. EDIT: Oh, I've just listened to them all again, and no, there's definitely a connection. In each song, the aforementioned wolves relate to angels in my head. (They are, by the way, "You're A Wolf" by Sea Wolf, "Wolves" by Josh Ritter, and "we are gods! we are wolves!" by Le Loup.)

Sam/Gabriel
No, shut up, this is hilarious. I don't even understand it. It's like this little subset of Dean/Cas shippers decided that if Dean got an angel boyfriend, Sammy should too. But the fics are delicious, and it's just my kind of awkward tongue-in-cheek romance.

MOTHERFUCKING ~*~SASSY~*~
Please see above, re: Sam/Gabriel. Plus, the girls who are producing this stuff are funny as hell. I also kinda blame by involvement with ontd_spnparty  for making me chortle at the thought of this ship.

Gabriel/Nancy
This is my own fault and I've whined about it enough. I just need to finish the damn fic so I can have it outta my head and it can be stillborn like any good ill-conceived monstrosity.

Dean/Lisa
Or, my only angst ship of the moment. I really liked this, too, before her wtf-reappearance in 5.17. It was, like, my canon-compliant happy ending ship. Now, I just feel like Dean's going to tear her apart. Nobody takes in a broken dude with more issues than an entire therapy group and is happy about it. I can't help but feel that he'll break her somehow, and she's gonna need to get rid of him, and then he'll be even more disillusioned, and AUGH. Fucking Show! WHY IS NO ONE EVER ALLOWED TO BE HAPPY?

-deep breath- Anyhow. Too many pairings. This summer is gonna be weird. I've never had so many currently-running ships. Usually it's just one at a time (Remus/Tonks, Chloe/Clark, Sam/Jess). So, uh. Yay SPN?

(I have so much work to do, and all I wanna do is write fic. So I'm going to write this instead to soothe the urge until I can actually get some more time into my schedule.)

Can I just say the response to This Story Needs More Power Ballads is ridiculous? I am floored. -shakes head- And also that title was not just nonsense (although at 6:30am it was a lot that, too)--I have decided that my personal Dean/Castiel anthem is Air Supply's "Making Love Out Of Nothing At All." Yes. I hope that this will tell you everything you need to know about my take on the Dean/Cas ship. (Shorthand: earnest and corny and hilarious and embarrassingly addictive.) I do not even care that they are canonically harsh people. I can write fluff for the first time in forever, and it's fuckin' liberating. Thank you, Show.

Speaking of Dean/Castiel. I, uh, noticed there are definitely undertones of it in my big depressing hunter!Amelia fic that I didn't intentionally put there. I can't tell if I'm picking up Show's vibe of their relationship or if my shipper self is rearing its ugly head. Either way, I'm sorry, Amelia.

Also I might find myself writing Gabriel/Sam soon. -facepalm- But I feel like I'm jumping on that ship a little late, and that Gabe might be back soon and joss everything to hell, so first I'm gonna watch at least the next couple of eps. Then I might just have to try my hand at it, because I've been reading SO MANY awesome Gabe fics lately that I'm practically buzzing with love. Plus, Sam. Now that Show's being nice to him again and allowing him to act like an adult and not making him out to be some sort of monster (I'm sorry they were mean to you, behbeh Sammeh), I've found myself seriously interested in writing him more. I used to love writing Sam, but s3 and s4 kinda crushed that. Now, with 5.18, I'm practically foaming to get my paws back on his psyche. I missed that sasquatch. I'm tired of the Dean Angst Show. I liked Dean when he was the rough-and-tumble average Joe trying to hold things together for everybody else. Lately all he's doing to sobbing about his inner demons, and it's not compelling anymore. I swear to god he used to be clever. Not smart, maybe, but clever. What happened to that?

ANYWAY. Work now. Fic later. Bemused pleasure continually.