you blew through me like bullet holes: march guest rec post
March Rec Post: you blew through me like bullet holes
Hi! I'm vie_dangerouse, and I will be Vanna White-ing your recs for March. Yes, I realize March is very nearly over, but I wanted it to go out like a lion. You know, a lion of angst. Anyway, this rec post contains a mixture of different types of fanworks: fics, a fanmix, picspams/gifsets, a fanvideo, and fanart! I wanted to touch all the bases and then home run. ;) Also, personally, I know that I love reading fic recs, but sometimes long lists of them make me feel overwhelmed. In this capacity, there's some fic, but there are also just some pretty pictures of Dean looking angsty, which is always good in my book.
Title: Coffins: A Dean Winchester Fanmix
Author: walking_between_the_lines (@tumblr)
Tags: fanmix, season 4, hell/post-hell issues
Reccer’s Notes: One of the best Dean-focused fanmixes I’ve run across in recent memory. Tortured indie-rock is normally something I’d associate more with Sam, but this mix just feels like Dean, all the way to the core.
Title: Sleep Well America
Author: petite_madame
Tags: season 2, fanart, injury, cuts/lacerations
Reccer’s Notes: Judging from Sam’s cast, I’d place this around mid-Season 2, so you can add in an atmosphere of that yummy S2-era angst. What I adore most about this art is the perspective-the lamplight in the background, the open car door, and Dean’s leg up on the back of Sam’s seat. In all, this is a lovely capturing of an immediate post-hunt moment, where Dean just collapses in on himself from exhaustion and ‘holy-shit-it’s-over-for-now’. <3
Title: Seven Nation Army
Author: macho123o91 (@youtube)
Tags: fanvideo, season 4, season 5, season 6, cuts/lacerations, grief, hell/post-hell issues, alcoholism, angst, angst, angst
Reccer’s Notes: It doesn’t get any better than this. A perfect (and I am loathe to use the word ‘perfect’ in description, since it’s such an absolute, but this video completely deserves it) slice of the Winchesters’ character arc from Seasons 4-6, with flashbacks to Seasons 2 and 3. This video uses such unique stop-motion/slow-motion techniques, and the choice of scenes is never expected, but works in ways that I’ve seen few videos do.
Title: Love in the Time of Pneumonia
Author: mad_server
Tags: pneumonia, cough, season 7, pairing: dean/sam (?- not overt)
Reccer’s Notes: The only S7 fic I have read. I think that says something! (But really. It took a lot to convince me to read S7, and this… mmm. mad_server, write the rest of S7 for me, please?) Dr. Robert is fantastic, and I adore how Sam is all squicked out by the sketchiness of the clinic (the description in this fic is A+++), and Dean is just all shivery and tired and well, in a word: delicious.
Title: Same Time Next Year
Author: apreludetoanend
Tags: let’s leave those as a surprise. ;)
Reccer’s Notes: A really old fic, but brand-new to me, and hopefully to some of you, too!
Title: o children lift up your voice
Author: usuckathuntingufos (@tumblr)
Tags: season 5, ep: swan song, grief, dean looks pretty when he bleeds
Reccer’s Notes: I know a lot of you probably aren’t familiar with tumblr, but it’s basically a blogging website where you reblog pictures that you like! There are tons of pretty fanart sets, gifs, and picspams to be found there.
Title: under-appreciated moments of brothers touching (picspam)
Author: codependentbrothers (@tumblr)
Tags: gunshot wound, cuts/lacerations, supernatural illness, WOUND TENDING (I just found this tag. It's the best!)
Reccer’s Notes: Unf.
Title: because every time you see them… (picspam/gif)
Author: screamqueenie (@tumblr)
Tags: grief, season 5, aaaangst
Reccer’s Notes: Cut me another slice of angst pie, why don’t you.
Title: this is war (picspam/gif)
Author: lowsodiumfreaks (@tumblr)
Tags: a;lfjkaoir
Reccer’s Notes: This song (“This is War” by 30 Seconds to Mars) has always seemed like a “Supernatural song” to me. I’ve seen this done for other fandoms, so I went looking for a SPN version. :)