Destroy What Destroys You Masterpost
Title: Destroy What Destroys You
Author: ohsecretsecret
Rating: M
Genre and/or Pairing: Early 20s AU; Dean/Cas, references Dean/Victor, Sam/Jess, Sam/Gabe
Spoilers: It's an AU that parallels canon events from seasons 4-6, but they're hard to see unless you know the story.
Warnings: homophobia both internalized and external, transphobic violence, minor character death, police brutality, sexual assault, jail sucks, references those awful de-gay camps they send children to and torture them, references homelessness, Dean engages in sex work and doesn't hate it, a couple of your favorite characters are now transgender and honestly if you're gonna be fucked up about that I'd rather you just not read this fic.
Word Count: So far it's only like 6k.
Summary: Dean Winchester and his anarchist queer group The Hunters only went to the Angels of the Lord megachurch to protest its virulently homophobic preaching. He makes something of an impression on a young, closeted, and deeply devoted young man by the name of Jimmy Novak.
Author's General notes:
So I have read a lot of destiel AUs where Dean and Cas meet in their late teens/early twenties. They've all been great, but they've all been really really normative and about normal suburban lives and it didn't look like anything even close to my own experience at that age, so I decided to write a fic that reflected that. Basically my life was centered around something called Queers Bash Back, or Bash Back/BB for short. BB was an anarchist queer group that existed all across the US and Canada from like 2007- 2010. So, for the record, most things in this story are real. All the actions, the conferences, the fire Dean saved Sam from (happened in Minneapolis last year and a friend of friends died saving his housemates), the grand jury witch hunt, and a lot of the conversations (especially the Sam and Dean conversations about what to do with yr life) are from my and my close friends' real lives. We live in interesting times, I guess.
I have also lived in all the cities I've made the characters live in so there's that I guess.
Sorry if you're upset I turned a couple of characters into trans folks. I get upset when people write about sex workers like they're all tragic victims and when slavery is glorified, so now we're even, fandom.
I have this theory that the AUs I enjoy the absolute most are the ones that kind of parallel canon events. I'm a psych person and I think that the only way you can get a Dean Winchester is with the formula of his life events, you know? Same with Sam and Cas. So this is like, canonverse kinda.
But hey, if any of this interests you and you want to learn more about how to be a scary badass like me and my crew, lemme know. Also all I want in this world is fanart for this story because I pretty much need to see punk Sam and Dean and co.
The title of this fic comes from an anarchist slogan I've always loved.
I HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG THIS IS GOING TO BE I LITERALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I'M DOING I'M JUST OUT HERE TRYING TO FUNCTION.
Part One
Part Two