Recs: Because Everyone Should Meet the Winchesters, Gifts, and Merlin

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I’ve been meaning to post these forever.

1. Everyone should meet the Winchesters

I didn’t have time to read as many of the fics posted for the xover_exchange challenge as I would have liked, but here are a few of the SPN crossovers I enjoyed. If you enjoy crossover, though, you should go check out the whole site—there are some amazing combos—ones that made me wish I watched more TV.

SPN/X-Files
Monsters vs. Aliens by strangevisitor7
Bobby and Mulder are old friends. If that isn’t canon, it should be!

SPN/Star Trek
Balance of Terror (and Zombies) by jaune_chat and brighteyed_jill
Authors’ summary: Sam, Dean, and Castiel encounter some mysterious strangers, one of whom is experiencing some scarily familiar symptoms.. I’ll just add that this fic goes a long way towards redeeming one of my least favorite SPN episodes.

SPN/Dollhouse
Stolen Soul by jaune_chat
Author’s summary: Dean is stolen and taken to the Dollhouse to prevent him from ever fulfilling his destiny. Sam has to try to find him while he and Castiel attempt to avert Apocalyptic signs from destroying the city. Meanwhile, the inhabitants of the Dollhouse find their newest member may have more to him than his story suggests.
I don’t know anything about Dollhouse except the premise, but this is a great SPN S5 fic.



2. Presents are for sharing

Some people are generous enough to celebrate the holidays by writing fics for others. I was so excited to have these two fics written for my prompts.

You may know that I’ve been jonesing all season for some Yiddishe!Dean, and rivkat was kind enough to write a beautiful explanation of how he learned all those words as part of her "Eight Crazy Nights" fic bonanza. (she also wrote a great Fringe ficlet for me, A nice trip to the forest)

And chiiyo86 just wrote a wonderful missing scene/outside POV to her fic A Pig in a Poke (the one where Sam and Dean are holed up with H1N1)called Care.

3. And a couple of Merlin tags

I thought Merlin S2 alternated between being amazingly silly and surprisingly angsty and powerful. These two episode tags are of the latter variety. Just gorgeous, as is just about everything from this writer.

Fluency by rageprufrock (2.01 tag, gen or pre-slash)
Author’s summary: Even when Merlin hates Arthur, he hates it when Arthur is hurt.

Hold Fast by rageprufrock (2.08 tag, gen)
Merlin looks after Arthur following the end of “The Sins of the Father.” Just stunning.