varied SPN fic recs

These'll end up on rocksalt_recs in a day or two, but you guys get first dibs. :D

Out Here in the Fields by honeylocusttree - Victor, Sam, Dean – horror
I've heard of serial killer AUs for this fandom, but I'd never read one before. Honestly, I don't think I'll ever need to read another, because this fic (one part posted a couple of years ago, the second just a few weeks ago) is everything I could want. The characterization is chilling and horrifying, especially Dean's. Some of the grimmest fic I have read in a long, long time. In a good way.

A Beginner's Guide to Communing with the Dead by suspiciousflashlight - Dean/Castiel – urban fantasy AU
:DDD <- me while reading this fic. This is possibly the best urban fantasy AU I have ever read in fandom, and better than most pro urban fantasy I've read, too. It is spectacular: the worldbuilding, the plotting, the many disparate elements all woven together into a finish that felt honest to goodness heroic, stirred blood and all. Dean is great as the haunted police detective, Castiel is an appropriately alien angel of vengeance, and the secondary characters are all great, too. (Even if I was a bit weirded out by Jo being eight years old.)

Seriously, I can't say enough about this author's sheer storytelling skill.

Room With a View by a_biting_smile - Jensen/Danneel
For *cough* my prompt of "Danneel tries giving Jensen an enema for the first time. They both like it a lot more than they expected." Basically: sweet, intimate first-time kink with some delectable desperation towards the end. If you like this sort of thing - and even if you don't, maybe - then you will like this fic a lot.

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Okay, now LJ has gone completely whackadoodle

I've been watching the comments to the insmallpackages get post pretty closely, and suddenly there are new comment threads wedged in between older comment threads. There are comment threads on the first page that were not there when I checked this morning! And there were already two pages worth this morning, so it's not like they just got bumped (as also sometimes happens). WHAT EVEN. Maybe something's gone wrong with LJ's timestamp function?

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