Gencest Bang

The Gencest Bang is a mini-bang challenge in Supernatural fandom, focused on the gen relationship of Sam & Dean. Authors have to write a minimum of 3000 words.
==Masterlists==
===2019===
Title: The Rest Is Confetti
Author: wetsammywinchester
Artist: aggiedoll
Word Count: 3850
Rating: T
Warnings/tags: Hurt/comfort, hurt!dean, hurt!sam, hypothermia
Summary: There was no need for them to be out in this snowstorm. They could have waited until the next morning to head to Tahoe. But with Dean’s deal hanging over his head, he doesn’t wait around for anything and Sam can’t say no.
Title: The Good Life
Author: madebyme-x
Artist: blindswandive 
Genre/Spoilers: Gencest. None.
Warnings: Character deaths. Kinda.
Word Count: 4800+
Summary: Sam lives a quiet life in an old cabin by a lake that’s surrounded by mountains. It should be exactly what he wants; it should be the peace and quiet that he’s been dreaming of for as long as he can remember. But there’s something missing. There’s someone missing.
Title: Death Shall Have No Dominion
Author: Clowns_or_Midgets
Artist: themegalosaurus
Tags/Warnings:Temporary Character Death 
Summary: The world didn’t end when Sam died, it just felt like it to Dean. The Darkness is still in the world, and she needs to be stopped. The fight seems insurmountable alone, but Dean and Sam quickly learn that, when you’re soulmates, death doesn’t to have to mean goodbye. A story of brotherhood and a bond that surpasses the constricts of life and death.
Title: Take Me Home, Country Road
Author: storyspinner70
Artist: Amberdreams
Genre/Spoilers: Gencest. None.
Warnings: Light angst, Some ambiguity
Word Count: 4600+
Summary: The bunker is feeling kind of crowded and Sam and Dean take off for some much needed time to themselves. A couple of simple salt and burns later, they find themselves in a bucolic southern town. When the hunt ends up being something no one could ever have predicted, the boys aren’t sure exactly what to do. They take some time in the local laundromat to try and figure things out.
Title: Goin’ With Him Someday Soon
Author: amypond45
Artist: kirathehyrulian
Tags: pre-series
Summary: When they’re very young, John leaves the boys home alone while he hunts. Until one day Dean’s old enough to help. But that means leaving Sam alone by himself. Dean’s never as okay with that as he pretends to be, and John soon learns he can threaten to separate the boys as a way to keep Dean in line. Nothing’s worse than being separated from his little brother. Nothing.
Title: Growing Warm
Author: soy-em (Tumblr) / soyem67 (Twitter)
Artist: alulaspeaks
Tags/Warnings: None
Words: 7.4k
Summary: Rowena gives Sam and Dean an unsolicited, mysterious present. It’s not until they get separated on a case that they realise the true value of her gift.
Title: Stand My Ground
Author: Winmance
Artist: interstitial
Word Count: 13,416
Summary: Sam and Dean Winchester; the last heirs of the Winchester and Campbell family; the result of the alliance of the most powerful families, the future of the magic world. By the age of ten, Dean had already developed more powers than most of the witches. When Sam turned thirteen, it was evident that the reason none of his powers had manifested was because he didn’t have any.
Title: A Big Fake Hunter Wedding
Author: alyndra9​
Artist: winchesterchola
Word Count: 3.8k
Summary: “Too big a chance we’d miss whatever was wrong with the next couple until too late, and the ghost kills them,” Dean said, frowning down at his articles. “We need to get out in front of this thing instead of relying on random chance…” Then a look of unholy glee crossed his face. “Hey, Sam. Will you marry me?”
Title: Thanks Sammy, I Love It
Author: blackrose_17
Artist: txdora
Words: 5,466
Tags/Warnings: Canon Events including Dean in Hell and Sam in Lucifer’s cage 
Summary: The Samulet has been a symbol of Sam and Dean’s brother bond and a part of their lives. This is its point of view of their greatest moments, their tragedies and their triumphs and most of all their love for one another..
Title: Respite
Author: thebratfarrar
Artist: merakierosart
Word count: 8312
Rating: G
Warnings/Tags: None, case fic, accidental vacation
Summary: In the wake of the events of “Thin Lizzie”, Sam and Dean follow a possible lead to Amara’s whereabouts.
Dean shoves his plate aside and spreads the paper out, flicking idly through the rest of the pages, and stops on the next-to-last page. “Huh. Maybe there is something to it.” His turn to fold the paper up and pass it back to Sam.
PLAGUE OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS AT WELLS STATE PARK, the headline reads.
“Huh,” Sam says.
Title: quantum merlin arthur games (i’ve got a war in my mind)
Author: birdsofthesoul
Artist: eatdirt
Word Count: 4667
Summary: Michael comes in waves, until he doesn’t. Sam goes on a QMA-complete hunt for Dean. Or: Dean’s life devolves into a k-local Hamiltonian problem as Sam tries to rip Michael out of his head.
Title: Marry Me a Little
Author: eatdirt
Artist: small-scale-majestic
Word Count: 4259
Summary: Sam learned at a very young age that sometimes lying was necessary in order to do what needed to be done. Of course, that was more about impersonating law enforcement to catch things that go bump in the night rather than pretending to be married to your brother in order to give him a 41st birthday to remember.
Or: The one where Sam Winchester contemplates the void of dying alone.
Title: we wake eternally
Author: julia-sets
Artist: sweetheartdean
Word Count: 4378
Summary: Sam can’t sleep, not with the devil constantly whispering in his mind. He’s barely scraping by on coffee and uppers. And then one morning he wakes up from a good night’s sleep in their latest piece of junk car, Dean by his side. With his head clear for the first time in days, he knows he needs to figure out a solution to his insomnia before it gets worse, but the cure may be worse than the disease.
Title: the gardener
Author: zmediaoutlet / deadlybride
Rating: M
Word Count: 13,000
Summary: Sam dies, on a hunt. Dean buries him and waits through the long year after.
Title: Sounds Like Truth and Feels Like Courage
Author: sprinkles888
Artist: quickreaver
Word Count: 30,204
Summary: Turns out that the Men of Letters had a way to perform magic on the regular without the messiness of witchcraft.
All they need for it is a pair of soulmates, a couple of rings from the bunker, and a willingness to spend time platonically touching. And, well, the Winchesters are already sitting at two out of three…
(In which Sam and Dean cuddle, spend time being emotionally vulnerable, mend relationships, learn just how powerful their souls are, find power in memories, watch way too much Netflix, and become targets of an organized group of monsters set on killing them.)
Title: Dean Winchester’s Journal
Author: iamremy
Artist: Huntress79
Genre/Spoilers: Gen (none really, though it’s set in the current canon)
Warnings: Major Character Death, Alcohol Abuse/Alcoholism, Grief/Mourning, Epistolary, Angst with a Happy Ending, the Winchester’s codependency
Word Count: ~6,400
Summary: Sam has always been the other half of Dean’s soul, even if they’ve never spoken about it. And now the idiot’s gone and sacrificed himself for the greater good, and it’s up to Dean to juggle his grief and rage while finding out where Sam’s soul went, and why Billie won’t answer his summons.
===2020===
Title: It’s Not What You Thought It Was
Author: jdl71 – on LJ & Tumblr & jld71 on AO3
Artist: Sars_08 on DeviantArt & AO3 & growstheoak on Tumblr
Tags/Warnings: Head Injury, Hurt Dean, Sick Dean, Confused Sam, Angst, Alcohol, Mistaken Identity, Car Accident
Summary: After hitting his head in a car accident, Dean regains consciousness with Sam next to him in the driver’s seat of the Impala. Aside from hitting his head, he’s fine, except to him, he and Sam aren’t brothers. He thinks Sam is his husband.
Title: Meet You On Main Street
Author: Center of the Galaxy (@centerofthegalaxywrites)
Artist: Txdora
Tags/Warnings: Canon-typical violence
Summary: Sam can’t believe it when Dean says they’re going to Disneyland for their latest case. Turns out, even the House of Mouse has problems with the supernatural from time to time. And that ghost in the Haunted Mansion that’s threatening their guests? Yeah, she needs to go. Cue Disney fanboy Sam and slightly confused Dean to the rescue.
Title: plant my roots on a moving train
Author: birdsofthesoul
Artist: Emmatheslayer
Tags/Warnings: Underage Prostitution
Summary: Dean’s made a long career out of turning tricks. Sam does his best to deal.
Title: All the King’s Horses
Author: amypond45
Artist: thisroadsofar
Tags/Warnings: Weechesters, outsider point of view
Summary: It’s late fall, and when two little boys start hanging out at the local library next door to the town’s elementary school, the librarian thinks she knows what’s going on.
Title: Going to California
Author: julia-sets
Artist: m-stoltz
Tags/Warnings: pre-series (but also seasons 1, 3, 4, 8, and post-series), no warnings
Summary: Summer, 2002. Dean doesn’t say anything as Sam packs his bag and leaves their family behind. It isn’t until Sam is on a cross-country bus that he finds the cassette tape lodged in the bottom of his bag, covered in Dean’s handwriting. It isn’t until years later that he really learns what it means.
Title: Fire
Author: thisroadsofar
Artist: angeltortured-artblog
Tags/Warnings: Destiel, Minor Character Death/Temporary Character Death, Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics, Alpha Sam Winchester, Omega Dean Winchester, Alpha Castiel (Supernatural), Nesting, Alternate Universe - Canon, Territorial Dean Winchester, Angst, and Hurt/Comfort
Summary: Being an alpha and omega pair of brothers, wasn’t uncommon. It was pretty normal for siblings to be in different classes. Although Dean as an Omega and Sam as an Alpha, had been through some heated arguments growing up. Right now, years later, they’ve outgrown most primal urges. But because of the last tragedy- Dean’s beyond himself, and is giving up after the death of Cas, and Mary gone. Sam is struggling to keep fighting. Sam isn’t sure he can stay strong for the Omega and take care of this Nephilim Jack.
Title: Twisted Longing 
Author: blackrose_17
Artist: kingstoken
Warnings: Alternate Canon, dark Amelia, obsessed character, magic
Summary: Amelia Richardson had been obsessed with Sam Winchester from the moment they met as teens, so when the broken man comes into her vet clinic she knows it is fate.
Dean Winchester knew that something was wrong when Sam didn’t look for him or Castiel now they need to save Sam from a different kind of monster.
==Resources==
* Collection at Archive of Our Own
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