Dean Winchester/Castiel

Dean Winchester/Castiel is the slash pairing of Dean Winchester and the angel Castiel in Supernatural fandom, it is one of the main slash pairings in the fandom, and has over the years become a fandom juggernaut.
==Canon==
Castiel first appeared in the fourth season as an angel who saved Dean from hell.Super-Wiki's Castiel page has many more details. While originally intended to be a minor character in the show, Castiel (and in particular his interactions and dynamics with Dean) was so immensely popular with fans that he was developed into a core member of the Supernatural cast.
Over the seasons that followed Cas and Dean grew progressively closer, and numerous comments were made about the two's relationship by characters within the show, from Uriel saying that Castiel "likes you" to Dean in season 4, to Castiel telling Sam that he and Dean shared a "profound bond" in season 6, to Meg referring to Castiel as Dean's "boyfriend" in season 7. In true Supernatural fashion, the show also featured a Fourth Wall-breaking episode in season 10 titled "Fan Fiction", which contained a school performance of 'Supernatural: The Musical' in which the women playing Castiel and Dean were a couple in real life. The show also featured many exchanges and moments between the two that seemed, subtextually, to hint at a mutual attraction (at least in the eyes of shippers). However, the show's creators and actors seemed content to feed fans' speculation and interest without actually making the ship textually canon (see Queerbaiting or Canon?)
*Needs info about season 10 through 15.*
In season 15 episode 18, Castiel reveals to Dean of his deal with the Empty, which stipulates that it will be summoned and claim him if he experiences "a moment of true happiness". He then followed this up with a confession of his romantic love for Dean, shortly before a portal to the Empty opens and drags him into it. An explosion of fan reaction followed this event (see Reaction to Season 15 Canonization) with varying opinions: many fans were incensed at the showrunners' decision to kill Cas off immediately after his confession, especially given how it plays into homophobic tropes.
==Fandom==
===Fan Reaction===
The LiveJournal community DeanCastiel was established hours after the first episode featuring Castiel aired on September 18, 2008.The deancastiel profile puts the creation date at 2008-09-19, the episode aired on 2008-09-18. As noted by the Supernatural Wiki, the first two Dean/Castiel fanfics were posted to fans' personal livejournals soon after: Up From Perdition by vain-chan with a timestamp of 11:59 pm that night and Lazarus Falling by rivkat with a timestamp of 2:49 pm the next day (give or take a timezone). 
When Dean and Castiel slowly became friends, the pairing gained a lot of fans. The pairing may also have attracted slash writers interested in the canon who had been uncomfortable writing the previous juggernaut pairings in the fandom, an incestuous pairing and an RPF pairing. Before Castiel's addition to the cast, slash options had been limited due to the show's very tight focus on brothers Sam and Dean. Since 2008 - the first time Castiel was shown on screen - Destiel has grown to become the most popular ship in the fandom. In 2014 on Tumblr it was even the most popular ship in any fandom. post in Tumblr Year In Review 2 December 2014. Sam/Dean was not even listed in the top 20, though it's possible that "wincest" was not one of the ships searched on; the process for determining "most reblogged" was not disclosed. As of 2016 it was the most popular ship on the multi-fandom Archive of Our OwnOn 23 March 2017, AO3's works search function returned 13560 works for Destiel vs. only 3871 posted for Sam/Dean in 2016. Tumblr user marmolita's programmatic method showed Destiel was the most popular AO3 ship with 11,548 works. The discrepancy might be caused by the date posted vs. the date last updated (what the works search query actually return?). 
 by marmolita, 22 March 2017. though it has been losing steam on Tumblr, where it was ranked third in 2015after Larry Stylinson and Dan and Phil. Tumblr 2015 Year in Review: Most Reblogged Ships, archived. and fourth in 2016.
On 9th of August 2021, Destiel became the first ship on Ao3 to reach 100,000 fanworks.Misha Collins Tweeted About Destiel Fanfiction, And The Sound You Hear Is All Of Tumblr Screaming, Buzzfeed article, August 10 2021.
===Wank and Ship Wars===
:See also Wincest vs Destiel
In the earlier years of SPN fandom after Castiel's introduction, there was been a considerable amount of wank related to Destiel and the addition of Misha Collins (Castiel) to the main cast, possibly reaching a peak in 2013. Destiel fans have pointed to the intense onscreen sexual tension between the two characters, as well as their devotion to one another over time, as evidence that Destiel is, will be, or should be canon. However, officially, Destiel is not canon, and other fans were not impressed by Destiel fan arguments; at the same time that some fans were arguing that Destiel would be canon, others were complaining about queerbaiting on the show. Meanwhile, fans of J2 and Sam/Dean have been involved in a long ship war with Destiel fans. 
In a 2013 blog post, Exorcising Emily discussed why the popularity of Destiel is downplayed by Wincest shippers, despite evidence suggesting it is now the biggest ship in the fandom (or any fandom):
===Archive of Our Own and the Preponderance of Destiel=== 
Destiel's rise in popularity occurred during the early years of Archive of Our Own, so it is perhaps no surprise that AO3 holds most of the popular Destiel fanfiction, such as Twist and Shout and I Cleanse The Mirror. According to a August 2013 survey by centrumlumina, Destiel was second only to BBC Sherlock's Sherlock/John in number of fanworks on the AO3. At that time it had only 15,307 works.centrumlumina. , posted to tumblr 17th August 2013. As of December 2017, the Castiel/Dean Winchester tag contained over 69,000 fanworks; it has surpassed Sherlock/John and is the single most popular ship on the archive.Fanwork counts taken from the AO3 tag pages on August 8, 2015: Sherlock Holmes/John Watson as 41,080 works vs. 44,812 Castiel/Dean Winchester works. Note that due to metatag structure on the archive, the Sherlock/John tag actually includes all Sherlock Holmes canons, including Elementary's Joan/Sherlock. AO3 also skews toward recently active fandoms, as well as Western media and live-action fandoms, and some of the largest fandoms on the archive actually have ensemble casts, so none of their ships can match the dominance of the few Supernatural ships. However, according to centrumlumina, although Destiel still reigns supreme in total archive works, the period August 2016-August 2017 saw more activity in the Yuri Katsuki/Victor Nikiforov tag., tumblr post by centrumlumina, 3rd August 2017., tumblr post by centrumlumina, 3rd August 2017. According to the 2019 AO3 Ship Stats Destiel still has the most fics on the archive Destiel fans, and Supernatural fans in general, are also prolific in their participation in challenges, such as big bangs and gift exchanges, and AO3's interface makes it easy to make collections, which may also explain some of the reason for the popularity of AO3 over other archives.
===Queerbaiting or Canon?===
Fans have reacted very badly when any of the characters have romance with women.
Chad Kennedy's Twitter account blew up after he said that the producers had not intended for either Dean or Castiel to be bisexual. He clarified that he did not write the show; that no one had pitched him an episode in which the male leads had romance with one another; but that he would not rule it out if such a script did come to him. Meanwhile, Supernatural's writers engage in a certain amount of references, jokes and teasing about the characters' orientations and relationships. Fans and professional media critics whose goal is to engage in serious dialogue and activism supporting gay rights and visibility identify these jokes or hints as queerbaiting, rather than as lighthearted ship-teasing in recognition of slash fan viewers. Supernatural Has a Queerbaiting Problem That Needs to Stop. TV Guide, November 17, 2014.
Misha Collins, who portrays Castiel, has done his part to fan the flames by making unsubstantiated statements at conventions such as "Destiel is canon and the writers know it,"See tenoko1, Per Misha Collins: Destiel is Canon. October 29, 2012 (dead link). Collins made these statements at the Supernatural convention in Chicago on that date. Among Collins' statements: "misha confirmed jeremy carver was gonna resolve cas and dean’s relationship later in the season." He didn't. However, Collins does not feel that the Ship tease seen on the show is homophobic. In a 2014 interview with members of the Organization for Transformative Works, he clarified
On 2013, fans attending the Supernatural New Jersey Convention reported witnessing Jensen Ackles somewhat rudely dismissing questions about Castiel and Dean's relationship from a woman who identified herself as bisexual. She was also booed by audience members for her inquiry and was later found crying. Aja Romano covered this for the Daily Dot, pointing out that the speculation in question was not solely created by fans, but by the show itself, which along with a hefty amount of queerbaiting seems to convey a lot of contempt for fans who support the idea either of Castiel and Dean, or of Dean and Sam, having romance.Aja Romano, How 1 question triggered a "Supernatural" fandom meltdown. Daily Dot, March 2, 2020. (Article was first published on May 6, 2013)
===Season 15===
Season 15 was the final season of SPN, giving us Destielgate and the fandom resurgence known as SPN Season 16, which included the Destiel Wedding.
==Tropes & Fanon==
Common tropes explored in fanfic include curse!fic and time travel. 
There are some common themes in fic that are specific to this particular pairing:
*Teaching Cas: Dean introducing Castiel to human things, activities and pop culture.
*Sam: Sam acting as matchmaker for Dean and Castiel.
*Wingfic: because Cas is an angel, there is a great deal of wing related fanworks, these may include wing kink, where Cas' wings are erogenous zones, or non-sexual interactions, like Dean helping to groom Cas' wings. There are also rarer fics where Dean somehow obtains wings of his own.
*Trueform and alternate!vessel fic: Castiel uses a human vessel and has never been seen on-screen as himself (except for shadows of his wings). There are fanworks that explore trueform!Castiel, as well as the possibility of Castiel having alternate vessels.
*Jimmy Novak: The presence of Jimmy in Dean/Castiel fic brings in issues of consent if Dean and Castiel are to have a sexual relationship. Most common options to deal with this in fic are: Jimmy gives his consent, Jimmy deliberately not giving his consent, Jimmy being suppressed and unaware of what Dean and Castiel are doing, or Jimmy being dead and the body belonging entirely to Castiel. The last trope became prevalent in fics set or written after 5.01 Lucifer Rising where Castiel's human body is remade by God after having been exploded by an archangel, and this theory was later confirmed in canon.
*Hand Print: In episode 4.01 Lazarus Rising that introduces Castiel, Dean is shown having a handprint on his shoulder that is later explained to be Castiel's hand when he "gripped [Dean] tight and raised [him] from perdition". http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/index.php?title=Lazarus_Rising> Lazarus Rising at SupernaturalWiki This handprint is one of the persistent tropes in Dean/Castiel fic, and is sometimes depicted as evidence of a tangible or magical bond between the characters. 
*Endverse: Episode 5.04 The End shows a possible apocalyptic future where the world has been overrun by Lucifer's army and humanity is only surviving in small patches. This future sometimes referred to as "End-verse", "2014-verse" or "Croat-verse", features Dean having become the tough-as-nails leader of the resistance and a human Castiel that has changed greatly from present-day Castiel. There are Dean/Castiel fics set in that future that explore this relationship.
*Hurt/Comfort: Hurt Dean and Cas providing the comfort is slightly more popular, however, Hurt Cas is also common
*Top/Bottom Dynamics: Top Castiel/Bottom Dean tends to be the most popular, however their are quite a few fans that prefer Bottom Castiel, and will try and encourage fanworks that feature that dynamic, see the Bottom Cas Big Bang as an example
*Human Castiel: these fanworks tend to fall into two categories, ones where Cas was an angel and has somehow become human, or AUs where Cas has always been human
*Kid!fic: Dean and Cas somehow becoming parents, this may be from accidental baby acquisition, or through some sort of magical intervention. After the introduction of Jack, it was not unusual to find stories where Cas and Dean were raising Jack together 
*Alpha/Beta/Omega: having Dean be an omega and Cas being an alpha seems to be slightly more popular, however, it is not at all unusual to find that dynamic reversed. 
*Alternate universes: AU fanworks are very popular in Dean/Castiel circles, some common AU settings are:
**High School AU: where Dean and Cas meet in high school, or are childhood friends who are exploring romantic feelings for the first time 
**Mundane AU: where there are no supernatural elements, Cas has always been human, and Dean and Cas meet under conventional circumstances. Popular jobs for Dean in mundane AUs are usually mechanic or bartender, choices for Cas' career very greatly, from teacher, librarian, accountant, to barista, among many others.
**Fairy Tale AU: stories based on, or inspired by, fairy tales. Having Dean or Cas be a Prince that is looking for a partner or rescues the other are both common story tropes
*Threesome or Poly: the most popular choice for a third partner being Sam (Wincestiel). However, there is also some triad fics featuring Benny (Destiny) or Jimmy Novak (Deanjimstiel).
==Example Fanworks==
===FanArt===
*Tarot: A DeanCas Anthology
*All this for a hentail joke by lizleeships - a trueform!Castiel fancomic
*"Back to the Future" AU by ColorlessJay - a S16 destiel meets S06 destiel series 
===Fanfiction===
*Up From Perdition by vain-chan, first Destiel fic ever posted
*Redemption Road, a fan-generated, large-scale AU project, including fiction and art
*I Cleanse The Mirror, a pre-Dean/Castiel story by takadainmate
*Twist and Shout, an AU Dean/Castiel story by discover and trunkcoats
*Bring It On Home(AO3) by thecouchcarrot. Dean the Sales Rep just moved into the neighborhood, and his neighbor is a definitely crazy shut-in. (December 2011-February 2012)
*Down to Agincourt, an epic (1,000,000+ words) canon-divergent series set after 'The End'.
*The Girlfriend Experience by rageprufrock. A funny, angsty, dialog-rich canon universe fic from 2010.
*Dummy With Rapture by hansbekhart
*Thursday’s Child by strangeandcharm
*Ninety One Whiskey by komodobits
*Come Morning Light by geckoholic
*A Midterms Night´s Dream by Englandwouldfall. College AU: There's at least fifteen good reasons why they're not sleeping together, it's just that Dean can’t remember them when Cas sends him one second dirty snapchats to goad him into doing the dishes.
*Dean Doesn't Listen to Eurythmics by Scaramouche (fan) Dean and Castiel share a bed. It starts out platonic, and then becomes something else.
===Vids & Edits===
* Castiel is an Angel with a Shotgun is a fanmade video of the Tumblr-famous mishasminions that used the song of The Cab, Angel with a Shotgun, to highlight Castiel's determination of protecting Dean.
* Twist and Shout | As faithful as the sea (Destiel fanfic) is a fic trailer about the well-known story Twist and Shout by gabriel and standbyme.
* The Profound Bond is another fanmade trailer, only it is not based on any fanfiction whatsoever and was created by ablazingwings.
* Castiel & Dean (Crack!vid); homosexual subtext... is a crack!vid made by anaapenas about the unintended homosexual subtext between the two characters.
* A Different Kind of Pain by ruskiebiz
* Fighting the Narrative by Educated inYellow, a meta vid about escaping destiny
* Edit by spidey_holiand
* Edit by themooninfrunami of older Dean and younger Cas
=== Zines ===
* Fallen
* Falling and Flying
* Profound
* Send Me an Angel (anthology that contains two Dean/Cas stories) 
=== Doujinshi ===
* Now or Never
* Between Today and Tomorrow (2008)
* Gemeinschaft (2009)
* Do Angels Dream About Stray Sheep? (2010)
* Crawl (2011)
* Monopoly (2011)
* To where you are (2011)
* Your Tears I'll Dry While Stifling My Own (2011)
* Angel Beats (2012)
* Angel Connection (2012)
* Be My Love (2012)
* Blue Moon (2012)
* Diary Diary (2012)
* First Contact (2012)
* Will You Marry Me? (2012)
* geoidurle (2013)
===Songs===
* As Long As It Takes is a parody of Blank Space, the text is changed so it's about Castiel and Dean's relationship from Castiel's perspective.
* Destiel by Beth Jo is an original song apparently being sung from Castiel's perspective. 
* Hey There Dean is a parody of Hey There Delilah, the text is changed so it's about Castiel and Dean's relationship from Sam's perspective.
=== Awards ===
* The pairing was an entry in the third MLM Ship Bracket Tournament (2023)
==Example Art Gallery==
File:Bundle.jpg|"Bundle" by Lily-fox (2012)
File:Fiveocock.jpg|art made for a Destiel calendar by fiveocock (2013)
File:Kalicoofdoom-team-free-will-headcanon.jpg|"Team Free Will Head Canon: I feel like the boys would stop in open, lonely places so the angels could stretch their wings every now and then." Artist: Kalicoofdoom (2014)
File:Linneartdestielau.jpg|a Hogwarts AU by linneart(2015)
File:The Case of The Curious Convention Piece.png|Art by dmsilvisart for the fic The Case of The Curious Convention, created for the 2017 Castiel Big Bang
File:Impala love by quimvaa dean and cas.jpg|Impala Love by stehfuhknee (2011)
File:The Long Way Back by artmetica.jpg|The Long Way Back by artmetica for the fic The Law of Conservation of Energy, created for the 2011 Dean/Cas Big Bang
==Meta and Ship Manifestos==
===2009===
* Because God Commanded It (2017); archive link (2017), also at archive link, page 1 (2009); archive link, page 2 (2009) (February 2009 at The Shipper's Manifesto, reposted April 2017 on Tumblr)
*Dean and Castiel meta and picspam thing, with some stuff about denial by dotfic (September 2009); archive link
===2011===
*Meta on Castiel in 6x21 and 6x22: you fight and fight for this family by dotfic (May 2011); archive link
*Why Cas is Dean's perfect match by missyjack (May 2011); archive link
*SPN meta: The Lack of Unconditional Love by vasiliki (June 2011); archive link
===2012===
*The secret relationship theory by pinkandsatiny (April 2012); archive link
*Why are their scenes shot in such a romantic manner? by dirtyovercoats (June 2012); archive link
*making it up as we go: a dean/cas manifesto by dirtyovercoats (August 2012); archive link
*Why I Ship Dean/Castiel–After Swearing to God I Wouldn't by alexanrapelaez (August 2012); archive link
*Dean and Cas Purgatory reunion by lurea (October 2012); archive link
*Supernatural and Queer(ed) Canon by rootsunknown (November 2012); archive link
*Destiel & pro-canon Destiel shipping meta masterpost by silvenhorror (December 2012); archive link
*5:04 Future!Dean and Cas are Lovers and the Whole Camp Knows It–part one by lurea (October 2012); archive link
*5:04 Future!Dean and Cas are Lovers and the Whole Camp Knows It–part two by lurea (October 2012); archive link
*5:04 Future!Dean and Cas are Lovers and the Whole Camp Knows It–part three by lurea (October 2012); archive link
*5:04 Loving you, Darling, till The End: Future Dean and Cas–part four by lurea (October 2012); archive link
===2013===
*5:04 End!Verse Characterization–Dean and Cas by lurea (January 2013); archive link
*dean/cas, queerness, and continuity by rootsunknown (January 2013; archive link
*Artemis: The Perfect Dean/Cas Parallel by twistedsardonic (February 2013); archive link
*The Supernatural Lover: Fairy Tale Archetypes and Destiel by outpastthemoat (March 2013); archive link
*Let’s Talk About Music: Goodbye Stranger by spn-rants (March 2013); archive link
*8x18: Dean’s “Feelings” Conversation And the Audience Getting Some Explicit Answers by spn-rants (March 2013); archive link
*An Argument in Tropes – A Destiel Meta by octoswan (April 2013); archive link
*An Argument in Tropes – A Destiel Meta (Part 2) by octoswan (April 2013); archive link
*Casual Viewers noticing Destiel - Part I by silvenhorror (April 2013); archive link
*Casual Viewers noticing Destiel - Part II by silvenhorror (April 2013); archive link
*Casual Viewers noticing Destiel - Part III by silvenhorror (April 2013); archive link
*Casual Viewers noticing Destiel - Part IV by silvenhorror (April 2013); archive link
*Season 8 had so many Human/Supernatural relationship parallels for Dean and Cas by mischievous-mouse (May 2013); archive link
*On the Nature of the Profound Bond by defilerwyrm (June 2013); archive link
*The Romance Narrative v. The Bromance Narrative: When slash ships transcend crack ships by heaven-is-my-hell (June 2013); archive link
*"Its like comparing a stallion horse to a piece of shit." Fandom Wank entry (August 2013)
*The Meaning Behind the Laundromat Song by charlie-minion (October 2013); archive link
*The Laundromat Song (Follow-up) by charlie-minion (October 2013); archive link
*Regarding Chad Kennedy by The Fandom (de)Bunker (October 2013); archive link
===2014===
*Cain & Dean Parallels by pondlifeforme (January 2014); archive link
*Extended Cain & Dean Parallels by pondlifeforme (January 2014); archive link
*Parallels - Dean/Cain, Sam/Abel & Castiel/Collette by queernatural (January 2014); archive link
*Destiel between Hiatuses, or A Look At What These Four Episodes Have Been Telling Us And Why We Can Be Very Optimistic Right Now by proxy-1 (February 2014); archive link
*Bedroom Meta: Setting the Scene for Dean's Romantic Endgame by thevioletcaptain (February 2014); archive link
*Season 9: How it has established that Dean Winchester’s endgame includes a love interest, and what that means for Dean and Cas by crossroadscastiel (March 2014); archive link
*Canon Queer: Deconstructing Destiel Theory by honestbrooklyndirt (March 2014); archive link
*The Weight of the World Is Love by thevioletcaptain (April 2014); archive link; mirror link
*Narrative Negative Space: How What’s Not There Says as Much as What Is by s-cornelius (April 2014); archive link
*When Structure Informs Subtext Or, why I think Destiel is going to happen (and it's not just because of actor chemistry) by deathbycoldopen (April 2014); archive link
*The Rule of Three in "Heaven Can't Wait" by obsessionisaperfume (September 2014); archive link
*Summary of Destiel + POV by elizabethrobertajones (November 2014); archive link (updated September 2017,archive link)
*“The Charlie Kaufman Of It All”: The Relevance for Canon Destiel of Robbie Thompson’s References to Kaufman’s "Adaptation" by filleretive (December 2014); archive link
===2015===
*"Mirror, mirror, on the wall...” by neven-ebrez (January 2015; archive link
*Aparicio, Rachel. 2015. Supernatural Needs to Pull the Trigger on Destiel or Castiel (And They Need to Do It Now) The Daily Fandom, March 20; archive link
*Queerness, Tropes & Proof Of Love: Why Destiel Is Canon by fozmeadows (April 2015); archive link
*The Three Day Deancasversary by mittensmorgul (September 2015); archive link
* Destiel is canonarchive link by Anloquen (October 2015)
===2016===
*Anonymous asked: Hello! 'all the episode did in general was tick yet another (possibly the last) item off of the long list of 'obstacles in the way of actual canon Destiel' can I ask what you meant by that, and what the other boxes are or were? thank you! by destieldrabblesdaily (April 2016); archive link
*SPN 11x23: They think they’re family by charlie-minion (June 2016); archive link
===2017===
*Dean. Made Cas. A fucking mixtape. by k-vichan (April 2017); archive link
*I'm throwing something in the pile of "romantic tropes/couples Destiel parallels." by trisscar368 (January 2017); archive link
*Why the SPN mixtape scene from 12x19 is screenwriting gold, and should be taught to the next generations of screenwriters everywhere - analysis by margarittet (May 2017); archive link
*Deans top 13 Zepp TRA XX by deanandcastrash, neven-ebrez (June 2017, August 2017); archive link
*It’s never too late to start over again by k-vichan (November 2017); archive link
===2018===
*Anonymous asked: hiii so i watched 9x06 again because ugh that episode was SO DESTIEL and killed me. I don't see enough people talking about the Saturday Night Fever thing where Dean calls Cas Tony Manero because omg Annette was Tony's best friend and was basically pining for Tony the whole time ???? so isn't Annette Dean in that scene? by naruhearts (January 2018); archive link
*Singular vs Plural “You” by charlie-minion (January 2018); archive link
*Dean And Cas Are In Love “A hopefully one day conclusive study of these assholes, hopefully told as briefly as I can. Written for the people in the fandom who care but sometimes need a pick me up on this, and not written to prove a point to anyone who doesn’t already care. <3″ by lizbobjones (January 2018 --)
*seeing subtext by elizabethrobertajones (April 2018); archive link
*Meta Monday: Supernatural - Castiel/Dean by fangirlunderground (April 2018); archive link
*This Is the Song That Never Ends by sisabet (July 2018)
*Dean and Cas and their issues... by mittensmorgul, "A collection of as much of my meta on Castiel, Dean, and their relationship as I can possibly cram onto AO3 before tumblr implodes." (December 2018)
*Slash and Canon: Do you ever just think about how much slash (and femslash) fandom has changed the last ~10 years? by comradegrantaire (December 2018); archive link
===2019===
*Destiel - The Intimacy of Touch and Holding Hands by bluestar86 (December 2019); archive link
*Understanding the Closet in Narrative - Healing Hands/ Holding Hands in 15x08 Our Father Who Aren't in Heaven by drsilverfish (December 2019); archive link
===2020===
*exhausted homosexual reacts to destiel by Rowan Ellis (November 2020)
==Challenges==
* Angels' Radio - A Destiel and Sabriel Fest
* Bottom Cas Big Bang
* DC Dystopia
* Dean/Cas Pinefest
* Dean Cas Mini Bang
* Dean/Cas Reverse Bang
* Dean/Cas Tropefest
* Dean/Castiel Big Bang, a Big Bang fic fest
* Dean/Castiel Ever After
* Dean/Castiel Secret Santa Exchange, a Dean/Castiel secret santa exchange
* Secret Angels Fic Exchange
==Communities==
===Livejournal===
* DeanCastiel, the biggest and most active Dean/Castiel community
* Rec-hymenated, a Dean/Castiel rec community
* DeanCastielNews, a newsletter 
* Dean and Castiel Daily, a daily image community
* D/C & J/M Kink Meme!, a Dean/Castiel and Jensen/Misha kink meme
* Dean/Cas E-books, a community for distributing downloadable e-books of fanworks - deleted
* Let There Be Fluff, a fanworks community for Dean/Castiel and Jensen/Misha fluff
* The Fireplace of Dean/Castiel, an advent community for fanworks, last updated in August 2010
* Dean/Cas stills, an icon challenge community, last updated in June 2010
* Dean/Castiel kink meme, last updated in September 2009
===Dreamwidth===
* DeanCastiel, a DW mirror of the LJ community
===Tumblr===
* Destiel Fanfic a review blog for Dean/Castiel fics
* Destiel Ebooks, an archive for PDF/ebook versions of Dean/Castiel fics
* Destiel Fanfiction, an Archive of Our Own feed on tumblr
==Archives==
* Rock Salt And Feathers a fic archive (defunct)
* Dean/Castiel, part of a larger multifandom archive at chancesarchive.net
* Castiel/Dean Winchester fanworks at Archive of Our Own
* Castiel/Dean Winchester podfics at Audiofic Archive
* Supernatural Slash, it had a Dean/Cas category (defunct)
==Other Resources==
*Gimme your Dean/Castiel recs! updated February 20, 2009 by tracy on livejournal
*Dean/Castiel: thematic rec lists, updated October 16, 2011 by tracy on livejournal
==Notes==
== References ==
Category:Slash Pairings
Category:Supernatural Relationships
Category:Destiel
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