Fanfic of the Week
Here’s a link to this week’s fic, “Try Something Tuesday.” By @almaasi
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I DON’T KNOW WHEN IT HAPPENED BUT MY 48K TEACHER!DEAN & TEACHER!CAS AU TRY-SOMETHING TUESDAY HAS OVER 4,000 KUDOS NOW HOLY SHIT HOLY SHIT
THANK YOU SO MUCH
THANK YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
5 years ago 11 Mar 2018 ☆ 38 notes ·
There shouldn’t be an age limit on good stories.
— Try-Something Tuesday by almaasi (via wordsfromfanfics)
— Try-Something Tuesday by almaasi (via wordsfromfanfics)
it’s 4am in New Zealand ✨ HAPPY NEW YEEEEARRRRR ✨
may 2018 be a year of health, love, and abundance for me, and everyone reading this~
so far it’s been pretty freaking rad, ‘cause I just-now realised my 3k Destiel fic Dean’s List is 7 kudos away from THREE THOUSAND???!!??!?!?!?! holymotherfuckingshitwhat thatsalottakudos whoa
Love Him in His Sleep (Love Him Always) is also just 3 kudos away from THREE THOUSAND
and it’s not as close, but Try-Something Tuesday is also only 70 kudos away from FOUR FLIPPING THOUSAND !??!?!
HNGNHNHHN THANK YOU EVERYONE THIS IS SO INCREDIBLE I LOVE YOU ALL ;u;
thank you for every comment, every message, every “put this in the inbox of someone special” chain message, every follow forever, every fic rec you put my stories on, every friend you told about my work, every issue we ever agreed on, or problem you corrected for me as a group. I owe so much of my success and visible personal accomplishment to all of you, and I genuinely, GENUINELY appreciate your support, from the very core of my being. I would be lost without you, and I’m so glad you’re still around to enjoy the things I make to share with you ♥
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my fics on AO3 (all Destiel)
my 2017 fics (tumblr masterpost)
my Christmas fics (tumblr masterpost)
5 years ago 01 Jan 2018 ☆ 43 notes ·
Ignored 10-ish (or 100%) ao3 emails this month 'cause I don't remember which author it is. I rarely subscribe & logically know that if I did the authors were GREAT but I didn't interact with them enough to recognize a username. So no way of telling if what landed in my inbox is smth I'm up for. Like...I know I loved at least 1 of your fics to death but was it tentacle debauchery or domestic fluff? //It's likely a reader not a writer problem? Wishing you new numerous (& old consistent) readers ♥
:D for some reason that really amuses me
it was undoubtedly domestic fluff
what if I put in the ao3 tags “hello this is the writer of Try-Something Tuesday and that one chicken fic please read this too”
5 years ago 11 Nov 2017 ☆ 4 notes ·
Try-Something Tuesday ― almaasi
Dean/Castiel | NC-17 | 48,400 words
Summary: Human AU. Dean Winchester teaches a third-grade class. He’s new to this whole ‘bisexual’ thing - but by pure happenstance, he meets Castiel: a particularly dapper male librarian who moonlights as a substitute teacher. Dean’s curious and Castiel is willing, so why the hell not?
Except, fate never intended it to be one-time-only…
Art by valiantparadox
reblogging 4 entire years later to say, firstly, AO3 is the best link, don’t be fooled by those other imposter links
secondly, this fic is the single most successful creation I’ve made in my entire life, and thank you to everyone who made that a true fact. thank you for hitting kudos, commenting, and sharing the story in your fic recs. thank you for giving me the encouragement to write and post 68 other fics. (there’s so much more to come in the future~)
thirdly, curses upon my past self for making the artist credit so tiny! the art is by @valiantparadox, dammit!! she did good and I loved collaborating with her!
and fourthly (most importantly?) I’m on patreon now so if you wanna support me making MORE THINGS, please do check out this page, and pledge if you can!! doing so would fill my eyes with sparkly stars of appreciation. ✨
that’s all!! peace out, my friends! may a good and magical thing happen to you on the day you reblog this post.
Try-Something Tuesday — almaasi
Human AU. Dean Winchester teaches a third-grade class. He’s new to this whole ‘bisexual’ thing - but by pure happenstance, he meets Castiel: a particularly dapper male librarian who moonlights as a substitute teacher. Dean’s curious and Castiel is willing, so why the hell not? Except, fate never intended it to be one-time-only…
OKAY I JUST READ Try Something Tuesday and I'm dying. It was incredible (I'll leave a proper comment on the fic) but when I came to your page to post this comment about how great you are I saw your tags on the sam/dean gif set about millionaire dean and I was like plz chuck write it cause I would read the shit outta that. Anywho you're amazing
jdhzjskfs thank you!! it’s super cool when people send fic-relevant messages to my tumblr!! because then i can shamelessly link to them and put them in the #destiel tag and more people read my fics and generally have a good time and that makes me feel SATISFIED AS HELL =u=
here is a link to the post about millionaire!Dean with the tags added
i mean i’m probably not gonna turn the tags into a full fic because i have a shit-ton of other writing projects lined up, enough to take me through to pretty much the end of the year… but i’m glad you enjoyed them, ‘cause i did too~
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fic links:
Try-Something Tuesday (teacher!Dean & teacher!Cas having sex in weird places)
also my newest fic: Night Exhibition (baker!Dean and demisexual agender autistic security guard!Cas… also having sex in weird places. specifically a museum.)
and heck why not: all 66 of my Destiel fics
6 years ago 02 Jun 2017 ☆ 12 notes ·
hey, i just wanted to thank you. it's been a year or so since i left the supernatural fandom, because it ended up being a really bad environment for me and reminds me of bad experiences, but i was talking with a friend tonight and they mentioned one of your fics, (roost, specifically) and we were discussing how much we both love your work and i'm just really overwhelmed right now thinking about how much your writing has impacted me. try something tuesday will always hold a special place (1/?)
in my heart as the fic i always reread when i was having a bad night or just wanted to remind myself that life isn’t always bad and thing will work out eventually. i read foxfire blossom downloaded on my computer at a camp where there were no other gay kids and i had no internet or cell service. it left me screaming into my pillow at two am and brought me so so much joy, not to mention how much it taught me (a young, impressionable child) about proper communication in relationships and how (2/?)
no matter how much it felt like i had to grow up and marry a man and have babies and be the perfect straight cis woman that society wanted of me, that didn’t have to be the end, and i could be in a gay relationship and still have a home and be happy. again, young, impressionable kid - the honest and real and beautiful way you wrote about lgbt people and the love we have for each other probably impacted me even more than i can tell. and hart of the storm. oh my god, hart of the storm. i have (3/?
no words to describe how much that story blew me away. it left me completely shaken and emotional and was one of the most powerful things i’ve ever read. i remember how excited i used to get when i got an email from ao3 that you’d posted something new. my time in the fandom coincided with a really rough period of my life, and to be completely honest, there were times when one of the only reasons i could think of to stay alive was that you were going to post a new fic soon, and i wanted to (4/?)
be able to read it. your writing brought light and hope to some of my darkest days, and it gave me something to look forward to when i felt like there was nothing left that could make me happy anymore. when i first figured out that i was autistic, and i went online and saw that you’d written fics with autistic cas, being able to have other experiences that i could relate to, in a format that i was able to understand, and by an author that i’d always admired, it helped me gain the confidence (5/?
to stim in front of my friends and explain to them why i sometimes had trouble speaking when it was too loud in the room and begin to learn how to work with my brain, and not against it. you and your writing have had such an incredible impact on my life, from the bottom of my heart, thank you for everything. (6/6)
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this message has me shook, in the literal sense. i’m trembling. i just read this 10 times over. i have no words, friend. i can’t think past the haze of emotion to express how utterly i appreciate this and how much it means to me, and how much i want to never, ever, ever forget this message so i can remember it every. single. day. and use its power to keep going in my own fight, and always keep creating.
i’m so glad your friends are so understanding and accepting!! (you bonding over my stories is so cool to me??? so cool.)
this is gonna sound internet-person cliché, but sometimes it’s hard for me to visualise the folks who are reading my stories - i know whatever i say or share is impacting someone in some small way, but even the messages i get from friends are still pixels on a screen, y’know? i always feel kinda distant and removed from the people as opposed to the statistics, as much as i try not to be. but your words are so important to me, you are important to me, and i’m so utterly grateful you shared this ;u;
thank you for the honour of letting my stories help you, anon. i appreciate that you chose life, firstly, but i’m extra glad you used my upcoming works as an incentive. (even more reason for me to carry on writing, right? i may never know who’s counting on it.)
the fact you mentioned ‘hart of the storm’ is especially exciting to me, since that one is akin to the novel-like stories i dream of writing in the future, and i wasn’t really sure if many people liked it. it feels good to get some feedback.
i hope you find yourself on the path that’ll lead you to more happiness and healthy relationships with friends and fandoms. i wish good things your way, indefinitely ♥
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(links to the Dean/Cas fics mentioned)
- Roost (12k domestic chicken AU)
- Try-Something Tuesday (48k teacher AU)
- Foxfire Blossom (283k flower shop AU)
- Hart of the Storm (119k historical fantasy AU)
- all of my fics with autistic!Cas so far
- ALL of my fics (currently 66 fics comprising of 1,857,762 words) (i’m aiming to hit 2 million words by the end of 2017)
6 years ago 16 Apr 2017 ☆ 43 notes ·
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so apparently someone made a survey of favourite destiel fic authors (that someone being @unforth-ninawaters), and somehow i’m ranked as 5th favourite????!?! thaNK YOU people who put my name down????? my mother is gonna be thrilled (and then ask why i’m not #1)
on another note, i’ve spent the last two days of my life painting my room purple after literally 8 years (and i mean literally, not figuratively, or exaggeratively), trying get my health up enough that i could paint a hecking wall. it. is. done. THE WALLS ARE PURPLE
I AM PLEASED
AND DEAR GOD I AM EXHAUSTED IT’S 3AM everything hurts i’m dying i need to sleep
k bye
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links to all 65 of my destiel fics on ao3, because of reasons
some favourites:
- kid!fic where dean gives autistic!cas a love letter in class (5k)
- dean texts cas a kissy-face emoji by mistake (5k)
- au where dean and cas are chickens (12k)
- domestic pirate!cas and sailor!dean on a desert island au (42k)
- teacher!dean/teacher!cas porn with plot au (48k)
- christmas log cabin domestic fluff au (60k)
and my newest fic (which i’m changing the summary for right now because nobody knows what it’s meant to be):
6 years ago 24 Feb 2017 ☆ 117 notes ·
my AO3 stats page: your Dean/Cas teacher AU fic Try-Something Tuesday has 3,001 kudos
me: what.
AO3 stats page: yes, that’s right! that utter schmoop-fest has 3,001 kudos.
me #2: are you kidding me like. are you. actually shitting me right n ow
AO3 stats page: T H R E E T H O U S A N D K U D O S.
me: i… i-I-I-I-I’d like to thank my parents, the academy, everyone whO READ THE THING AND HIT KUDOS???? JEEPERS CRACKERS THATS A LOT OF PEOPLE AND A LOT OF LOVE wha t the frick
me: oh my god
…Genuinely though, from the bottom of my heart, my dear, dear readers, your appreciation of my work means so very much to me. More than I can ever express in a little text post. Your responses always inspire me to keep striving to write more, and to make my stories the best they can be. So really. If you ever hid kudos on any of my fics, I thank you.
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7 years ago 03 Mar 2016 ☆ 94 notes ·
soulrach said: Hi there, firstly, I just wanted to say that I love your writing and your fics, they’re wonderful, and secondly I don’t know if you’ve heard of this gay penguins >>http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2009/04/penguins.html I know that you like to write animal transformation fics, and I read that article and went all “awwww so cute” and instantly thought of penguin!Dean and penguin!Cas wanting hatchlings of their own, so I thought you’d like to maybe write something like that ‘cause you know, fluffy animals… anyway I’ll just leave this prompt here and if your muse is feeling generous I’d love to read about those little cuties. Have a nice day.
FRIEND, LET ME TELL YOU A THING. Try-Something Tuesday was the second Destiel fic I ever wrote and literally those exact same penguins featured heavily. Roy and Silo were the lil cuties who drove the plot. I have already written the fic you’re prompting. Congratulations, your wish came true two-and-a-half years ago.
(Also, cloudyjenn’s Penguin ‘Verse exists. You should read that too, if you haven’t already. It’s freaking adorable.)
7 years ago 04 Sep 2015 ☆ 11 notes ·
You know what's funny, about the school thing? I think it varies from state to state and town to town and even school to school. For instance I grew up in San Diego County and we got really cool field trips. There also alternative school which do have smaller class sizes and are more relaxed. I went to one in kindergarten where we called the teachers by the first names.
[replying to my reply to this]
I tried to find a gif of Sam being all “interested accepting sturgeon face” but there’s a like a bazillion gifs of him doing a sturgeon face and I need to sleep for 12 years before I find the right one so
((Sam’s interested accepting sturgeon face.gif))
7 years ago 16 Aug 2015 ☆ 3 notes ·