Across the Divide / by Bookkbaby (R)

Title: Across the Divide
Author: Bookkbaby 
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairings: Dean/Castiel, Jimmy Novak/Amelia Novak
Genre: Romance
Length: Short (Words: 5,387)

Author's Summary:
Jimmy isn’t always asleep. (A Destiel fic from Jimmy’s POV.)

Review:
Warm and fluffy and sweet, really well-written, this is just a beautiful fic about the nature of love. 

Across the Divide (on AO3)

Dudley Dursley and the New Normal / by alikat522 (PG-15)

Title: Dudley Dursley and the New Normal
Author: alikat522 aka straydog733 
Fandom: Harry Potter
Genre: AU, postwar!fic
Length: Medium (Words: 53,167)

Author's Summary:
Bad things happen. Life gets strange. Dudley tries to carve out a little bit of normality in a world that has gone mad around him.

Review:
This is a great Dudley-Redeemed story that takes place immediately after the war.  I love how each chapter ends with a newspaper excerpt to show how the larger world is managing the war's aftermath and how the individual characters' lives in the story fit in with the larger whole.  I also like actions-have-consequence stories on principle and this one is really creative too.  Dudley's pretty well in character for the end of canon, taking into account the story's character development.  The various OCs are great too.  But I especially like the cultural/political plot which I don't really want to get into detail about for fear of spoiling it, especially considering how the story starts out treating what "the new normal" is as a big reveal, but I absolutely recommend this fic for it.

Dudley Dursley and the New Normal (on ff.net)

Looking for a Supernatural fic

Atm, I'm looking for a particular fic and I'm hoping you Supernatural fans might recognize it.

In it, Gabriel is telling someone, probably Sam, a story about how Gabriel left Heaven and became a trickster.  In this fic, Gabriel is possessing the god Loki rather than just showing up in the Norse pantheon and claiming his name is Loki - Loki is Gabriel's vessel.  The story as Gabriel tells it is that shortly after God left Heaven, Michael went on a purification war and hunted down all sorts of pagan gods, Gabriel was sent after a Trickster, who turned out to be Loki, and who led Gabriel around on a bunch of tricks and showed Gabriel that he was already a Trickster himself and eventually they became friends.  But Michael, or his forces at least, caught up with Loki and injured him badly and on his death bed, he told Gabriel "Yes, brother," knowing it was how he consented to Gabriel taking him as a vessel.  I didn't think much of it at the time so I didn't bookmark it, but it has since become head canon so I'd really like to read it again.