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My fic sweet spots for this trope: bamf Sam and Dean becoming or realizing they are basically their own pagan gods!
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Category: Genfic
Dust in the Wind by Lyra_Wing. Rated PG, Gen, 3k words. Summary: Future fic. Erm. Hard to explain. This is a crossover with American Gods, but you don't need to read that to understand what's going on.
lyra-wing.livejournal.com/100679.html
my thoughts: I loved how the author wrote Sam & Dean 's progress into what they become, and I just kinda love what they become gods of in general. So legendary and atmospheric, this small fic is impressively expansive!

Of Beginnings by Aytheria. Rated PG-13, Gen, 19k words. Summary: It 's the Apocalypse and the pagan gods aren 't just going to roll over and let the world end. One of them has a plan, something the angels and demons won 't see coming. Sam and Dean Winchester certainly don 't.
ao3.org/works/3727255
my thoughts: Influenced by Gaiman 's American Gods, I think. Very clever and fun to read buildup on the why (Janus 's perspective) and the how (the website) the boys become gods. I particularly adored the last parts of this story, Sam and Dean discovering/exploring their new powers (and accepting the offerings 😂)

Category: Dean/Sam
Polaris by Dimeliora. Rated NC-17, Sam/Dean, 59k words.
Summary: An intervention of pagan forces splits the brothers when they are young. Growing up apart and alone what will they do to be reunited, and how will they fight what is considered their destiny?
ao3.org/works/783632
my thoughts: Also probably inspired in part by Gaiman 's American Gods. Fascinating story with so many riveting parts to it, from their childhoods to Utre Dean 's mother figure goddess, all the American Gods feel to it, then thwarting yellow eyes & going to save Utre in a labyrinth of her psyche. So well written and engaging!

Category: Jared/Jensen
Gemini Chronicles by Aletheo. Rated R, Jensen/Jared, 203k words.
Summary: In the three-thousand years after Terra, humanity flourished in a Golden Age of prosperity and happiness. Until the silicates. With no means to communicate, no method for diplomacy, mankind fought back against the onslaught with all they had, but they were slowly losing the war. On the brink of extinction, man 's greatest hope lies with two young men whose extraordinary abilities have shockingly and violently awoken.
ao3.org/series/24097
my thoughts: This was a pretty fascinating read. Stellar world-building and taking an odd turn a little bit re: Jensen and Jared kinda taking the Spice Girls ' song "2 Become 1″ too literally but… I liked it! And they don 't actually become one body/person (I 've read that fic, lol). It 's just they lead us into a ‘singularity ' concept in conjunction with their godlike powers. It 's good though. Just read it. You 'll get sucked into their singularity haha. This is also included in my Winchesters... IN SPACE! reclist