#i should go back to it sometime actually

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I love crow on the cradle :’)

dude crow on the cradle goes CRAAAAZY it was one of the first longfics i ever read (i think it might have even been before i watched the show) and i was SHOCKED when i revisited it a few months ago and realized it wasn't nearly as popular in the fandom as i thought it was!! the price of writing a masterpiece in 2006 i guess.

for the uninitiated, in this fic dean + john get a call from the palo alto police bc sam has gone missing. jess refuses to believe he would just leave like that, especially right before his stanford law interview, and insists on getting involved in the search -- i won't go into too much detail because the way it all unfolds is half the fun, but it's really interesting and full of twists and turns, especially if you're a huge fan of season 1! fandom classic to me for sure -- here's the link for anyone interested (forgot author goes by Kroki_Refur on AO3), and here's the link for fanfiction.net if you want the vintage author's notes!

#there is such a specific vibe to spn fic written during the kripke era and this is like the ultimate example of it #this show has been around so long sometimes i forget people haven't read all the classic fics i was ploughing through age 13 #how soon we forget our roots (SFTCOLARS)#the other big kripke era ff.net fic i remember was house of burden by maygin (mary never dies but sam is still psychic AU)#but i can remember so many big names in the sam whump circle from that era. LITERALLY our elders now.#refur of course. faye dartmouth. k hannah korrossy (i think she's still posting on ao3 actually)#gidgetgal9. tyranusfan. mentholpixie. TraSan. skag trendy. scribble2much. clair beaubien. mouseme. floralia. sendintheclowns. phx.#the limp sam fanfiction.net community was my library of alexandria when i was in seventh grade #i should go back to it sometime actually #it's harder now bc reading 'hurt!sam protective!dean' is less appealing given. you know. late seasons dean.#but the nostalgia would be insane. anyways!