Masterpost: The Voice Of The Turtledove (Dean/Castiel)

[obstinatrix]

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Title The Voice of The Turtledove
Pairing: Dean/Castiel
Rating NC-17
Word Count: 60,645
Summary: Castiel was eleven years old when he first felt there was something wrong with him. He's twenty-nine, a Roman Catholic priest in a small New England village, before Dean Winchester shows him that there isn't. AU.
Warnings: I think we've hit the motherlode, here. *deep breath* Blasphemy. Theological posturing. Possible underage sex - although Dean is 17, which meets the age of consent where this story takes place. Human!Cas, obviously. Vague insinuations of sibling incest (Castiel/Jimmy, in thought only). Religiously based homophobia. Internalised homophobia in the narrative voice. Shredding of a number of tenets of the Roman Catholic church. Too many Biblical references. Priest!kink and all that comes with it, basically.
Special Mentions to: the ever-wonderful starcrossedgirl, who listened to me complain about this fic, prodded me when I was slowing down with it, and threw me plot momentum, as she so often does, when I had none. Thanks also to A for the Ameripick.
Final Notes: I am, by training, a Church historian; I'm also a long-time attendee of more than one RC church. Everything in here about altar-serving, in particular, comes from observations based upon particular churches. If you've seen it done differently, that's because churches do have some degree of autonomy in these matters. :)


For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing is come,
and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

. part 1 . part 2 . part 3 . part 4 . part 5 . part 6 .

For copyright reasons -- specifically, because it was published -- this fic is no longer available publicly. The story is now available in print here or as an ebook, here. Anyone who feels inclined to purchase either one of them will be much-loved by me. ;) I'm afraid I am no longer able to email PDFs of the original. For a fuller explanation of why, please see this post by my good friend nanoochka, who has summed up the situation better than I could.

Comments

[lalazee.livejournal.com]

I just want to say that I'm fucking ecstatic to read this AND NOW IM GOING TO.

[obstinatrix.livejournal.com]

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I'm thrilled to hear it, bb!

[screamlet.livejournal.com]

I AM SO FUCKING THRILLED THIS EXISTS

[obstinatrix.livejournal.com]

I'M THRILLED YOU'RE THRILLED :D

[starcrossedgirl.livejournal.com]

HERE, HAVE AN APPROPRIATE CAS ICON FOR THIS POST.

:DDDDDDDDDDD SO THRILLED THIS IS POSTED!

[obstinatrix.livejournal.com]

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

OFFICIAL COMMENT FROM SUPPORTER = CHECK! ♥

I couldn't have done it without you, bb.

[kianspo.livejournal.com]

Christmas came early, did it, oh my God... <3

[obstinatrix.livejournal.com]

:D ♥ I hope you enjoy!

[leatharegee.livejournal.com]

OH. MY. GODDDD.

I can't even put into words how amazing amazing amazing this is. The scene at the beginning of chapter chapter 5 where the real angel Castiel shows up...I literally felt like I had the wind knocked out of me it was so ~wonderful~ (the references to canon dialogue were so brilliant) that I had to put my computer aside for like 10 minutes and remember how to fucking breath before I could keep reading. And the ending is just ~UNNF~ and wonderful that I'm literally sitting in my bed at 3:30 am giggling and half-crying and smiling like a fucking idiot.

It's like you took every single one of the "It gets better" videos and put them together in one amazing story featuring Dean and Cas.

tl;dr LOVED IT. :-D

[obstinatrix.livejournal.com]

Thank you! And hey, I'm particularly glad you liked Cas's dream, because that was one of the parts I was most unsure of, so that pleases me immensely. xx

[obstinatrix.livejournal.com]

:DDDDDDD

Thank you so much. I'm really delighted that it worked for you, and your comment about the 'it gets better' videos really makes me smile, because that was exactly what I was going for, here. I'm a gay person who grew up in an environment of overwhelming religious homophobia, and it does get better, and I wanted to convey that.

[karaq.livejournal.com]

One word: FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC!!!
Surely one of the best Dean/Cas AU's I've ever read.
Loved pretty much everything about it; the age-difference, Cas as a priest, Homophobic community and family, Cas for once with the gay-freakout (it's usually Dean), and of course: the well written apperance of angel!Castiel :)

Again: FANTASTIC STORY! :)

~KaraQ

[obstinatrix.livejournal.com]

:DDDD

Thank you so much! I'm delighted you liked.

[secondplatypus.livejournal.com]

*throws plans for the evening to the winds and dives right in*

[whumpses.livejournal.com]

Someday, I'm going to be able to thank you for this. Yes, it was hot like whoah, but more importantly it was life-affirming and had one of the best....ok...not gonna spoil it. Let's say I liked the scene in the field, the confessional, the trash courtyard, the car, the rectory, the kitchen, the bedroom, the bunkbed, the locker room...all of them for different reasons. This thing is so well written, so well paced, and so deliciously long. It kept seeming like the end was nigh, and then proceeding in such a way that each chapter was like a gift.."yay Mama let us stay up a little later" kinda reprieve feeling. Normally when a person tries to write something with A Social Message it faceplants but this is more alive than that. Thank you. I wanna film this & make it a Hallmark special. Oh, and the hotness was..yeah..wow..

[obstinatrix.livejournal.com]

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[obstinatrix.livejournal.com]

♥ Thank you so much I'm delighted that this worked for you, on all these levels. :)

[the-sammykinz.livejournal.com]

This was such a good read. Honestly. I AM SO FUCKING ECSTATIC OVER THIS.

[obstinatrix.livejournal.com]

:D Thank you!

Also: your icon = ♥

[timey-wimey-kid.livejournal.com]

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN THIS BUT I THOUGHT YOU'D DEFINITELY LOVE IT.
http://twitpic.com/39ecgd

[obstinatrix.livejournal.com]

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WHAT IS THIS EPISODE OH MY GOD, WHAT IS THIS GLORIOUSNESS???

BRB, WRITING AU OF THIS AU IN WHICH FATHER CAS IS A GLEEFUL, PSYCHOPATHIC KILLER.

[timey-wimey-kid.livejournal.com]

I have no idea. If it's SPN I'm gonna squee so loud.

OMG AWESOME. DO THAT.

[xarixian.livejournal.com]

[nanoochka.livejournal.com]

What she said.

[redheadaholic.livejournal.com]

Do you think the Pope would ex-communicate me if I sent him this story as the only response needed to why the RC Church is just SO stupid and wrong on homosexuality? :)

Loved this in so many ways already chronicled above, so won't repeat them. Great job!