ISO good J2 Non-AU early season RPS

[badbastion]

OKAY, so, I'm not really into RPS. I have no objective problem with it, and I applaud all you lovely fans who post it, it's just that it's not something that's floated my boat before.

However, rewatching SPN has kind of made me want to dip my toes into some fic. Like, especially early-season fic, around the times when Jared would try to kiss Jensen on the red carpet (I love that gif to pieces) or when they were living together.

The thing is, I want the really good stuff. I want the classics. Good characterization, good writing, non-AU early-season stuff. Slow-builds/UST/First-times are especially relevant to my interests. Any rating, though I prefer at least a little bit of lovin'.

I'd ask over on spnstoryfinders, but they ask that you don't ask for "the good ones."

I'm alsoooo really interested in Mishalecki, something I hardly ever see a peep of. Is there any of that out there? it seems like it would be fun.

Does my lovely friendslist have any recs for me? <3<3<3 I don't know when I'll find time to read them, but I want to.


ETA: EXTRA BONUS LOVE for podfics!

Comments

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

It's very rare that I read J2 myself, and in the early days, I tended to read more non-AU than AU. Here are my Pinboard recs:

https://pinboard.in/u:killabeez/t:jared%252Fjensen

…and I'm surprised to see more there than I would have guessed. I guess it's not that rare for me. :D

And apparently I have a few more older ones here:

http://seacouver.slashcity.net/killa/spnrecs.html#rps

Apologies for any broken links. :( And there's one Jared/JDM link in there.

[badbastion.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, so many! I love that you have descriptions for them, that makes it so much easier :) Thanks for all the recs! :D

[killabeez.livejournal.com]

I fear that many of the links may be broken, but a little digging may result in joy. I know chash has most of her stories on AO3.