HOLY SHIT BIRTHDAY.

Let me count all the ways in which YOU GUYS ARE AMAZING:

1. Faith and Desire in the Swing of Your Hips by sexts: her first foray into Dean/Castiel! For me! eeeeeeee!
2. The Forty-First Year (Reimagined) by strangeandcharm: omg Dean taking care of Cas! And dumb birthday cakes and kitten cards! ♥
3. olympia_m sent me more of her Roman AU which I've been missing, and even though it wasn't technically written for me I'm gonna pretend it was because it was EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED. fjdklsfjdsklomg ♥!
4. Lifting of the Veil by vichan: desperate and achy and absolutely gorgeous, this one.
5. Beside Me Today by emerald_embers: also desperate and achy and gorgeous, but includes Dean blowing raspberries on Cas's stomach!
6. The Recruitment Blitz by taurenova: RAHM AND MISHA AND KAL PENN, plus loads of other politicians and pundits. This fic is EPIC.
7. Non Serviam by katrinaswift: in which Dean is Edward Cullen and Castiel dazzles him, and LUCIFER IS HEAD!SIX, omg this is practically a BSG crossover. !!
8. katrinaswift also made me a Dean/Castiel fanmix and recorded a podfic of This Thing Called Free Will which is the most depressing thing I've ever written but the email was in all caps so I COULD NOT STOP LAUGHING. what.
9. 23 reasons to love Castiel picspam by darksilvercat: uhmm, there was like a half hour break between me copying that link and me coming back to type the rest of this. CANNOT. STOP. STARING.
10. LJ gifts from big_heart_june, yamapea, and crystalchain!
11. And loads of amazing posts/macros/emails/messages/texts/comments/etc from loads more people. ♥
12. ETA: DEAN/CASTIEL + BERT/ERNIE ART! OMG. ♥
13. ETA2: DEAN/CASTIEL SNUGGLING IN BED by oatmeal_queen! Eeeeeeeeeeee.

IN CONCLUSION: I WILL NEVER STOP BEING FLOORED OR BE ABLE TO THANK YOU GUYS ENOUGH. Although I'm gonna try, starting with catching up on all the replies I still owe people. Couldn't get around to it all last night, sorry, PASSED OUT FROM JOY (literally, I think). Birthday was awesome, came home and got to see people I have not seen in forever, and then it was made infinitely more awesome the moment I came online. fdlskfjdlskfjsdkl I LOVE YOU, FLIST. SO MUCH. THANK YOU!! ♥

P.S. Yesterday was Rob Benedict's birthday, too, I like to think this makes me at least a tiny bit prophet-ish. XD