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Sorry but destiels storyline is objectively so fucking funny. This gargantuan all-poweful millenia old biblical angel pulls an atheist out from hell and the first thing they both think is man do i wanna fuck him. Gotta hand it to spn you cant find this shit anywhere else

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remember in 9x03 when cas dies and you hear dean’s quiet tiny “no…” and then in 12x23 when cas dies and you hear dean scream “NO!!!” and then in 15x09 when he’s lost cas in purgatory he says “no no no” in a quiet panicked tone. love to imagine an hour into that dungeon cry he started repeating “no” over and over again while still sobbing

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🤠🤠🤠

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ok new headcanon aquired: i don't think being healed by angel grace is in any way pleasurable actually. I think it is only pleasurable to Dean. And only when it's Cas who is healing him. And it's because grace is the angel essence in the purest form. The warmth and safety Dean feels every time Cas heals him? That's because Cas loves him. Every time Cas infuses Dean with his grace, Cas' love flows thru Dean's veins. Literally.

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Hi, sorry but I just got back into SPN after 4 years, and uh what's the thing about the beer? Thanks for the meta.

Hi there! And welcome back!

There’s a lot of different brands of beer that only exist in the Supernatural Universe. And we’ve noticed over the years that these brands aren’t used at random. Nor are the specific signs/posters/bottles just randomly seeded into the background of the show the way something like Budweiser or Coors signs are in our reality. The signs and labels are deliberately used to give context and clarity to the narrative. They’re chosen on purpose.

We know this is deliberate because of the sheer number of brands they’ve created for the show. If it didn’t mean anything, they could’ve stopped with a handful and just randomly cycled through them, but they did not.

I mean, this blog has been keeping a list of every brand of alcohol ever used in the show, which gives some incredible context to just how much thought and attention was invested in this seemingly simple background feature of the visual narrative:

https://200dollargod.tumblr.com/post/55879856964/for-my-own-reference-more-beers-el-sol

If the brands didn’t have additional meaning, then why make so damn many of them? And why use specific brands in specific contexts only? Literally things like El Sol are ONLY used within the context of “reality is being manipulated, or someone is lying or being lied to.” There is no scene in the entire rest of the narrative where we see El Sol where it doesn’t function as this specific sort of red flag. You will never see it, for example, as part of a scene that is otherwise a straightforward rendering of truth. They have never had an el sol beer inside the bunker, for example. And the entire episode where the brand was introduced in canon was LITERALLY a false reality, Dean’s djinn dream within which he only drank El Sol and everyone thought he was always drunk and his girlfriend was a rendering of the model from the El Sol ad. So like… it’s fake, it’s all fake. Even the LABEL and every ad poster for the beer in canon is called “the sun” but there’s never a depiction of an actual sun associated with any of it. It’s telling you it’s the sun, but you can plainly see there is no sun. Fake stuff through and through!

Beer in the bunker almost always defaults to Margiekugel (alternately known as the “family beer” or “mom beer” because Jerry Wanek named it after his own mother). It’s about as close to “generic beer” they have in canon, because it’s sort of the family bonding beer.

Schultz is almost entirely associated with death (or debts, as in favors owed or the like). There are different colored labels for it, too (one even involving traditional “heaven duty coded” yellow and blue). If a character is framed with Schultz, it’s a warning.

There are far more, but these are the big three they’ve used the most in these specific contexts, just to give you some context on how we’ve noticed these things in canon over the years, and for demonstrating that the show itself almost never breaks these rules. Which is why so many of us are side-eyeing the El Sol in Heaven, and ESPECIALLY Dean’s declaration that it was “terrible.”

eta, because I thought of it after posting, that Dean also said this beer was his father’s brand (which adds painful context to Dean’s djinn dream back in 2.20 and what he tried to want for himself being his father’s dreams for him and not his OWN actual wants), and was told in the same conversation that his father lived just over yonder in this heaven setting, and Dean just picked this beer up, took a sip, and set it down and walked away from it. Which I appreciate, but still doesn’t justify why this specific beer was given the label of “John’s favorite” when again, literally any other canon beer could’ve served the same function without the baggage associated with False Reality attached that El Sol serves.

Why, Jerry Wanek, would you use that specific brand in that specific situation if you weren’t intending us to read it that way?

Margiekugel I could’ve understood, as Dean entering Heaven to be reunited with his family for eternity. Schultz I could’ve even understood as relevant to Heaven and death. Heck, they could’ve shown us an entirely new beer with no baggage attached, or even a generic mug of beer with no labeling at all associated with it! But they specifically chose THIS beer.

And I gotta know why…

but in lieu of someone actually giving an answer to this, it gives me permission to understand that this is Not Real, that something deeply wrong is happening here, and gives me permission to flat-out reject this finale as a real thing that happened in canon.

My meta tag where I’ve filed all the beer sightings of specific brands is right here for easy perusal and clarification. Some of the more heavily featured brands also have their own tags, which you can further explore as needed:

https://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/tagged/supernatural%20beer%20signs

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oh no i'm having thoughts about them again

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Acting choices that were Jensen Ackles' ideas:

Keeping Castiel's trenchcoat and folding it like a flag

2. Nice peach fuzz

3. Touching Castiel's face

4. B(r)oner

5. Having Cas take Dean's knife out of his ass pocket

Jensen Ross Ackles making things gayer since 2008

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it’s the fact that so many of the soft, sweet moments of their friendship — watching dean’s favorite movies together, debriefing after hunts over the phone, the giving of the mixtape — happen offscreen, because they aren’t important to the story chuck is trying to tell. they were never supposed to care about each other so much. but they do, they do, so much that it can’t be ignored. it leaks its way into the text. light bleeding through the cracks. their love for each other literally transcends the bounds of the narrative.

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I do think it really is something to give Dean a visible face wound while he’s mourning his dead angel husband with healing powers.

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. yeah

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when i say they had gay sex here…they had gay sex here.

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in heaven

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1.18 — Something Wicked

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i love it when supernatural says out loud that castiel is doing something for both brothers and then frames the scene like this. sam completely blocked and hidden and dean front and center. i think this is a good metaphor for the way castiel views his actions and his feelings. in his head he’s doing things for the brothers. for humanity. but anyone else looking in can see that ALL castiel really sees when he’s doing these things is ✨DEAN✨