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I dream about being with you forever. Twilight (2008) dir. Catherine Hardwicke

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Alice in Wonderland (1951)

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Yeah, well, whatever. When in Rome.

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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see? Alice in Wonderland (1951) dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

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A baroque masterpiece (via) 

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Adorable murder weapon

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Do you think Dabb was going through old episodes trying to find a cool ending and then scrolled over The Monster at the end of this Book and went

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Moriah in the Subtext (14x20)

Aaaaand they are still fighting like a married couple, right out of the gate:

“It’s not you, it’s me…” Jack hears this dude…

Breaking up with this poor other dude…

And this lovely couple is getting a divorce as well. 

Wait, it that kid wearing plaid and a tan coat?

Ugh more fighting…

CAS: “Billy said that the only way to defeat Michael, was to lock you in a box!”

DEAN: “I know you don’t like it, and I don’t really care, cuz you just heard it from God himself that this is the only thing that can kill Jack, so either get on board or walk away.”

Oh man, Dean looks down after he says this, because how many times in the past has it felt as if Cas just flew away, when Dean wanted him so badly to stay. He doesn’t want to watch Cas leave. 

Cas does walk away. Uh-oh, Dean starts in on the whiskey…

Is that still the whiskey Ketch left behind? The whiskey of monsters-are-always-bad, the universe is always-black-and-white?

Pan out shot, to Dean alone in the corner of his room. And look what’s hanging on his coat peg? Something that looks very like Castiel’s trenchcoat (does he have a spare? We’ve wondered this before) and a plaid shirt, all cosied up together. 

Ooooh truth spell! This should be interesting. 

Trump did a demon deal with Crowley, you say? We knew thaaaa…

Wait up: “I love you, I’ve always loved you…”

Dean, dammit, don’t turn off the TV!

Great, they are in the same room at the same time - truth spell, truth spell…

Chuck, wait, no, don’t fix that part yet,

Chuck dammit! 

Narrative negative space laughs evilly in the distance - the true villain is revealed.

Uh, oh, confrontation again - Dean arrives like the dark gunslinger in a Western, with the weapon of Revenge TM in his hand. 

This is actually really painful - Divorced Dad 1 walks into a graveyard to murder their kid, while Divorced Dad 2 tries to stop him.  

Whew Dean, thank Amara you decided not to kill your shared Nephilim son. I don’t think Cas would have recovered from that.

Here’s your very pissed off ex-husband on his way back to the scene of the almost crime:

Oh no, Chuck you bastard! 

Here’s a shot of Cas kneeling, grieving, by Jack’s body anyway.

He doesn’t know, though., does he Dean, how you knelt by his body, in a shot deliberately mirrored here? (12x23 All Along the Watchtower)

Considering the subtext between Dean and Cas, I don’t really mean to be flippant at the close of the season. It’s probably my own defence mechanism.

Yes, all of this was also beautiful and real. And subtext IS part of narrative. 

However, several people have asked me what I think this means for Destiel, going into S15. I’d say:

Yes, the narrative negative space is definitely loud.

Dean still doesn’t know about Cas’ deal with The Shadow.  

Cas still doesn’t know how hard Dean grieved when Cas was dead and in The Emply. 

Dean hasn’t taken back his words: “You are dead to me!” 

Cas has said “I love you… I love all of you,” (12x12 - Stuck in the Middle With You) but still hasn’t heard those words back. 

Moriah reminds us of all of that: the declaration of love between the newsreaders; the truth spell tease; the return of The Shadow (or possibly another entity covered in the goo of The Empty); the shot of Jack dead and Cas grieving, which mirrors the shot of Cas dead and Dean grieving. 

But, because we are where we are, and the show is where it is, culturally, socially, historically; because Dean and Cas are both male-embodied, I do think their love story is more than likely to continue to be told in subtext.

On the other hand, a bunch of zombies DID just burst out of their graves (closets) and that is a great metaphor for the revenge of the subtext….  

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Sam Fucking Winchester shot GOD. My hero.

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A somewhat odd but amusing recap of Sam’s journey on the road so far in Supernatural, in anticipation of Episode 300 (S14E13) ~ by Jared Padalecki

Bonus:

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True magic is neither black nor white. It’s both because nature is both. Loving and cruel, all at the same time. The only good or bad is in the heart of the witch. Life keeps a balance on its own.

THE CRAFT (1996) dir. Andrew Fleming