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❝ I have given you an order. Now, you stop following me, and you do your job. You understand me? ❞ ( insp )

+ bonus

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who for his greed? who for his hunger?
and who, who shall I say, is calling? winchesters + “who by fire” (leonard cohen)

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Supernatural S2E18 Hollywood Babylon

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supernatural writers after season 5

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Kinda unable to get this out of my head rn: Dean helping Sammy with “Our Town” rehearsal

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I used to be mad at him. I mean, l used to-- I used to hate the guy. But now I get it. He was doing the best he could… and he was trying to keep it together in-- ln this impossible situation.

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"Yeah, well I'm sure it won't happen again." ↳ 1.14 - NIGHTMARE

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bobby in ss5 or something

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The most unfortunate outcome of spn continuing way past its natural life is that it really ceases to be just about two dudes, which was (to me) the whole appeal. Just two nobodies who haven't spoken in a minute and who need to find their dad and even though something crazy and inexplicable shaped the course of their lives, they're just two guys raised in grief by a dysfunctional obsessive alcoholic. They have enough personality and are likeable enough and interesting enough and funny enough to keep watching, but outside of their niche knowledge there is nothing about them that makes them unique. They're just like the families they save and the ghosts and the vampires and the werewolves and even the demons in that they all share the same human concerns re: family and love and isolation, etc (bc of course all these other beings were also humans once). They love and care about each other like normal people care about each other. And therefore the sacrifices and trade-offs they make are not extraordinary or unforgivable; the faith healer's tent was full of people trying to save loved ones; the crossroads demon made thousands of deals to spare people's lives; the good, ethical, even aspirational, thing to do when your brother is dying is to be by his side. They are significant only because they're the subjects of the show, but their impact in the world is reasonably normal person-sized. This obviously begins to falter by the introduction of angels, but even then the show essentializes family to such a degree that the familial remains the main hermenuetic. Our heroes are only iterations of this fundamentally relational reality (as are we, the viewer). And then by S15 they're like... "lol actually these two dudes are the literal center of the universe.”

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child sam bothering his brother and dad with stupid magic tricks save meeeee

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every time spn uses the set to show angels with like. wings and halos or other representations of them being other and not human and much bigger than they seem i’m like wow. wow. absolute banger. that shit gets me every single time

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you know, dean’s visible frustration with and response to simply recite synonyms at this grieving widow is almost as funny as her complete inability to grasp what he’s trying to ask 

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it haunts me every goddamn day that Bela died letting Dean believe she killed her parents for money and spent her last moments letting him spew his vindictive holier-than-thou bile at her bc she thought she Deserved it (after paralleling him for a season!!!) bc she committed the cardinal sin of Supernatural-world and desecrated the sanctity of the Family Unit and then at the last possible second Kripke's like btw she did it bc her Father (!) was sexually abusing her. and she didn't even pull the trigger she was just talked into it by a demon when she was 14 years old!!!!! and she just couldn't bring herself to tell them. those righteous men. monster-hunters. justice-bringers. but what do you do if your Father (!!!) is the monster. who do you run to who can you tell. 'you wouldn't understand. no one did. never mind.' and they never find out they just never. find out. never mind all the times she looked Dean in the eyes and said you can't judge me, we are the same. he never has to think about or interrogate THAT again. the idea of the Father (!!!!!) as a sexual threat just hangs outside the narrative unsaid and unsayable. oh well looks like that arc is wrapped up . now Bela's in hell. forever. ok. jesus fucking christ.

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oh, i hope you run into them, you, who’ve been traveling so long

sam & eileen + “sisters of mercy”

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thinking about that post that said the real horror of spn was the ways abuse will resurface and thinking about how season 1 is so explicitly intensely overwhelming about domestic violence and abuse in the home…………….there’s something in the pipes, there’s something in the walls, there’s something in the closet the children see at night. we know, but we can never say it

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this person will not see heaven

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truly the craziest part of this show is that the horror isn’t the horror like the “horror” element of it is blood which is often played as camp. the ACTUAL horror is the absolutely unthinkable ways domestic abuse happens and shapes a life