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they’re sooo dramatic about dean killing all those men in “the things we left behind” as if those men weren’t about to sex traffic claire. that’s not the mark of cain that’s just dean serving justice

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forever thinking about how in alcal’s mind jack was this “all-encompassing” character who hadn’t really fully committed to being either good or bad and all that..just for the show to end up like. No he’s actually completely ontologically good now 🙂 and now he’s gone 🙂 what do you mean his personality is gone he’s so normal haha 🙂🙂🙂

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I still love the idea of TFW having to do "undercover" social media accounts for a case.

They have to learn to strip their EXIF data/location and not include personal identifiers, so most of them pick "special interests" to be online about. For Jack, it's zombies and dead things and plants and fungi (rotting wood, mushrooms). For Sam it's graphics with carefully curated, seasonally-inspired serial killers stats. For Cas it's completely random (2 followers), and Dean...

...Dean goes viral once he starts posting cropped photos of Cas's hands doing everyday things.

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sam accepts that dean and cas’s “profound bond” is just cas liking dean more but they’re both best friends with cas and he’s working off that assumption a long time because he has his own shit going on. but. there’s a room in the bunker dean and cas have been having movie nights in, without him. and cas says he sleeps sometimes now but his bed is made with hospital corners like dean does but the one time they asked cas to help clean up he simply left the room to “look into something important” so does cas actually sleep there? does dean make his bed…? how did cas know to find the colt under deans pillow? and then cas dies in a way that leaves a body and he thinks okay maybe the more profound bond thing was a two way street. because dean wanted to wrap cas’s body himself and carry it himself and scatter cas’s ashes himself and he barely said anything the whole time. but dean will put this away just like all their other losses and they can get mom back. but when cas comes back from the empty and dean is dean again after that frankly too fucking close call, sam thinks. thinks: ok. it IS a big win! he’s glad too! and then. there’s the photo of cas in the cowboy hat in deans wallet that sam saw on accident when he needed to grab a 20 for gas. why do dean and cas rearrange their legs under tables whenever sam walks in? so many things in sam’s life demand his attention but he frankly hadn’t given much thought to dean and cas once he came to terms with the fact that cas was family. but maybe he should have because one day he’s gonna burst into deans room with news and cas is going to be balls deep in his brother with his thumbs on deans tongue and his teeth in deans shoulder and he’s going to think “…i tried to take him to the clam diver”

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"Rien ne va plus" by Margarita Karapanou

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having supernatural politics thoughts. i was under the impression that jefferson rooney's sudden appearance and disappearance completely fucked up the supernatural political timeline, and it kinda did. the main problem is that there are contradictions with mentions of both obama and trump during what should be rooney's time in office (pre-LOTUS 12x08). how do you have time for both a second obama term AND trump, but still sandwich rooney in between?

well, yours truly just spent a few hours going thru every mention of obama, rooney, and trump on supernatural.fandom.com (lol), thinking i was going to be able to prove that this isn't technically possible, and buckleming sucks and that they maybe even killed off obama to make room for rooney after which i was going to be like "what did u do to obama, buckleming???" but actually i found a way for the political timeline to be preserved for the most part without any really big leaps in logic. (buckleming is still dumb as hell for this tho bc it is pure coincidence of air dates and throwaway jokes that it works out perfectly)

ok so obama was definitely president for at least one term in universe bc bobby references obamacare in 7x02 which aired in september 2011. the supernatural wiki says he served two terms, but their evidence for the second term is this part of 10x12, which aired in february 2015:

which. idk that doesn't necessarily indicate that obama is still president. it implies it, sure, but doesn't really confirm it. the last real confirmation for obama being president is 7x12, which aired january 13 2012 (dean says the president is a black guy. gonna just assume this is about obama bc if it's not it opens up a whole new can of worms lmaoo). On that date, obama was still in his first term, so we really have no confirmation of a second obama term. which brings us to jefferson rooney.

jefferson rooney's first appearance/mention is in 12x08, which aired december 8th, 2016. This is after the 2016 election but before inauguration for the next term. this implies, at least to me that rooney won the 2012 election and at the time of 12x08 has already lost the 2016 election to donald trump. by the time we get to 13x09 (aired december 7, 2017), trump is president (kaia says her drug dealer is just trying to make it in trump's america).

all this together tells me that in supernatural, obama is president from 2009-2013, rooney is president from 2013-2017 (which irl was obama's second term), and trump is president from 2017-(2021??). simple! right?

NO.

THIS RAISES SO MANY MORE QUESTIONS THAN IT ANSWERS.

first of all, people commonly think of rooney as a republican. generally this has to do with the implication that kelly kline is pro-life, as well as rooney saying yes to lucifer bc he wants to bring about an era of spirituality to america. he's not explicitly stated to be a republican, but he's... republican-coded LOL. makes sense. and it also makes sense for him to have run against obama in 2012. got it. rooney is a republican (and also very clearly a mitt romney stand-in - generally seen as a good guy, religious, ran against obama in 2012).

but how the FUCK did this guy lose to trump. first of all, if theyre both republicans, that means either he lost to trump in the primary (which would be BIG NEWS for sitting president), or trump ran as a third party candidate. ok, i can see that, but what the fuck does THIS line mean then?

how does jefferson rooney become the most popular sitting president in modern history a month after losing his bid for reelection. he literally cannot.

the ONLY explanation that i can come up with is that jefferson rooney MUST have won the november 2016 election. i'm sorry, it's just not making sense to me any other way. which means, jefferson rooney became... indisposed... sometime between december 2016 and december 2017, and somehow this led to donald trump becoming president.

NOW. i very highly doubt that donald trump would ever run as jefferson "i'm satan's little bitch" rooney's running mate (or anyone's running mate for that matter).

ALSO we do have some evidence that trump did run his own campaign for president. in 11x22 (aired may 18, 2016), crowley makes a speech to his demons that parodies trump's campaign announcement speech and uses the phrase "make hell great again." they make the same joke again in 13x02 (aired october 19, 2017) when drexel tells asmodeus that lucifer will return to make hell great again. so trump is almost definitely not rooney's VP.

SO. what does this all add up to? WELL LET ME TELL YOU. here's what i think happened. jefferson rooney went into the november election with TWO major opponents: the democrat challenger (presumably hillary clinton? but unclear) and third party candidate, donald trump. since jefferson is the most popular sitting president or whatever, he wins. but in the US, popular vote does not decide the president; the electoral college does.

when did the electoral college meet and vote in 2016? december 19th. that's right! 11 days AFTER jefferson rooney is last seen on screen (december 8th in LOTUS 12x08, i'll remind you). so presumably, rooney goes missing pretty soon after we see him last.

as for why he goes missing, i'm going with one of two options: 1. he steps down after being possessed because going off the following convo from 12x09 (takes place immediately following LOTUS) :

he either has a 3 day gap in his memory, or he knows he's been possessed by the literal devil and endangered the whole world by letting LUCIFER be PRESIDENT. either way, he steps down bc he questions his own fitness to serve a second term. or 2. he literally just. dies. possibly as a result of a (spoiler alert for two paragraphs from now) demon deal.

what does the electoral college do if the president-elect DIES or steps down before they are able to meet? i cannot believe i researched fucking constitutional law for this stupid fucking post (jk lmao i watched like two cgp grey videos). well, the electors would likely be expected to vote for whoever their national party chooses as a replacement. the logical replacement would be the vice president-elect, but then you need a new vice president-elect as well.

UNLESS. there's a certain third-party candidate that REALLY wants to be president and sees an opening. all he'd have to do is rig the electoral college vote somehow in his favor. hmmm i wonder how donald trump could possibly rig an electoral college-

oh yeah he literally canonically made a demon deal with Crowley (mentioned in 14x20).

SO. theres my answer. problem solved, baby. jefferson rooney went missing after the events of 12x08, 11 days before the electoral college can meet. donald trump sees an opening and makes a demon deal to rig the electoral college votes in his favor, allowing him to essentially steal the election from the most popular sitting president of all time, a month after the election happens. like i said, this deal could have also included getting jefferson rooney... uh... out of the way, as well.

thus, the timeline is TECHNICALLY preserved. well done buckleming! ur stupid president thing only took me a few hours to logic my way out of, and only bc of a throwaway joke from an episode two seasons later that you didnt even write! well done :)

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Et secta diabolica, omnis congregatio, omnis legio, omnis incursion....infernalis adversarii, omnis spiritus exorcizamus!

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i dunno its been said before but something about. late seasons dean with his silly little socks and his apron hes baking birthday cakes and hes putting cas in silly hats and hes nerding out over horror movies in silly little outfit but at the same time its the cruelest hes ever been like it gives me whiplash i cant handle it

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eric kripke answer for your sins

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jack was hatched out of an air pod case 10 minutes ago and this sheriff expects him to know what a phone number is

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stop… making… her… a… MOM FIGURE !!! *my psychic powers throw everything across the room*

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When they try to kill eachother <3 @deancoded-deangirl

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Me shaking the absolute shit out of the show runners and writers; Why the fuck do you give us this shit and yet never address the issues they developed from their years of abuse and neglect! 

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remember remember the 19th of november

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I promise that you’ll never find another like me.

just uh. trying to convey an experience

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Goodbye, Dean

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happily ever after below the waist