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- David Duchovny

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tumblr is so intimate like… i do not act like this around people i know…

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‘So Dean is sort of in his comfort zone. The brothers have each other’s backs, and Dean is ready to take on the world, with his brother beside him. And I like him being there.’

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Thomas and Unca Jensen because they are adorable together ♥

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that's jared and jensen if you even care

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I have spent years trying to come up with a charitable explanation for Supernatural viewers blindly accepting certain parts of the show framing, and I think the best I can do is that they’re too willing to suspend their disbelief. To engage with a story, we have to accept the premise and roll with it, even if internal logic doesn’t align with real world logic. It’s why we accept Indiana Jones is a good archaeologist despite doing approximately nothing in that job description, and making it clear that if he operated in the real world, he’d be a terrible archaeologist - the movies set goals, and he achieves them. Supernatural viewers are willing to do that. They accept the Supernatural cop show premise. They accept that demons are evil and that the demon blood is therefore a worse thing to be addicted to than any real world substance. But because the internal logic doesn’t hold up - Sam’s doing the same thing using his powers he always was, the people asserting it’s evil are untrustworthy, we see no personality changes, fewer people are getting hurt not more - we should be resorting to real world logic instead and no longer suspending our disbelief. And from real world logic, the story becomes “Sam has an addiction and is punished and stigmatized for it”. A lot of viewers just get stuck on the internal logic, and don’t make the leap to the fact it doesn’t actually make sense in terms of the established rules of the universe.

Hey anon sorry for the late reply, hope you still see this. I agree to some extent with the general thrust of what you are saying (although I think its maybe TOO charitable for some people haha).

I think you are right in that there is an issue with people being unwilling to step outside of the (easiest, most obvious) narrative of the show. However I'm not sure personally I'd define that as being an issue of "suspension of disbelief" and more perhaps a difficulty or unwillingness to look beyond what is directly presented to them by Dean on screen and to take that as verifiable fact, as opposed to viewing him as an extremely unreliable narrator with a very particular worldview that contorts the narrative he presents about Sam. I think where this distinction is most clear to me is that to me even within the world of Supernatural what Dean (and Bobby) did to Sam in the panic room was still Wrong and cruel. I don't think we need to apply exterior "real world" morality for that to be true, just a POV outside of Dean's? There were other things Dean could have done, other approaches even within the interior logic of the show, he chose the most extreme one, because the panic room wasn't just about getting Sam "clean" it was also about punishing Sam for trangressing the Sam/Sammy, the human/monster, the us/them divides. "At least he dies human."

(also love the Indiana Jones explaination of suspension of disbelief, as an actual real life archaeologist you best believe my belief is suspended lmao)

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if you could write a role for jared's next job, what would it be? (this could also double as a 'what arc/plot would you write for sam in a supernatural reboot?' question but that's tew easy)

Ohhhhh *Jared voice* that's a GREAT question!

I'd definitely like to see him doing something that plays to his strengths whilst also challenging him (in that Soulless Sam kinda way). I think maybe doing something in the realm of like conceptual science/speculative fiction could be interesting to me. Something that gets WEIRD. Honestly if Orphan Black Echos hadn't been cancelled I could maybe have dreamt up something for him there. I also like the idea of him playing someone not necessarily a straight-up villain but an extremely morally grey, a very ends justifies the means kind of character (though in a different way to Soulless - maybe more like what people think Sam is a "bad things for good reasons" kind of approach). (In terms of a S16 arc - what I want is entirely unrealistic but if I were writing it I would explore all the ways half a lifetime away from Dean and out of hunting and with his own family has affected their dynamic). Thaaannnkkkkss for the ask Sam x

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Cracking one of these bad bois open & sharing with my mutuals

'Tis the season

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every now and then the internet decides it should revamp the ole “stop texting first and see how many friends you lose” when in reality you could literally just communicate that u feel bad that ur the only one texting first

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J2 at WB Upfront in 2005 vs J2 at CW Upfront in 2017 12 years!

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They are now calling for a boycott of all Starbucks stores for December 20th to December 24th.

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Sam and Jess!!!

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When Jensen took the stage at the concert. Jason Manns had the mic stand up high which reminded Jensen of Jared so he immediately pointed to Jared in the audience. (X)

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Out of all the takes on here, one of the ones that got me the most heated was "Dean is secretly more devout/faithful than Sam" and the reasoning was that we SEE Dean pray onscreen more often than Sam - but the thing is Dean typically prays because he KNOWS someone is listening. Sam prayed even when no one was answering - no angels materializing to help him. He prayed because he believed, not because he was calling a friend for an assist.