#*~ opposites (dean)

[seasononesam]

Hey, you better take care of that car. Or, I swear, I'll haunt your ass.

[digitalmyyth]

Bashes them all with a comically large hammer

[stellaluna33]

It's interesting to me that, while Dean is very respectful to Lorelai herself, he is at several points pretty disparaging about Rory's relationship with her. "Well, you just feel that way because your mother feels that way," and "I say I love you, and you want to think about it? Go home and discuss it with your mother?"

And Jess is less respectful to Lorelai herself, but he never says anything against Rory's relationship with her, never seems annoyed or resentful of it. He sometimes expresses resentment about Lorelai's hatred of him, but never about Rory's closeness to her, even though he could have at various points and even though he probably doesn't understand it. And it's interesting to me, because Jess antis would probably assume that he's the one who would be saying things like the quotes above, trying to drive a wedge between them, but he never does. It's the "nice" guy that Lorelai likes so much.

[winchestergifs]

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1.12 Faith Written by Sera Gamble & Raelle Tucker Directed by Allan Kroeker 14.10 Nihilism Written by Steve Yockey Directed by Amanda Tapping Original Air Dates: January 17, 2006 & 2019

[casdeans-pie]

Also I wish there'd have been some kind of cool consequences for Dean being 'The Michael Sword'

Maybe something like Angels they meet exclusively refer to him as The Sword and he haaaates that

Or it explains why he's so good with handling an Angel Blade

Or why he's so resilient for Just A Dude, because he was literally built to contain an archangel. Maybe he heals a bit faster than a regular guy, but he's never noticed before because Sam heals at a similar rate.

Maybe it would explain why he gets so twitchy about religion and churches, because it's baked into the loaf that he should end up as the vessel for Michael but Dean being Dean subconsciously rebels.

Or there's a conversation where Cas reveals that whenever he heals him he has to physically put the breaks on his own Grace because Dean's body pulls it in like a magnet. It's why he's so susceptible and sensitive to Angel magic, like time travel and alternate reality stuff.

Or sometimes Dean can read tiny bits of Enochian or understand a tiny bit of Latin but then when he realises it's happening and he's aware of it the ability immediately goes......

Dean: Wait. I think I can read this!... It says - beware the... the....... *clicks fingers* Shit. It's gone again.

Sam: The next word was kind of important Dean !

[softambrollins]

d i a m e t r i c a l l y o p p o s e d

[shadystranger]

dean was just about to beat this guy up after he suggested they abandon sam and only settled down with a dean from sam. It's like sam was calling off his guard dog

[lambmotifz]

thinking about how hell made dean’s sadistic tendencies worse by making him enjoy his role as a torturer and how sam came back from the cage more masochistic than he already was. thinking about dean who pushes sam away because he’s terrified of unleashing this part of himself on his little brother & sam who actually WANTS to be tortured and is begging dean to hurt him and his fear is dean will say no

[holyfreaks]

sam agreeing to be free use.... dean just randomly grabs him around the bunker, while he's doing dishes, while he's reading, one time when he was asleep at the war table, and just pulls him to the bedroom or across the counter or table and just starts fucking him...... they're on a case in the middle of talking to a witness when Dean pulls him to the men's bathroom...... dean getting to have sam whenever he wants....... sam not having to ask.........

[forestofsprites]

sam putting cas on bunker storage room #18 clean-out duty bc the nosy angel enjoys rummaging enjoys organizing and sam's confident he'll breeze through it overnight, but what in fact happens is that cas is a nosy angel who enjoys rummaging enjoys organizing & thus pauses 13 minutes in bc he finds a doohickey that he's convinced dean will be able to tinker with and revive (he does), organizes sure but does so into an eclectic system of apparent whim (he himself thinks it’s perfectly sound and logical),& then ultimately spends the majority of the night poring over decades-old receipts and smiling away to himself

[sammygender]

i’ve never been as angry on behalf of a character as i am for sam winchester

[quietwingsinthesky]

thinking about how dean’s character gets simplified in fandom, or more specifically, the very black and white lens that gets applied to him. because integral to dean, from my point of view, is that he is both a victim of abuse and a perpetrator of it. that these two things do not cancel each other out or outweigh each other to the point that only one matters. he’s both, you cannot separate him from the fact that he’s both.

but very often, people do. dean is either a victim. or he’s an abuser. it’s like it’s hard for people to hold both those facts in their heads at once. dean went through incredible amount of trauma as a child and an adult, is routinely faced with violence, has resorted to alcohol abuse to cope with it. he’s also a violent person, someone who retreats into tactics of emotional abuse and control when he feels threatened, who hurts the people around him constantly and the people who are closest to him (ie Sam, Cas, later Jack) get the brunt of that abuse. these are just facts. they’re things that happened on the screen and cannot be denied.

and it’s. idk it’s weird to me (not unexpected, because he’s hardly the only character to ever get this treatment) that dean of all people is the one portrayed in such an either/or way when one of the defining moments of the show for him is that during his stint in Hell, he was tortured and then became a torturer to escape that, to feel like he had some control again, and he relished in it. it’s baked into who he is.

[twobrothers]

when the levee breaks x molly brodak

[lilacpaperbird]

If I could free the spn fandom from one illness, I'd choose the compulsion so many people have to present Sam and Dean as opposites in every facet, big or small. There are many preferences they both share, there are many situations in which they'd both feel or act in really similar ways, and there are certain pillars of their personalities that are essentially identical. Trying to always find that "polar opposites/two sides of the same coin" energy everywhere only ends up twisting and misinterpreting their personalities to make them fit that mold. And there's usually one brother who ends up getting the short end of the stick and being transformed into a caricature that has lost any actual connection to his canon self, just so he can be presented as the opposite of his brother

[howldean]

i do think it’s funny that sam was genuinely trying to say that being a 14 year old again temporarily would be worse than having a murder the world curse forever

[biggentlemenking]

Sam shows Dean his pure young body. Dean loves the idea of being the first and only to ever touch Sam, the one who'll teach his cute stupid little brother what feels good, how to feel good. Sam is so pink and soft, so pure and innocent and only for Dean to love and cherish and kiss and touch.