#8x23

[inacatastrophicmind]

[avengerdaisy]

Dean Winchester in Supernatural: 8x23 Sacrifice

[traumatizedsam]

wound is the origin of wonder, maya c. popa

[babyjapril]

fave roommates trio we never got to see

[mc-twizzler]

credit: @thelordsoftherings

[thebeautyofspn]

8x23 Sacrifice

[ani-coolgirl]

Dean: "Your blood's supposed to be purified, isn't it? You ever, uh -- you ever done the "forgive me, father" before?"

Sam: "Well, once, when we were kids. Which is why I have no clue what to say now."

Dean: "Well, I mean, I could give you suggestions if you want."

Sam: "O-okay. Yeah, sure."

Dean: "All right. Well, I'm just spit-balling here, but if I were you, uh... Ruby, killing Lilith, letting Lucifer out, losing your soul, not looking for me when I went to Purgatory--"

Sam: "Thanks."

Dean: "--for starters."

breathes Okay. That list. That... list.

ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHER. ONE OF THESE THINGS JUST DOESN'T BELONG.

Look, I could honestly argue about that whole list. I'm not saying Sam doesn't bear some responsibility, but laying those things out like they're entirely his fault is just plain wrong. But LOSING HIS SOUL? He didn't leave it in the back of a fucking cab, Dean! He didn't loan it out at a party and lose track of it! He didn't "lose" shit! You know why his body didn't have his soul at the time? Because it was being tortured in Hell by the goddamn devil, that's why!! That had nothing to do with Sam at all! That was Cas's fuck up! Boy, what the hell is wrong with you?

[thefandomlesbian]

"We're still partners, ain't we?"

Sure, we are. We're still partners.

[samepisodebracket]

Quarterfinal; Poll 4

[destielbait]

spell ingredients being love themed (killing the child of a human and an angel, cupid's bow, after making two gay men fall in love, cas's grace, because .......)

[norahastuff]

There's a lot to love about season 8, but what always gets me is how poetic it is. Dean spends the whole season trying so fucking hard to get Cas to stay with him. He spends a year tearing Purgatory apart trying to find him, insists he's not gonna go back to Earth without him, and when that doesn't pan out, changes his own memory of what happened rather than believe Cas chose not to go with him. Not to mention, a few eps later, he's literally bruised and beaten on his knees in front of Cas, clinging to his hand and begging for Cas to see him, to come back to him because he needs him. And Cas does come back. But he doesn't stay.

Cas, on the other hand, feels so guilty about everything he did to Heaven, and is so very desperate to fix it in any way that's available to him. At the same time, he's being fucked with, forced to cause even more pain to his brethren, well all he really wants to do is heal babies and save sweet adorable angels. The most important thing in Cas' life, the thing he gave up everything for and dedicated his life to is free will, and his is being ripped away from him. It's so incredibly sad, but after he breaks out of it, I think he feels even more responsibility to Heaven. Things are even worse up there than he thought, and with someone like Naomi in charge, both Heaven and Earth could be facing even more pain and destruction if she's given free reign to carry out her machinations. Is it any wonder when the famed Metatron comes in like a lost messiah and says he has a plan to fix it all, that Cas goes along with it? I mean, Metatron knows exactly what to say to manipulate Cas:

They can fix Heaven.

By locking up Heaven the fighting won't spill over onto Earth and affect humans.

Cas doesn't have to lead or make any decisions. He just needs to be a soldier, a warrior.

Anyway, all that culminates in a finale where Cas believes it's his responsibility to fix Heaven, and Dean finally having the realisation that Cas is an angel. He doesn't feel things the way a human does. He has other priorities, and no matter how hard Dean tries, he's not going to be able to force Cas to stay with him. E.T.'s always going to go home.

Only for Cas to have his grace taken for him, be sent back to Earth, and for the first time to truly understand human feelings without the filter of his grace or angelic sensibilities. Wonder if he's going to have any epiphanies about his priorities and what and who he truly wants out of life because of it?

[inacatastrophicmind]

[avengerdaisy]

Happy birthday, @bievanbuckley!

[traumatizedsam]

Rivers in the dust, Radical Face

[babyjapril]

[arcanespillo]

“Sacrifice”

Supernatural S8E23