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J2 Out & About — Dec 15 to 19 2017

Relevant events:

First weekend of Supernatural end-of-the-year hiatus

Dec 15, Friday

Jensen, Austin

7:33pm CT, Jep tweets a pic with Jensen, Steve and Gino, at the Family Business Tasting Room

Dec 16, Saturday

Jensen, Austin

5:15pm CT, A fan posts a picture with Jensen at the the St Elmo Brewing Company

Jared, Austin

5:30pm CT, A fan posts a picture with Jared at the Jurassic Quest

The two venues are 10 minutes away from each other.

J2 Out & About — Dec 15 to 19 2017 🕵️‍♂️Smoke & Mirrors🕵️‍♂️ Edition

Smoke & Mirrors — the obscuring or embellishing of the truth of a situation with misleading or irrelevant information. The source of the name is based on magicians' illusions, where magicians make objects appear or disappear by extending or retracting mirrors amid a distracting burst of smoke. 

From now on, you’ll have a chronological timeline of the events that set up the illusionistic trick we’ve been fed, these past few days.

Relevant events:

Thanksgiving 2017

THE PLEDGE

“The magician shows you something ordinary. A deck of cards, a bird, or a man. He shows you this object. Perhaps he asks you to inspect it. To show you that it is indeed unaltered. But of course it probably isn’t.” (x)

Nov 25, Saturday

2pm CT, Plane!Anon from Gossip posts that the Js' plane is heading back to Texas

Nov 26, Sunday (Thankgiving weekend)

Austin

The Family Business Beer IG account posts the following picture, mentioning Jep. 

Take a look at the e Family Business Tasting Room, below:

Here's another picture of the same tasting room:

Keep the two pictures above in mind, you're going to need them soon.

Dec 7, Thursday

4pm CT, FBB posts a picture with Steve testing the acoustics of the place. Check his clothes and pay attention to the woman's coat.

On the same Dec 7, Lana, Steve's wife, posts a picture on a plane saying she misses someone, and answering a comment saying she's going away:

Dec 14, Thursday

The FBB IG account posts the following picture:

Did you notice the fur coat in the background? Does it look familiar? Go back a couple of pictures.

Dec 15, Friday

6:46pm CT, Jessica tweets this picture and caption, not mentioning date or place: "With the holidays comes holiday entertaining! Y'all going to some Christmas parties tonight??" 

7:33pm CT, Jep tweets his picture with Jensen, Steve and Gino, implying it was taken at the same day/time. Take a look at their clothes, especially Steve's.

Remember that Lana's picture from a plane’s window on Dec 7? On Dec 15, she posts pictures of herself and a few friends. Her following pictures show her in Russia.

10:20pm CT, D posts a picture on set with M (looking hella creepy...) and tags herself in Vancouver. 

But... wait a minute! Is Jensen out & about in Austin while his “wife” works in Vancouver? Shocker! No, wait! She changes the caption the morning after, tagging Jensen as the photographer.

So,Jensen has a clone in Vancouver! How interesting. Even more interesting is how everyone and their mothers were commenting how creepy and inappropriate M was looking at D in the picture... then BAM! Oops! Forgot my “husband” took the picture, of course.

Now the best thing about all that? Jensen’s comment with his usual double entendre mastery and dripping sarcasm:

D was also wearing a trench coat in that picture...

On that same Dec 15, G floods her SM with pictures (one of them with a blurred Jared in the background), ads and a pointless live stream with Shep, where three interesting things happen:

“‘Go get Jared?’ No! What about me?” — replying to a comment

“Go find dad.”

“Who just got home?” — to what a hesitant Shep timidly replies “Dad?” 

“Go get your dad.” — who actually never shows

[Translation: Look, Jared is at home!... With me!]

Amidst all that, she also informs her followers she’s on her 4th day of flu, posting a picture of herself in a shirt she used for previous posts and ads. She looks surprisingly healthy, both in the picture and the livestream. 

THE TURN

“The magician takes the ordinary something and makes it do something extraordinary. Now you’re looking for the secret, but you won’t find it. Because of course, you’re not really looking. Don’t really want to know. You want to be fooled. But you wouldn’t clap yet. Because making something disappear isn’t enough. You have to bring it back.” (x) 

Dec 16, Saturday

Dec 17, Sunday

5:14pm CT, D posts picture of Jensen and kids with this interesting caption: “Home for the Holidays!” Texas is tagged, of course.

Dec 18, Monday

G posts a boomerang with Jared fake applying make up on her, in the kitchen, while she holds a baby... Sure, G.

Her caption:

Wow, Jared, indeed Jack of all Trades! Did you take that selfie with your 3rd arm... Or maybe 3rd leg...? Oops, sorry!

And now, Ladies & Gentlemen....

THE PRESTIGE

“The audience knows the truth…the world is simple. It’s miserable. Solid…all the way through. But if you could fool them even for a second…then you could make them wonder. And then you…then you got to see something very special.” (x)

Dec 19, Tuesday

The FBB posts the following picture:

You know this room. You know these people. Now what you don’t know is when this picture was taken... Or do you?...

Remember the picture from the Thanksgiving weekend?

What about those pictures form Dec 7 and 14?

Remember Jessica’s picture setting up a table? 

I just want to know one thing: who took this wonderful picture?

But, wait! There’s someone missing at the table.... And they apparently left something behind...

Is that a... Napkin? A beanie? A napkin and a beanie?...

In case you’re still wondering, all the pictures posted above by the FBB’s and the Ducks’ SM accounts were taken on the same day, Nov 26, during the thanksgiving weekend, once Jared arrived in Austin.

Now ask yourself... 

“Where were J2 while all these lategrams were being posted?”

Citations and gifs from the movie The Prestige, by Christopher Nolan. The movie is one of my favorites and a lesson in Smoke & Mirrors. I strongly recommend you to watch and rewatch it, as you will find many similarities between the movie and this post. Here’s a spolierish article with good insights on this masterpiece.