#SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL

[hexedwinchester]

Supernatural S05E01 Sympathy for the Devil

Unpopular opinion: Ruby 2.0 should have lived long enough to share a scene with Samifer. If Samruby scene was hot, I can only imagine SamifurRuby scene. Bonus points if they shame Sam for being helpless 😭 😭

God/Chuck hitting Sam in the head is so Sam's life in general

Becky 😑

Dean looking at Michael's picture: that looks like Cate Blanchett 😂😂😂😂 i wish they had Cate Blanchett play Michael once

Sam confessing to Bobby like a son who knows he disappointed his dad 😭

Jared's uncanny ability to look like a kicked puppy will never not surprised me 😯

Bobby fought demon possession! Nice

When Meg shows up i find it interesting that Dean's first guess was Ruby whereas Sam instantly recognised her. Could be because he was possessed??

Dean: life as an angel condom 😂😂😂

The brothers look so violated after cas carves the sigil in their ribs

Dean being passive aggressive. We know you are the forgiving and forgetting types but Grow up buddy!

unpopular opinion: I also liked it when Lucifer didn't have gleaming red eyes. They just look phony

[districtsleepsalonetonight]

“(Dean would) be attracted to someone who walked in the door, slaughtered everybody and walked out, and then he would say, “Who’s that?””-Eric Kripke

Dean. Watching this. Amazed.-Script for Supernatural S5EP01: Sympathy For The Devil (2009))

[luniidae]

~ Rulers of Hells ~

I had this wedding!luvihael in mind for an eternity 😩🤌✨

[dailyflicks]

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL (2023) dir. Yuval Adler

[astralbondpro]

Papa Emeritus IV and The Hellacopters // Sympathy For the Devil (The Rolling Stones Cover)

[sampegger]

has anyone else posted about how this is the same picture. or.

[deakyjoe]

You ask me what Ghost’s best cover is and I’m going to say this one live version of Sympathy for The Devil. I think about it everyday and listen to it most days. Tobias, give us a studio recording!!

Link to full version

[mdemorita]

today, but in 2021, Papa Emeritus IV appeared on the swedish program “På spåret” along with “The Hellacopters”, making a cover of the song “Sympathy for the Devil” by the Rolling Stones. This was the first time Copia had shown us his red jacket, which he would later wear in the last Imperatour of 2023

[shirtlesssammy]

Castiel every day so often -- 13/139

Supernatural 5x01//Sympathy for the Devil

[zanncom]

pleased to meet you, i hope you guess my name

[vintage-tigre]

[chaoticdesertdweller]

One + One aka Sympathy For the Devil

Dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1968

[luniidae]

Your soul,my plaything

I wanted to do some light exercises and I'm very happy with the result 🔥

[vintagerocker69]

Rolling Stones Keith Richards in the Olympic Studios in London working on the song "Sympathy for the Devil" during 1968.© Cupid Productions

[shihlun]

Haruhiko Arai

- Body and Soul

1997

[cherrybomb107]

Guys I just saw something on Twitter that caused such a visceral reaction that I literally got up, went to the kitchen, got some aluminum foil, and folded it so it would somewhat resemble a hat. I’ve got a conspiracy theory. Reminder that the term was created by the government to discredit people, but yeah, using it felt apt.

So, we all know that I’m not a fan of Caitlyn. I liked her just fine, but her actions in season two, her obnoxious and aggressively anti black fan base, and the fact that the narrative never calls her out on her actions have caused me to dislike her now. To elaborate more on what makes her fan base so obnoxious, it’s the goal post moving, whataboutisms, intellectually dishonest hypotheticals, excuses, racism, the way they cheer for the establishment and play dumb when someone doesn’t like Caitlyn, and how they act like there’s something wrong with you if you’re not a fan of the cop dictator who gassed minorities and hit her partner. But it’s that last point that’s got me so riled up.

It is normal to make real world connections with the media you consume. It is normal to dislike characters who do bad things, no matter how “complex” or “nuanced” they are. However Cait stans, by and large, strongly disagree. To them, to hate or even be ambivalent towards Caitlyn means a great number of things. It means you are: lesohobic, hypocritical, have no media literacy, didn’t watch/pay attention to the show, you’re just a hater, you can’t handle complex female characters, you hate Caitlyn cause you’d be just like her, you don’t hate other characters who do bad things, you’re contributing to Caitlyn hate, etc etc ad infinitum. They won’t stop with the excuses. To me though, this reveals something. Arcane season two has introduced the idea of sympathy for the devil, and that’s the heart of the problem.

I’ve said it before, but I resent the concept of forgiveness. Or, to be precise, I resent the way forgiveness has been framed. As if you are obligated to forgive someone, otherwise you’re “bitter” or “holding a grudge”. This framing puts the onus of “moving on” onto the wronged party, and that doesn’t sit right with me. It’s the same problem with “sympathy for the devil”. It’s okay, but only to a point. Trying to see the humanity in someone who has harmed you and/or other people is good! Healthy, even! The problems start when it goes too far. When you’re no longer allowed to criticize this person, even mildly, without taking all their trauma and complexity into account. Yes I understand this person has gone through things no one should ever have to go through. But that does not give them the right to hurt me the way they did. I am not in the wrong for not feeling sorry for them. I shouldn’t be forced to center their feelings when I was the one who they decided to hurt.

This happens all the time irl. You can’t celebrate when some asshole politician or greedy CEO dies because “they had a family”. “They were human too!” “If you’re celebrating their death after they spent decades making the conscious decision to make hundreds of thousands, or even millions of people to suffer, then you’re just as bad as they are!” And so on and so forth. The excuses Cait stans use to defend her are very reminiscent of this. “Oh my God, it’s just a show, it’s not that deep!” “She never killed anyone!” “What about Jinx?!” “If you hate Caitlyn you have no media literacy!” They never stop. They will call your intelligence and your integrity as a fan, as a person, into question for disliking this character. They are trying to convince you of something that you know isn’t true. It is okay to dislike characters who do bad things. It is okay to dislike characters who have shitty fan bases. It always has been, and it always will be. Nothing can convince me otherwise.

Arcane, as brilliant as it is, perhaps did a bit too good of a job in humanizing its characters and giving them depth. Now folks are acting like any amount of nuance will make you any less of a villain. Silco is one of my favorite characters. He is chock full of nuance! He is also still ultimately a villain at the end of the day. But the way Arcane writes its characters allows and actively encourages the audience to believe in the idea of “sympathy for the devil”. The problem with that is, once you stop seeing the devil as who he really is, that’s when you end up in situations you have no business being in. Defending things you have no business defending. Excusing the inexcusable. And that’s not right.

TL;DR Arcane season two has successfully convinced people that “sympathy for the devil” is absolutely paramount to your understanding of the show and your value as a person. So much so that if you refuse to have sympathy for the utterly unsympathetic, you get labeled a “hater” and everything you say is discarded. Which pisses me off BAD🙄🙄🙄