#also the spn reference

[watchyourbuck]

Someone linked my Dear Maddie fic on Twitter with a cross reference to Spn and im crying tears of joy bc there’s people quoting it and everything and I feel so loved 😭

[thedeadedhooman]

stanford!sammy and dean rawdogging it up in sam's apartment

here's the reference image

[strawlessandbraless]

Something about how Dean never had any faith in god because he put it all in Cas

[lambmotifz]

trying to argue which brother is more abusive is indeed insane because the show isn’t subtle about the power dynamics, dean’s physical violence and his unhinged actions towards sam (doing fucked up things to him without his consent) at all

[shananiga]

I just finished rewatching Supernatural, and early season Cas not recognizing personal space got me wondering if that was a general angel thing or a purely Cas thing.

If, in their true forms, they're just celestial light waves, why would individual proximity mean anything to them? Why would it warrant social boundaries? What appears to be a mass cuddle session might actually be a professional meeting about quarterly soul counts. That super serious looking huddle is probably just a casual discussion about what constitutes a moon.

OR maybe most angels are uptight about things like personal space, and Cas is just Weird Like That. Not once in his eons of existence did it occur to him that most people find nose-to-nose conversations off-putting, and Dean was the first person to explain it to him.

Both options are hilarious, but the more I think about it, the more convinced I am that it's the second one, because none of the other angels stand close enough to count Dean's nostril hairs when they speak to him.

[angel-hole]

SUPTOBER DAY 01 - liminal in the beginning

4 And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

5 Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance;

— Ezekiel 1:4—5

[monstermoviedean]

let's talk about the bridge.

[spnwiki links known filming locations when available. in all three episodes, this is listed as the spur 4 bridge, lower seymour conservation reserve. it may appear in more episodes, but i'm not sure.]

the bridge appears in 05x02 (good god, y'all!), 13x18 (bring 'em back alive), and 15x20 (carry on). now. do i think this specific bridge was specially chosen each time to communicate a certain message? with respect to the crew, nah, probably not. do i think you can read a pattern here? ooh, yes. tl;dr: you cannot cross the bridge. merely standing on it means the rules have just changed in a reality-bending, fucked-up-beyond-all-repair sort of way. attempting to complete the crossing is an acceptance of the new rules.

in 05x02, the bridge appears as dean and sam are driving into river pass, colorado, the town controlled by war. the bridge is broken. they drive halfway across the bridge and stop. this is the first sign to sam and dean that something is seriously wrong here. this is no normal demon hunt. this is a problem on a scale larger than they can grasp. there's a literal gap between them and the town! they have to leave the car (/home) parked on the bridge and hike in. they are entering uncharted territory.

when they do, they find people killing each other and seeing demons where there are none. war is altering reality and playing people off each other. jo attacks ellen! rufus attacks sam! the townspeople turn on ellen and dean! you can't trust anyone! but actually...you can. none of them are demons. the danger is real, but it's not what it appears. and no one has ever come across anything like this before.

so what do sam and dean learn? the apocalypse is here. there's no going back. the rules have changed. the tactics they've always used don't work, because they are in a new reality now. and they accept that. while they can't physically walk/drive across the bridge, they do complete the crossing of their own volition. they accept that their world is different now and they will adapt to it.

in 13x18, dean and ketch are in apocalypse world walking near the bridge. they see a group of angels leading a group of shackled, hooded prisoners across the bridge.

two of the prisoners are executed by the angels right there. they do not cross the bridge. they die playing by the same rules they always have. it's the apocalypse, and they'll fight, but the angels are the angels and it's tough to win as a human. when i started writing this post i thought charlie had crossed the bridge, symbolizing her entrance into a new reality. but she doesn't! the angels fly away with her, without any of them ever crossing the bridge (below are back-to-back screencaps. sorry for the lack of visual but trust me on this)

charlie doesn't fully cross the bridge. she gets halfway across and then the angels fly her somewhere else. dean is hoping she finishes crossing. if she does, it's like she's crossing into his world. maybe this charlie will be just like the charlie he knew and lost. maybe he can save her. maybe he can undo it. but she doesn't cross and he so he can't get to her!

when he and ketch eventually catch up with her at the silo and escape, charlie hears about dean's universe and chooses to stay in hers. because it's hers. charlie's reality has been fucked with, certainly, but she chooses to accept the reality she knows and stay in it (for now at least). she's not outright rejecting the new reality of parallel universes, but she's also not letting the new reality dictate her actions. it's her home, it's her fight, and she's staying. she doesn't complete the crossing.

so that brings us to. deep sigh. 15x20. dean drives onto the bridge, ostensibly in heaven. he drives about halfway across. and stops. he does not cross the bridge. he gets out of the car and hesitantly walks around the front of it. i won't show you all the screencaps but he touches the car and stays pretty close to it as he walks.

the last one is about the furthest point he walks across the bridge, give or take. he doesn't go far from the car (which is a good strong symbol of dean's reality and home). you can see there's two vertical posts in the space between him and the car. when the final shot zooms out from him and sam, they are magically further across the bridge, about halfway across, about five vertical posts away.

dean standing on the bridge means the rules have changed. his world is different now. he cannot go back. this especially works with the next scene, which is the one of the cast and crew in our world saying goodbye. now, can you say that dean dying and going to heaven is the change? sure. but he doesn't cross the bridge. he doesn't accept it. could you say that simply means he's in denial about his death and apparent ascension? i guess. "but what about sam?!" shhhh, not right now.

i think it works much better as dean recognizing there is a new and unknown reality on the other side of that bridge, and instinctively knowing that there is something wrong. that he doesn't want to accept that reality. that if he finishes the crossing, he will be accepting it and will be unable to go back. and sam just appearing out of nowhere, seemingly materializing onto the middle of the bridge without actually taking steps to cross it? somehow moving dean with him so they're both further across the bridge? well maybe that's not real. maybe that's a trick to try to get dean to cross. maybe his acceptance of the new reality will sever his connection to his actual reality - war destroying the bridge in 05x02 certainly did that for the townspeople.

i know others have talked about dean crossing the bridge as an acceptance or an ascension, i'm nowhere near the first person to come up with that. but i do want to call attention to the previous iterations of the bridge. a broken bridge sam and dean cross, only to find war beyond it, an enemy the likes of which they have never seen. a bridge charlie is nearly forced to cross, but which she's taken away from before she can complete it (which would be more likely to lead her to jump realities). and a bridge dean starts to cross, but doesn't. a bridge that appears first in dean's reality, then in apocalypse world, then in dean's heaven, and then in our world, with jensen dressed as dean saying goodbye. and nobody ever crosses that bridge. it's a false promise. you can't do it. all you can do is stand on it and hope you'll be okay, even though you can't go back.

[jaybirdscoffee]

feeling so much dread. fear. despair, even.

[courfee]

yes i used that dean scene as a reference, sue me

[wigglebox]

💖💜💙

[tiredandoptimistic]

Do the people of Supernatural tumblr know about the Bufus tarot card?

The real moral of Supernatural is that Bobby gets bitches bisexual style

[thesunoficaruss]

I'm on vacation right now and I keep seeing shitty motels on the side of the road and everytime i think to myself "that looks like a motel sam and dean would stay in." save me from the supernatural brainrot please I'm begging.

[unrealwinchester]

Supernatural obviously has me on chokehold 24/7 bUT I'm watching dead boy detectives and the scene in episode 5 of Edwin saying in the swings "there are these feelings that I'm not used to" IS LITERALLY THE DEAN CONFFESION SCENE

[gender-premium-tm]

weapons page i never got around to finishing! i’m still pretty happy with it, so i figured why not post it :)

[friendlyneighbourhoodfreak]

Sam Winchester developed Stockholm syndrome in the cage, he told me himself.

[the-mpreg-guy]

👀 I see your Jason Todd tag. Please tell me you’re aware that Jensen Ackles voiced him in Under the Red Hood & that there are arguably some Parallels btwn Jason & Dean (not counting the Red Hood ref in SPN)

When my baby sister showed me Under the Red Hood back in 2017 (not knowing she was about to create a monster), I knew nothing about the movie or who Red Hood was or really any Batman lore at all, but I figured out in the first scene that Jason is in that it was Jensen Ackles bc I am a human second and a Jensen Ackles stan first