#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 😭

[butch--dean]

hi besties <3

the other day I decided to be the change I wished to see in the world and finally figured out how to make the supernatural transcript search engine I've been dreaming about since I started making amvs a year ago

the only pages it draws from are transcripts posted on the spn wiki page!!! it's been really helpful for doing research on specific themes/phrases used throughout the show & to figure out which episode a quote came from. If you use it I suggest using boolean search terms to make things a little easier!!!

[strawlessandbraless]

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

[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.

[putridcrow]

human

[courfee]

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

[wigglebox]

💖💜💙

[thesunoficarus1]

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

[transgendercastiel]

do you think that spn pulled a “Disney frozen” move with the episode alpha and omega so that when someone googled “supernatural omega” nothing untoward was the first result

[bitchface24-7]

I just had an epiphany

I saw an edit on TikTok about Dawson’s Creek (idk why I’ve never seen that show) and obviously it was about C.J since… it’s Jensen Ackles.

So here’s the good stuff!!! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Picture this. It’s an 18 year old Dean, they don’t got the time (or money) to be cutting their hair. It’s not a necessity, and it’s not relevant to their survival; so it continues to grow. Also, Dean is aware of his good looks and he doesn’t want little 14 year old Sammy to fuck up his hair; god forbid he asks his dad. He’s not in the mood for a lecture.

So it grows, and grows, and it honestly looks really good. He thought he was picking up chicks before, but those are rookie numbers compared to now (he also enjoys the very obvious star-struck wonder Sammy has every time he looks at him, it’s like a badge of honour. Dean doesn’t really get it, it’s just hair. But Sam likes it; so Dean likes it)

And poor Sammy. He may bitch and complain about his brother, but at the end of the day; his brother is everything to him. His pillar to lean on, his shoulder to cry on, his ear to rant to. Sammy doesn’t know what he’d do if he didn’t have Dean.

Sammy’s always been aware his brother was attractive. He’s got eyes, as does everyone else who looks at Dean. Deans always been sharp angles and nauseating handsomeness, but this haircut softens him a bit.

He’s still handsome, but the front pieces of his grown out hair always fall into his eyes which he blows upwards in a funny way, the length of his hair softens his cheekbones and brings out his green eyes. It almost— somehow enhances what Sam sees in a day-to-day basis. It shows off how kind his brother is. It gives sweetness to his strength. It makes Sam proud (and a little jealous. That version of his brother is for him only. No one else.)

Sam feels a bit sad when Dean finally gets a haircut. Back to the basics, Dean had joked. Sammy loves his brother (the version he sees 24/7; the version only Sammy gets) so when Sam grows up, he decides to grow his hair out too. A secret between brothers (I love you. You’re my role model. You’re my everything. I don’t know how I’ll live without you.)

Sam can’t get that version of Dean out of his head. Besides, he’s quite certain he’d look good with long hair too; and Dean always ruffles his hair with a big, almost all-knowing smile when it’s long. Dean likes to tease him by calling it his “Princess hair.” And that he’s, “As pretty as a princess.” Sam always gets flustered with that comparison.

Looks like Big Brother isn’t as oblivious as Sammy thought he was. Oops…?

[adreamoverlife]

the flu has made me deranged so here's something Michael is an animal guy. He'll never admit it but one day Adam catches him putting some in-shell peanuts into their shopping cart and is like ????? and Michael does his little standoffish shrug and by the time Adam gets home he is going over every spell Michael has ever told him about trying to remember if peanuts is an ingredient to anything and he's focusing so hard he almost doesn't notice Michael going over to their window where it has like flower box or something and just sprinkles a little bit of the food there and makes a strange click in the back of his throat that carries the echos of an angels true voice. and now Adams like ?!?!?!?!? What the fuck are you summoning ?!?!??! expecting something like a hell hound or horrific creature that responds only to an angel but it's none of that it's a flock of about 8 crows that descend down to the flower box and chirp at Michael in a way that can almost be described as respectfully. Now Adams never been so confused in his entire life but Michael the bastard just tilts his head in the way only angels do and says "I've known these animals longer than Humans have had names for them Adam. They remember me." and then smiles, a little sad and eyes glossy. "I think I've told that to you once before."

[ananke-xiii]

i'll always be weak for dean's brain constantly searching through his extensive catalog of movie references in order to find the appropriate one for the circumstances he's in and, is so doing, he involuntarily betrays himself (same king, same).

like in "Stuck in the middle with you" he's talking to the waitress to supposedly help Cas flirt with said waitress, Mandy, so his brain goes directly to "Ferris Bueller's day off" when Sloane talks to the waiter on the phone pretending to be a customer who wants to speak with the "sausage king of chicago" Abe Froman. who's, actually Ferris Bueller pretending to be this other guy. So basically Sloane is helping Ferris with the waiter who wouldn't welcome him in the restaurant. Just like Dean is "helping" (it's all in his head lol) Cas with Mandy, the waitress.

I took the screenshot from here where you can watch the whole scene:

so yeah these are not just little cute destiel things that the writers threw in there for good measure, they're quite intentional and they're telling even more than meets the eye eheheh.

[riverwithoutbanks]

This wasn’t supposed to be a destiel drawing, but Dean just popped out of nowhere and said ‘my drawing now’ so who am I to argue