#and dean never tells him :)

[fighting-naturalist]

team cohesion designed to give jack a tension migraine ft. sam and daniel "urgo" 3.16

[clairenatural]

okay but you see sam has ALSO fallen for dean's act. sam also believes dean to be the macho, daddy's soldier, beer boobs cars guy he presents himself as. this is why sam makes fun of dean whenever he even lightly steps out of that mold and thinks it's harmless banter instead of attacking an insecurity. it's why he laughs when john talks down to dean in the early seasons and it's why he seems surprised when dean is more comfortable with himself in the later seasons. it's why he just scoffs but doesn't push it when dean puts up a front and refuses to talk about his emotions and just accepts whatever excuse he makes at face value. it's why he offers dean a strip club to make him feel better when cas dies. and this isn't his fault!! dean has spent a very long time perfecting this image in front of everyone and ESPECIALLY to sam because along with it comes safety and security and stability and the only person. who has consistently been able to see through it. is castiel

[flowersintheimpala69]

classmate: dude i think you have a stalker.. I’ve noticed this guys that’s been following you around campus a lot and i saw him standing outside your dorm last night.. I’ve asked around and no one knows who he is, I don’t think he’s even a student here.. i think we should call campus security

Sam (who’s knows it’s just Dean): uhh

[bloodfreak-boyking]

okay okay okay so we all know sam and dean are allergic to personal space and practically live in each others' skin, but this scene really makes it glaringly obvious.

like every time dean tries to get closer to sam, trying to close the gap to their non-existent usual, sam takes a step back. as if we need more evidence that they're Not Normal�� about each other

[soullessjack]

this is literally how y’all are about jack

[ananke-xiii]

Talking about mommy issues... I'm not a 100% fan of Jack as the destiel son BUT it's important to me that going there means acknowleding that "archetypically" speaking Dean is The Mother while Cas is The Father*. And this isn't just because, when Sam accuses Dean of acting like their father, he replies with a Freudian slip if I've ever heard one ("I'm not his mother"), it's also why Chuck's myth-retelling doesn't work (Abraham is totally Cas and he and Jack subverted that myth) 'cause first he doesn't understand Dean and second he's not an astute storyteller and doesn't realize his story was already subverting the myth he wanted to re-enact. Therefore he should've created a situation where Jack (The Son) was forced to kill Cas (The Father) if he wanted to provoke Dean, this was Jack's original sin according to Dean, come on Chuck, it's been 14 seasons, everybody already knew Dean was not gonna kill Jack. He's totally fine with caging and entrapping his putative sons but he draws a line at killing them (insert that meme from Community). (I mean, I know Chuck wants Dean to do his bidding but after 14 years he had to get a little more creative than that. Maybe he should've listened to his editor Metatron, just saying. "maybe less about detail and more about balance") ((hello Becky and Metatron parallel)).

It would have also meant that Jack's story would've gone back to its genesis + the long tail of dead parental figures (not only Kelly and Cas but Nick/Lucifer and Mary and whoever else I'm forgetting lol).

By the end of s14 there is a short-circuits of symbols so it all had to go tits up, hence the rising of the dead etc. etc.

*This doesn't mean they are the Good Mother and the Good Father as they're clearly not but these are the primordial energies that they both channel to Jack. Also, obvs patriarchy in SPN is very much alive and well as demonstrated by the fact that the Good Mother and the Good Father are only the Dead Mother and the Dead Father and unfortunately for Jack this is what he got when he was born. He's not even born and he already lives in an ideal world with ideal figures compared to whom he'll always fall short.

Also, Jack's got the power to wake up from the Empty his putative father because his Mother (Dean) is grieving his death and he wants to please him: Jack is a total mama's boy.

[aliusfrater]

the change in clarity of the situation between the sam's nursery scenes in 1.01 vs 2.21 is actually my favourite thing in the whole entire world. like mary mistaking azazel for john compared to the fact that the last time she saw azazel, he was in her father's body. mistaking father for father from when he violated her vs when he's violating her son. the disbelief in sam's, "she knew you," like the tragedy of mary winchester that he'd known all his life slipped out from underneath him and he fell into a version of her he didn't know. and he never told dean this!!!! he let dean live with the idolised version of mary, the version that didn't mistake a demon for their father as said demon violated him, a demon that she knew and let into their home (let into their home being a metaphor upon metaphor upon literal btw). and this flashback was the first time sam had actually formed a memory in that version of that house. like i just love the lines, "what the hell are you doing to me?" and, "better than mother’s milk." because it sets the csa metaphor out so perfectly in front of you by implying a different white liquid that isn't milk if it hadn't cut to exactly what azazel was doing by cutting his hand open

[sammygender]

dean is crazy cause he gets worse and worse as the seasons go on and experiences zero narrative consequence for it. in fact he is pretty much rewarded for becoming a worse version of himself. like that’s INSANE. hes bojack horseman if everyone loved him and stuck with him and very rarely told him anything he did was wrong and in fact whenever he did things like destroying todd’s rock opera because he didn’t want todd to leave the narrative switched it up and went SURPRISE!! the guy interested in todd’s rock opera was EVIL anyway and bojack just SAVED THE WORLD. by doing this awful selfish thing. yep he was right all along. letting sarah lynn die? turns out that was exactly the right thing to do. well done bojack. what a hero.

[lonewolf638]

'i owe him everything' is actually so crazy. dean saving sam over and over again the debt piling on and sam never being able to catch up forever the little brother trailing behind who gets n gets && sam's hero worship as a child just continuing as szns pass, like god there is nothing dean can do that sam won't forgive dean will forever be the perfect good man

[sastielsfandom]

When Sam got more comfortable in the bunker, he started a greenhouse. Telling Dean who questioned it because it makes sense. So they don't have to search for rare plants for some incantation spell whatever they need. Dean never goes in it, Castiel loves helping with it. Jack was curious and loves to ask questions about it. But only Cas and Sam know there's weed somewhere in the mix.

[sunforgrace]

no but the thing is the thing is orpheus turns and. you’re early. i missed you. he sacrifices his life to save his love and he still dies at 41

[reyolfx]

dude the interaction between dean and cas right after cas tries to give back that insane fucking mixtape is the MOST just kiss moment i've ever witnessed between those two, and that's saying a lot

[boywifesammy]

afab!dean or omega!dean alone at planned parenthood getting his papa’s baby aborted because john knocked him up before a hunt. he’s all ‘hello maam’ and ‘yes maam’ while filling out the papers silently and the lady at the desk takes one look at this 5’2 kid with shaggy clothes as he mutters out excuses and knows that he is obviously not 16 like his ID says. she hands him a lil dollar store lollipop and dean sucks on it in the corner while waiting for the nurse to come get him, his feet kicking in the air because they don’t touch the ground when he’s on high chairs.

[recitedemise]

𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝘀 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝗶𝘁𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗮𝗶𝘁𝗵. That said, when speaking of his paramour with the mention of Mystra, it is not a slight. After all, Mystra, the goddess, wasn't just his lover; she, as she'll remain, controls the Weave.

As a scholar of magic for all his life, Gale is thoroughly enamored with it. He's always had the Weave, casting spells and enchantments for as far as his long memory goes, and there's no power on earth that can pale that devotion. When Gale says Mystra's name, in love, it is never with yearning. When he tells his lover that he forgets his goddess when he stands beside them, he means quite literally that he foregoes his faith. He doesn't mention her like a quality benchmark with which they've somehow surpassed, but to punctuate how wholly he has fallen for them. With a new, honest love, he is turned entirely from Mystra. In fact, so utterly bewitched, he's like a born again man. He isn't besotted by his goddess, held stalwart in her sway and seemingly, abundantly, and frustratingly stubborn. After that disastrous relationship, I promise you, Gale spares not a single thought toward her. She might have control of the Weave, and as such, stands still his only patron deity, but his new, doting lover? They become something of a new religion for him; he is most devoted, taken by, and so loyal to them.

He does not see Mystra. Do not assume he still feels for her.

He's a man of one love, and they will have all of him.

[kennyomegasweave]

Every time the WWE brings up The Shield with just Seth and Roman and busts out the chairs all I can think about is how Roman only took like one chair shot while Dean took like a thousand. So I really just don't get Roman's PTSD with Seth and a chair.

And another thing I always think about every time the WWE brings up The Shield with only Seth and Roman is that the two biggest dynamics were Dean/Seth and Dean/Roman. So the whole storylines now only using Roman and Seth make me pause cause that was not the dynamic that really mattered in that group.

[quietwingsinthesky]

you think sam ever wonders if dean would have tricked him into saying yes to lucifer again if it meant saving his life.