#and like yea you could argue this isnt canon/in character but

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minor muriel route spoilers

some of the lines in muriel’s upright ending got me thinking. nadia asks them how their journey was and muriel mentions bandits, which MC then says they “took care of them” and it just implies this scene in my brain of like

this cute, unassuming cottagecore couple traveling through the woods, looking perfectly harmless and pure, being threatened by bandits for all of their belongings

just for said cottagecore couple to actually be fighters trained by a warrior queen and they absolutely rock the bandits’ shit

[420technoblazeit]

Abt the jealousy of Cas, I don't think Cas is jealous of Crowley for who he is . because I do think he thinks he's better than him, but in a relationship yea I can see jealousy and possessiveness I mean he did sear deans skin and carved into his ribcage. If they did get together literally all of body will be marked.

So either it's one month with Crowley then the other month with him

But also I just can see Cas just waiting. Until he becomes the priority. And until then let's dean do his own thing and Cas does his.

i mean i agree that cas isnt jealous of crowley for who he is and you can have your own headcanons. cas is certainly a character who has a lot of pride especially in the earlier seasons but i think a lot of that is gone by the time the later seasons come around. i'd argue even after season 6 he has significantly less pride, though i guess you could argue season 8 cas still has a bit of it. i just dont think that there's canon basis for him being a very jealous person when we've already seen a situation where dean chose crowley over cas (the demon dean summer) and cas didn't seem to hold any grudge with crowley over it

remember that we do see a conversation between sam and cas in 10x01 about dean running away, and while sam seems to think that there's a demon running around in dean's body cas understands that dean himself made the choice to run away. sam seems to think that crowley might have forced dean to leave but cas dismisses that almost immediately and instead brings up whether or not dean's too far gone as a demon. there's a focus here on dean leaving being dean's choice

also here's a scene from 10x03 from when crowley first meets up with cas again and discusses curing dean. if cas, like sam, didn't understand just how much dean meant to crowley he would've left it at that thinking that crowley was just using dean as a guard dog. but he makes sure to point out here that dean might be too far gone because he knows that for crowley to have stuck with dean for that entire summer he must care about what happens to him

even much later in the season cas again asks crowley for help in curing dean, even after sam has tried to kill him, and i think it's because cas is maybe the only person who actually gets it. who understands what it's like to be an immortal being in love with a human as reckless and self-destructive as dean. and to sacrifice so much for him and not ask for anything in return. he knew that even with nothing in return crowley would help in getting rid of the mark because he knows how much it's hurting dean

and about the carved ribcage and handprint thing if we're being honest the whole possessive branding thing is like. entirely fanon. to my knowledge the show never explicitly mentions that as being a possessive thing, the fandom just thought it'd be cute to make it into that. we know that the warding's main function is to hide sam and dean from angels and that the handprint is a byproduct of cas dragging dean out of hell. it is by no means proof that cas is actually possessive of dean or would be upset about him being with someone else

idk i just think pretending that cas and crowley's relationship could ever boil down to just ohhhhh cas is jealous of crowley's thing with dean significantly flattens their relationship and gets rid of the most interesting thing about it, which is that basically the only thing they can ever agree on is loving dean. that's unironically their common ground in a significant number of issues. theyre an angel and a demon to begin with so theyre already about as different as you can get but when you really look at the core of who they are, theyre both beings who are too emotional and human for their own good and you can always see that best in how they interact with dean

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I dont hate shipping, per se, but like think of it like this:

You know how sometimes people argue about 'could Superman beat Goku?'(or whatever other hypothetical match up). Imagine if that was ubiquitous in fandom. That it was impossible to go into tags for any show or game without seeing people talking about who their favorite character could beat in a fight. Imagine people being upset because the shows canon has their fav losing to a character they hate.

Imagine that a gigantic portion of fanfiction was about hypothetical showdowns between various characters(with their own subgenres and tropes), to the point that people thought that was ALL fanfic was. Imagine that theres a portion of fans(exactly how big is hard to tell) who seem incapable of enjoying anything that doesnt have characters they can have square off.

Imagine people getting harassed or bullied because of their opinions on the outcomes of character matches. Imagine people having takes like 'Gohan is a minor, so depicting him as losing encourages child abuse.' Imaging CREATORS getting harassed for how they depict fights between characters on shows.

Now imagine you are someone who isnt really interested in 'which characters could beat up whom' trying to navigate this landscape.

Yea thats how I feel about shipping

[homosexualmorelikehomiesexual]

AND CAN WE TALK ABOUT how beans canonically involuntarily dissociates from time to time, presumably from the trauma of her dad dying. and the narrative doesnt treat her poorly for it. the times that characters r weird or nasty about it, its clearly framed as Theyre Being Dicks To Her.

honestly actually lets talk about Beans. like yeah she has lizard eyelashes and curly hair and you could definitely argue its another example of bullshit gendered sexual dimorphism in animal animation design. whiich is fair, bc it is. but i honestly dont give a damn because shes also fucking fascinating as the titular supporting character.

shes sort of the other side of Rangos coin. she grew up super isolated, then lost the only (presumably) person she ever lived with in a really traumatic way, and now shes struggling, financially and emotionally. everyone in towns known her since she was a girl, but shes still Alone. no one helps her, no one fucking believes her about the water in the desert. they all dismiss her, even going so far as to imply she hallucinated it during a dissociative episode (fucking rude, mr merimac). shes the only one with any actual awareness of whats going on in the town.

and then..along comes mr manic pixie dream lizard. and shes the first to meet him, to see what hes really like before he puts on the whole lone ranger act. and she quickly assesses that hes 1. not from around here 2. not a real threat 3. so so annoying about it. so she ditches him the second she can. she wants nothing to do with this hawaiian shirt wearing weirdo.

rango is the main character, so ofc we see mostly through his eyes, and since she avoids him at first, we dont see too much of her in the beginning. but what we do see tells us shes a real character with her own life and backstory. shes fucking Intelligent. every fucking scene, shes the one character who isnt buying rangos facade, because she knows its an act. but shes quiet. she observes. she doesnt really think hes a big tough lone ranger, she just thinks he may be capable of the one main thing he promises to do: save their town. and shes right. her existence breaks his fourth wall. shes the only one who really sees who he was before he came to dirt.

AND AND AND. the first time rango sees her dissociate. he goes to pose with her. and is genuinely surprised when she snaps out of it again. I THINK he may have, for a moment, thought she wasnt real. that he made her up, just like he used to back in his tank. and then she moves again. and the. the next time she freezes, he kind of goes...huh. okay. so she just Does That. and after that he doesnt bat an eye, he Gets It. this is how she deals woth her trauma. okay. big deal, im currently pretending to be a clint eastwood character*. we all have weird coping mechanisms, moving on.

he still doesnt admit the full truth to her, at least not until the big reveal, but he doesnt lie to her either. he knows she knows who he really is. shes the first person he meets who treats him like a *person* and not...a character. and hes the first person She meets who doesnt just see her as "oh yea lol thats beans and shes in denial about her dad falling drunk down a mineshaft haha". rango sees Everyone as a character, but not her. he can t. in the end scene, its extremely clear he maintains the lone ranger facade around town, and that its a running theme now that beans is the one who loudly calls him out on it. *and he aknowledges it.*

my point being, beans is the only other character besides rango that is self aware. (im not counting the owl mariachi band bc i think theyre just...a hallucination of rangos, for comedic relief.) which makes her the most important supporting character. without this character we wouldn't have the same story.

*also can we talk about the clint eastwood cameo

god im going insane about Rango again

why does his shirt change patterns with his scales in the scene where hes camouflaging himself from the hawk unless the shirt isnt real. why. because if the shirt isnt real then none of the clothes are real. neither is the glass of water he has in the beginning. clearly not, bc theyre in obvious contrast to the awkwardly overlarge human items that were purposefully put into his tank- the barbie torso, the windup toy, the toothpick sword.

so if all the items that are to scale for him arent real, theyre just figments of his imagination as he struggled to cope with isolation via the fantasy that hes an actor..what about the town? what about the other characters? is he just fully imagining them too? are they real, but theyre all just normal animals in the desert and hes just continuing his wild west fantasy because hes ultimately a very lonely lizard?8 why are nome of the animals really to scale? why is there a random animal from madacasgar? do wild west towns just...have exchange students?? how does a poorly taken care of pet chameleon know what any of this is? how does Rango have a maiden name if he isnt trans??? why the Fuck did his owners think it was a good idea to strap a 5gal fish tank containing a live chameleon onto the back of a van going 90mph through death valley. why is the golf scene with the villain done with live pillbugs as golf balls instead of scaled down golf balls to match the golf clubs unless its a deliberate parallel to the croquet scene with the queen of hearts in alice in wonderland. how did rattlesnake jake get a gatling gun for a tail how does it Function. how the fuck does he reload it he has no hands. why does Beans know what andromeda 5 is and why is it so heartbreaking that shes utterly convinced her father was kidnapped by aliens instead if accepting that hes dead. why do they have some items to scale like the golf clubs and the glass of water but in the campfire scene when they say pass the beans its a SINGULAR KIDNEY BEAN THE SIZE OF THEIR HEADS. are lizards really that small. is Spoons bisexual. what the fuck is even Happening with the scale. are they even Real oh god im losing my mind