#but puppets bunker is so so good and I'm sad

[asleepinawell]

justice for puppets bunker 💀

[tuttle-did-it]

I have posted this many times, and I'm so sad to say this is still relevant. This episode of All in the Family aired 16 Sept 1972. This was a PARODY of the absurdity of pro-gun arguments and conservatives in the era.

Archie Bunker goes on tv and argues, ridiculously, for everyone to have guns, and is then promptly held up by people who saw his editorial on gun control.

Archie Bunker was an absurdity. He was NOT supposed to become inspiration for a future president. Every episode was Norman Lear (one of the best producers of television in American history) using Archie Bunker to beg and plead the audience to have some shred of respect and NOT be like Archie Bunker.

I am exhausted and ashamed that what was an outrageous joke 52 years ago is STILL an argument that not only we continue to have, but that some people literally take it seriously.

You know what the saddest thing is? Archie Bunker is better than most conservatives, and do you know why? Because every week he spouts this absolute garbage, and everyone around him tells him he's crazy and stupid and he needs to stop. Then, his horrible bigotry and sadistic insanity get him in trouble. Then, at the end of the episode, Archie realises that his argument was wrong, and he has to re-evaluate his stance.

[Archie is delivering en editorial on a local TV station] Archie Bunker: [on TV] Good evening, everybody. This here is Archie Bunker of 704 Hauser Street, veteran of the big war, speaking on behalf of guns for everybody. Now, question: what was the first thing that the Communists done when they took over Russia? Answer: gun control. And there's a lot of people in this country want to do the same thing to us here in a kind of conspiracy, see. You take your big international bankers, they want to - whaddya call - masticate the people of this here nation like puppets on the wing, and then when they get their guns, turn us over to the Commies. Edith Bunker: Oh, Archie, I'm glad they put you on a stool, you look taller sitting down. Archie Bunker: [on TV] Now I want to talk about another thing that's on everybody's minds today, and that's your stick-ups and your skyjackings, and which, if that were up to me, I could end the skyjackings tomorrow. Michael 'Meathead' Stivic: You could? Archie Bunker: [on TV] All you gotta do is arm all your passengers. He ain't got no more moral superiority there, and he ain't gonna dare to pull out no rod. And then your airlines, they wouldn't have to search the passengers on the ground no more, they just pass out the pistols at the beginning of the trip, and they just pick them up at the end! Case closed. Michael 'Meathead' Stivic: That's incredible, Arch.

I'm almost sad that Norman Lear lived to see the rise of neo-fascism and trumpism (same thing) in America. But for his 100th birthday, Lear wrote an article (linked above, excerpts below) reflecting on the America he saw in his 100 years. Absolutely worth a read.

How many times has a good guy with a gun deescalated a situation

[verobatto]

Destiel Chronicles

Vol. XC

It was a love story from the very beginning.

Breaking Walls (Part I)

(12x20/12x21)

Hello my friends! I'm here with another meta from season 12! This time I'll try to resume these two episodes pointing important subtext and foreshadows I found in them.

We/Us vs Only Dean

Resonating with the previous episode, the mixtape one. We will meet Tasha Banes and her son's Alicia and Max. And with them will come the difference between WE/US and I/ME.

First of all, we were fed with Dean Winchester's worries for Castiel.

Gif set credit @starlightcastiel

The scene opens with a close up to Dean's hands. This focus on the hands will continue through the episode, related with my Quantum theory about Dabb's era, it talks about a foreshadow. And because is centered on the knuckles, is a foreshadow of Dean hitting on the door from the Burger Shop after praying to Chuck in 13x01. Linked to his worries for Castiel, opens the door for the incoming mourning for him.

Dean: That freaking baby isn't even born yet and it sock puppeted him. Think about it.

Is very meaningful Dean uses this word PUPPET here, to explain Castiel's odd behavior. But is also related to this episode: a witch killing people and constructing puppets she can command as she wishes. If this sounds particularly known by all of us, is because is a very smart Foreshadow for Chuck appearing in the ending of season 14 and the whole season 15. The puppet master.

This is what makes Dean feel so worried: CAS having faith in Lucifer jr. As Dean calls it. Is not good sign for him. And because he knows what CAS is willing to do when he is in soldier mode, when he has faith in something. He can give everything in exchange. He knows it. And he is worried because CAS is in danger now. And he can't understand how CAS is having faith in that nephilim he was trying to kill hours before. He needs to understand what's going on, Because Castiel's safety is in danger. And Cas' means everything to Dean.

SAM: I don't know. I mean, look, this doesn't make any sense to me either, Dean. But if we wanna have some shot at finding Cas, the we have to...I don’t know. Uh, try and think like him.

DEAN: How? Seriously...

He sounds desperate here. He knows exactly this is the first time he saw CAS like this. Again brainwashed? He is scared. Dean is afraid of losing CAS. He didn't recognize Castiel looking back at him. Because CAS had a new mission now. Cas had determination in his eyes. And the mission comes first.

Then, one phone rings, and is Max and Alicia. And the dialogue here will separate the therms WE from INDIVIDUAL again.

ALICIA: Yeah, sorry to um...Uh, Mary gave me a couple different numbers to reach her, and we thought –

Max loudly interrupts Alicia to make a point that this is not his idea.

MAX: No. No. Mnh-mnh.

Alicia looks exasperated.

ALICIA: I thought Mary would be down to help. Uh, be our backup on this, um...

The parallel with the Barnes brothers here is loud, not just the missing parent in a hunt, but the blatant difference between WE/US vs INDIVIDUAL (Alice and Dean).

Max doesn't want his sister use him as a shield for showing his worries. Just like Dean used Sam in the mixtape scene or when CAS arrived at the bunker.

After Sam accepts to help, Dean turns into worried boyfriend mode...

He is like: 'Come on Sam, didn't you heard all my worries? We have to find CAS! CAS CAS CAS!'

Then we have Dean calling Mary...

His face here is loud. He was thinking about Castiel being in danger since CAS left. I bet you he couldn't sleep neither. And he needs to talk with someone about this. But how he feels about this. Becay Sam ia confused but he keeps doing his job. Dean just can't go on if he can't rescue CAS from the 'evil child'.

The Foreshadows

Before jumping into the symbology of this episode, let's show another example of we/u vs me/I:

ALICIA: Well, then why didn't you call us? I mean we–

MAX: Ahem.

Sam and Dean look slightly uncomfortable.

ALICIA: I called and texted a lot.

TASHA: I'm sorry, baby. My phone hasn't been charging all day.

Is the difference between the amount of worrisome and the effort from the writers to point out that to us. To make it noticeable.

Now, let's go with Mary Winchester: there's this scene in which Mary discovers Mick's corpse and she uncovered his face. Is a sad foreshadow of Dean in episode 13x01 uncovering Castiel's face when he laid dead on the table.

Also the finding of the corpses ina dark place by Dean and Sam, was a foreshadow of dead and the Empty.

Then, Tasha attack Alicia and Max, as a foreshadow of Mary coming against her own boys.

But it caught my attention what Ketch says to Mary:

KETCH: But I can keep you safe. If you just play your part, if you play nice...

In an episode where we are talking about puppets Ketch asks Mary to play her part. And I just recalled the whole season 9 with Metatron and the repetitive quote: Everyone needs to play their role. As an attempt coming from the writer to control the story and the characters. This is very important because is anticipating Chuck's plot in season 15. Mary answers: 'I don't play nice' as a reflection of TFW.

When Alicia dies, the dialogue between Sam, Dean and Max is another example of loosing a brother/family and loosing the love of your life.

SAM: Hey, Max, um, this is, uh... Look, you – you're probably in shock right now, but it's gonna pass.

DEAN: And then it's gonna hurt.

They're talking from their places, they had lost many people in their lives, family. Wich is pointing too what we will be seeing at the beginning of season 13, the big difference with loosing the love of your life, incarnated I'm Dean mourning Castiel.

Eileen's death and Brainwashing

Just a few words about episode 12x21.

Is the episode in which Eileen dies, in a dark Forest. Saileen always had been a Destiel mirror and showed the path for our ship. So when Eileen dies, is talking about the lovers separation through death. Sam uncovering her face in the morgue, again, as a prelude of Dean doing the same with Castiel.

BMoL brainwashing Mary, and using her as a puppet against the boy, is slightly showing how Dean sees what's going on with CAS.

But is also a foreshadow of AUMichael!Dean.

Later in the episode, we have Crowley who was controlling Lucifer's vessel as a puppet too, but something goes wrong this time.

DREXEL: The ability to control is transferring from Crowley to you.

LUCIFER: So you're saying that Crowley's gonna be my puppet.

This could be showing two interesting Foreshadows: first, when AUMichael will take control over Dean's body and kidnap him in episode 13x23, and second, what will happen once Dean will lock Michael down in his head, taking full control of his own body.

Then, another parallel between CAS and Mick. Remember Samadriek saying he has too much heart and that was his problem? Okay...

TONI: Oh, Mick's dead.

SAM: He's dead?

TONI: Quite. It was determined he was too sentimental for the job.

So Mick also had too much heart...

To Conclude:

Dean is a mess of worries for CAS and it shows. He is afraid of loosing him this time for real.

There are foreshadows of Cas' death all over the episodes, preluding the finale.

There's also a lot of references to puppets, for the incoming plot of Chuck and Dean's possesion.

Hope you like this volume. See you in the next one!

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If you wanna read the previous metas from season 12, here you have the links:

Vol. LXXV, LXXVI, LXXVII, LXXVIII, LXXIX, LXXX, LXXXI, LXXXII, LXXXIII, LXXXIV, LXXXV, LXXXVI, LXXXVII, LXXXVIII, LXXXIX.

Buenos Aires, November 30th 2020 7:03 PM

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Witness, Judge, Executioner

Requests: Open!

“I only remember h-how my mother…"tried to speak Y/N as she hold onto her glass of whisky and had her gaze focused on the fireplace. "My mother’s screams are all I remember. There was also a lot of blood. My father was face down. My brother told me to hide, and I did. I ran upstairs and hid under my bed, while I was crying and trying to hold my breath… quiet as a mouse, trying not to make any noise noise.” said Y/N as she turned away the tears that started to rolled down her face, began to tremble at the memory that kept haunting her 20 years.

She rose from the couch where she was sat and walked towards the fireplace, where she took the whisky glass with her and gave it a sip.

Steve, un the other hand was quiet, rubbing his hands as he nodded and looked down at his lap. Clenching his teeth as he learned the part of the story that followed, he couldn't help but stand up and go to were his friend and teammate was, to try to comfort her as he put one of his hands on her shoulder and he squeezed it as a sign of reassurance.

“Suddenly my mother’s screams ceased after hearing the echo of a gunshot. At that moment I knew that I had no one left in this world, that I was alone.” she said before she finished drinking her whisky. “I heard his footsteps crawling up the creaking stairs… his fucking steady, slow steps approached the hallway leading to my room.. And-And then...”

“Y/N… Please.” Steve begged with tears in his eyes as he looked at his friend with supplication. “Don’t. You don't have to keep telling me this. Just-"

“Every night I heard in my dreams his slow and tortuous steps that are getting closer and closer to me. I also hear the cries of my mother and her gasps and moans from crying so much for my father and brother, Steve. I can still hear her, begging for him to stop and to leave me alone! Like that night.” Y/N said as she threw the glass furiously into the fire and looked at her friend. “He knew perfectly well where I was hiding. We both knew what was coming for me. That’s why when he grabbed my foot and dragged me out from under my bed, I thought it was all over and that at least... and t-that at least, I would be reunited with my family. That he was gonna kill me, that was going to put an end to my misery, but no.” said furiously the woman, feeling how the anger invaded her, as she watched the fire consume the wood. “He looked at me like it wasn't worthy... killing me, like it wasn’t worthy spending one more bullet for a six-year-old little girl."

"He did the worst thing he could do to me, Stevie..." the young avenger sobbed with a frown, as she could savor those salty tears that came down her face. "He left me alive."

“You need to understand that it wasn’t Bucky who did all that. It wasn't him. He had no choice or– Look. He was being controlled by HYDRA. You-you know he didn’t–”

“I don’t care! I don't care, okay!?” shouted Y/N. “I was a child and I witnessed how that son of a bitch killed my family... My entire family! First to go was my brother, then my father and finally my mother. And he left me alive? Why!? Huh, why!?” screamed Y/N with more anger and pain than before, as she approached dangerously to Steve, who was looking at her with sadness and pain in the eyes because of her words. “I don’t care if that sick bastard is a friend of yours or if he was being controlled like a fucking puppet for all those bloody decades! The nightmares he has and all his demons are more than well deserved! It’s what he deserves.” said the las thing in a whisper while she pointed at him with her finger.

“Are you listening to yourself Y/N!? This is not you!”

“Oh, you are damn wrong there, Cap. This is me.” said Y/N as she pulled out her gun and loaded it. “But... you know what?" she looked at her gun and later to Rogers. "What that son of a bitch really deserves is the bullet that I’m about to put in his head. But first I'm gonna beat the crap out of him. It's the least I can do for him, isn't it?” the female faked a smile before she left the room in search of her prey, but not before take care of locking Steve in the room, without him being able to escape in any way.

"No! Don't do it, Y/N! Please! NO!" was the last thing Steve said before his teammate ran out of the place.

Steve kept repeating that scene in his head over and over and over again, as he sat on the floor and stared at the wall - waiting for his friend to arrive and tell him she had committed her purpose, which terrified, pissed and saddened him deeply.

The room in which the Captain was locked was upside down. He had tried to use every possible object and piece of furniture to try to open the door of the bunker in which he was, which was one of the panic rooms in the tower. Although, it had to be admitted that several of the broken furniture was because he had paid all the frustration and helplessness he felt by broking them.

He felt like an enclosed beast looking for a desperate way to escape a trap.

"Crap!" he said as he threw a wooden chair against the steel door. "Fuck," exclaimed as he accelerated his breathing and began to cry again. He had lost count of how many times he had done it since he was locked up. "This can't be happening..." he sobbed as he fell on his knees, hands on his face.

He had not only lost Bucky that day, but also Y/N, who would do anything to accomplish her personal task, even if it cost her her own life. He knew that the fight that had taken place could have been fatal for either of his two friends.

"There must-"

Suddenly the enclosure door opened, the blonde man looked up and with red, watery eyes and watched Y/N, who was trying to catch her breath and was covered in blood. He didn't know if it was hers or Bucky's, maybe it was from both of them. "I did it," whispered the young woman with a trembling voice.

"Y/N..." Rogers tried to get up slowly, carefully.

"I did it, Steve. I have... done it. I-I've killed my family's murderer," the female said with a tired sigh as she approached her friend. "He... Al-he was... I- Goddammit, I was s-so..." Y/N, exhausted, tried to talk to him before she fainted, Steve catch her.

Okay, first of all, this was an idea I had a long time ago and that I'd like to turn into a series, but I'm not sure if I'm going to do it or not. If so, I would like to publish it this summer, when I have more free time and have managed to finish most of the requests I have right now, so everyone would be happy.

Btw if anyone would be interested in being tagged in the story, just let me know so I'll start doing a tag list for this story!

And that's it, good night my dudes!