#covert cupid masterpost

[shallowseeker]

Shal SPN meta masterpost

(The thought of labeling my unhinged ramblings as "essays" or "meta" honestly gives me hives.) But well. After a year, I'm still here, and I am making and updating this (A) to happily re-visit my thoughts for my own enjoyment and (B) to add to my pinned post.

MY META:

==Most Liked==

Dean, Cas, and sharing pockets

Jack's nephilim eyesight triggering Dean's germ anxiety

== Roles, Identity, Careers, Class ==

Performing Dean, the AV Club, and Jack as varsity MVP

Even when Chuck "humiliates" Castiel, Dean still likes him

Cas + "dad material"

Anna and the angelic non-integration of her own emotions

Are angels terrified of fathering Nephilim?

Jack is not part of a traditional, cookie-cutter nuclear family. That's the WHOLE POINT

Nazi Cas, and the implications for Jimmy Novak

Beware the validity of Cupid in My Bloody Valentine

== Core traits ==

Dean + I don't deserve happiness

Cas + shabby angel of the Lord

Lucifer + cognitive empathy

Lucifer...doesn't really rib Cas that hard about his feelings for Dean

Dean's guilt and emotions make him LOOK guiltier than other characters

Dean + ashamed of being alive

== Symbols ==

Castiel's coat of arms - When Cas dons the overcoat, he hijacks the narrative

Dean, the Cupid, and the insidious motive to demoralize his faith in ever finding "True Love"

Searching for a rainbow + forbidden love is forbidden

Jack ate the world: foreshadowing gods eating souls + nephilim lore

Cas died on a beach! + Jack's place of birth was specifically the famously doomed Washaway Beach

==Car meta ==

Cas + cars (!)

The pimpmobile as a marker of Cas's unsettled identity

The truck is the mark of a family protector and Sam loves little blue cars teehee

Family cars + protecting the ones you love

==Pop culture, music, media ==

Head canon that Dean buried Cas by a windmill, but it’s because he and Cas have had deep conversations about Animal House.

Jack + Dean + hyperfixations on music

==Grief ==

The familial murder of the mother, the blaming of absent father, and the symbolic death of a child in 14x18 Absence

Dean looks around for Cas after he prays in 13x01

Smiting Belphegor made Jack's death real

Harper Sayles and the romanticized first love

How Jack & Dean wanted to look ahead in Optimism and fail at doing it when Jack dies just two episodes later

==TFW dynamics ==

Dean's family was willing to sacrifice him, and that gets overlooked (from an ask)

Dean's Farewell Tour + Avoiding Cas - part 1

TFW are messy disaster parents and I dig it

When Dean killed Belphegor, it was about Rowena, but it was ALSO about [OMITTED]

Cas + resilience + repeat existential crises

Dean & Cas + Covert Communication in 15x09

Claire & Jack are uneasy around each other at best; actively dislike each other at worst

== Breakdowns ==

Jack's best memory was in 13x06; some notes about the scene

Oh, my GOD, Cas. Dean was so stupidly worried about you, you dumbass. (12x17-12x19)

Season 11-12 Lucifer + war + rejection + Jack -> the thing that will give his life new meaning

== Script talk ==

Like a baby lion is proud of his kill, Jack overkills Nick with graphic, brutal efficiency in SPN 14x17 Game Night

The mission before all else + Mary's trust in Jack in 14x17 Game Night

Dean & Cas in season 15: doomed by too much faith in each other?

== Unpopular and/or controversial opinions ==

Dean would never say I Love You to ANYONE in those circumstances.

How Dean and Cas lost the thread of free will in SPN season 15

The incest jokes and innuendos are primarily about class disrespect

The argument that Cas has no parental authority over Jack (and Sam and Dean do)...doesn't hold up

Ben is not's Dean's son. Full stop.

Heaven is a war machine

Endverse Cas + The Nephilim-making Strategy

-> Contrarian takes:

Purgatory isn’t pure in the *good* sense; it’s a suicide trap and a black-and-white, unthinking world (long)

Cas actually DID check out naked Hannah (very long)

Cas has good reason to need forgiveness during the divorce arc...he is not blameless (long)

Does Chuck's female coding carry ill intent?

==Finale metas==

What if Dean dying on the rebar was an accidental manifestation of Chuck!God!Amara!Jack’s latent feelings? (long)

Searchin' for a rainbow + Cas's death + forbidden love (long)

== Funny thoughts ==

Jack + typewriter

Lebanon inhabitants + TFW fake jobs

Jack & Dean + nephilim eyesight + GERMS

Ketch, the father

Sam wigged out when Eileen didn't leave and note and Dean deserved to say things about it - lol

Cas is SO old, y'all

Dean hate-watches Gone with the Wind

Dean doesn't "feel more deeply than anyone," you FOOL

Dean/Cas are that unsettling, unhinged couple who looks absolutely demented when they kiss

== Random ideas ==

What if Cas's Enochian rib carvings affected Cas's abilities to hear Sam and Dean's prayers?

== SPNwin ==

There’s a lot of merit in being anti-destiny, anti-soulmate, anti-chosen-one, anti-Cupid, anti-mirrors/anti-parallels. (long)

Natural crisis points built into The Winchesters character arcs (long)

To be updated.

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(Text Attributions// Supernatural scripts here via @spnscripthunt. Transcripts are located here via SPNWiki. Visit their Tumblr to donate.)

[gabenathevents]

GabeNath Covert Cupid Masterpost

The Fics:

A Little Misadventure to the Edge of Falling in Love by @dishwater-blondie

Rated: T

Word count: 1754 words

Summary: "And that’s how Gabriel Agreste wound up face-to-face with Mayura, surrounded by fifty unsuspecting Parisians, caught alive in one of the ugliest pieces of clothing he’s ever seen."

Through the Flames by @blaize-night

Rated: T

Warning: Major Character Death

Word count: 1519

Summary: It was supposed to be the last attempt they would have to make. Hawkmoth had agreed to the plan because of how well Mayura had thought it through.

He quickly regretted it.

Gifting on a Whim by @xx-katastrophe

Rated: G

Word count: 4895

Summary: Nearly forgetting Valentine's Day, Gabriel decides to give a sick Nathalie a Valentine's Day present.

Context Matters by @starry-sky12

Rating: G

Word count: 3385

Summary: What boss hasn’t given their live-in assistant/close friend/partner in crime Valentine’s day present? A perfectly normal thing to do, in his opinion.

A perfect respectable opinion that is incorrect in every way for Gabriel Agreste. Many things sound significantly different without context, and Nathalie is going to find that out.

Valentine's Day is a cliché, but it is our cliché. by @granadactonica

Link to Spanish version

Rating: G

Word count: 1350 words English/1339 words Spanish

Summary: February 14 is just a day on the calendar for some, but more special for others.

The Art:

I'm Gonna Drop the Ice Cream by @midnight-mermaid

Napping Cuddles by @lovelucywilde

Warm Hugs by @ramen-extra

Awash in Golden Light by @maybemayura

A Time for Leisure by @creativitydeficient

Snowy Valentine Date by @shadowmayura

Valentine's Family Portrait by @theredeyeswolf

Valentine Proposal by @rrainingart

Ice Cream Date by @speckleflower

Wine and a Guy by @thehopeelias

That Warm, Fuzzy Feeling by @ayumuchinnn-jaragonnn

Morning Routine by @pnf-lover98

It Will Be Okay, I Promise by @miss-nabricat

[gabenathevents]

Announcing the newest event from GabeNath Events!

Today through February 14th, we will be running the GabeNath Covert Cupid exchange! This event will be similar to a Secret Santa… except pink. 💖 We can’t wait to start our first ever exchange, so we hope that you’ll join us!

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Graphic art by @shadowmayura