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Fae Realm Crusaders
This fic has means a lot to me because the plot and title for it were prompted to me by one if not the most important person in my life.
It was published as part of @crack-in-the-chassis 2024.
The story is an adventurous tale of unicorn-pegasus!Sam and unicorn-pegasus!Dean trapped in Oberon's fae realm, not remembering they were hunters much less meant to be human.
Castiel finds them and slowly works through much angst, hurt and comfort battling giant spiders, evading and collaborating with dragons and fighting aerial battels with Oberon's forces to bring both Sam and Dean back home safely. To the bunker where they belong on earth; saving people, hunting things.
Art for this was made by the talented https://www.tumblr.com/free-to-be-impaled who took it upon themselves to draw horses for the first time.
There are mild wincestiel undertones in this fic but the ship is not the main focus of the story, the plot is.
Link to fic: AO3 || Link to Art: Tumblr
For the master post of the Crack in the Chassis event, click here.
#spn fanart#spn fanfic#supernatural fanfiction#supernatural fic#spn fanfiction#spn fic#fan fic by masoena#wincestiel#pegasus-unicorns#creature sam winchester#creature dean winchester#spnfanficpond
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Supernatural, Season 6: Summarized.
#supernatural fandom#spn#supernatural#castiel#dean winchester#castiel supernatural#misha collins#sam winchester#sammy#dean#castiel spn#castiel novak#godstiel#spn crack#supernatural memes#misha fucking collins#spn memes#mishapocalypse#cas spn#cas supernatural#supernatural crack#supernatural creatures#angels and demons#angels#wings#spn angels#jared padalecki#destiel#team free will#jensen ackles
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Dean wakes up one night to strange noises coming out of the dark bathroom, the door only a crack open.
and inside he sees his little brother sitting on the floor. naked like the day he was born, covered in blood and guts and looking up at his big brother -alarmed like a frightened animal- with glowing yellow eyes. eating...
#dark sam winchester#demon blood sam winchester#supernatural#spn fanart#demon Sam Winchester#yellow eyed demon#if i catch you Azrael#dean winchester#sam angst#cw: gore#he's just a poor hungry little creature#cannibalistic#innards#sam winchester#and a little bit of#weirdcest#if you squint#wincest#also if you squint#gore art#dark art#body horror
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whenever i see images from the casino scene in the trap, all i can think of is sam in an 80s-style off-the-shoulder oversized shirt, sitting all sad in his bed, moping and writing in his diary about what a jerk god is and how much he reminds him of his dad and how even the guy that created everything in the universe thinks he's a weirdo freak
so of course i drew it
for reference, angsty, huffy sam in all his teen-fashion glory:
supernatural 15x09 | the trap
#god's prettiest little loser princess 💗#no one understands him you wouldn't get it#there's spells on that diary to keep people (and creatures and other entities (but mostly dean)) out#i bet he writes with jelly pens#and doodles sigils and skulls and monsters in the margins#sam winchester#sam fanart#supernatural#spn fanart#myspnfanart#samsdiary
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My artwork for ‘Soulbound Enchantment’ written by @masoena for the wincest Reverse Bang 2024. I had an awesome time working with Masoena and drawing art for this unique story she created.
If you want to know more you can find the story summary information here 😄 as well as a link to my art post on ao3 with behind the scenes pictures.
#supernatural#spn fanart#MidnightSilver#wincest#dean winchester#sam winchester#creature!sam#spn fanfic#Masoena
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GUESS WHO GOT POSSESSED BY THE SPIRIT OF CREATIVITY AFTER SEASON 8 🗣️
#by jove this can’t be#Anyways-#supernatural#season 8 spoilers#kinda lol#supernatural fanart#dean winchester#my babygirl#in like the best worst way#naiomi supernatural#she doesn’t have a last name right???#i think#castiel#you special creature you-#sam winchester#for bonus point with his teeny tiny doodle#mwah mwah i’m super normal about this show
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We know the Winchester Brothers Obsess over one another, it’s canon and blatant text within Supernatural.
Here’s a little blurb I came up with cause I can’t sleep and it’s 2:10 in the morning :)
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Sam loves his big brother. It’s a given. After everything they’ve been through it’d be unfathomable for them not to love each other.
But Sam can’t stand the fact Dean doesn’t seem to love him as much as Sam loves him. Sam knows Dean loves him, would do anything for him. But it seems like Dean’s avoiding him.
He’s going to bars more often and hooking up with the first girl he sees. There’s been too many times Sam had to leave their shitty motel room cause Dean wanted to get his dick wet. It’s frustrating, it’s embarrassing. The only thing that weirdly enough makes it better is the fact Dean is constantly wearing his amulet Sam gifted him all those years ago.
Those girls may be there for the moment, but Sam is Dean’s for life.
Sam thinks Dean doesn’t love him as much as he loves Dean. He’s proven wrong on one of their hunts though.
By a Siren.
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“I gave him what he needed. And it wasn’t some bitch in a g-string. It was you, his little brother.” The siren taunts as Dean holds Sam, his sharp knife digging into Sam’s throat. Sam damn near blacks out at that. A demon known to take on its victims sexual fantasies; and Dean’s is Sam?
The confrontation goes rapidly with Bobby coming in and saving their asses. Stabbing Dean in the shoulder and the demon in the back.
Sam doesn’t know what to think, he doesn’t know what to say. So he keeps quiet. The pleading look on Dean’s face help him make that choice as well.
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“What did he mean?” Sam questions out of the blue one day, months after that fateful hunt.
Dean looks over to Sam in confusion from the motels couch, “Who Sammy, Darren? The waiter from the diner? It was an innuendo that meant butt se—“ before Dean can finish his taunt, Sam cuts him off with an eye roll, “No Dean, not Darren. I know what he meant. I meant the siren from a few months ago.”
At the mention of that hunt, Dean shuts down. His expression flattens and he somehow metaphysically pulls away from Sam. Sam can’t get a read on him; and he hasn’t been able to do that since he was a baby.
“Nothin’ Sammy. It means nothing.” Dean mutters as he takes a long swig from his beer, the sports game playing on the TV now Deans main focus.
Sam scoffs at that lame ass excuse, “Bullshit. It means something and I think I have the right to know what that is.”
“The hell you do! You don’t need to know everything you fucking snoop, leave it be!” Dean’s voice raises as his jaw clenches. Sam raises an eyebrow at his brothers aggressive reaction. He’ll get Dean to crack, one way or the other.
Sam decides to taunt Dean. With an over-exaggerated flip of his hair, Sam quotes the siren, “I gave him what he needed. And it wasn’t some bitch in a g-string. It was you, his little brother.” Sam says in a fake saccharine tone. Batting his eyelashes at his older brother before getting serious.
“Dean, Siren’s take on their victims greatest sexual fantasy. Their celebrity crush, the one that got away, the server from your favourite restaurant. All that shit. But yours was… me. Why?”
Dean purses his lips and takes an even bigger sip of his bear, wetting his lips as a drop trails down his neck. Dean wipes it away when the back of his hand with a morose sigh. Sam quickly averts his eyes from that gesture.
“You just answered your own damn question Sammy.”
Sam gapes, “I’m your biggest sexual fantasy? How, why?”
Dean rolls his eyes at his brothers shock, “I don’t even know where to begin Sammy. I’ve always loved you. I’m not sure when the wires got all tangled and fucked up but it happened. I guess being the main one to take care of you really messed everything up, huh?”
Sam wants to cry a bit. It does make sense, Dean is everything to him. His mother, his father, his brother, and his best friend. All they’ve known all their lives is each other. They’re each other’s greatest weakness.
“If it’s any consolidation Dean, my siren looked like you too.” Sam quietly states as he gets up from his laptop and moves to sit next to Dean. Stealing the beer from his limp hand and taking a massive swig. Deans eyes and lips part minutely.
“You… wait— what?” Dean questions, his words barely escaping his lips. Sam just smiles and kisses his brothers cheek; as close to his mouth as he can, before shuffling around and getting comfortable. Leaning into Dean’s side he makes himself small to cuddle up to Dean. “So… who’s winning?”
Dean just huffs a laugh at the blatant change of subject, steals back his beer and continues to watch the game, “Look at the top left corner. It tells you.” Sam rolls his eyes, “You know I’m not a big sports person. I don’t know the team names from just a few letters!” The two continue to bicker, as if nothings changed.
In all honesty, it really hasn’t. Their unspoken bond has finally been brought to the light.
#supernatural#spn#supernatural season 4.14-sex and violence#the talk we all deserve from what the hell happened in that episode#what were the writers thinking???#in this context you CANNOT ignore the incestuous tone. you really can’t#dean winchester#sam winchester#sam and dean#samdean#weirdcest#gencest#wincest#no beta we die like men#spn fanfic#I FUCKED UP#I MIXED UP THE MYTHOLOGICAL CREATURES#ITS FIXED NOW
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Cover for Silken Thread - Storyboard
Storyboard Part 1/9 - Sam and Dean go spider hunting
More pictures and informations in my artpost on AO3
Cover for Silken Thread (Held in His Hand)
Summary: Sam is turned into a man-eating spider monster. Good news? Sam doesn’t seem to want to eat Dean. Bad news? He wants to mate with him.
#AomaSade#sam winchester#dean winchester#sam and dean#samdean#sammy#supernatural#spn#spider#monster#creature#spnfandom#spn fanart#fanart#illustration#fantasy#fantasy art#monster au#monster art#winchest#winchester brothers#winchester boys
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mmm,,, sam feeling Gender Feelings™ and discovering it/its pronouns pls,,,,,,,,
#sam winchester#queer sam winchester#feeling gender like an inhuman creature and finding that labeling it as such brings a sense of peace#trans sam winchester#nonbinary sam winchester#spn#samgirl#mine
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ava wilson, cold oak, power, and destruction.
text: to a dead mouse by maurice rigoler
photos: young ava / yellow eyes / cold oak and i will not kill / sam and ava / the special children / ava's power / the grand finale / young ava
#supernatural#spn#ava wilson#web weave#sam winchester#not to toot my own horn but toot toot!#i love it and i love her and imaginging her intense character arc in cold oak#and the final image of her looking up at it all...... completely accidental but still fun#but im fr having thoughts about the special children as mice...... creatures..... test subjects.... and yellow eyes above them
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Sailing from Byzantium or Parents shouldn’t outlive their Children.
As you set out for Byzantium…
Okay so. I’ve been writing illegibly scribbling about resurrection in SPN for over a month now, so I think it’s finally time to talk about Jack’s (first) resurrection in “Byzantium”. Let’s goooo, I really hope it’ll make sense! As usual, it’s gonna be loooong, without images and with baaaaad paragraphing so just FYI. Here we gooooo.
I’ve described S13 Castiel’s forbidden resurrection (Chuck didn’t want him back, Billie couldn’t care less, no other entities were interested in him being back, like, at all) as a team effort: Dean, Jack, Cas and the Shadow all worked, consciously or not (but mostly not), to get Cas’ ass back on Earth. I’ve also compared it to the myth of Isis and Osiris because, to me, this specific resurrection has some very, veeeery strong romantic undertones to it. Of course, it bears repeating, it’s my interpretation that Cas got back because he was immensely loved and he loved hard in return. The show doesn’t outright say it, but it strongly implies it, and I’ve picked up on that vibe. However, his resurrection was possible in the first place because Jack willed it and he willed it because he missed his father. So another strong theme here is parental love and I loooooooove this stuff. Let me explain.
I’ve elsewhere said that Sam failed Jack the moment he didn’t tell him that he was missing Mary and he wanted her back. If he did, Jack would have latched onto that like I don’t know what, because he understands what it means to miss a mother. A similar thing applies to Dean, although he’s way more emotionally (and brutally) honest with Jack than Sam is. However, what Dean doesn’t outright say is that he blames Jack for Cas’ death (I’ve talked about I many times and I don’t want to repeat myself here, but basically I think that it’s not about Jack per se but about Cas’ choice to leave them and go away with Kelly. In other words, it’s complicated and I can’t always write the same things over and over again, lol, so sorry if I oversimplify sometimes). The moment he does, when he yells in Sam’s face while Jack is eavesdropping, an-already-attuned-to-his-moth-Dean Jack finally understands Dean because Dean’s pain, like Sam’s, is also his.
This is no moral judgement of the characters but an interpretation of the little tragedy that the first episodes of S13 are: three people, closed-off in themselves like monads, who are all grieving and don’t have the tools and/or the strength to really sort through their own emotions. A scene that stuck with me is when Jack is in front of his parents’ fucking pyre and he doesn’t know what to say. It’s a brief scene that tells a lot: Jack’s lost everything the moment he was born and, of course, he doesn’t know what to do with that. Because he’s just born. He’s left with…. The Big Empty. But this is also what Sam and Dean are feeling, in their own ways, so basically if they all knew how to communicate they would have found out that Jack was THE person who could have understood/helped them the most.
But, of course, if that happened, there wouldn’t be any tragedy in the first place so that was the whole point.
Back to Jack’s eavesdropping. I don’t think Jack picks up on the reason why Dean’s out of his mind over Cas’ death because he doesn’t have the same picture that we do. But what’s important is that he understands Dean’s pain because he also feels a similar pain but, of course, in his case he’s missing Castiel as his father. Just like the Quest for Mary isn’t solely due to Jack’s tendency to appease Sam and Dean, the Resurrection of Castiel happens because Jack is attuned to Dean, absolutely yes, but also because he wants it for himself. As in: Oh Dean’s not okay and one of the reasons why is Cas, but wait! I’m also not okay and one of the reasons why is Cas! Because I was supposed to have at least one parent looking out for me and he’s not here for me.
To sum it up: Cas’ resurrection is spurred by romantic love but it’s actualized because of filial love.
I’ve had to say all this because Jack’s resurrection in "Byzantium" follows the same path but in reverse: it’s about parental love but it’s actualized because of… (a-very-twisted-but-here-we-are, let’s-just-say-it-and-be-done-with-it) eroticism. Yes, ‘cause, sure, Chuck has his pervy thing for Dean but the Shadow surpasses even God when it comes to Castiel. Cas is “Of the Shadow”. Because it’s either that or I am the weirdo that instantly associates “I’ll come when you let the sun shine on your face” to la petite mort, the little death. Eros and Thanatos, the usual. I mean, it could be that I’m the weirdo. Let’s see!
If Dean, Jack, Cas and the Shadow were all needed to resurrect Cas, in Jack’s case…
Lily, Jack, Cas… and the Shadow again are needed.
(lol, when I write “and the Shadow” I have that song in my mind, the one that goes “and your friend Steve, tutututuruduuduuuu, Steeeveee, lol)
((also… Dean and Mother Figures… one day I’ll also have to expand on that))
(((also II… I’m super aware that Sam is a VITAL piece in both Cas’ and Jack’s stories and you can find a little bit about it here. I’m soooo sorry to do my little giant dude so dirty by erasing him, but if I add Sam to the picture as well this post becomes a behemoth or something and I can’t have it, I’ll make up to him I sweeeear)))
(((( I know it’s taking so long but we’re going to Byzantium which is pretty far away, be patient))))
All Aboard!
What is Byzantium exactly? Well, “Sailing to Byzantium” and its following “Byzantium” are two poems by W.B. Yeats which constitute the foundation of… “Byzantium” in S14. I’ll be focusing mainly on the first poem because I think it’ll be enough but the two are strongly connected and should be considered together rather than separate.
That is no country for old men. The young In one another’s arms, birds in the trees, —Those dying generations—at their song,
As we can see, one of the main themes in “Sailing to Byzantium” is old age vs “the young” and mortality (of the body) vs immortality (of the soul). These are the same themes of this episode which are translated for the show’s sake into the old theme of the “it’s not natural for parents to bury their children”.
In the bunker, after Jack’s death, Sam, Dean and Cas are lost and don’t know what to do:
[Cas, Dean, and Sam linger in the hallway outside Jack’s room] CAS: Maybe we should… start thinking about next steps. DEAN: Wake and a bonfire, Hunter style. It's what Jack would've wanted. [Sam says nothing, but storms off. Cas tries to stop him, but Dean stops Cas with a hand on his arm] CAS: Sam. [to Dean] Your brother's in pain. DEAN: Just let him be. If he needs his space, we're gonna give it to him.
They need to “bury” Jack and this triggers Sam into running away. Dean and Cas find him defeated in a forest: Sam wanted to gather woods for the pyre and made a whole mess out of it because he’s not okay and he feels like he hasn’t done enough. Like he has failed Jack. To that this is what Cas has to say:
CAS: This doesn't feel right. It's just not how I thought Jack's story would end. SAM: Yeah. None of us did. CAS: The certainty… of death, even for angels, it's always felt natural, but this doesn't. Jack being taken before his time. I mean, taken before me.
This scene establishes that Cas, maybe for the first time, understands relativity… deeply, into his own heart. Death is certain, it’s natural so how come Jack’s death doesn’t feel right, doesn’t feel… natural? Jack’s being taken before his (Jack’s) time is not unnatural by definition, it’s unnatural by Cas’ relative notion of Time: Jack’s time (before HIS time) is defined by Cas’ time (before ME) and Cas, like all parents, simply logically refuses the idea or even the possibility of seeing his child being taken away before him. It’s not a law of nature but it’s a law of humanity: no parents should ever see their children die. If that happens, it means that something went wrong, that it wasn’t right. That is no country for old men and no country for parents outliving their children.
In “Ouroboros” when Cas is confronted with the finality of death again, he’ll try his best to reassure Jack and make him understand how time works differently for “things like them” compared to humans. He’s trying to be brave in front of Jack but he’s not reaching him because he doesn’t believe in his own words. He betrays himself when he says that “when Dean wakes up -- and he will wake up -- we just have to remember to appreciate the time that we all have together now”. Even if he’s telling Jack that he must accept Death, he’s not accepting it himself. WHEN Dean wakes up AND HE WILL wake up. PERIOD. This is thinking coming from the heart rather than the mind. And it’s… truer? More vulnerable? Honest?...Human? Maybe the greatest tragedy of humanity is not that we don’t accept our death but that we can’t even conceive of the death of our loved ones. When Death arrives and takes everything from you but… you. And Cas cannot accept either Dean’s not Jack’s death. He simply can’t.
Together with Sam, Cas contacts Lily Sunders, the same woman that wants to kill him to avenge her daughter’s death. Lily, we’re tactlessly reminded by Dean in case we hadn’t noticed lol, is… old.
SAM: Dean, you remember Lily Sunder. DEAN: L-- You got old. LILY: Did I? An unfortunate side effect of giving up magic, I suppose.
She’s old and almost soulless but she can, perhaps, “pull off a miracle” or… a trade. “Resurrection and a cure” in exchange for getting into Heaven… to see her daughter, May.
Old age and the soul is another theme in “Sailing to Byzantium”:
An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress, Nor is there singing school but studying Monuments of its own magnificence;
The body decays but the soul lives and claps its hands and sings! Despite the “mortal dress” the soul can still be magnificent. In the character of an old(er) Lily Sunders the episode conflates all of its themes: parents and children, soul and mortality.
Yep, because there’s a little caveat in this trade and that’s Jack’s soul. Jack’s first resurrection doesn’t come for free, it has a price that he himself has to pay.
Now this is the point where I have issues with the episode and the series as a whole because “Byzantium” poses an interesting moral dilemma: your life or your soul? Sam, Dean and Cas all have their own take on the matter and the episode explores them. But what about Jack? Since, you know, it's his life and his soul.
Well, unfortunately I don’t think he’s given much of a choice and I think it was unfair.
When in Byzantium…
Yeah, okay, but WHAT is Byzantium? Well, Byzantium is, of course, Heaven. Crumbling empire under siege. Christian stronghold, holy city. Yeah, that’s Heaven right now in s14. So this means that people/entities will have to sail to Byzantium, aka Heaven, in this episode. Conversely, since Heaven is a place for the dead and the Angels, some other people will sail from Byzantium and back to life.
Heaven-Byzantium, however, has a little bit of a problem in the form of the Shadow storming its gates to take Jack’s… soul? The ghost of his Grace? His essence as Nephilim? I mean, I don’t know exactly what the Shadow wants because Jack belongs to two realms at the same time so I guess it wants its half. What I know is that it wants him in some capacity. Although, to be fair, for a cosmic entity that wants to sleep forever, going to great lengths to take one “soul” or whatever seems… weird? I don’t know, what I’m trying to covertly say is that, I think, the show has never really explored the Shadow/Empty and I think it was a shame. It wants to sleep forever but it storms Heaven’s gates for Jack, it wants Cas to suffer BUT it wants him to be happy AND it also wants to stay awake to come to Cas when he’s happy… The Shadow is confused, lol. Or, maybe, in love?? (Okay, now I’m joking but you must admit that the Shadow wants a lot of things. *In Lucille Bluth’s voice*: Good for her!).
Jack’s in Kelly’s heaven but they don't share much screen-time together. As a matter of fact, Jack’s not given much choice to begin with. The “life or soul” dilemma is left unexplored because the plot takes precedence: it’s 46,750,000,000 human souls vs Jack’s soul now. I like that, at first, Cas downright says no to Naomi when she tells him that he must help her stop the Shadow by handig over Jack. But then, when he finds Jack, he seems to change his mind a little:
CAS: Sam and Dean and I-- we found a way to bring you home. JACK: So, I'll be alive again? CAS: Yeah. But to do so, we-- we need to use magic that will draw on your soul. JACK: W-What do you mean, my soul? CAS: It'll be just a small piece. And I know it's too much to ask, but it's the only way. KELLY: No. I-I don't know. CAS: It's not just Jack's life that's at stake. It-- The Empty has invaded Heaven because it wants you.
Kelly going "No" and then "I don't know"... I love her so much, Queen of Messes.
Although Cas told Dean that Jack should have a say in the matter, he eventually decides for Jack and asks “too much” of him. Again, I want to say that this is a judgement-free zone, if I had the possibility to resurrect my dead child I would burn cities and commit genocides, ngl. This kind of prevarication, a prevarication out of love, is something that I can see fit in this episode because it relates to its foundational themes. What I don’t like and think takes something away from Jack is the “It’s not just Jack’s life that’s at stake”. Mmmm it doesn’t sit well with me. Fuck Heaven, fuck cosmic balance and fuck the Empty: if the cosmos can't do its work properly it's not my problem. Overriding personal dilemmas with imminent apocalypse-level threat is something that cannot be overused every other episode or it'll get boring. The stakes cannot always be so high, I need to see characters make their own choices and Dabb era takes this away from me! *Clenched fist raised to the sky for emphasis*.
Since Anubis has been literally summoned in this episode (the Egyptian myths, man... I've been saying... I've been saying) I think I can safely say that on his scale Jack’s soul weighed less than all those billions of souls. In other words, the Greater Good prevails. But what about Jack? Leaving aside whether I like it or not, he still doesn’t get a vote because the whole point is that the Shadow wants what it wants and it wants Jack. So Cas has to interfere and cuts a deal with it. And then we totally forget about Jack’s choice. It’s a given now because it’s the billions of souls and, ON TOP OF THAT, his father’s sacrifice. Even before becoming God Jack was asked to take on his shoulders such impossible burdens and… I don’t know, I actually feel very sorry for him.
So “Byzantium Delivered” by our very Castiel and him and Jack are ready to sail away. For one people leaving, one must arrive. Cas wasn’t the only one who made the sacrifice: Lily pays with her life and we know that her sacrifice is selfless because she manages to enter Heaven’s Gate. As Dean puts it, she couldn’t let anyone go through what she did: outlive their children. There’s a part of me that’s sad that she paid the price and died but another one is happy because now I can speak about something that I adore: parents saving their children.
Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enamelling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
Here Yeats is saying that once he’ll be “out of nature”, aka dead, he’ll never take another bodily form but he’ll become a work of art made of “hammered gold and gold enameling” that will set upon a “golden bough” to sing the past, the present and the future.
I have to tip my hat to Meredith Glynn here because this was awesome. As I’ve said she has used Yeats' poem to talk about parents going to other dimensions and making sacrifices for their children. This is the meaning of the “Golden Bough”.
The “golden bough” refers to an episode in the Aeneid where Aeneas goes into the underworld to meet the shade of his deceased father Anchises. In order to do so this, he must give a gift to Proserpina, the Queen of the Underworld and the gift is the golden bough itself.
I said this was awesome because Aeneas is the son that goes to another dimension to meet his father but in “Byzantium” it's a father and a mother who go to Heaven for their children!!! Which first of all, I think it’s BEAUTIFUL, second of all we have, AGAIN!, a reversal of myths at play here!!!
When I say that Castiel and Jack are exploding myths from the inside I’m not saying it because I’m crazy but that’s because this is what the show was telling me up until a certain point!
If you scratch and scratch and scratch, “Byzantium” is a retelling of the myth of Demeter and Proserpina, the mother going to the underworld to save her daughter (it's waaaay more than this but bear with me or this post'll never end). I mean, isn’t that awesome??? I fucking love it!
I swear I could go on and on (and I will!It's a threat!) but I think it’s high time we left Byzantium…
Goodbye stranger, it's been nice!
I hope I’ve made clear how Jack’s resurrection involved Lily, Cas and Jack himself (although he didn’t have much choice in the matter and that’s regrettable). I have to talk about the Shadow before I let you go of the insanity that is this post. So let’s end it with more insanity, shall we?
O sages standing in God's holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing-masters of my soul. Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.
Now this is where my weirdness potentially shows: here Yeats is talking about his desire to meet the “sages standing in God’s holy fire… and be the singing-masters of [his]soul”. He wants his heart to be consumed and freed from the chains of the material body (“dying animal”) and be gathered “into the artifice of eternity”. Now Yeats, to me, is talking about a sort of transcendental and mystical experiences which, as we all know, have very clear sexual undertones. And, I don’t know, I guess I see these (much darker) undertones in this episodes too? The Shadown is the master of Cas’ “soul”, it owns him, to it “years and eons” (the time of the heart for Cas) are nothing. Now or a billion years from now means nothing to something like the Empty. It wants to take Cas when he’s outside of time, in the moment of “happiness” which is the moment when things “happen” (“the artifice of eternity”), which, in turn, is a moment outside of the deterministic world of SPN.
It’s just like when, in “The Big Empty”, the Shadow tries to seduce Cas and persuade him to go back to sleep because, out there, there's nobody who loves him but here with it? There’ll be peace. Only, this time, the Shadow is pretty pissed and it’s like: I don’t want you now because you don’t want me so I want you to suffer now. Go back, live your life, one year, one thousand, it means NOTHING to me. You’re already mine. No, I want to own you to the point that I’ll come to take you the moment you will be happy, when you’ll be outside of time, I’ll come then and take you away with me. Because you’re mine in time and outside of it. Beyond eternity.
I mean, this is perverse and insane but also very erotic :D And, to be honest, it kinda makes sense because the energy of the “Eros” (not sex, "eros" in the psychoanalytical sense) must be involved in a process so delicate as the resurrection. One needs to want life to go back and make people go back to life, you know? And since we’re talking about resurrecting souls, Psyche if you will, you sort of have to have Eros? The two go together.
So to really sum it up this time: Jack’s first resurrection was another team effort. It required a lot of love as usual and this time it was the parental love for their children that pierced the veil and saved the day. But it also needed a bit of erotic sparkle to ignite it, the final, unseen ingredient of the spell. The Shadow provides this sparkle in a capricious way just like only very ancient cosmic entities can do. However, the price that they’ve all paid is very, very high: Lily’s life, Cas’ happiness and Jack’s soul. It’s a bittersweet victory that announces catastrophe.
Okay, I can’t believe I’ve made it but I’ve made it. If you’ve been with me until the end, I thank you and hug you <3. I hope you enjoyed it!
#I went a little overboard hahaha (keeping on with the metaphors)#I'm just very passionate about resurrection (ihihih another joke!)#I don't know. I think it's a cool theme? And I mean. very genre-related.#i mean. Isis was an ante-litteram Doctor Frankenstein#and Osiris was her Creature#yeah. sure. ofc.context. time and place. culture. etc. but collectively speaking. as in “collective” = western culture#alchemy and hermeticism and all that. that stuff has been circulating for centuries and it still is thank god#myths keep repeating and repeating and changing as well#oh wait a sec. is this the reason why Jack likes zombies?#that kid was BORN to resurrect the dead LOOOL#Okay i'll stop#these tags... i feel like i'm soliloquizing here but people read them#anyway. hope you enjoy this!#supernatural#spn#castiel#sam winchester#dean winchester#jack kline#on resurrection#jack the puer#myths we live by#the shadow spn#spn s14#byzantium#s14e08#meredith glynn
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I FOUND A LITERAL SUPERNATURAL FAN IRL???? I WAS TOO SOCIALLY ANXIOUS TO FREAK OUT IN FRONT OF HER BUT LIKE AAAAAJSHSKHSKSHSKSDLSBWHWGGQAQWJSHWSHHSKSHSOWUIAJAJ
Shes only on s8 and my favourite seasons are ahead but its still so excitinggg like ive never met anyone that was willing to go through 15 seasons for a shitty ending
#supernatural fandom#the cw supernatural#supernatural sam winchester#supernatural dean#supernatural#supernatural destiel#supernatural tv show#supernatural thriller#supernatural cw#supernatural crowley#supernatural characters#supernatural creatures#supernatural chuck#supernatural castiel#supernatural cast#supernatural finale#supernatural entities#spn#spn fandom#spn finale#spn sam winchester#spn dean#spn winchester#spn destiel#spn season 12#spn season 7#spn spoilers#spn crowley#spn castiel#spn rowena
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just finished season 2 of spn. im hooked and I'm so sick from that one jinn ep. I can't handle seeing Dean being so happy and domestic n knowing it's all fake. I'm so sick!!!!!
#when I saw that ep was abt jinns I got spooked ngl#the jinns hit a bit too close to home#I was so scared for Dean n sam#jinns are scaryyyy#way scarier than other creatures in my opinion#bubuslutty talks#spn#supernatural#dean winchester#sam winchester
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First chapter of my “Beautiful Creatures” inspired Destiel AU is up!!
If you haven’t seen the Beautiful Creatures movie (there’s also a book, but I haven’t read it yet) it’s about a boy who falls for a girl from a family full of magical people, but who’s also been cursed with terrible magic if fate decides not in her favor. It’s a super interesting story and I’m really enjoying writing a twist of it in a Destiel AU.
I say twist because while it so far follows the basic plot of Beautiful Creatures, I’m also planning to bring in elements of my own that I was going to use for another fic but decided to combine into this one. So I’m excited for that and hope it’s interesting to read!
The name, “so ready to give up my soul”, comes from the song Drunk In My Mind by Benson Boone, which to me is very Destiel themed.
#destiel#dean winchester#castiel#destiel fanfic#destiel fanfiction#supernatural#spn#sam winchester#charlie bradbury#jo harvelle#Destiel beautiful creatures AU#so ready to give up my soul
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Round 1 poll 12
Propaganda:
Pearlescentmoon (Hermitcraft)
A lot of people draw her as a moth!
Sam Winchester (Supernatural)
he looks human! other than the height. and the Mannerisms. and the demon blood drinking. and the fact that he's Just A Little (really tall) Guy Who Is Some Kind Of Abomination (affectionate). yeah he is a Creature all right
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Some Poison Pie
Rating: Explicit
Word Count: 512
Warnings and Tags: Major character injury, major character death, pie, hallucinations, poison, poor Dean, choking, open ending, whump, background Sabriel because I can't help myself, quick writings
Summary: Written for the @spnfanficpond’s monthly prompt: Pie.
Author Note: Sigh. I can't write nice things right now, poor Dean.
Some Poison Pie
“Sam?” Dean yelled, standing from the fridge and staring at a pie box on the counter. “This yours?”
When no reply came, Dean raised his brows, flicking the box open, wondering when Sam had gotten back and why he hadn't told him about the pie. Dean hadn't remembered anyone bringing it home, but it wasn't uncommon for someone to leave pie for him. He should have probably been more suspicious of it.
Dean sniffed at it before deciding not to question it, there were only a few slices left and if Sam had brought the imp of an archangel back with him, the older hunter knew there wouldn't be any left by the time he asked. He loaded up his plate and found a fork along with some whipped cream before taking the plate to his Dean Cave, intending to enjoy the slice properly.
He let out a groan of comfort when he sat back in his chair and found an episode of Star Trek to watch. Even after the first few bites nothing seemed amiss with it, it was good -sweet syrupy strawberry with flaky crust, it tasted homemade.
As the episode continued, Dean scraped his fork through the last bit of crumbs and syrup, and his eyes narrowed at how dark it seemed to be within the Bunker. His eyes rolled to lights above him, watching them blink and flicker. He swallowed but found that his throat had closed, a lump lodged in his throat.
Something was wrong.
Dean felt his heart beat faster, looking to the hallway at the sound of footsteps. The familiar feeling of adrenaline rushed through Dean's veins at the sound of someone else in the Bunker. His hands clenched as he sat forward, empty plate forgotten and sliding from his lap. The clatter of the breaking plate and fallen fork called his attention away from the odd yet familiar noise echoing around his mind and the bunker.
“Sam?”
His voice was hoarse, gagged against the lump that had grown wider still within his throat. Pain, like a knife carving out his intestines, twisted in his stomach, the sound getting louder while a groan left his lips. His hand went to his stomach, clawing into his shirt, as he tried to keep his eyes on the doorway, the sound getting closer. Sweat clung to his skin while pain paled his brow, trying to sit up more and only managing to fall forward onto the floor.
A cough rasped from him as his throat closed and slicked with bile, lips foaming as he gagged. Dean's body curled, numb fingertips stumbling for his phone. His ears strained, body collapsing and curled into his chair, the familiar sound haunting his mind as a dial tone rang distantly. Dean tried to keep his eyes from closing against the pain that seized his body but couldn't fight it as it overtook him and forced his eyes closed.
“Dean? Hey, we're coming home, thing skipped out on us. Don't eat anything, Gabe thinks it's gonna get angry and mess with us, and it really likes putting its venom in food. Dean, can you hear me? Dean!”
#quick writings#pie prompt#tw death#dean winchester#poison#whump#tw dying#pick your ending#gabe totally snapped there and saved him and Sam killed the creature#or#gabe was low on juice and they got there too late and the creature also got Sam
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