ok since more of you than I expected are ready to acknowledge that spn’s concept of hunting is racist at its core are you ready to confront sam’s uniquely complex relationship with hunting as someone who is both Hunter and Hunted. as the second half of the notorious winchesters, expert monster-killers and world-enders, he “belongs” to the same oppressive group that dean and the other hunters belong to. however he is also decidedly on the fringes of that group for significant chunks of the story no matter how well he’s convinced himself that he’s assimilated. boy with the demon blood, abomination, freak monster vampire, grenade that’s abt to go off, if I didn’t know you I’d wanna hunt you, etc etc etc.
sometimes I’ll see people be like “so silly that the show completely dropped sam’s psychic powers” but like it actually makes perfect sense that he could never bear to use them ever again, or otherwise broadcast any further signs of him being a Freak - god knows he’s got enough going on w/ his fucked up body as it is. sam fully leaning into his powers in s4 almost ruined his relationship with dean for good lol from that point on he associates them with SUCH a low point in his life. he’d be absolutely terrified to ever touch them again. sure supernatural abilities are justifiable for their allies/“friends” but not for sam! never for sam. he has to stay inside the lines to avoid tripping dean’s Protective Instincts. can’t make dean need to Save Him again after all!
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It's so interesting to me how Cas treats Sam and Dean so differently. Let me explain:
I just watched Good Intentions (s13e14) and Sam spends a good chunk of the episode walking around with a giant bruise on his face from when Donatello attacked him. And Cas never offers to heal him. He is perfectly capable of doing so, but not once does he even try.
And yet, the literal second Donatello tries to hurt Dean? Oh it's over. There's murder in his eyes. And then five minutes later Donatello is comatose and brain dead.
In other episodes when Dean's hurt, Cas is always so quick to heal him or offer to. Dean winces in pain once and Cas is like oh no what's wrong let me fix it :(
This is of course not to say that Cas doesn't heal Sam when he needs it. But sometimes he doesn't heal Sam unless Dean asks him to. Cas cares for Sam and he does love him, it's just a very very different kind of love.
It just goes to show how Dean was the one Cas fell from Heaven for. Dean is the one he sacrificed it all for.
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“They’re dead, and it’s all my fault.” The words sounded hollow, but he didn’t think anyone could blame him for that. After all, the hunt went south because of him. People got hurt, got killed, because of him. Because Sam got scared and froze, like a baby. It didn’t even matter that he got hurt too—that’s what he deserved, wasn’t it? A fitting sort of punishment for a screw-up like that.
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Where do you fall on the Supernatural Kinsey scale?
cop out answer? 4.5.
real answer? 5.
:)
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Can someone thrust Sam into fatherhood. Dean always gets the sad lost kids to impact positively, how about we let Sam in on some of that action pleeeease
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I saw your post about Free to Be You And Me, and had to stop and blink for like thirty straight seconds, because I could not for the life of me even remember what Dean was doing in that episode. That was the episode with hunters and Lucifer all stalking Sam! That was the Lucifer showing up as Jess and appealing to all of Sam's guilt episode! It was the Sam spitting out demon blood episode! It was the talk about addiction with a stranger in the middle of nowhere episode! Who watches that and thinks about anything other than Sam?!
Real and true anon, real and true. I said in the original tags that you couldn't pay me to have to remember/think about the non Sam portions of the episode lol.
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daily dean quote #121/366:
“cas, you’re alive?”
- season 5, episode 22, swan song
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