#dean's not leaving calling it

[ginger-grimm]

YOU CAN'T TAKE CHICAGO MED AWAY FROM ME FOR TIL JANUARY. NOT WHEN IT'S MY LIFE RIGHT NOW. AHHHHH.

[wigglebox]

Supernatural September - Day 4 | Glitch

Canonically, Dean never said Cas’ name after the fake phone call in 15.19. Canonically, while Bobby said Cas “Helped” revamp Heaven into a Heaven that Dean “deserved,” Cas never showed up. Canonically, Dean left that heaven, which contained his family, to go “find family.”

There is a glitch that is Cas-shaped, and Dean knows it.

[kerryweaverlesbian]

After they get together Cas’s answerphone message gets changed to Dean saying "this is Cas’s phone. He can't make it to the phone because he's too busy having hot sex with his sexy boyfriend" and then there's laughter and sounds of a scuffle and Cas’s voice says "How do I change it-" BEEP

[flowersintheimpala69]

Love how some dean stans will say “sam was selfish for leaving his family to go to college!” and “john is abusive” in the same breath. Like.

[artemis-73]

Suptober Day 15: Sigils

By the time Dean gets back to the hospital, Mary is sitting up and begging her parents for a pudding cup. Her skin looks less sallow, her eye bags less pronounced. Dean knows that Castiel made good on his deal. The test results that come in over the next three days prove it. By the end of the week, Mary's back home.

Everyone says it's a miracle. A gift from God.

If Dean sends a thanks to Castiel through prayer, he's the only one who has to know. He's not even sure if demons can hear prayers.

Then with that uncanny itch under his skin that tells him the crossroads won't be the last time he sees the demon, he gets to researching. He knows he can't waylay his debt. In ten years, he'll die. But before that, he needs to keep the demon away from him and his family. Kansas State University's library has a small collection of scans of old religious texts. Some of them have pages of sigils they claim will keep all manner of creatures away.

He paints them behind the pictures that hang on his walls and carves them into the window sills. He puts a devil's trap under the welcome mat. He even gets a tattoo of the symbol that claims to ward against possession. It's small and hidden on his hip. He almost feels safer with it.

When he comes up for air, he finds Sam and Jess have adjusted to a new normal. Mary doesn't need them as much, and at a sage nine years old, she wants some space. For the first time in years, she has sleepovers with friends and gets to go on field trips. It takes almost six months for her to demand a weekend at Uncle Dean's. He doesn't take it personally; for a long time, he was just an extension of her parents, a safe place for her to stay if Sam and Jess were both busy.

Now, she gets to eat too much pizza and stay up past her bedtime. She's on her third slice—impressive for her size—when she blinks big blue eyes up at Dean and says," Thank you, Uncle Dean."

"For what, kiddo?" he asks absentmindedly. He might be a little too invested in Frozen 2.

"For getting the angel to heal me."

His blood runs like ice in his veins. "What angel?"

"Cassie-el." She trips over the name, but she says it like Dean should just know, and he does. He does. "Mommy and Daddy were in the hallway talking to Nurse Layla, and he sat on my bed and said you talked to him all about me and that you loved me so much he wanted to heal me for you. And then he touched my forehead—" She places two greasy fingers above Dean's right eyebrow. "—and I felt all better…except I was hungry."

"Have you seen him since the hospital?"

"No," she says around a mouthful of pizza. Then she turns back to the TV, like she didn't just send Dean's world reeling. He wrangles her into a crushing embrace that she whines and wiggles her way out of.

She doesn't say another word about it, and he can't bring himself to push, so he sits staring at the TV but not seeing a damn thing. She's half asleep by the time the movie ends, and it takes some convincing to get her to brush her teeth and wash her face, but finally, he tucks her into bed in the guest room.

With his mind still a 100 miles away at a crossroads in the middle of nowhere, he cleans up the living room. He's straightening the pillows on the couch when he feels it. He's not alone.

"Next time you start messing with sigils, make sure the scan is high enough quality to get all the details right."

Castiel is standing by the window, tracing one of the carvings with his finger. He looks the same: rumpled over-sized suit and sex hair.

"What are you doing here?" Dean asks. He angles himself so he's between Castiel and the hallway that leads to the guest room.

Castiel watches him shuffle across the room with what Dean thinks might be amusement. "I won't bother her. She's not who I'm here to see."

"Well, forgive me for being a little suspicious. First time she's spending the night, and suddenly you show up?"

"Oh, that's a coincidence. Our schedules just happened to line up."

Dean's not sure how he knows the demon's lying, but he feels it in his gut. And when Castiel's eyes dart around the room, he almost think it's not malicious.

"What do you want, Castiel?"

"A new boss, a branch transfer, some reprieve from the paper pushing…" He slips the tie from around his neck and crumples it in one pocket. As he undoes the top two buttons on his shirt, he says, "But I'd settle for a beer."

Dean weighs his options—he doesn't have many—and considers the time. He'd just be sitting up alone anyway.

"Fine. One beer. Then you leave."

Castiel ignores him, opting instead to start rooting through his movie collection. Dean leaves him to it. He grabs a couple of beers as quickly as he can. He's not a complete idiot; he's still wary of leaving the demon alone in his home, especially with Mary.

"You can stop worrying about her," Castiel says as he takes the offered beer. "I'm not going to hurt her. Or you, but you seem strangely unconcerned about that part."

"Forgive me for not believing a demon."

"I haven't lied to you yet."

"That I know of."

In a surprisingly human gesture, Castiel rolls his eyes. "You humans are so suspicious."

"You did short my dad eight years."

"I didn't lie to him for that. I told him if he wanted more, he needed to give more, and he agreed gladly… Or as gladly as I imagine he did anything. He was a miserable asshole, wasn't he?"

Dean grits his teeth. "Don't talk about my dad like that."

"You know, when John Winchester's son summoned me, I thought I knew exactly what kind of man I'd find. You are nothing like him. It's almost a shame to only give you ten years."

"Hey, if you want to give me more, I won't complain." Dean's voice wobbles strangely. He doesn't like the way Castiel almost sounds fond of him.

"Sadly, I can take more years, but I can't give them." Castiel actually seems disappointed. He shakes himself. "Let me fix the sigils."

"What, you trying to keep yourself out?"

The way Castiel looks at him makes him feel like a baby bird staring up at a hawk. "None of these will bother me," Castiel says finally. "Besides, there are things far worse for you out there."

Dean watches as Castiel fixes all the sigils he'd put up. He even does the ones in the guest room, and Mary doesn't so much as twitch in her sleep while he does. He adds some more and ignores Dean's questions about what they're warding against.

They're back in the living room, and memories of their first meeting are nipping at his heels when Dean says, "Thank you, by the way. For…you know."

"For Mary? No thanks needed. You did sell your soul for her. Besides, I heard your prayer."

"Oh. I wasn't sure if you would."

Castiel smiles then ducks his head to try to hide it. "Yes, well, I did." He fiddles with his half-empty beer bottle.

When they'd first met, in the middle of the night at a crossroads, Dean had known Castiel's eyes were blue. But now, standing in his living room with the lamp beside the couch on, he can appreciate the exact shade, like a summer day when the sun's just hot enough to bleach the sky a lighter blue.

He practically leaps backwards. He's not sure when or how they ended up so close to each other in the middle of the room. He pretends to study the sigils on the windowsill—the same one Castiel had been tracing not an hour before, he realizes belatedly. He can feel Castiel behind him. He knows that Castiel has gone back to looking at his movie collection. He closes his eyes and starts counting down from ten. When he gets to one, he'll kick Castiel out.

He gets to five when Castiel asks, "Is this any good?"

Dean turns to find him holding up a copy of Tombstone. He can't help but scoff. "Is it any good? It's one of the greatest Westerns ever made, man."

Castiel hums thoughtfully and goes back to studying the cover. And the thing is, it shouldn't matter. The demon can watch an old Western on his own time in his own cozy little corner of hell.

But.

But Dean loves showing people Tombstone, and he's never gonna say no to a rewatch. They sit on either end of the couch and burn through an entire six pack before the posse is even formed. Castiel's focus never wavers from the screen. It's like he's expecting there to be an exam at the end of it. Dean's pretty sure he spends more time watching Castiel than the movie.

He nods off before Doc kills Ringo. The last thing he remembers is Castiel taking the beer bottle from his hand. He wakes up the next morning in his bed with a glass of water on his nightstand.

[demons-i-get]

WAIT BIG BRAINED THOUGHT:

Sam does smth stupid hoping Dean won't find out.

Someone rats Sam out to Dean.

Sam gets in trouble and a lecture from Dean (bc Dean is a parent and he is Sam's parent I will not accept criticism on this matter).

Later, Sam makes a group chat consisting of everyone who could have told on him to Dean and just sends this video:

[quietwingsinthesky]

millie picking up lucifer’s body language because his body remembers how lucifer wore it vs lucifer stuck with millie’s potty mouth because millie’s stream of consciousness is mostly fuckfuckshitfuckdickassfuckballs.

[clairenatural]

so sorry but it does throw me off when i see cas calling dean "baby"

[ardentpoop]

u have to understand that part of my contradictory tangle of feelings abt dean comes from my sheer suffocating inability to sympathize with american soldier characters/narratives after having decades of islamophobic & anti-arab pro-military propaganda shoved down my throat as a young muslim american and watching my non-muslim peers uncritically eat it up provided the writing was compelling enough.

like this is not a transcendent character by any stretch of the imagination from where im sitting. it is an extremely common archetype in american media you just happen to especially like this one bc he's [checks notes] hot. and [checks notes again] charming.

[blacknidstang]

Alright i usually don't wanna bitch about canon when we all know the train was off the tracks since s7 but i think one thing i very very personally can't forgive is how they dealt with Sam's broken wall. The conclusion to that arc rather with Cas just magically reappearing and just, taken it aaaaaalll away. It was such a cheap lazy way of dealing with actual consequence of everything Cas did and in my opinion, even a disservice to his character. Because he becomes so weak and miserable that you can't be mad at him for whatever he did instead of actually facing it. Late seasons make Dean more begrudging toward Cas but it doesn't feel earned since the drama itself just... Doesn't land. It doesn't hold the weight Sam's hallucinations in s7. But Cas breaking Sam's wall and almost killing him???? Then ruining his life and sanity??? None of that actually brought up the emotional response toward Cas from other characters in any deserved way. Hell Sam himself saw Cas in s7 and was like "omg cass??? 🥺💕" Because Cas was dead and he looked so tragic upon return and swooped in to fix Sam with zero build up for his sacrifice so it's all good and he is redeemed. Like god that was such terrible terrinle way of closing that arc and i don't think i ever fully forgive spn for this and I needed to get it off my chest.

For me it all would get fixed if Cas didn't just take away all that damage from Sam. If Cas really couldn't do a single thing and the show had to give characters something to work through.

[theheartchoice]

[fandomtrashhh]

Ben Edlund has a Twitter account and someone tagged him in a tweet about 5.10 "Abandon All Hope" as one of the most emotional episodes of SPN and he replied to it and expressed how sad it made him while he wrote it.

Now that we know he responds...who's going to be the one to ask him what the FUCK he was doing when he was writing Dean and Cas interactions or like any scene where Dean is interacting with another dude. Who's gonna take one for the team.

[lakemichigans]

this is the stupidest fucking line in supernatural history. dean tries to kill himself every 2 - 3 business days, what the hell does he mean “i have never been that damn low” ... your brother had to literally restrain you to keep you from killing yourself once

[python-string]

There's something in finally being out of a situation and realizing WOW I WAS GROOMED FROM THE TIME I WAS 15 BY THEM AND THEY'RE STILL MAKING THEMSELF OUT TO BE A VICTIM that really sucks. Like, thanks for the fun stories, I guess.

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'Tim Walz is Kamala Harris' running mate.' to Cas' 'I love you'. /End ID]

This is according to a source that told CNN, he has not been formally called by Harris yet. CNN link

EDIT: It is now official!

Tim Walz is the one who started the tactic of calling Republicans 'weird', by the way.

Tim Walz is in his second term as the Minnesota governor. He is 60 years old and a former high school teacher.

Memorable information (click the text for its source)

Walz is "a champion of Democratic causes, including union organizing, workers’ rights and a $15-an-hour minimum wage."

eliminated nearly all of Minnesota's abortion restrictions

protected gender-affirming care for transgender youth

legalized the recreational use of marijuana

"free school meals to children, free tuition at public colleges for students whose families earn less than $80,000 a year, a paid family and medical leave program, health insurance regardless of immigration status, gun violence prevention, abortion rights protections, voting rights expansion and more"

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