#doing any sort of analysis. but WHATEVERRRR

[francisforever2014]

you have to do a lot to make me actually complete course surveys and log into rate my professor but this fucking professor is actually the worst teacher i’ve ever had 😭 enjoy your 2 on rate my professor (i know this does nothing 💔)

[autisticandroids]

(1)supernatural tma au takes that i want to share w you cus i was thinking about it cus of consumehimnatural and also i want your thoughts in case you have good insights or disagree or whateverrrr: the obvious thing would be to suggest that all major character serve the hunt (insatiable violent stalking of prey, no rest, relinquishing control over to base instincts) but also Cas, Sam, and Dean are extremely distinct and their fears and desires are therefore most interesting when subdivided into

(2) different camps. my hot take- Cas initially serves The Web (fate, predetermination, no free will, sinister intricate plots) and defects to The Corruption (love, consumption, self sacrifice, sublimation of the self to a greater whole, bees bees bees). It’s that classic Cas thing of like trading overt authoritarianism for a new master that he has chosen but is ultimately similarly controlling- one that is eating away at his core from the inside. Cas’s greatest wish is to consume and in turn be

(3) consumed- Sooooo Corruption. Also the very touch of you yadda yadda- and all that language and framing once cas falls that focuses on Cas as a dirty thing, a sullied thing. Sam serves The Stranger i think (the uncanny, those guys who replace you and no one notices)? There’s a really strong focus in his character about like the need for bodily autonomy, for assertion of the self, and his backstory yields a great deal of paranoia regarding how much of his Self is Him Really, which is great for

(4) The Stranger. Like Sam’s greatest fears align with this sense of a Self that is Not Himself whether that’s Lucifer or just something intrinsically unclean in him. It’s his greatest fear but crucially it’s something he is drawn to- this desire to cut loose and be that Other Self (bloodfreak!!!!) also ultimately he caves to the pressure from Dean to give up all sense of self- but rather than allowing himself to like be totally consumed by his relationship with dean by way of removing all sense

(5)personal distinction between himself and dean, Sam puts up a mask of acquiescence that he lets his true self wither behind. Stranger! And I feel like if any of them served The Hunt it would be Dean but really i think he serves The Buried (being trapped, claustrophobia) because to me his greatest fears and miseries seem to center on this sense that everything is another weight he must take on, which is crushing him. He has split his possible futures into “Hunting” and “Apple Pie, Picket Fence"

(6)and no matter where he falls he invariably feels trapped there. Also he is extremely controlling and abusive (don’t worry i love dean, this isnt hate, just an accurate statement) and he sort of draws ppl into his orbit and traps them in their lives with him. Also this bears out since 1. He was buried alive 2. The endgame for all his toxic relationships is to envelop him in a literal underground bunker and 3. He’s afraid of heights/airplanes aka the vast aka the polar opposite of the buried!

ok yes sorry that was all of it, i just have a lot of thoughts that ur thoughts have spurred in me, i hope this tma spn meta wasn't too out of the blue! love your writing, Your Mind is so Very Very. The most very!!!

this is a very insightful analysis, especially re: sam. i wish i had stronger opinions about the tma powers to agree or disagree in a strongly felt way. i do agree about cas and the corruption, though. i love thinking about cas in the context of tma the corruption, because cas is like. well. Top Ten Little Fictional Dudes Who Would Just Love To Be Eaten Alive By A Swarm Of Maggots That Love Him.