#grendel’s mom’s big sexy knife

[dyllonatorrex-arts]

i’m normal i’m normal i’m normal i’m normal

“You are not a child.”

“I never was.”

i hate hate HATE when fics pose cas as a timid wittle baby who doesn’t know anything about the human world. HE’S THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD AND HAS BEEN OBSERVING EARTH FOR GENERATIONS. sure, he might not understand all the pop culture references, BUT HE’S NOT CLUELESS ABOUT EVERYTHING. STOP BABYING HIS CHARACTER. HE IS MURDEROUS AT POINTS AND CAN KILL W THE FLICK OF HIS WRIST AND WILL COMMAND RESPECT AND PUT DEAN ON HIS KNEES IN AN ALLEYWAY.

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

Listen. The Spn Grendel Rabbit Hole is literally endless. Every time I reread Beowulf I find some new, even more horrific Sam-And-Dean coded bullshit. I have had to maintain IMPOSSIBLE levels of chill in front of my profs/TAs as they say things like "well, another argument for Grendel being human is that the original Old English text of his death scene specifically describes his 'Soul' being pulled to Hell. In this culture, only humans have souls" or "Grendel's Mother's relation to Cain is simultaneously wife, daughter, and unspecified 'Kin', because this culture would have seen her relation to Cain as 'Kinship' first and foremost, with the specifics of 'kinship' being dependent on whether Cain was actually present. As Cain is not present in Beowulf, and implied to be long dead, she reads IN THAT MOMENT as his descendant"

(during that second one I was just standing there totally frozen in place as every part of Dean and John's dynamic flashed before my eyes. When the TA finished explaining I was just like "wow that is. So Interesting and really gives me a lot to think about! Thank you!!!" *Dean Winchester banging on the walls of my brain*)

not even getting into the fact that "Mearc" (the Old English ancestor of our word "Mark") had a broader meaning as a mark/marker/boundary-marker/boundary/border/no-man's-land/liminality/wilderness

...its been 1000 years since we had "The Mark Is A Place" but????? I guess if someone was gonna bring that back it would be "Grendel, mære mearcstapa" (lit: "Grendel, the famed mark-walker") himself

and his mom

and her big sexy knife

i hate hate HATE when fics pose cas as a timid wittle baby who doesn’t know anything about the human world. HE’S THOUSANDS OF YEARS OLD AND HAS BEEN OBSERVING EARTH FOR GENERATIONS. sure, he might not understand all the pop culture references, BUT HE’S NOT CLUELESS ABOUT EVERYTHING. STOP BABYING HIS CHARACTER. HE IS MURDEROUS AT POINTS AND CAN KILL W THE FLICK OF HIS WRIST AND WILL COMMAND RESPECT AND PUT DEAN ON HIS KNEES IN AN ALLEYWAY.