#i guess the point is that it's not about spn

[passengerseatsam]

the bucklemming era is crazy because sam will have like maybe 3 lines in an episode and jared is still there putting his whole pussy into every one. the soft voice and the flinches and overprotectiveness of the side characters he sees as previous versions of himself. how does sam have such a rich inner life because the showrunners definitely didn't do that. jared padalecki was able to build this in a cave with a box of scraps

[autisticandroids]

FAMINE: That's one deep, dark nothing you've got there, Dean.

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dean and his father. dean and his family. dean and how bad it is.

(via @closetoyou1970)

[dreamytfw]

Not liking Cas because he let Sam out of the panic room in s4 and no one ever found out sure is... a choice. For a few of reasons.

a) Cas was under direct orders from Heaven at the time. He hadn't fully rebelled yet. And it was either carry out orders or be killed. Cas really didn't have a choice. And after he'd rebelled in s5, he didn't let Sam out of the panic room

b) Dean said he'd let Sam die in that panic room. He let Sam's hallucinations torture him. The detox Dean tried to do was cruel and inhumane, and can very easily be read as retaliation for Sam "choosing" Ruby over Dean (note: this does not mean it is the ONLY reading. And regardless of if you subscribe to the retaliation reading, the conditions Dean put Sam in were still cruel and inhumane). Hating Cas for letting Sam out of abusive, cruel, and inhumane conditions, but not hating Dean for doing that to Sam in the first place. Hm. Interesting.

c) This is a Doyalist reason rather than a Watsonian one, but it's still worth bringing up imo. From a writing perspective, I'm not sure who else was going to let Sam out. Demons can't open the door, so Ruby or even Lilith aren't options. iirc Dean and Bobby are the only humans that know Sam is in there, and they're not going to let him out because they've convinced themselves this is the right thing to do. Uriel's dead, and Anna's off doing her own thing. There literally was not another character who could have let Sam out. And the writers had to let Sam out to let the plot move forward. Like, if anyone can think of another character that was available, let me know. But just from a writing stand point, I literally cannot think of who else would have been able to let Sam out.

d) Blood freak Sam is extremely hot, so really, we should be thanking Cas for letting him be a feral little guy.

If people want to be mad at Cas, I can't stop them. But hating him for letting Sam out of the panic room in s4 is, imo, one of the dumbest and most inconsistent reasons. Dean was literally torturing Sam to death, but sure, yeah, let's be mad at the guy who was being forced under penalty of death to let Sam out. Like what kind of logic??

[sammygender]

so many people can’t conceptualise emotional neglect as anything other than ‘my parents were cold and distant and never talked about feelings with me’, and this, while being just a general awful problem of course, is also what leads to so much john winchester mischaracterisation. in this essay i will

[crowley-exploder]

It's late thinking hours and im very sleepy but hear me out, occasional possession as a love language

[astralpenguin]

there's nothing like seeing an overwhelmingly bad faith reading of a text to reignite the brainworms you had for it

[incesthemes]

hey girlie it’s me, sam winchesters gay lover, your mootie 🥰🥰🥰 i just wanted to let you know, that your tags on the post about that wincest video are based and i agree with every word, hashtag slay couldn’t agree more i loved reading your essay in those tags heart ❤️

omg thank you!!! i'm basically only capable of talking in essays whether people want me to or not, unfortunately

i just have a lot of feelings on this topic and the whole "canon or not canon" argument is weird to me; the themes are pretty darn clear in supernatural (it is NOT known for its subtlety) so idk man. they don't have to kiss to be canon. and they don't have to have a romantic relationship to be canon either. how many times do they get into relationships with other people only for it to be treated as cheating/betrayal/abandonment, only for them have to give up that relationship in order to reaffirm their devotion to their brother

that's just what the text says. i'm not under any kind of delusion that they have some secret sexual or romantic relationship, but that doesn't change that sam and dean are each other's most important person regardless of that. which is really awesome imo, that romance isn't treated as more important than whatever horrible thing they have with each other, and that they don't have to consummate their relationship with romance/sex in order for it to be the most important one they have

(and of course there's romantic/sexual subtext, like parallels and metaphors and misunderstandings and jokes, but to me that just provides a solid foundation for presenting this relationship between them as the most important even though it's not romantic or sexual—because this language of romance is the only one we know, really, when it comes to writing important relationships between characters. it's the only one we know in our own personal lives, to a large extent. so you use the romance/sexuality to symbolize the actual bond they have. which is so much worse lmao)

anyway i think spn is fairly unique in this way because of how no other relationships can really ever stand parallel to the one they share; even in other shows that center male friendship, romance is allowed to coexist with brotherhood. for sam and dean, it's not, and that becomes a point of tension and conflict and resolution many, many times over the course of the show. so like yeah!!! just because it's not romantic or sexual doesn't mean it's not canon, in the sense that their relationship is the point of the show, and it is the most important relationship they have. they chose each other above all else, every single time. yknow, it's "the epic love story of sam and dean" and all that

[girl-bateman]

How does one get assigned as sam coded / dean coded ? Do I need a doctors note ? A psych evaluation perhaps ?

[sailorsally]

i haven't been on here and idk if it's because my interest in spn has waned or my interest waned because I haven't been on here. anyhow i'm not particularly looking forward to the con and honestly would have sold my tickets if I hadn't booked plane/hotel in advance

[youchangedmedestiel]

I just saw this post talking about Metatron saying Cas is in love with humanity (Dean) and explaining how this is true because Cas loved being human, despite what he has been through he enjoyed having human feelings and I must say that I agree.

Cas wanted to stay human. And I will die on this hill. Maybe I'll die alone there, but this is what I believe.

[cherryblossomclaire]

And the other thing is...it's wild to me when people post script or episode screencaps of a character saying a thing to prove something when there is also canonical dialogue of them saying the opposite thing. Especially for a show where every character is epically repressed and a known liar.

[lesbianjoannaharvelle]

this is too much. just. too much for me to handle

[soullessjack]

every day I remember that this fandom simply does not care about autistic people and, much like every other fucking thing I experience as an autistic person, the concept of it being a collective found family becomes increasingly alien to me. love this place.

[quietwingsinthesky]

Jack resurrecting archangels? Post canon.

First is Michael, partly for the sake of getting a newly resurrected Adam to stop threatening to tear the universe apart to get him back and partly because he was the last killed and easiest to bring back, and in his wake, Raphael soon follows, on his request, and they reunite in what looks like silence to human eyes, foreheads pressed together and eyes shut, but, under the watching gaze of Jack and Amara and Death Itself, is a symphony of love.

Death and Amara are there to supervise the work of the new God-Child, to guide Her nephew and Its new colleague in His power, and together, They bring Gabriel back as well, though he doesn't stay long after that for more than a thank you.

Jack struggles to bring back Lucifer, against His own fear and anger, against the choking hold Chuck once gripped his favorite son with, against the simple and devastatingly complex sequence He must complete to revive Lucifer, until he's standing before Them, pulled from the Empty, and given a chance to be something new without his father's interference.

[starsanddragonflies]

WHAT

[pyrepostings]

Hauntings And Harpists: Prologue

When Kevin died, he didn't become nothingness like how he expected to. He also didn't find himself in what anyone would call heaven or hell. It felt as if at the moment of death his atoms were scattered in an array, then eventually reformed.

The first thing he remembered as a ghost was the bonfire. The funeral pyre.

His funeral pyre.

It was just past dusk and the flames were reaching into the sky as if to grasp the stars and bring them down to earth. Or to guide him up to fly through the heavens, to follow more closely with the speech.

It was a shame he missed the speech for his own funeral. It was quite the eloquent monologue. He had given it once, a long time ago, for a dear friend who fell far to young.

The crowd eventually dispersed, and Kevin tried halfheartedly to get someone's, anyone's attention. He didn't expect results, but he still tried, waving a hand in front of their faces or shouting the best he could around his missing tongue.

It didn't matter that he couldn't make actual words, because no one could hear him anyway. They would just pass through him with a chill. He found very quickly that the only things he could interact with were his clothes and the staff in his hand.

The things he was burned with.

He was in full uniform, flight harness and all, though lacking the actual gear that made flight possible, though that was standard procedure, even if he hadn't given it up to the next young cadet when he could no longer use it anyway.

He was surprised to find his twin knives sheathed into the harness where he always kept them. He thought for sure the practicality of keeping them intact would have out weighed the sentimentality of letting them warp or the emeralds on the handles crack in the flames.

He held one and studied it for a moment. After everything that had happened in his life, he would not have been surprised if they didn't give him a proper funeral. At least, not one that honored him as one of them. But they did. He didn't see the whole affair but he saw what seemed to be every one of his former comrades in attendance. He saw the bucket which would have held the hot coals the arrow would have been lit from and placed on his chest to spread the fire along the oiled harness across his body, consuming him as a proud fallen soldier of Paradis.

He saw as one of the new generation of bards slung their guitar across their back and walked away with the rest. He wished he knew what song they played as the flames roared up.

The copper green flames, which was a nice touch. It was a joke he said once a long time ago, he was surprised anyone remembered.

He watched the flames die down properly, and soon there were only a few living souls in sight. Julian, at the front, with Quinn and Rynn at his sides. He wondered what Quinn, specifically, would do now. Now that he didn't have a parolee to keep an eye on. Perhaps his secondary assignment as ambassador would be formally named his primary one?

Kevin didn't know what would happen to him next, if this state as a ghost was temporary or his eternal curse. But he figured he could sheath his knife, take up his walking stick, and stand by the dwindling fire with his three closest living friends.

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