#ik i've talked abt black sailsnatural but literally sam and max..........your heaven is someone else's thanksgiving....that is what home

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there's smth really interesting abt how much ppl like to talk abt dean and cas and destiel trying to "escape the narrative" when that's kind of sam's whole thing but because he does it in a way that contradicts dean and dean doesn't like, he's wrong for it. like at his core, he is constantly striving for safety away from the violent environment he grew up in but that doesn't mean he's seeking to better the world or even his family. he wants to leave. he constantly wants to leave, it's a reoccurring action of his. when he gets the opportunity, he leaves.

and like yeah the show's moral framework affects this bc it insists that embracing hunting is making the world better bc hunting makes everyone safer so that just makes sam's desire to escape worse by the show's standards bc not only is he trying to leave hunting, leaving hunting means he stops making the world better. but if we don't accept that, his desire to just get out is just not something that's fun to root for because domesticity and suburbia are something for other people, heroes shouldn't exist there, they should be doing something. and so people want him to either accept the show's (and dean's) perspective that hunting is the "better" or do something to change the structure of their family and hunting in general. and the thing is that he does try but because it's antithetical to the show's party line he's not actually allowed to do it and his attempts are framed as wrong, misguided, overbearing, etc. and dropped to get him back on dean's side, enabling and participating in the same violence as everyone else.