#jackles approves

[sheepstiel]

first day of purcon was pretty successful i think 😄 it was so nice meeting all of you lovely people <3

also thank you sm for the art prints i loved trading art with you guys @fluffsnake @werepires @lamiasage

i also got the jackle stamp of approval for the destiel reunion hug (he didn't show any reaction but i will count his signature haha)

and ofc i got the 2025 @thefriendlypigeon destiel calendar :)

[galateaknife]

This may be a hot take, but imo there are only two (2) pieces of canon bi Dean evidence.

The first piece of evidence is the siren, as their presentation toward their victims is heavily implied (if not outright stated) to be a matter of sexual or romantic attraction more than any other kind of love. We can throw this out as general evidence of bi Dean, though, because the siren’s presentation is canonically, explicitly, and 100% unambiguously a substitute for Dean’s little brother. Either we can take this as a case where the lore was wrong and sirens are not always about sexually/romantically attracting their victims and it would be possible for a siren to, say, appear as someone who could fill the role of a deceased child to a perfectly normal bereaved parent… or we can take this as (further) evidence that Dean’s relationship with Sam is deeply weird and has some wires crossed or otherwise defies categorization. And I think that you can have different readings of the siren in that sense. The argument that the siren is evidence that Dean is sometimes sexually into dudes other than Sam is really weak, to me.

The second piece of evidence for bi Dean is the way Dean looks at men. And, look, kudos to jackles for managing to give a character as superficially cocky and defiant as Dean a very obvious bottomless desire for the approval of (mostly older, mostly male) people, but I think his pretty face makes viewers want to see the people-pleasing and visible daddy issues as evidence of attraction when they really aren’t.

(Having difficulty writing that sentence in a way that is more easily parsed. Lmk if I should try again.)

[pearlzier]

told my mom i’m gonna come home with a old guy one day and she gave me a nod of approval 🤞

she told me if i come with someone that looks like jackles she’ll be happy 😭😭😭

ABSOLUTE WIN UR MOMS SO REAL FOR THAT LMFAOOO <3

[weirdestcornelius]

iy is me sickknotdoom (i always struggle to write tyat name) i wanna seay i 100% approve of jackles & i love rin because its like the vocaloid 🖤🖤🖤🖤 making the kinnie playlist it just has daughter of evil a million times 🖤 — 🦇🩸🦷🖤🔪🍷idkwhay my anln emoji shit shoud be

Jackles is spreading to the other critic blogs this is amazing.

Can't believe Jackles got the sickknotdoom blessing. . .

[mlobsters]

supernatural s13e2 the rising son (w. eugenie ross-leming, brad buckner)

kind of pissy and upset that crowley is actually dead-dead and it was such a weird anticlimactic sendoff that i didn't even realize it while watching. so seeing his dumb little topside throne room i'm getting all weird and protective over it being his space.

sure felt like a problem behind the scenes and i was avoiding looking it up and well, this is wholly unsurprising

via screenrant

Not long after the Supernatural Crowley death, there was a moment on X (formerly known as Twitter) in which executive producer Jim Michaels hinted that Crowley and Mark A. Sheppard might not be done with the series for good. However, Sheppard responded by accusing Michaels of intentionally misleading fans and stated bluntly there were no plans for him to come back at any juncture.

oof, and the nycc comments summarized by looper

"Once they decided they needed to do something different [with the direction of the show], they tried to get rid of me without telling me that they were going to get rid of me," Sheppard revealed during a solo panel at 2018's New York Comic Con. Never one to mince words, Sheppard expressed his disappointment with his demise on the show, continuing, "I'd gone from being the smartest character on the show to being the dumbest character on the show in two seasons. They ran out of what to do." Needless to say, he did not leave the show on the best of terms.

oof x2

asmodeus, great, sure ok. now he said it the way i thought it was pronounced originally (asmo-DAYus). and then on the magicians, they pronounced it asMO-deeus. i believe they're all accepted pronunciations?

the magicians s1e10 homecoming

the white suit and the thick accent and the speechifying, it's giving confederate general slash colonel sanders vibes. the foghorn leghorn knives out treatment. also feels like he's doing an impression of someone. i keep thinking mcconnaughey but i don't know why, different accent

eyes rolling into the back of my head

i didn't think the show could get bad enough that i wouldn't be able to finish watching, because i have such a strong attachment to sam and dean... but i feel like that they might be proving me wrong

DEAN You can slow down, you know. That’s stuff’s not gonna disappear. SAM Ever seen you eat, Dean?

seriously. one of my least favorite character traits

that interaction was cute, mainly because jackles seemed way more... i dunno. relaxed? and that little small expression to sam where he widens his eyes to jack getting what teleport is, just feels really natural. also his voice seems slightly different? more like jensen's actual voice dropped a little instead of putting on the voice for dean. less raspy, more resonant and rounded sounding but still deep. well and likely that's been happening and i just didn't notice or they're doing the audio differently

wheezing over the perspective of this making sam look like gandalf with the hobbits on the couch

speaking of resonant voices, donatello the new prophet that i 90% forgot about

JACK Is that why Dean hates me? SAM Dean doesn’t hate you. It… Look, sometimes the wires in Dean’s head get crossed and—and he gets frustrated, and then he mixes frustration with anger, and—and fear. JACK Why would he be afraid? SAM Because Dean feels like it’s his job to protect everyone. And right now, we need to protect you. But we may also need to protect people from you. JACK Maybe I’m not worth all this. SAM Your mom thought you were. So did Cas. So do I.

i'll take sam talking about dean every day of the week but eh. grating on me a bit this thing with sam being calm and reasonable and dean being stubborn, either it has happened a lot in the past couple seasons or i'm being grumpy because i'm unhappy with the show in general

BARTENDER I hated my old man. I ran away myself. See, my mom would never stick up for me. But… (sighs) you know kids. No matter what, they still want the old man’s approval. Well, that’s how it was with me, just… DEAN You know, that’s, uh, that’s how it was with me, too.

frustratingly in-character that dean will dump out his emotional issues to randos. and oh no it was actually the latest bad guy demon

so whatever fic i read that i thought was about purgatory i'm wondering if it was in this hell-au/apocalypse world because this is more like what i was expecting from purgatory. gray and dirt

sitting down to talk through their disagreement in obnoxious slatted light

SAM Point is… if you and I are gonna do this, keep Jack on the right side of things, then—then we have to be on the same page. DEAN Okay. Well, that’s the problem, though, Sam, ‘cause we’re not on the same page. Like, at all. SAM All right. You know what? I know what’s going on here. DEAN Oh. Okay. Well, please, tell me, what’s going on here? SAM You thinking Mom is gone and Cas is gone, and that Jack can’t be saved. Dean, after everything we’ve gone through… We just lost people we love, people who have been in our lives for a long time. Everything’s upside-down. I get it. But we’ve been down before. I mean, rock bottom. And we find a way. We fix it because that’s what we do. And Jack w—wants to do the right thing. Jack’s scared to death of who he is, and he’s scared of you.

very rousing speech, sammy. i'm not feeling it but sure

listen. this is the most ridiculous plot choice. 1) we need to protect jack and take him to the bunker because angels/demons/etc all want him, tried to get him warded via tattoo 2) not-hunter donatello shows up so hey, jack can stay with him because things got tense yesterday. he doesn't need that close of protection that we should tolerate unnecessary tension. 3) oh no. general colonel sanders has found him and now he's gone ;( big sad face

who choreographed this fight scene??? laughing and distressed. stunt person getting some up close and personal time with jackles's (or his stunt double's) crotch/ass

often wondered why they never throw the angel blades, since they're dime a dozen these days. can't have anything too op though right, why they had to melt down the colt. also sam's hair seems to be sort of reverting more to that... s10? styled-ish bob thing

foley of the outside sounds is very nice and interesting location at least

the monsters crawling out of the pit very slowly was so so cheesy, good grief

every time we check in with mary and lucifer i'm wondering how she's not going to die from dehydration. and michael and lucifer are gonna have a little throwdown punchout, sure

SAM These yellow-eyed things just keep on comin’, huh? DEAN Mm—hmm.

how it feels as a viewer too 🥴

this episode had some new angles and lighting and getting a little more creative in shot selection, so that's nice at least. also less music? there's still some score but i think like this sequence not having music is really effective. and hey this guy directed 11x04 baby too

JACK Exactly. What the hell am I? I can’t control… whatever this is. I will hurt someone. DEAN You know, my brother thinks you can be saved. JACK You don’t believe that. DEAN No, I don’t. JACK So… if you’re right? DEAN If I’m right… and it comes to killing you… I’ll be the one to do it.

i'm all for them having a kid, because why not. you know i eat up that domestic bullshit with a spoon. but this very clear setup of a character arc for dean and jack and whatever, just feels very set up.

i keep thinking about how like, if xyz that happened in this episode happened in s4 or something, i think i'd genuinely appreciate it then. but like.. we have been down the same path so many times now, i can't really appreciate the things anymore. i don't want to hate everything, and i'm really trying to come into each episode with limited baggage and appreciate when i can because otherwise i will just give up. this is the only thing i do in the evening after the kids are in bed. if i hate everything about it every day, i'll have to find something else to do sooner rather than later. but i'm also invested in completing it. if i've made it this far.. buh. anyway.

[fellshish]

I watched another episode of cabinet of curiosities and the one where the woman takes all the cream to try and fit in hit kind of hard because I remember in primary and high school I tried so hard to fit in and never did (I don’t talk to anyone from school nowadays and I to quote Misha ‘was cool but the other kids didn’t think so’). I would throw out clothes or shoes that I felt like weren’t ‘popular’ e.g. pink sperry thongs or a colourful jacket from bennetton because people would look at me funny. When ever it was casual clothes day it gave me so much anxiety because I never wanted to go in fear of what people would think. I look back and think why did I worry so much and honestly I should have given my clothes away to charity just because I felt like other people thought id would look weird (one time I wore this jumper and this girl who had a similar jumper on saw mine and she gave me a death stare and then later took it off)

so when I first heard about Misha it really meant a lot to me that he was like all death to normalcy and I want to live in a world where normal is boring. Misha ‘hot mess’ Collins aside, it’s crazy what we go through to try and fit in or impress others when really everyone seems to try and do that. Secondly school is unfortunately not the best place for someone who is ND. I mean I know I should say yeah I’d tell my younger self blah blah but I like Misha Collins maybe not throw deodorant at my younger self but tell her that you’ll always have jackles derangement syndrome (okay joking idk, maybe I’ll go with the deodorant).

No but for real this episode reminded me so much of how I would try to fit into school but never did, and thankfully I never went THAT far in that I lost myself (instead I’d go eat lunch in the bathroom like Cady from mean girls or go sit with my learning enrichment teacher for lunch).

Hey! Thank you for gifting me the gift of telling me all this. I’m glad you stayed true to yourself! I’m glad school days are behind me because it IS hard, and it IS human to want other people’s approval and friendship.

Anyway i think misha collins would totally high five you for being you.

[cockworkangels]

fan fiction truly is such a fascinating episode like you can see the show-fan relationship of the era so so so clearly reflected on it. like in a way it's the show's way to apologise for how they've treated fans and celebrate fan interpretations of the material. but also at the same time they make it very clear that they think the fan interpretations are wrong and they don't support them and make condescending jokes about fan works. but then on the other hand they have sam making lighthearted jokes about sastiel but they also have jensen ackles to break the fourth wall to stare into the camera at the mention of subtext. and to top off all of that they have jackles deliver the final speech about differences of opinion but also about putting "as much sub in that text as possible". But then in the end they the author approve of marie's show. idk it's such a mess of mixed messages like what are you supposed to make out of it

[spnsmile]

Quality (x)

[shittyvalentinecas]

I'm Sorry.

Redbubble

[chaoticwistfulness]

Looks like everyone really did choose jackles in the divorce...

[liamgallaghermpreg]

jackles' microexpressions in this are bEYOND lmao his fucking little lip tremble when the demon tells dean he could exchange himself for his father it is so SAD the way dean is willing to do this for 10 more years with john, just to wait for approval that will never come

ok i didn't have anything super intense to say about s2e7 i'm percolating, but i'm sure whatever it is miss sheila o'malley can say it better. anyhoo, switching my laundry and then we'll be right back with s2e8

[ultfreakme]

I watched the Destiel 15x18 confession scene before I watched the series, and I fell into the mentality of "haha Jensen Ackles was totally being the homophobic straight dude reacting to his gay bff confessing his love AHAHAHA!"

Then I watched the show.

I'm just on season 5 but Jensen Ackles portrayed exactly what Dean would've gone through. That was the most accurate portrayal ever. Those who didn't watch the show wouldn't know who Dean Winchester is. He is selfless, reckless, cares too much but can't express any of his emotions verbally because he is emotionally constipated as fuck and grew up in an environment where he was actively discouraged from speaking about his feelings.

He also has this crippling self-esteem issue where he thinks he deserves nothing good, that he is just there to protect his family and thinks his function as a person is limited to being a weapon and shield for those he cares about. Thing is, everyone around him keeps suffering trying to protect him, so he thinks he can't let anyone care about him because the moment they do, the get hurt or die.

Enter Cas.

Cas, who rebelled and fell from heaven. Cas who gave Dean everything over and over again whether Dean asked or not. Cas, who lost his angelhood for him, killed his own family for him,

and finally,

died for him.

Dean actually saw what could happen to Cas if Cas followed him. In the episode "The End", Dean saw a future where the world was at the hands of Lucifer(long story), the world is post-apocalyptic, god is nowhere and the angels have fled. Cas is the only angel that stayed and because of this, he is not longer an angel, just, fully human.

He still followed Dean, and Cas fell into so many self destructive habits, got so jaded about life, that he died for the post-apocalyptic Dean on a suicide mission.

So Dean knows and witnessed what would happen to Cas and did everything to prevent this future from happening.

Still,

STILL CAS FELL.

He got hurt, over and over and over again.

Now imagine being Dean, imagine having to see your best friend suffer for years on end and thinking you are the cause of it. Thinking that you are the downfall of an angel. And the angel says "I love you", the one thing Dean's wanted to hear all his life, being on the receiving end of such unconditional love, something he's never, ever had.

And it is said at the same time the one giving you that love is going to die, never to be seen again. They are crying, they are going to die and they tell you saying 'I love you' is the happiest they have ever been in their millions of years of existence so what the fuck do you do? What do you do when an entity beyond human comprehension, a divine being who saw the creation of Earth, watched a billion sunsets, countless rainbows and snow flakes, watched clouds swirling in summer skies and roaring with lightning, had seen flowers bloom, butterflies flap their wings, all that and they say you are what made them feel. You are the most beautiful thing they've witnessed. Broken, fallen, terrible you. Still beautiful.

What can you do, but stand still and watch the final fall of the angel, be so overwhelmed, and you finally get an infinitesimal taste of perceiving this unimaginably large, miraculous, entity. And they tell you all their glory is yours.

The worst part?

You think you took that glory away.

So what the fuck can you say? What the fuck can you do when your best friend decides to subject themselves to an unending, inescapable loop of regret for you, specifically because of their love for you?

What can you do but be numb and cry and beg them to stay? 'Don't do this, don't do this for me of all people.'

And they disappear. Forever. Subject to endless suffering.

What do you do?

[anotherneworld]

Individuals attempting to chastise fans for pointing out the very clear discomfort (I won’t use ‘hate’ because hate requires cultivation, and I don’t think Jensen Ackles wastes any time thinking about your ship until he’s actively confronted with it by people who don’t respect the answers he’s already provided on multiple occasions) Jensen Ackles radiates when people ask him about That Ship during panels by saying that it’s all projection of the fan’s own discomfort have clearly not been in the room with him when it happens and you don’t have to listen to a single thing they say *shrug*

[clairedelune-13]

I want to squeeze him like a little plushie. 🧸💙

[mybrainproblems]

The thing is. It's impressive how BAD the first two Dabb-Loflin eps are and that they're right next to each other when you watch dabbnatural but then you get jump the shark and it's like oh? What happened here? Why did they do two absolutely rancid eps and then one pretty good ep in their first season? Seriously what happened there?

[spnsmile]

When Misha and epic writer Bobo told Jackles the end game for final episode 18