#john's journal

[angelsdean]

the winchester sons + sports: It's about how sports --often baseball in particular-- represent normal. The first thing John says to Dean is if Sam is ready to toss a ball around. Then we see the sports-themed mobile above Sam's crib, specifically featuring baseball objects. John tries to entice Dean to talk and be "normal" again post-Mary with a baseball. Bobby forgoes hunting practice to just play catch with Dean and let him be a normal kid. Twelve year old dean considers joining the baseball team when they finally stick around somewhere for a longer stretch of time. But there are no trophies in John's storage locker from Dean's baseball games. We wonder if he ever joined the team at all. What Dean does find from when he was twelve is his first sawed-off. What represents dean's childhood? a gun. Dean kills someone for the first time when he is twelve. When Adam is twelve John starts visiting him and taking him to baseball games. When Sam is twelve he is on the soccer team. That same year, 1995, Dean is abandoned by John and experiences being a normal kid. He wins the state wrestling championship. Sonny proudly displays the award on his wall nearly two decades later.

[ 1x01, John's Journal, 3x03, 7x10, spn wiki, 4x19, 3x03 outline, 9x07 ]

[journalofawinchester]

Busty Asian Beauties

& Voluptuous Asian Lovelies

I decided to have a go at creating the front and rear covers of the infamous Busty Asian Beauties and the first edition Voluptuous Asian Lovelies adult magazines, featured in Supernatural.

Throughout the 15 seasons, to my knowledge, we see a total of five different magazines for Busty Asian Beauties, and of course the original first edition titled Voluptuous Asian Lovelies.

According to Supernatual.fandom.com here , We first see Busty Asian Beauties in Season 2 episode 15 on the laptop screen and again in Season 3 episode 14.

We first see a magazine in Season 4 episode 1, and again in episode 8. From then on we see another magazine in Season 5 episode 12. Then Season 8 episodes 10, 17 and 22. Following onto Season 9 episodes 4 and 16, then Season 10 episodes 1, 3 and 18 and finally Season 12 episode 18.

I have used Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator and InDesign to create, from scratch, the various front covers we see in the show, not leaving out the original first edition that Dean finds in the bunker. I also re-created the back cover.

For the internal content, I purchased 6 various adult magazines online and then printed the finished covers onto 180gsm glossy photo paper with the printer set to borderless and 'best'. They printed very well and then I glued the covers to the original covers of the magazines. I like how the finished product looks.

If you would like to create your own magazines from the covers or interested in obtaining the front covers, I have just added them to my Etsy shop at JournalofaWinchester here

( https://journalofawinchester.etsy.com )

If you are interested in ordering, the image files will immediately be sent to your email where you can download them. Please only use them for your own personal reasons. Please do not redistribute them as I have spent an awful lot of time on them.

[hdfjsjkj]

happy 45th birthday dean winchester! here's everything john wrote about him on his birthday :)

[angelcasendgame]

Every fucked up excerpt I read from John's journal is haunted with the fact that Dean, Sam, and Mary have read this. Dean and Sam have read that John knows how abusive and neglectful he is. They've read that John's aware of how unfair it is to put everything on Dean's shoulders, they know John doesn't trust Sam, they know John expects Dean to die for Sam anyways, and that he will. And then later, Mary comes back from the dead with her little boys all grown up in a life she tried to escape with John, just to find out how he not only raised them in the life, he also abused and neglected them and justified it in her name

[02x14]

It'll be something like draculadaily

[fandom-hoarder]

hunters are after sam. (this actually happens in john's journal, though sam's a kid at the time.) john orders him to stay out of sight during a new case, but sam rebels, figuring it'll be fine as long as he's not Sam Winchester, Son of John. so he gives himself a new undercover name and maybe crashes a witness interview or a hunter bar or something, but then everyone looks at his familiarity with john and thinks "oh ok dude brought his twink along" and sam CAN'T tell them the truth...

Ooh 👀👀👀

Nobody knows what Sam looks like, or how tall he is for his age, but someone gets suspicious when John marches Sam the last bit of the way to his truck with a hand to the back of Sam's neck.

As a twist, what if John uses the excuse of Sam being his rentboy, because another hunter on the case overhears Sam calling John 'daddy' when John drops him off at the motel. Sam doesn't know, but is so bratty around John in public that it reads as flirting and feeds into the narrative.

Then John has to tell Sam so he doesn't blow their cover, without telling Sam that the other hunters will want to kill him if they sus him out. He tells Sam it's the hunters' grudge against John himself making him cautious; that it's too risky for them to know he's John's son due to John's reputation.

(Eventually they get found out because John tries to send Sam away and finish the hunt alone and gets into trouble -- Dean is conveniently off at Bobby's -- Sam comes after John, and after he saves John from whatever monster of the week, the hunters show up when Sam is all sincerely saying, "Dad, are you okay?" And then John has to shed hunter blood in the name of Sam's safety.)

[singersalvageshop]

john winchester's journal progress: i've gotten almost all of the canon pages done so i'm working on the superwiki ones now :) the newsprint needs to be yellowed but we haven't had much sun where i live for... months lol

[dean-winchesters-adhd]

John's journal for all my autographs tomorrow 💙💚🤎

[thedetailsofspn]

John's Journal. forget exactly what episode this is, but it is the one where Dean gets the mark in S9.

I love how they actually used a handwritten font for the pages and you can tell that the underlining and highlighting was done digitally. My guess is the dirt is a printed effect as well. Super cool.

[angelsdean]

BABYBOY :( also the implication of "i have the days with sammy while dean is learning..." like, so dean has the nights? is what you're saying. baby second grader dean (age 7) has the nights with sammy while john goes out and hunts. john's gotta stay home with sam because his babysitter's off at school. dean refuses to leave for school until john swears he'll take good care of sammy. he's telling their father this, as if it's dean's job to make sure sam is taken care of in his absence. he is 7.

then this passage a year later:

eight years old and "willing to die" to keep sam safe because he's had it "drilled into [him] that sammy is his responsibility." as john literally says, he's eight years old. EIGHT!

[journalofawinchester]

Journal Pins

Pins Post relating to the John Winchester Supernatural Journal

In the journal throughout all 15 seasons of supernatural we see on the inside left that they're are 6 pins and a photo of a young John Winchester pinned to the inside underneath the military pins.

For those interested I wanted to reference what these pins are and where they go in the replica journal.

Here is a screencap, (credit to Fandom.com here)

Here is my journal: (In the right place but need slight reposition after I have resized the flap to be screen accurate and dyed)

So we'll start top to bottom.

The first pin is called the 'US Marines Rifle Expert' Badge/Pin and some information can be found on Wikipedia here

The second pin alongside the right to the first is called the 'US Army Aviation School Fort Rucker' Badge/Pin and some information can be found on Wikipedia here

Then onto the ribbons (first from top left to bottom right)

'Bronze Star Medal' Pin > Info here

'Purple Heart Medal' Pin > Info here

'Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal' Pin > Info here

'Vietnam Service Medal' Pin > Info here

All the ribbons seem to originate from the 1950's except the Vietnam Service Medal which appears to go back to the 1960's.

Young John Winchester Army/Military Photo:

Side note, the metal clip that holds the photo; they're called metal binder clips and can be purchased on Amazon here

In the Pilot first episode, we see two alternative pins.

The first is instead of the 'US Army Aviation School Fort Rucker' Pin, we see the 'Tet Offensive Survivor' pin > Info here

And instead of the 'Vietnam Service Medal' Ribbon Pin, bottom right of the ribbons, we see the 'Combat Action Ribbon' > Info here

The 'Tet Offensive Survivor' Pin with the 'Combat Action Ribbon' Pin only ever seems to appear in the pilot episode where the journal is seen. Every other time we get a glimpse of the journal these two pins are no longer present. Since the show was running for 15 seasons and these two pins were only ever in the first episode, I decided I was going to go with using the 4 ribbons we see throughout the show excluding the pilot.

Screencap:

Credit to Supernatural Wiki here

In terms of where you can purchase these pins varies. If you are in the US they seem to be widely available from what I can see with a simple Google Search. If however you are outside the US like myself, you will find that you can get them on sites like eBay with reasonable prices.

The 'US Marines Rifle Expert' on the other hand is very easy to get in my experience. A Google search landed me with a fair amount of results, and to my surprise, AliExpress who ships worldwide also with free delivery had these available at less than £6 GBP!

Link here

It's also worth noting that if like me you purchase the 'Con*Quest' Journal replica Deluxe Bundle; you'll also get a 'Pin Pack' containing 4 ribbon pins, Rifle Expert Pin and the US Army Aviation School Fort Rucker pin...However, all the pins/ribbons are different from that seen on the show.

Picture reference of the Pin/Bage Pack: (Credit Con*Quest)

You can see that the Rifle Expert pin is two-tone with Gold and Silver and has 'EXPERT RIFLEMAN' at the top opposed to 'RIFLE EXPERT' and all silver.

The US Army Aviation School Fort Rucker pin has black shading and surround opposed to gold outline.

The top pin relating to Purple Heart has 2 white stripes either side opposed to the single white line either side.

The Vietnam Service Medal pin has 5 red stripes opposed to three.

The Bronze Star Medal pin has an extra 2 white stripes either side.

The Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal pin has an extra 2 navy stripes either side.

Not huge differences compared to 'screen accuracy' but worth pointing out.

[walk-to-gallows]

"They will not lose what I have lost"

[arthursfuckinghat]

"Saw a deer today, it stopped right in front of me.

Maybe it was a trick of the light or the way it moved,

But for a moment, I swear it was you.

I won't say I miss you, I've said that too many times,

But you're still my brother.

My brother under the same endless sky."

[seasononesam]

You think this shrink stuff is a load of crap. Am I right?

[bluegiragi]

honoured to share a preview of the piece I made for the @soapjournalzine in a fic/art collaboration with prettyunhinged - we brought our best and fluffiest A-game on this one!

You can pre-order the zine here (proceeds will be donated to Doctors without Borders).