#one of the admin’s names is destiel and every now and then someone will say this isn’t destiel so I’ll go I know it’s the admin

[midsummersmorn]

I can’t deal with people on the page I admin on rn they really don’t use any of their brain cells 😭

[durenjtmusings]

12.10 Fan Appreciation post

Annnd here I am again, providing a recap of @elizabethrobertajones  wonderful

12x10 watching notes

While last time it was because her notes just tickled the life out of me, this time it is because I read her meta AFTER so may others - and I think she managed to capture almost all of the things so many of us are saying about this last episode. So this time it isn’t so much all the “funny bits”  - although those are in there too - but because reading through her highlights nicely aggregates what I’m seeing as almost everyone’s responses to the show. THIS time, I’m using her play by play to add all MY meta about watching, and appreciating, the fandom...appreciating this episode.

Read on for my play by play fandom meta of @elizabethrobertajones play by play of SPN 12.10 (warning metric 1/4 ton of spoilers).

{Again, my comments are bracketed in and in italics}

Weirdly specific but excellent trope: immortal black ladies who have terrible impulse control around arcades. I’m going to be so sad when Lily kills her. {STOP WRITING COOL, POWERFUL WOC AND THEN KILLING THEM OFF}

[kind of sad we already know she’s called Lily because even though Lily Sunder is an incredible name, I wanted to call her Eyepatch Lady and I don’t have to] {We all really liked Lily and the eyepatch was doing it for us and CHARLIE IN THE VIDEO GAME OMG the parallels}

I don’t like this new trend of Sam and Dean actually communicating and talking about their shit. This is awful. Can we go back to them not talking about anything? {SPN fandom culture shock - actual normal/healthy communication. We struggle to cope, but are LOVING the struggle.}

Dean is going to CRASH THE CAR. Sam’s breaking point is Dean literally rotating 180 degrees in his seat to talk back at Cas. :P {OMG this moment had us ALL arm flailing - CAS sass made Dean forget Baby! Cas is more important to Dean than BABY! *panic*}

Aaand the info about Benjamin and his vessel has officially murdered me, especially as he’s already dead. :< Angel/human friendships! *flails emotionally* *flops over and slowly slides off my chair* *resumes watching from the floor because of Cas staring at Benjamin’s wings* {”Friends” - OMG the Destiel meta exploded...more arm flailing}

“If I plan to do anything else stupid, I’ll let you know” - I honestly did not think it was possible to love Cas more than I already did but he keeps on proving me wrong. {Cas sass. At. Dean. It was a thing this episode. A thing of beauty.}

Cas is catching up on what feels like a 3 year backlog of angry squinting {LOLOLOLOL - I didn’t realize this until she pointed it out. But oh yeah, squinting sass.}

Ahahaha Sam no. (Please keep Sam-ing like this. You are the Sam I love so very much :P) {So done Sam was so done repeatedly in this episode. LOTS of Sam as 3rd wheel/peacemaker commentary from all of us.}

“My friends who don’t listen very well” *Dean smirks at Cas* Okay, but I’m taking a screencap of that to use as like, a phone background or something. {OMG that smirk, and the three-men-on-a-bench scene overall...collective sigh and massive giffing.}

Well, home will still be very snarky and passive aggressive when he lives there but at least it will feel like HIS snarky passive-aggressive hunter-filled home. {I LOVE this description of the bunker. And we all cheered Cas clearly sticking around in the bunker - despite the PA fighting with Dean.}

Not surprisingly, Ishim then gets attacked and lightly stabbed. (that was a pun. Because angels bleed light - I’ll show myself out) {no, no, I LIKE puns...don’t stop}

idk how the casting went for this but it was probably “can you do Cas’s Eyebrow” {LOLOL  Lots of love for this actress and the wardrobe dept.’s decisions.}

Ishim just confirmed all the spec that this is a human marrying an angel and I’m contemplating going out to stand in the rain and shriek into the sky {snip}. Rain is great, when you need to shriek :P {Yeah, LOTS of happy meta/speculation over angel marriage in this episode.}

It’s times like this I remember the translation to the angel tablet is just sitting in the bunker in a language Cas can read and I need to go shriek in the rain some more {I KNOW right? I mean who says that nephilim are inherently BAD? Is it even ON the tablet? Or was it just some Admin angel’s stupid human-hating rules?}

I think it’s stopped raining so if I need to shriek I don’t know where to go {pat, pat.}

Sam you fucking third wheel master level dork. He’s been mediating so many fights that even when he’s in the middle of one as a participant he takes on this role :P {This has been a favorite gifset  -  I’ve seen it, and enjoyed it, repeatedly. Oh, and I’m going to use “master-level dork” in conversation as soon as possible.}

*looks around for something to scream into* *picks Mittens’s chat bubble since the sky is not in the right setting* {Poor Mittens - but don’t worry, she can take it; she is a scary fierce Nazghul looking entity (wearing favored hand coverings)}

angel love triangle drama is so tense. {how does that sentence even happen much less make sense - ah, the wonders of the SPN Universe}

Heh, Sam’s being left with Lily and Dean goes to check on Cas. What a wild surprise. {djtmusings fanfic/meta prompt - If SAM had gone to Cas instead, would Isham have threatened to cut HIM out? And would Sam have used the angel sigil? Discuss.}

I did the “AAH OTP INTERACTING” fist pump when Dean rushed over to Cas all urgent and worried, and now Dean’s just… like. Holding Cas. Help. I think I dislocated a finger making frantic handwaving :P - My arm legit really hurts. {Yeah, that was something of a medical epidemic in fandom...}

HOLY CRAP then Dean picks CAS over banishing Ishim when he shows Cas is Dean’s weakness too i ...am probably burning my dinner in the oven {Ditto fandom - although the meal varied around the globe}

LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL BLOODSTAINED SON {Yes. Let’s.}

“I’m not mad I’m worried” Oh man all this stuff in the main text sucks because I deduced this back at the start through clever analysis of their dialogue and now what I can tell from this line is that… Dean is worried about Cas. {Ha, ha, joke’s on you, the writers chose NOT to be subtextual - more OMG actual communicating and we all slid out of our chairs into puddles.}

Can’t believe Dean and Cas are married. {Said every. fan. on. my. dash.}

Bonus - Steve Yocky love  from the fandom: @elizabethrobertajones:  “ tl;dr Yockey owes me dinner “ @grey2510: Kudos to Steve Yockey. Well done, sir. @randomdestielfangirl: And before we proceed, Steve Yockey… Marry me @mittensmorgul: *posts an ask with “ Steve yockey's  writing healed me “ and a Julie Andrews dancing the hills are alive gif with # steve Yockey appreciation blog* @thevioletcaptain: “...it’s clear that character is definitely Yockey’s thing." @dorkilysoulless: I think we can trust Yockey with canon, guys.   @procasdeanating: Thank you, Mr. Yockey, for using that very specific term {Friends} again. @formidablepassion: My dudes, I think…I think Steve Yockey might be a Wincestiel shipper. [With 3 men and bench scene gif] @waywardpsych-o: Petition for Steve Yockey to write every episode of Supernatural from now on until forever. @bbycas: But actually did someone screw up and publish Steve Yockey’s secret fan-fiction as the episode script by accident or @theslaughteredpanda: Can someone find me Steve Yockey, I wanna give him a giantass hug and millions of kisses Thank you, Sir. Thank you …so many. @the-faerie-circle: CAN WE KEEP STEVE YOCKEY FOREVER AND EVER PLEASE AND THANK YOU {and someone said something like “and can someone please tell me who’s been slipping Steve Yockey 20′s because I want in on that action” but I can’t find it now.}