#s12 liveblog

[normalbrothershow]

fellas...

[ardentpoop]

people keep underestimating how fucking unhinged they are when they're together

[liamgallaghermpreg]

ok. what is with this showing being afraid to say that sam is a vegetarian out loud

[kerryweaverlesbian]

What happened to Rowena where is she at the moment....I miss her....they're doing magic she should be here....

[weaksspot]

I have been enjoying your live blogs immensely even though i myself don't have enough context for late late seasons. Since you've been going through it recently, I am curious to know how you view early s13 episodes that get called "widower arc" by d/c shippers. They really bring it as the proof that Dean CANNOT live without Cas, while he can move on from Sam but now that I'm reaching there, I'm a bit confused 'cause Dean lost more than just Cas at end of s12? I would love to know your thoughts on this part of the show because I still get a bit of anxiety about watching any further...

hello beloved anon omg i'm so pleased someone is getting something out of my liveblogging <3 haha. sorry it took me a little while to get to this - it feels like actually forever since i watched 12/13 and i'll admit right now that i was not watching them with my full focus. so take that into consideration haha

but okay i would not worry about watching further. the show does not suddenly become a destiel fest in late late seasons - if anything i feel like it's this strange combination of "ah shit we should do something with castiel" and "we can't actually think of anything to do with castiel" so he's THERE, but like, irregularly. and while NOW, in 15 (maybe also late 14? they blur) there is starting to be some "ok they're setting up for cass to have confirmed romantic feelings for dean" it's very much... uh... in the background. genuinely doing my best to be objective and use neither my wincestie goggles OR my destiel-hater goggles but silly domestic brothers are definitely still at the forefront and i assume that will remain the same up to the finale.

as for a widower arc... um, well, again my memories of early s13 are not super crystal clear. i actually had to go back and rewatch a little to remind myself what was going on because i forgot cass even died then lol. you know where my focus is. but like you said anon dean lost so much at the end of 12 and like, in general that whole season was kind of a headwreck. i think he was already in a bad place and then lost yet another person that had been in his life long-term. we KNOW dean doesn't do well losing anything that's been in his life for a while which makes complete sense given, you know, his life. lol. he's cut up about cass because he has lost yet another friend. nothing about it suggests "widower" to me - ESPECIALLY not compared to how he "coped" whenever he lost sam. again, trying my best to be objective but i don't see it, lol. i think it's a fanon interpretation that suits the ship, which is fine if you're into it but if you're not - like, i wouldn't be watching it going "god damn, i wasn't a destiel believer before, but dean is clearly grieving him like a widower! the scales have fallen from my eyes! deancas forever" lmao

also, like, when they ARE reunited the response is kind of tragically one-sided dkfjgh. dean is happy to have him back clearly but their relationship settles down again very fast and dean goes back to like. uh. what i personally can't read as anything other than viewing cass as one or two shades more important than like, the family dog. SORRY i know that's harsh and they are friends. but their interactions are so sparse and dean is so unbothered lately lmao which you cannot convince me is down to repression. he just has other priorities!!!! (sammy)

okay i hope this wasn't too incoherent. don't worry about watching further!! there are tangents like there have been for the last like, 10 seasons but all in all. it's brothers front and centre forever. and there are enough sweet moments imo to keep you going even when the show is not so good (been saying this to myself since like, s7. if i can do it anyone can do it). just think of the 14x12 hug. all things are possible through the power of the 14x12 hug

[shinelikethunder]

this isn't really liveblogging because i'm on s12 by now, but... wow that SPN banshee ep (11x11 Into the Mystic) sure did have a lot going on, and before i could get to ANY of it, i had to pause near the beginning and stare at the wall long enough for netflix to revert to the roku home screen, because

really, SPN? you think you can just casually put this song on in the background and NOT expect your audience to have a pavlovian "HERE WE FUCKIN' GO" reaction?! have you completely forgotten what kind of show you are

[lady-assnali]

I just got back from dinner with my parents and I’m wrapping the last big leg of presents watching s12 e12 and I’m so committed to this season now that I’m sitting here in my empty apartment fully talking any time something happens. And wishing I had watched it live. (But I was also on a year-long social media break when it aired so it would’ve been a moot point anyway I guess.)

(Mostly “you got this” or “oh god” or my most popular “say one wrong thing about Gigi I dare you”)

Anyway, happy Christmas Eve Eve I’m relieved to be sitting at home I hope everyone is safe. Sorry for the impending liveblog nobody asked for, I can’t wait for all of us to watch the same season live together so we can all scream at the same time.

[cockworkangels]

if you don't want to see me liveblog block #s12 rewatch

[red-hood-vigilante]

mary seeing sam again for the first time since he was an infant and not commenting on how tall he’s become is the most unrealistic thing that’s ever happened on this show

[normalbrothershow]

12.11 regarding dean was so fun. sometimes a family is the beautiful witch rowena, her huge ass trophy husband samuel and their stupid little son dean

[ardentpoop]

ive seen people refer to s11 as "the last good season" which is deeply concerning to me for several reasons lmfao

[liamgallaghermpreg]

i'm so nervous for dabb showrunner era lol please...i know he's going to do dean dirty and i ain't ready

[croatoans]

dean will just stand a certain way and all i can think is Oh My God Hes Transgender.

[thewertsearch]

AG: I 8n't managed to cloud a scenario yet you couldn't squawk out of in a 8lazing trail of cluck8east feathers.

Ah, I think I see what’s going on here. 

Tavros, the casual FLARPer, has been beating AG. No matter how many overpowered monsters she throws at the guy, she hasn’t been able to pull a clean win on him. 

He doesn’t even beat her ‘properly’ - he escapes, ending the game on his terms. This ‘coward’ is playing the game wrong -  using one of the weakest classes, to boot - and she still can’t trap him.   

We can’t have that, now, can we?

AT: wHERE IS EVERYBODY, AG: What does that have to do with your present cowardice?

Is AG responsible for the absence of the other FLARPers? 

Would she really torpedo the entire campaign in order to assert her dominance over Tavros?

Is Build Grist blue? 

AG: Are you going to roll? AT: hMM, AT: nO, i CAN'T, AG: Why not? AT: bECAUSE, i WAS THINKING ABOUT THE NUMBERS, aND, AT: iT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR THERE TO BE A FAVORABLE OUTCOME,

She knows she’s finally got him in checkmate, but that’s not enough - she needs to be able to actually say the word.

You can tell that she really, really wants to see him squirm here, but Tavros isn’t following the script. If your game is clearly rigged, isn’t it better just to leave the lobby?

AG: Why would you want to cheapsk8 me out of 8onuses like that? It's so thoughtless. AT: uHH, AG: Am I going to have to take matters into my own hands? AG: To make your move for you?

Tavros has essentially forfeited here. She still hasn’t beaten him - not the way she wanted to - and for someone like AG, this may as well be an outright loss. 

It is literally impossible that this girl isn’t a sore loser.

AG: How a8out we take to the skies, Pupa! AG: Hahahaha, oh you like that idea, Pupa? Yes, you do. I can feel it in your simple, mallea8le 8rain.

“Hey Sally, out of all the classic psychic abilities, what’s the most dangerous power that a troll could possibly have?”

“Mind control, but it’s not going to happen. Most trolls wouldn’t use it effectively, and the ones that would would become much too powerful if they had it.”

She still couldn’t beat him. 

She still couldn’t beat him, so the next best thing she can do is hurt him as much as physically possible. 

Tavros is the most harmless troll of all. He couldn’t fight back against her, even if she didn’t have mind-control powers, and she knows it. 

He was pissing her off, so she decided to hurt him, and did. 

And she loved every second of it. 

Troll of all time. If this doesn’t turn out to be Vriska, I’ll eat a bowlful of Mind Honey. 

[inthiswhisper]

still can’t believe sam and billie spent the whole episode saying dean wasn’t himself, he lost his belief in anything, was ready to accept death. and then billie said to keep living. and then he immediately got cas back. and then he was the happiest he’d been all season. it just boggles my mind how much the writers nudged their romantic subtext into main text this early on.

[t1taniumninja]

whBABY UNAGAMI??????????