#s12 liveblog

[normalbrothershow]

FUCK THIS SHOW FR???

MAGDA....

[ardentpoop]

this fucking show

[timothyslucy]

chicago fire s13, here i come!!

[pregnancykink]

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

[serenabenson]

incredibly evil urge to rewatch old seasons of svu keeps getting stronger every day @ god why are u testing me

[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

[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

[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. 

[theblackmirrors]

watching lily sunder has some regrets and man…the marital dispute…the husband behavior…the destiel of it all

[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.

[pregnancykink]

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

[billiewena]

why is this so funny to me

[catch57]

both obsessed and depressed w the fact that there are truly only like. five of you watching sunny live

[red-hood-vigilante]

12.9 was really really good, but man it was like three episodes crammed into one, hear me out:

sam and dean should’ve been slowly losing their minds in their cells yellow-wallpaper style with hallucinations of hell and purgatory, talking to themselves or trying to talk to each other before finally calling on billie, using her to send messages to the other (to her dismay) before making their deals. we also should’ve seen what happened to them while “dead”

they also should’ve argued about the price for billie’s help; neither of them would’ve accepted the other dying so they would’ve tried to think of a way to sneak out of it or something

sam and dean’s the shining-esque decline should’ve been interwoven with castiel and mary teaming up to try to find them only to realize both of them are still misfits in this world and how terribly lonely they are; castiel, still the enemy of heaven, and mary, whose friends and family outside sam and dean are dead. they should’ve bonded more on this.