#sam winchester is so done

[samanddean76]

Fight Night

Pitcher: SamandDean76

Catcher: @rainythursdaynight

Fandoms: Supernatural, Candyman (Movies), Beetlejuice (Movies)

Rating: Teen & Up

Word Count: 1,625

Pairings: None - completely Gen

Characters: Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester, Castiel, Candyman, Beetlejuice, Bloody Mary

Tags: Sam Winchester Is So Done, Dean Winchester Is So Done, Castiel Makes A New Friend, Just Some Good Clean Fun, No One Hurts The Bees, Winchesters vs. Monsters

Warnings: None - other than to not eat or drink anything while reading

Summary: Sam and Dean are relaxing late one night when Sam reads a disturbing Facebook post advertising a party that is anything but a good time. With Castiel's intercession, they defeat most of the monsters, and one even gets to live happily ever after.

I would like to present to you one of the crackiest crack fics! It follows along to the highly improbable events that occur when Sam and Dean try to help the youthful offenders and Castiel tries to save the bees. And the poorly misunderstood monster that spawned them. Written for the Crack In The Chassis Bang 2024. I hope you enjoy!

Story on Ao3

[cthulhum]

i lied theres no sex. were gonna sit down and watch supernatural while we analyze the way almost every character is queer coded especially dean

[jarpadandjensens]

SPN | 4.20

“Don’t you get it? Demons will never stop, you can never be with your family. So you either get the Hell away from them as soon as possible, or you put a bullet to your head.

That’s how you keep your family safe, but there’s no getting out and there’s no getting home.”

[nev3rlaand]

dude this new mlp generation is so fucked up they killed twilight sparkle with a gun

[beebox-illustrations]

Sooo I’ve watched Hazbin Hotel (finally) and this part of this song just screamed Dean!

I had to.

(The whole show sent me straight back to this forever lasting obsession 🫠)

Also it’s been over a year I know …

It’s been a strange year. Sorry for not giving any update at all :/

Hope I can get back to posting somewhat regularly :)

Have a great week✨🐝

[mishaesque]

Scenic Supernatural Season 1

[lovealwayssay]

I know I'm crazy and need to stop thinking about the Supernatural finale but I can’t because I was so focused on how shitty the finale was to Dean that I hadn’t truly gotten mad about how it treated Sam until now and I hate myself for that because SAM!!! Sam, who had been through almost nonstop trauma since he was born, who started the show losing the woman he was in love with, who had his bodily autonomy violated over and over again, who spent at least 180 years being tortured by Lucifer, who died and lost and grieved and bled for the entire show, was supposed to just lose Dean, his brother, the one constant in his life, after losing Cas, who he considered family, and Jack, his child, and be able to move on and live a happy life? Sam deserved so much better. He deserved to grow old with his brother and Cas, marry Eileen, and raise their kids with Jack as their older brother. The ending they gave Sam is what Season 1 Sam would have wanted, not Season 15 Sam. They ignored everything he had been through, everything he had endured, everyone he had met, and all his growth, so he could satisfy his 22-year-old dreams. There is no universe in which this was a happy ending for Sam and I’m so heartbroken about it. 

[winchesterangstclub]

[gabriels-golden-kazoo]

[s0fter-sin]

one of my favourite aspects of supernatural that you very rarely see in paranormal shows is that sam and dean are already versed in the world they live in. there’s no sudden discovery of ghosts and demons and now they have to learn about them along with the audience; they are born into it and already know all about it. it allows the audience to follow their personal story instead of also trying to figure out this new world and its rules

the first season is full of knowledge we never see them learn; “w*ndigoes are in the minnesota woods or- or northern michigan. i’ve never even heard of one this far west.” […] “great. well then this [his gun] is useless.” (1x02), “you don’t break a curse. you get the hell out of its way.” (1x08), d: “it’s a god. a pagan god, anyway.” […] “the annual cycle of its killings? and the fact that the victims are always a man and a woman. like some kind of fertility right.” […] s: “the last meal. given to sacrificial victims. d: “yeah, i’m thinking a ritual sacrifice to appease some pagan god.” (1x11)

almost every episode in the first season is a monster they’ve faced before that they then explain to the audience in a way that should feel patronising; like it’s the same speech given over and over again but instead, the audience almost feels included in the knowledge. it’s stated with such an innate confidence and comfort in said knowledge that it feels like we already knew it too; “spirits and demons don't have to unlock doors. if they want inside, they just go through the walls.” […] “the claws, the speed that it moves; could be a skinwalker, maybe a black dog.” (1x02), “it's biblical numerology. you know noah's ark, it rained for forty days. the number means death.” (1x04), “no no no, not the reaper, a reaper. there's reaper lore in pretty much every culture on earth, it goes by 100 different names.” […] “you said it yourself that the clock stopped, right? reapers stop time. and you can only see 'em when they're coming at you which is why i could see it and you couldn't.” (1x12)

they already know and, at least in the first season, already have what they need to kill whatever they’re hunting; already know to salt and burn bones for spirits, fire for a w*ndigo, exorcisms for demons, a silver bullet to the heart for shapeshifters. there’s only three times in the entire first season that they run into something new to them; 1x14 when sam gets his first vision that leads him to another psychic, 1x16 when dean calls caleb for help on the sigil he put together and he tells him about daevas, and 1x20 when they find out vampires are real- and they only don’t know that bc john thought they were hunted to extinction and not worth mentioning

(there’s also technically two half instances if you count one of them knowing something the other doesn’t - sam figuring out the tulpa in 1x17 and dean already knowing about the shtriga in 1x18 - but those still rely on sam and dean having prior knowledge)

even when they’re uncertain about facing something, it’s not bc they don’t know what it is; it’s precisely bc they know what it is and acknowledge that it’ll be a difficult hunt (“i don't know, man. this isn't our normal gig. i mean, demons, they don't want anything, just death and destruction for its own sake. this is big. and i wish dad was here.” 1x04)

so much of the tension in paranormal shows typically comes from the main character(s) not knowing what is happening to them/the people around them and having to find out how to resolve it. supernatural is unique in that it operates more like a police procedural. the tension comes from solving the clues and identifying patterns to figure out who (what) the killer is and intercepting before they can take another victim

it’s such a different tone to go for when compared to other shows that came both before, during, and after its run. it sets sam and dean on even footing with each other since they both have the same knowledge going in, and it puts them in a place of authority usually reserved for an outside character

the shows i compare spn to most is charmed, buffy and teen wolf; every main character in those shows are brought into the paranormal world knowing nothing, putting them on the same level as the audience, and they have their mc interact with others already knowledgeable about that world in order to overcome their problem/monster of the week. the audience organically learns about this new world as the characters learn about it. it’s a sound writing strategy that prevents “as we already know”-style exposition but something that complicates it is if your world building isn’t unique or intriguing enough, this slow introduction can become boring

we’ve seen shows like these before; sitting through the same tropes of characters learning to use their powers, struggling with no longer feeling normal/relating to the regular world around them, and not knowing how much they can trust the people already involved in this new world gets repetitive. all three shows eventually reach the same level of comfort with their new world that spn starts with but if the characters aren’t enough to draw you in, you can end up dropping it before they reach that point (and often, before the overarching plot can really kick in and evolve the show beyond the villain of the week format)

it’s the superhero origin movie in tv format; dragged out and overplayed. dropping the audience into an established world of course comes with its own problems but you also have the benefit of pre-existing established character dynamics that let the audience slot in like they’ve always been there instead of just getting to know all the characters while the characters also get to know each other

sam and dean already knowing about the supernatural lets the audience immediately get to the core of the story; the conflict between sam and dean, the search for their father, and the mystery of what killed their mother

[captainmicaptain]

we know dean becomes controlling when he's anxious and scared. i think it would interesting if dean knew sam had a crush on him when they were kids and exploited it to keep sam close. sam would talk about going to college and dean would kiss him on the cheek, run his hand through his hair and remind him that family comes first. or whenever sam got angry at their dad, dean would hold him tight and caress him.

it wasn't about falling in love with sam, although that happened anyway. it was about keeping the family together. romcoms taught dean that lovers would do anything for each other . so dean nurtured sam's love. gave sam what he wanted. he did everything he could to keep sam wrapped around his finger. it was so easy for him.

when sam left for college, he leaned two things. he was in love with his brother which is why it was so easy to lead him along. it was easy for him to kiss sam, hold his hand, hold him tight at night and teach him to love someone like they did in the movies. he also learned that he wasn't enough. despite loving his brother the best he could, sam still left him. he felt worthless after that. unlovable. he kept himself away from anyone who wasn't't john because who would love someone like him?

[dqmens]

I’ll never call myself a sam apologist because he has nothing to apologize for

[sirlancenotalot]

team free will + crowley textposts

[walk-to-gallows]

Spn fandom view characters objectively and without bias challenge (absolutely beyond comprehension)

[speedwayy]

Cathy/Heathcliffe + Sam/Dean

thank you @wombesties for reminding me :]