#sidenote the old man is turning 43 this month. what the hell.

[takkamek]

thinking about how alonso said that past drivers were more genuine than drivers nowadays. how "off-track or with the helmet off, maybe they are a bit the same and more shy in the way they approach things", and how "they have people who talk for them, for management, for media, for fitness. They’re well prepared, but maybe they lost a little bit their own character".

[shirtlesssammy]

4x06: Yellow Fever

Then:

Cas saved Dean from Hell, and now Dean finds himself in a whole new kind of hell.

Now:

We open with our very own Dean Bean running like his life depends on it. And from the sound of the hounds barking behind him, it sounds dire. Dean’s fresh from hell so his fear of dogs is heightened here, so when a tiny little yorkie pops up on screen, I laugh but also cry.

43 Hours Earlier

Sam and Dean Agents Tyler and Perry pull into Rock Ridge, Colorado’s coroner’s office to investigate the death of one Frank O’Brien --a seemingly healthy 44 year old man who dropped dead three days ago. There’s been a string of heart attacks and Agent Perry just wants to see the autopsy report. One hasn’t been done, so the coroner sets to the task with the agents in attendance.

The brothers both notice oddities about the deceased body --missing wedding ring and scratches on the arms. The coroner finds nothing wrong with the heart and Sam gets hit with a little spleen juice. Yum.

Later, they meet with the very germaphobic sheriff --even surprising Dean! The sheriff was friends with Frank, and he mentions that Frank was scared of something before his death. The brothers reassure him that it was just a heart attack.

It was definitely not a heart attack.

They don’t know what it is, but decide to interview the neighbor of the victim as a start --right after Dean gives some loitering teens the stink eye.  

The neighbor is a collector of exotic pets it seems. And while Sam conducts the interview, Dean gets increasingly jumpy. They find out from him that Frank was afraid of everything before he died. He also reluctantly admits that once upon a time Frank was “a dick.” Also, his wife died about 20 years prior. That really broke him and he wasn’t so bad as the years went by.

Dean meets Marie.

Sidenote: I recall seeing an interview or con video once where they talk about this scene --and Jared was too afraid to be in the same room as the snake. Bravo on the editing. I wouldn’t have guessed.

Later, an increasingly jumpy Dean shows Sam his investigation into the death of Frank O’Brien’s wife --manic depressive who hung herself. Sam finds nothing at Frank’s apartment. It’s a real puzzle.

It’s also a real puzzle to Sam why Dean’s driving 20 mph. “Safety’s a crime now?” Dean asks indignantly. He also is not suicidal and won’t turn left into oncoming traffic (Cautiously smart, my friend.) It’s then that Sam hears his EMF machine go berzerk. “Am I haunted? Am I haunted?!” DEAN BEAN.

The next day (not sure where they slept the night before…), Sam surprises Dean jamming out to Survivor. He’s got scratch marks on his arm AND he passes on doughnuts. Sam’s reaction shots are PURE GOLD this episode. Sam talked to Bobby and Dean appears to be haunted with Ghost Sickness. It can spread like the flu once one person is infected. Frank contracted it first and passed it to friends --and Dean. They have to kill the ghost that started it all to save Dean. (But first Sam has to move their hotel room from the fourth floor to the first for Dean.)

Later, Dean’s reading up on Ghost Sickness when he starts coughing and hallucinating words on the page.

(Are all these close ups really necessary?)

Later, Sam returns with no news on who the ghost is and Dean laments on being near death again. It’s nice (but sad) to rewatch and realize how much they did address Dean’s Hell trauma.

He then coughs up a woodchip (I legit can’t breath during this every time) and Sam realizes that Dean’s a clue. “I don’t want to be a clue,” Dean whines. BBY.

They head to the local abandoned lumber yard. Dean refuses to go inside, but Sam needs backup. Dean drinks a fair amount of hunter’s helper...and decides that he’ll “man the flashlight.”

They head inside to investigate and find a kitten.

*Classic Gif Alert*

Sam is increasingly losing it. And Dean’s weak little “wait?” at the end of the scene? GAH.

They find more clues about Frank’s wife and Luther Garland, when the saw mill starts working. Manning the flashlight, Dean’s too paralyzed to say or do anything when he sees someone standing in the corner of the room.

Dean takes off and finishes off the rest of his booze while Sam blasts the ghost with salt. Their ghost is Luther Garland.

Back at the sheriff’s department, a drunk little Dean Bean flirts a little bit with the deputy. A drunk man’s words is a sober man’s thoughts, Dean.

Sam snatches his brother away before he gets the dude’s number. (I mean, he was trying to reach into his pocket for a pen, right?)

The sheriff, through the intercom, asks what the Winchesters wanted and the deputy tells him. Cut to the Sheriff who is actually sandpapering the skin off his forearms. URG. He loads a gun. An apparition of himself intones ominously, “They know what you did.”

Meanwhile, Dean is still freaking the fuck out. At a retirement home, he jumps when he runs across a little old lady. Poor Dean.

They meet Mr. Garland, who asks for ID.

Dean freaks out about the scrutiny. “Those are real,” he tells Garland convincingly.

Sam asks Garland about the death of his brother. Garland tells them that everyone was scared of Luther, but he was the kindest man he ever knew. In the flashback Luther pulls a kitten out of a box and I melt into a giant puddle.

Sam pulls out the drawing of the woman they found. Garland identifies the woman as someone who worked at the mill. Her husband killed Luther and furthermore, this was common knowledge. Luther had a crush on her and when she killed herself Frank assumed that Luther had a hand in her death. He went into his room at the mill, saw pictures of her everywhere and assumed the worst. He tied a chain around Luther's neck and dragged him by a truck until he was dead.

Garland tells them that he complained to every cop he could find about Luther's murder but nobody would act on it. Frank was a pillar of the community. He says, in a moment that I did not remember at all, that he didn't hate Frank anymore. Frank's wife was missing and Frank was afraid. “That's fear,” Garland says. “It spreads and spreads.” (What an unexpected moment – where I remembered only fear and almost comical hijinks...there's this odd moment of peace and forgiveness - even of his brother’s murderer.)

The interview with Garland clarifies some things for Dean. The rash on his skin is road rash and the woodchips were swallowed by Luther as he was dragged. Dean's ready to burn some bones and be free again but Sam points out that Luther's body was ripped to shreds. They'll never recover all the remains.

Dean takes this very well.

Classic Dialogue Alert

Dean: What are we doing?!

Sam: We're hunting a ghost.

Dean: A ghost, exactly! Who does that?

Sam: Us.

Dean: Us? Right. And that Sam, that is exactly why our lives suck. I mean, come on, we hunt monsters! What the hell?! I mean, normal people, they see a monster, and they run. But not us, no, we search out things that want to kill us. Or eat us! You know who does that? Crazy people!

Dean heads off in a huff, flop sweating his ass off, when an adorable pup approaches. And we've joined up with the start of the episode. Sam finds Dean sweating and breathing hard in the motel room. Sam wonders how he got to the hotel. “Ran,” Dean says, wide eyed. Dean frets that he only has four hours left and Sam tells him it's about time he dies and heads back to hell. He's been a real pain in his ass. Sam's eyes glow yellow. Sam pushes Dean against the wall and tells him that the yellow eyes don’t mean he’s possessed...it's all him. He's going to turn evil and there's nothing Dean can do about it.

Snap to real Sam trying to help Dean calm down while Dean experiences a full out panic hallucination against the wall. It's getting bad...

It's time to bring in Bobby! He meets up with Sam and pulls out an encyclopedia of spirits written in Japanese. Bobby can both read and speak Japanese. Mmmmm yessss goooood. The fearful ghost, a Buru Buru, can be destroyed by fear. “So we have to scare a ghost to death?” Mmm hmm yes good luck with that.

Sam calls Dean and tells him to “hang in there” and they've got a plan. Cut to Bobby outside the mill who tells Sam that their plan is a TERRIBLE idea. Still, it's all they've got. Sam heads into the mill and tries to lure out Luther.

Back at the motel, Dean hears barking dogs. It's hellhounds at the door! No, it's the Sheriff. He breaks down the door, one arm bloody, and asks why Dean is looking into Luther's death. Dean tries to reason with him, even in his state of extreme fear, and the Sheriff decks him in response.

The Sheriff tells Dean that Frank was his friend and he let him go. He's not going to let Dean bring him down. Dean fights the Sheriff and sees his eyes turn demon black. Reality shifts madly between them. The Sheriff starts to seize from a heart attack. Dean yells at him to calm down but it's too late. (Yelling “calm down” is always effective with panic attacks.) The Sheriff dies.

Back at the mill, Sam realizes that walking around with a gun is scaring Luther's ghost. Sam sets down his gun and tries a different tack to luring out Luther. He starts tearing up the photos of the secretary. This works and Luther appears.

Dean continues to totally lose it, scratching his forearms and hearing barking hellhounds. He finds a bible and holds it in a firm embrace. Suddenly child-Lilith appears. She hugs him, sweetly,

Dean's going back to Hell. She tells him that she knows he remembers everything from Hell. Four months is like forty years, like “doggy years.” Oh, Dean Bean <3

Dean falls to the floor, his heart clenching. He tells her that she isn't real but she tells him it doesn't matter. “You're still gonna die. You're still gonna burn.” She smiles smugly.

“Why'd I get infected?” Dean asks.

“Silly goose. Listen to your heart. Ba BOOM BA BOOM.”

Luther, meanwhile, is beating up Sam. It's looking bad when Sam wraps chains around Luther's neck and yells at Bobby to “punch it.” Using the Impala, Bobby drags Luther's ghost in a horrible reenactment of his death, until Luther dissipates and moves on.

At the last minute, Dean gasps for air in the motel room and finds his arms are healed, skin unbroken.

Later, they tell Dean how they destroyed Luther's ghost with an iron chain. They gloss over the darkness of his second death and ask how Dean's doing. “I'm fine. You want to go hunting? I'll hunt. I'll kill anything.” So. Dean's doing GREAT and not at all long-term traumatized by his experiences in Hell.

For Science:

Bobby takes off and Sam asks Dean what he saw near the end. Dean thinks he sees yellow flash in Sam's eyes and tells him he saw “the usual stuff” and nothing he can't handle. Dean’s FINE, guys. EMOTIONS.

And while this is the end of the episode, it's not the END of the episode because. Guys. Here's where we get Jensen Ackles car dancing to Eye of the Tiger.

[video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljpJJCTBIKY]

Chuck bless this silly, serious, sometimes disturbing show.

The Only Thing We Have to Quote are Quotes Themselves:

Our room’s on the fourth floor. It’s...high.

Awesome. It's nice to have my head on the chopping block again. I almost forgot what that feels like

Who would pretend to be an FBI agent, huh? That's just nutty.

Life's too short for hate

You're gassy! You eat half a burrito, and you get toxic!

He's adorable.

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[max-cant-dream]

i should also sleep

1.Who was the last person you held hands with? zach-o

2. Are you outgoing or shy? I don’t know, shy I think

3. Who are you looking forward to seeing? MY GECKO 

4. Are you easy to get along with? Don’t tread

5. If you were drunk would the person you like take care of you? and clean the puke up too

6. What kind of people are you attracted to? people who are open to any lifestyle, people who have weird schedules. 

7. Do you think you’ll be in a relationship two months from now? yes 

8. Who from the opposite gender is on your mind? from the same gender? zach and murc

9. Does talking about sex make you uncomfortable? nah

10. Who was the last person you had a deep conversation with? e-lise

11. What does the most recent text that you sent say? “also I gave the awful din 2 bucks cuz I’m a whimp for small bands”

12. What are your 5 favorite songs right now? -folk punk by awful din   -lowlives by the dirty nil   -fuck shit up by ghost mice    -beach community by joyce manor     -believe by TUI

13. Do you like it when people play with your hair? yes pls

14. Do you believe in luck and miracles? I believe it can give you a mindset that helps

15. What good thing happened this summer? fuck man it’s been so long. Grad?

16. Would you kiss the last person you kissed again? absolutely

17. Do you think there is life on other planets? for sure

18. Do you still talk to your first crush? sometimes. preschool was rough.

19. Do you like bubble baths?  hell no

20. Do you like your neighbours? mostly

21. What are you bad habits? rushing and overreacting

22. Where would you like to travel? everywhere but like Europe, Australia, and central Africa, and maybe a US roadtrip.

23. Do you have trust issues? do I?

24. Favorite part of your daily routine? cereal 

25. What part of your body are you most uncomfortable with? my back or legs

26. What do you do when you wake up? take 50 years to turn off my alarm

27. Do you wish your skin was lighter or darker? idk

28. Who are you most comfortable around? elyse

29. Have any of your ex’s told you they regret breaking up? lol 

30. Do you ever want to get married? don’t knoe

31. If your hair long enough for a pony tail? not even close

32. Which celebrities would you have a threesome with? john cena and john cener 

33. Spell your name with your chin. cvweoler

34. Do you play sports? What sports? snowboard, skateboard, hockey(?), tennis

35. Would you rather live without TV or music? tv 

36. Have you ever liked someone and never told them? yeah

37. What do you say during awkward silences? you’re supposed to say something?

38. Describe your dream girl/guy? Will destroy me in the pit and then help me back up

39. What are your favorite stores to shop in? The source, sloth?

40. What do you want to do after high school? Already out, I wanna chill and go to shows.

41. Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance? Most people

42. If your being extremely quiet what does it mean? I’m probably thinking

43. Do you smile at strangers? yeah

44. Trip to outer space or bottom of the ocean? space

45. What makes you get out of bed in the morning? My alarm out of reach

46. What are you paranoid about? The world hates me right

47. Have you ever been high? yeah

48. Have you ever been drunk? yeah

49. Have you done anything recently that you hope nobody finds out about? no

50. What was the colour of the last hoodie you wore? Red and black

51. Ever wished you were someone else? probably

52. One thing you wish you could change about yourself? My fucking LISP

53. Favourite makeup brand? nadda

54. Favourite store? Sloth

55. Favourite blog? stonequake (stole this from her)

56. Favourite colour? purple

57. Favourite food? poutine?

58. Last thing you ate? old cake

59. First thing you ate this morning? cereal

60. Ever won a competition? For what? nope

61. Been suspended/expelled? For what? nope

62. Been arrested? For what? no but sidenote go call a peace officer a shithead today

63. Ever been in love? without a doubt I am

64. Tell us the story of your first kiss? preschool, got heated under the train in the red room. 

65. Are you hungry right now? I always am

66. Do you like your tumblr friends more than your real friends? People do that?

67. Facebook or Twitter? no thanks

68. Twitter or Tumblr? tumblr

69. Are you watching tv right now? no

70. Names of your best friends? I love all my friends

71. Craving something? chocolate

72. What colour are your towels? purple and black

72. How many pillows do you sleep with? 4

73. Do you sleep with stuffed animals? yeah

74. How many stuffed animals do you think you have? 3

75. Favourite animal? wolf probably

76. What colour is your underwear? red

77. Chocolate or Vanilla? chocolate

78. Favourite ice cream flavour? cheesecake

79. What colour shirt are you wearing? grey

80. What colour pants? black

81. Favourite tv show? lie to me 

82. Favourite movie? idk 

83. Mean Girls or Mean Girls 2? 1

84. Mean Girls or 21 Jump Street? 21 jump street

85. Favourite character from Mean Girls? The lil quiet one

86. Favourite character from Finding Nemo? seagulls

87. First person you talked to today? elyse

88. Last person you talked to today? also elyse

89. Name a person you hate? one guy at bt

90. Name a person you love? ez

91. Is there anyone you want to punch in the face right now? yeah

92. In a fight with someone? no

93. How many sweatpants do you have? 1

94. How many sweaters/hoodies do you have? 600000

95. Last movie you watched? zootopia lol

96. Favourite actress? idk

97. Favourite actor? ^

98. Do you tan a lot? a bit

99. Have any pets? soon :)

100. How are you feeling? happy

101. Do you type fast? no

102. Do you regret anything from your past? it’s not like I can change it

103. Can you spell well? w-e-l-l

104. Do you miss anyone from your past? yeah

105. Ever been to a bonfire party? and hosted

106. Ever broken someone’s heart? don’t know

107. Have you ever been on a horse? never will be

108. What should you be doing? sleeping

109. Is something irritating you right now? no 

110. Have you ever liked someone so much it hurt? i think

111. Do you have trust issues? do you?

112. Who was the last person you cried in front of? elyse

113. What was your childhood nickname? didn’t have one

114. Have you ever been out of your province/state? yeah

115. Do you play the Wii? yeAH

116. Are you listening to music right now? no

117. Do you like chicken noodle soup? yes

118. Do you like Chinese food? yeah

119. Favourite book? civilization and its discontents

120. Are you afraid of the dark? no I embrace

121. Are you mean? I’m an asshole not a douchebag

122. Is cheating ever okay? Depends on the situation but not with intention

123. Can you keep white shoes clean? No shoes are safe

124. Do you believe in love at first sight? a bit

125. Do you believe in true love? for sure

126. Are you currently bored? yep

127. What makes you happy? going to shows, my friends and gf, skateboarding, editing, waking up early

128. Would you change your name? nah

129. What your zodiac sign? the fish one lol who cares

130. Do you like subway? fuckin yes

131. Your bestfriend of the opposite sex likes you, what do you do? chill them out

132. Who’s the last person you had a deep conversation with? zach

133. Favourite lyrics right now? “When I’ve had all that i could stand please burn this body down to ash. Take me to the gulf of mexico, open the lid and let me go”

134. Can you count to one million? what a waste

135. Dumbest lie you ever told? I played for the Calgary Flames in kindergarten 

136. Do you sleep with your doors open or closed? closed

137. How tall are you? 5′10

138. Curly or Straight hair? straight

139. Brunette or Blonde? yes

140. Summer or Winter? summer i think

141. Night or Day? night

142. Favourite month? may

143. Are you a vegetarian? lol no

144. Dark, milk or white chocolate?

145. Tea or Coffee?

146. Was today a good day?

147. Mars or Snickers?

148. What’s your favourite quote? 

149. Do you believe in ghosts?

150. Get the closest book next to you, open it to page 42, what’s the first line? “Arnett quized the prisoners on the rules.”