#spn 12.21

[let-me-be-your-home]

Dean Winchester Birthday Week - Day 2 - Favorite Action Moment.

[ardentpoop]

it’s not your job to make my lunch and... kiss me goodnight. it’s... we're adults. you're gonna make your own choices, even if I don't like 'em. even if I really, really don't like 'em. that's just something I'm gonna have to get used to. okay, mom? (12.14 "the raid") he just brought back a shell. a body, you know [...] just a... a replica. incapable of holding life. (14.18 "absence")

[lower-the-volume]

12.21 There's Something About Mary

[sensitivehandsomeactionman]

[foxthefanboi]

12x21 - There’s Something About Mary

Sam reads Eileen’s letter

[mittensmorgul]

Quick question going back to season 10: The woman who wrote The Book of the Damned, Agnes, had "visions of darkness" to write the book, including the spell that broke the MoC. I'm just wondering, where do you think those visions came from? Chuck wouldn't have supplied them, cuz he didn't want Amara getting free, right? So how did those visions get to Agnes?

Hi there! I’ll start by saying that the show has never come right out and said “this is how that happened, specifically.” So it’s up to us to put things together in a way that pleases us best, and meshes with the rest of canon. But this is not the first time this sort of mechanism has factored into the plot.

The way the story is constructed, and the way Dabb especially has been playing with all of canon during his era, has emphasized the relationship between every level of the story mirroring itself. The eternal spiral of the narrative, where each loop of the story itself gathers up themes and problems of the past, but also in-story, underscored by Gabriel in 5.08-- as above, so below.

I don’t know if it’s as much a matter of “Chuck didn’t want Amara to be freed,” but the very construct of the universe relies on this fact that the mundane had mirrored the cosmic, until two brothers and an angel said screw you to the cosmic order and tore up the pages. Ever since then, TFW has been wrenching the universe back around on itself, and every level of the story is now reflecting that. But it goes back even further than that...

I mean, in the original story, mirroring his own personal narrative of locking up Amara, Chuck locked away Lucifer with the Mark, knowing that one day he would be freed, and the Apocalypse would play out as he constructed it to do so. The nature of his own story sort of requires then that Amara would eventually be released, too, you see? And this “locking away” and eventual release is built into every level of Chuck’s narrative.

SAM If there's a key...then there has to be a lock. And when we find the lock, we can get the weapons, and then we can have the weapons. And the lock. We'll still have the lock, I imagine, because we've opened it, and, of course, the initial key.DEAN We need to get all three of that crap.

Okay, back to actual meta here. :’D

I mean, just going back to 4.22, when we saw Azazel murder all the nuns at the Ilchester convent, because that was apparently a place where the Cage was “closer to the surface” and with his sacrifice and spell he was able to communicate with Lucifer in the Cage. It was similarly implied that the nun who created the Book of the Damned carried on a similar communication with some force of Darkness-- be it with The Darkness or with Lucifer or with some other force connected to Amara where she was imprisoned, I’m not sure it’s entirely relevant. None of those theories contradict what we know of canon to this point.

So in the same way that Azazel was able to contact Lucifer, that nun contacted the Darkness or an agent of the Darkness. The very way that Chuck imprisoned Amara having a direct link to Lucifer via the Mark, and the fact that he imprisoned Lucifer in the same way connects their fates. As below, so above.

Whether Chuck “wanted” her free or not, His Story is the story of the entire universe, on every level, and so it must always have played out this way, regardless of what Chuck actually wished for, you know? He’s not all powerful, and he still must abide by his own “rules,” even if he’s the one who made all the rules.

Think about what happened when he was shot with the Hammurabi gun. He wasn’t immune from its effects. He wasn’t able to heal it or exempt himself from the effects of it. He can make up new rules on a whim, but he’s still bound by the direct results of those rules being put into action. And his rulebook has begun to break down now.

Lol, remember in 12.21 how we all collectively rolled our eyes nearly out of our heads over the whole “reversing the polarity” of Crowley’s spell controlling Lucifer? We all wondered what the point of that entire arc was? Well, jokes on us all, honestly, because Dabb has basically pulled that maneuver on Chuck himself...

Drexel: The device, it's cemented directly into your DNA and that of the King's. As it's powering down in you, the polarity is somehow reversing.

and even now, this is literally become the method of Chuck’s undoing...

Castiel: Why would God write the blueprint to His own death?Billie: He didn't. The books write themselves. After God made the world, He couldn't stop. He wanted more. But He needed to create a perfect harmony -- a Swiss watch so that this world could keep tick-tick-ticking in His absence. He had no choice but to build Himself into the framework. It's His only weakness.

“He had no choice but to build Himself into the framework. It’s His only weakness.”

And this goes for all of this sort of thing, throughout canon. It’s not like this is what he WANTS to happen, but it’s literally built into the framework of the universe.

As above so below, and the polarity reversed the second Amara was released...

[actiongirlmary-archived]

aaahahhhh the red lighting bunker shootout scene from the clicky clicky amv YEEEEEESSSS I KNEW ITTTTTTTT

[supernaturalismydrug]

“If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.” - Anne Rice

SUPERNATURAL + ANGEL WINGS

[archivistsammy]

stackednatural, may 11

7.22 “there will be blood” // 11.21 “all in the family” // 12.21 “there’s something about mary”

[thayerkerbasy]

The E Street Band by @grey2510

Eileen's not entirely sure where she is, now that she's...dead. But is she really dead? She's made friends here, she has a job, and the place isn't so bad, even if no one wants to go to that store across the street. And besides, what if there's a way out of here? A way back home?

Tagging @spncoldesthits for reasons.

[thebratfarrar]

A tribute to season twelve: There’s Something About Mary

[ardentpoop]

mm

[lower-the-volume]

12.21 There's Something About Mary

[sensitivehandsomeactionman]

“Ketch, calling to see if my mom’s with you...” | SPN 12x21 sneak peek

[nancylou444]

@samanddeanunited they should have killed Claire and left Eileen alone.

[webcricket]

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