#spn 3.08

[deancasforcutie]

Dean coming out playfully 🩷💜💙

(can we take a moment or several thousand to appreciate that he came out to the audience using His Line "sonofabitch"? he's bi and it’s authentic to his hypermasculine cowboy ethos and we’re blessed. when you Dare To Defy stereotypes so hard it bodies the network who only ever paid lip service to the idea and failed to suppress you)

bonus:

[canonicallysoulmates]

Wow, there really was not one mention of Paz's sacrifice. Not one acknowledgment. Not even by his own son.

[rocksalt-and-pie]

spending christmas with my loved ones by rewatching 3.08 all by myself in my living room

[lower-the-volume]

a very supernatural christmas

[deancasforcutie]

#society if more of fandom understood Dean’s dual view of his father and one is idealization and the other hard truths #and that fandom idealizing John is a flattening of the actual canon story that was told #about Dean reconciling his dual views of his father and moving past the idealization and confronting truths and his own hurt and loving him #and seeing the good that was in there too #Dean Winchester #dean meta #but make no mistake #John was not supposed to be a great father #‘he did his best’ so did Sam and Dean and Cas #so did Bobby #that’s not a rebuttal to the John criticisms it’s a baseline #and people are allowed to dislike him #unless you want to sanitize the actual story and what spn depicted (via @dotthings)

He wasn’t there for Sam! I always was!

↳ A Very Supernatural Christmas x Dream a Little Dream of Me

[winchesterangstclub]

spn 3.08 | a very violent supernatural Christmas

[jarpadandjensens]

SPN 3.08. 🎄

[ballsdeepinturbohell]

SPN 3.08 - A Very Supernatural Christmas

It wouldn’t be a SPN Christmas special without a little murder!

[spnfanficpond]

SPN Rewatch: FanFic Edition

Our goal is to rewatch the show with fanfic writing in mind. We want to look for all the places in canon where we could add a scene, show a scene from a certain character’s point of view, or change something to make things turn out differently. (We may also critique what the show writers did; that seems inevitable.)

Episodes we're discussing: 3.07 Fresh Blood and 3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas

What time will it be for you:

UTC - Saturday 21:00

Los Angeles - Saturday 2pm

New York - Saturday 5pm

London - Saturday 10pm

New Delhi - Sunday 2:30am

Melbourne - Sunday 8am

Who’s invited? All Pond members, including Turtles! You don’t have to be a writer to have an opinion on the episodes that could inspire a writer! Everyone has valuable opinions about the show and could spark conversation and inspiration.

Where will we meet? In the discord server.  (You must be a member to be in the Discord server. Not a member? Fill out this form here.) There is a special channel for us to chat in so we don’t disturb other chats happening at the same time.

How does it work? On our own, whenever we have time, we all watch two episodes of SPN. At the appointed time, we all get together and chat about them. Although we have several questions to consider and creative ideas for you to do if you want, there is no pressure to actually have answers to these questions or have created anything prior to the chat. Didn’t get to watch them? No biggie! We’ve all watched these episodes enough that we can probably talk about them without rewatching them!

More info under the cut!

What questions should we consider while we watch? We have a few questions you can keep in mind while you’re watching the episodes:

Are there any “fanfiction gaps” in this episode? Any places between scenes where a juicy story could happen? (For example, one scene ends at night, but the next scene begins during the day, and what did they do with all of that time?)

How would the episode be different if you changed one thing? What is changed is up to you. It could be as complex as a character making a different choice, or as simple or silly as someone wearing a funny hat throughout part or all of the episode.

What about this episode would you like to see happen differently? How would making that change affect future episodes?

List any parts of each episode that you think could be jumping-off points for a fic. Like, in the pilot, how did Sam meet their friend who was in the bar with them?

How would the episode be different if there were another character involved like a reader insert character?

Do any of the themes we've already discussed in The Archive (See the bottom of the doc under the heading "Thematic docs") show up in this episode? Does this episode bring up any new themes we should be watching out for in the future?

What else can we do before the chat? You can add any notes you have about the episodes we'll be discussing to The Archives! In addition, besides just discussing the fanfiction possibilities in every episode, we also want to encourage you to create things centered around the episodes we’re discussing and share them with the rest of us. Things like:

Write some meta about some part of the episode. What does this episode show us about one or more of the characters?

Write a fic based on the episode. Share a link to your fic in the discussion and we can talk about it!

Make a playlist that you feel reflects the mood of the episode.

Make some art or a photo collage or edits to go along with the episode.

We look forward to seeing everything you create! Be sure to tag us so we can reblog your work!

Have questions about this or anything else? Send us an ASK or send a private message to one of the admins below!

Admins:

Michelle - @mrswhozeewhatsis

Marie - @mariekoukie6661

MJ - @thoughtslikeaminefield

Mana - @manawhaat (Founder and Admin Emeritus)

[castiellesbian]

Robbie Thompson:

7.06 Slash Fiction

7.12 Time After Time

7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo

8.04 Bitten

8.11 LARP and the Real Girl

8.17 Goodbye Stranger

8.20 Pac-Man Fever

9.04 Slumber Party

9.11 First Born

9.18 Meta Fiction

10.05 Fan Fiction

10.11 There's No Place Like Home

10.18 Book of the Damned

10.20 Angel Heart

11.04 Baby

11.11 Into the Mystic

11.16 Safe House

11.20 Don't Call Me Shurley

Jeremy Carver:

3.04 Sin City

3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas

3.11 Mystery Spot

3.14 Long-Distance Call

4.03 In the Beginning

4.11 Family Remains

4.15 Death Takes a Holiday

4.20 The Rapture

5.03 Free to Be You and Me

5.08 Changing Channels

5.15 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

5.18 Point of No Return

8.01 We Need to Talk About Kevin

8.23 Sacrifice

9.01 I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here

9.23 Do You Believe in Miracles?

10.01 Black

10.23 Brother's Keeper

11.01 Out of the Darkness, Into the Fire

[spnscripthunt-inactive]

For every $10 you donate to RIP Medical Debt, you will 1) be erasing about $1,000 in medical debt and 2) be entered in a raffle to win one of the items listed below. The more total donations we receive, the more scripts will be made available as prizes.

If donations reach $3000 total, we'll add:

Set: 1.13 'Route 666' - Studio Draft (REPRO); 2.05 'Simon Said' & 2.06 'No Exit' episode arenas signed by Samantha Ferris at Crossroads 6 (Brighton, UK) and Chad Lindberg at Salute to Supernatural: San Francisco 2023; 3.10 'Dream a Little Dream of Me' - Call Sheet: Day 3 of 8 signed by Cindy Sampson at Salute to Supernatural: Nashville 2023

3.04 'Sin City' - Production Draft signed by Jensen Ackles & Jared Padalecki at Creation Tour: Las Vegas 2023; Jim Beaver at Creation Tour: New Jersey 2023. Set includes Blue Revisions.

3.08 'A Very Supernatural Christmas' - Production Draft signed by Jensen Ackles & Jared Padalecki at Creation Tour: Minneapolis 2023. Set includes Blue and Pink Revisions.

13.04 'The Big Empty' - Blue Draft signed by Misha Collins at Creation Tour: Charlotte 2023. Item is missing Act 5 but we'll include a copy of the Act 5 from our Yellow Draftand the Preliminary One Line Schedule from 13.12 'Various & Sundry Villains'.

15.02 'Raising Hell' - Pink Draft signed by Rob Benedict at Salute to Supernatural: Nashville 2023; Osric Chau at Creation Tour: Minneapolis 2023. Set includes Yellow and Green Pages.

Set: 

Jericho 1.18 'A.K.A.' - Blue Draft (Robbie Thompson's first episode of prime-time television).

The Winchesters - 'Pilot' - 4th Network Draft signed by Drake Rodger, Jojo Fleites, Meg Donnelly, and Gil McKinney at Creation Tour: Dallas 2023; Nida Khurshid at Creation Tour: Atlanta 2023; Jensen Ackles, Louden Swain (Rob Benedict, Michael Borja, Billy Moran, Stephen Norton), and Ruth Connell at Creation Tour: New Orleans 2023; Jim Beaver and Richard Speight Jr. at Creation Tour: New Jersey 2023; Tom Welling at The Official Lucifer Convention: New Jersey 2023; Alexander Calvert at Momento Con 2023.

[winchesterszvonecek]

spn 3.08 | a very violent supernatural Christmas

done :)

[canonicallysoulmates]

I haven't seen the episode yet but the thing I'm looking forward to the most isn't even seeing Din and Grogu settle down it's getting to see Din finally get to be a badass again BABY I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH 😭

[peach-coke]

I'm wishing at this Christmas time that I could but repay A portion of the gladness that you've strewn along the way

[kwistowee]

[spngeorg]

Episode 52: 3.08 A Very Supernatural Christmas

well, I’ve now been doing this for just a few days shy of a year. I’m mildly impressed with myself for sticking to it, never missing an episode even in weeks where real life and technical difficulties tried to interfere... like this week! When I lost an hour of recording and had to start over... I guess I can assume that the lost episode was probably a stellar performance that could never be replicated and nobody would ever know... but I won’t :’D

I love this episode. There is a LOT going on in here, and it’s painful for both Sam and Dean. Dean’s performance mask cracks and even Sam gets another look underneath. The monsters of the week’s entire shtick is that they’re performing normality with false cheeriness as a means of survival, blending in and pretending they’re Just Folks until it comes time for their annual sacrifices. And they even go through those rituals with the same sort of ingrained cheer they approach apparently everything with... we only get to see their mask crack a little bit, like thousands of years living that way just ~made the mask convincingly real~ even to them.

Remind you of anyone?

Also, we learn the origin story of the Samulet (and why I have no fondness for it), deal with young Sam’s regret over having pushed Dean into telling him the truth about their lives, and through that learn about how much Dean has served as a shield for Sam throughout his life. Ouch, right?

Things referenced in this episode include:

The Superwiki page for this episode

My tag for this episode

and specifically my rewatch posts dated June 2019, April 24, 2017, this collaboration between me and lizbob from November 2016, and lizbob’s gifs of Sam vs the Reindeer. Good stuff :’D

Casting sides for Young Sam, Young Dean, Madge and Edward

And because I am that kind of dork, have the childhood flashback-inducing special presentation graphic. :’D

and because I am also this kind of dork, here have a link to the holiday fic I mentioned because Sam has a little rematch with a reindeer: McMansion Hell. Or... if you prefer Sam vs The Easter Bunny (since it is technically April Fool’s fic and hey... guess what day it is... have Plotbunny instead. They’re both canon case fic, and because it’s me, destiel. :)

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