#spn 4x04

[2sw]

How do you think we got here?

[ashlingmizuoka]

SPNWEEK2024 by @aborddelimpala

Day 1 : Iconic Supernatural line(s)/quote(s)

[spnstillstudies]

64/327 (KO-FI♡)

S4E04, “Metamorphosis”

[bloodydeanwinchester]

🩸Bloody Dean Every Episode🩸 ↳ 4x04 || Metamorphosis

[sirlancenotalot]

[boykingscourt]

his moles are so special to me. they are like my best friends

[mad-as-a-box-of-frogs]

Nice to see you again, Dean.

Ruby in Metamorphosis (4x04): Best of SPN Ladies [417/?]

[sammysdemonblood]

Sam Winchester Extreme Close-Up Shots

Supernatural 2.22 | 4.04 | 4.22

[shirtlesssammy]

Dean Winchester every day -- 64/326

Supernatural 4x04//Metamorphosis

[boywifesammy]

sam winchester just doesn’t fit. he lives life between two worlds; too strange for normal people but not strange enough for his family. he’s passionate and nerdy and kind-hearted. he’s trusting but terrified of losing the little that he has. he’s been looking from the outside in for his entire life and no matter how hard he tries, he can’t change that.

imagine growing up like that. never in one place, constantly moving around, surrounded by fear and family secrets and things that go bump in the dark. imagine always being the new kid, getting weird looks in the hallways, growing up in hand-me-downs and dingy motel rooms and having an alcoholic, revenge-obsessed ex-military dad who’s never around. being raised by your big brother and never being able to explain to anyone what family means to you. that they’re your prison and your curse but also everything you have, because you never stopped in one place to keep anything else.

and on the inverse, imagine being the black sheep in a family of hunters. imagine wanting autonomy and safety and being shamed for it. sam is a dreamer at heart. he loves reading and human connection and moral philosophy. he wants to be good above everything else. he’s a bleeding heart who gets far too involved in cases and feels the pain of everyone else too strongly.

imagine wanting to play soccer instead of shooting at things that want to kill you, and being berated for it. wanting to get an education and being belittled for it. wanting to get free of it all, wanting to make an honest life for yourself and have companionship and a stable career and a family that trusts you as much as they love you and being told that if you leave, you’re never welcome back.

sam tried so fucking hard to fit in at stanford, and it ended with his girlfriend burning up on his ceiling. he tried to be a good hunter, and instead became the boy king, a demon-blood halfling, an abomination, a monster even in the eyes of his family.

if you can’t save him, kill him. if i didn’t know you, i would want to hunt you. sam has always been more monster than human or hunter. always. he was a monster at school and a monster at stanford and a monster on the road with dean. he was stuck between worlds and floundering for any bit of reassurance that god hadn’t given up on him.

yet even through that, he was still kind and loyal and motivated by good will. he wanted to see the good in everything, even in the monsters he hunted. he wanted to give them a chance, because he wanted so badly to believe that he wasn’t a monster either. he knew how it felt to be bad to his very core yet still want to do good. he GOT it. even when the world hated him, he still always tried to do the right thing.

sammy’s a big, cuddly, bleeding-heart monster and i love all of him.

[crooner-deans-walkman]

THIGH HOLSTER DEAN GRRRR BARK BARK BARK OH GOD OH FUCK OH JESUS YES GOD PLEASE OH FUCK

[2sw]

"Dean physically hitting/beating Sam" requested by anonymous

I had this same themed gifset in my drafts for quite some time, but since anon requested it, I remade it to finally post it. I excluded the occasions when dean was under the influence of MoC even though the show explicitly stated that the mark only amplifies what's already there. I also excluded a few other scenes for obvious reasons because I know how to take context into account, so I think this is a fair gifset. now apply the same standard to sam and do the math. and my original intention was, and still is, to show sam's reaction because everything I post is about sam. I don't even consider this as a dean crit post, this is just how he is and it is part of the show you can't deny.

[deanstudies101]

4x04, Metamorphosis

Critical theory: What makes a monster. What you are vs. what you do. 

Discussion point/question(s): Once again we see the moment Dean shuts down when he realises Sam knew about the demon blood for a year and never told him. Sam pushes Dean to talk about emotions, and once again shuts Dean down when he does. 

Key quotes: Travis, “You ever been really hungry? I mean, haven’t-eaten-in-days hungry?” Dean, “Ha, yeah.”; Dean, “Manburger Helper” [this is silly and goofy]; Sam, “It doesn’t matter what you are, it only matters what you do.”

Discussion: 

Feel for Sam a bit, because Dean was quite harsh with him. And it’s not even that he means to be harsh, it’s just his way of talking (macho mask), and it’s coming from a place of concern. He can’t accept that he has very little authority over what happened while he was dead. Exploring the psychic stuff is a neutral choice, and Sam is saving people, we can’t really fault him for that. But Sam gets very argumentative with Dean, and doesn’t seem to realise that Dean isn’t John—he’s not trying to control or order Sam around, but protect him. Sam didn’t like growing up as a little soldier, and maybe he didn’t have it as bad as Dean, but he ran away from it. So when Dean brings things up in that harsh way, Sam gets very defensive—his dad is controlling his life. 

[Controversially I think this is too kind on Dean. I think he is trying to control Sam. However, I also think it’s too harsh on him too. I think he didn’t just “have it worse” than Sam, he was indoctrinated. He is like John in this way because he has to be. He was raised to be like John, to idolise him. Of course he can be controlling.] Dean trying to control Sam is Dean trying to protect Sam. That’s how he was raised, it’s all he knows. 

Iga, Sam seems to be the one killing the almost-monsters now.

And Jack was fucking baited. Sucks for Sam to see that—from Sam’s perspective, Jack just snapped. But the truth is it was in self-defence, and in defence of his pregnant wife. How can we blame him for that? 

This episode really shows us just how harsh hunters are. Comes back to what Dean said at the beginning of the episode, about hunting Sam. Hunters would hunt Sam. We saw a bit of this in S2, but it’s so much worse now. The angels are probably being a bit too hasty, because Sam’s powers seem kinda useful. Angels in a lot of myths are stoic and harsh. Black and white. An army. [Angels are warriors of God.] They’re not gonna fuck around, they’re just gonna see that Sam is crossing the line and stop him. [They're there to fight a war.] There’s probably less angels than demons, so they kinda have to be a bit harsh/hasty. 

Feel really bad for Jack. Lots of people have that battle with something, an addiction. And he was pushed. He was trying his best, but he was pushed. 

It hasn’t been expressed what the demon blood is doing to him. Is he having evil urges, does he want to hurt people? [In season 2, we see it expressed as anger, like uncontrollable anger. But that’s pretty much the extent of what we’ve seen I think.] But that could just be childhood trauma, there’s got to be something deeper there. Iga, also, if the demon blood makes you stronger, is it just Azazel’s blood? Just when you’re exactly six months old? Why are we not drinking demon blood? Like a strength potion?

Notes: Visiting student Julio. First use of ‘Cas’ we think. 

[stealingdeansgender]

season 4 sammy you are my best friend and you are so sad, you are being USED and everyone is MAD AT YOU. and YESSSS you're also making Terrible Decisions and keeping too-important things close to the chest but god if I'm not a sucker for somethin' of a psychic on the loose!!!!!

[waywardvamp]

Travis (4x04) 🤝 Martin (8x09)

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

[watchingspnagain]

Rewatching Metamorphosis

Welcome to “I swear to Chuck, Dean Winchester, if you say Man Pig one more time…: A Supernatural Rewatch Blog” with Lor and Mace!

   Up today, s4e4: Metamorphosis.

 In the suburbs, a married man is becoming insatiable for meat. And maybe… human flesh? He’s scaring the bejesus out of his wife (and himself), but when two incredibly handsome young men clad in flannel show up and tell him it’s because he’s a monster, he’s not buying it. (Always believe handsome young men in flannel when they tell you you’re a monster.) Turns out the dude can NOT become a full-on monster as long as he refrains from eating human flesh. Once he does, there’s no going back. But the boys are divided on whether he can be saved—Sam argues that he’ll be able to control himself and be fine; Dean is sure he is doomed to be a monster. This, of course, echoes their positions on what’s going on with Sam and Ruby and how they each feel about THAT. The episode’s climax involves a lot of ew and gross and an old hunter friend of John’s being awful. And our boys… are FRAUGHT.

  Below is a log of our real-time reactions as we watched. Remember that there may be spoilers for any part of SPN’s 15-season run here. Note also that the nature of our conversation is adult and thus it may contain adult language and themes.

 [and we begin:]

  Mace:

 Interesting. I don’t think Sam gets objectified like this often (“slutting around”)

  Lor:

 no, I don't think he does

 oh Dean

I FORGOT that he finds out by spying

  Mace:

 yeah

Lor:

 "is that Ruby?" and the LOOK

  Mace:

 right?!

  Lor:

 oh he's maaaaad

they are so FRAUGHT

  Mace:

 he really is

  Lor:

 ooo Sammy's wearing one of his BEST shirts

  Mace:

 HE IS

  oh Dean, you don’t wanna leave

HEY NOW, LAY OFF MY STRINGBEAN

  Lor:

 oh Dean, that's it, cycle that violence

  Mace:

 YEP

  Lor:

 OH! Sam's being influenced by Ruby BUT Dean's being influenced by Cas. and they both CAN be influenced bc something in there lets them be, but I never picked up on the parallel before

  Mace:

 YEP

  Lor:

 I feel a little dumb right now. like, it's RIGHT THERE

  Mace:

 snork

  Lor:

 but Cas is definitely not a love interest for Dean. definitely not

  Mace:

 NOPE DEFINITELY NOT

JUST FRIENDS

  Lor:

 only bros

  Mace:

 we don’t need to discuss how there’s 1000% more sexual tension in the scenes between Cas and Dean than Ruby and Sam...

  Lor:

 lol nope

 not beat down after five or six years of marriage to JOHN

  Mace:

 and the fact that Sam and Ruby are married in real life now so there must have been actual tension between them but still Misha and Jensen provoke more sexy vibes…

 HAHAHAHA

  Lor:

 RIGHT?

I was just trying to figure out how to say something very similar

  Mace:

 HA

  Lor:

 "weird with crazy on top"

 dude, have a string cheese. this is what they are FOR

  Mace:

 YEP

 HAHAHAHAHA

 this one is just kinda gross

  Lor:

 yeah

 WOULD HE? or would he find something to criticize

  Mace:

 enough with the pointed snark, Dean

 oh he would totally criticize

  Lor:

 "is that made up? that sounds made up"

  yeah, Dean is passive aggressiving today

  Mace:

 LONG PIG

EW

  Lor:

 LOL

I love that it's Sam who knows what it means, not Dean

  Mace:

 yeah, that doesn’t seem right somehow

  Lor:

 yeah

I suspect it was sloppy, but I kind of like the against-type of it

  Mace:

 yeah

  Lor:

 so props for calling the jerk out but points off for the fatphobia

  Mace:

 yep

i do love that they do things to make the ‘bad’ guy sympathetic

  Lor:

 YES

  Mace:

 SAM SAID LORE EVERYBODY DRINK

  Lor:

 LOLOLOLOLOLOL

 ooof Dean, people pleasing and managing the people/conversation

  Mace:

 YEP

 okay so here we have Dean on the side of black-and-white and Sam on the side of greys

  Lor:

 Travis, you dick, YES they have not eaten in days, you KNEW their dad, you jerk

 yep

  Mace:

 we should keep score on these because I think I remember they flipflop several times throughout the show

  Lor:

 oh yeah, they definitely do

  ooo, retrograde marital dynamics

fun

  Mace:

 HA yeah

 um, WHOSE emotions are getting in the way, Dean?

  Lor:

 I think they flip on the grey thing depending on what's going on with them. Sam wants monsters to be okay sometimes bc he's afraid he's kind of one. Dean wants it to be black and white bc he wants Sam to just STOP using his powers. you'd think they'd learn at some point though

  RIGHT?

  Mace:

 yeah

  Lor:

 Dean can never resist upset Sammy

  "hungry hungry hippos levels" DEAN

  Mace:

 I wonder if part of why Dean’s panties are so bunched about all this is that he has always felt wrong/inadequate/not-enough (thanks to John) and so he tries to protect Sam and keep him normal

 HAHAHA

  Mace:

 STOP. SAYING. MAN. PIG. DEAN.

  Lor:

 oh YES

 LOL

  Mace:

 he feels like he’s failing Sammy so he’s angry at himself and taking that out on Sam

  Lor:

 YES

  DEAN. stop being a little shit! NO PIE

  Mace:

 Come on, we all know you’d give in in a heartbeat and give him pie

  Lor:

 ....

yeah, it's true

I can't even pretend it's not true anymore

he's just little and he's never done anything wrong

  Mace:

 HAAAAHAHAHA

  “we should go” “yeah"

 HAHAHAHA

  Lor:

 "we're here to save you! i guess"

  Mace:

 BOYS

  Lor:

 HAHAHAHAHA

  so he only wants to eat women?

  Mace:

 well, eating men would be kind gay

  Lor:

 it feels like there's a sexual component here they are not addressing

  Mace:

 HAHAHA

  Lor:

 HA! and no one would want THAT. not on the Man Show

  Mace:

 nope

 OH DAMN I forgot about this part

  Lor:

 so not that all options here aren't awful, but Travis is aware you can... not have a child without killing the woman?

  Mace:

 that wouldn’t be the Christian thing to do, though, now would it

  Lor:

 splutters in 2023

  Mace:

 HAAAAAHAHAHA

  oh Travis is dead. how tragic.

  Lor:

 yes, I weep

  OMG LOCK YOUR CAR WHEN YOU LEAVE IT ON THE STREET

  Mace:

 SNORK

  Lor:

 correct, Sammy

  Mace:

 YES

 ew.

  Lor:

 yeah

  omg stop hitting Sammy in the head!

  Mace:

 omg STOP HITTING SAM IN THE HEAD

  Mace:

 HAHAHAHA

  Lor:

 HAAAAHAHAHAHA

  Mace:

 my Bean’s gonna have the brain damage

  Lor:

 seriously

  look. when the Winchesters show up and tell you to do something, you do it. that's how you don't end up a monster who can't see your family.

  Mace:

 ayup

 for the life of me I can’t understand how anyone could say no to either of them

  Lor:

 interesting choice to have Dean lying down like this for this scene

  RIGHT?

  Mace:

 well if they didn’t then he’s have burned the dude without chatting first

  Lor:

 it's definitely not as sexual assaulty as somethings they do to him, but

  Mace:

 and they needed Sammy to have his little existential crisis talk first

  Lor:

 well, he could be unconscious in a chair or something

  Mace:

 mmm

  Lor:

 LYING

  Mace:

 YEP

  Lor:

 oh boys

  Mace:

 yeah