#spn Meta

[deancasforcutie]

#SO MANY EMOTIONS ABOUT THIS #THE SMALL BIT OF HOPE THATS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY RIPPED AWAY #WHAT A GOOD NARRATIVE #GOOD JOB SHOW #GOOD JOB (via @deathbycoldopen)

[otheredsam]

sharp objects, 1.08 & p.251

supernatural, 4.09 & 4.21

[follows-the-bees]

Thinking about how Sam and Dean carved their initials into Baby cause it's their first home. Then the Bunker cause it's their second home. How they carved Cas', Jack's, and Mary's names at the Bunker because it was their home as well, they made that home/family together.

Also thinking about how they put Castiel. They hardly ever use his full name but from a story perspective it's sweet.

From a production side, they probably did it because of the great divide of how to spell Cas.

Thinking about the choice to put Jack and not Jack Kline. About Jack declaring he was a Winchester.

Jack was a product of all his parents, he was both a Kline and a Winchester. But ultimately he was exactly who he wanted to be. Just Jack.

[angel-fruitcake]

People see jensen being very busy as a reason a revival wouldn’t happen but (and maybe this is just clown thinking) what if with him doing three different shows for Prime gets him comfortable enough on that platform to be able to pitch a spn revival to them? he could use his surge in popularity with Solider Boy and be like I’ll do *this* for you if you give me *this*(the revival).

He just seems very adamant on bringing it back like he has a plan and I feel like he’d shut down the idea rather than feed into it if it wasn’t a real possibility.

i 1000000% agree with you, anon. his positive attitude toward the revival really makes me believe that Jensen truly wants to make it happen, and his shining rapport with amazon is most definitely going to work in his favor as far as pulling the right strings imo. i have faith that he's working behind the scenes to get the ball rolling as best he can. we just have to be patient 😌

at first glance, i thought this was going to be yet another anon message mocking me for my continued hope in a revival (i get quite a few of those smh), so it's refreshing to see someone in my inbox who shares my enthusiasm about it. thank you!! 💕

[dreamytfw]

I find it very interesting that there is, at best, minimal textual evidence that says or suggests Dean was sexually assaulted in Hell, but Sam being sexually assaulted in Hell is so blatant and explicit they constantly have Lucifer making "jokes" about it.

[spn2006]

the fact that eric kripke isn't even christian really adds something to the way christianity is depicted on supernatural. because its really not about being christian at all, but about living in america, a country dominated by christianity, and having to decide for yourself how to handle that. faith is huge in supernatural, and the mythology of the show is very bible-centric, but notably, christ is never there. even sam, who starts out revering the angels, who once said he prays every night, doesn't actually call himself a christian or imply that he believes in jesus--the show is steeped in christianity and biblical lore and yet neither sam nor dean are christians. in fact, over and over again the church itself is depicted as a haunted house that sam and dean will only ever enter as strangers, as outsiders. priests, preachers, faith healers, chapels, crypts, etc. are all just iconography that create an intense sense of unease that sam and dean respond to instantly. as a jew, its very relatable. an essential part of living in america when you're not christian is that exact sense of unease, of knowing that the culture of your country has ensured that you'll get knocked over by christianity no matter where you go, that you'll see hundreds of people truly believing they're good people while doing awful things in the name of their god, and you have no choice but to confront that. kripke gets it

[follows-the-bees]

Dean's emotional journey in season seven and the symbolism of Bobby's flask and Cas' trenchcoat

This is one of the lowest times of the whole show for the brothers and co. Dean watches his best friend die twice in a matter of minutes. He is without a home, even Baby is gone. They are staying at abandoned places not even shitty motels.

Then his father figure is killed, comes back as a ghost, and they have to "kill" him again.

Dean's headspace is at an all time low. He is struggling not only with all of this but about being a hunter and being a human — being himself.

Dean is constantly told to suck it up. Told he's a hunter, it's part of the job. In other words, put your feelings away, lock yourself away, do the work, kill the monster.

And through all this we get the emotional, funny scene of "he doesn't care." He's listened and shoved those feelings down, as much as Dean can.

But there are two things that tether Dean this season. First we have...

Bobby's Flask

Dean keeps the flask on him as a talisman. While he drinks from it and is in a constant state of inebriation, pushing down those feelings that Bobby told him about, trying to be the hunter.

He still carries it around as more than a way to get drunk. He carries it around as a reminder of Bobby, of his father figure, since Bobby can no longer travel with them.

Bobby's spirit is tied to this flask, and in that way, with Dean's emotional journey/grieving of Bobby. When the brothers burn the flask, they are truly saying goodbye to Bobby. And Dean is saying goodbye to the emotional state and drinking that he's used to dealing with everything. He is balancing being a hunter and being a human again.

Next we have...

Cas' trenchcoat and Cas himself

As stated before, all the constants and comforts of before are taken away. All Dean has is his brother, Bobby's flask, and the trenchcoat. He has moved this trenchcoat around from car to car. Place to place. But unlike the flask, It is not on his person. It sits in the trunk of each car along with the only possessions the brothers can carry with them, some weapons and clothing, and such...

While it is not as forefront, it is just as important.

Cas as Emmanuel in their first meeting tells Dean the opposite of what everyone else this season has been telling him. He tells him that it's okay to have emotions. That he's human.

And Dean takes that and embraces it. He gives Cas the trenchcoat back. The trenchcoat that is still covered in blood. That could have stood as a symbolism for the hurt and mistakes and unspoken words between them. But instead stands for the longing, hope, and love. And Cas takes this symbol and immediately puts it on his body. He accepts the love and Dean for who he is.

Dean may have had to get through tons of burner phones, cars, abandoned houses with questionable plumbing and electricity, but he always has his brother, Bobby's flask, and Cas' trenchcoat as an anchor. And each stage ending with Cas coming back sends Dean through an emotional journey of shoving down his feelings and just being a hunter, doing the job, embracing his emotions and starting to heal, to be his whole self cause he's more than just a hunter.

And always will be.

[deancasforcutie]

#seriously i'm forming a jerry wanek fan club and you're all invited (via @thevioletcaptain)

Oh look, an Impala statuette framed with Cas to represent him siding with the Winchesters.

Have I mentioned lately how much I love Jerry Wanek?

[strawlessandbraless]

Supernatural 6x18 // 14x18 // 15x09

I love when the angel is down to his final straw

[t00muchheart]

I’m sorry the fact that when Castiel pulled Dean out of Hell he proclaimed “Dean Winchester has been saved” with such force that it broke through Anna’s humanity to the angelic part of her mind is something we don’t talk about enough actually

[deancasforcutie]

#i mean really it doesn't matter if it's a boy or a girl because dean's fully capable of loving it either way #spn crack #but also 100000% true and serious #:P (via @thevioletcaptain)

# Dean Winchester can’t even remember if his new beloved tv is a boy or a girl # no worries Dean # it happens to the best of us

[alfalfapie]

my new Destiel theory: Dean couldn't say I love you not because of his own denial of the fact but because Chuck refused to write it like Chuck's weird psycho-sexual obsession with Dean made him so twisted that rather than allow his character to follow a natural arc that the character itself wanted to follow (see s8 rewrite of "I love you" into "I need you"), he just kept dodging it through increasingly ridiculous and pathetic ploys. he couldn't bear to watch Dean choose free will (Cas) over his heavenly ordained plan, so he just kept fucking with their relationship (see every divorce/widower arc, and all the other will they/won't they shit). really puts Cas's "What's real? We are." into context. like they are, in fact, the only real thing, despite Chuck's attempts to dismantle their relationship.

[ilovejohnwinchester]

Thinking about early days on the road before John started leaving Sam with Dean and was still going around and talking to hunters trying to learn everything he could. Imagine you’re some hunter and you get a call that the new guy in town wants to meet at the roadhouse and talk demons or werewolves or witches or whatever, then he shows up with a 4-year-old and a baby. He’s real serious and writes down everything you say in his journal but he also has to get up halfway through to sing and bounce a cranky baby to sleep on his shoulder while the kid stares at you with a mouth full of French fries. No wonder every hunter in John’s generation seems to remember Dean and Sam whether Dean and Sam know them or not.

[supernaturalsidepiece]

NOO DONT BE DOOMED BY THE NARRATIVE YOU'RE SO SEXY AHA.

[deancasforcutie]

#exactly. people have been telling Dean this shit for years and it was like talking to a brick wall #because he could love anybody but himself #but Cas says it and it *gets through* (via @ilarual)

the thing is. it's not like people didn't love dean, or try to tell dean how amazing he is, or try to explain to him why he deserves happiness. he had that, and a lot of it. it's the fact that there is only one single being whose opinion of dean struck him so deeply that it genuinely altered the way he views himself, and that's cas. after forty-one years, dean winchester sees himself through cas' eyes, and trusts him enough to believe it.

[thefableddestiel]

It’s true that, originally, Cas only rebelled in one universe. But it’s not true anymore.

The second that story was shown to us, countless amounts of Fanfiction, Fanart, and literally just thoughts, created new realities. The love Cas expressed was so powerful and beautiful that it inspired us to bring more universes into being.

Every time a fanfiction is written, Cas rebels again. Every time fanart is drawn, Cas loves again. Every time an idea is thought up, Cas feels again.

And maybe one day, those will outnumber the ones where he obeys, if it doesn’t already.