#supernatural season 16

[gracie-jordan-is-a-dinosaur-67]

I NEED THIS 😭😭

s16 ep1: The Rescue

[fallingforfictionalmen]

personally (and I think about this a lot) I wholeheartedly think the only way to make sense of the ending and also have a season 16 that doesn’t just backtrack a bunch of shit is to make dean have been attacked by a djinn right after Jack becomes god. this explains why they stopped at a pie festival, why heaven was so beautiful, why we see sam randomly growing old (bc it’s dean’s djinn dream, he didn’t think about the woman) and also makes their ending clothes make sense. and maybe sam saves him, personally I think it’d be cool if claire saved him and she became a main character, or maybe dean realizes it’s not real when things are “too” perfect, but this can all be done in one episode and then you have the rest of the season to set up whatever the fuck you want the boys to be fighting.

also cas comes back bc I said so. I don’t care how, nor do I have any sensible ideas, but he’s there. thank you

[hospital-wh0re]

know for a fact that im going to find out about the us election results via the fucking destiel meme on my morning tumblr dash. i am resigned to this fate and will make no effort to watch the news, the results will find me the way god intended

[beinghymen]

If they do bring back Supernatural for season 16, they NEED to descale the power of the enemies. In fact, there should be no enemies at all. No evil monsters trying to end the world- just all of the characters facing their own pasts and healing. All the conflict should be personal, human problems. How does Dean get a day job after all he's seen? What does sam choose to do with his future? Will Cas choose to leave heaven to live with the Winchesters, or stay in heaven with Jack? Will the brothers start their own families now that they are free? Oh, and will they finally all go to therapy?

[mypeopleskillzarerusty]

Some so-called Supernatural fans: "The actors have all moved on. There is no need for a 16th season."

Misha Collins: "I found Castiel in my carpet."

[angel-fruitcake]

remember when jackles said at a con that he wanted to do a western/rom-com with misha? it's not too late jensen. spn s16 provides the perfect opportunity to play with that idea. just spitballin here

[lovealwayssay]

Talking to my brother, who only knows Jensen Ackles from The Boys.

Me: I was dissapointed that they announced the Soldier Boy prequel before a Supernatural reboot.

My brother: Jensen would never do a Supernatural reboot. He's better than that now.

Me: You don't even know how wrong you are. There is no escape from Supernatural, especially for the Dean Winchester vessel himself.

[billiewena]

FOUR YEARS SINCE NOV 5TH, 2020, as summed up by Supernatural

past recaps: year one / year two / year three / year four

full context and sources below:

various explanations + resources/sources/extra reading on this year's recap:

balls deep: misha collins says the quiet part out loud at Cross Roads 8 Supernatural Convention, saying "if the CW wasn't so homophobic dean and cas would've been balls deep for sure" at a con (x) (x) (x)

garthbenny canon: supernatural actors DJ Qualls (who played hunter-turned-werewolf Garth Fitzgerald) and Ty Olsson (who played the vampire Benny Lafitte) reveal they're married, delighting crack shippers like myself everywhere (x)

spn spooky picture book: official supernatural children's picture book is released, retconning things like john winchester as a happy father figure and castiel being their cowardly childhood friend who sorta hangs around (x) (x)

boop button: tumblr introduces a feature people enjoy for once for april fool's day and halloween and allows users to boop each other, spn bloggers re-awake like sleeper agents to use it in full force (x) (x)

bedlund speaks on destiel: former spn writer ben edlund goes on a tweet fest replying to fans, talking about destiel multiple times including this profound tweet (x)

clear text, not subtext: jensen speaks out again on the confession at Purcon 8, this time taking a more open stance on how the relationship was textual, his take on dean's feelings about cas's feelings, and how the scene with cas deserved a resolution (x)

bury your gays: famed author chuck tingle (known for his plethora of highly specific and delightfully inclusive, if strange, indie erotica novels) publishes his second mainstream horror novel, inspired by TV network studios' infamous history of censoring LGBT relationships and openly killing off queer characters. In a non-subtle nod to supernatural fans, the main character is named misha. (sidenote: did end up reading this and this book is actually really good commentary on the industry in general and really good, 10/10 recommend) (x) also someone got the book signed by misha, to further break the fourth wall (x)

tracker: jensen ackles begins starring in a CBS show where he is basically csoplaying dean winchester, with the show featuring many non-subtle spn references (i.e. him pretending to almost get in an impala before going to his truck, characters wearing spn necklaces, etc.) (x) (x) (x) (special shout-out to clarice @youre-only-gay-once for expertly tracking the tracker show and these easter eggs, highly recommend their tag for their show)

cw's walker cancelled: fans rejoiced upon hearing the cancellation news for jared's post-supernatural show, walker, a remake of "walker texas ranger." in addition to generally being a copaganda show for the notoriously racist texas rangers, jared's inspiration for the show's direction caused much concern. the actor himself said the show was inspired by the US border crisis, not by the immigrant families affected by the separation and internment, but instead wanting exploring the POV of the law enforcement agents working at the border and the moral dilemmas they had to face (x)

pro-destiel Wonder Woman: Lynda Carter (aka the iconic and beloved original actress for Wonder Woman, not the z*onist one) says she could "go for some Destiel" when promoting #GeeksandNerdsforHarrisWalz and Misha's involvement (x) the rest of the spn cast and original Showrunner Kripke were also a big part of this event

chili's backfire: the chain restaurant chili's drags destiel while interacting with 9-1-1 bucktommy shippers on twitter, immediately gets backfire. notably, their stock takes a dip the next day. coincidence? maybe so, maybe not (x) (x)

samgirl voting fraud: "who is the gayest spn character" tumblr poll surprisingly gets heated, with a blogger straight-up admitting they used a bot on the "castiel vs. sam" poll to rig the poll in sam's favor, which they apparently also did for w*ncest in another poll in the past, and posting a guide on how anyone could do the same. luckily democracy wins in this one instance and castiel prevails anyways, leading to an also contested "castiel vs. charlie bradbury" round (x) (x)

pink pony jarpad: jared is spotted at lesbian pop star chappell roan's set at a festival, un-likely place for him to be (x) also may have been one of the "boring" people called out by chappell? (x)

pro-kamala castiel: in a last-ditch effort to get out the vote, misha uses the power of castiel photo ops to campaign for harris-walz and even shouts-out destiel. I feel depressed writing this sentence, if you've made it this long in your read and you're in the states I hope you're doing alright! maybe by the time I wake up things will be a little different though. (x)

[entropyofnuance]

I think the worst thing that could happen (and therefore it will now be extremely likely) is that Jared and Misha get introduced to The Boys season 5 as “old hunting buddies” of Soldier Boy or smthn

[the-crap-gatsby]

“Carry on my wayward son” Damn right they’re carrying on. They’ve switched time lines and Dean now fucks GILFs, but they persist…

[thehornysideofgeology]

*putting my hands on your face*

Hey, look at me. Look me in the eyes.

They will not kiss each other. Don't get your hopes up, they will not kiss. You and I both know this, there's no point in deluding ourselves. They will not kiss.

[the-mpreg-guy]

You are kidnapped by CW execs, hold on a gunpoint and asked to write a script for Supernatural season 16. What's gonna be the plot?

They don't even have to kidnap me to do this, I'd do it for free. I'd pay THEM to let me do it.

Dean and Sam are still stuck in one of Chuck's mindgames and that he has Jack stashed away somewhere. Dean poking at the walls parallel universes in SPNWN was the beginning of him figuring out that there's something amiss, and Jack's ooc behavior regarding it. Is like. The final nail in the coffin (no pun intended).

The first half of the season would be Dean and Sam splitting up in Heaven to connect with previous spn characters who have died. Sam finds Mary, Bobby, Ellen, Jo, Ash, and then has a sideplot where he runs into Jess and gets closure regarding that. Dean runs into Charlie, Victor, John, and Kevin (to name a few). I really really would love some satisfying conflict between Dean and John, and I would like Sam and Mary to actually Interact and have opinions about each other.

The end of the first arc is Dean finding Jack, so we can get some delicious interactions between the two of them (pls let Jack actually have a Reaction to Cas being dead), and so that they can go absolutely balls-to-the-wall crazy by agreeing to the same stupid, dangerous plan to open the Empty and get Cas back.

Anyway, part 2 of the season is the gang all getting together, dodging Chuck, who starts bringing Angels back to go after Dean and Sam. Dean tells Sam that the plan is to open the Empty and dump Chuck in there, but doesn't mention that he and Jack are also going to jump into the Empty to save Cas (bc Sam would stop him and also I love it when Dean lies to Sam's face). The plan goes stupid bc Sam figures out what's going on and all three of them end up in the Empty.

I don't have exactly any set ideas for how the rest of this happens, but I need them to interact with Crowley and I need Sam and Ruby interactions. Somehow they do a Chuck/Cas Empty swap and get Cas back. I would introduce a new mechanic that the only way to get Cas out of the Empty is to wake him up (the Empty actually gets him to sleep) and so they have to go through Cas's mind to wake him. Jack gets to use his powers and like beam Dean into Cas's mind and I get a self indulgent sexy recap of every single regret that Cas has ever had flashing in front of Dean's eyes.

Anyway something something Dean finds Cas in the barn where they met on earth, something something Cas tells him to leave him there and then obviously Dean gets to say "don't you think you deserve to be saved" and it's vomit inducing. Just as Castiel wakes up, so does the Empty and shit hits the fan.

Cas tries to play mr self sacrifice to get everyone out, but Dean won't let him bc he's sick of that shit. The portal Jack opened is closing, but last minute Dean grabs Cas and their soul/grace interact, recharging Cas back to full power and he flies them out.

Something something, Chuck gets chucked (lmao) into the Empty, something something, Michael/Adam was involved this season, something something either Michael, Amara, or whoever the fuck is in charge of Heaven and not Jack because he deserves to be a normal person without that insane responsibility.

Dean retires and opens a bar, Sam continues hunting and expands the hunter network (and Samwena canon bc istg 🔫), Cas and Jack dont hunt, dont not hunt, but do a secret third thing (commit funny felonies).

Also Destiel canon sex scene. If Jensen Ackles and Misha Collins can hump on stage in front of us, they can take their pants off for a pg-13 sex scene on my monster show.

That's the BROAD strokes of what I would want for a s16. If we're pretending that there are more seasons after s16, then all of that would go a little differently and I wouldn't have Dean quit hunting.

Alternative answer is that I'd submit Shal's s15 finale fix-it fic for a supernatural movie directed by Jensen Ackles.

[fishingisuniversal]

[sisyphuswinchester]

Yall I cannot wait to hear all the bts stories that are gonna come from J2M after they film the boys together.

My predictions are the following:

•Jared is going to walk through a set wall, halting production for 4 days

•the main cast is gonna think Misha is a little weird and Jensens gonna be following him around giggling at everything he says (Jensen is gonna lose all the cool point he had built up)

•Jared is gonna absolutely terrorize Misha and Jensen is gonna be the only one who can reel him in

•Jensen is gonna dare Jared to do something stupid then immediately regret it

• Misha gonna try to payback Jared for something and accidentally go too far and somehow set his trailer on fire

•the cast is gonna be completely flabbergasted at the J2M dynamic and be so confused that Jensen is somehow the instigator and moderator of the whole dynamic

•Misha is gonna be unable to stand next to Jared in scenes because Jared won’t leave him alone. Forcing Misha to stand closer to Jensen furthering the Destiel narrative and tumblr will crash

[mentallyunstablebicycle]

Do you guys recall when a fan asked Jared and Jensen if there was every going to be a season 16, and Jared's respond was "comeback in 2025"? Well 2025 is here and suddenly Jared and Misha are confirmed to be on The Boys season 5. It may not be on Supernatural, but Team Free Will is back!

[mypeopleskillzarerusty]

"Dean didn't reciprocate" is such a weird take. Watch his reaction during and after Cas' declaration. Then watch how he responds to the phone call when he believes it is Cas calling him. Words aren't always necessary.