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boundsoffateandfamily · 2 years ago

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broke: john sent dean in his birthday to burn&salt two lesbian nuns because he's a lgbtphobe and hates lesbians and his gay-ass son woke: john sent dean in his birthday to burn&salt two lesbian nuns because he and dean are atheists and hate nuns and actually that was his birthday present

#(that dean enjoyed thoroughly)#john winchester a+ parenting #(but unironically)#as an antitheist i relate #but really.. i've read the journal and it seems to me pretty contrived to interpret that fragment like john's trying to #psychologically torture dean or send him a message or whatever #like. there's nothing in the text that suggests a moral judgement against the nuns #and idk if im missing the connotations (english is not my mother tongue) but i read 'tense' in that context and it only makes me think #that john understimated the dangers of the mission #he'd thought it'd be like a walk in the park and then dean comes back home super late and pretty thrashed or uknow something like that #i mean #yeah the nuns did nothing wrong when they were alive but. a lot of ghosts are like that in the show. there are very bleak episodes #if the ghosts are resentful and raising hell then it's a job #and im not saying john is not an homophobe. only that i dont see how the journal supports that #((i mean c'mon hunting is subtextually kinda fascist with all the 'kill the monster/different/other/othered' stuff and the paramilitarism #and the 'chosen' bloodlines... so yeah #that's more interesting imo than the particular headcanons about john's mind openness))#ALSO one of my favorite things about the journal is how john won't give up his atheism lmao till the very end #he won't accept the existence of demons.. ICONIC

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