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[thequeenofsastiel]

I just love that Sam didn't get angry with Castiel for not returning his calls or texts in 15x07. For exactly two sentences he seemed a little upset, but then he just. Immediately let it go. Because he loves Castiel, and just can't be angry with him. Like, since the beginning of season 7, has Sam ever once been angry with Castiel? That's a genuine question. Like he wasn't even openly angry with Castiel at ANY point for breaking the wall in his head that was protecting him from thousands of years of Hell memories. The ONLY reason that Sam tried to kill Castiel was to save the world. He was also the ONLY person who still believed that the Castiel he loved was still there at the beginning of s7. Sure, buried deep, but still there. Bobby didn't believe it. Dean didn't believe it. But Sam KNEW it. He KNEW that Castiel hadn't disappeared. And it was Sam's belief in him that broke through to who Castiel really was. Sam's love for Castiel saved the world. And we just don't appreciate that the way we should.

[casirosa]

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[winchesticles67]

can i be so real. will i get shamed by the majority of the spn fandom. probably but i dont want to be. (i come in peace brother)

how. how is destiel a thing bro. dean was so. fucking. mean. to that angel. like. toxic relationship alert. too toxic. so toxic. aah its scary how do you guys see that as healthy and as love.

"no one cares that youre broken cas."

thats not love.

"something went wrong something always goes wrong" "and why does that something always seem to be you"

neither is that.

#sastiel because they talk nicely to each other and drink milkshakes and hug and "nothing is worth losing you" is love. "i want gadreel to pay as much as you do" is love.

[queen-of-deans-booty]

Fan Fiction: Part Two

Pairing: Dean Winchester x Female!Reader

Word Count: ~2.3k

Warnings: canon angst and violence, extra angst

Summary: Not only did Chuck write books about your lives, but a damn musical theater is putting a play on about your goddamn lives. You try to let them handle this one on their own but they're not letting you go, and it's time to bring insurance to make sure you never leave them.

Season Ten Masterlist

Author’s Note: I do not own anything from Supernatural. All credit goes to their respective owners. I love seeing any and all comments <3

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You roll your eyes but do as you're told, and Dean grabs your arm when you join his side. He practically drags you outside and back to the car with his brother following.

"You need to be on better behavior. You came here to do a job, so do your damn job."

"No, you came here to do a job," you say and yank your arm out of Dean's grasp. "I just tagged along to see what kind of mess you two would get yourselves into and right now, I'm not impressed."

Sam steps in as the mediator before you and Dean get into a physical fight.

"Help me understand something. Shouldn't it be Deastiel?" Sam asks.

"Really? That's your issue with all this?"

"What the hell are you talking about?" you ask.

"Dean and Cas' lover's name," Sam smirks.

"Thanks for telling her. Because I don't already have enough shit to deal with."

"How about Sastiel?" you grin and look at Sam.

"I think it would be Samstiel."

"Okay, you two are gonna do that thing where you shut the hell up forever."

"Look, man, there are no EMF or hex bags," Sam chuckles. "None of the props are even remotely funky. Other than the Charlie Kaufman of it all, I got nothing. What about you?"

"In Ms. Chandler's office, there's just a pile of empty bottles and regret. She's just probably face-down in a bar, somewhere. So, what? This whole musical thing and everything is a coincidence? That there is no case?"

"Unless you're seeing something I'm not, no, Dean. There isn't a case here."

"Okay."

"What about CasDean?"

"Shut the fuck up and get in the car!" Dean barks.

You and Sam snicker before following suit. Sam thinks this isn't a case while you and Dean aren't too sure and tomorrow morning, you get your answer. There has been another disappearance, and it's the girl who plays Sam. She didn't want to do the play in the first place, and she just disappeared according to Marie. You and the brothers head back to the auditorium to talk to her. Dean talks to the principal while Sam talks to the police while you just stand off to the side with a bored look on your face.

"So, I checked with the principal. There's nothing on the surveillance tapes," Dean says when he regroups. "What did the cops say?"

"The only clue they found was a flower by the dumpster. The same flower that was found near Ms. Chandler's phone." He shows you and Dean the flower. "Do you recognize it?"

"No."

"Yeah, me either."

You three walk to the back where Marie and Maeve are. Marie is shaken up from what she saw last night.

"Hey," Sam says.

"Let me guess. Did you guys come here to laugh at me, too?"

"Probably," you shrug and Dean shoves you away.

"Why don't you tell us what happened to your friend."

"Maggie quit the show. She was trying to get it shut down, so we were fighting. Then, she left and I heard her scream. I ran outside to help and I saw a scarecrow. It looked just like the one from our show but alive."

"What happened next?"

"It wrapped her in vines and took her behind the dumpster. Then, they were both just gone. I called the cops and a bunch of adults just told me I have an overactive imagination. It's all real. Ghosts, angels, and demons."

You laugh at her statement and Sam slaps your arm to get you to stop.

"I wanna believe," Maeve shrugs.

Sam and Dean look at each other in thought. Dean nods once and Sam turns to the girls.

"You should believe. You both should because it is all real and so are we. I'm Sam Winchester, that's Dean, and that's Y/N."

Marie and Maeve look at each other to process the news before they both bust out laughing as if they don't believe you.

"If I had my magic, I'd really give you something to laugh about," you glare.

"Okay, I'm willing to accept that monsters are real but those books are works of fiction."

"Plus, you three are way too old to be Sam, Dean, and Y/N. Maybe a Jody/Bobby/Rufus combo," Maeve says.

"I'm gonna kill them," you say and Dean immediately shuts that down.

"Alright, Little Miss Sunshine. We are what the books call hunters."

"You guys are X-Files?"

"Sure, you can say that. So, this scarecrow from your musical is based on something from the book?"

"No, I changed it. I got scared of a local legend when I was a kid. There was this old creepy scarecrow on an abandoned farm outside of town. Kids used to say that if it caught you, it would take you away."

"Okay, if this scarecrow is based on your version, then Ms. Chandler and Maggie might still be alive."

"You think the scarecrow was created by the play?" Maeve asks.

"You think it's a Tulpa?" Marie gasps.

"Where's the library?" Dean asks.

Marie and Maeve take you and the brothers to the library so they can do research on what a Tulpa is. There is a section for the weird and freaky that Sam heads to. You're so fucking bored so you're not invested in whatever they're doing. You're looking at the books on the shelves as the four of them sit at one of the library tables to read Sam's book.

"Tulpas are monsters that are created by an intense, focused energy on an idea or a story," Sam explains.

"Ugh, I want to go home," you groan loudly.

"How do you kill an idea?" Maeve asks.

"Well, in Hell House, Sam, Dean, and Y/N burnt the house down to take out the one tulpa they hunted," Marie explains.

"Yeah, if you kill the symbol, you kill the tulpa. It's a pretty good place to start. Is this scarecrow of yours a person or a prop?"

"Prop, and it's terrifying. We keep it in the boiler room."

"Can you guys give us a second? Just read up on this." Sam and Dean join your side by the bookshelf while the two girls read about the monster. "Okay, this doesn't add up. Tulpas require a ton of psychic energy to juice up. It's not like the Supernatural books are tearing up the New York Times best-seller list. I seriously doubt this play has even sold out."

"I hope not," Dean shudders.

"You know what?" Sam digs for the picture of the flower from his jacket pocket. "I've seen this flower in the lore somewhere. There's gotta be a connection."

"Or," you drawl out, "we can leave and let them fend for themselves."

"Watch it," Dean growls.

"Fine, I am more than happy to let you handle this while I go off to the nearest beach to get a tan."

"No, you're staying here with us. Come on." Dean drags you to Marie who looks up at you two. "Can you show us the boiler room?"

"Sure."

Marie does as she's told and brings you to the boiler room. There isn't much inside here except for something small underneath a drop cloth. Marie looks as if the thing will come to life and bite her, she's that terrified.

"Prepare yourselves. It's horrifying," Marie shudders.

Dean grabs the end of the cloth and yanks it off the scarecrow. You expected to see something horrifying with sharp teeth, blood, and guts over it. Instead, it's a fucking joke. Both eyes are buttons that have been poorly sewn on, one red and one blue. The mouth is just a thread that's been criss-crossed over one another.

"Are you fucking kidding me? This is the scarecrow you're so fucking scared of? What, is the Easter Bunny gonna come out and attack us?" you ask sarcastically.

"Y/N," Dean warns.

"No, this is fucking dumb! This whole play is fucking dumb. Books should have never been written about our lives because of dumb shit like this." You look at Marie with an unapologetic look on your face. "No offense, but this play fucking sucks."

"Excuse us," Dean says nervously. He grabs your arm tightly and drags you out of the boiler room. When the door closes, you yank your arm away from him. "You need to cut this shit right now."

"Or what?" You step closer to Dean in defiance. "What power do you have over me? You're not a demon anymore. You're weak as shit. Don't think for one second that you can control what I do. I'm not your bitch anymore."

Dean takes a step closer to you so your toes are touching.

"I will not hesitate to lock you up in the dungeon and keep you there until your soul is restored."

You tip your head back and laugh loudly.

"It's about fucking time you figured it out."

"You knew?"

"Of course, I knew. I knew the second I woke up."

"It doesn't matter because you need to put a cork in it. Don't speak unless spoken to."

Dean turns on his heels and walks back into the boiler room alone. Don't speak unless spoken to. Who the fuck does he think he's talking to? Once Dean and Marie are done in the boiler room, the three of you head back to the library where Sam and Maeve are. Marie is so happy that she pulls Dean in for a hug whether he wants one or not.

"Thank you!"

"It's not a Tulpa," Sam halts the celebration.

"What?"

"It's Calliope, the goddess of epic poetry. She's associated with the borage or starflower. That's the picture."

Sam shows a picture of the flower which resembles the flower that was at both disappearances.

"Wait, if this is a God thing, what's with the scarecrow?"

"According to the lore, Calliope manifests creatures from the story she's tuned into."

"So, the scarecrow is alive, and we burned my prop for nothing?" Marie asks Dean.

"Oh, that thing needed to burn."

"The only way to destroy the scarecrow is to kill Calliope. She uses these manifestations, like the scarecrow, to inspire the author and protect them until their vision is realized."

"Then what?"

"She eats the author," Sam winces.

"Okay, that's bad," Marie gasps.

"Is it?" you ask. "Something interesting should happen because it's not this play."

"Were you spoken to?" Dean glares at you. "If not, shut the hell up. Go sit in time out."

If looks could kill, Dean would be dead. Still, you leave the group and sit down in an uncomfortable library chair.

"Well, you get your wish," Marie says to you. "Let's cancel the show."

"That's what your teacher and your classmate did. They tried to shut you down, and the scarecrow took them. She was protecting you and the show."

"So the scarecrow is the boogeyman? We need to take our shot with Calliope, but she won't come out until your vision is realized."

"What are you saying?" Marie asks.

"The show must go on!"

"Okay," you say and stand up, "I'm not staying here anymore. You two have fun."

You turn and leave the library. You're not sure where you're going to go but you need to get the hell out of here. You'll take a cab or an Uber to somewhere that's not here. Sam and Dean excuse themselves and immediately follow you outside to the desolate parking lot.

"You're not leaving!" Dean barks.

You immediately stop and turn to him, which causes Sam and Dean to stop in their tracks.

"What are you going to do about it? Why should I care about hunting something and saving people when I don't give a fuck about their lives? Seriously, I'd rather watch this play burn down to the ground with everyone in it. In fact, I might just grab a box of matches and light the place up myself." Dean and Sam look at each other to have a silent conversation with their eyes. "That's what I thought."

You turn and walk away from them, not hearing the light steps of Dean. He grabs you from around the waist and sticks something into your neck. You feel a sharp pinch underneath your ear and hiss in pain. You shove Dean off you and turn to him while touching the side of your neck. There is something metal sticking into your skin, and no matter how much you pick at it, it's not coming out.

"What the fuck did you do to me?"

Dean holds up an old-looking remote that he no doubt got from the Bunker. Sam walks behind you but your eyes are glued onto the remote in his hand.

"If you misbehave, talk shit, or do anything that isn't helping, I'm going to shock you into behaving. Trust me, I got this from the Bunker. It hurts like a fucking bitch."

"You're bluffing," you call him out. "I bet that thing isn't even turned on."

Dean shrugs and presses the button. Almost immediately, shocks stem from the device to your entire body. Your body goes rigid and you fall back into Sam who catches you easily. You clench your jaw in pain and stare at Dean who walks closer to you with a smirk. The shock is so painful that you can't even speak. He waits three seconds before turning it off, and your body goes limp. You find whatever strength you have left and shove yourself off Sam who steps back from you.

"I'm more than happy to press this all day long if you want. Or you can march your ass back inside and help us kill this thing. Your choice, sweetheart." You walk closer to Dean with a death glare on your face. With lightning speed, you reach up to grab the remote, but he's quicker than you are. He tosses the remote to Sam who catches it easily. "You might be able to take one of us on but not both. Go ahead and try. All it takes is one press of the button and you're done."

You have no choice but to do as they say... for now. You storm back inside the building but the brothers stay outside.

"What kind of trouble is waiting for us when we take that thing off her neck?" Sam asks and hands the remote back to Dean.

"It's only until her soul is pure so we can shove it back inside her. Come on," Dean sighs.

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[thedeadedhooman]

Favourite supernatural ship/s

thanks for the ask anon<3

samjess is my favourite I guess. it's tragic and sad and beautiful. It always makes me upset and I end up in a puddle of tears. It hurts my brain and heart. It's like a stabbing pain in the gut. what gets me is that even after such a long time, sam could never actually let go of jessica I think. I mean what am I supposed to feel after the i still think about jessica. he was shopping for rings, and he proposed to a ghost, to his past. a nice sweet normal figment of his life, that he held on to for a while until tragedy struck. sam probably doesn't even have any photos of jessica, they were all burnt in the fire. he probably had that voicemail that she sent when he went with dean to hunt the woman in white. which probably got deleted when they had to switch phones or simcards cuz of their shitty lifestyle. she's only a memory to him...fuck

sastiel cuz I love their autistic swag. of course there are moments that make me mad like cas breaking sam's wall but cas also took sam's pain. sam and castiel are so soft and tender with each other. I just know the sex would've been a galaxy brain moment.

samruby because they're toxic af but they truly loved each other at some point. they would've worshipped each other I think. it's bout the roles and the dynamics, there's also a lot of manipulation and betrayal going on and that adds to the more complex elements regarding the pairing. also the soft tender way ruby tries to cajole sam into believing that what he did was right scratches at my brain because she too sacrificed a lot to be the one who catalysed the whole thing. they could've ruled hell together. and their whole sex scene is like two lesbians fucking each other.

deanlisa because dean had a bit of normalcy and a cute son. dean and lisa made a cute pairing I think. he got to be a dad for a little while I guess. It's sad and tragic cuz when cas wiped Lisa and Ben's memories, it really hurt. Like you build this little family and they gave you something to hold on to for a while when you missed your brother and then have all of that taken away from you PERMANENTLY. that shit is sad af.

sambrady because I KNOW WHAT THEY HAD GOING ON. demon lover brady my beloved. I know they fucked. cuz brady is a demon and he died.

samsarah. they are so cute. and honestly out of all the partners sam had in the show I think sarah blake would have been perfect for sam imo. she wanted to help them during the hunt. she's a tough girl. they kiss for the first and the last time and she hopes that sam would visit again. she keeps waiting and waiting and waiting, days turn into weeks, weeks into months, months into years and then one day she gets married has a kid and that tall floofy haired boy with the puppy dog eyes turns up at her doorstep. she has moved on obviously but at what cost? she died cuz of the very man she waited for so long. and oh sammy. the only reason why he didn't go back was that he knew it was dangerous for her. later he had to go to her to save her but again at what cost? sarah still died and she had a husband and a kid...

wincest. do I need to even say anything? I mean where do I even start? It's not like I want them to fuck each other but it's the codependency. there's a lot going on with these two that can't be seen with the naked eyes. it's the subtext, the yearning, the longing looks, the roles...how dean can't function without sam, he's afraid to be alone, how sam loses it when dean is gone, the need to be the no. 1 person on their priority list, and the fact that they're canonical soulmates. yeah they're weird and that's what I like about it. sam and dean winchester are psychotically, irrationally, erotically codependent on each other.

sammadison how could I not mention this one. THIS IS MY FAVOURITE AS WELL. I mean it's so fucking tragic. like you think you saved the girl but for what? it didn't work and it's gonna happen again and there's no cure and you two share these tender moments of intimacy thinking everything's gonna be okay only to be met with the opposite. you gave her hope and now it's being taken away..it's never gonna be okay and she asks you to kill her. whatthefuck. now you slowly see yourself in her, what if I become a monster and there's no way back and what if someone I love so much has to put me down like a sick dog. GOSH. I cried while watching that episode.

I also like samwena and saileen and megstiel but I haven't watched the later seasons that well so can't say much.

[ladylilithprime]

Day 12: Harvest Festival

(Sequel to With Festive Airs Attending from the 2017 Sastiel Love Week.)

THE TOWN WAS hardly a memorable one at first glance, not like some of them were due to the cases they had worked over the years. The only hint Castiel even had that the brothers had been there before was Dean's overheard complaint asking why Sam even wanted to go back to "that boring-ass town without even a decent bar scene". Sam's dry retort that Dean shouldn't even worry about it since he wasn't invited did not clear anything up, even if Castiel had felt warm when Dean scoffed and told them to "enjoy your boring couples retreat or whatever". The warmth increased when Castiel had felt a gentle ping from Jack encouraging him and Sam to have fun and enjoy themselves.

Castiel would have been more willing to commit to the course of fun-having if Sam had been willing to tell him where they were going and why.

"It's a surprise, Cas," was all Sam would say, and since Castiel had promised himself that he would not abuse his angelic powers to invade his beloved's mental privacy when it was not a dire emergency, he was stuck waiting. Sam had conceded to allowing Castiel to fly them most of the way there since his wings were healed again, but only to the rental car agency in the next town over. He kept up a light conversation as they drove, encouraging Castiel to talk with him about the shows they were watching together on Netflix until they were pulling up to a vaguely familiar motel and Sam climbed out to go check them in.

When he came back, he handed over a piece of paper to Castiel as he slid into the driver's seat and drove them around to their room. Castiel looked curiously at the paper, then at Sam's smiling face. "Sam?"

"Turn it over," Sam suggested gently.

Right.

Feeling a little embarrassed, Castiel did as directed. At first, the green and orange and black flyer in his hand puzzled him, but as he read the words he felt his wholly unnecessary breath catch in his chest.

"Come to the Oakland Harvest Festival!" the flyer entreated enthusiastically. "October 30 through November 1: Music! Dancing! Games! Crafts! Celebrate the Harvest Time with Local Artisans and Family Friendly Fun!"

"Sam," Castiel whispered, stunned and awed. "This is..."

"The same festival we had our first official date at five years ago," Sam filled in when words failed the angel. "And no Dean along being a grouch about it or the lack of a hunt, so we can stay for the whole thing if you want to."

"I would like that very much," Castiel said around the emotion threatening to drown his ability to speak. He blinked down at the flyer in an effort to bring himself back under control, then looked up at Sam. "Do you think the quilter's stall will be there again?"

"We'll find out," Sam assured him, and let them to their room.

Castiel was quite pleased to see the single king bed, and began making his own plans for what they could do after they were done with the festival for the day. Those plans were promptly put on hold when Sam kissed him softly and tenderly, and then tugged him back out of the room to go scrounge up someplace they could have dinner. Patience would bring rewards, Castiel reminded himself, and followed him willingly.

CASTIEL WAS REALLY quite as grateful that Jack had taken the time to redesign angels as he was resurrecting and recreating them. Being solely a multidimensional wavelength of celestial intent had been convenient for many things, but remarkably limiting for its limitlessness. Having to obtain the permission of a sentient being to possess in order to interact with the physical world without being able to truly connect with and experience that physicality had seen a notable detrimental effect on the Host as "consent" became more and more notional than true and the angels felt no real connection or care for the humans who housed their essences. Altering angels to be able to take their own physical forms which were wholly their own and connected them to true physical experiences without denying them their celestial beings had helped to reestablish the why of loving humanity in ways Castiel had been unable to accomplish on his own, even after his own experience Falling and being human himself.

This was never more apparent and true for him than when he and Sam were together, when he could feel and smell and taste everything with the immediacy of being firmly within his physical body and know that Sam knew he was wholly with him in the moment in a way he could not have been before. Eating together became a more shared experience when Castiel could properly taste the food he was consuming rather than being overwhelmed by the collective deluge of individual molecules. He and Sam could sit in a tiny midwestern diner, and Sam could order the crispy chicken salad with fresh cucumber and rainbow carrots while Castiel ordered the double smash burger with lettuce and tomato and grilled shallots and a side of seasoned potato wedges, and they could offer each other bites from their respective plates while sharing a chocolate drizzled strawberry milkshake. Every item of food was delicious, each in its own way, and they both gave their compliments to their waitress, Gina, despite declining dessert.

"We're headed over to check out the festival from here," Sam explained, and received a look of understanding and a bright smile.

"You boys been out here before, then?" she asked, all innocent curiosty and enthusiasm.

"Five years ago," Castiel confirmed with a nod, feeling warmth spread through him as Sam reached across the table and took his hand right there in front of her.

"Our first official date," he added with a soft smile that was only for Castiel. "Same date as the day we first met."

"Well, welcome back and happy anniversary," Gina told them with an indulgent smile and handed over the check.

"You remembered," Castiel murmured, helplessly returning that smile.

"One of the best memories I have," Sam assured him, squeezing his hand. "Ready to go make a few more?"

"Absolutely."

OAKLAND HAD EXPANDED their harvest festival somewhat in the five years since they had first come to the town, with enough booths and stalls that the map offered at the official entrance was quite useful. The quilter's booth was indeed still there, but Sam and Castiel agreed to take their time wandering that way to see what else was still around and what was new or changed. There was a pie stall next to the familiar cider stall, and it only took a shared look before they were paying for a full pecan pie along with the two blueberry hand pies they got for themselves, asking the prioprietor to please keep it aside for them to pick up on their way back to the motel. Dean would probably "give them shit" for thinking of him while on their couple's retreat, as he had called it, but he would still be pleased with the pie.

The games had also expanded. For nostalgia, Sam took a whack at the darts again, earning a voucher for a different craft booth this time, and then Castiel was persuaded by Sam to give the hatchet throwing a try which netted them a second voucher. They marked the two craft booths on their map with Sam's pen and continued on hand in hand, bypassing the small gun range set up by the local sheriff's department with pistols loaded with rubber bullets and a ten-foot shooting lane backed by plywood coated in ballistics gel. Castiel saw one of the two officers manning the booth start to call out, only to be harshly shushed by the other. Castiel recognized him as the sheriff to whom he and Sam had handed over the murderer they had caught previously and smiled to himself at the man's good sense. Neither of them would have been an "easy mark".

Sam's prize voucher was for a knitter's stall Castiel remembered, and promised a free set of knitted hat, scarf, and fingerless mittens in bright jewel tones. There were also several skeins of handspun wool yarn, both dyed and undyed, proportedly from a local farmer who kept sheep and alpacas. Castiel ended up purchasing eight skeins of undyed black and white heathered yarn for Sam in addition to choosing a set of accessories in shades of blue and violet.

The voucher from the hatchet throwing turned out to be for a new stall that sold handcarved wooden items, from small figurines to full-sized musical instruments. Castiel had managed to win a very high value prize with his efforts for anything up to the equivalent price of fifty dollars. It was not enough to purchase the carved wooden harp, much to Sam's joking disappointment, but it did cover a large cedar flute with a carved slide in the shape of a bird plus a birch wood comb which had been carved to resemble a sleeping cat along the handle.

When they reached the quilter's booth, they encountered yet another change. The man minding the tables was much younger with a full head of red hair, and when Castiel cautiously inquired after the older gentleman he had met previously the man sighed sadly.

"Pop passed away two years ago," he explained, looking down. "Man always had so much heart, it took everybody by surprise when it failed him. Ma still makes quilts and she's teaching my wife and our three kids how to do it, but we all know it's just a matter of time before she follows him."

"Understandable," Castiel murmured, fumbling for Sam's hand. "I know that if it was Sam and I could do nothing to save him or bring him back, I would follow him shortly. After arguing with his brother about it," he ammended.

"Dean's determined not to outlive me," Sam explained with a grimace, and Castiel heard the unspoken this time loud and clear. "Should be a long time before we have to worry about that, though."

The young man blinked and the frowned. "Hey, weird question, but were you two here about five years ago on an anniversary date? Got a quilt with--"

"Sunflowers," Sam and Castiel chorused.

"And bee stitching," Castiel finished, nodding. "We still have it on our bed back home."

"Damn, I'm even more sorry Pop's gone now," the young man complained, though he was smiling. "He would'a been pleased as punch to see you back here and still together."

"Felt fitting to come back here, considering...." Sam trailed off, looking down, and then carefully shifted his hold on their bags and plunged his hand into one pocket. "Sorry if this is kinda awkward, but.... Cas, you know I love you more than just about anything or anyone, and I was pretty sure you feel the same even before what you said earlier.

"We've been through a lot together since that first meeting what feels like a couple lifetimes ago, and even when we weren't together I've always known I could trust you, that whenever there was trouble coming if you were by my side then the chances of making it through that trouble could only go up, and that any time there was something good going on in my life, it would always be made better with you there to share in it. There's so much I wanna share with you that the rest of my life doesn't feel like long enough... but it's yours if you want it," he said softly, extracting his hand from his pocket and holding it out to Castiel, unfolding his fingers to reveal the silver ring with bevelled edges and a strip of polished wood inlaid down the middle. "If you'll have me as your partner in all things, I will gladly be yours forever, Castiel. Will you--"

"Yes!" Castiel broke in, too overcome to wait for Sam to finish the question. He reached out past the offered ring to grip Sam's shoulders and, heedless of the grinning young man who had pulled out his phone and appeared to be recording them, pulled his beloved human into a firm and thorough kiss. Sam kissed him back, of course, his arms going around Castiel with the ring safely clutched in his hand again where it rested at the small of Castiel's back. The reminder of the ring made Castiel break the kiss, albeit reluctantly, to say with some amount of breathlessness, "You should wait to put the ring on me until we are home again."

"Okay," Sam agreed, rather gratifyingly breathless himself. "Uh, can I ask why?"

"Because I need to acquire a ring for you as well," Castiel answered, raising his eyebrows. "And, quite aside from the fact that Dean will not forgive us for getting married without him, never mind engaged, we deserve to have more than just a single date for every anniversary."

"Fair enough," Sam chuckled, and bent to kiss Castiel again, which the angel was perfectly happy to accept.

[mothgardens]

im back again with another lyric analysis <3 this edition is for Sastiel (my beloved).

State Of Grace by Taylor Swift (preferably the acoustic version)

All Sam has known for his whole life is touch and go. He has never been in one place for more than a few months at a time (other than his escape to Stanford).

He also has been more aware and open-minded than Dean his whole life; he has a changing mind when given new information, like how he learns to understand that the ‘monsters’ they fight aren’t always evil, and that he can empathize with them. He learned this far before Dean.

He has always loved whole and hard; his love always bleeds, he has been hurt so much through losing the people he held dearest. They fade away.

“You come around and the armor falls” <— is literally the Gadreel grace retraction scene. Cas telling Sam “The only person who has screwed up things more consistently than you, is me.” !! So delicate and intimate.

They have each other. Even when Dean is missing or gone, even when they feel like they have messed everything up, they have each other. They don’t let go, they can’t, they won’t. <3

“Just go to my room and turn on Netflix, you will figure it out” is such an important line to me (even though i couldn’t find the real quote). Sam feels comfortable enough with Cas to let him be in his room, his private space, alone. Cas feels comfortable enough in Sam’s room to take his beloved trench coat off. They trust each other; when they are together, everything is wiped clean.

THIS IS THEM !! ^^^

Cas was never a saint. He didn’t succeed as God. He didn’t succeed as an Angel of the Lord. He didn’t succeed in Dean’s eyes. (“Something always goes wrong, Dean”; “Why does that always seem to be you.”).

Sam loved a werewolf. Sam loved a demon. Sam loved a witch. In Dean’s eyes, Sam always loved in shades of wrong.

They learned to live with the pain, separately at first, but, they also learned to live with each other’s pain. Cas literally told Sam, “I was lost until I took your pain”.

According to Google, Mosaic is “an individual (especially an animal) composed of cells of two genetically different types”.

Sam and Cas are systematically different on a surface level, obviously, as angel and human, but Sam also has demon blood running through him. It’s part of him. Sam and Cas, on an inner, biological level, are opposites. They’re LITERALLY “Mosaic broken hearts”.

When they’re together they’re brave. Especially when Cas is looking for Sam, or protecting him.

- “Who are you, and where is Sam?”

- “You wont take Sam Winchester. I won't let you.”

- “You come near Sam Winchester, and I will kill you.”

But, also, their love is wild, they have such s chaotic energy as a duo. They are unhinged, but also mean well.

To me, grace is literally their entire theme. (I am a bitch for the grace drinking ‘purification’ idea, too.)

Cas believes Sam is a worthwhile fight: “Nothing is worth losing you”.

This last line, to me, is totally post-Jack era. They have a family together, a son, that they both would die for. They love each other. Sam sent so many texts with Cas left, he was so worried. When Cas showed back up in the bunker he looked at him like he could make his world continue spinning.

Lastly, the chorus:

Sam never thought Cas would come into his life. A real angel. An angel who would later become one of the most important people in his life.

Cas never expected Sam to be this important to him. He thought of Sam as the ‘boy with demon blood’, an abomination. But, Sam proved himself to be so much more than that.

Neither of them would ever be where they are without each other, and they will never be the same.

———————

Okay :3 that is all.

[hazbinsponsoredbyvee]

Mel, why do you like staticapple? Just a general question because it's definitely one of the more rare pairings since they don't actually interact with the show and many Radioapple/Radiostatic fans often depict them in a battle trying to win Alastor's affections so I wanna know what about it drew you into it?

So, this is a bit of a long story, and I've been drinking, so I might ramble. I'll start with I'm not into RadioApple. I have honestly tried because I love enemies-to-lovers, but I just don't see it, no matter how hard I try.

Now, Lucifer and Vox are both among those tied for my favorite character, and so I spend a lot of time thinking about them both. If I remember correctly, I was thinking about how two of my favorite characters hate Alastor and them bonding over that fact if they met, and then I went on to think about how Vox being the opportunist that he is would definitely try to win favor with the King of Hell, and Lucifer would just eat up the attention. And that's where it started to turn into a crack ship.

I very jokingly came up with a scenario of Alastor and Vox starting to rekindle their friendship, but Alastor being the asshole that he is, doesn't actually care to show up on time when they were supposed to meet at the hotel. Lucifer ends up being there, so Vox complains to him, they share a few drinks, and end up making out. Alastor walks in on this and gets all jealous, but Vox is just like "Ha! Should've valued my time, bitch!" and leaves with Lucifer.

Well, that scenario stuck with me and evolved until I eventually started plotting a whole ass fic - again fully thinking of it as a crack fic. But then I started plotting out their interactions. And I thought about how they both have a passion for creating things, and they would admire each other for that; I headcanon them both as ADHD (Lucifer as AuDHD), and they would totally relate to each other in the way they hyperfocus on their projects; and they're both starved for touch and attention, with neither of them capable of doing things halfway, so they would inevitably end up completely devoted to each other. And suddenly I wasn't so sure it was crack anymore.

I started consuming StaticApple content (though still not as much as RadioStatic, I'll admit), and that funny, crack scenario I mentioned above evolved into my not-at-all crack fic, Red with Envy.

And then I realized that while enemies-to-lovers is definitely my favorite trope (bonus if it's friends-to-enemies-to-lovers), I do have a second-favorite romantic trope that I've never seen labeled before. I'll call it assumptions-to-friends-to-lovers. For me, this harkens back to Supernatural, with my main ship being drowley (enemies-to-lovers), and my secondary ship being sastiel (assumptions-to-friends-to-lovers).

Essentially, Person A is prepared to not like Person B (Lucifer's very prejudiced against Sinners/Castiel sees Sam as 'the boy with the demon blood'), but is surprised when they meet them to find that Person B was not at all what they expected. Person A gives them a chance, despite their preconceived notions, and find that they actually relate to Person B in a few ways. They become close and end up falling in love. Once I realized that, I came to the conclusion that it wasn't so surprising I ended up shipping StaticApple.

Thanks for the question!

[ltleflrt]

One and 4 for the ask game. :)

Also same, I also block High School AUs 😂

High school was so long ago for me, I just don't vibe with the stories anymore lol

1. What is the first fandom you were ever a part of?

The first time I got obsessed with something at the same time as one of my friends and spent a whole school year gushing about it with her was The Wheel of Time, but it was just the two of us, and neither of us knew the word "fandom". The first time I knew I'd joined a fandom was for Dragon Age. I was reading and writing fics, sharing headcanons, making friends. Learning terms like "shipping" and the difference between / and & in the tags 😆

4. Pairing that makes no sense to you?

In Supernatural it's Sam/Castiel. Like, they just do not have chemistry. I understand Wincest more than I get Sastiel.

Other than that, I'm pretty open to being converted to ships I would have never considered before. In fact, I kinda love it. Tell me about your rarepair, tell me why you ship it. Convert me lol

[sastielsfandom]

Little info for all of the mentioned stories above in order:

Pity The Saved, Not The Damned

Sam is on a suicide mission to repent for his sins, and if locking the devil tight in his mind is the way to do so, he'll do it. No matter how damaging it is to his mind and sense of reality.

He'll do whatever is takes to keep humanity safe after setting an apocalypse into their world. Even if it means leaving everyone behind.

First Comes Naps, Then Comes Marriage, And Sharing A Room? And Maybe A Few Things In Between.

Sastiel Stanford Shenanigans. Yep, that's the summary. Not much college stuff, just the college era. And lots of fluff!

Rest Your Bleeding Soul

It's one thing for Sam to relapse on his own, it's another for it to be forced. Castiel is too late to help it from entering Sam's body, but is not too late to help ease Sam's suffering. Castiel refuses to allow Sam to suffer in the panic room, instead offering their own blood to ease the pain. Both are unaware of the consequences and path they've set in front of themselves.

Home

Takes place in season 11, Sam and Cas start to share a room. What starts off as embarrassing mornings, turns into confessions of love.

What Warrants Comfort?

Life is difficult, but having someone there for you can help. They won't solve all your problems, but it's nice being able to smile for a moment when everything else hurts.

Or, Sam and Castiel are there to check on each other, becoming each other's support system.

Peter Parker And His Disastrous Dating Life

Peter Parker is a disaster in all aspects of life, but this is just shedding light on his most disastrous part of life besides being a superhero, his dating life.

I Don't Mind Falling As Long As You Catch Me

Snippets of Sam's and Cas' relationship changing over time and becoming more domestic.

Teaching Moments

Castiel has questions for Sam who is seemingly oblivious to Castiel's feelings.

The World Is Gray Without You

Everyone has a soulmate, some have multiple, not all are romantic but platonic, no matter everyone has one. Until two soulmates meet, they can not see the color of the eyes of their soulmate. Sam hates not being able to see blue, Castiel fears the fact they can not see multiple colors. Castiel has no explanation for why so many colors fall gray, just this has been their world since the beginning of time. Perhaps their dilemmas will change when a certain pair of blue eyes and a certain pair of hazel eyes land on one another.

Other

The link to my unfinished works if none of these are appealing, there's currently seventeen unfinished works there, couldn't fit them all!

(also I advise to not vote for Waking Up Anew in other there's a reason I didn't include it, I'm already going to work on it this week!)

[quietwingsinthesky]

8 and 16 for the choose violence ask

8. Common fandom opinion that everyone is wrong about.

That Dean would return Cas’s love confession

Okay no actually you know what. I’m gonna talk about that. Maybe it’s just me being deep in Aro!Dean land, but I’m not seeing it. I’m not seeing at any point in the show where Dean loved Castiel. And I’ve been looking, I swear, but I’m. There’s no destiel on my screen. There is a lot more sastiel than I remember but there’s no destiel happening on my screen! There IS a lot of Castiel clearly having Problems and Issues and Angst about dean, and. Zero doubt here there that that angel wants to fuck him. But I honestly can’t imagine any happy ending for dean that revolves solely or even mostly around a romantic attachment. That man is hardwired for family being the most important thing to him, and I love that. Aro!Dean wins again.

Other notable things include: headcanoning Sam as not queer/trans because he’s too boring. Talked about that. Weird fucking opinion to have. That Gabriel is not exactly as fucked up as the other archangels, especially when presenting sabriel as the Good Sam Ship as opposed to samifer. My dudes, did we not watch mystery spot, do the reading. Also. Also. Not acknowledging the really clear character degradation of Lucifer in the later seasons/attributing later seasons stuff to how he acts in s5, just a personal gripe because whatever, people can read him however they want, but I really feel like on a meta level you gotta talk about how these are Two Different Characters who just happen to have been jammed into the same character. Okay. I think that’s it.

16. You can’t understand why people like this thing (characterization, trope, headcanon, etc.)

I do not like coffee shops AUs. Actually, it’s more that im Extremely picky about AUs that aren’t canon divergence, and will drop them immediately the minute I feel like I’m no longer reading about the characters I like and am instead reading about Generic Guys who say funny quips and then kiss. Which is not a coffee shop au specific problem but the frequency with which that kind of au attracts that writing means I have kind of been turned off from ever reading them again.

if you are writing Sam into your coffee shop au and at some point he does not drop some insane backstory about the time he was kidnapped and forced to fight to the death with a bunch of other college kids, you have failed at writing this au and I am banishing you to the shadow realm /j

The other thing that I do not understand at all, and this extends into a problem with canon, I’m well aware, is how happily people will accept the idea that Castiel is rebellious/different from other angels because he was just Made Wrong. he’s too Broken to be like a real angel. that all the other angels are mindless drones and Castiel is the one good one who could learn about free will, usually justified with it being that “his love for dean is what makes him special”, but even outside of destiel circles, this kind of thing gets very annoying lmao.

And it’s just. That’s wrong. The show might have decided post-s8 that it believed this about Castiel but it’s False and Bad. I’m gesturing wildly at Uriel and Anna and Gabriel and Lucifer and Balthazar and Michael and shit what’s that one angel doing pinball I love them, them too, and Castiel is not special!!! He should not be special!!! All angels have the capacity for free will, they are living under a terrifying system of suppression that has stripped them of their ability to use it and has taught them that when an angel does something they disagree with, killing them is a mercy! (See: the implications of that one angel healer in s9 + Uriel and Cas being sent to kill Anna for falling in s4)

CASTIEL IS NOT SPECIAL. STOP SAYING HE IS SPECIAL. THE CRACK IN THE CHASSIS LINE IS BAD TO HOLD UP AS EVIDENCE OF HIM BEING UNIQUELY FLAWED.

ahem. sorry. i like the supernatural angels. i think making castiel into some separate special being who is the only one capable of rebelling and feeling love and etc does a massive disservice to the heaven storylines and angels as a whole. i think the show’s choice to never have another major angel character who wasn’t killed off quickly/made “too evil” to redeem was a bad decision and contributes to this view of cas as Different and The Good One.

[liamgallaghermpreg]

unrequited destiel where cas is like a dog that just wants to please his master no matter how badly he's treated. dean is not intentionally cruel he just doesn't notice him because his attention is occupied elsewhere (sam). i don't know why but this just gets me going i love it. what are your thoughts on this dynamic?

ps - jealous castiel taking his frustrations out on sam 👀 rough sastiel with sam eager to please an angel of the lord

Anon to me that dynamic is lowkey canon (“Cas is like a talking dog” & “we get caught up in each other & forget you’re there” i’m paraphrasing but ykwim) it’s very Cas whump but it is such a good dynamic, I love that kind of stomach-swooping sadness although of course it would be nice for Cas to find happiness elsewhere it’s just 🤌🏼 the pining for what you can’t have…

Also YES YES YES!!!!! Esp if the wincest is mutual but not acted upon. Sam still wanting to feel clean and thinks he can do so by getting Cas off… Cas like well it’s ALMOST Dean… everybody has an ulterior motive oh it’s a mess. Love it

[thequeenofsastiel]

you dont love loustat but yet you wrote fic for them? what, were you just wanting hits? jfc yeah you’re getting your ass blocked. if you don’t love a ship, stay tf out of its damn fucking tag.

I do actually love them. In the books. I want to love them in the show, that's why I asked for people's opinions on why they ship Loustat in the show. Maybe take a beat and stop feeling so defensive. But out of respect, I'll delete my post.

And I wrote a fic for them because I want to love them, not because I want hits. If I wanted hits I wouldn't ship Sastiel lol.

[ardentpoop]

I know you don’t really like dean and Samdean in a really shippy way because you find dean to be abusive so I’m kind of curious: why do you like Sastiel/castiel? As another Sam girl I don’t really like Sastiel/castiel because I found the whole wall breaking thing in s7 to be horribly resolved and unforgivable tbh. But at the same time I sort of see the appeal in Sastiel where Cas is a simp for Sam. It’s more the fanon that is appealing to me than the canon but I’d love to hear your opinion as well.

who said I didn’t like dean and samdean in a shippy way LMAOOO 😭 im just not a fan of Generic Fandom Ship Treatment it’s painfully boring to me and tends to gloss over or manipulate individual characterizations as well as the actual power dynamics involved. and also I don’t like when ppl invalidate platonic readings of these relationships I think genfic enjoyers and slashfic enjoyers should be holding hands and kissing (i.e. exchanging ideas)

samdean is The most individually compelling relationship in this show to me not in spite of it being abusive but because of it!!!!!! this is the thing that I wish all the people romanticizing it could understand. I’m not suggesting it’s inherently wrong to engage with relationship dynamics like this thru a romantic/sexual lens lmfao I’m suggesting it’s so much more interesting to explore the psychological implications when you’re fully aware of what’s going on as opposed to somehow reading it as ~toxic on both sides but coalescing into something beautiful~

this logic extends to sastiel and tbh to every other sam ship I really enjoy (which says a lot abt sam’s place in the story given I ship him with almost every character in this show.) sastiel would not be interesting to me if it wasn’t also deeply fucked up!

anon join me in appreciating the cathartic pleasures of “problematic shipping” when you aren’t ignoring or obfuscating the true power dynamics and their impact on each character’s psyche there’s a whole new world of stomach-churning yet validating literature waiting for you

p.s. sincerely love you for asking me this lol bc I like to make it clear where I stand

[dothwrites]

PEACE OF MIND! PEACE OF MIND! (aka best episode ever)

cas really is an awkward dad coming to talk to his kid. and it's not going well. though he is more supportive of jack's snake than dean, which good for him (coming from someone who is DEEPLY uncomfortable around snakes) i forgot how worried everyone already was about jack's soul. i remembered dean and the ridiculous cake test but i didn't remember cas being this concerned

dean and cas having a conversation about jack and sam is really like cas is dean's second husband and sam is his stepson while jack is his and dean's child. if you get where i'm going. like, sam is DEAN'S kid, but jack is THEIR child. so they're having a conversation about their respective children, and they've cast themselves in roles of concerned parents

i can only assume that dean forced cas to watch all of the scanners movies since metatron would never lower himself to watch those movies. (this pleases me GREATLY) cas' saturday evening post line! there's something about cas drifting through the bunker late at night after everyone has gone to bed and looking through old magazines to soothe himself that is both incredibly soft, incredibly hilarious and incredibly poignant. he LOVES humanity! he's looking at an idealized version of the human condition in order to soothe himself. the rest of his loved ones are asleep and cas remains awake to watch over them but he still needs comfort, so he looks at old magazines. (i'm going to stop now but just know that this thought LIVES IN MY HEAD)

cas' "delicious" is wonderful here. he's such a wonderful dick. HIS HEAD EXPLODED. LIKE A RIPE MELON ON THE SUN. i love cas and i would die for him and he is the only character ever.

the irony of this woman saying "MORALS" to a degenerate homosexual angel of THEE lord... layers upon layers upon layers! and then cas mimicking the "shape and heft". he knows from personal experience. because he is a homosexual.

dean's cake test is so ridiculous. HE is so ridiculous. and his immediate REGRET after calling snakes "cool". the look of a man who just saw his whole damn life flash before his eyes. (it is established that dean does not care for snakes and finds them frightening. how much of this is because of a natural aversion and how much of this is because THEE indiana jones ALSO finds snakes off putting and scary?) RIDICULOUS MAN! RIDICULOUS MAN TESTING HIS KID WITH CAKE.

cas' consistent irritation with people is something that can be so personal, honestly. "the very tall man" laughing because misha looks so short next to jarpad but misha is actually pretty normal sized/tall

whoever the woman is who plays the wife, give her an emmy. she has FANTASTIC comedic timing. this whole scene is pure comedic gold. i remember laughing to the point of tears the first time i saw it. stop forcing jarpad to be a dramatic action hero. let him either be the villain or let him act in comedies! this is where he THRIVES! don't make him be a gritty action hero! he is not receiving enrichment in that environment!

i love when cas allows himself to be a terrifying badass. so much of the time he's masking his true nature for the comfort of the humans around him, but sometimes he just lets himself go and when he does, it's TERRIFYING!

we love a fight where cas is FINALLY allowed to be a badass. we LOVE IT. finally some good fucking food if you ever wanted to know why sastiel can never be a thing (sastiel fans i love and respect you) just look at this scene compared with the prisoner scene. sam and cas' scene is longer but my GOD is it lacking in the sexual tension and pathos of the prisoner scene. jarpad just does not have chemistry with men and that is okay because he is a heterosexual and they're necessary for the environment too!

"GOD HAS A BEARD" supernatural is A Show™

the implications that cas called dean to gossip about sam's cardigan and his faux marriage. insane. they're just chatting. because they're husbands. and they're married.

love that very ominous shot of cas lurking over jack's shoulder as he watches him kill the snake. it's very dramatic.

[samcybercat]

Supernatural Characters That I Liked :D

On 2nd April 2023, we finished watching all 15 seasons of Supernatural. My history with this show is that I didn't really know it was a thing while it was popular and then by the time I joined Tumblr it was "that series people on Tumblr like that I don't think would be for me". Up until late 2021, the only things from Supernatural that I'd seen were the Destiel Confession (TM), a short scene of Dean telling Sam & Jack that Castiel was dead and the montage of Sam dying from the final episode. Beyond that, I genuinely knew nothing about the show But in 2021 (I think?) my housemates and I had finished BBC Merlin and were looking for a new long series to try, which ended up being Supernatural. Our set-up was that Gemba had seen up to Season 12 (and thus had to endure us asking many questions about it), but Amber and I had never seen any of it Now, no one needs me to review Supernatural. Enough other people who know more about it than I do have done that. But it's been a long ride and I wanted to do something to celebrate it. So instead of picking apart the good and the bad, I thought I'd simply make a list of the characters I like. This is not an all-inclusive list, as in over 15 seasons there are bound to be a few fun one-off characters who I'll forget. But I tried to include as many characters as possible Starting off with my beloved - everyone's favourite Supernatural character whose name begins with the letter C...

...Crowley! (Don't worry, Castiel is also on the list lol)

I cannot understate how much Crowley kept me going with this show. We'd just come off the back of the Trickster dying and I was bummed about that, but then Crowley came along with all his yelling and his bisexual villainy and I was won over immediately. Everything about Mark Sheppard's performance was a delight and all his interactions with the rest of the main cast were so fun. When Crowley ended up on the path from enemy to frenemy to begrudging ally, it never felt like character-derailment at all. Though having said that, I also fully understand and respect Sheppard's choice to leave because he was disappointed with how Crowley was being written - as much as it was a big miss for me to see Crowley go. Crowley is my blorbo for this show He is also incredibly shippable with Sam

Next up is Sam, Mr. Skrunkly Himself and the greatest shipping bicycle I could ask for Now, some of you who I have talked to about Supernatural might remember me saying that I didn't like Sam, which certainly was true in the earlier seasons. I just feel like in the beginning, Sam's stick-in-the-mud attitude needed a bit longer to bake until he became the absolutely endearing, doe-eyed giant that he would become later on. I also think that Sam becoming a better character ended up lining up quite well with Dean becoming... less of a characters that I could enjoy, so that worked out nicely. I'm sorry that I was a non-believer to start with, Sammy, but I'm 100% a Sam Girl now lol

You're on tumblr, you know who this is I now definitely understand why this website was so obsessed with Castiel. What could've easily been a throw-away character was turned into a series main-stay and I'm sure that a large part of that was due to the clear love that Misha Collins had for the character and poured into his performance. Every time Castiel was around it was always great and, like a lot of people, my biggest problem with Castiel was that they didn't use him enough. They (probably accidentally) wrote one of the best autistic characters I've seen in a while and also, his Dadstiel scenes with Claire and Jack are one of the few times I've really enjoyed seeing a character take on the role of a parent Castiel is also incredibly shippable with Sam (sorry Destiel shippers, I'm Sastiel through and through)

Queen of my heart, Rowena! The treatment of female characters in Supernatural is another topic with not a great reputation, but you've got to believe me when I say that Rowena is a brilliant character, one of the best and most-fun female villains. When she was introduced as Crowley's mum, I knew we were in for a great ride and, sure enough, every episode she was in was charming. Ruth Connell really ran with the concept of "vengeful Scottish witch". My fears for Rowena had been that she would be killed off shortly after Crowley's departure, but I was delighted to see that she continued to be a main-stay for most of the show, ending with her destined death scene with Sam, before being triumphantly crowned Queen of Hell Rowena is also incredibly shippable with Sam, though I've also gotta give a shout-out to my short-lived OTP of Rowena x Gabriel

Speaking of Gabriel, the Trickster was definitely what kept me watching at the start of the series. In the beginning, Supernatural was a bit dry for my taste and he injected that shot of fun into it that it needed to keep me interested. His episodes were few and far between, but just knowing there might be a Trickster episode on the horizon always kept me going until Crowley came along to take the mantle from him. I was glad to see Gabriel return later on, even if I feel like they didn't really use him or play to his strengths quite as much as they did in the early episodes The Trickster is also incredibly shippable with Sam

The best baby boy, Jack! On paper, the concept of Lucifer's son joining the team felt like a desperate attempt by the writers to show a new, younger audience that they were still hip and relevant, but that ended up not being the case. From the moment Jack appeared, he was wonderful, bringing the same energy as Castiel, but with that child-like optimism attached that would lead to him ultimately saving the day and making a better world for everyone. Seeing the trio raising a son was also brilliant and actually the perfect kind of fanfic-fodder the show needed. My biggest regret for Jack is that he came along after most people stopped caring about the show, so he didn't receive the appreciation I think he deserved

I actually feel bad that it's taken me so long to get to Bobby, as he's one of my big faves, but in my defence he wasn't in the later seasons very much. Bobby went from being "Guy who tells the brothers where the monster of the week is" to the actual perfect father-figure they deserved. There was a reason why when Dean gets to heaven it was Bobby waiting for him and not John, and it wasn't just because getting Neegan back was probably expensive. Bobby is another underrated autistic icon imo and excellent boyfriend-material for Crowley. Even though I was sad when his time on the show was cut short, he was one of the few characters who I felt was given the right amount of fanfare for his send-off

Ketch! I love Ketch! He's our fave in this house. After the very dull Darkness season, I had my hopes low and was rolling my eyes when the British Men of Letters were introduced, but then they ended up being so cringe that it cycled back around to being funny again. We would cheer every time Ketch appeared

Yes, I like Bela and think she was fun in her appearances, you're all just mean about her :(

This version of Meg specifically was wonderful and top-tier shippable with Castiel. It's no wonder that she was the one they called back to play The Empty all those years later. Meg's flirty banter was the perfect foil for Castiel's serious cluelessness and I would always look forward to scenes with both of them

I'm gonna be real with you: most of the season-long villains were very hit or miss for me, but Zachariah was one villain who I thought was excellent. It's a shame he was so early on, so I don't remember too much about his specifically, but I do remember enjoying him and how powerful he made the angels feel

Pamela or, as she was known in our house for a long time, The Woman Who Was Fine About Everything. When Pamela first appears she's like "Two brother? Awesome, let's have a threesome!" ...Then she gets her eyes blasted out. When we next see her, Pamela is totally cool with being blind and is even using it to help her work. ...Then she gets killed off. But when we next see her in the afterlife, wouldn't you know it, she's totally cool with being dead. Even when she later appears as a figment of Dean's imagination, she's fine with that, too. So here's to you, Pamela. Wherever you are, I know you're totally cool with it!

Kevin Tran and his mum. These two characters are the absolute example of deserving much better from the writing, especially Kevin. At least his mum got some cool scenes when she tried to rescue him, but poor Kevin was basically the Wincester's hostage who then died to give Dean more man pain. Which is a shame, because Kevin was great and I really wish we'd been given more fun scenes with him

Hannah (Agent Stone version) ...Look, it's Lee Majdoub, the guy who plays Agent Stone in the Sonic Movies! Turns out he had a brief role in Supernatural as one of Hannah's vessels. I wish he'd stuck around, but as a big Sonic fan I'm glad he moved onto other things :')

Claire Novak - I never expected the kid from Castiel's vessel's old life to come back as a full character later on, but Claire filled the role of the vengeful daughter who grew to respect Castiel so well and I definitely wish we'd seen more of both Claire and her short-lived relationship with Kaia. I also had the exact same Grumpy Cat plushie that Castiel gave to Claire, so I was very endeared by that

Both the original Death and Billie who came after him were excellent! Both very different and strong personalities who filled every scene they were in - when these two appeared, you really knew Dean had to sit up and pay attention, because shit was about to get real

Another one of my top faves, Eileen! Imagine my surprise when Supernatural of all series introduces one of the very few portrayals of a deaf character I've seen and she ends up becoming a recurring character and love interest to one of the main characters. Eileen was annoyingly killed off-screen, but then they made up for it by having Sam go to such lengths to bring her back. She had an adorable relationship with Sam. ...Then they killed her off again and left us to only assume that she must've been returned to life by Jack, but never actually showed that. Oh well, I will choose to believe that the blurry woman they showed with Sam in his montage in the last episode was Eileen and they got the happy ending they deserved

Rufus went from having a somewhat subdued first appearance to being Bobby's partner in crime and that was when he really shined. Another character who was killed off far too early, wasting his potential, but I enjoyed the few Bobby & Rufus episodes that we did get

Garth was just a nice guy and I wanted good things for him. After his short, but successful, role as The New Bobby, I'm glad that Garth was able to retire and live with his werewolf family without becoming yet another victim of characters dying by association with the Winchesters

Becky went from being a very fun nod-to-the-fandom character to having that... one very uncomfortable episode with Sam... to disappearing for a long time and finally coming back to be shown living her best life with her family and thriving. Screw Chuck for killing her off, but I choose to believe that she came back

Crowley having a son who was brought to modern day from ye olde Scotland and then let loose into a park somewhere will never not be funny to me. I liked Gavin for the few episodes he was in

...And I'm bored of looking for screenshots now, so I'll cap this off by also giving a shout-out to fan-fave, Charlie, who they once again killed off before they should've done but at least had some good episodes, Balthazar, who was the idea friend for Castiel and gave me big Dionysus Hades Game vibes, Metatron, who really grew on my from his initial introduction as villain to reluctant frenemy, and to Chuck, who was a character who really annoyed me for most of the series, but then once they started playing him as a straight up villain it felt like he was the perfect way to sing the series out. Amara also got a lot better in later seasons from her unfortunate first appearance and it was a shame about her hand-wave ending I have mixed feelings about Dean. Goodnight