#the mark of cain

[theinevitabledecay]

I do really love how Cass looks at almost everyone around her and is like “I’m superior to all of these people. Looks like it’s up to me to protect them”

[wellofdean]

Regarding Dean, the MoC, Amara & Mary: Supernatural through a Jungian Lens

So, I gave myself a lot of homework because basically, I think the writers of Supernatural explicitly took a Jungian approach to the latter seasons of Supernatural. Specifically, as soon as Dean took the MoC, I think it became incredibly on-the-nose obvious what kind of story they were telling. I think it is intentional and that it provides the structure and cohesion for everything that happens from the MoC onwards, and I wanted to explain why I think that.

Caveat Emptor: I am not a psychologist or a Jungian Analyst, but I did spend a bit over a decade in my 20s and 30s completely obsessed with Jung's work, and read A LOT of it, as well as many of the works that stemmed directly from his ideas -- Joseph Campbell, M. Ester Harding, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, etc. I tend to see Jungian processes in a lot of media.

I decided to make a masterpost for all this, because each episode is really long, and it might make it all more navigable if I keep track of it in one place. To wit:

Part 1 - The MoC: In which Dean wears his Shadow on his arm

Part 2 - Amara: In which Dean meets an Anima figure, but...Not his?

Part 3 - A little background on Jung and his theories and some consideration of why all this is relevant to Supernatural

Part 4 - Mary: In which we consider why she is what Dean needed, and why Amara brought her back

I'm also going to go back and put in read more gaps...mostly to save myself from having my typos rebloged.

I will edit this post to add the future installments.

[cas-dyke]

my cursed blade said kill everyone no matter what, i said sure thing boss 🫡

[sneakupandhitya]

i dont give AF if its with a capitol p SWAB THE DECK‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

[the-artemis-tapes]

The monster zoo episode of spn should have been weirder

[lemontartyellow]

Cassandra trying to save someone from death row even though he killed a child because she wants to believe she can be redeemed ☹️☹️☹️

[shallowseeker]

Oh no

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The "I put on you what I couldn't take" of it all. The whole "allowing someone to protect him" of it all. The thing that hug meta was actually getting at, at its core of it all.

Something about your burdens halved?

[theinevitabledecay]

YEAHHHGHHHH

[cas-dyke]

‼️mark of cain ramblings incoming‼️

mark of cain dean is quite possibly my favorite iteration i’ve seen of him so far because like,,, his instinct to protect, save, and avenge w no regard for himself led him to take on the mark. BUT, the mark does the opposite of that instinct. it turns him into exactly what he’s terrified of being (someone who loves lives to kill).

making sam and cas promise to kill him if he leaves that barn, because he knows he’s not HIM anymore?? because even through the haze of violence and bloodlust he knows he doesn’t want to hurt more people????? trying to cope and becoming worse anyways???? MAKING A DEAL WITH DEATH????? TO KEEP HIMSEF AWAY FROM THE WORLD???? AND STILL NOT BEING ABLE TO GO THROUGH WITH IT WHEN THAT DEAL REQUIRES HIM TO KILL SAM?????????

it’s just so fascinating because dean is doing horrific, bloody shit for this WHOLE arc. yet it still, in some twisted and fucked up way, narratively solidifies his core desire to protect (case in point: the whole charlie thing)

i also love how this comes through even though there are points in this arc where i was like lowkey terrified of dean. i felt it when metatron demanded to be kept away from him. the way he’s shot and the way he acts, he’s barely human.

AND YET-

guys they really wrote this show

[sneakupandhitya]

BOING BOING OIMGBOIIIUUOIUII OIIINGGGGG

[books-in-a-storm]

Currently Reading 💛

The Mark Of Cain & A Shifter's Choice

[sonic-gonzo]

Friday night at the Metro Theater Sydney Australia - MARK OF CAIN (151223)  

[jinkieswouldyoulookatthis]

The thing I hate the most about what the Mark of Cain does to Dean is that it makes him a hardened killer. Dean has always been lethal, daddy's little soldier, deadly motherfucker, a killer, but he was never hardened. Dean was still soft where it mattered, walking through the world with his heart on his sleeve. But the mark took that away (at least temporarily) and it's so heartbreaking to watch.

[lemontartyellow]

Cass kicking Dick through a wall because he hurt Barbara’s feelings

[thebeautyofspn]

9x16 Blade Runners