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[forbescaroline]

11k celebration: top 50 m/f friendships (as voted by my followers) #36. klaus mikaelson and rebekah mikaelson - the originals

[alwaysandforevergifs]

┅ What is it you want, Rebekah?

Same things that I've wanted since I was a child. I want a home. I want a family. I want someone to love me, and I want to live.

↳ The Originals 1x16 - Farewell to Storyville

[theoriginalsarchive]

s1 + foreshadowing Hope’s name

[inacatastrophicmind]

Dean and his ADHD

[criminalmindsverse]

CRIMINAL MINDS 1.16 — "The Tribe"

[sophsun1]

#say his name three times and he will appear...

Community + that Beetlejuice joke

[eversw]

brothers + synchronize

[evviejo]

STAR TREK: VOYAGER - S1E16 Learning Curve

[1liv]

MARRY MY HUSBAND: Episode 16

[ashlingmizuoka]

"Why do you think I drag you everywhere? Huh? Why do you think I came and got you at Stanford in the first place?" "Because Dad was in trouble. Because you wanted to find the thing that killed Mom." "Yes, that, but it's more than that, man. You and me and Dad, I mean, I want us to... I want us to be together again. I want us to be a family again." ↳ Dean & Sam Winchester

Supernatural | S1 EP16 : Shadow

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[forbescaroline]

TOP 5/10 CHARACTERS PER SHOW (as voted by my followers) ↳ the originals edition #2. Rebekah Mikaelson portrayed by Claire Holt

[milla984]

Another collection of Spencer Reid doing his :[ face:

@matthew-gray-gubler-lover @cynbx @reidsbookclub @kissesforspence

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[frankiebirds]

okay look. normally i read hotch as straight. loves his team of lgbts dearly, but very straight.

but:

and:

and:

why were they like this. what was the reason. why does he have so much chemistry with this one-off character. do you think he had a crisis on the way home. what the hell was going on with hotch this episode why was he bisexual for forty-five minutes.

[angelsdean]

*record scratch* freeze frame. Reality Check. "You're the one who came and got me at school. You're the one who dragged me back into this." let's re-evaluate that statement, Sam, because that is not, in fact, what happened.

The context in which Sam makes this statement is that he's arguing Dean used to care about the revenge quest and killing the demon because Dean is the one that came and got Sam and thus "dragged him back" into the quest to kill the demon. But, that is not why Dean went to get Sam at school, it was to find John, who was missing and possibly dead. Dean didn't even Know about the demon at this point (they don't find out that "the thing that killed mom" is a demon til 1x11) or that John was closing in on it. Dean goes to Stanford to ask Sam to help him look for John, that's it. Then, at the end of 1x01 Dean brings Sam back to school in time for his interview as promised, and drives away. He only turns around when, in the deleted scene, he notices his watch has stopped, cluing him in that something is wrong. And he gets there in time to save Sam from the burning building.

Sam then makes the choice to leave with Dean because now that he's lost someone, he is personally invested in finding John because John knows more about the thing that killed Mary (and now Jess) than anyone, and Sam is the one who is now consumed by the need for revenge and the first step in getting that revenge is finding John, something he had no vested interest in doing before, but is now heavily invested in, even more than Dean is, as we see throughout the first half of s1 where Sam is often the one calling around looking for John and is more interested in searching for John than taking on random cases.

Anyways, it's just so interesting to track this revisionism of events and how both Sam and Dean come to accept this as the truth when it's literally not what we saw happen throughout the season. And we see Dean start to absorb this belief after Meg plants the seed in their heads in 1x16, trying to drive a wedge between them, by falsely saying Dean "drags Sam around like luggage" when literally the whole reason Sam and Meg meet is because Sam wanted to part ways in 1x11 and Dean let him go. Sam then comes back and decides to stay all on his own, even after Dean offers to drop Sam off somewhere.

Dean expresses in 1x16, that yes, he wants Sam around, he wants his family together again, but at the end of that very episode Dean is also the one who says they need to split up from John, even though it's the last thing he wants. Dean consistently is willing to let people go, even if it's not what he personally wants. And especially Sam. Over and over throughout the season he expressed how he wants Sam to have a normal life, is willing to let Sam go, or stay in some random town and drop the search for John. So even IF Dean did secretly want Sam to stick around when he went to get Sam at Stanford, he never expected it. Never enforced it.

That Sam comes to think Dean "dragged him back" into hunting is a purely revisionism and a bit of projection, I think, because Sam might not want to face the truth of the matter which is that he consistently chose to stick with hunting, and actually enjoys it more than he'd like to admit. And, as both he and John express, this quest to kill Yellow Eyes becomes "their" obsession. Not Dean's. Dean is the one who says he'd rather they never find the demon if it means losing his family. Dean is the one that says getting revenge isn't worth dying for. And then, Sam takes this to heart, when at the end of 1x22 he refuses to kill John Possessed by Azazel at Dean's pleading, AND when he tells John that killing this demon does not come "before everything" while eyeing Dean bleeding out in the backseat.

Dean was never the one invested in revenge. He did not come get Sam from Stanford to aid in the family revenge quest, he came for help in finding their missing father, something Dean cared abt simply because that's family, and Dean cares deeply, despite everything John put them through. Dean is the one that cares, the heart of the narrative, etc etc. He comes to Sam because he is alone in the world, because their only other blood relative is missing, because it's a very human thing, to reach out, to want family around. And still, he was always going to let Sam go after the 1x01. He didn't like it. It's not what Dean wanted. But he was going to let him go back to his life. Sam chose to follow Dean and continue searching for John.