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kripke era is like ok dean has a djinn dream and fake mary says she loves him but its just the monster trying to manipulate him. and his fake wife says she loves him but it's just the monster trying to manipulate him. and then fake lisa says she loves him in a dream but it's just a monster trying to manipulate him. and then fake john says he loves him on the phone but its just a monster trying to manipulate him. ok cool that's every time dean hears "i love you" during kripke era.

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if dean wasnt dean and he watched supernatural he would be like. dean and cas are gay. and ik this bc he thinks bert and ernie are gay

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Sam finds out Dean and Cas are together and have been for years and he's pissed. How could Dean not trust him with this?!

And Dean's just like "trust you? After the way you acted about Benny?"

And that's how Sam realizes his brother thought for YEARS that he was being a homophobe about Dean's boyfriend and not just hypocritical as all hell about monsterfucking.

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Male. Late twenties. Severely injured. No ID in his wallet.

Watercolors + digital. Drawn for the Hoodie_time community on Live Journal. I’m a little bit over productive these days…xD

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it’s so funny being a fan of both M*A*S*H (best series finale of all time) and supernatural (worst series finale of all time).

(they do share a remarkably similarly important/transformative 4.01)

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DEAN WINCHESTER IN EVERY EPISODE ↳ 7.01 - Meet the New Boss

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My entire kingdom for a civilian they're interviewing on a case complaining about her in-laws, and Dean jerking a thumb at Cas and blurting, "Ha! You should see his family."

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There's something really twisted about the way Dean's traumas are handled in Supernatural, and not only because of the lack of resolve. It's about Dean opening up about them (wording his traumas and being vulnerable about them, unlike some brand of fanon like to scream about) just to have something similar happening to him a couple of episodes later.

For example:

– Dean opens up about Hell in 4x10, confesses how horrible he feels for the souls he tortured, and in 4x16 the angels make him torture Alastair

– Dean says he feels free away from his family (5x03) and, in the next episode, he's basically taught everyone will die if he doesn't keep himself tied to his (blood) family

– Dean tells Mary he shouldn't have been parentified, accepts it was unfair to expect that of him (12x22: "I had to be a father and I had to be a mother, to keep him safe. And that wasn't fair. And I couldn't do it."), and what happens two episodes later? he's expected to act like a parent for someone who isn't his responsability and related to him in any way

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the reason i know sam didn't know shit about destiel is that he has terminal younger brother pester disease. that man made dean literally talk about EVERYTHING he didn't want to talk about and you're telling me he didn't bug dean during a 9hour drive about it even ONCE? sam straight up doesn't know destiel is happening

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it’s dancing in the dark summer

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kings of ruining each other’s plans.

warnings for flashing and suicide / HD and extra subtitles on youtube

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there's no amount of meta i could write that would ever come close to explaining dean's relationship with the people around him better than that scene in 'home' where dean calls his dad crying because he doesn't know what to do and his dad's voicemail tells him to call himself if it's an emergency.

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14x13 lebanon | the tower of nero by rick riordan (inspired by @lobotomycas)

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Between sam and dean, which one would you catagorise as  Kiki and which one would you catagorise as Bouba ?

Also, between Sam and Dean, which one do you prefer more? (If neither/both just say neither/both)

to me kiki and bouba are more simplistic categories and it's hard for me to apply them to like wholly fleshed out characters? i just struggle to take that interpretative leap i guess?

however, while i struggled a bit to answer your first question i have great news about how easily i can answer the next one:

💖🤩🫶❣️🌟💓💫💕✨DEAN ✨💕💫💓🌟❣️🫶🤩💖

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dean feeling guiltybadawkward about not putting out for this wildly beautiful woman's potentially last night alive sort of lives rent free in my head btw

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Fandom really misreads Dean Winchester, and /sorry not sorry/ but lot of it comes down to classism and aesthetic bias. People love to paint him as this emotionally repressed, hyper-masculine tough guy, because just LOOK at all that beer, flannel, and motor oil! Fanon seems to sometimes project more stoicism, repression, and even aggression onto him that what we see, almost like they're assuming that masculinity from a rural/poor background = emotionally stunted.

But what we see on our screens is that Dean is loudly emotional. He CONNECTS. He cries, begs, clings, says “I need you,” and breaks down in bathrooms and graveyards. He’s raw and expressive, constantly reaching out to the people he loves. In fact, more often than not, his family tells him to “shut it down” because they're SO afraid of that emotionality getting him killed (SEE: Bobby's speech in season 7).

And I'm not saying that Dean never suppresses or represses, or that he never struggles with anger or never shuts down, or that he's never living up to the classic hero masculine archetype, because he so often IS, but IMHO the most expressive and emotionally literate of TFW, with Jack as a pretty natural second.

Fanon turns him into a caricature because of his class signifiers; it's like it overrides what we see.

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Meanwhile, Castiel fits the archetype of the emotionally restrained man way more—not modern tryhard bruh-ha-ha masculinity, but the classic kind: think noir detectives, samurai, lone frontier cowboys. He’s the trench-coated loner who speaks in soft, loaded silences, who says more with a stare than a paragraph.

Cas is stoic hypermasculinity—not because he’s heartless, but because he doesn’t know how to express that huge supernova sized well of emotion he fees.

ANd that's not to say that Cas isn't sometimes emotional, or failing spectuacularly and slipping into a his loser outsider nerd status, or expressing moments of astonishing gentleness...

It's just that fandom often flips their defaults in such a cartoonish way, calling Cas the soft, emotionally open one and Dean the hard-ass. Why? Because Dean’s coded as rural and working-class, and fandom has a long history of distrusting and aestheticizing that kind of masculinity without engaging with it honestly.

People love the look of Dean’s pain— he Impala, the leather jacket, the worn-out eyes—but not the truth of it. They don't see him. They romanticize his trauma while ignoring how open he actually is. Dean isn’t repressed. He’s exposed. LIKE A RAW FUCKING LIVEWIRE NERVE.

Cas is the bottled-up one, the one who hides behind duty and silence. Dean begs to be chosen. He shows up, again and again, with his heart in his hands. If you drop the fanon filters and actually watch what’s onscreen, it becomes super clear: Dean is the most emotionally transparent of the trio.

Fandom just isn’t always ready to admit that working-class vulnerability actually counts.