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fangirlingtodeath513 · 8 years ago

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Could you recommend me some fics!? :)

Hello anon! I’m not sure what types of fics you’re looking for, so I’m gonna post a few that I have bookmarked on AO3 and if you’re looking for more specific fics, shoot me another ask :)

The Walk by PersephoneShadow (aka @ibelieveinthelittletreetopper)

Castiel tells himself it was a one time thing, even if his night with a hooker named Dean changed his whole world, but he can’t keep away from the man fate keeps throwing in his path. Castiel is married and he knows his sexuality is an affront to God and everything he’s ever been told is right.

Dean tells himself he doesn’t care about the weirdo with blue eyes, but every time they meet he gets a bit closer to something like hope. Dean’s nothing but a homeless waste of space with a brother in foster care a world away and a father in the wind.

As the connection between these two lost men deepens, it threatens the carefully maintained lies their lives are built on in a story of faith, mistakes, and the journey of love.

Warnings: There’s instances of homophobia throughout the fic, violence (toward Dean, mostly) and it’s obviously NSFW since, ya know, Dean’s a sex worker.

Let It Be by PersephoneShadow (aka @ibelieveinthelittletreetopper)

Dean Winchester’s life changed forever the night a demon appeared in his brother’s nursery and killed his father.

As a hunter Mary is determined to protect her sons from the evil she has run from her whole life - the same evil that took John. But Dean also trusts his protection to the angel in a trench coat he talks to in his dreams. Through years of tribulation and uncertainty, the Winchesters (plus a corgi that might be magic and an angel that may not be real) must fight monsters, demons, and even fate itself to survive as a family.

Or: The one where Mary lives, Cas is there, and nothing and everything changes.

Warnings: Violence, but nothing that’s atypical of Supernatural in general. Other than that, not much.

This is a behemoth of a fic (over 140,000 words) but honestly, if you have the time to read this, it’s beautifully written and was my favorite fic until The Walk beat it out of first place.

Under My Skin by @xylodemon

Dean wants to keep Cas close.

Warnings: None

This is sort of a coda fic, mostly inspired by the absolute flailing Jensen getting a tattoo caused. Honestly it’s just a really good fic and the whole idea of it is super heartwarming. (Also it has a happy ending in case you don’t like fics without happy endings. The above two also have happy endings.)

So Bitter and So Sweet by superhoney (aka pomegranatedaffodil)

Dean has known about the family curse ever since it claimed the life of his mother: anyone who dares to love a Winchester is fated to die. When he takes a chance on love and loses his husband Benny, his belief in its power only grows stronger.

Two years later, a late-night phone call from his brother Sam sends both of their lives spinning wildly out of control. Then Officer Cas Novak arrives in town, looking into the disappearance of Sam’s girlfriend Ruby, and starts asking questions Sam and Dean can’t answer. Complicating matters even further, Dean feels an immediate, overwhelming connection to the intense, blue-eyed source of their problems.

Dealing with all the secrets, the lies, and a brother slowly crumbling under the weight of his guilt doesn’t leave much time for romance, but as Cas gets closer to the truth, he also gets closer to Dean.

Inspired by the film Practical Magic.

Warnings: It’s NSFW and angsty, but has a happy ending.

For My Own by youaresunlight (aka @puppycastiel)

Five times Castiel regrets dating a movie star, and one time Dean proves him wrong.

Warnings: None

I love the idea of Dean being a movie star and this fic is super well written.

Typecast by @mnwood

Up-and-coming movie actor Castiel Novak knows he’ll never be taken seriously if all he ever plays is betas, and as an alpha he certainly doesn’t think it’s a wise career choice to play an omega. However, when he’s offered the omega role in a gay romance and learns that the much more famous (and his crush) Dean Winchester is playing the alpha, Cas decides maybe it’s time to take a risk. But when they meet on day one, Cas isn’t sure what to make of Dean’s scent.

Warnings: Very NSFW and has A/B/O dynamics. Also, Dean is aromantic and Cas is asexual, if either of those things are a nope for you.

Defiant by thestorygirl

Dean Winchester has devoted his career as a police officer to helping angel slaves in any way that he can. He even formed and heads the “Angel Welfare Task Force,” which involved him being called to consult on any case involving slaves. This passion stemmed from an incident that happened twenty years previously, when a thirteen year old Dean failed to help his friend Castiel escape being sold to a sadistic owner.

Dean had never really harbored any hope of finding his friend. He saw his work as something he did in memory of Castiel, to prevent others from suffering the same fate. But, when called out on a routine case one day, Dean was startled to find that he recognized the victim.

Warnings: Castiel is a victim of rape. Repeatedly (if I’m remembering correctly, it’s been a while since I read this). It wasn’t Dean. Angels are essentially slaves in this fic, humans have enslaved them and bound their grace with collars to keep them from accessing most of it. Very NSFW.

Literally anything by @ibelieveinthelittletreetopper is amazing. She’s a beautiful writer and her fics are so well put together and just… *gestures wildly to her AO3*

Also anything by @ozonecologne (her codas, specifically) are beautiful and should absolutely be on your to read list. Her AO3 can be found here. You do have to have an AO3 account to read her things, since she was having trouble with people uploading her fics on other sites without her permission. You can also browse her fic page on her tumblr here.

Also anything and everything by @ltleflrt should be devoured ASAP. AO3 here.

@grey2510 is also a phenomenal writer, whose AO3 is here

Anything by @elizabethrobertajones and @mittensmorgul whose AO3s can be found here and here, respectively.

Also I’m gonna throw this one on at the end. I’m reading it currently and I have absolutely no idea how it’ll end because I’m only two chapters in, so mind the tags.

The Path of Fireflies by museaway

After his humanity is restored, Dean wakes up in bed with Castiel, a wedding ring, and no memory of the past twelve years.

This is a recommendation from ibelieveinthelittletreetopper, I think… I’ve had it open on my laptop trying to read it between studying for my tests. The first two chapters are excellent.

(I just realized all of these are destiel fics which is basically all that I read aside from Cockles fics from specific authors so… sorry if you’re not looking for destiel fics? I’m also 100% sure I’m forgetting people so SORRY TO ANYONE I FORGOT)

If you’d like specific types of fics, feel free to send me another ask. You can also check out @deancasbigbang, a lot of those fics are posting/have posted recently, and DCBB fics are amazing.

#asks #fic rec #destiel fanfic #destiel #Anonymous

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awed-frog · 8 years ago

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SPN Meme

I was tagged by @chiisana-sukima, whose answers were very interesting. I’m not sure mine are going to be as entertaining, but here goes.

what season did you start watching supernatural? At the very beginning.

who was the first character you fell in love with? Sam.

who was a character that you hated at first but grew to love? Don’t punch me, but - John. I still don’t like him as a person, but I think he’s a truly fascinating character, and the new backstory we’ve had about him in S12 makes me wish I could write a story about the beginning of this whole mess - from his point of view.

which character would you most want to be in a long-term relationship with? Oh, I’m happy with my current partner. ;)

if you could go on just one date with one character, which one would you choose? Probably Cas. I’d love to talk to him about stuff.

what would you do on the date? Picnic by a lake?

which character would you most want to be like? Uuuuhm, no one? Man, people are so damaged on that show.

which character would you most like to see brought back from the dead? Bobby. His arc was very well done, but I get this feeling Bobby was never allowed to be more than a parent on the show - that glimpse of a domestic life with Ellen we had in S6 was heartbreaking. I’d like to see what Bobby would do with his life if he were free to live it for himself, so to speak, instead of being responsible for two boys, an angel, and the whole universe. He always seemed interesting to me.

which character would you most like to punch? Metatron?

who is your absolute favorite character? Dean.

which “big bad” do you think was the worst? Amara. I found that storyline inconsistent and mostly boring, and her sudden change of heart at the end not really all that believable.

which character are you most like? Probably Jody? I’m normally the mom friend, so.

what death hit you the hardest? Of the big ones, Crowley’s. It was done so sloppily - the character deserved better. Plus, I can’t help but feeling that, particularly if put together with Eileen’s murder, it foreshadows dark things for the end of the show, and that worries me.

what season finale hit you the hardest? Swan Song was probably the best finale - in a way, the show could have ended there (without Sam’s resurrection) and it would have been a near-perfect story. But the one that truly gutted me emotionally was Sacrifice - that image of Dean standing there with his dying brother, and the angels falling - just, wow.

what are your ten all-time favorite episodes? The usual ones, I guess. Changing Channels, Baby, Steve Yockey’s, most of season 11.

what’s been your favorite season? Season 11. Or season 8. It’s a tie.

who is your favorite angel? Duh, Cas. Also Balthazar.

who’s your favorite demon? Crowley, of course. Though I miss Meg.

who’s your favorite evil character? Probably Ketch. But Lucifer was also fun in the very beginning.

do you have any supernatural ships? Destiel and Saileen (and now an AU world is canon, you’ll pry that one out of my cold dead hands).

who’s your favorite supporting actor? Richard Speight Jr. Loved his take on Gabriel.

what’s your favorite quote from the show? Oh, there’s so many...one of my absolute favourite is Bobby’s Kids ain't supposed to be grateful. They're supposed to eat your food and break your heart, ya selfish dick!

if you could cast one famous actor in an episode of spn, who would you chose? At the moment, I’m experiencing a mild case of Paul Dano hysteria, so probably him - that guy can play everything. And I’m still waiting for John Barrowman to play Baby. Oh, and it’d be fun to have Dean meet Harrison Ford - and by fun I mean, incredibly embarrassing.

if you could write your own episode, what kind of creature would you like to see included? Maybe a centaur. I love Greek stuff.

who’s your favorite girl that dean’s hooked up with? Lisa.

who’s your favorite girl that sam’s hooked up with? Werewolf Madison.

what are some of your favorite convention moments? I don’t watch con videos.

28. if you were going to guest star (or be a recurring guest star) on spn, how would you want your character described?

If I have to be myself, I think I’d have to be a translator hopefully helping them out with something not too goreish and maybe related to ancient Greece? And if I could be anyone, well, I loved Dorothy’s vibe - the Amelia Earhart type, sassy and dangerous and good with whips.

29. what do you hope to see in the next season?

A consistent narrative, mostly. It’s really annoying how some episodes are magnificent and some are barely watchable. Also, the end of queerbaiting. Just - do something with Dean, or don’t. Stop being so insulting with that. Oh, and more characters. This story doesn’t really work anymore if it focuses only on the two of them. They’re grown men, ffs. They have friends, people they love. They long for something more. Just let them have it.

30-40. if you had to choose…

bobby or john? Bobby

bela or ruby? Bela

jess or madison? Jess

jo or lisa? Jo

charlie or kevin? Charlie

balthazar or ash? Balthazr

cas or crowley? Uuuuugh, I can’t. Both.

ben or claire? Claire

jody or donna? Jody

sam or dean? Dean

I don’t know who’s done this already - I’m tagging @grey2510, @treefrogie84, @hazeldomain, @mittensmorgul, @welkinalauda and @thriae5. Have fun!

#spn meme #spn game #ask meme #fandom life #tumblr game

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floralmotif · 8 years ago

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The Audience (for Cas) 12.12 Meta

12.12 seriously made me consider making a video essay instead of a written meta because holy fish, the amount of perspective stuff in this episode is nuts. Inconsistency in subjectivity is very normal in media but this episode goes out of its way to establish it, then defies it, then establishes it again.

This episode uses a lot of subjective and objective camera tricks but it can be occasionally difficult to pinpoint the exact rules of what’s through their subjective PoV and what’s the objective camera bias needing to tell the audience things for reasons.

Give me a break here, SPN.

I’m not really gonna talk about the Reservoir Dogs references here. Other people have already done that very well. I’ll be linking to more of other people’s meta throughout, mostly hidden in words. Click on the underlined bits in the post. I’m kind of late to the party on this one. If you wrote something pertaining to what I have here and it’s not linked somewhere, I apologize. I unfortunately don’t see everything or I can’t find it. feel free to add it or message me and I’ll add it directly:

http://bluestar86.tumblr.com/post/157443210863/12x12-episode-review-still-screechingthis http://drsilverfish.tumblr.com/post/157393322319/12x12-stuck-in-the-middle-with-you-dammit-show https://godshipsit.tumblr.com/post/157487887094/deancas-is-peach-y http://grey2510.tumblr.com/post/157340506918/reservoir-dogs-the-power-of-its-homoerotic

I hope I can explain this in text because it’s not the best medium for what I’ll be saying here. Don’t get me wrong, 12.12 is awesome but because of the nature of its storytelling, it’s weird on a structural front. It’s basically a microcosm of episodes showing the relationship between Cas and his established others.

Below is sort of a break down but I’m going to focus on certain aspects and scenes longer than others.

Establish Mary’s perspective using Ketch’s intro. Call back to Metatron telling Cas a story. What we see in the episode is technically through a character’s perspective. We don’t know which one at first. Breakfast scene unfiltered. Framed with Cas as the overall subject. This is because in a lot of ways, this ep is about Cas. But again, he’s not the one telling the story, not even here. What happens to him drives the emotional connection. So he connects with our emotions in this scene. Establishes empathy. This is the most “true to what happened” the show gives us. Dean’s goofy faces and all. ^During the scene Wally, Dean and Sam all help frame a narrative device. Dean starts his posturing when the nurse shows interest in Cas. This could be considered normal, except Wally is there. Wally idolizes Dean and partially serves to justify his actions. We don’t know what Dean would have done if Wally wasn’t there, but the cut to Dean’s reaction when Mandy calls Cas handsome could give us an idea. Simply cutting to show that Dean was upset because Mandy likes Cas instead of him is kind of a silly editing choice. It’s possible but film tends to make simple connections and Dean’s care for Mandy doesn’t matter in the episode. If Dean really didn’t want Cas to go after Mandy, he would have said so. That perspective doesn’t compromise his image. Him being interested in Cas does though.

^The last aspect of framing for this scene is Sam. Poor dude can’t get a wifi signal. This coming from the man who is often headcanoned as being a sentient wifi tower. Communications are down and it’s seriously impeding his ability to progress. Guess what’s happening at the table while he's trying to get the wifi up: communications are down on pretty much every front (him and the wifi, Dean and Cas, everyone and the waitress, Mary and everyone, Wally and dietary facts, Wally participating in Mary’s lie) it’s seriously impeding real progress. At this time, the audience doesn’t know the extent of that communication error, so the framing is built for this scene to establish relationships and that something is amiss. Now that everyone’s on the same page plan wise(as far as the audience knows), Dean ends his awkward posturing by calling Cas handsome and joking with the waitress, and the wifi is back.

^The escapade with the waitress is kind of odd in itself. She’s kind of a sucky waitress and there seems to be something off about her from what Cas shows us but it never leads to anything. Even Dean’s insistent “teachable moments” don’t go anywhere. It only ends with Cas giving him confused looks and him laughing awkwardly to himself. It almost feels like it he knew Cas wasn’t into it and it was never meant to be serious. Huh.

There is a ton of meta about this scene. Go poke it. In fact, just go poke the archives of all of the people I link. There is so much in their 12.12 tags too I’d imagine from them and others. I know @mittensmorgul has a ton http://mittensmorgul.tumblr.com/tagged/spn%2012.12

Moving on:

The smash cut tells us that regardless of Mary’s reassurance of communication, everything is not going to be fine. Something went wrong here and many people in the audience have probably already noticed that the wrong was hers. The rest of the scene from the cut establishes some of the things that also went wrong with the plan: Cas getting hurt, demons being involved and Wally getting killed. In my original meta for this ep’s promo, I seriously had to resist the urge to refer to Wally as “Fodder”. From what I can tell, his existence has always been to establish a justification for Dean’s behavior by specifically idolizing him and to die early to establish stakes. Poor dude.

After the medias res scene, we get our first real character card: The Wounded Angel. Cas’ block has begun and his is the most confusing subjectivity wise. His block pretty much acts to show his current place in things. He’s still got the Cosmic Consequences looming, he hasn’t found Kelly. Cas continues to be shown as an incompetent hunter. He’s still a fairly passive character during the episode which means he’s not fully healed as a person. There’s still something missing. The ending of the episode arguably gives him that thing or at least a stronger start of it. Again, this episode is in a lot of ways about Cas, but he is not the perspective. The perspectives we get are everyone else’s reaction to what happens to him, which makes his being the first block make sense. His block also establishes what happens to him and sets in motion the rest of the episode.

^An interesting aspect of Cas’ block is that it recaps the opener with all of the antics taken out. Mary’s apparent retelling doesn’t include any of the mis-communications and this time tells it as though it went smoothly. She even glosses over that there were mis-communications at all. This is actually the scene that jumbles up the PoV rules a little since it pulls the rules of “what really happened, who’s PoV we’re in, what is she telling Ketch and what is just her PoV?” into question but never really gives a defining answer. My reading is that it’s Cas segment and Cas dismisses the antics, he wants to know what the plan is and I think he can tell Dean is posturing. He keeps looking at hims like “are you serious right now?” He also dismisses the communication issues which is interesting. The episode uses some weird PoV layering. What characters are seen with in their segments is important for their characters. Again though, even as Cas’ segment, he’s not telling the story but it does tell us what the episode finds is relevant to his character. I could go on forever about the subjectivity in this episode and how much it makes my brain hurt.

^They seem to want to use the “perspectives” of everyone else to convince the audience of how each of them feels about Cas in the episode and what’s happening in general. The only PoV we don’t get directly is Sam’s because his PoV is the only one that doesn’t need distinctive convincing to the audience... and because the episode only has so much time, but if there was really a question there, he would've had a solidifying segment of some sort. I kind of consider the opener/medias res scene his segment since he sort of acts as the facilitator for the episode’s dilemma and it gets glossed over in Mary’s recap during Cas’ block so...join me if you want. It’s just my reading.

Mary’s PoV (Mother Mary) starts when Sam asks her what she’s gotten them into and the emotional connection with Yellow Eyes is called on. Cut to her and Wally establishing her lie for later and telling the audience who their after. The PoV here is also a bit weird and it makes me wonder about whether Dean actually does know about “the most sacred oath” because we are privy to a conversation here that she has with Wally about the BMoL that I doubt she would actually mention to them. I dunno, subjectivity is weird anyway and since editing and dialogue is built on emotion first, the technical aspects tend to get lost. I don’t know many movies or shows that use subjectivity and consistently keep the rules throughout. It’s frustrating to people like me, but most wouldn’t notice.

^In the car, Mary justifies working with the BMoL but never establishes if she really trusts them. More silence as an answer that SPN likes so very much. Later in the house, we get Sam and Mary talking about getting what they want ending on a depressing note for Sam. I think Sam has really been gunning for Mary to get out as proof that he can. Her saying that probably hurt him but I think he still holds out for her getting out as proof of his own ambitions. He puts her on a pedestal just like Wally did with Dean. Dean postures for Wally and Sam(for similar reasons). Mary doesn’t posture for anyone, and it’s created a dissonance for her and Dean, just like Sam’s pedestal does for he and Dean. I haven’t seen the new episode yet but I have some things to say about that.

Another recap of the opening, this time without the cute parts of Dean’s posturing.. I agree with Mittens on this one.

^Enter the colt. At the time, we don’t know it’s the colt. Well, we kind of do if you know how to read recap speak but theoretically, it’s just an artifact at the moment. Good thing they didn’t show it too, if they did this early, they’d have to fire it hehehe. It being shown at the end means it will get fired by the end of the season. I have a guess as to who gets the bullet but I’ll need 12.13 to think about it more.

-More Michael imagery!

^Mary gets Cas into the barn (ha, another one), Mary texts the BMoL and Dean and Sam come in. Now up until this point, we have gotten a lot of reassurances that Dean and Cas have... something.. just in the episode alone. Dean greets Cas during his segment before everyone else, Dean is a dork to Cas during breakfast, Sam tells Dean to get Cas, etc etc. From this point on, Mary gets to witness that condensed into an hour or so. When Dean and Sam come in, Dean pretty much immediately runs to Cas and in Mary’s block, they talk to each other while Dean tries to cope with the possible loss of Cas (again). Sam doesn’t go over until Dean calls him.

Mr. Crowley enters. Crowley’s segment establishes that he A) Cares about “feathers” B) Some important backstory about himself, the lance and the Princes of Hell and C) That he’s willing to break deals for the sake of people he cares about, just like Cas did in 12.09. He cares about the Winchesters even if he doesn’t admit it. Sadly, communications between he and the Winchesters are as bad as ever when it comes to each other but that probably sounds familiar at this point. Good character paralleling. *pats head* And again, Dean in this segment shows the most verbalized concern for Cas, not dealing with Crowley well and going for anger and disbelief.

^Poor Crowley gets thrown through the wall of the barn. Note though, that he gets thrown to the left. Bad guys are thrown to the right typically. Even allied bad guys. Left is regression in western film, right is progress. If he was thrown right, it would have been the direction progress and that doesn’t fit his arc. Welcome to the club Crowley, bout damned time. For me, this meant Crowley’s gonna save them and it’s not just because they inserted him with the archaic lance description.

Now for the fun part: “A Real Barn Burner”. This title is two fold. It’s technically Dean’s segment but it also alludes to everyone being present. A “Barn Burner” is a riveting sport event which sort of pokes fun at the fight that’s about to happen and the race to save Cas. All the previous establishments and blocks in the episode as well as what triggers the block and what happens in it tell us who this segment belongs to.. but the label is plural. It refers to a group. Just like how all the previous establishments and episodes tell us what the “you” means. These episodes don’t exist in a vacuum and this episode is a microcosm of that concept.

After Crowley disappears, we have everyone’s favorite part of the episode. Cas starts to tell them of his dying declaration but Dean is the subject here. This is his block, his segment, his episode. This is what was important for the audience to see about his character. When Cas says “I love you,” he looks at everyone, but when he says “I love all of you,” he looks at Dean and his gaze stays on him after Dean’s reaction insert. He’s telling him there’s a difference and Dean makes some note of it. It’s hard to say if he internalizes it or if he’s just scared of the situation but throughout the scene we and Mary are given a distinction. It also shows how much Cas really does care for everyone by including Mary. Throughout the episode, we have been shown that distinction. It’s subtle but it’s there and this episode wants to shyly tell us about it.

Throughout the entire episode, we didn’t know who was really telling this story, but we had hints. In all of the scenes with something pertaining to Dean and Cas’ relationship, Crowley caring about Cas or instances involving the BMoL that only Mary would have known about tells us it’s Mary. She is the one surprised by them, she is the one who changes the story, she is the one who slowly grows to understand and to fear and to question. She is the audience, the surrogate for the PoV at the beginning. Ketch asks the audience for the story and Mary gives it. She is the audience in general, she needed convincing of that distinction of Dean and everyone’s care for Cas but she never out right says it and neither does the show. She never outright says if she trusts the BMoL either. At the end, she calls Cas one of her boys... because like the audience, she’s been given a microcosm of relationship between Cas and everyone else, she’s been given that distinction, she’s seen the episodes as a whole and what each one says and we know she has, because she’s telling the story. She got it the same way we did and decided what it meant at the end. We got our answer through our PoV, our surrogate Mary, the audience who needed convincing that Cas loves and is loved.

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durenjtmusings · 8 years ago

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12.10 Fan Appreciation post

Annnd here I am again, providing a recap of @elizabethrobertajones wonderful

12x10 watching notes

While last time it was because her notes just tickled the life out of me, this time it is because I read her meta AFTER so may others - and I think she managed to capture almost all of the things so many of us are saying about this last episode. So this time it isn’t so much all the “funny bits” - although those are in there too - but because reading through her highlights nicely aggregates what I’m seeing as almost everyone’s responses to the show. THIS time, I’m using her play by play to add all MY meta about watching, and appreciating, the fandom...appreciating this episode.

Read on for my play by play fandom meta of @elizabethrobertajones play by play of SPN 12.10 (warning metric 1/4 ton of spoilers).

{Again, my comments are bracketed in and in italics}

Weirdly specific but excellent trope: immortal black ladies who have terrible impulse control around arcades. I’m going to be so sad when Lily kills her. {STOP WRITING COOL, POWERFUL WOC AND THEN KILLING THEM OFF}

[kind of sad we already know she’s called Lily because even though Lily Sunder is an incredible name, I wanted to call her Eyepatch Lady and I don’t have to] {We all really liked Lily and the eyepatch was doing it for us and CHARLIE IN THE VIDEO GAME OMG the parallels}

I don’t like this new trend of Sam and Dean actually communicating and talking about their shit. This is awful. Can we go back to them not talking about anything? {SPN fandom culture shock - actual normal/healthy communication. We struggle to cope, but are LOVING the struggle.}

Dean is going to CRASH THE CAR. Sam’s breaking point is Dean literally rotating 180 degrees in his seat to talk back at Cas. :P {OMG this moment had us ALL arm flailing - CAS sass made Dean forget Baby! Cas is more important to Dean than BABY! *panic*}

Aaand the info about Benjamin and his vessel has officially murdered me, especially as he’s already dead. :< Angel/human friendships! *flails emotionally* *flops over and slowly slides off my chair* *resumes watching from the floor because of Cas staring at Benjamin’s wings* {”Friends” - OMG the Destiel meta exploded...more arm flailing}

“If I plan to do anything else stupid, I’ll let you know” - I honestly did not think it was possible to love Cas more than I already did but he keeps on proving me wrong. {Cas sass. At. Dean. It was a thing this episode. A thing of beauty.}

Cas is catching up on what feels like a 3 year backlog of angry squinting {LOLOLOLOL - I didn’t realize this until she pointed it out. But oh yeah, squinting sass.}

Ahahaha Sam no. (Please keep Sam-ing like this. You are the Sam I love so very much :P) {So done Sam was so done repeatedly in this episode. LOTS of Sam as 3rd wheel/peacemaker commentary from all of us.}

“My friends who don’t listen very well” *Dean smirks at Cas* Okay, but I’m taking a screencap of that to use as like, a phone background or something. {OMG that smirk, and the three-men-on-a-bench scene overall...collective sigh and massive giffing.}

Well, home will still be very snarky and passive aggressive when he lives there but at least it will feel like HIS snarky passive-aggressive hunter-filled home. {I LOVE this description of the bunker. And we all cheered Cas clearly sticking around in the bunker - despite the PA fighting with Dean.}

Not surprisingly, Ishim then gets attacked and lightly stabbed. (that was a pun. Because angels bleed light - I’ll show myself out) {no, no, I LIKE puns...don’t stop}

idk how the casting went for this but it was probably “can you do Cas’s Eyebrow” {LOLOL Lots of love for this actress and the wardrobe dept.’s decisions.}

Ishim just confirmed all the spec that this is a human marrying an angel and I’m contemplating going out to stand in the rain and shriek into the sky {snip}. Rain is great, when you need to shriek :P {Yeah, LOTS of happy meta/speculation over angel marriage in this episode.}

It’s times like this I remember the translation to the angel tablet is just sitting in the bunker in a language Cas can read and I need to go shriek in the rain some more {I KNOW right? I mean who says that nephilim are inherently BAD? Is it even ON the tablet? Or was it just some Admin angel’s stupid human-hating rules?}

I think it’s stopped raining so if I need to shriek I don’t know where to go {pat, pat.}

Sam you fucking third wheel master level dork. He’s been mediating so many fights that even when he’s in the middle of one as a participant he takes on this role :P {This has been a favorite gifset - I’ve seen it, and enjoyed it, repeatedly. Oh, and I’m going to use “master-level dork” in conversation as soon as possible.}

*looks around for something to scream into* *picks Mittens’s chat bubble since the sky is not in the right setting* {Poor Mittens - but don’t worry, she can take it; she is a scary fierce Nazghul looking entity (wearing favored hand coverings)}

angel love triangle drama is so tense. {how does that sentence even happen much less make sense - ah, the wonders of the SPN Universe}

Heh, Sam’s being left with Lily and Dean goes to check on Cas. What a wild surprise. {djtmusings fanfic/meta prompt - If SAM had gone to Cas instead, would Isham have threatened to cut HIM out? And would Sam have used the angel sigil? Discuss.}

I did the “AAH OTP INTERACTING” fist pump when Dean rushed over to Cas all urgent and worried, and now Dean’s just… like. Holding Cas. Help. I think I dislocated a finger making frantic handwaving :P - My arm legit really hurts. {Yeah, that was something of a medical epidemic in fandom...}

HOLY CRAP then Dean picks CAS over banishing Ishim when he shows Cas is Dean’s weakness too i ...am probably burning my dinner in the oven {Ditto fandom - although the meal varied around the globe}

LOOK AT MY BEAUTIFUL BLOODSTAINED SON {Yes. Let’s.}

“I’m not mad I’m worried” Oh man all this stuff in the main text sucks because I deduced this back at the start through clever analysis of their dialogue and now what I can tell from this line is that… Dean is worried about Cas. {Ha, ha, joke’s on you, the writers chose NOT to be subtextual - more OMG actual communicating and we all slid out of our chairs into puddles.}

Can’t believe Dean and Cas are married. {Said every. fan. on. my. dash.}

Bonus - Steve Yocky love from the fandom: @elizabethrobertajones: “ tl;dr Yockey owes me dinner “ @grey2510: Kudos to Steve Yockey. Well done, sir. @randomdestielfangirl: And before we proceed, Steve Yockey… Marry me @mittensmorgul: *posts an ask with “ Steve yockey's writing healed me “ and a Julie Andrews dancing the hills are alive gif with # steve Yockey appreciation blog* @thevioletcaptain: “...it’s clear that character is definitely Yockey’s thing." @dorkilysoulless: I think we can trust Yockey with canon, guys. @procasdeanating: Thank you, Mr. Yockey, for using that very specific term {Friends} again. @formidablepassion: My dudes, I think…I think Steve Yockey might be a Wincestiel shipper. [With 3 men and bench scene gif] @waywardpsych-o: Petition for Steve Yockey to write every episode of Supernatural from now on until forever. @bbycas: But actually did someone screw up and publish Steve Yockey’s secret fan-fiction as the episode script by accident or @theslaughteredpanda: Can someone find me Steve Yockey, I wanna give him a giantass hug and millions of kisses Thank you, Sir. Thank you …so many. @the-faerie-circle: CAN WE KEEP STEVE YOCKEY FOREVER AND EVER PLEASE AND THANK YOU {and someone said something like “and can someone please tell me who’s been slipping Steve Yockey 20′s because I want in on that action” but I can’t find it now.}

#spn meta #spn fandom #spn fandom meta #spn meta meta #spn funnies #@elizabethrobertajones appreciation #spn season 12 spoilers #spn 12.10 #spn 12x10

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