sure cas fell in love with a bug but you don’t know that you wouldn’t. if you could speak the language of bugs and be bugsized and walk among the bugs and you met a bug that was so full of love and other complicated bug emotions you don’t know. you don’t know that you wouldn’t fall in love with a bug
[Image Description: A screenshot of a simple website/search tool. The word "supernatural" is written in the search text box. Underneath this is a list of all the episodes of Supernatural in which the word "supernatural" is mentioned in the supernaturalwiki transcripts. /end ID]
[spntranscriptsearch.github.io]
So a while back, I threw together a VERY rudimentary search tool for my friend connor @sarahjacobs to make it slightly easier to search all of the episode transcripts from supernaturalwiki.com. I've been sitting on it a while, since it's, again, very rudimentary, but I've shared it in like 2 discord servers and people seem to find it helpful, so instead of putting in the time to actually make the search algorithm anything but blindly brute force, I'm just going to share it with you guys as is 💙
Some things to note:
It searches for (case-insensitive) exact matches ONLY
(Ex. "peanut butter" will only return episodes with "peanut butter" but NOT "peanut-butter")
It searches for exact character matches, and doesn't search by word. This means that non-specific requests will return unhelpful results.
(Ex. "cas" will return episodes with "cas" "castiel" "case" "occasion" etc.)
Because it's rudimentary, it's very slow, and browsers like Chrome will see that it's taking a long time and think that it's gotten stuck. It hasn't. If you get a little popup that says it's not responding, hit the wait button and wait.
Side note, once you do an all-season search, any searches you do right after that will also go quickly, but wait too long and you'll need to wait again.
Search alternative below the cut if this tool just isn't working for you!
If you'd like to use google to run fuzzier searches, you can! Results may be imprecise and may return data that you don't need, but it goes a lot faster than my tool and is more forgiving if you don't remember exact phrasing.
If you didn't know, the "transcript" in quotes means that it must necessarily look for pages that contain the exact word "transcript" somewhere on the page.
Here's an example:
Your search term(s) doesn't have to be in quotes! However here I was looking for instances with "peanut butter" exactly.
endings that are better for dean than dying young and bloody:
opening a bar (as shown to be a fantasy of his)
opening a gay bar (my preferred ending)
working with kids, potentially at a home like sonny's
working as a mechanic, eventually specializing in vintage cars
becoming the new bobby, helping the next generation of hunters
being a stay-at-home dad with his husband castiel as the breadwinner (cas doesn't work either he just steals money from rich assholes using his powers and calls it being a breadwinner)
(he's with cas for all of these btw in case that wasn't obvious)
spending like a good decade traveling the world via angel express and enjoying his retirement from hunting
becoming a rock star with a cult following, a significant portion of which love sharing around conspiracy theories that he's actually a serial killer who faked his own death and started fresh with a new identity (no one seriously believes this)
becoming a sheep herder (it's the closest thing to a modern-day cowboy he can get. he gets to wear the hat and everything)
moving to hollywood and becoming an actor under the pseudonym jensen ackles
becoming a successful writer purely to spite chuck, outselling the supernatural series easily and receiving rave reviews for his refreshing style and devastating depictions of childhood trauma and breaking the cycle of abuse
building a space ship and searching the galaxy for intelligent life
literally anything other than what happened on the show
i do kind of think that "king or two queens?" joke from supernatural is top tier comedic genius ngl. there really was NO winning that one for dean winchester
I’m dead serious when I say my favorite salmon dean moment is when Sam finds that horrible taxidermy animal with the costume on and holds it up for Dean to look at.
this gay love is the only thing a malicious god can’t touch will live in my mind rent free for the next 4-10 business millennia and it IS the thesis of supernatural but. can you imagine trying to call it that to a normal person. what’re you watching? oh the cws supernatural. oh? what’s that about? it’s about a gay love story that reinvents free will and defeating a cruel and callous god with a capital g. and then they hit play and it’s [dean voice] i ganked the bitch.