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Reminder, Star Wars Rebels is some of the best Star Wars out there and it is canon. It gets overlooked because it's animated, but it not only has great characters and strong character arcs, it also touches on some seminal story beats for crucial universe plot and major themes. Star Wars Rebels is about the birth of the rebellion. And deserves to be respected. (Not minimized, hijacked, or treated as an inconvenience).

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The gang's all here... The Old Guard 2 | Released 2nd July 2025

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NILE & ANDY IN THE OLD GUARD 2 OFFICIAL TRAILER

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Hell YEAH!!!!

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The Old Guard 2 (2025) dir. Victoria Mahoney

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New Images from The Old Guard 2

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"Starlight in the shadows"

Don't tell me Star Wars wasn't always art.

Shadow Warrior especially is a beautifully designed episode.

AHSOKA IS SO GOOD. The build of season one sort of works its way in and creeps up on me until by the final episode I'm in tears.

And the casting is great, the visual design, and I love these characters very much. It was exciting to get that show and see TCW and Star Wars Rebels characters brought into live action but I also think it's a strong Star Wars story anyway. It's a story about a rebellion (as Star Wars does) and women warning about a rising or returning threat (as Star Wars does) and about people who care about each other (as Star Wars does) and jedi (as Star Wars does) and non-powered people who make a difference (as Star Wars does) and family (as Star Wars does) and mentors and apprentices (as Star Wars does).

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Star Wars was always art. It was always a powerful allegory on real political issues. It was always good. <333

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“Unironically love spn and spn is good actually. Unless you actually meant that sincerely, then nvm, hahahaha spn is terrible and you’re stupid if you think it’s good”

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"Cas needs to be held accountable!!" He's a fictional character, Janet.

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I want to talk further about this accusation that "Cas thinks Dean should be over it already."

Uh. No? Not if you actually, y'know, watched the canon and paid attention to what is actually going on with the characters.

So a reminder: Cas simply endured it. He let Dean be mad. He gave Dean room for it.

Dean has every right to be pissed off and there are Cas stans who treated Dean like a villain for being hurt Cas kept things from him, which led to a dangerous situation and Mary paid the price, and then ran from him yet again. He has rights to his anger. Cas screwed up.

But I wish people from the Dean side would stop mixing up Cas with takes from some Cas stans.

Cas confessed why he did kept the secret about Jack and the snake, and it wasn't some sinister reason or even hubris. He was scared, pure and simple.

Scared of his family being torn apart. He was afraid of losing Team Free Will, and most specifically, he was afraid of losing Dean. Not that Cas doesn't also love Jack but it's not only about Jack. By Cas's own confession.

The tragic irony is that his efforts to keep his human family together is what tore it apart and almost shattered his relationship with Dean. Cas still had a lot to learn.

Another thing Dean and Cas have in common: family breaking apart is the worst thing of all.

And show me where Sam and Dean never kept secrets and it ended badly. I'll wait. Show me where Sam and Dean's secrets never got anyone else hurt or killed. I'll wait. Cas absolutely was grieving Mary and absolutely carrying guilt on his shoulders for what soulless Jack did.

So Cas, feeling really bad about all of this, and carrying his own sense of guilt, understands why Dean is pissed at him and stays while Dean takes angry swipes.

Which doesn't mean Cas has zero sense of self worth or can stay in a place where he really believed he was no longer wanted. He was wrong in that belief, but it's understandable why he felt he had to go.

Nothing in how he left or went about it shows he thinks less of Dean for it. Or blamed Dean.

He was heartbroken.

"You were too angry" isn't a recrimination on Dean being angry. It's an incomplete phrase, and often gets misread. What that's about is that in Cas's perception, Dean was so angry at him, he was done with Cas.

Cas really thought--

And Cas wasn't about to force Dean to have him around when (in Cas's pov) he had screwed things up so badly that Dean didn't want him around any more.

We can go back and forth on how much Cas felt he deserved that degree of rejection. Cas has some faith in himself, but he has greater faith in Dean, and the knowledge that he hurt Dean and alienated Dean to this degree, and Cas most definitely acknowledged and understood his own culpability, that he thought he'd lost Dean's love--that was unbearable. Not Dean's anger.

Also relevant, Dean calling Cas always the screw up is blatantly against what Dean demonstrably in canon knows and believes.

Dean, who has repeatedly made allowances for others' screw ups and is hardest on himself, who has also been furious at his own little brother, does not believe that Cas is the only screw up in Team Free Will. Dean was lashing out due to his own anger and deep sense of hurt. He was so deeply hurt by Cas keeping things from him, by Cas running from him yet again, after Cas has run from him so many times. On top of his grief for Mary, Dean was deeply hurt by Cas, and maybe it was one time too many at that well. It's the fact that Cas didn't trust him. Didn't go to him. That hurts Dean the most, each time it happens.

Dean was scared too.

Dean puts as much faith in Cas as Cas puts in Dean. And remember in the background of all of this is the reveal about Chuck manipulating their lives.

People making Dean the villain isn't better than people making Cas the villain.

It's tragic, is what it is.

What happened in Purgatory is that faced with the possibility of Cas lost forever to Purgatory, Dean finally relented and said what was actually in his heart.

That he regrets not stopping Cas from leaving.

That's it.

Dean is also scared of his own anger, he is scared that he drove Cas away that hard when he didn't actually mean to, he is scared that all he is, is a killer, that all he is, is anger. Remember that Dean thinks he's poison. This is not authorial voice punishing Dean for being angry. This is an arc about Dean and his deepest fears about himself.

Dean was not badgered into forgiving Cas and welcoming Cas back. He was not shamed into it. He was not bullied or abused or manipulated or whatever horrible thing some people claim Cas did to him.

Cas did not turn on his heel and stalk out just because Dean was angry at him or blame Dean for being angry.

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Dean fans should be listened to, they said, don't be afraid to speak up, they said. Oh but they only meant the ones who hate S12-15 like they do, they didn't mean anyone who appreciated things about those seasons and who felt a lot of feelings about Dean and his story and didn't despise those seasons. They didn't mean someone not themselves was entitled to Dean feelings. So what they meant was only certain Dean fans matter, not others. Only Dean fans who hate dabbnatural matter. Only antidabbnatural Dean fans have actual real authentic feelings.

Just thinking about some things people said that they failed to live up to. The virtue signaling was wild. I'm aware what they really meant. They do not in fact GAF about how Dean fans feel or that we speak. Only their tiny little exclusive club of antis.

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Official poster, and tomorrow (May 8th) we will get the trailer of The Old Guard 2

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I'll be gone in a day or two

THE LAST OF US ( 2023- ) 2.04 “Day One”

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Dina Falling In Love While Ellie Plays The Guitar

The Last of Us - Season 2 Episode 4: "Day One" Directed by: Kate Herron

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BELLA RAMSEY as ELLIE WILLIAMS The Last of Us Season 2, Episode 4: Day One requested by anonymous

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Literally!!! When I speak up--

always someone who immediately doubles down doing the exact joy shaming bullshit from the antidabbnatural stan lane. Nobody forced you to read my post. Which I didn't even tag onto any shared tags but you sure do splatter your rage and hate and joy shaming all over the tags.

Some people are more up Dabb's ass obsessed with hating those seasons than any of us who actually appreciated the good in those seasons. I don't stan the guy the way the antis who hate those final seasons do.

I wish for one second Dean mattered more to them than their obsession with hating a showrunner and shaming other fans for liking things.