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I love Supernatural because I won't watch it for like a good 6 months & for some reason there's something about the show where you just like.... forget everything. You watch it again & it's a literal fever dream & you're like DAMN THIS IS SO GOOD. & it happens all the time & you're like wow I just love these boys. They're your family. You feel safe. You laugh, you cry, you feel at home.

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New Guy by Posingasme

Castiel is starting at a new school, and everything that can go wrong does. He’s just about decided he’s not cut out for this school, that the universe is telling him he should just tuck his tail and crawl back home. Enter Sam Winchester, the golden boy, who seems to be everything Castiel isn’t, and everything Castiel wants. (Sastiel, Mature, 13k+ words)

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The Rapture

Earlier, in the @spnfanficpond we had themed sprints - and this was the episode we rewatched! (Kind of, lol).

So, you get 2 chapters, with Jimmy's and Dean's POVs in different moments of that episode.

Tags: Religious trauma (I bet), Loss of faith, mentions of John Winchester, NO BETA

Words: 2k-ish

An excerpt below!

He hadn’t met God, not even in his mind. Castiel hadn’t shown him any image of him, insisting that it would destroy what was left of his psyche. But not even the angel could conceal the… not feelings, but sensations he’d felt when he’d been, once, in the presence of his father. Awe. Reverence. Absolute, utter admiration and undying love. Something so piercing and total to be handled with the utmost care… and God had rejected the gift. Thousands upon thousands of angels wanted nothing more than loving him, and he’d created the humans. And wondered why the angels held them in such contempt. Wondered why Lucifer had refused to bow… Before abandoning the humans, as well. God had left them all. And so, Jimmy was doing the only thing that made sense. He was trying all he could to not be like him.

Read the whole thing

@mariekoukie6661 and @mrswhozeewhatsis here we go!

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Hello, Dean.

You know when Castiel visits Dean in his dream? What if he does it in his true form?

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I effing LOVE drawing his nose. On s3 now..... lowk addicted to this show

Included some progress pics and the ref 💯

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saving people, hunting things

Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powers. - Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Supernatural and Spiderman share some things in common, as texts. For Peter Parker, with great power comes great responsibility. (Maybe he'd been reading his Swiss philosophy.) But that's in a world with superpowers. In the world of Supernatural superpowers aren't necessary or even particularly useful; what's important is knowing the truth and then what you do once you know that truth.

But that's not fair, right? People should be allowed to live the lives they actually want and pursue any dream, because that's how we tend to understand basic human rights: self-actualization and individuality are important. That's a very American attitude and it wouldn't be surprising from Supernatural, which in a lot of ways is a very American show. But: that isn't the value system we're actually encouraged to understand from the actions of the main characters. Duty is more important than the self; what we owe to each other is to help, even if other lives we could've had are sacrificed.

In the early period in the show, Dean feels like Sam going to Stanford was a betrayal – but it’s not going to college that’s the betrayal, but rather leaving the family. For Dean, the family is the most important thing in the universe. Family supersedes even the family’s mission, as we see from how he stops Sam from going after Azazel in the burning house, and how he stops Sam from killing Azazel when Azazel is possessing John. So, for Sam to ‘betray’ the family by leaving – that’s untenable, for Dean. He can’t see it as Sam wanting to have a safer, happier life, because the only way that Dean understands happiness is when his family is together. However, this attitude of Dean’s has complicated and hardened and softened and shifted over the years, because these characters are dynamic. We see Dean bragging that Sam got into Stanford, and expressing regret that he wasn’t able to get out of the life. Now, he still wouldn’t be able to deal if Sam abruptly announced that he was enrolling at Boston University, see ya later! – it would probably still be seen as a betrayal – but that’s the thing. By his 30s, Sam would never do that.

Now, why wouldn’t Sam do that? The text shows us, over and over again, that Sam – while he sometimes would like a ‘normal’ life – now values the hunting life as a life worth having. Moreover, Sam himself says, multiple times in various ways, that Stanford and the normal life it represented was a dream. He was never really going to get out, because fate won’t let him. He was expertly manipulated into the ‘rebellion’ of leaving for college by various of Lucifer’s agents throughout his childhood, but he was always going to get those powers, he was always going to be Lucifer’s vessel. Sam never really apologizes for going to school or leaving, and the text never says he should. It was an important thing for his personal development.

What the text does do is point out, over and over again, that attempting to get out of hunting is a fool’s errand. It pulls you back, inexorably, gets into your blood. Not so much with great power comes great responsibility, but more with an ounce of knowledge comes great responsibility. Only the weak leave hunting; when Dean considers staying in the djinn dream, or when Dean keeps his promise and stays with Lisa, or when Sam stays with Amelia, that’s a betrayal of all the innocent people they could have saved by hunting. A betrayal of the family, too (though Sam’s stint with Amelia is coded as this more than anything else), but more pertinently a betrayal of the true calling: to protect those who are too ignorant to protect themselves.

What's most interesting to me about this understanding – duty uber alles, sacrifice of the self for others – is that by the end of the series (s11-on), the Winchesters don't look for exits. They have their life and they have their duty and they don't pretend they're going to have any other worlds but this one. There's a way to interpret that as a misery, but the show doesn't code it as one. They don't want destiny and dealing with God and epic quests crushing them to the ground, of course (who does?), but they are content to just do the job. We see it in the series finale: finally broken from destiny's yoke, and they're still living together in their bunker, still taking jobs, still living the life that duty compels them to -- but it's contented, and calm, and self-actualized, and free. Duty not as cage but as satisfying moral certitude. You can view the family business as a burden if you're determined to, but that's only one perspective; once you know the truth, and you know the incredible good you can do by service to that truth, you can become a superhero.

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this was a historical moment in television

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Healing

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So yesterday I made that long post talking about how canon Sam and Dean are basically in a queerplatonic relationship, committed to each other and the life they have and expecting emotional fidelity from one another even if their relationship is completely non-sexual and non-romantic, and today I was thinking about someone trying to explain that to Dean and I am just tickled by the idea, lol.

Like, he would just stare at them like they were nuts and tell them that of course he's close with Sam, he's his brother.

I mean, Dean is definitely aware that the intense devotion between him and Sam is more than people typically have with their siblings, he knows that, okay, but he certainly doesn't feel the need to put some kind of label on it. And definitely not queerplatonic, whatever that is supposed to mean.

Sam is his brother, and to Dean, that word already meant the most important person in his life--his family, his best friend, his partner-- and it always meant that. Why would he need another term?

Meanwhile, Sam would listen to Dean bitch about this confusing conversation he had, agree with Dean to appease him, get that thoughtful arch on his brow, and go down a rabbit hole researching platonic lifepartners and different types of comitted relationships besides your typcal romantic/sexual ones for a few weeks, and finally get some answers about himself that he had been struggling with since before he left for Stanford.

Sam is more settled, more content in his life and with his relationship with Dean than ever before, and Dean can clearly see that, but he doesn't dig too hard as to why, afraid to look a gift horse in the mouth. And Sam doesn't explain, recognizing that unlike Sam, Dean never felt the urge to examine his life and his relationships and break them down to see how they worked and fit into society like Sam, who always felt like a freak and wanted to understand why, did.

So Sam would be content finally having words and definitions to put to their relationship, and Dean would be content because he and Sam are finally on the same page, planning to spend the rest of their lives together as they always should have: as brothers.

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To avoid deer strikes, Finland is painting deer antlers with reflective paint.

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LMAO THEY WERE RUTHLESS

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don’t know who needs to hear this but AO3 comments section is not Letterboxd. giving unsolicited criticism to a fanfic writer does not make you a “fanfic critic” because there’s no. such. thing.

giving unsolicited criticism to a fanfic writer just makes you a spoiled, rude, entitled asshole at best, makes the author stop posting their works altogether at worst.

a reminder that it’s always okay to just stop reading and quietly click away from a fic if at any point you feel like you don’t like it for whatever reasons. unless specifically asked, there’s no need to tell the author, whose work you read for free, how you dislike something they wrote for themself for fun.

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1x20: Dead Man’s Blood | Full-fledged Hunters, not children

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If l’m not mistaken in Judeo-Christian tradition archangel Gabriel is the benevolent Angel. Maybe the expression heart of gold comes from that.

Also, amongst the archangels as depicted in Supernatural, Gabriel is the one that loves humanity the most. But in an regular Angel/traditional god depiction kind of way, not in a Castiel kind of way.

As Dean once said (I’m paraphrasing here), I´m not sure Angels and Archangels are built to care. The ones that do are the broken ones. And they are not legions.

So the heart of gold as we usually understand that expression … it’s probably wishful thinking!

Where does the idea that Gabriel has a heart of gold or whatever even come from?

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I’m going to derail this post to talk about billboards.

Is it just me or series are more present on billboards since streaming mostly replaced « regular » tv? Or is it just a USA thing?

I’m not complaining. I love seeing Jensen Ackles or Nathan Fillion on pictures of billboards. I ´m just musing on the fact that series kind of have to use billboards nowadays to get seen. Traditional tv or streaming alike.

Because everybody is watching their own thing at their own pace, how else can you promote your product to a new audience? It’s billboard board or ads on the internet.

Of course their is always word of mouth on specific fandom spaces, but that doesn’t count as a new audience most of the time.

And I love the poster-like artwork they come up with to promote series. Who’s ’top bill’, what’s the vibe of the show. All in a single specifically made image with some words. Amazing condensing of a show’s essence.

Carry on.

Look at that! 😍♥️

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pose reference from @adorkastock 💛