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Spotted today in the parking garage

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“i asked chatgpt” ok well i asked cesare the somnambulist . and i trust him 100x more

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Supernatural - Maleus Maleficarum (3.09)

Whumptober 2022

No. 21 COUGHING UP BLOOD

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person in fandom: eeeyikes!!! i hope im writing this character in this short little fanfic right >_< eeekkk what if my takes on my meta are all wrong and everyone will Kill me!!

guy in professional comic industry: okay lets mischaracterize every single character that appears in this comic for 50 or so issues

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He turns around and walks backwards for a stretch, the world warping in the moonlight in a way that seems to condense and refract around the house. It’s not a home; still, he’s leaving it. He wonders if it’s still called running away if that’s what you’ve been doing your whole life.

The bricks and beams and bones of the house aren’t familiar to him. It’s a stranger to him.

But the men inside aren’t. And he’s seen the idea, once, that home isn’t a place but a person.

Sam runs away from home at midnight, leaving it all behind.

Drabble written for @spnspeeddatingbang's prompt of the week :)

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Summer of Hornblower–“Retribution”

“I alone pushed him.”

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Could ‘was’ become an ‘is’ to me, Then would I ask no more than this; Or could, for me, the time that is Become the time that is to be!—

Don Quixote: Second Part, Chapter XVIII (Trans. John Ormsby) // Supernatural 2x20, 4x03, 5x13

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Could ‘was’ become an ‘is’ to me, Then would I ask no more than this; Or could, for me, the time that is Become the time that is to be!—

Don Quixote: Second Part, Chapter XVIII (Trans. John Ormsby) // Supernatural 2x20, 4x03, 5x13

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I saw @wincestwhispers tags here and ran to make this.

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Very well. I'll take a chance, Mr. Bush.

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stay defiant babes

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Chains in THE TERROR

You would never break the chain.

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i still think it's interesting that the core, running theme of "hunting makes a monster" is first introduced in 1x02, which is pretty solidly dean's introduction episode. it's interesting because it's rather sam's monstrosity via his destiny which is the larger plot of the show and is thus explored more explicitly.

when it comes to dean, the theme is applied more subtly, not as an afterthought but an undercurrent, essential to the story unraveling but never taking a center stage. the show spends so much time yelling at us about sam's monstrosity that dean's comes off as more of, hm, a feeling of wrongness. i guess it comes back to the idea that sam has a monster inside him (demon blood), but dean is inherently monstrous. i think the show expounds this well: the marked way dean is set apart from sam as a "natural" hunter, even to the point that a whole episode is devoted to proving that he was born to be one (4x17), the resigned understanding that he can never quit hunting, the ways he differs from sam when hunting itself becomes the thematic conflict.

not to say sam's relationship to monstrosity is misleading or wrong, but rather that i think it's clever how dean is constructed to fill the role without taking a spotlight on it. the monstrosity of hunting is the foundation of the show, not the plot of it, and it's interesting to see that theme woven into the subcurrents of the story, always present in its deuteragonist and therefore always present in the building blocks of the world kripke invented, and yet not distracting as to make it a plot in itself. it gets a focus especially through gordon as an allegory for dean's fate, but rarely is it the plot, you know?

and anyway all this to say, it becomes a well-planned microcosm for the larger story kripke tells: as sam pursues hunting, it becomes shorthand for him pursuing (unknowingly) the fate he believes he's fighting against. dean creates the mold that sam falls into so that once he begins his relentless pursuit of monsters, we understand it to simultaneously be a relentless pursuit of monstrosity itself.

and it also becomes a clever parallel for the earlier demon war and the later apocalypse in how those themes unravel, becoming clear warnings that angels and all others who orchestrate the fates of sam and dean are to be distrusted, that salvation from heaven is no more holy than the flames of hell, that there is no winning in the war against monsters because every pawn is one, himself. so it says a lot about what the world is and how one can break free of The Cycles: sam and dean can only escape their fates by turning to each other, and this is represented in that they can only escape their own monstrosity by leaving the life.

and at the end of all of this is john, who functions as the ultimate symbol of monstrosity both through his narrative role and through his allegorical relationship with azazel—mirrors of each other, imparting their monstrous wisdom upon their children, and ultimately corrupting the family. such is life.

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three of them ...

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my favorite part was doing the book