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get you a man who can do both

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We’re all so broken

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later seasons dean feels like his cheating on somebody when he tries to hook up with women but he just won't examine that feeling any further

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no i'm not crying

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Countdown || Blurred Edges (1.05)

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supernatural s1e17 hell house (w. trey callaway)

and it's all sam's fault

totally normal brother stuff part 3 of ?

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God okay I'm watching sex and violence, as you do, and it's so much more insane that Dean's siren is a man who wants to be his little brother when you take in all the preamble before it.

obviously it's nuts that the writers didn't put in a single non sexual siren example, which could have been SO easy, but they didnt!! obviously we all know sex and violence by heart but it blows my mind every time I watch the ep

makes you think!

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my favorite scene in dead mans blood is when john knocks on the impala window while sam is giving dean head

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Don’t you die on me, Dean (Sam and Dean)

Wincest fireman carry. For you, nonnie out there, who made me laugh out loud in front of my computer with your CAPSLOCKS FURY and who wondered why there was a d/c fireman carry art and no wincest version.

Quickly drawn. (*understatement*). Graphite on paper. Digital retouches on faces and clothes. Texturizing and highlights in Photoshop CS.

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something a lot of fans don’t want to admit is that dean would not actually beg anyone to stay with him, not even his family

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In Defense of Dead Dove: Do Not Eat

What's the point of a tag that tells you to read the tags? Isn't that redundant? Actually, no! "Dead dove: do not eat" does serve an important purpose because it's NOT just a generic "mind the tags" statement, there's more to it than that.

Because of all the misinformation surrounding DD:DNE and how muddied the waters have become with some people trying to claim that it's equivalent to "what it says on the tin" (or the like), there seems to be some confusion about its purpose. I recently explained the origins of DD:DNE and its inherent dark connotations, but I just encountered another misleading dead dove post and I want to provide more clarity on how it's supposed to be used and why it's genuinely helpful.

Many writers these days tend to be overly cautious and tag every little thing, particularly when it comes to potentially triggering or problematic content, regardless of how much or little that content is featured in the fic. While thorough tagging is greatly beneficial on the whole, it can sometimes be hard to tell the tone or intent of a fic and how much weight you should put on those warnings from just looking at a list of tags.

"Dead dove: do not eat" is a flashing warning sign that, not only will potentially triggering or problematic content feature heavily, it will also be presented and framed with little to no authorial commentary or judgment. It's saying: "I hope you're prepared to read something fucked up because that's what you'll find here and I'm not justifying, moralizing, or apologizing for it. You have been warned." This should be used in conjunction with specific content warnings to indicate the exact flavor of fucked up you're going to encounter, but even if someone chooses not to clarify in the tags for some reason (a controversial choice, to be sure), it's still a warning in and of itself. DD:DNE is not entirely meaningless without other tags, it's just more thorough and informative with them.

Consider two fics tagged with rape/noncon, one with the DD:DNE tag and one without.

The fic without the dead dove label may just include discussion of noncon that happened to a character in the past, the noncon may occur in the fic but be glossed over and not described in detail, or the noncon may be dubcon at worst. Everyone has different thresholds for certain types of content, so some people may still choose to warn for it in these cases. I'm not attempting to pass judgement on whether or not the noncon warning should be used in that way, but it happens regularly and it can make sorting through tags to find what you're looking for complicated.

The fic with the DD:DNE tag? That's a Rape Fic. You can pretty safely assume the noncon is going to be a major component of the fic, it will likely be explicit, you won't be spoon-fed any morals about it, and it probably won't have a conventionally happy ending.

Not having the DD:DNE tag obviously doesn't mean that a fic does NOT contain dark or problematic content, as not everyone chooses to use it, but including it essentially guarantees it (at least when used correctly). This can be very helpful for anyone specifically looking for something angsty and awful to wallow in, while allowing others who aren't interested in that to safely avoid it.

Because of its inherent connotations, "dead dove: do not eat" should NEVER be used as a generic call to "mind the tags." If you add it to your non-problematic, 100% consensual fic because you happen to include an unusual kink or whatever, you WILL scare away readers because they WILL assume you have a dark untagged twist in there somewhere.

DD:DNE is a convenient fandom-agnostic modifier that conveys to readers they are about to encounter something unapologetically fucked up and to make sure they're in the right headspace for it. Do not open the bag labeled "dead dove" if you are not prepared to see a dead dove. Conversely, do not label a bag "dead dove" if there's not a dead dove in there.

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Forever thinking about Sam Winchesters complete lack of trigger discipline. How did that even happen. How did that happen in real life and how did that happen in-story. Did jarpad give him fuck-awful trigger control on purpose? Guy from Texas who presumably grew up with and around guns enough to at least not be an idiot with them?? Or does he naturally have none and passed the habit onto his character? How would John Winchester, a vet, who deals with guns every day, who clearly was able to train Dean well enough in that, ever allow this to happen? I have. So many questions about this. Or maybe only one. This has been haunting me for months.

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My attempt at contributing to the fandom…

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you would think something that's "super natural" would be really really normal. but it's not that

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Dean’s beautiful boobs 🥰🙏😍🎉😘

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Could i please get a small mammal cursed bio fact if u have one

the grasshopper mouse of the southwestern United States looks like a standard house mouse but is almost entirely carnivorous and is known to kill and consume everything from less homicidal mice to goddamn rattlesnakes, which they kill by jumping onto the snake’s back and gnawing through its spine