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pumpkinstrawbrew · 2 months

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Hey! I'm sooooo happy to finally find another person that ships Scarecrow and Batman! This is ship is so underrated and it deserves MUCH more recognition 👏☺️ Also, I love your art and analysis of these characters!

I don't know if you've answered this before, but what do you think about the Arkhamverse version of them? I would prefer Arkham Knight, but if you feel uncomfortable with it, Arkham Asylum is fine (I love both). I don't know what to think of it at the moment and I'm trying to form an opinion!

I hope you have an amazing day!! ❤️❤️

Can I be 🐓 anon if you allow anons?

hello there!! i’m also happy to meet another fellow-minded scarebat believer out there! scarebat is just such a fascinating ship. i’m honestly go uwu when i see other people enjoying it too! this pair indeed deserve more recognition an’ love! an’ aw, heck, thank you! it makes me blush knowing that someone can have fun with those lil, whimsical things i do!

an’ oh, nope. i didn’t answer this one! arkhamverse’s content is smth that i see circulating around a lot, but i didn’t see much content for that version of scarebat. i guess, the constant choking, an’ ‘get on your knees now, crane’ wasn’t enough to awaken smth in anyone *besides me an’ 2-3 other fine wine enjoyers*. which is once again too bad, bc even design wise, they’re kinda a banger in their own right. whichever version we take, it’s just a good contrast between batman’s heavy armour an’ jon’s typical rags *with some cyber-punk touch later on*. like, while i’m a simple gal who tends to simp for ‘classic’ outlooks, i do appreciate what the game did. gotta love crane’s freddy krueger syringe glove, an’ how he got it embedded into bruce’s neck an’ chest, an’ then got stabbed with it himself lol. there is a lot of homoerotic stuff, which can be done with it! esp bc it’s such a close range weapon, an’ each version of akrham’s crane used it differently. in arkham asylum, he injected the poison into bruce’s arm. the desperate, angry action kinda reminded me of a pissy, bristling animal, that would bite your hand, when if you try to grab it. in the next game, jon was way more vicious, less of a thrashing opossum that you find in your garage an’ more of a snake, that you accidentally step on, while you climbing down your porch. the vast difference between his mental states then an’ later on is an interesting theme for speculations. esp bc bruce is also worse to wear in the next game. in fact, i’d say that arkham knight sorta depicts them at their subjective ‘worst’ almost. an’ it says smth, bc i don’t think that either of them are ever in good mental place.

i kinda find it interesting how some people would assume, that if person acts cold an’ detached, it means that they’re ‘in control’, when sometimes, it’s the opposite. in bruce’s case for sure. but i’d like this for some versions of crane as well, bc it suits his psychotype as well. not to mention, that jon’s hygiene in arkham knight is at its lowest too, which says a few things about his mental state right off the bat. or how he didn’t seem to properly treat his own wounds, just instantly throwing himself into his biggest scheme. a man truly possessed by revenge.

but welp, if we go into specifics of each separate version of arkhamverse, i guess, i will start with arkham asylum! my memories about those games are a bit rusty, but i’ll go with what i remember. providing more emphasis on arkham knight, since they do have more going on an’ you seem more interested in that specific version too!

still, first things first, i love how jonathan was half-naked during the first game lol. it’s just so funny to me, bc he is usually covered from head to toe, but in there, he was shirtless, wearing pants that held for dear life on those skinny hips an’ i’ll bet dude had nothing underneath them either. he’s never was the most proper person, admittingly, but idk, running around the dirty asylum an’ hunting your enemy while showing off your nips an’ stomach is…smth else. esp for a prude like crane. but i guess, at that point of time, he seemed to be so deranged, that his usual body issues no longer worried him. besides, poison ivy walked around in her underwear an’ blouse that was held together by one durable button, why can’t he do the same? it’s not like batman would comment on it, even if he wanted to. but like, honestly, all the hints of possible spooky + sexy times were there, so it’s a shocker, that no one has done anything about it yet. i mean, you literally have jonathan, who was flashing the bat for 20 minutes straight, an’ it’s not smth that the majority of cranes would ever have the guts to do in any other set-up. btas an’ comicverse ones would downright combust, before they’d be walking around batman shirtless. but not that gremlin. he was all about it. even if i do think, that he wasn't fully aware about what it means, an’ that it’s kinda embarrassing to do smth like that, while you are trying to be intimidating. he’s not bane. it’s not like he has some crazy muscular mass to show off. but it is very stimulating to think about the ways it all can be used in. the cold bat’s armour to exposed skin of a spooky toothpick. batman grips scarecrow’s clothes, when they fight. in there, it’ll be almost all naked skin. that’s a sexy imagery to have!

as for the substance of the arkham asylum on itself, i don’t think that scarecrow was in there a lot. but then again, maybe i just remember it this way. it is however curious how fast crane goes from campy looney to more serious, jarred person, we see in the next game. an’ his whole motivation shifts from ‘you’re just like us and have fears’ to ‘there is no saviour. no hope’. almost like he was very, very let down, when batman failed to save him that one time lol. but considering that arkhamverse kept jonathan’s comic origin, it’s safe to assume that yeah, he took that very-very personally. he isn’t the joker, who kinda never brings up how many times, batman casually let him ‘die’. the btas alone has like 3 occasions like that lmao. meanwhile, jon went into a scornful cold rage, after just one epic fail, which, at the end of the day, is very him lol. the drugged up bat didn’t save him, that’s it. no one’s supremacy, fuck gotham. an’ i’m only partly jeering here.

which leads us straight to to arkham knight version, an’ to bruce instantly going up there an’ choking the living hell out of jon, the second he sees him. what a reunion! esp with that whole head hitting an’ throwing crane onto floor, like a ragdoll. batman just had to assert his dominance, even when jonathan barely opened his mouth. *bc yeah, you stay down, bottom*. i like how crane tried his hardest to be serious an’ imposing during that whole deal, but the bat just wasn't super amused. yet, like usual, he did give the scarecrow room to speak later on. allowing him to walk around him. an’ boy, gotta appreciate that ‘bad guy's sly hips play’ as scarecrow circled the bat. it was quite a vision. even with fucked up leg, he managed to pull that off. i wish there were more moments like this. they had a lot of potential for more brutal scarebat interactions, than some other versions of them. all the cues for it were there. batman was hallucinating a ghost of a dead clown, who wouldn’t shut up about whatever, an’ jonathan was all about his ‘end goal’, not caring what he had to do to get to it. what an explosive combo. i was low-key surprised, that bruce didn’t wipe the floor with crane just out of pure frustration, an’ then some. an’ considering how fucked up they both are in that version, it wouldn’t put it past the ghost!joker to suggest they’d do smth else with crane, if batman is unwilling to kill him. there is actually a lot of leeway, with bruce blaming some stuff on his personal brain damage, while joker just keeps on pouring gasoline into the fire. i even had this one idea about the joker playing a horrible matchmaker just to make everyone even more miserable, but mostly just bruce. all while not expecting crane to be able to return the sentiment in his own messed up manner.

an’ speaking of sentiment, i do think that it can be here as well. it’ll be buried under layers an’ layers of pseudo-resentment, but that’s like typical scarebat. no one ever talk about their real emotions in that ship lol. well, not in a normal way. in arkham knight, i suppose the joker can be a narrator of bruce an’ crane’s relationships. not missing a beat to tell them *well, bruce* how much they suck. an’ he won’t even be wrong, batman abandoning some of his duties, bc well, this. an’ crane as per usual getting confused by feelings, that isn’t hatred or fear. they can enter those intense relationships with the worst kind of miscommunication. bc they awful at it, when they’re not super unstable *or at least one of them isn’t*, an’ now they can be godawful at it, bc batman is close to breaking point, an’ jonathan is at his bitterests an’ pettiest. crane also can assume, that he can ‘unmade’ the bat this way, all while messing up his own scheme in the process. with god’s help, they might even survive this. idk about gotham tho lol. the joker being a third wheel an’ technically a cuck in that situation just adds how messed up it all is. but maybe with jon’s ‘help’, they can deal with that problem too. i don’t think, crane would like to share in any way. i mean, he would have been pissed off, if he learned that batman had a mini-devil on his shoulder the whole time. in a way, it kinda defeats the purpose of it all. it would almost like taking all the credit from him, an’ he won’t stand for it. crane combating bruce’s personal ghosts for his own selfish, possessive needs is smth, i would have liked to see for them. jonathan accidently being a good psychiatrist to bruce is my peak scarebat dark comedy. similar to how in ‘kings of fear’, it was basically ‘i can fix him, but bitch, you’re worse’ kind of deal too. in return, bruce can try an’ help crane actually put some proper garnet for his leg on, an’ look a bit less like a sickly *even if scary-spooky-cool* animal. they can find some middle ground, even if for questionable reasons, or they can have that slow-burn from enemies to lovers thing too. heck, i mean, it’s a wonder how come that scarecrow didn’t kidnap bruce first to try an’ break him a tad more, before making gotham see ‘that they had no hope’ an’ all that.

on less game plot related notes, i do like to play around with what can be done about jon’s state in arkham knight. like his face being all messed up, half of his body moving way more stiffly, there are a lot of things that can be done with it. an’ the parallel of batman being crippled on the inside an’ crane being pretty much this an’ then also damaged outside of it….mmm, that’s just good. also we all know that nolanverse crane moaned ‘batman’ like a whore while his hair were pulled, but what about arkham knight’s scarecrow lil gay gasps an’ whimpers, when bruce held him by the throat an’ injected him with his own toxin? if gordon an’ jason weren’t there, i wonder what might have happened lol. love scarecrow’s scared expressions in that game btw, somehow they still manage to make him look cute.

an’ now for a bit of nitpicky bit. when i look back at arkham knight, like some other folks, i do wish there was less…joker in it. he did add some fun elements there or here, but he should have been a background segment tbh. i really wanted to see more of mindbending stuff similar to level in arkham asylum. batman ‘given into’ hallucination joker’s cheers to kill crane, even if it was all a mindfuck bit was tasteless for me. if they wanna make bruce kinda walk that route, i’d rather see him doing it by his own misgivings an’ rage. tho, i do give credit where it’s duo, crane saying ‘you’ve changed’ an’ not sounding esp thrilled about it was curious smth.

but omg, that’s got long, haha. hope, it’s not too troublesome. i’m kinda chatty an’ rambly kind of person, esp when i talk about things i love. can’t talk short in most cases.

thank you for the ask btw! i do enjoy talking about scarebat a lot, no matter what version. an’ i hope, that your day is going great as well! i do apologise for how late some of my responses are coming through. i tend to pick at questions for a couple of days or so, just to make sure that i kinda give it my utmost thoughts, haha. hopefully, my answer helped you to form your own vision on the matter better or gave you an idea how different / similar you see smth, when it comes to those two.

an’ sure thing! that’s a cute symbole btw!

#❓#batcrow #arkhamverse

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madame-fear · 2 years

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Hello again <3 so I wanted some headcanons were (Cillian Murphy’s) Jonathan Crane has like a assistant/useful fem s/o like who helps him out with his crimes n stuff (and possibly with the fear toxin)

Also when he’s the “judge” in the Dark Knight: Rises, where he’s sending people to death and exile left n right, his s/o helps him out with that stuff too

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Hiii!! Yes of course! In this HC the reader will work (used to?) w/Jon at Arkham 🥰

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He never really thought of having an assistant, only because he always thought he could take care of things all by himself.

He already knew (and trusted) you because you've worked together before. Basically he trusted you enough to be the only person whom he showed his double identity as Scarecrow.

But eventually, he was so full of work that it became overwhelming.

And, honestly, seeing him work so much without rest made you worried. So, you offered yourself to help him out!

He might reject your offer at first, but please insist. He needs assistance. He'll eventually give up and accept for you to be his assistent.

He's very fond of you and quite appreciates your company, being the only person he can really, and I mean really trust.

Very respectful with you! He won't say it, but he actually feels relieved, and finds your help & knowledge very useful. If he does say it, expect him to give you small compliments, but that's all you'll get from him.

^ At least, until he gets more comfy around your presence. It'll take him a while to fully open up his cold, introvert personality to you, even if he trusts you.

Always offers you coffee or any other drink you like while you're working together.

If you're going to help him out with some crimes, he'd make a special mask for you, so you can keep your identity hidden. He'd probably name you something like "The Crow".

He thinks of you as the best sidekick & partner in crime 100%

Expect him to be thrilled with all your new ideas and experiments for the fear toxin. He loves it when you mix strong components to make the fear toxin with even more harsh effects.

He loves seeing the horrible fear in people's eyes with your brand new fear toxin, even stronger than it already was before.

Oh boy he's thrilled with your knowledge on fear and science.

Once you got caught several times by the Batboy, he became a "Judge" to exile, or send people to die

So, of course, he took you with him because he can't see himself without you, and you were there to help him out.

Noticing how much work he has, and how much of a mess of papers he's got to work on, you take care of most of it.

Most of the time he's sending people to exile or death, you're by his side.

"What do you say, dear? Should we send him to exile, or death?" He said, turning around to look at you, with a slight smirk on his lips.

You looked into his eyes for a second, then turned around to look at the person you were judging. "I say, death." Your voice tone was monotone, absolutely ruthless. It was certainly fun to see fear grow in a persons eye everytime you mentioned the word "death".

I think it's clear at this point that you two, being notoriously 'enjoyers' of fear and terror, you had a lot of fun together sending people to death.

He always asks you for a second opinion whether send someone to exile or death.

Sometimes, work can be very overwhelming for him. But he immediatly feels better when you bring him a cup of coffee or any other drink.

^ Honestly, that never fails to make him smile, no matter how stressed he might be.

All the time you get to spend working together, or simply being near each other, leads to him having a guilty, unwanted crush on you.

He already had a bit of a crush before you became his assistant, but he always denied it to himself. Not now, not anymore.

You'd probably find him staring at you more than he should while you're working together, and blushing everytime you find him doing so.

He'll eventually confess his feelings for you, months after teasing, flirting... and also, accepting his own feelings for you. So you started dating right after his confession.

Honestly, it's safe to say you're the most feared & respected couple in Gotham.

Not only you're his sidekick, you're also his precious little crow now!

Very, very grateful for you and your help. He still won't say it, but he's happy to have his beautiful and delicate partner by his side :)

Power couple 100% <33

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tiredstressedemotionalmess · 10 months

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top five concerts you've been to?

(just top concerts if you havent been to five)

GREAT QUESTION!! i have a lot to say abt all of these so sorry for my ramblings in advance but in no particular order we have:

1. MCR Boston2 - its hard for me to pick my favorite of my MCR shows but the setlist for this one juuuust pushes it over my first show i think. got to gear sooo many of my faves that night- SCARECROW and Deathwish and Summertime and Boy Division and Best Day Ever and Cancer!!!!! they played a lot of danger days song which obviously i fucking LOVED and idk something abt Famous Las Words really got to me that night. maybe its bc even tho our seats were kinda shitty that meant i could see basically the whole crowd as well as the stage and i just remember feeling so at home like "oh yeah. you all understand too huh?". i was also dressed as party poison that night so a lot of cool people came up to talk to me lmao

2. Set It Off at the Palladium for the Dopamine Tour - my most recent time seeing the boys AND MY FIRST TIME MEETING THEM!!!! they were all so sweet and they played an acoustic version of Bleak December which had me Felling Things. AND THEN THE SETLIST FOR THE SHOW ITSELF WAS INCREDIBLE AND THEY FUCKING PLAYED MISS MYSTERIOUS WHICH US LIKE MY FAVORITE SONG EVER OF ALL TIME AND ID RATHER DROWN WHICH IS ANOTHER ONE OF MY FAVES AND FUCKING ILL SLEEP WHEN IM DEAD WHICH WAS MY ANTHEM IN MIDDLE SCHOOL- and also Scene Queen opened and she was fucking spectacular and im really glad i lost my dad in the crowd before her set bc i lost my shit screaming along with her sings and he Did Not need to hear that 💀

3. Fall Out Boy at Darien Center - first time seeing fob the seats were so fucking good and i met so many cool people AND HEARD HEADFIRST SLIDE AND YOURE CRASHING AND 27 AND GET BUSY LIVIN AND- also i was at the park connected to the venue and i fucking left before the rest of my family to get some rest before the show. and literally as soon as i get to the fucking hotel my dad texts me a picture of PETE FUCKING WENTZ. IF I HAD JUST WAITED LIKE TEN MINUTES I COULDVE MET PETE WENTZ BUT NOOOO I WANTED TO REST SO J WOULDNT GET A HEADACHE IM STILL NOT OVER THIS MY DAD WHI DOESNT LIKE FOB SAW PETE WENTZ AFTER I HAD BEEN JOKING ABT JT ALL DAY GOD HATES ME BUT ITS FINE BC AT LEAST I GOT TO LOSE MY SHIT TO HEADFIRST SLIDE ONLY SONG EVER OF ALL TIME

4. Set It Off at Toad's Place for the Welcome to Elsewhere Tour - yes of course they're on here twice idc if theres other vands i could mention THEYRE THEM. this show was incredible, i managed to push my way almost to barricade by the end of the show AND i caught one of zach's guitar picks!! the openers were both killer too, but Cherie Amour in particular stood out to me so obviously i bought a CD after their set (which was SIGNED and i got to meet/take a photo with Trey and Brendan and they were both so nice it was awesome)

5. The Used & Pierce the Veil (i forget where this was and im too lazy to look it up rn 💀) - VICS VOICE LIVE HELLO????? HOW DOES HE SOUND LIKE THAT IM IN LOVE WITH HIM RAAAAGH- and look even tho i love ptv im much more of a casual fan when it comes to them so it was nice bc i had fun during their set but still had so much energy left over for THE MOTHERFUCKING USED. YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND HOW LOUD I WAS SCREAMING WHEN BERT CAME ON STAGE MAN AND GE WAS HOLDING A TRANS FLAG WHEN HE WALKED OUT AND THAT ALONE NEARLY MADE ME CRY THEY WERE SO AMAZING IM VERY INCOHERENT ABT THIS SHOW BC I LOVE THEM SM IT WAS SO FUN AND I CANT WAIT TO (HOPEFULLY) SEE THEM AGAIN NEXT MONTH

#asks #ask game #SORRY THIS GOT SO LONG I TRIED TO KEEP IT SHORT SO I LEFT A LOT OUT BUT MAN I LOVE CONCERTS #AND I WILL USE EVERY POSSIBLE EXCUSE TO YELL ABT THEM #HONORABLE MENTION IS MCR UNCASVILLE BC THAT WAS MY FIRST TIME SEEING THEM AND THOSE WERE THE BEST SEATS OUT OF ALL THREE TIMES #AND I BRUISED MY PALM WITH HOT HARD I KEPT HITTING/GRIPPING ONTO THE GAURDRAIL #the used #mcr #ptv #set it off #fob

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sweetlikehoneystingslikeabee · 1 year

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If it’s not to much trouble, could I ask for some scenarios about how the dork squad (general or Arkham) would react to not seeing a particular Arkham employee (who they may have grown fond of / caught feelings for) suddenly not showing up to work for a good week or so? No explanation given and either the rest of the staff won’t answer about their whereabouts or they refuse to ask in the first place since such personal information could be used against them in therapy sessions. Maybe they would start to worry about the reader getting hurt during a security breach, fired, or even killed (there’s really no telling in Gotham)? Eventually the reader returns and explains that they were just sick.

I’ve been feeling a little under the weather (prob another sinus infection tbh) so this idea just stood out to me. Take your time since it’s three characters and if you want to tweak this to be less characters than I’m cool with that. I just had to share this idea and fell in love with your writing recently

"Sick Day" Riddler, Scarecrow and Mad Hatter

You're so sweet of course this isn't too much trouble! I hope by the time you read this, you're feeling a lot better, okay? I'm actually going to go with general for this one since I haven't really gotten to yet for these characters.

Tw: surveillance, fear toxin, isolation, sedation

Riddler

- Meets his favorite employee when he's in an isolation room for causing problems with the other patients (again). Between having his locks switched constantly because he figures them out and the amount of chaos he can cause in the general population, higher ups love putting him to far corners away from others when he's bad.

- His cell is bare. They won't even give him crayons after his newest little stunt. Not only is he isolated, he's BORED. A horrible combination of things.

- So when the nurse assigned to his check-ins and medicine actually chats with him, he's taking it for all it's worth.

- "Hello, Nurse! A riddle for you. What is it that given one, you’ll have either two or none?"

- The nurse pauses. Thinks on it. "A choice?"

- "Correct! That was an easy one-" "Uh-uh, medicine first. That's not a choice." He does the most pathetic sigh, "Fine! You drive a hard bargain."

- This continues even when he's (reluctantly) let back into general population and... shockingly, he's behaving. Lots of flirting, smug grins with thinly veiled threats of all the horrible things he could do to the city.

- When the nurse disappears and no one will tell him anything... he decides it's time for blackmail. It's amazing the things you learn when you hear bits and pieces of things and have the brain to put it all together. Not to mention the camera access he has when he's not in Arkham.

- A guard here, a guard there... he has markers, blueprints and a burner laptop stashed away in a cove on the island. He manages to hack a couple cameras on the mainland... that and he stole employee files and knows their address. The creep.

- He actually figures out they're sick as he watches. If he's feeling particularly cheeky or wanting them to be convinced of how clever he is, he'll have cold medicine sent to their door with a vague riddle.

- When they come back he'll play aloof. Oh? You were sick? Well. He wasn't worried, of course. It's not like he went through a bunch of information he was saving just to ensure you were okay.

- "Cold medicine with a riddle? You must have caught the eye of some other dashing Riddler in Gotham. Not as intelligent as I am, of course."

- The next time he escapes from Arkham, he'll make sure they get locked in a cell safely away from others/the distraction he's going to cause. Then the games can begin :)

Scarecrow

- He'd come to enjoy the almost daily tit-for-tat conversations with his favorite Arkham employee. A rather lowly psych orderly, they were stuck with the most demeaning or mundane of jobs in the facility.

- This also meant a lot of interaction with the patients. Feeding them, check ins, and the occasional distraction when nurses or guards needed to catch a patient.

- He met the orderly when they were put on observation duty as he was carted to his appointment in restraints and bite/spit protection mask. They looked so fresh.

- "They're sending the new technicians to look after me now?" Then, he notices their keys sticking out of their pocket, "I'd get a locking carabiner for those, if you must have them on you. So easy to steal."

- They thank him for the advice. While waiting for the doctor, he gives them more advice. He figures they're young, not a threat to him at all. Perhaps put in their head the many ways they could get hurt or die working here.

- Yet they just smile at him, "Thank you, Dr. Crane. I'll keep that in mind." Turns out, they know exactly who he is. A psychology student that has read his papers and seen recorded lectures. Morbid and macabre interests, themselves.

- He casually takes them under their wing, as long as they continue to be courteous and show interest. He finds he has less than mentor like feelings after a time, but he tries to ignore them.

- When they disappear and no one will tell him what's happened... he doesn't get scared, but he certainly gets cantankerous. What if something happened to his young protégé? Do none of you truly care about someone who works with you daily?

- Then he gets quiet. Too quiet. Too well behaved. He's not even as combative in therapy as he normally would be, trying to turn the tables on anyone picking at his brain.

- Staff suspects something is up, but not what. They do sweeps of his cell and areas of the island to see if there's any fear toxin to be found. Nothing.

- In truth, he's been creating it in small doses and hiding it in recreational areas in plain sight. He's planning on putting it into the air systems of the asylum when-

- Oh. You're back. He was worried something happened. Sick? Well. You better take care of yourself, how can he teach you anything or have decent conversation if you're not here? Do keep up.

- He still ends up using the fear toxin to escape the asylum weeks later, but not before creating an antidote. He'll watch his orderly panic for a time, observe their fears- by the time they wake up, they're outside the facility buildings of Arkham. Mysteriously cured of fear toxin effects.

- They are completely safe and covered in a blanket. Need to make sure they don't get sick again, after all.

Mad Hatter

- Surprisingly, his favorite employee is a psychologist at Arkham. Only so many psychiatrists to go around prescribing medication, leading to a team up between the two. For more frequent weekly meetings, it's a psychologist who may refer if more psychiatric meetings are needed more often than twice a week to once a month. Only few patients such as the Joker get psychiatrists for every session.

- This particular psychologist got him in for their first session... with Jervis sedated past any point of being able to answer questions. Got "well he wasn't cooperating, he wouldn't leave his tea set!" In response. Frustrating, to say the least.

- This resulted in psychologist strutting right up to the "hidden" somewhat private alcove where Jervis set himself up, shoo anyone else away and literally... sit down on the ground with Jervis and introduce themselves.

- This, along with being polite, immediately endeared them to Jervis. Asking what his current drawing is. Him saying "the path to Wonderland, my dear." Recognizing that it is in fact a complex diagram of brain synapses and the shortfall effects of certain chemicals and hypnosis.

- The thing about Jervis Tetch is he's unfortunately a brilliant neuroscientist. Knowledgeable in not only chemical effects, but how to use hypnotic suggestion to manipulate the consciousness. There's times it's difficult to tell where the clarity of Jervis Tetch ends and the delusions of the Mad Hatter begins.

- While there might be tense moments, Jervis ends up developing a rapport of mutual respect and fondness for his doctor. So much so he gets snippy when others try to approach hum.

- This results in a complete breakdown of communication when "his" doctor is out and no one will tell him where they are. He will insist, no, DEMAND where they are.

- this is just further indication to staff that he should not be told anything due to potentially establishing an unhealthy attachment which could result in disastrous consequences if fed into.

- Shoutings about the Red Queen and compulsive rhyming begin on day three or four. A combination of poor handling of the situation and him working himself up.

- "The Red Queen traps me in hell, awaits in the shadows of this padded cell! Haroo! You made them say farewell as I dwell upon how you made them unwell! Murder! Murder, says I! Murmurs within the walls the Jabberwocky has-" (This goes on for quite some time)

- Ultimately when the employee returns, they find Jervis has been isolated to his cell on high levels of sedation to control him. Out of his mind with glassy eyes murmuring to himself when he's awake.

- There will be outright sobbing when he realizes they're back. He wants to touch them so badly. To hold them, to be comforted! He's asking how they are and what they've been doing to get better.

- Once the sedation really wears off he's going to start planning...

- He needs to get his dearest companion out of here before the darkness swallows them both.

#dc scarecrow #riddler #dc riddler #dc mad hatter #foxwriting #batman hcs

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elphabaoftheopera · 10 months

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HELLO!!!! how are you? it's been a while haha 😅... but, long story short, after watching wicked last night im back in the fandom! and what better way to celebrate than read a fic by my favourite author 🥳 ? so, i read "In Any Universe", and boy do i have a lot of good things to say about it!!!!!

this fic is awesome, im sad that i didn't read it earlier! it had my favourite tropes that were amazingly executed, along with so many wacky and interesting alternate universes 😁😁! some that stood out to me were fake dating, masquerade, family and musical. to say that i really enjoyed these would be an understatement!!!! first of all, fake dating is my absolute favouriteee trope, so i was so so excited to see it applied to fiyeraba so well! the masquerade was honestly a really interesting plotline, and the musical universe was cool to see referenced! and family au was soo adorable, and parents fiyeraba make me feel so happyyyy ❤️❤️! overall, they were all so so romantic and cute and made me realise how much i miss fiyeraba 🥺!! i also really liked the general storyline, and the pipeline of fiyero coming to terms and accepting his situation was so lovely and satisfying to read!

i was wondering if you had any little facts about this fic? it was super creative and i couldn't help but love every separate storyline!!!!!

sorry for gushing, im just super happy to be back and reading your fics again! ill hopefully in the fandom again for a while, so i can find the time to read some other works of yours and maybe reread 😁😁😁

@melop-sia!!!!! It's so wonderful to hear from you!!!! Welcome back to the Wicked fandom! Your message just made my entire day, I actually screamed when I read that I was a favorite author of yours, words like that TRULY go a long way. thank you for your thoughts on In Any Universe. I had so much fun writing that one!

Welllllll since you asked, I'd love to share a little bit about it!

Light spoilers for In Any Universe below the cut!

The idea came to me when I was just thinking a lot about fanfiction tropes in a loving way, inspired by fanfiction writers and our tendency to put the same characters into countless different situations/lives and have them fall in love all the same. I got the idea when I was driving (most of my ideas come when I'm driving) about my otp essentially going on a "tour" through the different tropes. Initially it was supposed to be 100% comedic and self aware.

I didn't have a strong throughline planned out in the beginning that would set them off on their journey. I thought about (and even drafted) Fiyero mentioning how "random" it was that they got together and if any one thing was different they'd probably not be together, then I'd have Elphaba take offense to that. But it just wasn't working, especially because I was clinging to the idea that I wanted Fiyero to be human in the present timeline. Once I finally released my hold on that idea and let him be a Scarecrow, the story throughline became much clearer to me! It was easier to write when Fiyero had a "lesson" to learn (sort of "It's a Wonderful Life" style, though I've never seen that movie). That of course made the throughline a bit more serious, as well as some of the timelines getting increasingly darker.

I just can't resist angst and hurt/comfort no matter how hard I try!

I just really love the quote I put at the beginning of the story about finding the same person over and over.

As for the stories within the story, I just started by making a list of as many tropes I could think of. Fake dating, fix-it fic, crossover, etc. and eventually trimmed it down to the stories that made the cut. I wrote them all out of order and then stitched them together later with the throughline story. I think I did the coffee one first, then the masquerade, and then I put it down for several months (as is my style) and picked it back up with the Wicked actor one.

I really considered breaking the story up into chapters and sometimes I regret the fact that I didn't, I still consider breaking it up because I know it's very long. Still I think it flows better as a singular piece but at least can be easily read in multiple sittings if you're like me and need mind breaks.

When I decided to make it one single piece I made a real effort to keep the sections snappy and not longer than they needed to be. I was pretty obsessed over word count and keeping it below a certain amount (I think 1000 words). I think the Fake Dating one ended up being the longest and the hardest to keep trimmed. Still, I wanted each story to have a satisfying arc in its own way.

One challenge I gave myself (which was VERY difficult) is that I didn't use the word "love" until the very end when Fiyero told Elphaba he loved her after getting shot. I came to that idea later on and had to edit a lot of the earlier stories. Then he says he loves her many times in the finale scene.

I thought it strengthened his lesson about being grateful for what they did have. I found it really important to mirror the "can't imagine thinking about how things might be different" (paraphrasing) in the worst timeline with her dying in the cornfield with what he'd said in the beginning.

As for the ending I did leave it slightly ambiguous, but I believe as the writer that the journey he went on was real and not a dream (kind of like I believe that in Wizard of Oz Dorothy's experience really happened, even though it seemed like Dorothy was waking up from a dream). However, I wanted to the reader to decide for themself!

I think my favorite ones to write were the Fiyeraba family (I love them as parents!), Coffee shop AU, and the Masquerade. I also found it clever and trippy to do the Wicked actors, but that one was by far the hardest challenge!

I so appreciate your readership and engagement with my work!!!! Please reach out in the future if you ever have thoughts or questions.

I don't want to jinx it because it's still early days but I'm excited to say I've been writing again (Fiyeraba, obviously) now that my life has more time. We'll see where it takes me, so be on the lookout!

#melop-sia #wicked fanfiction #in any universe #writing tag #comments and reviews #story: in any universe

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xxpobloxx · 1 year

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APAT Chapter 4: Gabby

Lucilla Ima is one of the few higher ranking employees at Better Living Industries, being known to well known exterminators like Korse, and even The Director herself. Coming from a wealthy family who's worked with BLI ever since they expanded to what was then the United States. Of course, in order to keep information from spreading amongst school children, her daughter, Gabby, was not told about her mother's status, only that her father, James, is a doctor.

Ever since Gabby could think, she's always felt something was wrong. This feeling was giving prescription medicine to ease that uneasy feeling, along with the fear and anxiety that came along, so that she could continue thinking about her education, and in the future, her career.

Gabby is now 16 years old, only 3 years shy of her mother's plan to bring her to work at BLI like her mother before her, and her father before her, and his father before him, and his mother before him, et cetera. But for now, Gabby was attending Battery City Academy's high school unit.

She was of course, a very gifted student, high grades all around, but all this did was encourage her to go beyond, and she believed she could, due to what everyone said.

One day, when coming back from school to her family's living quarters, her father was reading the news on the sofa, the newspaper mentioned how a trio of terrorists have been spotted in the zones, calling themselves "Flamin' Scarlet", "Tape Decked", and "Rose Merry", and how BLI's SCARECROW unit has marked them to be exterminated similarly to the Fabulous Four Killjoys, who are also at large in the zones, her father commented, "Those kids need some sense knocked into them, the zones are dangerous!"

Gabby spoke up, "six zones surround Battery City, each one more dangerous than the last, anything outside is uninhabitable."

Her father smiled, "Good job remembering that, girl."

She feigned a smile, the unwanted emotions kicked in again, but she couldn't get herself to take her medication, so she just pretended she wasn't feeling them.

She just went into the hallway, there were four doors, her bedroom, her parents' bedroom, the restroom, and one extra door. She opened the door to reveal what seems like a messed up bedroom. it was dirty, unclean, spray paint and clothing everywhere, and one lone note.

DEAR LUCILLA AND JAMES

FUCK YOU!!!

IF ART WILL SUPPOSEDLY HARM YOU, THEN ART IS THE WEAPON!

Love, Leonard

Gabby had a brother, a brother she was never told of. A brother who was disowned. And probably dead. She stared cold and empty at what she saw, before promptly exiting the room and returning to her own.

She would remember this, for on her way to school, she saw signs in spray paint, having not taken her medicine in a good while, curiosity took the best of her, enabling her to divert on her scheduled path. They lead her away, before encountering a young man wearing a green mask.

"Hello."

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Hello! I saw you asking for requests to be sent in. I was wondering if you could do headcanons for kakashi and gai (separately) with a plus size civilian s/o? Or one or the other? Thank you in advance ❤

MIGHT GUY

SO we all know Guy is ALL about 3 things. Youth. Passion. Protecting Precious People….and guess what? When you happen to cross paths with the Leaf Village’s Blue Beast, he trips over himself to let you know just how PRESH you are.

I don't see your status as a civilian as much of a road block for him. He needs someone grounded and with soft hands to hold.

Someone who will think he’s the strongest man in the world, a superhero.

He protects the ones he loves with his life and once you're in that circle there is no way out of this man’s giant heart.

You somehow enter Guy’s line of sight, maybe on a walk to class or work too early in the morning…. and from that moment you pass by and he catches sight of your pretty face, he is out for the count.

Now. Lets remember….Guy is CONFIDENT (sometimes more in spirit than in actual ability, he is the fake-it-till-you-make-it KING).

Also important to note: Guy is NOT the same as Rock Lee in his pursuit of women. He’s not about to blow every kiss at you from the jump or shamelessly confess everything out right. Don't get me wrong, he’s shameless….but Guy wants to be seen as someone cool, sexy, a real macho/mighty man... He wants to be slick Kakashi his eternal rival. He’s going to try to be velvety smooth….without success.

He would find any excuse to be in your eye line while flexing or saving a poor disguised student he employed for his contrived scheme, in this case... Neji or Lee in a dress from falling off a building LOL. (“They would be asking him to please explain again how this is training?”)------You might be a civilian. But Genjutsu of that level does NOT work on you LOL.

You are the one to finally introduce yourself to a slumped and defeated Guy after about a week of his adorable attempts at trying to bate you in with his goober acts.

“Hello, my name is (y/n). I was hoping maybe you would like to get a drink sometime?” you say with a half smile.

He would raise his head, teeth BEAMING….the power of youth always prevails!

Best. Decision. Ever. Guy charming and not to mention SHREDDED.

When he accepts your date offer, He would stand and grin, maybe saying something a little cocky like; “A handsome, war hardened devilish shinobi such as myself will always find time to satiate the voracious desires of such a heavenly woman so bursting with the essence springtime.”

He would be so so so respectful.

That being said, you're HIGH AF if you think you aren't making a B-line to walk by Kakashi on the way so Guy can tactfully walk by loudly so that his rival notices he’s with a cute girl.

He’s going to be the chivalrous type. The kind of man who makes sure your hands are around his giant bicep whenever he escorts you anywhere….which from this point on is almost anytime he is home from missions or not training.

Guy is perfect. He’s tall, JACKED, and such a sweet loving man.

He is obsessed with your shampoo. His nose is always in your hair.

Lets face it. Guy is 100% the most physical man that has ever walked the streets of Konoha. If you aren't big on touching, then his is not the man for you.

One hand will always be around your waist, holding your hand, arm around your neck, locked on your curves or anywhere else….respeeeectfully of course.

He will always be up on you and in your face so get ready for that LOL.

He will be proud of you. He will be boisterous to an exhausting level about your achievements.

He will be exhilarating in every way.

One of Guy’s greatest strengths is also one of his most unfortunate downfalls. He is wildly protective. Never underestimate his ferocity when it comes to you. You may have to communicate more than once where the line is when it comes to him watching over you. Even though you aren’t skilled in combat as he is, you also are not a child and he will take some time to learn what you require and what you don’t.

He always means well.

You have some faults and things to work on as well. Guy is tender as hell, an emotional, hot blooded, love sick fool who can and WILL take things you say to heart so be sure if you notice him freaking out or trying too hard to make you happy, to hold him and let me know often that he is perfect the way he his.

In the end all of the passions and butterflies that Guy provokes from your heart are entirely justified.

He will ask you to marry him after a date, probably at sunset, one knee, giant ring he spent way too much on.

He claims you deserve the world and you tell him that instead of the world “you would settle for just having his hands, his lips, and his heart.”

Do your best to return his love to the best of your ability because not everyone gets the chance to be loved by the Hidden Leafs Handsome Blue Beast.

KAKASHI

I’ve never seen Kakashi as someone who would end up with another shinobi bombshell.

Instead I think he would find himself interested in someone who is a total badass in another line of work.

Example; You first encounter him one day while advising Lady Tsunade on the information the Hidden Leaf Village (and a few others) pay’s your company large sums of money to collect, aggregate, and report.

Kakashi stands guard during the meeting, watching you speak with an eloquent grace and authority he finds captivating and maybe a little seductive.

By then end of the meeting he is curious about you...wondering what you thought of him, what you think about everything.... You never even look his way.

He falls in line with you as we escorts you out of the building, walking beside you in the otherwise empty stairwell.

You smirk and take the liberty of speaking first. “Did you enjoy the show Scarecrow?”

From that moment on he’s hooked.

Now I also don’t find the idea of him falling for someone with some FULL curves to be all that outlandish….He has never given .00000001% of a shit what other people think.

He also shares the famous Pervy Sage’s taste in “women he describes from research” and romantic books about women shaped like gourds so with that logic in mind….dude likes thicc, full, curvaceous women for sure. It's basically cannon at this point ;)

Kakashi is someone who has learned emotional detachment through pain. You are the first person who shows promise in tearing down those defenses.

Your relationship not necessarily a slow burn. Kashi isn’t a kid, just because he hasn’t fallen head over heals with anyone before, doesn’t mean he is a mystery to himself or oblivious to his feelings.

That being said, I do think he will protect you by keeping a relationship with you under wraps for the first year or so.

If anything EVER happened to you….he wont let that happen.

The secrecy could be hard on you at first.

Watching more than a few women flirt shamelessly with your Kashi is beyond ROUGH.

Especially considering most of them are tough as nails ninja women with perfect bodies. You aren't used to feeling threatened by other people men or women, so you have a hard time learning how to deal with it.

Kakashi is always quick to remind you that he is serious about your relationship though.

He looks at you with a ferocity only seen by people who are no longer alive. His voice is low and serious when he gets close and tells you, “(Y/N) You are my entire life. I will never leave you. I promise I am yours until the day I die.”

After a few times of him promising you that he really is in love with you, you believe him and can be secure in his word.

As his girlfriend, you take his breath away.

The way you speak, move, sleep….

Even the way you casually conduct yourself at home and in public makes him more than proud to know who you are. Let alone get to go home to you.

Guy is the first one to catch on believe it or not. He notices Kakashi peaking over the top of his book at you as you walk down the opposite side of the street. He’s known Kakashi since they were kids, he puts a reassuring hand on your boyfriends shoulder and vows without spoken words to protect you when Kakashi can’t be there….and Kakashi understands. It helps him sleep just a little better knowing he has help.

Stargazing on a rooftop one chilly autumn night, Kakashi grabs your hand and proposes to you with a small silver ring, slightly ashamed for it’s lack of a stone.

“I want you to be my wife.” is all he says and you wrap your arms around him whispering in his ear “You have had my heart since the first day I met you…. And you always will.”

His heart melts into a puddle at the sound of you telling him he will have a wife. Finally have family that loves him this much.

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Inspired by this prompt by @primarybufferpanel

Hero getting summoned to the hospital. Turns out villain has them listed as Next Of Kin

Warnings: hospital setting, motorcycle crash, mentions of bombing.

"Hello. I am here for...," Hero looked down at the piece of paper where she scribbled down the information that she spontaneously received only an hour before. "Civilian?"

"Civilian," the receptionist tapped some unknown words into her computer, squinted her eyes, and looked up at Hero. "You are his cousin, correct?"

Well, um...

That was not what Hero expected to hear.

"Uh yeah," Hero shook her head slightly. She hoped the movement would be interrupted as worry or shock not downright confusion.

Maybe she had to rub it in a little. Make it seem like she really was this civilian's family.

"What happened?" Hero feigned a high-squeaked voice. Maybe she sounded like she was crying, maybe not, but either way the receptionist gave her a kind look.

"Motorcycle accident."

Hero slowly nodded her head, pleading with it to link two and two together. Who did she know that rode a motorcycle?

Who did she know that even had their driver's license?

Heros were not required by law to have driver's licenses. It was mainly because many heros began as teens, but still had to drive around. Hero furrowed her forehead. She had no other friends other than her team.

"Wow, uh..." what was one supposed to say next? She never did this before. All her hero friends care for each other in base. "How bad is it?"

"Mm," the receptionist glanced at her computer again. "It says here that he is in a medically induced coma and is in critical condition."

Coma? Medically induced coma? Oh gosh, it must be bad- horrible even.

"Oh wow," Hero breathed, for once actually concerned.

"Well. Why don't you go. He is in the ICU currently. Room 11."

Hero hurried down the corriders and down the elevator. She ran trough the ICU, nearly missing Room 11.

She just suddenly had this nauseating sensation in her stomach.

Before she busted into the room, she looked at the files.

Severe head trauma, broken tibia (displaced fracture), road rash

Hero gulped and tentatively pushed the door open. Immediately the stench of disinfectants and the beeping of moniters hit her. Hero scrunched up her noise and walked towards the bed.

And there he was.

Villain.

Hero screamed, short and surprised, before she sunk down to her knees and grabbed onto her nemesis's limp hand.

"Villain? Oh, oh my gosh." The tears were unstoppable as Hero clung to Villain's hand. She just stared at it, too scared to look at the injuries or wonder why the doctors put him in a coma.

She made tiny circles with her thumb. Villain didn't respond. He was completely unresponsive.

Hero finally built up the courage to look up at Villain. He had a tube in his throat with some sort of breathing tube also attached to his face. Those tubes fragmented out into other tubes until he looked like Frankenstein.

His bruised, bare chest had heart pads all over it, watching over his weak heartbeat. He had many other moniters on him.

"What happened to you," Hero croaked, drawing herself to lean over him. "What happened-"

"Hero."

The hero turned around, her puffy face visible as a henchman walked in.

"Henchman," Hero regarded the man who entered the room with a concerned face. Not mad or suspicious like they were enemies, but as a source of comfort and information.

"There was an accident," Henchman answered Hero's unasked question. "We were being chased by Other Villain."

Henchman walked over to the other side of the bed and grabbed his boss's hand.

"Hey bro. Wake up for me will you?" Henchman spoke with such tenderness that Hero was drawn to him. "You don't get to be resting when the rest of us are working-" a small chuckle. "Your words, you know."

Hero sat back down on a chair that she just realized was there. She grabbed Villain's other hand and listened to Henchman's speech.

"Remember when your mum bought you your first gun. You were, maybe fourteen? That was five years ago; anyway, you were jumping with excitement when you showed me and the guys. And we were so jealous." Henchman chuckled again, squeezing Villain's hand tighter. "It was a D7 Scarecrow. $15,000."

Hero parted her mouth and resumed the small circles.

"And then, when you turned fifteen, you got into your first fight. Street fight, nothing special, but that was when you decided to become a villain. To protect other homeless kids from those street thugs."

"Become a villain to protect people," Hero asked, astounded.

"You heros don't patrol the alleyways. People are starving, dying daily."

"But Villain was- is... is- a full-fledged murderer. He is a criminal," Hero pointed out.

"Hmm," Henchman replied. "People change, Hero. Villain took a wrong turn."

The two remained silent for a while. Whether it was minutes, or hours, both Henchman and Hero kept themselves in their thoughts, drifting off periodically to the beeping sounds of the hospital.

That was until Henchman spoke.

"Villain was going to ask you out."

"W-what?" Hero stuttered, glancing down at the frowning face to the tear-stained face of the henchman. She didn't even realize that he started crying.

"Yep. We had it all planned out."

"Planned out?"

"Mhmm," Henchman replied. "Villain is not a simple guy. He wanted to it be extravagant."

"That's quite vague. What was the plan?"

"A bomb."

"A bomb?!"

"Or a firework, I dunno. He was gonna drop it over the woods. Apparently when it was supposed to go off, it would erupt into 'Will You Date Me Hero'. He was also gonna kidnap you to find on top of that abandoned parking garage. So you would see it." Henchman snorted, a mixture of tears and laughter. "It was so stupid."

"Yeah," Hero gave a half-smile. "I can imagine maybe ten ways that plan would've gone wrong."

"Would you have said 'yes'?"

Hero was silent for a moment. It would be very unheroic if she dated a villain. She would lose her job, her reputation, and maybe even her freedom. But, given the circumstance, it would be cruel to blatantly refuse and say, "No, I would never date a Villain."

Because that would just be wrong. Wrong and very rude.

"Yeah. I might've, I don't know," Hero sighed and rubbed her eyes. "Yeah. I just- yeah."

"Hmm."

Hero brought her hand up to Villain's face and brushed the hair out of it. He was so bruised and pale.

"How did the accident happen?"

"I dunno."

"You don't know?"

"That's what I said."

Both were again at a loss for words.

"I hope he wakes up," Henchman's voice cracked.

"Me too," Hero sighed. "Me too."

#villain whumpee #comatose #hero caretaker #bedside vigil #hospital setting #drugged villain #accident #motorcycle #henchman caretaker #villain x hero #whump scenario

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What are you going to be for Halloween? (Matthew Gray Gubler/ Reader)

(Not my gif)

Requested: Yes

“Love your work, in Matthew x read “family probation period” it was mentioned that reader and Matthew took his nephew trick or treating. Do you plan on making a fic a about that anytime soon?”

Summary: Matthew Gray Gubler and his girlfriend spend Halloween with his family in Las Vegas, and take his nephews trick or treating. What could go wrong? Losing one of the kids, of course.

Category: A little fluff with some dirty talking= a lot of fun 😬

Pairing: MGG/ Reader

Warnings: Mentions of sex, cursing (as always)

Word count: 2,4K

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- “Real question, is there anything in the world that you like more than Halloween?”- (Y/N) asked her boyfriend. She was in the bathroom, getting ready for trick-or-treating, and he was standing in front of the mirror in his old room in his parent's house, putting on his suit.

He gave his answer zero thinking because he really loved Halloween.

- “Compared to any other holiday, nop.”

- “And compared to any other thing in the world?”- Gubler stayed quiet and sighed. He took a look at himself in the mirror and nodded, pleased.

- “Considering most of my favorite things are Halloween related, I’d say no.”

- “That’s what I thought. Ok, I’m ready. What do you think?”

Gubler turned around and looked at his girlfriend standing by the bathroom door.

- “Wow.”

- “Too much?”- (Y/N) bit her lips, nervous, as his boyfriend walked over and took a good look at her.

- “Wow,”- he repeated

- “Really, honey… what do you think?”

- “I think you look so good; you should wear this every day.”

Matthew held her chin and placed a slow and sweet kiss on her lips. (Y/N) blushed and looked at their costumes. He was dressed as Beetlejuice, and she was Lydia in her red wedding gown.

She wouldn’t be as nervous as she was under normal conditions, but that was a special Halloween. It was their first Halloween together as a couple, and they were going to spend it with Matthew’s family in Las Vegas. The whole family. And she had just met them two hours ago. And not only that, but they were also going to take his nephews trick-or-treating.

No pressure.

- “So, ready?”- Matthew smiled and fixed his hair for the hundredth time- “How do I look?”

- “Is it wrong to say even with all that makeup and crazy hair, you are the hottest guy I have ever seen?”- (Y/N) stood in front of her boyfriend and smiled.

- “It’s wrong, very wrong… I might have to teach you a lesson later”- Gubler placed his hands in her waist and pulled her closer- “You are too hot in this dress too. That deserves a punishment.”

- “I’m so sorry, Matthew Gray”- she chuckled and shivered at the sensation of his lips on her neck, tracing kisses from her jaw to her collar bone.

- “You are sorry you are so hot?”

- “No, I’m sorry I can’t fuck with you in your parent’s house.”

(Y/N) thought her boyfriend would stop what he was doing, but it seemed it only encouraged him to continue. His hands moved carefully from her hips to her cheeks, passing painfully slowly upon her breast.

- “I think you can, and you will”- his voice was so low and velvety as he whispered those words, (Y/N) felt her knees weakening.

- “Really?”- even her voice was a little shaky.

- “Really.”

- “Why are you so sure?”- she sighed and stared at him. His eyes were darker and filled with lust. But, it all ended in a second.

- “Uncle Matthew!!! Let’s go!!”- his nephews ran into the room in their cute disguises, ready to go.

- “Kids! Hey! you look amazing!! I mean, you look so creepy!! Let’s terrorize the neighborhood!”

(Y/N) smiled and sighed, trying to calm herself down after feeling her boyfriend kissing her skin, teasing her. How could he step from being a teaser boyfriend to a cute uncle in a blink?

- “This ain’t over, by the way.”- he warned her as they walked downstairs and held her hand.

- “That’s what I thought.”

She smiled and felt her cheeks blushing again. Yes, she had been dating that man for eight months, and he could still make her blush. It happened awfully often, according to her, and it was embarrassing. But Matthew loved it. He thought it was adorable how she flushed each time he teased her. It made her look so innocent and naive.

It also made his pants get tighter, but (Y/N) still had no idea about that.

Walking around the neighborhood, holding Matthew’s hand while walking his sister’s kids asking candied was like a dream. She knew they weren’t there yet, but something about being like that made her feel so good and calm, she couldn’t stop smiling.

- “Trick or treat!!”- Gubler and his nephews said along, like a hyperventilated Halloween choir.

- “Well, hello!”- an old woman wearing a witch hat opened the door and smiled- “What a scary scarecrow! And a creepy…”- she furrowed her brows, staring at the child.

- “I’m sorry dear, who are you supposed to be?”

- “I’m Darth Vader!”- the kid announced proudly from underneath his black helmet.

- “Oh! Of course!”- the old lady smiled at the boys and gave them candies- “Your kids are adorable.”

- “Thank you.”- Matthew answered without hesitation and gave the woman a big smile. (Y/N) bit her lips and giggled.

- “Why did you tell her your nephews were our kids?”

- “I don’t know. I guess I didn’t bother. It wasn’t a big deal”- she nodded and continued walking.

- “Why? was it wrong?”- Matthew looked at her, and she started shaking her head immediately- “Because I just thought it was cute, and...”·

- “No, no, it wasn't wrong, it was...”- (Y/N) felt her cheeks turning pink as she looked around, avoiding his eyes- “You are right, it was very cute”.

The couple walked in silence for a moment. Matthew tried not to overthink what had just happened. He already knew he wanted (Y/N) to be the mother of his kids, but it was too soon to tell her that. After all, they had been together for only eight months.

- “Hey, kids! don’t go too far!”- Gubler yelled as his nephews ran to the next door, ignoring his words.

- “Have you ever lost one of them”- (Y/N) asked him, taking a look around. There were a lot of kids, and it was pretty easy to lose one.

- “Once in the mall. I freaked out. I got the guard to call him on the speakers.”

- “And what happened?”

- “I still can’t find him, so I replaced him with a clone. I still can’t believe my sister hasn’t noticed.”- Gubler answered, and (Y/N) burst out laughing.

- “Just don’t tell her yet. I’m still waiting for the right moment to break the news.”

- “Ok, ok. Your secret is safe with me”- (Y/N) held his hand tight and smiled- “Now, let’s get some candies.”

After an hour of trick-or-treating, the kids were fueled with sugar, and there was no way the couple could keep them in place. They were running and jumping and yelling all over the street, playing with some other kids from the neighborhood.

- “Ok, I think it’s time to cut the candies, don’t you think?”- (Y/N) asked her boyfriend as he ate another snicker bar

- “Sorry, what?”

- “Enough sugar for today.”- she said and grabbed the bag from his hands.

- “Oh, come on! just a little more.”

- “No, besides, you have to save some for tonight’s horror movies marathon.”

- “Right! But that’s why the kids are getting us more sweets. That’s their job.”- he moved closer and tried to take the bag from her hands, though all he was really doing was to hold her close and tickle her

- “I don’t think they will share.”- she answered, giggling

- “I’m their favorite uncle. Of course, they’ll share.”

- “Do you wanna bet?”- Matthew looked into her eyes and nodded.

- “Ok, let’s ask them.”

Matthew looked around, searching for them in the crowd.

- “I’ve got one!”- (Y/N) said and held a tiny, cute and cleared tired scarecrow, who wrapped his arms around her neck and sighed, almost ready to nap.

- “Ok, now we need our Darth Vader, and we will ready to go.”

The couple kept on searching, but nothing. No Darth Vader around.

- “Shit!”- Gubler whispered and started calling his nephew’s name. But nothing. (Y/N) wide opened her eyes, feeling her stomach tightening. Losing a kid was the worst way to be introduced to her boyfriend’s family. Of course, it was going to happen to her.

- “I’m gonna go look for him,”- Matthew said, and she nodded- “You should stay here in case he comes back.”

Matthew Gray had never lost one of his nephews. He was joking earlier. And because it had never happened, he was freaking out. What if they never found him? what if he had been kidnapped? He worked on a tv show with the sickest stories about serial killers. He had seen and read enough of that to think the worst.

He walked around, yelling his nephew’s name for about a block until he finally found him and hugged him immediately.

- “Shit! I was so worried. Never do this again, please.”

- “I want my mommy.”- the kid said from inside the helmet, and Gubler nodded.

- “Let’s get your mommy.”

- “I got him!!”- Matthew yelled proudly, walking to (Y/N) holding his nephew in his arms. (Y/N) frowned and looked at him, confused.

- “Who’s that?”

- “What are you talking about?”- Matthew asked- “I know you just met them today, but…”

- “Gubler, I’ve got the kids here.”

And she did. They were both sitting on the sidewalk, eating candies.

- “If they are here… who’s this?”- Matthew asked and took out the helmet of the kid he was holding.

- “I want my mommy”- the boy said and pouted.

- “Shit!!”- Matthew was in shock. He had taken someone’s kid by accident- “Let’s… let’s go look for your mommy, ok?”- he boy nodded, and (Y/N) bit her lips, trying not to laugh.

- “Where did you find him?”- she held Gubler’s little nephew’s hands as Matthew kept the kid in his arms, looking for his mother.

- “Over there… do you see your mommy?”- he asked the boy, who was still pouting and about to start crying.

- “Do you know where you live?”- (Y/N) asked him, and he shook his head- “Do you see any of your friends?”- but nothing.

- “What’s your name, baby?”- Matthew tried to soothe him and gave him a candy bar

- “Andy”

- “Ok, Andy. This is what we are going to do, we are going to call out for your mom, ok?”- (Y/N) looked at her boyfriend and felt her heart was going to explode inside his chest. That man was made to be a father.

- “Are you going to help me look for her?”- Gubler asked, and the little one nodded- “Ok, guys, are you going to help us find Andy’s mom?”- he asked his nephews.

- “Yeah!!!”

- “Ok, so help me out here”- Matthew cleared his throat and started shouting out- “Andy’s mom!! we are looking for Andy’s mom”- (Y/N) smiled and looked around, yelling as well, along with the boys, until a woman appeared running.

- “There you are!!”

- “Mommy!!”- Andy hugged her and held her tight immediately.

- “Thank you for finding him”- Matthew smiled and nodded

- “Not a problem”- (Y/N) looked at him chuckling, and he wrapped an arm around her waist, pinching her waist- “He was very scared”

- “Say thank you to the nice man, Andy”- it was getting harder for (Y/N) not to laugh, but she had to. Besides, Matthew pinched her waist again, nearly making her jump.

The boy thanked and waved, and soon he and his mother were gone. Gubler looked at his girlfriend and smiled, not saying a word. Then, he kneeled and looked at his nephews.

- “Are you ready to go home and watch a scary movie with us?”- the two of them nodded.

- “Can we watch the one with the witches that eat children’s souls?- one of them asked, and Matthew smiled immediately.

- “Hocus Pocus! of course! It’s my favorite! What do you say (Y/N)?”- he looked at her, and she nodded, smiling

- “It’s my favorite too! It has a cat! I love cats!

The boys walked a few meters ahead of them, and the couple held hands, not taking their eyes from them for even a second.

- “You are full of it, you know?”- (Y/N) whispered and giggled- “He was very scared”- she said, impersonating Matthew’s voice. And he laughed immediately.

- “You kidnapped a kid and then innocently pretended you had found him!”

- “In my defense, the kid was already lost when I kidnapped him!”- Matthew argued, laughing- “And I was worried he couldn’t find his mother.”

- “Of course”- (Y/N) laughed and looked at him- “Aren’t you nice?”

- “I am nice! I am a nice man”- she nodded and looked ahead. She couldn’t argue with that.

- “So you are gonna protect me from all the monsters that come out on Halloween?”- (Y/N) asked, and Matthew chuckled.

- “I don’t know… maybe”

- “Maybe?! really? are you going to leave me alone to die?”- she pretended to be mad but failed, ‘cos she couldn’t stop smiling. That would always happen when she was with her boyfriend. She was too happy and couldn’t stop smiling.

- “Yeah, maybe, because I could actually turn into a monster tonight and try to eat you.”

He put a hand in the small of her back, making her shiver, even when it was such a little touch.

- “Are you scared?”- he whispered in a lower voice.

- “No”- she answered and smiled at him- “Because we will be in a house full of people. If you turn into a zombie, I will scream until someone comes to rescue me”- (Y/N) turned and stuck out her tongue to him.

- “What if I kiss you so much, you wouldn't be able to scream? “- she bit her lips and blushed immediately.

- “You know I can’t hold myself. I always scream.”

- “I know, I love that”

- “And that’s why we won’t fuck in your parent’s house, Gubler.”

- “Oh, come on!! I will be quiet, I swear!!”- he begged, laughing

- “No! it’s weird!!”

- “It’s not weird!! It’s dirty, and you are dirty”- (Y/N) kept blushing and tried her best not to look at her boyfriend in the eyes.

- “You can’t deny it, Bunny. I’ve seen the things that you do.”

- “But I won’t do any of those things in your parent’s house!”- Gubler sighed and stayed in silence for a while.

- “And in my parent’s garage?”- (Y/N) laughed at her boyfriend’s proposal. He was acting like a horny teenager trying to convince his prom date to have sex.

- “It’s not my room, and technically it’s not my parent’s house.”

- “Hold it until we are back in L.A, Gubler.”

- “But I don’t want to”- he pouted

- “I’ll make it up for you, I promise.”

- “How?”- he stopped walking, holding her hand tight, and forced her to stop too- “This is important.”

- “Remember that thing we saw the other day in that movie?”

- “The thing you said you have never done?”- she nodded, and Matthew’s eyes turned darker in lust in a second- “Really? Can we do it?”

- “Only if you manage to be a good boy until we are not in your parent’s house, ok?”- Gubler nodded frenetically, and (Y/N) smiled, pleased

- “Good, now let’s go. I don’t wanna lose another kid again.”

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Episode 11 Transcript: DILK (Daddy I'd Like to Kill)

[intro guitar music]

G: Hello, my name is Grey.

C: And my name is Crystal.

G: And this is Busty Asian Beauties, a Supernatural commentary podcast, where I, someone who's seen this show several times,

C: And I, someone who only knows the show through social media, discuss every single episode of Supernatural from start to finish. Also, we are both Asian.

G: Both Asian!

G: So for today's episode, we will be discussing Season 1, Episode 11: "Scarecrow," written by John Shiban and directed by Kim Manners.

C: Why is John- like, how many season 1 episodes has John Shiban written? Like, this one was decent, so I'm not like, that angry at him, but- Wait, I just saw a picture of him. Why does he look like Steve Yockey?

G: [laughs] Wait, I'm going to look him up. I'm going to look him up.

C: Or am I misremembering what Steve Yockey looks like?

G: He does look like Steve Yo- I mean, let's look up Steve Yockey.

C: He literally looks like- he looks like Steve Yockey, but he probably also looks like another Supernatural writer that I'm not remembering.

G: No, he doesn't look like Steve Yockey!

C: Okay. Who's the Supernatural writer that he looks like? He looks familiar.

G: [laughing] I don't know. He fucking looks like John Shiban. [C laughs]

C: Okay, maybe... maybe I'm just being reverse racist.

G: And thinking every white man looks the same.

C: Exactly. This is a real oppressive force that causes harm in our society.

G: He writes five episodes of season 1-

C: Okay.

G: So he's around a lot, yeah. And Kim Manners is also around a lot. So it's these guys again.

C: Ugh. Thank you John Shiban for giving us the title of our podcast.

G: Okay, so, Crystal, what do you know about this episode?

C: I think you mentioned during one of our previous recordings that this was an episode where Sam and Dean split up, so I knew about that. I also knew that this was the episode that Meg would show up, and that Sam would meet her while hitchhiking. For some reason, I think I thought that we were going to see the process of Meg possessing Meg Masters the human and cutting and bleaching her hair and all of that, but no, we just see her show up, and later, it's revealed that something is up with this girl.

Oh, and also, I did know that there was an episode in season 1 where people were sacrificing young couples to some god for a good apple harvest, but I didn't know it was this one until the opening, and then I was like, "Ah, there we go."

G: How do you even know that? Like, at what point does that become relevant enough for you to know it before watching this episode?

C: Um, I don't know if this should be in the podcast, but it's when I read "bad moon rising," which is the season 1 rewrite with Arab Sam and Dean.

G: Ohh, yeah.

C: [laughs] Yeah.

G: We don't open with a "Previously, on Supernatural." Is that true? Is it just on my- what I watch?

C: Uh, what- what- where did you watch it?

G: [laughing] Don't make me reveal to the audience where I watch Supernatural.

C: [laughing] Yes, the version I watched totally legally on the legal site did not have "Previously, on Supernatural."

G: So, we don't open with the "Previously, on Supernatural" or any "Road So Far," right? Which is interesting, because I thought, like, from my memory, only the pilot, "Scoobynatural," and the finale did that.

C: Huh.

G: So, like, being- being shown that like, "no, other episodes do it as well" is a bit of a shock to me.

C: It seems weird that they wouldn't, 'cause this is such a brother-heavy episode, you'd think that they'd pull in all the other moments they've fought from season 1 into a "Road So Far" to really prime us.

G: Yeah! And also, this was- I was right last time that this was the episode after the hiatus.

C: Right, so then they'd probably want to remind you what was happening.

G: But I guess they didn't!

G: Okay, so for the actual episode, we open in Burkittsville, Indiana, one year ago. A couple is going out of a diner, and they're talking to a nice family, saying their thanks for the pie, for fixing up their car... And it's a couple, right? So the girl says, "Oh, this is so nice, we should get lost more often!" And the guy says, "What's the catch?" And [laughs] there's like, a very awkward silence afterwards.

We are pointedly shown that the guy has a tattoo, and, what I at the time thought was the daughter of the family, but is actually a niece of the older couple, notices the tattoo, and then the couple drives off the interstate. While on the way to the interstate, their car breaks down, and their phones die. So they get out of the car and towards an orchard with a house over in the distance to ask for help. So, while they're walking, they see a creepy scarecrow, and they remark at its creepiness and realism. While they're walking away, the girl is still watching the scarecrow. The scarecrow's head turns.

So she's freaked out, but they continue walking, and then a rumbling and a groan in the trees send them running towards the house even faster now. While running, suddenly, Vince, the guy, just disappears. He's just gone. And thus, the girl runs to look for him. She trips, and... [laughing] She tripped over... his completely mutilated body. This scene was so gory!

C: Hot. [G laughs]

G: And we see this scarecrow figure walk towards her, and we cut to the scarecrow post, which is now empty.

C: So now, we're back at the motel, the same that we ended on in episode 10, with shirtless Dean with his- his titties covered by the blanket, and Sam in the purple dog shirt. Sam gets a call on Dean's phone, and it's John!

So, the way that they shoot this scene-

G: [laughs] I was-!

C: Like, it's very claustrophobic?

G: I know, like-

C: Like, it's just giant zoom-ins on John's stubble, and I was like, "I don't care."

G: All the shots of JDM--well I guess I'm supposed to say "John Winchester"--are at the beginning, were like, super close up. And like, I understand that they're like, "JDM is an attractive man," right? [laughs] But like, I want to kill- C: Is he?

G: I think so. I think he's supposed to be. Like, JDM is supposed to be a DILF.

C: I-

G: But John Winchester is a dad that I would like to kill, so he's not a DILF.

C: Right, right. He's a DILK?

G: [laughs] Yes, exactly.

C: Oh, that works out very well, for like, awful mothers. Those are MILKs. [both laugh] I mean, like-

I, is he really attractive? I feel nothing towards him.

G: I also feel nothing, but like, I've seen other people be, you know, like, "Oh, JDM is a hot guy."

C: Yeah. that's true.

G: I would never, but I support people who want to suck and fuck JDM.

C: [laughs] Yeah. Anyone who wants to suck and fuck JDM, I'm nodding encouragingly, outside of the room.

G: But, basically, because like, I wanted to kill this guy, being so close to his face upset me. [laughing] And I was like, "Why are we doing this?" So when we panned out, I was like, "Okay, we're better now."

C: I thought that the zoom- I didn't think of it as them being like, "JDM is a MILF-" [laughing] I'm sorry, a DILF! [laughing] Genderqueer JDM rights.

Anyway, I just thought it was to maintain an air of mystery about where he was, so that we couldn't see his surroundings. But then we zoom out, and he's just at a payphone in the middle of nowhere, so it's not like there was anything important out-of-shot. So maybe it was just that he was a DILF.

So, John says, "Sam, is that you?" and Sam says, "Dad, are you hurt?" Which- agh, it just made me- like, that's Sam's first thought. Like, I don't know, he just- ugh, he cares, and, ouch.

G: Yeah. The concept that John would only call if he's in like, super duper danger, also sucks, if you think about it.

C: Yeah, right, he's only going to call if he needs you. Right.

John says that he's alright and asks after Sam and Dean. And Dean starts waking up and sitting up,. And I think it's not until later that he starts making grabby hands at the phone, and I feel like I wrote out down "Dean not running across the room to take the phone is trans Dean moments, because he has to cover his titties." [laughs]

G: [laughs] He has to put on his shirt!

C: Yeah, no, literally all the shots of fully shirtless Dean, Sam is in focus, and Dean is blurry in the background, until he puts on the shirt. Truly trans Dean moments.

So, Sam says that they're fine and asks John where he is, but he says, "Sorry, kiddo, I can't tell you that," and then "You're just gonna have to trust me on this." This fucking family, all they care about is trust and not earning it.

And Sam realizes immediately that John is after the thing that killed their mom and Jess, and John confirms to them that it's a demon. And then John says, "Sammy, I, uh, I also know what happened to your girlfriend. I'm so sorry. I would have done anything to protect you from that." How do you fucking know, John? How do you fucking know, you fucking creep? Shut up!

G: I mean, he probably knew from Missouri, right?

C: Ohhhh. Right, I forgot. Because I erased the scene of them together, because Missouri was so wonderful that the blinding light of her presence erased John from my mind! That's true. Alright, nevermind, John's not that much of a creep.

G: But also like, the whole, the whole thing that like, "I would have done everything to protect you"?

C: [laughs] Yeah.

G: You're doing a very bad job of doing that, John.

C: Right. "So sorry, I would have done anything to protect you from losing someone you care about. Now, why don't you and Dean go get killed by a scarecrow, now. huh? Won't that be fun? And maybe after that, we can toss some baseballs in the park, huh, buddy?" Like, come on!

Yeah, and Sam demands that he and Dean be allowed to help, but John won't let them in, and he says that they have to stop looking for him, and then tries to send them on another case by asking Sam to write down some names.

Okay, Sam, like, fully refuses and tells John so just tell him what's going on. And then John's tone starts getting harsher. He says that they don't have time for this, "this is bigger than you think, they're everywhere." And then, "I have given you an order. Now, you stop following me, and you do your job." I hate him so much.

G: Yeah, that scene was upsetting. And, I mean, it shows on Sam's face that it's upsetting, because he's so upset.

C: Oh, yeah. He's upset, and he's angry.

G: It hurts me to see him so upset, because later on, we don't see him--at least in my memory--we don't see him look so outwardly emotional as often going forward. But here, he looks so raw. And I feel like as the show progresses, he loses that raw edge.

C: Right.

G: So, like, going back, right? It hurts even more when you see him that emotional. [pained sounds]

C: Dean eventually gets the phone back, and he starts out very concerned and also raw and emotional, and he goes, "Dad, it's me. Where are you?" And then a second passes, and you see Dean's face just shift and his tone just shift, and he says, "Yes, sir." And it's- [pained sound] This was the moment when I said to you on Discord, "I'm not becoming a Deangirl, I'm not becoming a Deangirl!" [both laugh] Like, ugh. I hate Dean until he's like, sad about John things, and then I'm like, "aww, oh no!"

G: There are two things I want to bring up here regarding this entire scene. One is, the music in this scene was not "Americana." It was not the brother theme, but it was- it had inklings of it, like there are moments during when the song was playing when I was like, "Oh my god, is it gonna be Americana?" But it's not, and that made me like, both sad, because this would have been a perfect time to play that song, but also very excited for when the song actually plays, and it fucking ruins me. [both laugh] I'm so excited for it to play.

Anyway, my second point is... This is a tangent, but this scene reminded me so much of that that one post about how, like how powerful, it would have been to hear Supernatural in your native language. Because, in the Philippines, right, in Filipino, we have honorary words--not, not honorary words. Like, words that you say out of respect to someone. So you say "po" and "opo." And usually, with children to their parents, at least in my circle, we don't say po and opo to our parents, because that relationship is a bit more casual. But this scene, like, made me think about how Sam and Dean would say--if they were speaking Filipino--would they say po and opo to John? [C makes pained sound] And I can just see Sam never saying po and opo to John at all, and Dean not saying po and opo during--you know, when he was like, "Are you okay, Dad?"

C: Yeah, "Dad, it's me, where are you," yeah.

G: It's like- it's like, that's casual, and then the moment he goes, "Yes, sir," I would have loved to hear him like, go, "Yes po, opo," and it's like, like, I was thinking about it, and I was kind of losing my mind! It was- There is a Filipino dub.

C: Oh!

G: Yeah, there is a Filipino dub of Supernatural, but I can't fucking find it! I know it exists because there's some clips of it online, and I have a cousin who watched Supernatural Filipino-dubbed in TV- in like, a channel in the Philippines.

C: Mm-hm.

G: But I can't find any evidence of it online, like, actually existing for more than a few clips as a joke.

C: Yeah.

G: [laughing] And if anyone can link me to the Filipino dub of Supernatural...

C: Please email us at [email protected].

G: Literally email me.

C: [laughing] Share it with us on Google Drive.

G: If you work at TV 5, like, fucking link me to it, please. Anyway, that's my tangent.

C: Yeah, no, that's really interesting because I think... there sort of are those things in Chinese, but usually, when I think about formality, I think about the casual "you," which is "ni," and the casual- or, the formal you, which is "nin." And how, I think at the beginning of conversations with my grandparents, I'll usually say nin to show that I'm being polite, but then, as it goes on and we're getting more comfortable, then I just go back to the informal thing. So yeah, I feel like- and people basically never use "nin" for their parents. I think they have to be like, two generations up. So I feel like if Dean ever used "nin" for like, John, it would ruin me a little bit.

G: It's, agh. When it's your native tongue, it's like, it's different. It hits different.

G: Okay, so as Sam and Dean drive, they talk about the case, which is basically, a couple goes missing during a road trip every second week of April every single year.

C: Quick thing: Sam is driving during the scene, right? And I feel like in later seasons, Dean's only one who drives the Impala if both of them are in it. Is that true, or am I making that up?

G: I think you're right. I think you're right.

C: Yeah. I wonder when it switched. I think it's good that Sam is driving the car this time. It makes the later standoff a lot juicier.

G: Anyway, all the couples go through the same part of Indiana. And at this point, Dean starts singing praises about John, and how he's a "master at this hunting thing" for putting this pattern together, he's so smart.

C: [laughing] And that was the moment I sent you "never mind, I'm normal now" after the "I'm not becoming a Deangirl!" message.

G: But this episode is a very good Dean episode. It's- it's really good.

C: 'Cause he's so pathetic and wet when he's alone.

G: [laughs] He is!

C: Like, he's getting to meow-meow status.

G: He literally meow-meowed all over this episode. [C laughs]

Anyway, Sam, who is still frustrated, pulls over. And he says they're not going to Indiana, but to California. John called from a payphone with Sacramento area code, which is a place I know because I watched Lady Bird. [laughs]

C: Oh, yeah.

G: And Sam can presumably track him down. So Sam and Dean argue. Dean says that Dad doesn't want their help, and Sam says, "I don't care." [C claps] Dean says, "Oh, but he gave us an order," and Sam says, "I. Don't. Care."

C: King.

G: "You don't always have to do what he says." Go, Sam! Go, Sammy!

C: Go, Sam.

G: So, they continue to argue. And on Dean's side, they have to work this job to save lives, right? And on Sam's side, he's saying that they need to go out there to get answers. To get revenge.

C: [laughing] Hiii.

G: Which, like, it takes me back to when before Jess died, right?

C: Mm-hm.

G: When it was just Mary that they're going for revenge for. And he was like, "What's the point of revenge? You can have all the revenge you want, but mom's never gonna come back." But now that Jess has died, he has gotten sucked into it.

C: Yeah.

G: And it makes me so sad!

C: Yeah. They fridged that woman so hard to make Sam worse.

G: Sam then pulls out the big guns, which is that, Dean says, "I know how you feel," and Sam's like, "Do you? When Mom died, you were 4. Jess died six months ago. How the hell would you know how I feel?" Which is- a bit of a low blow?

C: Sooo mean. Twirling my hair.

G: It's not untrue, but it is a low blow.

C: Right. 'Cause they're not mourning the same thing. Like, Dean's mostly mourning the childhood he could have had if Mary didn't die, whereas Sam's mourning the actual person of Jess. So it's true that Dean doesn't really know how he feels because it's different, but also, Sam seems to be implying that the magnitude of what they feel is not comparable, which is not fair to Dean, I think.

G: Yes.

C: But also, it was so mean and so hot, so. [laughs]

G: Okay. So Dean continues arguing for his case, right, and Sam says, "I don't understand the blind faith you have in the man."

C: Faith!

G: "It's like you don't even question him!" [screams]

C: Yeah.

G: Go, Sam!

But also, what a sad line. What a sad line for Dean. At this point, Sam is raising his voice, he's shouting. And Dean shouts back, "It's called being a good son!"

So, Sam gets out of the car, at which point Dean gets out of the car and then calls him "selfish" for "doing whatever you want, and not caring what other people think."

C: "The Man Who Would Be King" vibes.

G: Sam is a bit stunned by this, and he asks Dean if he really thinks that. And he says, "Yeah, I do think that," and so Sam says, "Well, this selfish bastard is going to California, bitch!" [both laugh] He doesn't say bitch, but he should have. But also, like, Sam is a good boy, so he's not gonna say that.

Sam walks away as Deans threatens to "leave his ass." And Sam says, like, "That's what I want you to do!" And so Dean drives off, and Sam walks away.

C: Well, and the important thing is that, after Sam says, "That's what I want you to do," he stands there completely still. He doesn't start walking away. He forces Dean to make the choice to leave him. Like, [laughing] he's like, "I want Dean to feel guilty about this for the rest of his goddamn life," and he's so right.

G: You're so right, you're so right. Like, he does make Dean make the choice.

C: Yeah, hashtag respecting Dean's bodily autonomy. [both laugh] I'm sorry, Samfans! I love you. Anyway...

C: So Dean drives into Indiana, and he stops the car, and he starts looking through his phone, trying to figure out if he should call Sam or not. And that's when we see his contacts.

So, I think I paused it, so I could write down all his phone contacts to see if they come up again. So there's Bren, Carmelita, Christian, Curtis, Dad, Donnie, Robin, and Sam. Is Carmelita the name of that porn star that he sleeps with in like, season 9 or 10?

G: [laughs] Are you kidding me? How do you even know that? I have no idea what you're talking about, and you know what? You're probably right.

C: I- I know about it because, remember when Eric Kripke was making those like, tweets about how Sam and Dean would vote for Joe Biden?

G: [laughs] Yeah.

C: And then he wrote a followup that, oh, "but Dean would be impressed that Trump slept with a pornstar." [laughing] And then he was like, "Actually, sorry guys, Dean would not be impressed by that because he already slept with his favorite porn star, Carmelita."

G: [laughing] I only know Belladonna.

C: Yeah. Oh, right, because it's an iconic Charlie moment.

And he goes to a place called Scotty's Cafe. He find Scotty outside and tries to talk him up. I know he's just trying to get information, but he really sounds like he's flirting this whole scene.

Okay, first, Dean introduces himself as "John Bonham," and Scotty says, "Isn't that the drummer for Led Zeppelin?" and Dean's like, "Wow, classic rock fan!" Like, okay, Dean. And then, he starts asking Scotty about the missing couple that we saw in the opening. Scotty says, "Sorry, we don't get many strangers around here" and is very resistant to answering questions. And then Dean says, "Scotty, you've got a smile that lights up a room. Anybody ever tell you that?"

G: Literally, what was the point of that? What was going on?

C: I think the point was Dean was just making a joke about how Scotty doesn't smile and is unfriendly-

G: is a frowny face.

C: -But it just really comes off as flirting, especially after like, "Ooh, you know classical rock?" Like. [laughing] Alright, Dean.

G: This is the start of our bi Dean agenda [C laughs] maybe, perhaps.

C: [laughing] With Scotty? Yeah, sure.

G: Scotty x Dean.

C: [laughing] Naur. Naur.

G: We go to Sam, and he's in the middle of the road, waiting for a bus. He's walking backwards, and when he turns around, he sees a girl, sitting down, listening to music. He reaches out to her shoulder, and she jumps up, and she says, "You scared the hell out of me." [laughs]

C: Ha. Good one, Meg!

G: [laughing] Good one, Meg! Then, Sam asks where she's going, and she says, "I'm not telling you. You could be some kind of freak!" [laughs]

C: She's so good. She's doing such a good job.

G: I love Meg so much in this episode.

C: Yeah, like I know... I don't know the full extent of what she does in like, later of this season and in season 2, so I feel like I'm mostly just gonna react to Meg as I feel about her in the episodes, and then later, we'll see if I hate her by the end.

G: Yeah, yeah. I've told you this, but like, I do... I love Meg 2.0, but I see her as separate from Meg 1.

C: Yeah.

G: And as someone who doesn't really remember Meg that much, I'm also going to be reacting as the- as the show goes. I know a bit about what happens during season 1 with Meg, and, not a fan! But, so it is. [laughs] I still love evil women, so.

C: [laughs] Is Meg the first properly evil woman that we get in Supernatural? Because I know like, we had the woman in white, and we had Bloody Mary, and we had Lori, but I feel like none of those people seemed really in control of their actions. Meg seems to be the first actively sinister woman in Supernatural.

G: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but also, I'm so amused that you put Lori in line with Bloody Mary and the woman in white.

C: [laughing] No, I just mean that she was responsible for deaths! Even if she didn't do it on purpose.

G: Yeah. I think Meg is the first one, and she is so much fun, in this episode. [both] Yeah.

G: Anyway, a van comes through the road and lets Meg in. And Sam's like, "You trust van guy over me?" And Meg says, "Definitely!" And then the van drives off.

C: And the camera zooms in on Sam's stunned, hurt face, as like, a song titled "Nice Guys Finish Last" starts playing through his head. [both laugh]

G: Nooo! Nooo!

C: Genuinely, like his reaction here, I was like, "This is maybe a quarter of a misogyny moment, honestly." Like, he was so offended.

G: I mean, the idea that he was like, "Oh, she's gonna trust me because I'm some guy on the street who looks nice" is like... Come on, Sam.

C: Yeah, it's hilarious.

G: You're like 6 foot 4.

C: Exactly. You're 6 foot 4, and she's alone and quite short and skinny by the side of the road. And you like, touched her shoulder. Like, nuh-uh. Get away.

C: Dean's at the store in Burkittsville where we saw the couple at the beginning of the episode, and he's asking around, showing the pictures of the missing couple. And the older people both say that they do not remember these people, so immediately, something's up with these guys. They're super lying. And then Emily--[laughing] we helpfully know her name 'cause she's wearing a necklace that says "Emily."

G: [laughing] It's so funny! I mean, I do have worn a necklace with my name on it, so it's fine.

C: I feel like I haven't found many necklaces with my name on it.

G: No, you have it made. Like-

C: Ohh.

G: For me, it's like, when there's a fiesta, when there's a- what's the English of fiesta? Feast? That sounds stupid. [laughs] When there's a fiesta around, there's gonna be some guy with some metal and pliers. He just forms the wire into a necklace for you.

C: Ah, that's nice.

G: It's cool! It's cool shit.

C: I think I got a stamp once of my Chinese name that was sort of carved into the bottom of a very nice smooth stone, but no name necklaces.

C: So, and so Emily comes down, and she says, "Did the guy have a tattoo?" They're really digging in on this tattoo thing, and I thought that this would be a sign that the guy was part of a cult or something that had the tattoo, but no, they just keep reminding us so that we can have one sort of scary reveal at the end of the scene. Okay, so, Emily asks about the tattoo, and Dean says, "Yeah, he did have a tattoo," and Emily says, "Yeah, I remember these people." The guy said, "Oh, they stopped here briefly for gas, oh, right, and I told him how to get back to the road." Dean takes those directions and starts driving. He passes by the orchard, and his EMF meter starts going wild. So he gets out of the car, completely weaponless. I'm just so bothered by every time these guys are weaponless.

G: He probably was like, "it's morning, so it's fine."

C: Incorrect, Dean.

So Dean's walking around, and he sees the scarecrow, and he says, "Dude, you fugly." [laughing] Which I think was the first time I really properly laughed at a Dean line in Supernatural. It was- [laughs]

G: [laughing] It's such an iconic line. And, like, every single time I see something that's like, creepy or, you know, like, fugly, I do think, "Dude, you fugly."

C: He sees that it's holding a sickle, which is a very appropriate weapon for a harvest god. And he notices that there's something on its arm, so he takes a ladder and climbs up to look at the scarecrow. And he sees that its arm has Vince's tattoo on it. [laughing] And then, just in case all the mentions of the tattoo didn't make you realize this, first, he pulls out the flyer, so you can- and like, looks between the picture of Vince's tattoo and the scarecrow. [G laughs] And then he looks at the scarecrow. He says, "nice tat," just in case you didn't get that, and then there's a percussion note and the screen goes black, just in case you didn't get that.

G: No, like, the percussion note is because it's commercial!

C: Okay, yeah, that's true. But the rest was excessive. Like, I got it as soon as he noticed something on the arm. Okay, another thing. So, we're supposed to assume that each year they swap out the scarecrow for a new corpse of the guy that they kill.

G: Yeah.

C: Okay, what about the girl? Like, where's her corpse? [laughing] Like, can we not have feminism in this country? Like, where's my dead girl scarecrow?

G: So Dean goes back to the town and goes to talk to the- goes to talk to Emily while the cars' gas tank gets filled up. So Emily narrates that she has been here to live with her aunt and uncle since she was 13 and her parents died. She says that the town feels blessed because all the towns around them are crumbling and devastated by like, losing farms and losing houses, while this town remains prosperous. So Dean asks about the orchard. She says, "No one owns it." And Dean notices a car, and Emily says, "Oh, it's a couple with car troubles," and Dean's like, "Oh noo."

C: I just think it's wild that somehow, even in this very remote town where nobody notices, there's always an outsider couple that comes over on April 2nd? That makes no sense to me.

G: It's second week of April, so it's seven days.

C: Okay, fine.

G: But still.

C: Still, it feels weird.

C: Now, we're at a bus station where Sam is trying to get a ticket to Sacramento, but the person there says that you can't get a ticket until the 5:05 bus tomorrow. Sam says, "There's gotta be another way," and she says, "There is. Buy a car." [laughs] Thanks, queen.

And Sam does the same thing Dean does where he takes out his phone and looks through his contacts and tries to figure out whether or not he should call him. And I also wrote down who Sam's contacts were. So they were Rebecca Warren from "Skin," Jerry who--is that the guy that--from "Phantom Traveler"?

G: "Phantom Traveler," yes.

C: Yes. Some guy named John Marcynuk. Yeah, and then Dean, and then Mary Ann Liu, which means that Sam has a Chinese friend. Go, Sam. [laughing] I hope- I'm sure she'll be the main character for the next season, and we'll get to see her.

G: I'm sure she will be the main character of The Winchesters. [C laughs]

C: I mean, was she even alive during prequel era?

G: It's her origin story. [both laugh]

C: Yeah, you're right. Oh god, what is she's one of Sam's bastard children--or sorry, one of John's bastard children. [laughs] God.

G: No, I don't want to think about that.

C: I don't want to think about it.

So, suddenly, Meg's sitting behind him, in her cool girl pose with her legs propped up with her bags. And she says, "Hi," and Sam asked "Weren't you in a van with some guy?" and Meg says, "You were right. That guy was shady. He was all hands." And both of them just act amused at the fact that she was being groped in a van, but whatever, I guess.

G: She says, "I cut him loose."

C: Yeah, ha. Good one, Meg.

And Sam says that he's trying to get to California, and Meg goes, "No way! Me too!" And she starts asking why he's going there and Sam says, "It's just something I've been looking for for a long time," which I guess is sort of true because they've been on this revenge plot since he was a child, but also, he didn't care until six months ago. But six months is also a long time, so whatever.

They introduce themselves, and... Is Meg giving off flirty energy here?

G: I think that's what we're supposed to feel. That, like, it's a bit flirtatious, and that she, before the reveal at the end that she is a demon, we're supposed to feel like, "Oh, this can be a love interest."

C: Yeah, yeah, I think so. And also because Meg is just way too emotionally invested in Sam this episode for her to not be either a demon or in love with him. So yeah, they were just trying to throw us off the scent.

G: So Dean goes to Scotty's Cafe again, and Scotty looks visibly angry. He asks for coffee, black, and pie, which is our first Dean x pie moment. [both laugh] Why did I say Dean x pie? That's disgusting!

C: [laughing] This is what good pussy sounds like. *squishes hand in apple pie filling*

G: [laughing] Jesus Christ. So he starts asking a couple that is sitting beside him some questions. So apparently, they stopped for gas and then the gas station attendant said that their brakeline is leaking. So a mechanic offered to fix it, and they will be going again by sundown. Dean, at first he's like, "To fix a brakeline? It's gonna take that long? You know, I can fix it for you in an hour and then you can go." And they're like, "No, we would rather a mechanic do it."

Dean doubles down and he starts saying that, like, "You guys are in danger, the streets are not safe at night, you gotta believe me," and they get upset at Dean, saying that they're just here to eat.

C: [laughing] And then he says- no, I'm just thinking about this next line.

G: Yeah.

C: [laughing] What's wrong with him?

G: What did he say? Which part are you talking about.

C: The part where he's like, "You know, my brother could give you this puppy dog look-"

G: Yeah!

C: "-and you'd just buy right into it." He's 22, dude!

G: He- like the way he talks about Sam is like, the way I talk about my six-year-old sister. [laughs]

C: Exactly! Or a literal dog.

G: [laughing] A literal dog.

C: And it's like, no, Sam would not just buy--like, not just cause you to buy right into it. Dean's just lonely because he's working a case alone for the first time in six months, and he's like, "Ugh, if Sam was here, he could have fixed it. What are Sam's skills, though? Uhhh... eye- puppy dog eyes?" Like- [laughing]

G: It's so funny because he says it out loud. Like, why are you saying this out loud? [C laughs] I get that you miss your brother, but keep that shit to yourself, bro! You just scared this couple, and now you're saying shit like, "Oh, my brother has puppy dog eyes"--They don't care! They don't care.

Anyway, a sheriff walks in. They have a bit of banter, and Dean's like, "I'm having a bad day already," and the sheriff says, "Don't make it worse," and then we cut to Dean being escorted out of the town.

C: What- like, why? What did he do?

G: Well, because he's figuring it out. And it's not like a secret between them.

C: That's true. The sheriff is on the side of the human sacrificers, so.

C: We're back at the bus station where Sam's going to be spending basically this entire episode, and Sam asks Meg why she's here. And she says, "I had to get away from my family," and immediately Sam goes, "OMG, another mirror? A mirror? For me?"

And Meg goes, "I love my parents, and they wanted what's best for me. They just didn't care if I wanted it." She's like, playing Sam so good right now!

And then she says, "I was supposed to be smart, but not smart enough to scare away a husband." [laughing] Was 2005 really that bad for women?

G: I have no idea. I mean, maybe.

C: Yeah, and I guess it depends like, on where you live, 'cause I feel like- yeah, probably in some states that is a common thought to have. But obviously, Meg is just girlifying Sam's "I was supposed to be smart, but not smart enough to leave hunting and go to college."

And she says that "Just because my family said so, I was supposed to sit there and do what I was told. So I just went on my own way instead." Right, and then she's like, "Ugh, why am I telling you this? I hardly know you?" And then Sam's, like, "I know how you feel. It's the same thing with me and my brother." Meg's like, "Wow, we relate to each other so much." And then she toasts him, says, "The food might be bad, and the beds might be hard, but at least we're living our own lives and nobody else's."

G: That's the opposite for Sam, right? Like, when he was- when he was living for someone else, like John and Dean, he had bad food and hard beds [C laughs], but I suppose when he was in Stanford, he was doing fine.

C: Yeah, I'm sure the cafeterias were decent. They have a lot of money, they should use it on decent food, at least.

And also, this exchange is very funny when we find out Meg's whole deal later, 'cause she's literally doing this because it's what her father wants. She's not at all living her own life, she's fully following orders.

G: I didn't even connect that thought.

G: We go to the couple from earlier, so they're in the orchard, and well, they should have let Dean fix their car. [C laughs] And the scarecrow comes after them, and you think they're going to die, but then... Dean shows up, and he saves the couple. He saves the day.

So now, Sam is on a call with Dean about the case. and Dean says that "This is not a spirit, it's a pagan god, and the men and women are a fertility rite." So Dean is now going to the local community college to talk to a professor, as he says, because he doesn't have his "trusty sidekick geekboy" to do all the research.

C: I wish we had seen the scene of Dean deciding to call Sam or Sam deciding to pick up, because we got all those moments of them being like, "Should I call him? No." But now, it's just like, "Oh yeah, I'll just call him, and he'll just pick up." Like, why- why wasn't there more tension?

G: Then Dean says, "Actually, I want you to know that..." and then he gets choked up! And Sam says, "Yeah. I'm sorry too." [both make pained sounds]

And then Dean tells Sam that he's right, and he says, "You gotta do your own thing and live your own life. You stand up to Dad. Hell, I wish I..." And then he gets choked up some more. And that line... [pained sounds] I mean, we don't have to, like, elaborate on it, because it's pretty in-your-face, right?

C: Yeah.

G: But I'm just calling attention to it.

C: And the thing is, I wish we had seen what had precipitated this, 'cause Dean just shoots a scarecrow a few times and suddenly has a total change of heart. Like, I feel like we needed more build-up. I think we needed him, I don't know, nursing his wounds alone, being all sad and going, "If I had just listened to Sam or not listened to my dad, then maybe all would be better." But no, this is just sort of coming out of nowhere? So that did annoy me, but the lines themselves are very- are very moving.

G: I didn't find it as bothersome because, like, at the beginning, their earlier fight, right, like, he said nasty things, and then Sam asks, "Did you mean it?" and Dean says yes.

C: Yep. You are a selfish bastard.

G: Yeah, yeah. And this is like, our proof that he didn't mean it, even back then. There's no development because he didn't mean it even back then.

[dog barking sounds]

Fucking hell, there's a dog barking outside.

C: Is it Sam? [G laughs]

G: He- Dean says some more that "I admire that about you, that you were able to stand up to Dad. I'm proud of you, Sammy." [emotional sounds] And then, Sam says, "I don't know how to respond to that," and Dean replies, "Well, you tell me that you'll take care of yourself, and call me when you find Dad."

C: Oh wait, something we missed at the beginning, when Dean's telling Sam about the case, they're just having case talk, and Sam says, "It didn't kill the couple, did it?" and Dean says, "No," and then immediately after, "I can't cope without you, you know." Like, bro! [laughing] Calm down, but also ouch.

So after Sam hangs up, Meg asks, "Who was that?" Sam says, "My brother." Meg asks, "What did he say?" and Sam says, "Goodbye." Which is so wild, 'cause-

G: He did not say "goodbye."

C: 'Cause Dean said "call me when you find Dad." And Sam's viewing that as a "We are never going to talk ever again." Does that mean that Sam's not planning to call him when he finds Dad? Does he think that he's not going to find John? Or does he plan to-

G: I think he's just being dramatic here.

C: Maybe, but maybe he was like, "I'm gonna find John, and I'm gonna help him take down the thing that killed Mom and Jess, and I'm probably gonna die in the process, and that's okay." Like, maybe that was his thought.

G: Oh, that's morbid.

C: [laughs] Yeah. I mean, it's a dramatic end of scene, I feel like it could be very morbid.

G: Yeah, yeah it's very dramatic. For me, I didn't take note of it, because I was just like, "Oh, Sam's just being dramatic, it doesn't mean anything," but you're right, probably things were running through his head when he said Dean is saying goodbye.

C: So now we're at the community college. It's a very nice building for a community college. Like, very well funded. So Dean's with a professor and is asking about local pagan lore. And he say that this place was settled by Scandinavian immigrants, and he starts flipping through a book of possible pagan gods. And Dean notices a drawing of a scarecrow in the book, and the entry that goes with it are the Vanir, who are "Norse gods of protection and prosperity that kept the local settlements safe from harm." And human sacrifice of one man and one woman was the way to worship them.

And also, he finds out that they're sort of kept alive from the energy from a sacred tree. And Dean goes, "So what would happen if you burn the tree down? You know, like, do you think it would kill the god?" And the professor just looks really weirded out and he's like, "These are legends," and Dean tries to leave. But then, he opens the door, and it's the sheriff, and he hits Dean with his gun, and he and the professor look at each other. So the professor was in on it all along.

G: Yeah, and the way Dean falls, I've seen this screencap a lot because he falls, like, [laughing] he falls with his legs like, kicking up. [C laughs] I don't know how to say it without sounding crude.

C: Why are you, as a man... [both laugh] kicking your legs up for another man?

G: Yeah, so we go to a little town meeting. So every local that we've seen so far, except Emily, is talking about the sacrifice.

C: Yeah. So like, four people.

G: Yeah, yeah. The town is small.

Anyway, they're saying that they have to appease the gods now, because it's the last day of- the last night of the seven-day cycle, and it's getting angry, because some of the trees are already rotting. And then, here's when we realize that they're going to sacrifice Dean and Emily.

G: In the bus station, the bus has arrived, but Sam doesn't want to catch it anymore. Meg asks why, and Sam says, "Dean hasn't been answering his phone for three hours."

C: For three hours. Like, that's not a long time. I leave texts unanswered for longer than three hours.

G: Literally what if he just fell asleep? [C laughs]

So Sam's like, "Oh, that's not like Dean at all, I need to see him, I need to make sure he's all right," and Meg says, "Why run back to the person you're running away from? Because he won't pick up his phone?" And Meg pleads with him to come with her.

C: Yeah. "Sam, come with me, to California!"

G: Yeah, and-

C: And again, you have to think that she's in love with him, because or else, this is just way too emotionally invested.

G: Yeah, and Sam says, "No, I can't. He's my family."

C: So, we're back to Burkittsville. First, we see Emily being taken by her aunt and uncle. And she's crying, and she says, "Aunt Stacy, Uncle Harley, please! Why are you doing this?" And they shove her into a cellar with Dean, and the aunt says, "This is for the common good."

So now Emily and Dean are talking, and we find out Emily had no clue about the scarecrow god thing. And Dean asks her what the sacred tree that it might be tied to is, and she tells him about this one apple tree that the immigrants brought over called "The First Tree." The plan is to burn that down, but then, before they can execute that, the door opens, and they start taking Dean and Emily out and tying them to trees.

Dean's taking the angry approach, he's like, "How many people have you killed, sheriff? How much blood is on your hands?" Emily is pleading with her uncle, and he says, "I'm so sorry. I wish it wasn't you." Are there are no other women in this town? How many people are in this town?

G: Well, they didn't want to sacrifice any of themselves. That's- that's the moral of the story.

C: Right, yeah, yeah, 'cause Emily's an outsider, and they're only sacrificing outsiders.

And then, right, Stacy says, "Try to understand, it's our responsibility, and there's just no other choice. There's nobody else but you." And I think at this point we are supposed to start yeah, recognizing the hypocrisy of that, which really comes to a head when Stacy and Harley are the ones who are stabbed, because it's like, you always could have sacrificed yourself, but you didn't.

Yeah, Emily says, "I'm your family," and I think at this point, I wrote down "This family thing is getting overused in this episode." [both laugh] Like, I understand that it's a motif, but like, whatever. I'm over it.

And then, her aunt says, "Sweetheart, that's what sacrifice means. Giving up something you love for the greater good. The town needs to be safe. The good of the many outweighs the good of the one."

So they're taking a bit of a utilitarianist approach to this, which I understand. But yeah, Supernatural is taking a stance against the utilitarianism, but is also... Okay, I feel like there are like, battling ideologies of individualism, utilitarianism, and like, family in this episode?

G: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

C: And Supernatural, I think, goes, "Utilitarianism is worse than individualism is worse than family."

G: Yeah, family comes up top.

C: Right, family comes before you living your own life and being independent, but also, if you try to protect a town instead of your family and you hurt people while doing it, that's evil. Like, I don't know, I just don't think there's that big of a difference between this human sacrifice thing and the other things that, like, the good guys of Supernatural do to protect their family. Like, in the end, people do get killed. And I feel like, yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'm not pro human sacrifice, but- [laughs]

G: [laughing] It was beginning to sound like you are.

C: [laughing] I mean, like, I'm not pro human sacrifice, but I feel like Supernatural... It would be better if Supernatural sort of understood that this was not that different than putting your family above everyone else. You know?

G: Yeah, yeah, I get what you mean.

Also, like this is unrelated, but there's an episode in Supernatural called "Sacrifice," and it made me think about that episode. Do you know which episode I'm talking about?

C: Um, Season 8 Episode 23?

G: So true. Good job.

C: [laughs] 'Cause Cas is in it. And he has the bi lighting behind him in the bar.

G: Yeah, yeah, so true, so true.

I was thinking about it because, like, the line that's like, "That's what sacrifice means, giving up something you love for the greater good." And in that episode, Sam was supposed to die to lock out hell, basically.

C: Right, but Dean refuses to give him up.

G: Yes. Dean refuses to sacrifice him. And I was like, "Oh, yeah." [laughs] Yeah, I have no deeper connection to make. I was just like, connecting the dots.

C: Yeah, yeah, it's a web weave, not a meta. Right.

And they walk away, and Dean yells after them, "I hope your apple pie is freakin' worth it!" I can't believe Dean is supposed to be a pie-lover for the rest of the series when this episode is his first onscreen encounter with pie.

Emily asks him about the plan and Dean says, "I'm working on it." It fades to hours later, when it's dark, and Emily finally says, "You don't have a plan, do you?" and he goes, "I'm working on it!" [G laughs] And then Dean starts looking around to see if the scarecrow has started moving yet, and then we hear footsteps, and a shadow, and Emily starts yelling "oh my god!" but then it's... Sam!

G: Go, Sam!

C: Yeah, it was good to see him, and Dean is very happy. But then he says, "Oh, I take back everything I said."

G: Yeah, "I'm so happy to see you."

C: [laughing] "I'm so happy to see you." Like, I understand that it's a joke. Like, he's just really happy and he's like, "No, don't live your own life, thank god you're here so I don't get sacrificed to a scarecrow," but like, don't take back everything you said! Shut up. [G laughs]

And he asks, "How'd you get here?" and Sam says, "Uh, I stole a car," so [laughing] I guess he took that woman at the bus station's advice

G: Dean is very proud.

C: Dean says- yeah, he's very proud. "That's my boy!" And then he says, "Keep an eye on that scarecrow, he could come alive any minute," and Sam goes, "What scarecrow?" Dun-dun-dun!

G: So they start running, but then they encounter the locals, who are holding guns. And they are saying, "You have to let it take you," and Emily's trying to reason out with them, but they're saying that it's going to be quick, you just have to let it happen.

While Uncle Harley is talking, he suddenly gets impaled by the scarecrow's sickle. And everyone starts screaming, and it's such a long time that they're screaming. [laughs] At some point, I was like, "Okay, just fucking take them. Stop screaming. It's so annoying." But they continue screaming and screaming, and then suddenly, the aunt gets taken, too, and the scarecrow takes both the aunt and uncle away.

C: Yeah, and I guess the new scarecrow of the year would have been the uncle.

G: Yeah.

C: So no more cool tat for this god.

G: Maybe it would have been the aunt. It's his feminist era.

C: That's true.

G: [laughing] It's the god's feminist era.

G: Anyway, next morning, they go back to the orchard to burn the tree. So Sam, Dean, and Emily find a tree with etchings in it, and they think "Oh, this is- this must be the first tree."

C: Oh, I'm just realizing now that the etchings are the tattoo design on the guy.

G: What? What- why?

C: Maybe... maybe it's 'cause the god- the scarecrow became- like, he took Vince's body, right? So maybe the tree where he draws his power also took on Vince's physical characteristics?

G: That sounds stupid.

C: But that- yeah, that sounds stupid. [laughs] I don't know.

G: Anyway, Sam drowns the tree in lighter fluid, and Dean was about to burn it when Emily steps up and volunteers to do it herself. Dean's like, "Oh, you know it's going to kill the whole town," and Emily says-

C: "Good."

G: And so she burns it, and they watch as it burns.

C: I- what I really wanted was for them to be about to burn it, and then Emily says, "No," and then she's like, "Actually, I've decided that keeping this town alive is important, and that the math works out. Get away, I'm gonna be murdering two people every year now." [G laughs] But. I just think we need more evil women! But yeah.

Nah, she burns the tree. At least she got to say "good," like, at least she got to have her evil woman moment.

C: So, we see that Emily is now getting on a bus. And first, we see the shot of the outside of the bus, and I thought that maybe Meg would be on the bus, and I wrote down, "Have we considered Emily x Meg?" [laughing] But nothing like that.

Oh, also I think the name of the buss like, brand or whatever was "Freedom Lines" which felt very on the nose, but yeah.

G: Yeah!

C: Emily's getting on the bus.

G: To freedom.

C: She's going somewhere. To freedom. Does she have money?

G: I mean, I fucking hope so. [C laughs] Both of her guardians are dead, so she could just take their money.

C: That's true. She could just, take all their shit. Yeah, they probably don't have any banks nearby in this town, so they probably just kept all their money in their pillowcase or something, so she can skedaddle.

So she leaves, and Sam goes, "Think she's gonna be all right?" and Dean says, "I hope so," and Sam says that the rest of the townspeople are gonna get away with all the sacrifices, but Dean says that "What will happen to the town will have to be punishment enough." And then Dean asks, "So, can I drop you off somewhere?" Which feels very "Pilot"-y, right?

G: Yeah. But I liked that line so much. Like, "Can I drop you off somewhere?" Because Dean is like, here, admitting that he doesn't- he doesn't- he's not asking Sam to stay anymore. Sam can go live his life.

C: Yeah.

G: So Sam staying now would be of his own volition, and not because it's an order from this big brother.

C: Sam says, "No, I think you're stuck with me." And Dean asks what changed his mind and Sam says, "I didn't. I still want to find Dad, and you're still a pain the ass. But Jess and Mom, they're both gone. Dad is god knows where-" You know where! Sacramento! [G laughs] "You and me, we're all that's left. So if we're gonna see this through, we're gonna do it together."

Which is, again, this is so sad to me-

G: Yeah.

C: Because in "Skin," Sam's still talking to Stanford friends. And now, just five episodes later, he goes, "We're the only people we have in the entire fucking world." Like, go call Rebecca!

G: I was expecting him to say something in the lines of "Mom and Jessica are dead, so let's just focus on saving the people who are still alive.

C: Yeah.

G: But no, that's not what he does.

C: Instead Sam's just like, "I'm completely alone. Everyone who cares about me is gone. And now it's time to just stick with the only guy I have left." And I think it's because- it's because Dean's rubbing off on him, right? It's because before Sam saw his Stanford friends and other people as important to him, but now, he's, you know, he had his whole moment where he was like, "Oh, I have to find Dean, because he's family." All these people that he lists are the people he would be considering family. His fiancee, his parents, and his brother. Like, no one- he can't think of anyone else being someone that he can have a meaningful connection with anymore, and that makes me so sad.

G: Yeah.

C: Like, call Missouri! [both laugh] Go hang out with Missouri! Like, get out!

G: I mean, at this point, we know like, we don't know yet Bobby, but like, we know that they grew up with him. So, just fucking call Bobby!

C: Yeah, just fucking call Bobby! Why are you doing this!

It's so sad. Like I know it's supposed to be a touching moment, and it is from Dean's point of view, but I can't help with view it as Sam's spirit being defeated in a way.

Okay, Dean tries to joke it off, he is touched, but he goes, "Hold me, Sam. That was beautiful," and he puts his hand on Sam's shoulder, and he hits it away. So they're just trying to return to sibling banter. Sam says, "You should be kissing my ass! You were dead meat, dude," and Dean was like, "Yeah, right, I had a plan. I'd have gotten out." Mm, which is sweet. Which is sweet.

G: So now, we're in a van and "Bad Company" by Bad Company is playing, I think. I think that's the song, and.

C: I didn't notice.

G: I don't know the song. I just heard "bad company" over and over again-

C: Oh, yeah, so probably.

G: And I know that Bad Company has a song called "Bad Company" and I was like, "That's probably 'Bad Company' by Bad Company-" [both laugh]

C: By Bad Company.

G: In their album Bad Company. Yeah. [C laughs]

So you see Meg in the van, and she's hitchhiking. So there's- she's talking to the driver, who's asking her where she's going, and she said, "Why don't you stop over?"

C: He calls her "pretty lady," so, you know, he's clearly trying to make a pass.

G: Yeah, he's leering on her.

So they stop over. Meg takes out a bowl, saying she's got to make a call. The driver says, "Well, I have a cell phone you can use," and she says, "It's not that kind of call." And fucking slits his throat! With a knife.

C: Soo hot.

G: It's so good, like, it's horror, is what it is. It's such a vibe.

C: Okay, also the bowl has like, little demons figures carved on it. It looks very ritually.

G: It looks like a fancy singing bowl. [laughing]

C: A singing bowl?

G: Oh, you don't know the singing bowl. I thought you would because, like, it's what we use here to bless Chinese charms.

C: Oh.

G: It's like, a little bowl, and then you put the charm in there, and then you make it sing by rotating a little mortar or pestle or whichever one it is. And then-

C: Aww. That's nice.

G: Yeah, and then you take the charm, and then it's a charm that is now lucky because you put it in the singing bowl. Anyway.

C: Meg puts the bowl under the guys neck, and his blood all pours into it. It's a pretty bad gash, like he's bleeding quite messily. [laughing] Twirls hair. Anyway.

Meg says, "Thanks for the ride," and then puts her fingers straight into the blood and starts stirring it. She says something in Latin, I think, and little bits of light start appearing in the liquid. And then she says, "It makes no sense. I could have stopped Sam. Hell, I could have taken them both. Why let them go?" And then she stops, and pretty much in the same way that Dean's face changes when he picks up the phone from John at the beginning of the episode, her annoyance and rebellion kind of slips away, and she says, "Yes. Yes." And then she says, "Yes, Father." And then it ends!

G: Yeah, that's the end of the episode.

G: So what did you think about this whole episode.

C: I mean, I thought it was like, very good. [laughs]

G: I thought it was fun. I wouldn't say-

C: Yeah.

G: I mean, it's probably good, but my idea of what good is in Supernatural has been so warped because, as we know, [laughing] I think "Dog Dean Afternoon" is good. It's fun! I had fun watching it.

C: Yeah, I mean, I just- I enjoyed seeing Meg in this episode a lot, and I feel like they did a good job with the cliffhanger, I feel like, even if the family theme was overused, I think ending it on "Yes, Father," was a good choice, and sort of the parallelings of like, Meg and, who we later find is Azazel, and Dean and John, I thought that was done well, and yeah, I thought that Sam's whole little independence arc was good to watch. Yeah, I mean, I complained a bit about some emotional moments feeling unearned, but I think, yeah, overall, it was quite good.

G: Best Line/Worst Line. What is your best line of the episode?

C: I liked the line about sacrifice like, okay yeah, sorry, "Sweetheart, that's what sacrifice means. Giving up something you love for the greater good." I don't know, I thought- I thought that was juicy.

G: I really like what I said earlier about "So where can I drop you off?" I really liked that line. Because-

C: Yeah.

G: Because it shows that Dean is improving. And do we see that improvement in future episodes? [laughing] No! But, it's like, I had someone tell me once, because I made a joke--well, it was not a joke, but I made a comment that "Pilot" Dean is the best he's ever gonna get. And the person said, "well, I know your sentiment, but I think 'Scarecrow' is the best Dean we'll ever get." And I was like, "Yeah, you're fucking right."

Oh, worst line. Worst line. What's your worst line.

C: Fucking puppy dog eyes, [both laugh] like, calm the fuck down, dude.

G: Yeah, that's so funny. And I think it's our first use of the word "puppy dog eyes," right?

C: Yeah, I think so.

G: That's where the fandom picked it up.

Oh, can I have an honorary best line instead of a worst line, because I don't- I don't have a worst line.

C: Okay, yeah.

G: Can I have a best line number two?

C: Sure!

G: "Dude, you fugly." [both laugh] It's so much fun, and it's the closest, aside from the portions in "Ghostfacers" where, you know, they're censored, I think this is the closest we get to Dean or anyone in the show saying "fucking ugly," or just "fucking."

It's such a choice, because they could have said, "Dude, you're freaking ugly," but they said, "Dude, you're fugly." And I just- I think that's fun, yeah. But I don't have a worst line, so.

G: Okay. IMDB rating. What's your guess?

C: This is the one where you accidentally saw it already, right?

G: I accidentally saw it already, so I know, so I'm just going to ask you.

C: I think it was better than the pilot but worse than "Home." But it probably doesn't score better than the pilot, so I'm just going to go with my usual thing where, if something's better than the pilot, I just say the pilot score of 8.7.

G: Why is it that when you're the only one guessing, you get it right?

C: Oh, did I?

G: Yes.

C: Good for me!

G: Yeah, for some reason, it's- I am the one who, like, the skill level of guessing, I am the one who puts it down. [laughing]

C: But you're always closer than I am, usually, right?

G: That's true, that's true.

C: This first review is just titled "MEG" in all caps.

G: "Not a cohesive whole"? You're so mean! 7 over 10? That's so mean.

C: Someone brings up this is the start of the Dean loves pie thing, and that's worth 9 stars. [both laugh] Also, it's titled- this review is titled "finally something." [both laugh] Someone did not like "Asylum." [both laugh]

G: Okay, so that’s it for this episode of Busty Asian Beauties. Next time, we will be talking about Season 1, Episode 12: "Faith." Leave us a rating or a review wherever you get your podcasts.

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G: You can email us any feedback, comments, or inquiries at [email protected]. See you guys next time! Bye!

C: Bye!

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hello! i hope you have a happy holidays!! just a question: do you know any good crossover fics? :0 thanks so much! 🥰

Hi Nonny!!

Thank you! My holiday season was great <3 Sorry for the delay on the reply, but your ask was a great one because I’ve wanted to do an update list to my “movies and books” list, so I’m updating it to just “crossovers” because I have more to add and that makes me happy!!

This list ended up getting split across two asks, so for this one, this list is all my bookmarked fics. A part 1.5 with my MFL’s is coming shortly with another ask, and I ask y’all hold off to add your own suggestions to that list instead, please :) Thank you!

CROSSOVERS and FUSIONS (Feb 2021) Pt. 1