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[scoobydoodean]

“Why didn’t Dean just eat the spaghetti-o’s. Why did he throw them away?"

Because it wasn't about having to go hungry. It was never about rationing the food. It was about getting to be a kid for once.

[aliusfrater]

i'm at the library. i've been trying to find out as much as i can about this shtriga.

supernatural, something wicked [1.18]

[spacedean]

1.18 SOMETHING WICKED

[spockvarietyhour]

Robert Carlyle as Nicholas Rush in Stargate Universe's "Subversion"

[amberheardnet]

AMBER HEARD | Criminal Minds (2006)

[markscherz]

Oh you like frogs? Name every frog then

Current tally: 90 (1.18% of all described frogs)

[blushingguy]

My cute cake theme this year vs last year~

[wingheadshellhead]

Tony Stark & Steve Rogers in Earth's Mightiest Heroes 1.17-1.19

[leah-jeffries]

[cangelgifs]

ONE CORDY AND ANGEL MOMENT PER EPISODE       ➺ 1.18, Five By Five

[scoobydoodean]

Dad knew who you really were. A good soldier and nothing else. Daddy's blunt little instrument. Your own father didn't care whether you lived or died. Why should you?!

Supernatural | 1.22, 1.18, 1.01, 3.03, 1.08, 1.20, 1.09, 1.12, 3.10

[aliusfrater]

[janes-cup-of-tea]

Deeply hypnotized subjects Are very suggestible and have very little inhibition. Rigsby, do me a favor. Close your eyes. Please. Now relax. Don’t tell me, but think about it… Think about what you most want to be doing right now. You can do anything you like in the whole world. What are you gonna do? I want you to open your eyes and do it. Do whatever you like.

—Jane, The Mentalist, “Russet Potatoes”

[spacedean]

DEAN WINCHESTER in 1.18 SOMETHING WICKED

[spockvarietyhour]

The Starship Destiny in Subversion and Incursion Pt. 1 & 2

[incesthemes]

i am forever enamored by the fact that in season 1, in this story about the ills of revenge, dean is exempt from this folly: even his unfinished business with the shtriga in something wicked isn't a warpath of vengeance, but rather it's a deep shame that he seeks redemption for. his feelings are directed inward at himself where everyone else's are directed outward. killing the shtriga then becomes symbolic of dean forgiving himself and allowing himself to grow closer to sam, away from john.

for dean, it was never about continuing the cycle of violence, but finding peace. and true to its word this episode ends at the credits, the shtriga lost to time because it is over for him. dean resolves his feelings, saves sam, and finds himself where he'd buried him 17 years ago. he's found his redemption, or at least enough of it to move on.

and i think this is why he's finally able to stand up to john for what seems to be the first time ever just two episodes later: he spent an entire season choosing sam and having sam choose him, and then the biggest thing separating them (from dean's end) has been eliminated. it gives him the push to choose sam once and for all, and it has tangible consequences. the shtriga doesn't haunt the narrative the way azazel does; instead, it gives dean's life back to himself. and so dean takes that life and immediately hands it over to sam. it's his first real act of agency in the show, finally having extricated himself from his father.

dean is protected from the dangers of revenge because he was never after revenge in the first place: he was after atonement, redemption, restitution, all for his own shame for having not cared for sam deeply or strongly enough.