Does anyone ever think about how Jensen knew this was the last time Dean would get to hug Cas when he filmed it?
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Ok so. "Why does this sound like a goodbye?" Was fucking heartbreaking, right; we have the full-on uninterrupted eye contact, the head tilt, Dean's already open mouth twitching before the scene cuts to Cas' "I love you," like he had more to say, but Cas beats him to the punch. It's great, we love that. But for the dialogue to be sequenced that way, and to have Dean reply with, "don't do this, Cas."
I'm only just realizing how fucking insane it was. And sure, I might just be coping here, at the end of the day who fucking knows, but look at it. Think about it. Now let yourself feel it all over again.
It's Dean's death knocking on the door behind Cas, and it's Cas' death emerging behind Dean. Like this, they're directly facing their own demise—but they're too stuck on each other, in their moment, to give a damn. And then Dean doesn't say, "I love you too." He says, "don't do this."
He isn't disgusted or ashamed or put off in the slightest by Cas' confession, because if he is then why is he on the verge of tears? In what world would it make sense for him to want to cry after his best friend confessed to him, if the confession was something he did not want. He says don't do this here, don't do this to me now.
Even if, and that's the most unlikely if to ever exist, Dean did not reciprocate Cas' feelings—don't do this is still so fucking powerful. Because Dean's connected the dots, happiness [...] is in just saying it, and Cas said it, so where does that lead Dean? That's right, with Cas dead again, trying to save him again.
Don't do this. Don't die for me, don't love me only to die for me, don't love me at all, just stay with me.
Don't let me watch you die again and not even let me follow you—because, at the very least, that was a consolation. She's gonna kill you, which Dean knows that Billie knows will hurt him more than his own death, and then she's gonna kill me.
"Don't do this," was actually so fucking powerful, I don't know how it slipped past me until now...
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15x18 "Despair" / mercury spills through a mine worker's fingers, National Geographic (1972)
[part 30/?]
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seeing the y yo a ti version of this moment only makes you realize how incredibly tender and intensely romantic Dean's expression was when he said "don't do it Cas"
GIF CREDIT: @sunglassesmish
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This moment is something that gets me. Not only is it a cleverly hidden mate to Castiel's "Something I can never have," it's just so...OUGH.
Cas grits, "I've got you."
When Billie drags her scythe against the wall, Dean, in the throes of pain, lets out an audible, "Ugh!"
And Cas turns. Maybe Cas squeezes tighter or Dean leans in harder, but it's here the Dean manages a brief, relieved meeting of the eyes and the melting of the grimace into an almost-relieved smile.
Don't you see? CAS HAD HIM.
You can see this moment very well in @touchstiel's GIFset here.
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okay but what if dean couldn't say i love you back to castiel in the dungeon is because dean was sooo embarrassed he thought cas was straight all those years so every memory where he wrongfully assumed castiel's sexuality came flooding back and then the pizzaman montage played on repeat a few times
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01/04/23
despair
the complete loss or absence of hope
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NOTE: in one of my classes we had to do a presentation about a story so of course i chose to make it about spn. li had to also make a poster but ofc i couldn’t be chill about it. so for anyone interested, here’s the original version:
also a close up:
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