#8x23

[inacatastrophicmind]

[jackexmachina]

@suncaptor birthday event sam & tauma // sam & ocd I would always be like this, always have this within me. There was no beating it. I would never slay the dragon, because the dragon was also me. My self and the disease were knotted together for life. — john green, 'turtles all the way down'

[brothersonasharedmotelbed]

Hands are unbearably beautiful. They hold on to things. They let things go. Mary Ruefle

[forbescaroline]

favorite platonic relationships: mark sloan and jackson avery “It's just you and me. The Plastics Posse! Kicking surgical ass and taking names.”

[babyjapril]

8.23//9.04//12.05//13.01//15.07//17.02

[thebeautyofspn]

8x23 Sacrifice

[samepisodebracket]

Quarterfinal; Poll 4

[destielbait]

spell ingredients being love themed (killing the child of a human and an angel, cupid's bow, after making two gay men fall in love, cas's grace, because .......)

[norahastuff]

There's a lot to love about season 8, but what always gets me is how poetic it is. Dean spends the whole season trying so fucking hard to get Cas to stay with him. He spends a year tearing Purgatory apart trying to find him, insists he's not gonna go back to Earth without him, and when that doesn't pan out, changes his own memory of what happened rather than believe Cas chose not to go with him. Not to mention, a few eps later, he's literally bruised and beaten on his knees in front of Cas, clinging to his hand and begging for Cas to see him, to come back to him because he needs him. And Cas does come back. But he doesn't stay.

Cas, on the other hand, feels so guilty about everything he did to Heaven, and is so very desperate to fix it in any way that's available to him. At the same time, he's being fucked with, forced to cause even more pain to his brethren, well all he really wants to do is heal babies and save sweet adorable angels. The most important thing in Cas' life, the thing he gave up everything for and dedicated his life to is free will, and his is being ripped away from him. It's so incredibly sad, but after he breaks out of it, I think he feels even more responsibility to Heaven. Things are even worse up there than he thought, and with someone like Naomi in charge, both Heaven and Earth could be facing even more pain and destruction if she's given free reign to carry out her machinations. Is it any wonder when the famed Metatron comes in like a lost messiah and says he has a plan to fix it all, that Cas goes along with it? I mean, Metatron knows exactly what to say to manipulate Cas:

They can fix Heaven.

By locking up Heaven the fighting won't spill over onto Earth and affect humans.

Cas doesn't have to lead or make any decisions. He just needs to be a soldier, a warrior.

Anyway, all that culminates in a finale where Cas believes it's his responsibility to fix Heaven, and Dean finally having the realisation that Cas is an angel. He doesn't feel things the way a human does. He has other priorities, and no matter how hard Dean tries, he's not going to be able to force Cas to stay with him. E.T.'s always going to go home.

Only for Cas to have his grace taken for him, be sent back to Earth, and for the first time to truly understand human feelings without the filter of his grace or angelic sensibilities. Wonder if he's going to have any epiphanies about his priorities and what and who he truly wants out of life because of it?

[winchestersickness]

Watched season 8 finale as if having the flu wasn't making me delirious enough now Sam and Dean got married. Okay.

[inacatastrophicmind]

[jackexmachina]

Crowley + text posts

[arcanespillo]

“Sacrifice”

Supernatural S8E23

[stackedstiel]

8x23 "Sacrifice" - May 15, 2013

[babyjapril]

Grey's Anatomy 8.23

Migration

[thebeautyofspn]

8x23 Sacrifice