#The catnip era(s)

[thepyroprincess]

I can't find the first source... since they're anonymous, but I can find the other one! Blaze, show me where your stash is and tell me your source!

- @two-of-tails (wearing a gas mask)

"But I don't wannaaaaa"

[thepyroprincess]

"But the catnib is soooo fun!"

Blaze KEEPS PULLING OUT BAGS OF CATNIP IDK FROM WHERE

{@thepyroprincess}

"Heyyy, Ame ee.. "

Blaze starts uncontrollably laughing

"heyy - hey. Dhhhe gween ztuth iz soooo phhhhunnunfhfggdgxwant sonme?"

Ohpe- Okay bedtime for you- (scoops blaze up)

[thegamingcatmom]

Hello ❤️ I can't share my HC with my friends bc they dont understand my obsession with this fandom, I think they are starting to look for an asylum so I share them with you all so I don't get locked Up, win/win situation right there 🤣

So, I think this HC is not just mine yk, I am positive I read this somewhere else too but hear me out. Vampires are all about hiding their existence, nobody can know their secret etc, but they have golden/red eyes and that to me doesnt seem like a very good way to blend in. So I HC that they keep their human eyed color even after transformation (essier to blend in and lure someone if your eyes dont look a weird color imo) but the red/golden color still shows when their beast 'takes control' aka when they are mad, or lost to their instincts.

Now what do you think about this? And what eye color do you think the sisters have? In my stories Kate has blue eyes and Tanya and Irina green ones, diff tonality of green in between them.

Also I hava a question but I think that you probs answered it? But I can't remember so sorry if you did! How can MC as their mate calm them down when they are lost in their instincts? Is MC even capable of calming them down in the first place? O:

Thanks a lot for the answers❤️❤️

Hiii ❤️

I love your lengthy asks. 🥰

First off: I love your HC. As per usual. :3

I do think they lose their og eye color after transformation, also because I like that it's something that makes them stand out from your regular human. It's less obvious with golden eyes ofc, which is why the Cullens probs never bothered using contact/colored lenses or anything. Speaking of-

Colored lenses. That's all I'm saying. 🤭

But ye, I HC that most vampires actually keep to themselves, so it's not rly necessary for them to blend in with humans. Unless you kidnap one and end up having to do regular trips to the nearest city for groceries and stuff. The only time they show themselves is when they're hunting. No need to blend in when you're gonna unalive the only witness/es anyway. 🤷‍♀️

And what eye color do you think the sisters have?

Tanya: Blue

Kate: Green

Irina: Hazel

(during their human era obv.)

How can MC as their mate calm them down when they are lost in their instincts? Is MC even capable of calming them down in the first place? O:

MC is able to calm her mates with her scent alone. For them, it's like smelling a baby, lol. At least that´s how I kinda imagine it. Like, there's something so soothing about it that triggers their brains in just the right way, making them go like-

...Huh, it is a bit like catnip actually, now that I think about it. 😅

MC´s their personal drug alright. 🥴

Anyway-

MC´s presence alone will be enough to de-escalate most situations. It´s like a switch is flipped in their heads and they go from "GRRR" to "rawr".

Kinda like this, lol.

However, if it´s MC they´re getting all worked up over which only happens thrice a day, then her presence might just make things worse. It´s like throwing a piece of meat into a cage with three starved lionesses, lol.

In those cases, Tanya usually goes all coven leader on her sisters and all is (somewhat) well again for a few hours. I kinda HC that (most) leaders are wired a bit differently. Like, they have better control over their instincts and urges etc. Sort of like an "elder status", you could say.

Basically, Tanya has two personalities that she can switch between, depending on what is needed of her. 😅

And if all hope is lost, we still have Carmen and her chancla. Y'know things are real bad when that happens. 💀

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Thanks a lot for your ask! 💋

[jesslovesboats]

As a serial DNFer...4, 7, and 14?

Hi there! I am not a serial DNFer, but I'm trying to get more comfortable with the practice because life is too short to force yourself to read books you don't love!

4. DNF With Regrets: Book(s) you didn't finish but want to get back to

I was really enjoying A Wretched and Precarious Situation by David Welky, but then vacation happened and then my mom fell and broke her hip and then the holidays happened and... I just never picked it back up! I absolutely intend to finish this one, though- absolutely disastrous polar expeditions are like catnip to me, and this one was so very stupid.

7. Wasted Potential: Great premise and/or characters but fell down on execution

Not to beat a dead horse, but absolutely The Women! I was so excited for Vietnam War era historical fiction with a female nurse as a main character, but it fell apart almost instantly for me.

14. Most anticipated—did it live up to the hype?

I was insanely excited for Ally Wilkes' Where The Dead Wait, and although I think I prefer her first book, I really enjoyed it!

Thank you for another fun ask!

[thepyroprincess]

Blaze, smelling weed on Silver's fur, begins nibbling on him

"You taste funnier"

She starts laughing obnoxiously but it's kinda funny

{@thepyroprincess}

"Hi silvee!"

Blaze begins to cuddle Silver an awful lot while purring when Silver notices the scent of catnip

"Blaaaazieeee!"

He starts cuddling her back. He's... unusually affectionate.

Silver briefly paused. "You smell fuuunny." Then he went back to cuddling.

[brilliantfantasticgeronimo]

"the church on ruby road" thoughts + reactions

(tumblr is broken so i cant delete this space without breaking the post :))

"you saw a ladder in the sky and you thought, yeah, ill give that a go, babes" rose tyler CALL OUT

"what's the problem with hanging on? it's all the friction and the weight and the burns. so i got rid of that" and that's why u are still Fucked Up doc. this is NOT how u do rehab!!!

"learn the lenguage" eyes emoji "coincidence is what makes the baby tasty" EYES EMOJI

"it sitches you in. it weaves you into the day. you become all complicated and knotted and vivid"

"it's like a tapestry, it's gorgeous" self congratulating ur own writing, russel? sldkfjsdlkfj

"like the best, like wow" 13 and ‘fam’ walked so 15 could run

"a screwdriver needs screws" (so whenever the screwdriver works it, it works by resonating articulations and undoing binding agents, but it cannot do “untangling”)

VENTILAITON SHAFTS!!!! (my "this new era is the cartoon era" meta is born)

"amazing!" "no it's not" nothing changes lol

this feels *so* wilderness years (positive)

the MASTER knot you say....………………………...

"i've got no one" aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

"it's not magic, it's a lenguage, like a different form of physics" he’s coping about the “little” salt mistake still...

damn 15/ruby chemistry is so good….. can't wait for it all to go up in flames. And tragedy. Flaming tragedy.

"but only one of them stayed" mirror...? QUICK someone count how many companions have there been and if it's 33?????

im having sm emotions wtf

honestly ppl thinking rtd would retcon this were so hilariously off-base lol as if there's anything more of a catnip-plot for a soap opera writer than a “figure out parental origins” plotline

follow the crack... the crack in time and space...

it bothered me that in the special they used so much contemporary colorful theatrical lighting, that didnt fit the "grounded" doctordonna era at al, but it works much better here in that we're properly in the color ncuti era

"dont say that" aggggggggggggg

(ppl forgeting about ruby feels kinda clara coded / foreshadowing?)

"then why are you crying?" im going feral

"i will fix this" rtd voice: he will make it worse

oohh, the hubris in this ep was the arrogance of the doctor saying "they are NOT time travellers" sdklfj

baby catching... xena coded

blue / gold motif my beloved!!!

its a wonderful life~

"everything i do just makes it happen" -> "maybe im the bad luck"

"where are you goin now?" nbd just ruby going to buy some bread at the same store as yaz

CONCLUSIONS!

this was so wholesome t.t i really enjoyed that!! it has some lore implications and long-run stuff but mostly i’m really glad to finally get some new stories/a new vibe. I really enjoyed the glimpse we got of ruby’s family world and also love that both mine and 15’s reactions was “i’ve only had ruby for half an hour but if something happened to her i’d murder everyone here and then myself probably”. her wardrobe is beyond iconic.

besides the “biggest family in the world” parallel, the bb photos in the fridge give me like… TTC’s o"ther lost incarnations are their siblings vibe". Or, every "other time lord is technically the doctor’s children" vibe.

aesthetically, i really enjoyed this one. Specially The Big Scene (13-era blue/gold motif my beloved). This is one i see myself rewatching in the future just for the feel-good feel of it. the goblin number was fun! a clever parody of how much of pop uses “baby” and sweets-related metaphors for the sake of romance and here it becomes all for the sake of cannibalism lol (big brown eyes, caramelise~). 15/ruby being *so in* tune is cute+fun (and slightly sus). promising start to the new era.

[thepyroprincess]

Blaze... H'w much of that green stuff did you burn near me...? Tryin' to figure out how long it'll take to wear off... Rouge sssaid a few hours at mosstt...

@the-devoted-ninja

"A little..... A lot"

[thepnwvarmints]

Copy and paste, then fill in the blanks.  Repost to fill this with what you most associate with your muse’s personality in each of these slightly obscure categories!

Muse: Wyatt

weather:  windy; specifically, Fall season w/ Fall leaves blowing around.

sports activity:  football

song lyric:  “I think you can do much better than me.”

type of cat toy:  catnip in a rainbow colored, leather mouse with a ball attached to it.

penmanship:  Horrible! The boy writes like he’s in 4th grade.

holiday:  Valentine’s Day / Halloween - It's a toss up, cuz the boy is a huge romantic, but also goes all out with baking and decorating for Halloween and Fall so... yeah. Both. Lol!

art style:  shabby chic / woodworking and cabin core – the boy loves homegrown crafts.

chair:  Adirondack

type of hat:  Stetson straw cowboy hat

historical period:  Wild West Era

urban legend:  Wy is immune to alcohol, has the ability to disappear, super strength, and can move at lightning speed.

quirk:  Dude totally drops his head when he laughs a lot; tends to stand with his hands on his hips or on one hip; bounces his knee when he’s nervous and bites his lower lip; obsesses over pumpkin carving when Halloween rolls around and loves entering competitions with his pumpkins.

excuse for being late:  The dog did it.  Don’t matter what it was, just... the dog did it.

bad habit:  Easily distracted and loses track of time.  Used to be a bit of an alcoholic, but quit hard liquor and only drinks beer on occasion.  Uses humor to deflect from his depression and other insecurities rather than facing them and dealin’ with them.

type of weapon:  Axe.  Wyatt chops wood a lot and always has an axe layin’ around his house or behind the bar.

Tagged by: Nada. Found it forever ago. Not even sure who came up with this one. If you made it or know who did, feel free to leave a comment in the replies and I'll cred the creator! ;)

Tagging: Anyone who wants to do this. It's fun. Could be for you or your muse(s). Just a random fun inspo thing.

[vampirecatprince]

I'm throwing this under here, because I am still INCREDIBLY embarrassed about my intense reaction to Mettablook and Tenna and how THE PLAYER in this universe is the one to trigger Mettaton's sort of... Awakening?

It's no exaggeration to say that Mettaton is literally my favorite undertale character. He's a personality type I'm particularly weak for, in both real life and in fiction. (I mean... I used to work in theater. I'd love to get into music. I love flamboyancy and camp and I love the types of personalities that become actors and singers. All good performers are theater kids deep down imo and I love that energy.)

I also have always loved his transmasc coding and that Toby has embraced that queer coding with him more and more over the years with the other ghosts. I love how he's still flamboyant and feminine, even as a masculine sex icon. The fact that he's trans coded and a sex icon at the same time! That's so fucking uncommon, man!

And so, I love seeing him before he found his passion too. It makes him even more special to me, because I know what it's like to be floating through life, directionless. And us seeing him discover music? Just UGH /pos

So you take all that. And then you add on some themes in the story and TOBY'S specific wording evoking a very, VERY specific set of tropes in conjunction that are like catnip to me...

So- Hometown is a pretty average, religious small town. Toriel and other parental figures are shown more conservatively protective, to the point that there's several puzzles involving the parental controls set on the TV. Music videos ala 80's era MTV are repeatedly pushed as a "corrupting" force via this theming. (Like- in real life, it was a whole media scare to the point that several bands even got taken to court about it. That's the kind of real life inspiration Toby Fox is pulling from.)

And then we get this.

Haha- I feel a little unhinged right now, actually?

And yes- Mettablook still has a very casually flirty tone, even when he's depressed and directionless...

But I am also VERY NOT NORMAL about "corruption"/enabling like this as a theme.

....hhha hhhhaaaa...

Mettablook Forcemasc Speedrun Any %...

[zhangsanhzgb]

Yesterday, the Bitcoin ecosystem welcomed a "cat feast" of FT protocols driven by OP_CAT. On that day, we witnessed three protocols using OP_CAT technology: CAT20 on Fractal, CATNIP from the "Quantum Cat" team, and "Danny CAT20" from the "Moto series".

 

CAT20

 

The launch of CAT20 on Fractal has attracted widespread attention. Due to its FT protocol design based on OP_CAT technology, the success of the protocol has triggered a large number of transactions, and the price of $FB once exceeded $30. As miner fees on the Fractal blockchain soared to 2000 sats/vb, the cost of CAT20 also rose sharply. The technical documentation of CAT20 shows that it uses OP_CAT to drive the FT protocol and has the following features:

 

- Assets are not burned: CAT20 allows UTXO not to be burned during the token minting process. Instead, data is written into UTXO and processed through smart contracts.

- ticker repeatable: Although the ticker name can be repeated, the unique identifier of each Token is determined by the txid and output index of the genesis transaction.

- Flexible casting rules: CAT20 supports various casting methods, including pre-sale, pre-mining, PoW mining, etc., which completely relies on the writing of smart contracts.

 

CATNIP

 

The "Quantum Cat" team's CATNIP plan relies on the resurrection of the Bitcoin mainnet OP_CAT, which is not yet online. CATNIP is expected to have a significant impact after the resurrection of OP_CAT. Udi Wertheimer's criticism of the Bitcoin ecosystem pointed out that the existing BRC-20 and Rune solutions cannot be benchmarked against FT standards on other chains because they bypass Bitcoin's consensus mechanism. CATNIP aims to achieve Token management that is more consistent with Bitcoin consensus through OP_CAT, and may lead a new round of innovation in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

 

Danny CAT20

 

Compared with CAT20 and CATNIP, "Danny CAT20" seems to be more "funny". The founder of the protocol @bc1plainview claimed that he had proposed a similar idea a month before the release of CAT20. The design of Danny CAT20 is based on OP_CAT to connect the casting inscription fields in series. Although it is less innovative, it still attempts to use OP_CAT to achieve functions similar to BRC-20. Unlike CAT20 and CATNIP, Danny CAT20 is closer to an inscription-driven design.

 

in conclusion

 

The launch of CAT20 and CATNIP demonstrates the potential of OP_CAT technology in the Bitcoin ecosystem. Although CAT20 is already active on Fractal and CATNIP is still waiting for the resurrection of OP_CAT, both herald a new era of Bitcoin innovation. In contrast, Danny CAT20's "plate-making innovation" appears more limited. Overall, Ordinals made innovative exploration of the Bitcoin ecosystem possible, but the emergence of OP_CAT opens up more possibilities. For Fractal and its CAT20 test field, we have reason to look forward to future developments.btc price prediction calculator

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[trexy225]

The Power You Have (TPYH)- Doc Ock (Alfred Molina) x AFAB Reader (y/n)

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1: The Chaos Begins

Chapter 2: Yikes.

Chapter 3: Insert Funny Title Here

Chapter 4: Martha Pls Come Back With The Kids

Chapter 5: spspspspspspspspspsspspspsps

Chapter 6: No Bitches?

Chapter 7: *Sobbing* NO Y/N!! DON'T GO BACK TO THE TOXIC EX!

Chapter 8: Zoo Wee Mama

Chapter 9: Catnip More Like Cat Weed

Chapter 10: Emotional Damage Pompeii Remix You Know The TikTok One

Chapter 11: My Cat Tried to Eat my Laptop Again

Chapter 12: OH CRAP JIMMY THE BIRD HAS A KNIFE GET THE BIRD JIMMY

Chapter 13: Jimmy is dead, ur next- XOXO The bird with the knife

Chapter 14: The Bird Now Has A Gun

Chapter 15: Here You Go You Filthy Heathen Degenerates (18+)

Chapter 16: Imma Drop Kick Every Child Within a 30 Mile Radius (2.0)

Chapter 17: Cocomelon Stocks Are Down

Chapter 18: I Don't Really Know What to Put Here so ummm Read the Summary

Chapter 19: OK, PUT DOWN THE PITCHFORKS HEAR ME OUT

Chapter 20: Love Dies, Let's Bury the Body Together

Chapter 21: Where am I Going With This

Chapter 22: I'm Getting All of My Lore Off of Wikia But I'm Pulling Most of This Out Of My Ass at This Point

Chapter 23: My Cat Left Me On Read :'(

Chapter 24: Alexa, Play 'All Too Well' Taylor's Version

Chapter 25: The Chapter Where I Beat PETA To The Fucking Ground

Chapter 26: Lore? What Lore? I'm Busy Making Otto Regret His Life Decisions Babeyyy

Chapter 27: Y/N Is Going Through Her Reputation Era Right Now

Chapter 28: Gaslight, Gatekeeper, Girlboss?

Chapter 29: Bermuda... Love Triangle?

Chapter 30: Otto Gets Stabbed

Chapter 31: I'm Really Bad at Coming Up With Titles and Headlines

Chapter 32: Peanut

Chapter 33: CUG

Chapter 34: Gotta Go Fast

Chapter 35: My Braincell Divorced Me

Chapter 36: SO WE'RE HERE

Chapter 37: I'm In Spain Without The S

Chapter 38: *Demolishes the Fourth Wall*

Chapter 39: Space Jam DVD

Chapter 40: What If The Red Flags Turn Me On? (18+)

Chapter 41: Fluffy Fluffy Fluff Fluff

Chapter 42: Crying, Pissing, Shitting on the Floor It's Really Over Innit

y/n Osborne was somewhat of a scientist herself, although she wasn’t into the science that her father's best friend and her long-time crush Otto Octavius were interested in, she was more interested in nature, and animals. And when her father needs her to be the advisor for their animal testing, she accepts. The best thing is, her office is right next to Otto's lab. But what happens when it all becomes more than she signed up for? (Rosie doesn’t exist in this story because I’m too tired to work with that rn)

Link to AO3 story

Link to Wattpad Story

[thepyroprincess]

"HI SHADOOW!!"

Blaze tackles Shadow as she start cuddling him

i see you have been warned....

*shadow gets hit on the head and blacks out. when he wakes up he finds himself tied to a chair in a warehouse of burning weed, he already inhaled before realizing this though*

:)

"I feel so... Light. This is the best day of my life.."

((I have no idea how to act like this but uh yeah sorry Shadow lmao))

[herpronuonsarefemslash]

TEASER - Three Out of Four (Ain't So Bad)

READ THE WHOLE STICKY MESS HERE: https://www.patreon.com/posts/46382088 Lena is Kryptonian catnip, the answer to all the DEO's crises.  Red Kryptonite?  Kara's need for that ass snaps her out of it.  Turns out her friend is a Worldkiller?  More like the perfect threesome!  Confused clone of Kara?  Lena never dreamed she could live out that fantasy.

OR Three times Kryptonians being horny for Lena Kieran Luthor saved the world, and one time where they had to do it the hard way. ..... “Trap One, do you have eyes on?” “Negative, target has gone hypersonic. We’ve lost her, director.” “Understood. Return to base and load up the green-tips. We have orders from the president.” “We’re putting her down, Agent Danvers?” ...... The news has been losing its fucking mind about Supergirl’s villainous turn. Near-villainous. Lex kills more people before breakfast on a Sunday than Supergirl has in a two-day long temper tantrum and she has powers that he lacks. There goes her plan to move to National City and forge a new era of Super-Luthor cooperation, she supposes. A blur in her periphery makes her jump. There, on her balcony, is Supergirl. Red light crawls along her face, tracing her pulse through a hundred tiny veins. ..... “You flew from National City to Metropolis because you liked my heartbeat?” A shrug. Supergirl looks down at her hands, which Lena belatedly realizes are bloodied. “S-S-Supergirl?” Lena hates the quaver in her own voice but a possibly unhinged sun goddess isn’t her biggest problem. Her biggest problem is that her heat started a few hours ago—that’s what made Max Lord so forward—and unless it works differently on Krypton, Supergirl is an alpha. ... Lena pats the couch cushion next to her.

“Would you like to sit down?”

Supergirl nods, slowly.

“What do you like about my scent, Supergirl?”

“It makes me…calmer. Even with the all this…” Supergirl squints tight and grimaces. “…confusion. You are certain.” ..... “Kara?” Lena prods, worried her maybe-enemy, maybe-friend, maybe-heat buddy has lost the plot. “Are you listening?” “Lena,” she breathes. Kara’s voice is deep, slithering in her ears and straight down her spine to pool in her belly. 

[thepyroprincess]

The cat lazily turns her head towards the voice before her bloodshot eyes shoot open as she pounces onto Sonic

"SONIC!!"

Blaze begins purring at the hedgehog

"SONIC SONEC ZONIC GHE THE CATNIB DO YU HAV MOREE CATNIB SONEC???"

{@thepyroprincess}

Sonic is chilling in the middle of nowhere when he smells the faint scent of catnip as he sees a purple feline walking by cheerfully

"Mizter birby, come bakkzz"

hiii blaze :D

[thepyroprincess]

Get catnipped idiot

As Blaze was on her way to the local store, she comes across a cloaked figure when suddenly she is sprinkled with catnip

"Who- AH"

Almost immediately the effects of the catnip set in

"WHwhazz thad.."

Blaze begins to have the stupidest grin form on her face as she starts laughing out of the blue

"Whawash thafhhhh"

[drsilverfish]

Nothing Gold Can Stay... (15x04 Atomic Monsters)

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost

Hey everyone, as ever, I am catching up British-time, so I haven’t jumped into your posts yet, but I’m looking forward to it!

I’m sure there are some great gifs and discussions already out there about Dean and his “man meat” grief-eating. 

But I thought I’d start with Veronica and Robert Frost.

Those of you who’ve been following mine or @occamshipper​ ‘s musings on the use of alchemical themes in Dabb-era SPN will know that gold was highly significant to the medieval alchemists. It was their ultimate goal, to turn “base metal” (lead) into gold, and that was understood as a metaphor (or a mirror on the earthly plane) for the refinement of the soul on its journey to God. 

Next week’s episode, 15x05, is titled  Proverbs 17.3, and in the Bible, Proverbs 17.3 reads (King James version):

The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold:

But the LORD trieth the hearts

Gold is, officially, a theme. As is the symbolic red of the heart.

As Becky tells Chuck, it’s not the monsters (ooh shade at the Leviathan, whom Chuck thinks were “great”, just like he thought the ending of Game of Thrones was “great”) which SPN fans are really interested in, it’s the emotional interactions between the characters - i.e. their hearts. 

Becky, in Perez’ metafictional commentary, is the fan-fiction representative who has come to understand the SPN story better than sucky origin-writer Chuck. She knows it’s about the emotional notes, the heartfelt conversations between the hero characters (including Cas, since she shades his non-mention all too often in Chuck’s MOTW stories) - aka the real “gold” of the story.

Interesting also, in terms of alchemical colour symbolism, are Sam’s God-wound induced “red visions”, which seem to be of an AU in which Sam has succumbed to his old demon-blood addiction (symbolic of his S5 apparent “destiny” of possession by Lucifer):

I was waiting for the Ouroboros (spiral/ circular narrative) reference to 5x04 The End (in its numerical correspondence to 15x04). And here it is, because Sam in the red-vision in 15x04 speaks in a similar voice to Lucifer!Sam in The End. Dean in the 15x04 red vision is a desperate fighter and Sam has said “Yes” to the demonic, just as was the case in 5x04 The End.:

In alchemy, there are four traditional colour-stages along the alchemical transformational road from lead to gold - nigredo (blackening) albedo (whitening) citrinitas (yellowing) and rubedo (reddening). Reddening is the final stage before gold. So Sam’s red-visions, and the gold which becomes a theme in 15x04 by means of the quotation from Robert Frost’s beautiful poem, are linked pieces of alchemical symbolism. 

Their meaning, I think, is that just as Amara’s link to Dean through the Mark of Cain changed Amara for the better (she learned about love through experiencing Dean’s “heart” through the Mark in S11, thus shaking off The DarknessTM to become clothed in yellow, the colour of the sun, at the start of S15), so Sam’s link to Chuck through the God-gun (of equalising/ revenge) will (hopefully, eventually) change Chuck for the better. A balance of powers - the feminine God-principle and the masculine God-principle, both learning compassion and becoming their higher selves (achieving the spiritual synthesis of “gold”) through their links to the (red) hearts of the Winchesters.

That means suffering for the Winchesters along the way, of course, as they too, undergo the alchemical process of self-transformation by (eventually) fully facing their Shadows (their unconscious); Sam’s fear of being permanently “contaminated” by the demon-blood fed to him as a baby, and Dean’s fear of abandonment (stemming from the loss of his mother) which leads him to be over-controlling and to act out and push people (ahem, Cas) away.    

But back to Veronica. Veronica who quotes Robert Frost’s lovely poem in her tribute speech to her “best friend” Suzy (possibly, her lover - that subtextual reading is certainly available).

Veronica is a fascinating character, because she is “read wrong”, by Dean in particular, who thinks she’s the vampire, the one killing her cheerleader rivals in order to get the top spot. And he’s wrong because, as Sam points out, she has braces, a no-no for vamp-teeth. Dean is really sarcastic about the memorial speech Veronica is practising for Suzy, of whom she says, “I’m lost without Suzy, it’s like a piece of my heart is gone.”  

Here is Dean, being a sarcastic little shit about Veronica’s emotive school-girl speech: 

Of course, Veronica’s eulogy for her dead beloved, who was “gold” and thus (in her Frost’s poem analogy) was too beautiful to last in this world, is too painful for Dean to hear. It verbalises what he cannot (he can’t even bear to speak Castiel’s name, all episode):

“My best friend Suzy who I miss like she was a part of me, and in many ways she’s still a part of me.”

In subtext, Dean also reads Veronica “wrong” because he thinks she was Suzy’s rival, when in fact, she was her lover (part of a Veronica-Suzy-Billy love-triangle, the F/F element emphasised by their attendance at a school called “Beaverdale” where “beaver” is of course slang for vagina). 

Look at all those red hearts (symbols of romantic love) on Suzy’s memorial pin-board, Indeed, look at all that red in general. A “match” for Sam’s “red-visions”. If Sam’s rubedo (alchemical reddening) trial is his God-wound, Dean’s is his separation from Cas: 

Veronica, it seems (unbeknownst to the Winchesters) is a neophyte hunter (as well as, in subtext, Suzy’s lover) a sleuth, on the trail of whoever killed Suzy. And it looks like she knows it was a vampire. When Sam and Dean are questioning her (and she’s clearly suspicious of them) we see her with a syringe of what looks like blood behind her back, ready to jab them:

We know, from 1x20 Dead Man’s Blood, that in the SPN universe, a dead person’s blood can temporarily take down a vamp. So it seems that whilst Dean suspects Veronica of being the vampire, she suspects the Winchesters (a recurrence of SPN’s perennial - “Who is really the monster?”/ it’s not black-and-white theme. The reference to Dead Man’s Blood is also interesting, as this was an early episode in which Dean defied his father (stepped out of being John’s “good little solider”, who did see monsters in black-and-white) yet now, we have, Ouroboros-style Dean regressing to old John-learned behaviours (conceal, don’t feel) after the second death of Mary. 

I love this little Veronica detail. It’s an un-explored thread in the story, a piece of fan-fiction catnip begging for further elaboration. More Perez meta-narrative, in fact, in which he suggests that, despite the sinister Chuck and his insistence on a final SPN ending with a gravestone reading “Winchesters”, the story itself is WaywardTM; it is capable of fluidity, of control being wrested from the origin-creator (God). After all, Chuck created free will, and despite his desire for total control, he cannot undo this wild-card element in the narrative, which Veronica’s little secret hunter-identity (in subtext, also, her secret queer identity) just like Becky’s fan-fic, is a mirror for. 

Veronica’s citation of Frost’s melancholic poem becomes a metaphor for (Dean’s) lost love. Just as Sam’s mention in the final Impala scene, of how he still thinks about Jess often, becomes a verbalisation for Dean’s own constant (unspoken) thoughts about his own lost love; Cas.

 Veronica and Billy (who were possibly both Suzy’s lovers; although in text it’s Billy, in subtext Veronica, true to SPN’s ongoing bisexual subtext in relation to Dean) exchange a memorial bracelet to Suzy in front of Suzy’s picture, as Veronica tells Billy a piece of her heart is gone:

Both are mirror images for Dean - Veronica-the-vampire-hunter who mourns excessively, and Billy-the-vampire, who has killed the person he loved (just as Dean has driven Cas away):

Dean is forced by Chuck’s authorial hand to kill Billy, who is both a representation of his own lost son, Jack (Chuck’s cruel re-staging of the scene in which Dean almost kills Jack in 14x20 Moriah) and of Dean himself (symbolising Dean’s present “self-murder” aka his self-punishment and repression re Cas):

Nothing gold can stay....

Frost’s poem is also used by Perez as a metanarrative commentary on the sadness we all feel as SPN draws to a close. Everything beautiful has its time to fade and die, Frost says; even SPN, says Perez.

Frost’s poem also makes reference to Eden, to the Fall, and how that was, in God’s plan, an inevitability; the descent from the Godly to the earthly. 

It’s noticeable how, just as The Fall was presented as Eve’s fault in the Bible, Chuck is, yet again, trying to eliminate the feminine principle from the narrative, just as he has always done throughout SPN (which began with the deaths of Mary Winchester and Jess). Chuck kills Suzy, as the driver of the episode, and he “poufs” Becky (the fan-fic writer) out of existence (possibly into an AU) so he can finish the story the way he wants, just as he has re-murdered Mary Winchester (or possibly also poufed her into an AU) to continue the Winchesters’ suffering. 

But Chuck’s determination to arrive at a tragic ending, an ending in which the feminine principle is still subjugated, Perez suggests, can be subverted, because the seeds of subversion are already there in the story; Veronica’s secret and subversive sleuthing (slash her subtextual queerness), Becky’s emotionally open, subversive, fan-fic, and the continued yearning of the Winchesters for true free will (not yet knowing Chuck is still actively f-ing with them) despite the burden of their grief,  

If gold is the result of the final alchemical synthesis, of “masculine” and “feminine” principles, of the conscious and the unconscious mind, here represented by Chuck-the-author and Becky-the-fan-fic writer (who were once a couple, but are now broken up, just as Chuck and Amara, Dean and Cas, are currently broken up).... Then, the alchemical symbolism suggests, the darkness of the break-up stage (The Abyss, which we are currently in) can be overcome by the red (rubedo) power of the heart - Sam’s God-wound trial, his heart-connection to Chuck, and Dean’s own heart-wound trial, the loss of his (heart) connection to Cas.

Yes, we are still working on the power of love.

Love ultimately confounded Chuck’s apocalypse in S5, when TFW went “off script” and, Ouroboros-style, it can do so again in S15.

Chuck can be overthrown (transformed), Perez tells us, by his own story; and thus the story can find its own (heart-filled) free will ending. 

Perhaps, after all, something gold can stay.*   

*My usual disclaimer applies - none of this suggests or implies an inevitable Dean/ Cas romantic (unequivocal) textualisation. 

Although, I would like to think that Perez, by including the by now all too formulaic Dean-is-bisexual subtext via bisexual (subtextual) mirroring in 15x04, is commenting, meta-fictionally, on Chuck’s (aka TPTB’s) (wearisome) eternal tendency to do this, thereby suggesting that the over-turning of Chuck’s narrative control should, by rights, also include the overturning of this formula into... something new.