#dean/cas + parenting

[shallowseeker]

Ohhhh, Cas and Dean talking to Jack in 14x15 under the guise of talking to/about the snake is sooooooooo 🥺

Jack is defensive about opening up about his emotions, so the snake becomes neutral ground -> code for Jack himself.

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AHHHHH! Kill me now.

Cas:

CAS: You've been spending a lot of time with the snake. ("You've been spending a lot of time alone.") ... CAS: How is he? ("How are you?") JACK: I don't think he's feeling well. ("I don't think I'm feeling well.")

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DEAN:

JACK: I think it's sad. ("I think I'm sad.") ... DEAN: (accepting this, not pushing him) You try bacon? (Jack adds bacon to the pan) DEAN: So does the snake want to take a trip? ("Do you want to take a trip?")

[shallowstories]

Wherein Dean n' Cas are jealous of Ketch

When Ketch claps Jack on the shoulder, Cas’s eyes grow even more dark and stormy, and it hits Dean like a ton of bricks: Cas is jealous. Because Cas is a lot of things, but a suave storyteller he is not. He would never share stuff like that with Jack, especially his history as a holy soldier of God. In the event that he does communicate something about a battle, the delivery is as dry as grass, like: “It was 8:23 CST. The terrain was humid-subtropical and between 800 and 1300 feet elevation. It took us fourteen minutes to fell the enemy.” Dean appreciates the no-bullshit approach most of the time. The tactical and strategic details Cas chooses to include are kind of cool, but even Sam can’t listen to it for very long.

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When Jack queues up his top twelve drum solo playlist, Dean feels an unexpected spike of jealousy, too. Jack had made that list for Dean. Sure, Dean had thrown it back in his face, but that doesn’t mean that he has to go trading Dean out for Arthur Ketch not even an hour later.

The twelve days game

[clairenatural]

okay but you see sam has ALSO fallen for dean's act. sam also believes dean to be the macho, daddy's soldier, beer boobs cars guy he presents himself as. this is why sam makes fun of dean whenever he even lightly steps out of that mold and thinks it's harmless banter instead of attacking an insecurity. it's why he laughs when john talks down to dean in the early seasons and it's why he seems surprised when dean is more comfortable with himself in the later seasons. it's why he just scoffs but doesn't push it when dean puts up a front and refuses to talk about his emotions and just accepts whatever excuse he makes at face value. it's why he offers dean a strip club to make him feel better when cas dies. and this isn't his fault!! dean has spent a very long time perfecting this image in front of everyone and ESPECIALLY to sam because along with it comes safety and security and stability and the only person. who has consistently been able to see through it. is castiel

[annmariethrush]

There is not a SINGLE thing I love more than Cas offering threatening to kill John Winchester. Cas would smite anything that tried to hurt Dean and he would be BEYOND pissed that someone Dean trusts as much as his father treats him like that. It is my favorite fucking thing. I implore people to make up stupid reasons in your fic for John Winchester and Castiel to be in the same room to make sure that Cas gets to fucking deck him.

The SPN writers were cowards when they made it so that John and Cas weren’t in the same room together during Lebanon because you better fucking believe that would have been the end for John in all timelines.

[castielsparkle]

☆ john winchester's journal | 1x12 - faith | 4x01 - lazarus rising | 12x19 - the future | 5x04 - the end | 6x20 - the man who would be king | john winchester's journal | 12x02 - mamma mia | john winchester's journal | 2x04 - children shouldn't play with dead things | john winchester's journal (x3) | 2x20 - what is and should never be | 6x20 - the man who would be king | supernatural season 5 disc 6 special feature commentary

[drulalovescas]

oh this show can go straight to hell

[jonasdirection101]

Castiel: "Why do you inhale your food? You should eat slower."

Dean: "I grew up with John Winchester. If you didn't eat fast, you didn't eat at all."

[mattzerella-sticks]

Oh my GOD

It just hit me.

There were originally 13 episodes in series order.

Today’s episode was titled after a song (Teach Your Children Well).

The next two episodes that are listed on wikipedia are also song titles (You’re Lost Little Girl and Masters of War).

13 episodes. 13 songs. What else do we know has 13 songs?

[sheepstiel]

one the one hand. cas in the winchesters yes. on the other hand. mr jackle please give the deancas reunion its own space.

[sterekmpreg]

[valeron99]

Family walk.

[dean-mikaelson]

the mixtape is dean's reciprocation to cas' "I love you." and so cas tries to return it when dean is mad at him. he thinks he doesn’t deserve it anymore. but love "is a gift," and so dean gives it back. "you keep those." he's angry, yes, but that doesn't mean the love isn't there anymore. and he wants cas to carry it with him. always.

[shallowstories]

Time travel characterization ideas

I just think that, rather than hating themselves (like they hate their, uh, actual selves), Dean & Cas might immediately move to parent their past selves, if they met them.

Like how they do with with Claire & Jack, they'd meet them with a mix of wise counsel, gentle teasing, and stern, tough love.

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Sam, on the other hand... It might be interesting to see Sam uncomfortably faced with things he didn't remember about his past self.

It'd be very fun to see older Sam critique himself (and Dean & Cas)

Because Sam doesn't like what he's seeing with fresh, older eyes

(He's horrified by his past self's ignorance, his impatience, his acerbic wit, his bloodlust, etc)

In fact, Sam is psycho-analyzing everyone to the point of accidental, passive-aggressive disrespect

His faux-gentle counsel gets brushed off, and he doesn't even know why...

[autisticandroids]

"why do you hate claire and emma so much but you're interested in ben and jack" because im a misogynist. hope that helps

[kerryweaverlesbian]

Godstiel and stanford era Dean where Godstiel went back because he thought Dean would be easier to break when he's younger and alone but this Dean also hasn't gone through any of the bonding with Cas OR any of his vulnerable immediate hell trauma so he just tries to kill him over and over again.

Godstiel tries to speedrun his bonding with Dean but he's already fucked it up so he goes "I am not a hammer, as you might think" expecting this to start the Great Pumpkin Sam Winchester disalogue tree and Dean's like "yeah I know?? You're a nuclear bomb. Go die in a hole!!!"

And ooooo I bet. I bet Godstiel goes and kills John. As a gift. To Dean. And as a way to try and kickstart turning him into the Dean he actually wants. Brings him his head on a silver platter.

[virtu4l-archieve]

and this, your living kiss || opal_bullets

rating: explicit

audio length: 7 hr. 5 min.

ship: dean/cas

tags: poetry, writer!dean, professor!castiel, college au, john winchester's a+ parenting, mentions of past prostitution, mentions of cancer, angst with a happy ending

summary: after years of no longer writing poetry under the name jack allen, dean begand to crave a sense of being alive again. he suddenly decides to move in with sam and elienne, along with their son jack. searching for answers dean reaches out to his old mentor, missouri moseley, who recommended dean to audit an advanced college course in poetry taught by professor castiel novak. who happens to not only be devastatingly handsome and see something in dean, but happens to also be academic’s expert on jack allen.

um does anyone have any poetry recommendations? i’m searching for the similar highs i get from hearing jack allen’s poems. read this fic. read this fic. read this fic. actually- listen to it instead! atylk is known as a classic deancas fic- AND ITS FOR A REASON! i loved it found myself shrieking and talking to myself out of pure excitement as i listened. (god bless podfics!) i’ll definitely listen to it again in the future. xx