#holiday soul

[soulmusicsongs]

O Holy Night - Don Patterson ‎(Holiday Soul, 1964)

[chubbidust]

au where everything in deltarune is the same except kris is a baby

babyrune

[mr-divabetic]

Pink Champagne

The Christmas ballad, "Pink Champagne" by Paulette McWilliams and Ivan Hampden Jr. reaches 20,000 listens on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/2NOBbq9KzRlyJb6hjSg67m?si=6b8f6a34c08242ce

[cabinetteofcuriosities]

Happy Holidays 🎄✨

[stereotype-orange]

they will proceed

[mararabbit]

“This just in! Local enby driven to manipulate childhood friend because of inter-dimensional parasite’s commands.”

[lilybug-02]

Deltarune… but Sesame Street

Berdly would totally be a sock puppet

Part 2 of this

[linterteatime]

smol redraw of a cringe-fail kiss thingy

[chancetried]

I MADE STICKERS GUYS!

... but i, uhh, have no idea how to sell them...

SO IF ANYBODY STEALS IT TELL ME SO I CAN BUY MY OWN STICKERS I WAANT THESEEEEEE (I'm joking, I dont buy from dirty thiefs >:[ )

((certain things go in certain places, like, the green snail pie goes with Chara, the soul goes with Kris, the DEAD Berdly and traumatized Kris goes with Noelle but Kris is optional on that one (I act as if you cant just ignore this), the Alphys saying cringe is supposed to go with story of undertale reference Frisk, and finally the "that's a BUTTSpie" textbox goes with the cheeky lookin Chara >:] ))

[jonahmagnus]

*You contemplate turning this car around

[rheakira]

Happy Valentine's Day! 💛💚

[yinza]

Just Gravelord Nito and the Furtive Pygmy chilling at the bonfire.

[Image Description: A rough digital painting depicting Nito and the Furtive Pygmy from Dark Souls, seated on opposite sides of a bonfire at night. The Pygmy sits with his back to the viewer, his thin figure mostly a dark silhouette, but his face can be seen in profile. Opposite him is Nito, "sitting" so that some of the skeletons that form his body drag on the ground, and his arms are lowered. Light from the bonfire catches on the skeletons and his sword. /end ID]

[franklespine]

The scene at the start of All Hell Breaks Loose where Dean talks to Sam's corpse in that shack in the middle of nowhere is soul crushing to an incomprehensible level that the show hardly ever manages to reach again.

Firstly, what is revealed about Dean as he spills his heart open is devastating on a whole other level. Like there's grief and then there's this - it's like a piece of him has been torn out and he's left unable to literally function. It's not really a new idea in the series up to this point that Dean has centered his life around his family, in particular protecting Sam. As he starts off, he wishes so desperately that Sam didn't start asking questions about their family so Dean could preserve his innocence just a little bit longer. No doubt John put a lot of pressure on Dean to protect and look after Sam, but taking on this role was something that was all but written inside him, as he says, John didn't even have to tell him to do it, Sam was his responsibility. The tipping point in this scene is when Dean finally asks "what am I supposed to do" - how can he even begin to move beyond this? He doesn't care if the world ends anymore, doesn't care if Azazel wins and he never gets revenge. In asking this question Dean realises that he is incapable of letting go of Sam, of the responsibilities to his family he has built his life around like the grain of sand at the centre of the pearl, and of the crushing guilt that comes with 'failing' these responsibilities. The only way forwards is to force the laws of nature to bend for him and bring Sam back from the dead, no matter the cost.

Secondly, this is heart wrenching to me for Sam too. Here he is, 23 years old and lying dead on a dingy mattress in a shack in the middle of nowhere - the only escape from his dark destiny found in death. But the primary reason it seems that Dean makes this massive sacrifice to bring him back isn't because he's 23 and has so much of life he deserves to live, but because he is incapable of living under the weight of his guilt in failing him - that he is Dean's responsibility that he can't live with letting down. And this is not to say that Dean doesn't also bring him back because he loves and care for him as a person, but it's not like Dean was sitting there talking to Sam saying you didn't deserve this, we were so close to ending this, you deserved to go on to have a life that hasn't been built around and in grief and revenge, hell, you could've even gone back to university and had your happy ending. You know? It's like selling your soul for someone is a crazy batshit insane thing to do - the ultimate sacrifice. But same as with John, it seems that the reason behind it wasn't just pure love and desire for that person to live just because they didn't deserve to die. John needed Dean to be there to ensure Sam didn't go darkside - to kill him if he can't save him. In both cases it was out of love, but in this weird objectified way.

It's just so fascinating how this dynamic between the three Winchesters, love and sacrifice plays out in the early seasons. How supernatural finds selfishness at the centre of this seemingly sacrificial selfless act. The selfishness in martyrdom.

That's why this scene is just heart wrenching in my sad insane little head. Sam and Dean were crazy codependants before this but this scene marks a turn for the worst (in codependence) for them. This scene is like the solidification of Dean's belief that he is worthless and incapable of functioning without the responsibilities he holds to his family and solidifies that Sam is the little brother possession for Dean to protect and regulate until his time runs out and he's shipped off to hell - leaving him at the centre of his massacred family with all the fingers pointing in his direction. His mum was collateral damage to his anti-baptism by a demon, his Dad sold his soul for his brother's life to be the final yes or no in the decision of whether Sam deserves to live or not, and now his brother's gone and done the same for him. But hey, at least when Dean gets dragged down to hell it isn't with the weight of guilt that he failed his responsibilities.

(spoiler alert: he feels guilty for leaving Sam anyway and Sam spirals anyway).