#homeless!dean

[completelymindfucked]

They ran out of money while John was gone

[profoundbondfanfic]

The 3$ Coat

The 3$ Coat by Macy2me || @macy2me Rating: Teen and Up audiences Word Count: 20k

Thrift shops are not for the poor, they are for the very poor and desperate. Who would want pre-owned clothes that smell like someone else, that no matter how many times you wash them, they never lose the original owner's scent? Someone who doesn’t have any other options, someone like Castiel. However, one day, in the lead-up to Christmas, he catches the scent of an alpha (who smells exactly like apple pie) on a $3 second-hand trench coat, that makes him do stupid things. In a world where alphas are given all the advantages of life, there aren’t many options for omegas. It is either find an alpha to support you or live a life well below the poverty line. Castiel had chosen the second option. It seemed noble at first, but after a decade on his own, life continues to wear him down. All that changes when he meets the jacket's original owner (and promptly throws up on him), causing him to rethink his decision.

This is the kind of a healing story you want to read when you're feeling down. You follow omega Castiel's adventure as his luck slowly begins to turn for the better while the poor guy just worries his heart out.

Sam plays an important role in bringing these two together, but it is Dean protectiveness and care that really lights everything up.

The world building is short, but the universe is very interesting and there's a bit of angst and hurt to spice things up and make it all the more sweeter. But ultimately, they are two adorable idiots in love who'll leave you with nothing but a smile on your face.

[trekkiedean]

the thing about cas's arc in the first half of s9 is that it's a prime example of why I cannot look at this show through a purely watsonian lens. there is no way to make it make sense except bad writing. and "idk it was bad writing" is a copout with most shows, and can very much be a copout with this show, depending on how selectively you apply it. but also, with spn, not only is the writing bad, but the show is SO hyperaware of itself as a story that I have a lot of trouble ignoring the doylist factors, the way I would at least try to in another show.

like, I have a ton of logistic/plot questions about the whole early-s9 situation, because the basic facts just don't really make sense from 9x03 to 9x06 to 9x09. but more than that, I feel like any purely watsonian explanation requires me to either throw out a lot of dean's past characterization (I can be pretty hashtag deancrit, but I do think it's ooc for him to kick cas out with absolutely nothing) or a lot of cas's future characterization (I think cas's takeaway was that dean does not care enough about him to help him unless it will serve some larger purpose of dean's to do so, and I think that informs a lot of cas's future behavior). like, the potential watsonian explanations are:

dean offered cas some supplies/cash/a fake id, and cas was just too proud/hurt/stupid to accept

dean offered cas some supplies/cash/a fake id, and cas took them, but he was too proud/hurt to keep them or too stupid to keep them safe/use them wisely

dean is a complete sociopath who doesn't give a shit about cas and kicked him out with literally nothing but the clothes on his back, and cas's self-esteem is so low that he thinks it was okay

dean is too stupid to even realize that cas might need supplies/money/resources

and I don't find any of those explanations satisfying, because there are things in other episodes that undercut or refute all of them: if dean genuinely just doesn't give a shit about cas, why did he bother trying to find him in 9x03 in the first place, or care when april killed him and get gadreel to bring him back? if dean didn't give him anything in the way of money/supplies, then how did cas get from kansas to idaho, or get a job with no papers or bank account? but if dean did give him cash/the magic credit card and fake identity papers, then why did cas need the job in the first place and/or why is he sleeping in the back room? and if he didn't, if cas is truly in such a dangerously precarious situation in 9x06 because he has nothing else, then how, in 9x09, does he have a fairly nice, well-fitting suit and presumably a fake badge and a car? if dean gave him some money to begin with, and cas is just clueless with money and blew it all, then how did he get savvy enough, between 9x03 and 9x09, to acquire all of those things himself? if dean gave him money and/or the suit, badge, and car to begin with, but cas was too proud and hurt to make use of them, what changed his mind? if he has those things in 9x09 because dean helped him after 9x06 and either gave them to him or gave him the means/money to get them, then why wouldn't dean have just done that in the first place? if dean didn't help him at all, despite knowing what a dangerous situation cas was in before they found him in 9x03, then why does dean approach cas in 9x06 like he expects any reaction but completely justified anger and hurt, and treat cas's new job like it's a silly little thing cas is doing for funsies rather than his best chance at survival? but then, why is cas treating the whole thing like it was no big deal in 9x09?

meanwhile, the doylist explanations are:

the episodes in question were written by privileged white people who have no idea what actual poverty and homelessness entail, and didn't care enough to do some basic research (or even like, ask the cast member who'd actually experienced serious poverty and homelessness for some input)

there was little to no coordination among the writers to ensure story or emotional continuity across episodes (if you told me berens and buckleming just didn't read each others' scripts or watch each others' episodes I would 100% believe you)

they didn't want to pay misha for enough episodes to show us what the fuck was going on with cas in the 9x03-9x09 span, let alone have him kicking around the bunker

and also possibly

everyone knew that if cas was kicking around the bunker, and they put him in the standard hunter uniform, dean's spirit would fully possess jackles and derail every scene by flinging him mouth-first onto misha's dick

and all of those make a lot more sense to me than any purely watsonian explanation is ever going to. and again, I do think that shrugging and saying "bad writing" can be a copout, and with other shows, I would make more of an effort to at least try and find a satisfying watsonian explanation, but spn is not only badly-written, but self-aware, even self-obsessed, in a way that other shows are not, so it's a lot harder for me to just disregard the non-diagetic factors. so I do tend to think that if you choose a watsonian explanation for the whole thing, it can be kind of a rorschach test, because you basically have to decide which character's development to prioritize, dean's or cas's.

[annmariethrush]

Season 9 coming right after season 8 is so crazy bro. You’re telling me they went straight from insane and awesome shit to…. season 9???????? Insane show for insane people

[batcavescolony]

Supernatural s5 e22

Here we go, carry on my wayward son is playing. We get Impala lore and Chuck is narrating. Dean is letting Sam make his own decision, if he wants to jump into hell he'll have his back. Cass napping in the back of the Impala. Sam saying goodbye to everyone 😭. Sam's got his juice. Did Lucifer just sing the devil went down to Georgia? Lol. The fidget spinner key worked... Sadly Lucifer won. Lucifer wants Sam to be happy. Cass and Bobby have lost faith while Dean wants to do anything to get Sam back. And were back to Lawrence, always back home. This hurts. Family memories bringing Sam back 😭😭😭. Sam pulling him Lucifer Michael and Adam into the cage 😭 I can't. Cass is back, he's an Angel again, and he's going back to heaven. Dean when back to Lisa, I like her he deserves some peace for a but... Cus theirs 10 more seasons.

[incesthemes]

the great tragedy of supernatural is that it has lines it's not allowed to cross. it can't depict textual incest or even too much maladaptive affection; it can't show the reality of prolonged homelessness or food insecurity or the actual dangers of fraud and theft; it can't delve too deep into the lasting effects of abuse and neglect or trauma; it can't talk about political issues in any meaningful way—it can't contain anything too morally objectionable or uncomfortable for viewers. it has to build and maintain a fantasy that lets people ignore what they don't like. and that's a shame because of its roots in horror, so instead of being free to explore the themes and elements that form the show's foundation, a lot of it is left to subtext, to subtle nods, to "if you know you know" moments.

what the show does manage to depict on screen is rich and captivating, but at the end of the day it has an image to maintain that doesn't align with the reality of its own themes. the show is at odds with itself and its executives, and over time it gets progressively scrubbed clean just like the gritty, low saturation, high contrast lighting of early seasons. it departs even further from its horror foundation, relegates more and more of its worldbuilding and characterization to subtext, or even just memories of the past.

i just think it's a shame that despite its (original) genre, it faced so much opposition and so much sanitization that it never really had a chance to go all-in with its world and characters, and that what little it was able to depict was sucked away over time until it became a ghost of the american gothic horror it once was.

[sunshine-zenith]

Consider: THIS Cas and this Dean

[septembersghost]

What's your favourite headcanon of something that happened in the Impala?

i love this question! although i have to laugh at the fact that 90% of many headcanons revolving around this would be...spicy.

i have a non-spicy one though, it's something i made up ages ago!

when dean briefly went mute, after mary's death, john (who wasn't exactly functional nor great at communication even at the best of times) would load the boys in the car, especially if sam got fussy, and to fill up the silences from one son and the cries from the other, he would flip on the radio, or pop in a cassette. dean, eyes never straying far from sam except to occasionally peek at the normal, peaceful houses they passed by, found comfort in this, even in the loud, raucous rock songs. it would eventually put them both to sleep, and john would circle blocks aimlessly, none of them particularly intent to head back to the motel, or wherever they found themselves temporarily living. it was the safest dean ever felt, surrounded by the armor of the car, the soft breathing of his baby brother, his dad absentmindedly drumming the wheel. and that's why music filling up the impala became a constant staple in his life.

[bisaster-energy]

okay what you have to understand is that while against the kitchen floor is a dean song...willard! has cas written all over it

[cevans-is-classic]

Dean is always hungry.

He always made sure Sam was fed growing up over himself.

He eats as much as he can because he never knows if he'll have food again.

[palatial-monstrosity]

you’re gonna need more than three whiskeys for that question

[garbagequeer]

having a good time watching some #supernatural. they play a SAD SONG over a shot of CASTIEL. no longer having any fun here. sad forever

[storywriter12]

My Rick x negan story is up this is my first time doing a story about them together so any feedback would be appreciated

[casmilton]

re that post that came out my queue of hael and cas. ummm spn au where after the fall cas can start properly teaching angels about earth and just exploring. country roadtrip. screaming and crying

[drfrankensteinvsthequeerborgs]

Dean: “Listen, Cas, back at the bunker, I uhh...sorry I told you to go.” but not sorry enough to let him come home

[crosnt]

how funny would it be if cas' trenchcoat still had the bullet holes in it after his barn entrance for like the whole show and whenever they did cases dean would be like "you literally look like a homeless person fucking NERD" and cas would go "AND WHOS FUCKING FAULT IS THAT" :)