#j.txt

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

see liking supernatural is a curse.....because here's a pop horror show exploring generational family trauma and the consequences of social isolation, transience, poverty and the cycles of violence through a fantastical lens. how abuse of power is inherently baked into the foundations of the nuclear family, and how familial abuse is systemic rather than an anomaly. and as vehicles to carry these themes, we have two complex characters providing relatable and messy portraits of what being raised under a cocktail of adverse childhood experiences does to people. yeah sometimes it's poorly written; sometimes it delivers these narratives in incredibly clumsy ways, sometimes it frames them in markedly horrifying ways. but overall it's a rich source for analysis and personal reflection. it's actually an exceptional piece of media in the landscape of 'family horror'.

but watch out! 90% of the fandom is stubbornly determined to either ignore or whitewash any complexity found within the show. anything deemed too unpleasant, unpalatable, or beyond their understanding will be glossed over. if it doesn't fit neatly into their socially conservative worldview, it will be sanitised beyond recognition. they will use fictional characters as proxies to uncritically spout dominant cultural narratives around abuse victims. they will express the very same values systems that exclude and marginalise survivors of familial violence in the real world.

[got7]

we’ve been telling yall that woman is a fucking creep.

[archiephd]

whatever. tumblr should send you little notifications when a beloved mutual changes urls

[vesperscas]

there should be a scene where dean pats cas on the arm casually, then he pauses and grips his bicep tighter and goes. huh. okay. buddy's packing some muscles there. and cas is like 🤨? because it's been a minute and dean's hand is STILL on his arm and that's not the standard thing for them but Dean's STILL gripping his arm because what the fuck, he works out ? what the hell do angels do to get buff? why is he buff? what's happening? why is my dick hard

[girlnero]

anyone else horrified by the depths of their loneliness? clap if you’re horrified by the depths of your loneliness

[vampiredungeon]

Fisherman npc calls me gross for drinking high quality, homegrown, farm-fresh mayonnaise but says absolutely nothing when I swallow a mutant, unidentifiable “jelly” whole right after ripping it off my dirty fishing hook. smh.

[centipedefriends]

we are losing the match because you didnt booyah back in the beginning of the round. its that shrimple

[pmvstump]

suki is in a contest for america’s favourite pet!

if you want to vote for her, just login to facebook for a free vote! if you want to donate to PAWS, you can also vote that way (and help sick and injured animals)!

votes are DAILY, as in once every 24 hours (does not reset at midnight, but after exactly one day from when you last voted). it would mean the world to me if she won!

please vote for my love 🩵

[aroacefrenchie]

hello everyone have y'all seen vico ortiz showcasing their knife skills:

[VD: A tiktok by Vico Ortiz of various clips of them improving their knife twirling skills over time. The video is captioned "Happy Flag Day and One Year Anniversary to the start of OFMD 🥺💙✨ Enjoy the progression of my knife skills😅 /end VD]

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

realised. dean is the perfect viewer avatar for a horror show. he gets to be both the action hero and the quippy, self-aware wiseguy who knows he's in a horror show. he provides a safe point; a comfortable power fantasy for you to experience a story through. he's ash in the evil dead. he's a gunslinging tough guy, and you get to see those moments where heroism sits on his shoulders like an ill-fitting leather jacket. and even when he gets his turn at being captured and victimised by the narrative, it's filtered through this mythic lens first. he's the tormented hero; tortured by villains, tortured by the constraints of his role. yeah he gets bruised, beaten bloody to a pulp, torn to shreds and killed, but his perception of reality never gets thrown into serious doubt (unless it's played out as a gag). the narrative valorises his sense of right and wrong, because that's what heroic stories do. their heroes provide moral center, regardless of how we might judge them. the lines dividing hero, anti-hero, and villian are paper thin, and dean isn't truly ever allowed to be ambiguous. and the hero always wins in the end, even when he dies.

meanwhile sam is the abject object of the horror show, a character who gets trussed up, chased, tied up, ripped apart, cut into, possessed, exploited, manipulated and psychologically hounded. he's carrie covered in pig's blood. he's the marginal person people are cheering on either to die - or to live past it all. he gets his turn at playing both movie monster and victim, always occupying the liminal space between both. abject horror lives within him. he's violated with demon blood, he consumes demon blood. he hates halloween because he vomited his guts up in front of a room of normal children. he will never get to be normal, he's designated the freak on multiple levels, but most significantly, by the way his narrative frames him. he's living inside a world that is at its core, fundamentally frightening and horrifying - full control over himself and his surroundings is always slipping away, just beyond his reach. his grip on reality and the world around him gets thrown into question by the story consistently. what's right? what's wrong? what's real? what isnt? the narrative punishes him - because that's what happens to you when you're living in a horror. he can never run away from his nightmare reality, it catches up to him like a curse nipping at his heels. the only way out for him is through the punishing fire. in order to survive, he's required to be pushed to the absolute brink of instability; emotionally, physically and mentally. he emerges out the other end, barely holding it together but somehow alive - like the bloody final girl, changed irrevocably by what she's experienced.

[vesperscas]

cas being canonically called a pretty boy angel like yes he is the prettiest most handsome angel do you get it !!!!!!

[got7]

[marlborosam]

Can we please take a moment to remember the fact that Misha was asked all the way back in 2012 why Cas saved Sam from the Cage and the answer was literally just "Cas loves Sam". I feel like we as a people need to just remember that every so often bc apparently spnblr cannot be trusted with Sam and Cas's relationship otherwise

[archiephd]

society if missouri stayed spn's bobby