The main difference between Archives and Protocol so far is that the Magnus Institute was a tea workplace and the OIAR is a coffee workplace
What makes a person a monster? Tea
What makes a monster a person? Coffee
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I like to harp on attachment theory because it endlessly fascinates me.
But seriously … the splitting that dean does where he’s hot and cold, erratic … you see it in his deepest relationships and especially in the ones where he is the one doing the needing.
It doesn’t manifest for him as readily when he’s able to keep them at arm’s length, is the pure caregiver, or is the donor of the help/the one being needed. (There’s security in that dependence.) He deeply loves the ones he supports or is responsible for, but the minute it crosses over into being someone he needs or can’t bear to say goodbye to, it registers as a threat…even Mary!
But! He also desperately craves for his loved ones to be over-strong and invincible, which puts them in danger and aggravates his base anxiety-neuroticism. Because if they are stronger than him, they could go off into danger. Die. They could let go of his hand. And he’s powerless to do anything about it. It’s also why Cas and Jack are particularly frightening as much as they are soothing. It’s why when Sam is no longer a child, or when Mary is so willful and real and hunts on her own and makes her own decisions and mistakes that it’s …unhinging.
Rowena has some of the same issues with not wanting to be weak “ever again” but also craving a strong protector figure in her life. And being afraid to love because it hurts and love is weakness. (But if you’re strong and I love you, nothing bad will happen to you because you’re invincible. But I want you to protect me, but not put yourself in harm’s way!) These two things are co-existing and creating and unhinged nut jobs… In season 15, she picked *Ketch* and Dean approved of her choice apparently. It’s still so funny to me that he was caught playing matchmaker between them.
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Loved ones he lets in are simultaneously a source of threat and a secure base. There are so many similarities with disorganized and borderline. There is so much therapy surrounding the ability to counteract transference, control the disillusionment that inevitably rears its head once the person integrates the relationships more appropriately and with complexity that comes with them.
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art is Hard and the yearly taz hyperfixation is Particularly Potent this time around so uh. enjoy the intersection of those two things, i guess
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evil time loop escape conditions where you can't get out until you've fuucked up your life in the most spectacular way possible, confident that the next night will reset the slate as usual.
instead, the next day comes.
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alright, question for the esteemed jury (though I imagine this will be a uniquely american, if not perhaps also canadian, experience):
are you familiar with the children's game that involves slapping hands around a circle while singing a song that begins "down by the banks of the hanky panky"
and if you are, how did the rest of the song go for you
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I think somehow the thing I'm most shocked about is Gabriel and Beelzebub. I mean, we ALL saw the chemistry in s1, but the fact that THEY MADE IT CANON? and not in like a subtle background way, in a "this is the main reason for the plot happening" way?! in a "let's stare into each others eyes and sing a love song while we fuck off together forever" way????? ARE YOU KIDDING ME I'M LOSING MY MIND
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