#like sam it was not the demon blood

[derbophobia]

everytime in the early seasons they talk abt sam and his constant never ending feeling of being "odd" and out of place and different from everyone ... someone PLEASE give them an autism diagnosis and/or a brief explanation of transgenderism!!!!!

[boy-kings-court]

supernatural writers after season 5

[sammygender]

something sooooo interesting about sam saying ‘i have powers’ present tense in american nightmare. even tho he proceeds to use past tense when talking about what he could do… he still identifies as having them. taking that as confirmation they’re still within him and he’s just too deeply traumatised by s4/5 to use them again <3 if this show was good though sam‘s psychic powers would’ve made a comeback

[angel-ghoul444]

⛥ the boy with the demon blood ౨♱ৎ

[lambmotifz]

the theme of purity/uncleanliness which is integral to sam’s character is very much female coding but spn fandom isn’t ready for this conversation

[ardentpoop]

"Don't say that to me. Not you, of all people." -"I don't want to. But it's the truth." (5.18 "Point of No Return")

[sweetpapercroissant]

it’s always “he drank demon blood and had a hot demon gf!!! bloodfreak <3” and never “whose death was so unbearable that sam let go of his deepest childhood fear of being unclean and taint his body that way? whose absence ripped away everything that sam held dear because nothing mattered without him? who did the demon have to emulate to worm her way into his life and his confidence (and his bed)? whose memory was so inescapable that he was drowning in grief every second of every day? whose death caused such ruin to his being that avenging it became not only the only reason to live but also a cause worth sacrificing every principle he lived by?”

[finalgirlsamwinchester]

to round out tonight's humphris-gamble spiral: the 2.14 exorcism as an almost prophetic play-by-play of 4.21, with both episodes featuring the dean-bobby familial unit bringing a monstrous sam back under control (meg, earlier in 2.14: 'meg? no. not anymore. i'm sam'). and the different parting glances between sam and bobby here. bobby's wary, assessing look in 2.14 vs. the 'what's become of you' face he's making in 4.21. sam's anxious smile in 2.14, seeking reassurance, vs. his look of worn down despair post-panic room in 4.21. a sam who still hopes that his monstrosity might be treated as something external to himself, a demon to be exorcised vs. a sam face-to-face with the barrel of a gun, knowing that he is The Monster in this story (dean in 4.21 later telling him, 'it's what you are').

[zer0expektation]

Dean and Sam (aged 9/10 and 5) as At the Seashore (1886) by Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz

(ref under the cut)

[just1moose]

Estrogen would of saved her.....

[pregstiel]

season 4 is the start of the "dean is always right" trend. like god, how much more interesting would it have been if ruby was being genuine the whole time? she legitimately wanted to stop the apocalypse, legitimately thought killing lilith was the only way to do it. how much crazier would lucifer rising be if everyone is shocked by what happens? if ruby survives and she and sam have to deal, together, with inadvertently causing the apocalypse? what do you even do in that scenario, when it turns out you were the rube and the lynchpin for hell's plans all at once? it would be interesting! and it would make sam and dean way more balanced -- dean is right that what sam is doing is bad, but sam's judgment about ruby is ultimately correct, and she continues to help them. it would be so much juicer than sam just being wrong about everything and dean knew the right path the whole time

[alaynestone]

SLIPPERY SLOPE, BROTHER.  JUST WAIT AND SEE.

[sammygender]

i’ve never been as angry on behalf of a character as i am for sam winchester

[suncaptor]

I do think how Sam is neurodivergent is the most central piece of how he gets treated by his family & the narrative though.

[h-didanart]

Hey, so like, there was this post earlier that said “Nonverbal Bloodmoon” and I saw it and reblogged it and, uh, it wouldn’t leave my head

I made a bunch of doodles of my two technically nonverbal Bloodmoons

Yeah

First off, Fang! Dear beloved. The ability to mimic voices is one Fang has but words are rather tricky, even more so when the only frame of reference there was for a long time was in vaguely Shakespearean English. Fang is basically a weird fusion of a cat and a dog, communicates mostly through body language, and is also incredibly physically clingy on account of being essentially blind in most situations. The second picture features Fang’s twin, Scythe.

And then there’s Bloody. The not-so-silly-anymore boy. Bloody does have the ability to talk, they actually do talk sometimes even, they just don’t usually do it. The reasons for this are a bit hard to explain, the bottom line is that it’s a trauma response, selectively mute if you want an actual term. He’s the more expressive of the twins and already had a bunch of little things he did before shit went down, and afterwards he’s still rather expressive if less impulsive and energetic. They too are clingy but instead of sticking to the person they’re clingy towards they will have a thing that reminds them of the person and hold it for a while. Harvest makes a little cameo here, questioning Bloody’s clothing choices.

And now their dynamic being friends. Communication between them is hard. Neither talks, Fang can’t see, when Fang can see Bloody isn’t in a good space to talk, there’s plenty of challenges to their friendship. But they can deal with those, Fang has some pretty good hearing and smell and Bloody isn’t exactly the quietest walker with all the random things he carries, Bloody can often guess the mood Fang is on by looking at their tail movements, and for direct communication Bloody will usually spell words out on Fang’s hand (yes Fang actually knows the alphabet and the letters, just can’t pronounce them)

Pictured above is a situation I can summarize like this:

PROTECT FRIEND

*makes friend uncomfortable*

I AM A FAILURE

And them officially becoming friends :3

Bonus doodles :3

(Still workshopping their color palettes, was very close to giving Bloody a blue shirt but remembered they don’t like blue, and Fang feels a bit dull :P)

[shadystranger]

Even he was weirded tf out