#supernatural meta

[carveredlunds]

it’s so surreal to me that supernatural went on for so long that the final arc of the show was literally the main characters screaming and begging and fighting for freedom and rest from a controlling and obsessive author/god who had been writing their lives up until that point, who simply would not let them die. it went on for so long that it went from being a show where the two leads used phones with antennae and made references to myspace, to being a show where they literally referenced the “sir, this is a wendy’s” meme and dean said “galaxy brained”. it went from being a dark and gritty show shot on film to being a show shot on digital where the saturation was so bright that it looked like a sitcom even at night. after 15 seasons, all the fear and grittiness and tension had been sucked out of the narrative. it devolved from a story about choosing free will over destiny into a story about whether or not having free will is even possible after you’ve discovered that god has personally controlled your whole life. the transformation from “classic kripke era” supernatural into “network controlled never-ending” supernatural was literally played out in the storyline of the show itself. it’s unbelievable.

[cupidswurld]

last night i watched the first episode in supernatural and within 10 minutes i put it on pause because in NO way, through the 15 seasons, should anyone be happy with how dean's story ends with him dying whilst hunting

because in the 10 minutes that ive learnt about him is that he's spent his entire life fighting, and he dies FIGHTING

no satisfying narrative ends like that, especially not for one thats run for 15 years

[strawlessandbraless]

Cas wakes up in a world where all versions of Dean exist at once. He makes sure to validate them all accordingly and hangs this up on the fridge

[supernaturalsidepiece]

Credit to: @sodiumfreak @breha @stepdaddean @sundryvillains @autisticandroids @omniscientoranges

Metanatural part eight of ?

[ananke-xiii]

dude, sam winchester has been addicted to demon blood, possessed by lucifer, in the cage in hell, soulless, mentally abused by satan, possessed by a psycho angel, tortured by the MoL and yet

If asked what's the worst he had to go through

I'm 100% positive his answer would be:

"Living in a secret bunker with my closeted brother and his not-so-secret-husband angel and having to be the peacemaker in all their stupid quarrels"

I tell you, this man is DONE, i can't understand why the writers didn't give him a scene where he just screams at them. I would.

[thefabledpheasant]

So, we all know that Cas branded Dean’s soul with the handprint. And then in his last scene left a bloody handprint on Dean’s jacket.

But, have we ever considered that this last handprint was Cas letting dean go? Like, literally removing the handprint brand he left on his soul? That it’s Castiel saying, “I love you so much that I’m dying for you and freeing you from the claim I made on you. I know you are not mine even if I will always be yours and that’s ok. Please live a good life now that my burden is gone from you.”

And if that’s the case, do you think Dean could feel it? The mark being gone? Do you think that left an emptiness nothing else could fill and that’s one of the reasons he was so fine with dying? Because for the first time since he met him, there was truly nothing of Cas left on Earth or with Dean?

[pinbitch]

spn mentioning sam wanting to do normal teenage things instead of going bow hunting is so interesting cause we never once see the winchesters or any other hunter actually make use of that skill in fifteen whole years. really makes it seem more like a thinly disguised punishment. really makes it seem like it was more important for sam to be training than what he was training in. really makes it seem like john was trying to keep sam safe from monsters and humans safe from sam

[arwenadreamer]

You all remember, how Sam and Dean went back in time and told Mary to never get pregnant? How they told her that they would absolutely be okay with never being born? They almost seemed giddy at the thought, because wouldn't that save them a lot of pain?

But Mary says, it's too late, she is already pregnant with Dean.

And Sam and Dean drop the idea immediately. BOTH drop it immediately. Mary was only pregnant with Dean. Sam still could still ask her that she at least doesn't get pregnant again. But he doesn't. If Dean is going to be in this world, so will be Sam. No hesitation. And Dean doesn't mention (or think of?) that possibility either. Because how could he possibly live this life without his baby brother?

[thefableddestiel]

Here’s a parallel I noticed that highlights the difference between Cas relationship with Dean and Cas relationship with Sam pretty well. Episodes 10x22 vs 14x15

When MOC Dean is beating up Cas, Cas doesn’t hit back even once. The most he does is try to bear hug him from behind to calm him down. But not a single punch.

When Sam is Justin Smith, Cas says he won’t hurt him, but he actually does pick him up and slam him into the ground. It’s not a big deal, obviously he knows Sam can take it, but it’s something he wouldn’t even do with Dean.

Before the actual fighting, Cas tells dean, “I’m your friend… I’ll be the one that watches you murder the world.” And then when MOC Dean is on top of Cas holding the angel blade to him, Cas holds onto the wrist Dean has on his tie and the only thing he says is, “please”. He doesn’t even try to grab the hand holding the knife. And then Dean stops.

On the other hand, when Sam is on top of Cas trying to stab him, Cas uses an entirely different approach. He’s forcibly holding back Sam’s arm that’s holding the angel blade. He tells him he understands that he wants to be happy, but that if he does this he fails the people they lost. He says “if you do this you fail Jack. Sam, you fail Dean.” And that makes Sam stop.

The difference that’s so stark is that Cas has to appeal to Sam through talking about Dean. But Cas can appeal to Dean through his own relationship to him. He doesn’t need to bring up what it will do to Sam or anyone else, because their own relationship is powerful enough and he knows it.

[haley-lana]

is this anything?

[cannibalbrothers]

Changing Channels 5.8 – Supernatural (2005-2020)

[gabaghoul-fandom-meme-queen]

THE WINCHESTERS MEME DUMP 💚💙

[calibrationneeded]

The most irrefutable proof there is for the fact that Dean was also queer is the fact that supernatural very clearly pulled a burry your gays at the last minute, so if Dean wasn’t queer, why would they need to bury him hmm? They couldn’t keep him alive because he was queer the fact that they killed him was proof enough

[supernaturalsidepiece]

SUPERNATURAL 2005 - 2020. (More)

[ananke-xiii]

okay but hear me out: a SPN spin-off but instead of the characters we have the SPN writers in the writers' room and it's The Office-like.

[thefabledpheasant]

One of the things about Supernatural that drives me crazy is the theme about horrible biological families (with a huge emphasis on fathers) and the monologues given on this topic because it’s one of the examples of how the supernatural writers could be SO good.

The monologue Metatron gives to God is unbelievable. We just see him as evil and then he delivers this devastating monologue that paints him as nothing more than a heartbroken child desperate for his father’s attention.

And this theme is seen so often and it’s gut wrenching every time. Bobby. Sam. Dean. Lucifer. Claire. Crowley. Etc. It’s an integral part of every main characters upbringing and subsequent personality.

And then we get to see the beauty that is picking your own family and being truly loved. Bobby adopts Sam and Dean. Castiel becomes family. Jack is adopted by the boys. Charlie is like a sister. (And many other examples)

And all of this makes the endings focus on biological family all the more infuriating because they just abandoned this beautiful development they built for 15 seasons. The ending should’ve encapsulated the beautiful quote they literally wrote and had one of the main characters deliver:

“Family doesn’t end with blood. But it doesn’t start there, either.”