Wait when did Jordan and Schlatt talk?
they’ve talked quite a bit!! they were both on smplive and the first season/round of epicsmp, jordan was a chuckle sandwich quest, and they also sometimes appear together in things like tommy’s mod videos. i cant quite recall where that specific capmaid quote comes from, but i DO have schlatt’s original reaction to it
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the sheriff & the smuggler
the wee free men, terry pratchett / @creacherkeeper & paladinbaby / john darnielle about the song balance / the ocean at the end of the lane, neil gaiman / it will come back, hozier / wolf or-7, natalie diaz / housekeeping, marilynne robinson / allies or enemies, the crane wives / @hunterbiden / the illustrated man, ray bradbury
[Image Description: Ten images of text.
1: “He said it was better to belong where you don’t belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there.”
2: A screenshot of a Discord message and a reply. “lev: ough. more things for them to be unwell about. each other <3
faun: literally 😭finally fight each other only to be like huh this is miserable in fact?!?!?”
3: “sort of a love song, after a fashion”
4: “Oh, monsters are scared,” said Lettie. “That’s why they’re monsters.”
5: “Leave it to the land, this is what it knows / Honey, that’s how it sleeps / Don’t let it in with no intention to keep it / Jesus Christ, don’t be kind to it/ Honey, don’t feed it, it will come back”
6: “I confuse instinct for desire - isn’t bite also touch?” Bite and touch are both in italics. The whole line is highlighted in red.
7: “For need can blossom into all the compensations it requires. To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.”
8: “Are we allies or enemies? / This will be the death of me / This will be the death of me / All is fair in love and war, but I can’t fight with you anymore”
9: “sometimes the tragedy is fun! sometimes the fact that there will be no happy ending is fun! sometimes it is really neat that one character is stuck in the past at the expense of the present and the other is going scorched earth towards the future and they’ll never be on the same page ever again! i like that.”
10: “Wouldn’t it be fine if we could prove things with our mind, and know for certain that things are always in their place. I’d like to know what a place is like when I’m not there. I’d like to be sure.” End ID.]
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my tags on my prev reblog re: dean's misinterpreted attitude toward monsters just got me thinking abt sam and the bloodfreak stuff in general and like, as we know a lot of the early seasons were framed in sam's pov so a lot of the time it' him who's feeling like a monster and projecting that onto others to confirm his own beliefs abt himself. like when he finds out abt john telling dean to kill him if he goes darkside sam suddenly is in agreement w/ john saying john's right and dean has to do it because dad said so !!! anyways that's just preface to what i want to say which is, sam isn't really a monster. what i mean is, he's not a monster in the inherent sense that he seems to think he is, and that's part of the reason why dean pushes back against the demon blood stuff because he knows sam can be saved and for dean his number one job is to save sam because the alternative is following john's order and that's something he just cannot do. so it makes sense that dean would do whatever it takes even if that's being a little mean or forceful (calling him a monster, echoing john by telling him not to walk out that door to give sam pause, forcing him to detox) because he does not want to kill his brother.
but anyways, sam is not a monster in the way he (and a lot of fans) thinks he's a monster. he was Not born a monster, it's not something that is intrinsically and inherently part of him. and i'd argue there's really nothing special or "chosen one"-esque about him (aside from the lucifer bloodline making him a better candidate for vessel purposes), he was just a regular baby who was dosed with demon blood, which in the text is treated as a drug / addiction. there was nothing special about any of the babies azazel dosed, they were just the children of people he'd made deals with. i think pretty much any baby (possibly even adult) who's fed demon blood from a powerful enough demon (like a Prince of Hell) would develop psychic powers. so it's not something completely out of his control that's turning him into a monster like a virus or a vampire / werewolf bite where he can't stop the progression. it's not happening to him he's making active choices to strengthen those powers and the more he feeds the more he wants it. everything w/ ruby is framed as him knowing he's doing something "wrong", the sneaking around, the lying. and i think dean's response is along the lines of "we need to get you help. we need to stop this because it's something that can be stopped. and if we stop it then i won't have to see you lose yourself or go too far. because if you go too far and start hurting people then i might have to kill you and i can't do that so please just let us save you." and i think that's fair. yes he and bobby maybe go about things the wrong way but i think it's born out of desperation. and also it's not a rejection of "this is who you are and we hate you for being a monster" it's "you're making choices that are leading you down a dangerous path and we're scared we may lose you so we're trying to stop you from going too far down that road."
like the end goal of all the bloodfreak stuff (ruby's end goal) was to free lucifer and freeing lucifer would mean sam becoming his vessel. they obviously don't know all that at the time, but in hindsight it's like, yea we should've curbed that bloodfreak stuff sooner. also heaven was telling dean to stop sam too and that he was going down a dangerous path and that if dean doesn't stop him they will (likely meaning death) so again, of course dean's gonna try to do whatever he can to stop sam even if it's by not great methods. (also heaven was playing him too bc they also wanted lucifer to be freed so that Destiny could come to pass)
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