#they will not shut up about scarecrow because that is the only episode that supports this fanon

[deandelreys]

”hihi dean is so weird and off putting in 1.11 scarecrow that the entire town doesn’t like him”

do you guys realise that the entire town doesn’t like him because he is being nosy about all the human sacrifices they are making???

[scary-lasagna]

Can I ask for HC for Liu, Helen and Jason w a reader who's a good singer. Thank you!

Liu

"[Y/N], could you sing for me? Please?"

Bless him, he's always so gentle about asking for your talent.

Liu is always extremely supportive of your voice, yet hates asking you to exploit it for him.

You always assure him that you love singing to him, and sharing your voice with someone who appreciates you and your skill.

Growing up, Jeff forced Liu to watch Phantom of the Opera like it was his religion.

Jeff just thought the Phantom was funny and got angry easily, but throughout the millions of time Liu's seen it, he came to appreciate amazing voices and how much work they put into it.

Whenever he hears you sing he pauses whatever he's doing to tune into your angelic voice.

Even Sully's grumbling gets quieter whenever your tune floats through the air.

Sully pretends to hate it, and often belittles you for singing both in the house and out in public. But as instructed by Liu, you simply ignore him and continue your melody.

Sully shuts up about it after a while unless he's trying to sleep.

Then he'll just scream back at you.

Helen

The amount of dates he willingly plans just so he can lay his head in your lap as you sing to him is incredible.

Your voice is the only thing that can lull him to sleep during stressful days of art block and echoing screams that bounce in his skull.

He calls you his angel, because your voice holds a lovely sense of security and innocence. It inspires calmness in those who hear it.

Helen enters a plane of serenity every time those composed words melt off of your lips.

If Helen closes his eyes as you hushed his loud thoughts, he can pretend the last five years of his life never happened.

Sometimes he might join in on your melody, and harmonize with your cherished voice.

He can pretend he's seventeen again and his commission list for old and new corpses don't exist. The only thing to worry about is what the newest episode of his favorite show will hold in store.

If you play with his hair while you sing, he's guaranteed to knock out in like ten seconds tops.

His puny brain can't handle the immense love that you how for him, it's something he isn't used to. But he loves it.

He loves you so much. And that's saying something coming from an unfeeling murderer that makes scarecrows from dead bodies.

Jason

"My darling, you have the most lovely voice."

Always complimenting you and putting you high on a pedestal, as you should be, of course. You have an amazing voice, and it should be known.

Originally, he would not let his s/o step foot in his workshop. Nono, besides his work being extremely dangerous to outsiders that aren't familiar with the mechanics of his toys, his work is private.

He doesn't want anyone coming into his personal workspace.

But, one day a few months ago, he caught a glimpse of your voice as he was struggling with yet another blueprint.

It was a eureka moment, and Jason still hasn't made a better toy to date.

He [Y/N]-proofed his workshop, making sure everything has a proper place and no chance of escaping and slicing your Achilles' tendons or dislocating your kneecaps.

You have your own corner where you can do your work from home, and it's a peaceful environment for you to work in until Jason catches something on fire.

But more importantly, when you work you hum/sing.

It was his master plan all along.

Your singing gets the cogs turning, and not to mention it soothes his anger when he can't put a triangle in a square hole.

But you're always dragging him away from his desk to promote him to a break, just to go outside and breathe fresh air, or maybe even have a lovely slow dance to distract a busy mind.

[why-this-kolaveri-machi]

chin fucking up, amigo.

Titans 3.02

... eh?

SPOILERS ahead.

1. you know that music video for billie jean where michael jackson would dance along the pavement and the tiles would light up under his feet in different colours? yeah? me too.

titans hasn’t met a table top or a support arch that it doesn’t want to light up in a headache-inducing blue like the world’s most boring nightlight. i mean, i’m not an expert on lighting or cinematography or just... colour by any means, and the quality of the video i’m watching is poor given that i can’t access hbo max, but all the orange and teal and neon is making it very difficult to really differentiate between say, the batcave and the gotham police department and hell, the titans tower. i feel like there’s oftentimes a gap between idea and execution with titans, with gotham being this almost otherwordly hellscape with an aesthetic pulled from a gothic horror novel, but the colours and design just... leave it flat and dark and dull.

1.5. like what really frustrates me is that titans has a delightful mix of tones--the fights often remind me of schumacher-era batman camp, with the contrived quips and the start-stop rhythm and krypto just sallying in and ending the fight with a fucking SuperBark (tm) but in the same episode you have red hood just casually pulling out severed heads out of a duffle bag and desperate people blackmailed into killing themselves out of drug overdoses. I MEAN. it’s wonderful! but it looks all the same. it sounds Absolutely Bonkers on paper but on screen both Quip and Murder happen in the same washed-out blue and i wanted to be excited about the batcave, dammit!

2. things re: red hood have happened at such a breakneck speed that it feels like there’s so much that’s happened off-screen that we’re not privy to. a real proper mystery! 

things that are intriguing about the red hood arc so far:

a) what was that chemical he huffed just before going to fight the joker? is it a regular old performance/adrenaline booster or is it something more lazarus-juice adjacent? if it’s the latter, i can’t imagine he got that much information from a lone chemistry textbook. and where is he getting the resources to set up his little chemistry lab? is somebody else orchestrating things behind the scenes?

b) the red hood persona, costume and mask, plus the elaborate plan he’s putting in place to both string along gotham’s rogues and enact his revenge against the titans seems too... fully-formed and elaborate to have been concocted in just a few days. how long do you think jason’s been planning this? just... stewing in resentment and building rage, dismissed and passed around and underestimated and realising that the power he thought he would get by being robin is no power, no protection at all, but something that’s left him even more vulnerable than before? 

c) do we think that the scarecrow is at least partly behind this transformation? because yes, it was batman that set up this whole hannibal lecter-esque situation with him, and he would be irresponsible enough to have jason-as-robin go talk to him regularly regarding “~profiling~” criminals. it’s not too far of a leap to assume that scarecrow could’ve been manipulating jason at a very vulnerable time, and that he could’ve passed along some of his chemistry know-how, too.

d) ... or fuck, i wouldn’t put it past titans to introduce ra’s al ghul in a fucking ten second aside

e) anyway, the thing that won’t leave me alone is jason seeking out the joker not necessarily to fight him, but to orchestrate his own death. the whole thing has to have been part of a bigger plan. he broke batman with it, after all. and he’s starting to break the titans, too.

f) i love it! i mean, it does re-tread some of the storybeats we had with deathstroke last season (turning the titans against each other as revenge, etc) but it’s... tighter, this time, and at least for now seems better-executed. and as a red hood story it’s different enough to be really interesting, and i appreciate the ways in which its reframed the revenge story to focus on the titans rather than just the batman. like fuck everything up, i say! turn it on its head! slash the innards out of that sacred cow and strew it like garlands in the path of the Story You Want To Tell!

(and yes i am fully aware that by the time i post this review, there will be a whole lot more information out but if i come across like a fool then goddammit i will be a fool!)

2. i love how every season of titans starts off with, ‘oh dick, you thought you were settling into a role and a life and a pattern of relationships? well fuck you, here’s a terrible and traumatic thing, tons more responsibility, and circumstances that will lead you to uproot your entire life and move somewhere else.’ and dick’s just like, ‘well, ok. fuck you, but all right’.

can you imagine? the man was just settling into leading a team in sf and smiling for the first time in years, and now he has to deal with jason’s death, bruce experiencing a full fledged breakdown, coming back to a city that represents more bad memories than good, red hood, and a frightening new case that seems to be targeting him and his team. it’s a testament to dick’s growth that he’s not reacting to this stress like he did last year, shutting everybody out, making irrational decisions and experiencing sharp, short bursts of anger. (not to mention a full fledged psychotic episode.)

2.5. but i’ve also talked about dick performing a fair amount of unwarranted emotional labour for his team(s) in that he just lets them take out their frustrations on him and... does nothing. be it his team exploding at him for jericho (both in flashback and present-day) or donna and hank needling him for handling deathstroke poorly or barbara berating him for not handling the bank situation as well as she thought batman would though just the previous episode she had talked about how fucked up it was that bruce just expected dick to step up and replace him in gotham without any real notice. i mean it’s all perfectly understandable and sympathetic from their end--and i’m not trying to bash them here!--but hank, my man, the same chin you’re asking your amigo to keep up is the one that you punched last year and never apologised for. just sayin’.

2.75. @superohclair did a wonderful breakdown of what the ‘fear’ contract could imply here and there’s not too much i could add to that. it’s just really interesting that fear ended up being such a defining feature of their lives, albeit it’s the fear of seeming less than invincible in the face of bigger, more tangible fears. am i making sense?  dick feared loss, and abandonment, and the more existential concept of turning into something that he didn’t want to. bruce so feared being alone that he’s scouting kids to replace robin within days of jason dying. 

it also goes some way in explaining the tense sort of... restraint that bruce and dick show in the wake of loss and tragedy, like anything less than complete control of your emotions can lead to tragedy. it’s conditioning that dick couldn’t shake off when he was at his lowest in detroit, hating his legacy but unable to let it go either.

2.775. but i definitely appreciate the softness that dick displays with his team now, checking on them after a mission-gone-bad, welcoming back old members with no caveats or resentments (and kory’s delight in seeing hank back! hank and dick hanging out together and hank trying to prop dick up!), and appreciating their teamwork in solving cases. that’s always been the essence of dick as a person, and the beating heart of this show: flawed and traumatised people coming together to a place that will always be open to them, where they can be their worst and be supported still, allowed to make mistakes and grow from them. that’s family.

2.8. coming back to bruce for just a sec, it’s interesting how that gotham rogue was so certain when he said that ‘batman doesn’t kill’ but it’s not a rule that either jason or dick put much store by when they were robins. the ‘no-killing’ rule clearly didn’t mitigate dick’s fears about turning into batman and jason’s never been seeing giving two shits about it. it seems to me of a piece with bruce’s distant, second-hand sort of parenting that we see in dick’s flashbacks from s1 where the fear was never about personally disappointing batman, but taking lessons from him on finding a place in gotham’s hellish ecosystem and surviving.

3. kory having waking flashbacks! i don’t buy the bullshit parasomnia episode explanation from fake!HPG (because c’mon, justin has to be some sort of tamaranean ruse) because for one, you have to be actually asleep for that diagnosis. 

(and here i was, hoping against hope that HPG would actually end up as the team’s therapist)

curiouser and curiouser! i wonder if these flashbacks are from the time between kory landing on earth and the beginning of season 1, when she was completely amnesiac? it’d be cool if the show was considering repercussions from that time, and if kory hasn’t gained all her memories back. 

4. i just love the vibes between gar and conner and kory. gar Having Things To Do is only one part of my wishlist for him, however: other parts include having an actual story arc, and actually bonding with members who are not conner and kory. (dick! dick! hank! dick!)

anyway. time to move on to watching ep3 and seeing this family bond and nothing terrible and tragic happening at all, nope, nosiree. 

[flyingupward]

so i��m thinking right now about what a turning point this scene/episode in general was for maureen. up until this point in the series, she has been trying to mentally strong-arm her way to alpha centauri with her intellect and her intellect alone. she’s taken the entire burden for getting not only her family, but all of the survivors who crashed after the robot attack, to their new home. she’s taken on that burden and, therefore, assumes all the guilt when she doesn’t succeed at the sisyphean task before her. and she blames herself because she believes that her genius intellect means it is her responsibility and her responsibility alone to save them all.

then this happens.

then she watches her son, the child who is the most like her, have the same thought process. will thinks he can do something special, will thinks it’s his responsibility and only his responsibility to get through to scarecrow because it’s something he thinks only he can do, will thinks he has to go it alone because it’s him that has this unique ability and no one really understands it or him and some people are even really scared of it so he has to keep it to himself and just go it alone.

she watches him go through that and almost get hurt because of it. and it’s only in that moment that the lesson finally crystalizes for her. and it’s such a good maternal moment for her to put it this way, to teach him this by saying, “here’s what i learned today,” because she did. will’s experience made maureen realize that, just like he needed support and backup with the scarecrow situation, she needed to stop shutting everyone else out and making herself the sole point of responsibility for everyone and everything.

i remember molly and toby once talking about how one of the great things about this show is that it isn’t just about what the kids learn from the parents, but what the parents learn from the kids, and this is such a beautiful example of that that i think the show does really well. it’s only through watching will as sort of a mirror of herself that she finally sees the change she needs to model for him and has the clarity she needs to make it.

yes, they’re different. yes, they can do things no one else can do, and they shouldn’t shy away from that. the reason i love that speech she gives about her mom so much is that she doesn’t blame him for trying to help scarecrow. it’s her way of saying, “i would have done the same thing. i understand.” she doesn’t admonish him for pursuing what makes him different. she just reminds him that, as she has just learned, him being different doesn’t mean he has to be alone.

i could write a whole other meta about this metaphor re: maureen and will’s respective neurodivergences and what this means for me as a neurodivergent person, but that can be later. suffice it to say i just love these two and this show a lot. kbye.

[babygirl06301]

SPN S1 Review

I honestly have no idea if this post is about to be hella long or moderate, but I feel like a lot of my feelings got aired out when I was reviewing each individual episode, so I’m just gonna dump the rest of my thoughts that I’ve jotted down while watching this season here. This is basically gonna be me saying, “Wow, this was interesting,” or, “This is similar to/different from later seasons because…” These are all coming from notes on my computer, so they’re half-baked. Nothing too fancy or analytical, but I’ll be doing one of these for every season.

Random thoughts:

I don’t like the monster-of-the-week, episodic format that much, and a lot of those episodes this season felt average in quality for me. However, when you don’t have much else to focus on besides an arbitrary goal of the boys finding John to kill something they know nothing about, it isn’t so bad. Filler episodes suck more later because they’re often completely disconnected from the main story, which isn’t the case for most filler episodes in this season. Plus, the main stories later have more involved goals for the season than this one did, which made the filler episodes later more annoying. For example, if Sam and Dean want to hunt a Tulpa at a haunted house because John is off doing something somewhere, that’s fine. Kill the time. But if Sam and Dean really need to figure out a way to kill God, like, now before Chuck decimates every fleck of existence he’s ever created, maybe don’t waste my time with an episode about a wood nymph, you know? If the stakes are higher, then the quality episodes shouldn’t appear with less frequency. All I’m saying.

The tone, acting, and writing of these characters is so different. Like, when you know a show intimately, these kinds of differences between one season and the next are natural to you. It’s not like I wasn’t aware that the boys looking for their father feels a lot fucking different than the boys having a kid, but when you actually let yourself be aware of how much the show has changed, it’s kind of crazy. Like, if I just think about it offhand, I’m like, “Yeah, this is Supernatural.” But if I break the fourth wall a bit in my mind, it’s like, “Damn, I really did watch these characters and their actors mature for fifteen years, didn’t I?” Crazy.

There are so many episodes that end with the Impala driving down the road. Like, an aerial shot of it. And if the very last scene isn’t that, then it’s probably the scene right before the last scene. Until the last few episodes, that is.

I don’t know why I’ve written this down, but it’s easier to remember episode titles in season one because you can match it to the creature without having to remember the plot. Like, “Oh, the Wendigo episode.” I’ve also said in this same note that the folklore plots died out later on in the series, which is true.

A quote from my notes: “The show really does feel better with Cas, huh?” Look, I’m not gonna say that the S1 finale didn’t slap, because it did. However, I will say that Cas can brighten any episode up, so, had he been in the series from the beginning, the season finale may not have been the only S1 episode to slap. Not that there weren’t other episodes that were good, but you know. Also, this isn’t to say that Cas should’ve been around the whole time because him coming into Dean’s life when he did was exactly perfect.

They do this later, too, but a handful of episodes in the early seasons will be like, “Here’s a girl. Now, one of you Winchesters, go bond with her this instant.” And it’s weird? You don’t need to bring a girl in just to make googly eyes at one of the boys? You could just give her the story she was supposed to have but minus all the flirting?

So, Sam is meant to be the central character for the first five seasons, right? Yes, Dean is supposed to be his equal; yes, he went to Hell and had that whole storyline; yes, he’s Michael’s vessel, but it was always really about Sam, you know? Sam was the one who had the connection to the biggest, baddest thing imaginable (at the time), that being Lucifer. Sam was the one chosen for Lucifer. Sam was the one with the psychic abilities and the one to drink demon blood and the reason Dean sold his soul. Dean is obviously a main character with his own story, but Sam was meant to be the special one, yeah? But even so, Dean is such a beautifully complex character because he wasn’t special. You can see that, even in S1—that his specialness came from his lack of central focus. It’s almost like the plot was saying, “Sam,” and Dean went, “I’m gonna cause problems anyway,” and that’s awesome. I don’t know if that makes sense, but I just feel like Dean is the most interesting character in the entire series, and he wasn’t even the one S1 picked out as special.

Sam’s psychic abilities seemed a lot cooler when you didn’t know as much about them. Like, yes, Sam having those abilities for the purpose of housing Lucifer is cool and all, but it felt so much more mystical when it just seemed like something Sam could do for some reason. Not that that would’ve been a better payoff than what we get—it’d be stupid for the story to say, “I know a demon chose you to be the vessel of Lucifer himself, but the psychic thing you can do? Just a coincidence”—but it’s some food for thought.

John is barely fucking there even though his existence permeates the entire fucking season. I thought he was so much more present than he was in this series. They treated him like they treated Cas. “We said his name a few times, that’s good right?” No. No, it isn’t.

I hate the pattern the episodes have in S1. It goes: location name, bad thing happens in said location, Sam and Dean talk about said thing, they go to said location, they research and maybe flirt with some random girl, they fight, they drive away in the Impala. Like, nearly every episode is like that.

Without demons in the mix that often, the tone of S1 is really different when you compare it to every other season.

Dean is a lot more emotionally vulnerable in this season. I mean, he’s not sitting down with Sam to talk about his feelings all the time, but his emotions are definitely closer to the surface. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that he hasn’t had to emotionally shut down to protect Sam yet. Obviously, he represses things because of the way he was raised, and because he had to raise Sam; however, he still had John to lean on at this point. So, he hadn’t developed that habit of hiding his feelings and leaning on no one but himself yet as he did when he lost John. Because of that, he was able to be scared and tell Sam that he was afraid of losing his family and stuff like that. He becomes a way darker character in after John dies, and he more or less only leans fully on one other person for the rest of the series, albeit in a different way.

John saying in 1x21 that he wants Dean to have a home after Azazel is killed is the saddest thing I’ve ever heard. For one, because John is aware that he deprived Dean of a real home, and by extension, is aware that Dean is damaged because of that. But also, it’s sad because Dean has lived 26 years of his life up until now without ever having a home he felt safe and loved in.

Dean running from a potential fight with Azazel in 1x22 is super interesting because he’s fighting to be a part of his family rather than simply fighting for them to be saved. Dean doesn’t want to die, isn’t willing to die. That’s something that definitely changes later. Big time.

Filler episode rate:

By my count, which admittedly might be wrong, there were 7 episodes that were primarily main story episodes this season and 15 monster-of-the-week/filler episodes. 

Now, in the early seasons, it isn’t as easy to separate the filler from the main story because almost every episode will deal with character conflict that’s tied to what’s going on with the main story. However, I called it a filler if the primary plot was just a random hunt. For example, I called “Scarecrow” a filler because, even though Meg was introduced after Sam and Dean have a big fight, the main plot is hunting a god.

My bottom 5 episodes in order:

These next two sections are based on my ratings of these episodes from my reviews of every episode. I’ve just ordered them, with one being my least favorite/favorite episode this season.

5.) 1x07: Hook Man

4.) 1x03: Dead in the Water

3.) 1x02: Wendigo

2.) 1x13: Route 666

1.) 1x08: Bugs

My top 5 episodes in order:

5.) 1x14: Nightmare

4.) 1x06: Skin

3.) 1x15: The Benders

2.) 1x21: Salvation

1.) 1x22: Devil’s Trap

My top episodes for Sam:

This section and the next will just be me bringing up some good points of development for Sam and Dean throughout this season. I mean, of course they develop almost all the time, but these episodes are some of the best/most interesting. At least, in my opinion. If you want to read more about my reasons, check out my reviews. Just search for “spn s1 reviews” on my blog.

1x05: Bloody Mary - Sam’s psychic abilities got alluded to for the first time during this episode, but it also told us how much Sam blamed himself for Jessica’s death.

1x10: Asylum - Sam’s resentment for Dean is voiced, and though he’s under the influence of a ghost while he talks about Dean, some of it is supported by development in other episodes this season.

1x14: Nightmare - Sam bonds with Max over their shared abilities and pasts. We also get to see that Sam initially related his own trauma when growing up to Max’s, even though he acknowledged that Max had it worse at the end. It’s an interesting point of development that Sam saw his upbringing that way.

1x19: Provenance - Through Sarah being a part of this episode, Sam reveals that he sees himself as dangerous because the abilities he has has put the people he loves in danger in the past.

1x21: Salvation - Sam reveals that he’s willing to die, and by extension, risk his family to get the job of killing Azazel done.

1x22: Devil’s Trap - Sam has to choose between losing his family through getting his revenge or losing his chance at revenge to save his family.

My top episodes for Dean:

1x06: Skin - Dean’s abandonment issues are touched on for the first time.

1x09: Home - Dean shows fear when faced with returning home and dealing with the trauma of what he went through the night Mary died.

1x12: Faith - This is the first episode that we see a serious internal conflict in Dean about the worth of his life, which is interesting, because we can see in later episodes that he doesn’t want to die. However, his attitude in this episode seems to suggest that he doesn’t see his life as valuable.

1x18: Something Wicked - Honestly, this isn’t my favorite episode in the world, but it’s the first flashback episode of the series; in it, you’ll see the reason behind Dean’s feelings of responsibility regarding Sam.

1x21: Salvation - Dean insists that nobody will die to kill Azazel, showing that he wants to be a part of his family rather than just saving them.

1x22: Devil’s Trap - Dean shows a darker side of himself in an attempt to get John back, and his fears of being unneeded by his family are revealed as well as his fears of losing his family.

Well, that’s all I’ve got for this season’s review. I’ll rate this season in my series review that I’ll write once all this is over, but my impressions right now are that the first season of Supernatural was all right. It didn’t necessarily walk in a straight line, but it still felt like there was a definite destination. And, on top of that, the season ended in one of the most banger ways an SPN season has ever ended. The monster-of-the-week stuff has made most of the episodes this season ones I would probably not revisit, but S1 is definitely still special. 

We’ll see if this changes later, but for now, my rating (and average, based on my ratings in my reviews) for S1 is ★★★☆☆.

[sylvieeee5]

Mamma mia, here we go again!

Episode 5 (with its absurdly long name): The Art of Conveyance and Round-Trippery! The preview was promising, so I’m excited to see what’s in store for us…

Oh! And for once, I’m not writing this liveblog solo. We have a couple of special guests…

Meet Bert and Ernie, my foster kittens! These boys are super sweet, and if today’s episode is anything like the last I’ll need the emotional support 🤣

Alright, without any further ado: My liveblog of episode 5: The Art of Conveyance and Round-Trippery!

!Warning!! Book and show spoilers ahead!

gee, I wONDER WHY THAT COULD BE

sticky’s face… baby boy…

I… do not like you.

WRONG

You prize blind loyalty, unquestioning loyalty. Meanwhile, Sticky is loyal to his friends and their mission, because he believes in them, and he knows they believe in him. There’s a huge difference.

Ooh-

There’re some parallels there to Mr. Benedict’s speech about the kids being “needed”, but in Curtain’s case, he only cares about what they can offer him, not their intelligence and value.

Okay, in depth analysis over- I think…

hhhhh

it’s written in the stars, i’m who i’m gonna be i’m taking on the world it’s time-

on that note, watch cleopatra in space!!

okay, back to this adaptation of a beloved children’s series-

WHAT THE FU-

ahem.

EXCUSE ME SIR??? I DO NOT LIKE YOU???

SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UPPPPP

oh man… my mind immediately flashes back to unfortunate-stranger-loser’s post…

Well that was all incredibly creepy! Time to listen to this upbeat bop of a theme song-

kate i absolutely adore you

what-

…

itdigfiytutudoyfitdyouc

you go, sticky

i love her

this boy-

❤️❤️❤️

WHAT

uh ohhhhh

gaslight gatekeep girlboss

kitten break- look at this cute little babyyyyy

alright-

Jackson with the chess metaphors…

Ooh! Good thinking!

MADGE??

what happened between them and those pigeons

Roll credits!

Ah, Dr. Garrison! Interesting to see you again.

wait… why is he looking at-

👀👀👀

HELLO???

what if we all started theorizing that this was some evil scheme for nothing and mans just wanted a nice hat hfogheoyclhoy

she is hyperfixated on this tower and that’s valid of her

YES YOU ARE BBY

she noticed he was spiraling and stopped him- I LOVE THEMMMMM

!!!

art critic constance

i love it-

Martina how did you find them??

she smile :)

she caaaares-

suuuuure, connie girl.

you’re right though, you’re not friends.

YOU’RE FAMILY

what

MADGE MY BELOVED!

AWWWWW

THIS MAN

angry birds

:) :) :)

she just ripped that scarecrow to shreds though you probably shouldn’t send her to the kids-

GODOYOFOYDYIYCODYTETGIYEJFJFYE

MISS PERUMAL?????

MISS PERUMAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SHE’S HERE!!!!!!

YES GO OFF MA’AM GO GET YOUR SON

i’m so happy at this turn of events!!!!!

an assassin she may not be, but did you see her face? she will absolutely throw down if you don’t tell her where her son is

YOU ARE NOT HELPING THIS WOMAN’S WORRY MR BENEDICT

i love this man but he sounds like a dolphin-

I LOVE HER SO MUCH

tetherball time

constance?

THERE IT IS

HOOOO BOY

FUOYIYELYFLIGDOJFITELUFYROJFYEOUFCO

I’M SORRY THAT LOOKS SO RIDICULOUS

egg

???

constance please don’t go alone-

that’s!! my girl!!!

oh no siri’s turned to the dark side

SON BOY

:( :( :(

ayy

number two,,, did you just grab a handful of weeds and serve them to your guest

sounds like my to-do list :)

Seems like Number Two and Curtain share that particular opinion jdjsdjdiodaijdw

wait... has constance been out here all day?? kate shouldn’t you be more concerned about her disappearing for hours???

oooooooooooh

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH

constance really said “it’s therapy time whether you like it or not”

Kate, this sounds exactly like what you were planning to do with the tower. Going solo? Only relying on yourself?

Trust seems to be a big deal with Kate, likely because her father broke hers.

directions! smart!!

THEM

awwwwwwww

STICKY!!! :( :( :(

Oh- does Dr Curtain relate? Is this why they changed his backstory??

YOU AREEEEE

I mean, not by this guy- not for the right reasons- but you ARE wanted!! By the Society, by Mr Benedict and co., and (hopefully) by your aunt and uncle!!

Stickyyyyyyyyy  ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

Home doesn’t have to be a place. Home can be a person... or people. In that sense...

she protecc :’)

!!!!

THANK YOU KATE for FINALLY putting that together :0

HHHHHHHHHH

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

yes bby  ❤️

she will aDOPT ALL THESE CHILDREN IF NEED BE 

SHE PROTECC

ooh, narcolepsy again

he really cares for these kids,,,

miss perumal:

THAT’S!!! HER SON!!!!

❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

YOU ARE VERY BAD AT SELLING THAT YOU ARE A RESPONSIBLE GUARDIAN

are they-

are they implying curtain uses animal testing?????

ALRIGHT GUYS I ALREADY HATE THIS MAN YOU DON’T HAVE TO CONVINCE ME ANYMORE

THAT LOOKS EXTREMELY UNSAFE

Another small-ish scene from the book (with some slight alterations!), you can tell they really did their research!

um... what??

WELL THAT’S NOT A CREEPY THING TO SAY AT ALL-

jdaeeyeukdadhuakdj

the hospitality- we love to see it-

,,,,,,, Mr Benedict,,,,,

she’s not a random person she is reynie’s amma thank you very much

:( :(

one moment, my laptop is being attacked by a savage beast-

weirdo.

hey constance? what does that mean? what happened to you child

MISS PERUMAL’S MOM??

!!!!!!

ooooooof

heh-

SQ!!!!!!!! MY BOY!!!!

YOU LEAVE HIM ALONE

son-

NO

YOU DO NOT GET TO CALL HIM SON

WELL THAT’S NOT A CREEPY THING TO SAY AT-

Welp! I’m afraid :)

That was really good! I’m glad we finally got to see Miss Perumal again (not to mention SQ-), and we really seem to be setting up the climax now! aaaa i’m not prepared-

w322222222222de 

thank you for that ernie.

I give Episode 5: The Art of Conveyance and Round-Trippery a 9/10!

And now, preview time!

0:08

WHERE? HOW? WHAT??

0:15

uh ohhhhh

0:25

UH OHHHHHHH

well that ain’t good :)

One last kitten check before I sign off!

:) See you all next week!!

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Top 5 'Supernatural' episodes that might surprise SPNFamily

Socially, we’re conditioned to ask the basics when we meet people. You know, the small talk questions: Where are you from? What do you do? How many siblings do you have? Eventually, we progress into the hard-hitting ‘getting to know yous’ of relationships, even if it’s reading someone’s words. Favorite song? Favorite book? Favorite movie? The thing is, people sometimes lie. Whether they mean to or not. No one’s favorite book is Anna Karenina; it’s just not. You can respect the book, but it’s not your favorite; you don’t revisit it regularly, it’s not a comforting blanket you burrito yourself inside. For example, my favorite song, book, and movie, respectively, are: “Just What I Needed” by The Cars, “Death Comes as the End” by Agatha Christie, and “A Few Good Men.” Have I heard better songs? Sure, as one of my best friend’s husband once said: “‘Just What I Needed’ isn’t even Ric Ocasek’s favorite song.” Have I read better books? Absolutely. Are there better movies? No. And I will fight you. My point is: sometimes I think that society, or in this case fandom culture, makes us feel as though we should choose things that we may like a lot but also simultaneously live up to some arbitrary social standard or norm, as our favorite. In Supernatural fandom I often see the same few episodes held up as universal fan favorites; episodes like “Yellow Fever,” “Changing Channels,” “The French Mistake,” “Swan Song,” and “Baby.” Maybe these episodes are your faves, but they aren’t mine; not even close. I’m not even talking about the episodes I think are the all-around best or the most quintessential (we’ll get into that in another article). I mean these don’t even make my top ten, they aren’t my go-to episodes, the ones I’ve watched the most, the ones I’ll watch out of sequence just because I want to relive the entire thing on a random Tuesday afternoon. In fact, one of those example episodes is in my bottom ten. So, which out of over 265 episodes, are my favorites? I’ll tell you not because I’m telling you that I think these are the best episodes and that you should agree (again, that arrogance will come in another article), but because I think this is a fun introduction. A way for you all to get to know me. Sin City - I’ll admit that “Sin City” isn’t the best episode ever penned, the quips are heavy-handed, and the plot is simplistic. Honestly, it’s kinda middle of the road, but that’s what makes it re-watchable without the emotional hangover of “Mystery Spot” or “Fresh Blood” (Besides, we’ll get into those episodes in a later article. What “Sin City” does have is a great supporting cast: we get to see Katie Cassidy finally start to her get bearings playing Ruby 1.0, we get a great scene at the beginning where Sam and Dean are such bratty, yet lovable surrogate children to Bobby, we meet and mourn Richie, the perv with a heart of gold, (I mean, he’s basically Dean (Jensen Ackles) without the suave or skill), and we cozy up in a basement with Casey the bartender demon who is insightful, witty, and deadly, but her quid pro quo with Dean gives us a good dose of classic cocky Dean Winchester who is also a scared little boy underneath it all. Bonus, we also get the rare unicorn that is goofy, chagrinned Sammy as he backs his way out of Trotter’s office. And anyway, if you don’t catch yourself saying “I make a mean hurricane” every time you look at the Red Lobster drink menu you are living your life wrong. Ask Jeeves - now, I’m going to stop you before you tell me that Fan Fiction is the best episode of season 10, because it’s really, REALLY not. It’s arguably in the bottom three of the season. “Ask Jeeves,” however, was a perfect play on the movie that inspired it (which is one of the best movies of all time, again, I will fight you) and was another episode overflowing with a great supporting cast with fantastic comedic timing. For an episode that was primarily a loose tie-in to the release of the Supernatural Clue game it could have gone so wrong, but instead, it went so very right. The soundtrack is stellar, the jokes and pop culture references are on point without being concussion-inducing anvils, and the mystery itself is background to the story without being disappointing. “Ask Jeeves” is a comedic romp with a nice little hit of Winchester family feelings; it’s a bread and butter Supernatural episode. Besides, Dash hunts pheasants. He. Hunts. Pheasants. Caged Heat - This is an ensemble style episode done right. We get one of the best interactions between Sam/Dean and a demon to ever grace the show (props to character actor Conrad Coates for delivering, “I know you're speaking, I see your lips moving, but I can't understand what you're saying 'cause I don't speak little bitch,” because that line is a mouthful) and from that we slide seamlessly into Meg getting the drop on the boys and Sam turning it on her in the blink of an eye because he now understands her calculating nature so well. Speaking of calculating, Sam using the the plot of Raiders of the Lost Ark to lure Castiel to him is a perfect segue into their mutually soulless tête-à-tête (full disclosure, season 6 Castiel is my favorite version of Castiel). We also get Meg taking on a pack of hellhounds, Dean threatening Samuel, Sam (Jared Padalecki) biting into his wrist to draw a Devil’s Trap with his own blood (that bloody grin is everything), Dean rescuing Meg from demon Christian. Then we get the brothers and Meg working in tandem against Crowley in perfect harmony, the fake-out Crowley death that we only later find out was all a set up between Crowley and Castiel (Misha Collins) who were working together all along. It’s an episode that works on your first watch, yet is even more brilliant in retrospect. Night Shifter - Okay, I’ll be up front, season 2 is not only my favorite season of Supernatural but one of my favorite seasons of television. Period. Even its weakest episode is still so damn good, but if I have to choose one to go on a list that is based on simple re-watchability, I have to hand it to this one. Meet conspiracy theorist Ronald Resnik; he’s that character that every procedural or genre show needs at least once a season; the one who is wholly unqualified, but still tries to be the hero. Not for the glory, but because lives are at stake and the right thing has to be done. We laugh at Ron and his mandroid ideas; Dean praises him, Sam shuts him down, both do it because he’s so close yet, oh, so far from the truth. And when Ronald gets shot (which while tragic, is gorgeously directed and edited) your heart breaks for both Dean and Ronald. You also get exactly that Sam wanted to keep him deep in the dark because the hunter life is nothing but pain and death. Speaking of impactful characters, we also meet Agent Henriksen in this episode, a character that is a perfect example of an outside POV of the Winchesters. His description of them being “dangerous, smart, and expertly trained” is so important because he doesn’t know what they really do, yet he understands who they are on a fundamental level, and while he wants to lock them up, he fully respects them as adversaries. This episode is cinematic; it literally feels like a complete movie. It’s beautifully shot, every actor brought their A-game (Dean’s little forehead punch when he hangs up with Henriksen is one of those tiny, silent details that makes a moment a moment). We get great dialogue (“I like him, he says okeydokey,” “its robot skin is so lifelike;’ Sam’s long-suffering “we’re not working for the mandroid!;’ Henriksen’s breakdown of the Winchester family that could have been clunky exposition but was instead just a smooth reminder of who they are with bonus (“yeah, I know about Sam, the Bonnie to your Clyde”). But if all that wasn’t enough, there’s also arguably the most iconic Supernatural moment and one of the top three musical cues of the show: Sam and Dean in stolen SWAT gear sneaking to the Impala while “Renegade” plays. I’ve seen this episode more times than I’m willing to admit, and I get chills at that moment every single time. Shadow - Yeah, I know, this is out of left field, but hear me out, because I think this episode is woefully underrated. First of all, we get a tiny peek into the Weechesters by way of Dean reminding Sam of his high school drama years. Not only did Dean remember Sam was in “Our Town,” he clearly went to the play to support his baby brother. We also get smart Sam AND Dean in this episode. Dean by way of visualizing the Daeva pattern in the victim’s blood and Sam using the flare against the Daeva shadow demons. Speaking of the brothers being brothers, there’s a lot to take in during this episode. Starting with them running into Meg and Dean being hurt by Sam telling her about their fight, but as soon as Sam reassures him that he’s with Dean by choice, not force, Dean slips right into teasing, wingman big bro mode. Add to that the subtle nod of trust we can infer by way of Sam taking Baby for his stakeout while Dean researches. This is an episode that on the surface is a basic hunt that ties into the now growing cohesive season throughline, but it’s actually all about family. There’s the brothers’ dynamic and the way their bond has solidified since “Scarecrow”, however, we also get to see Dean’s vulnerability when Sam naively thinks that this could be it, the end of it all, the catalyst back to “normal”, whereas Dean just wants his family together, hell or high water. There’s also the fact that no matter how you as a viewer personally feel about John Winchester, the demons know that he’s never far behind his boys; he’s always watching, always protecting them in his own way. And, of course, we get to see a full Winchester reunion complete with damp eyes, manly hugs and choked up voices. John Winchester saying, “hey boys”, the brothers saying “yes, sir” at the same time (this episode has two instances of Winsync Winspeak); John’s unspoken apologies; Dean’s face while Sam and John hug; Sam being the one who wants them all together, and Dean being the one to understand that they can’t stay with John. John mirroring Sam’s earlier words to Dean about letting go. All of this will always make me emotional. This episode also has one of my favorite horror tropes, one that Supernatural has unfortunately pulled away from in recent years: it’s creepier when you don’t see what’s after you, like the great Steven Spielberg once said about “Jaws,” what’s scariest is the “fear of the unknown.” The mechanical shark forced Spielberg’s hand, and a crazy tight budget forced Eric Kripke’s, but it worked; the shark is terrifying because you don’t see it until the end, it’s the anticipation. It’s the same with the Daeva being shadow demons and later in seasons 2 and 3 with the hellhounds. Unfortunately, in recent seasons we’ve now seen hellhounds, and, well, they were scarier when all we had were torsos shredded by invisible claws and our imaginations. And as much as this episode was packed to the brim with Winchester family fat to chew on, they aren’t the only family. We find out that Meg is doing what she does for family as well. The overarching theme of Supernatural takes form in this episode; human, demon, ghost, or ghoul, it’s always about family in some way. [caption id="attachment_52142" align="aligncenter" width="696"] Source: Home of the Nutty screencaps for all images[/caption] So, like I said when we started this, my intention isn’t to say these are the best episodes of Supernatural, merely that these are my top 5 comfortable sweatpants episodes. So, did any of your favorites make my list? Did I make you want to re-watch an episode you don’t think much about as much? Let me know.

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