#we want real happy endings

[ananke-xiii]

On Supernatural, getting what you want and the power of stories

I'm writing this post on the spur of the moment and I'm not exactly sure what my real point is, but I felt the urge to share my thougths with... well, I would say with someone, if by someone we mean any possible tumblr users that might stumble on my ramble.

It's all started after I've finished watching Supernatural and, among the many things that this show has made me think about more deeply, there is one that has just stuck with me and I can't seem to shake it off.

This thing is the idea that you can't get what you want. It's my own personal feeling, it might be the case that the show left you with something else, hopefully more positive. In my case, though, I was left dumbfounded after my discovery that the story I was passionately following for the past few months reached no catharsis.

Let's take Mary Winchester.

Mary: since life is about getting what you want? (from s12x12)

I'm sorry but when I heard this line my heart sunk a little. Her character starts off as a trope (the fridged woman that sets the action into motion), then gets back into the play in a fascinating way just to be literally erased from the face of earth. The show can tell us that she's happy in Heaven but this is not reassuring at all and doesn't change the tragedy inherent in her character.

The we have Dean Winchester, of course.

Pamela: How come you only want what you can't have? (from s14x10)

In this scene we are in Dean's "dream life" and yet, even there it doesn't seem possible for him to get what he wants. Why is that so?

Finally, we have Cas.

Cas: The one thing I want, it's something I know I can't have. (s15x19)

This was so hard to watch. I mean, not only does he want just ONE thing, but he also knows (or think of knowing which is the same for the audience as we don't know exactly what he wants), that by default he cannot have it. On top of that, because of the deal with the Empty, Cas had to actively choose between happiness and LIFE: it's just atrocious.

These characters, like many others on this show, were killed off without reaching the end of their becoming. Or, worse, the completion of their becoming was death.

So this got me thinking.

First of all, as far as storytelling is concerned, we as a collective have taken death too literally. Writing this in a silly post about frigging SUPERNATURAL where characters have died and come back countless of times seems CRAZY but hear me out.

There are two immensely powerful things that are intrinsically connected to the image of thread: stories and Destiny. They both inevitably lead to an ending. But death is not a fucking ending!

And it's precisely because of that, among all shows, Supernatural was THE perfect show that could have finally showed&told us this truth.

Think about it: we do not need to end stories with death. In the stories we have the incredible power to show death figuratively. So, for instance, a character that goes through their becoming can come out the other side both very much alive AND very much dead, because their past SELF has died. It's called metamorphosis, look it up!

In a story (and I would argue in life but I don't want to get too philosphical here) death is just a step in the process, it doesn't have to equate with the literal ending.

So why are we scary of this? Because it's frigging frightening!!! And exicting!!! And revolutionary!!! And I think we should start telling stories where people get what they want, become what they want and yes, a "self of them" dies in the process but this is good!!! It should be celebrated!!! And this death doesn't need to be literal/physical, more specifically this is a kind of death that doesn't cut off the becoming but enables it.

Stories are power. If we can't get what we want in our stories where does this leave us? No, I won't accept that. I think people are starting to realize this, too. We don't want silly stupid stories with silly stupid happy endings (and I would argue that, symbolically speaking, marriage is a form of death, too, but I digress). We want powerful stories vouching for the possibility of transformation, of catharsis, of getting what we want.

(so unfridge Cas, Mary and Dean, please)

[hyunpic]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY HYUNJIN 🖤

[lunarharp]

being attached to that moment qifrey held a baby one time and my ideas for the future :)

[mintharasthrone]

more “gay” pages posting complete homophobic garbage claiming bisexual women are lesbians

[padawansuggest]

I really hate pining with all my heart, so here’s an idea: CodyWan who fall in love within the first month of meeting each other and hold hands and give hugs and little nuzzles and everyone else is like ‘yeah. Cody and the General. They sure are friendly…’ but no one says it to them till they overhear it one day and straight up go ‘we got married on month two of dating’ and everyone loses their minds they thought they were in a ‘everyone but them knows they’re married’ AU but they’re actually in a ‘speedrun strangers to old married couple’ AU and they’re so confused.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

hold on i need to get a thought and emotions out. so with Welcome Home, there seems to be a before and an after. obviously, we're in the after. the website is the after. and if it turns out that the story we see, the one where shit hits the fan and the show is practically erased, then... that already happened. whatever horrors we see, we'll know that there is no saving them. there is no happy ending - it happened, and it's tragic. the show is doomed to end and be scrubbed away. if any of the characters are revealed to be dead/gone by the website, then when/if we see them at an earlier point, we'll Know

and there's a special kind of dread and horror in that for us, the audience.

[rystiel]

ok look i know people like to say that tomgreg should get together then crash and burn but. i want them to have a happy ending they are literally such goofy weird dumbass freaks that they NEED to have a real and genuine long lasting happiness together it only makes sense

[thehealingsystem]

Seeing some debate on if in game henry being an ink version of him makes the time loops less evil and imo it makes it even MORE evil. He was given false memories of a life he never lived, been put through hell and back ever since creation and has no hope of any other purpose in the world. He was literally MADE to suffer. And he isn't even the henry that had left joey, just some replica he made to take his anger out on with no regards to that person's wellbeing

Just because he's made of ink doesn't mean he's any less alive. He still feels things, still has thoughts and opinions, still conscious, he is a living being. No, just because he isn't the real guy doesn't make it less cruel. Its just as, or even more so, a disgusting and evil thing to do to him

[kit-kat-jo]

WHAT THE FUCCCKKK WHY DID IT END LIKE THAT??? 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[puhpandas]

I keep thinking about how on earth they would canonize ggy bc like. at this point if they have to sacrifice Gregory screentime of just him to make something we already know actually canon, I would rather just take the screentime, but on the other hand they have to canonize it if they want to do anything at all with that plotline, and that makes me wonder if theyll stick with it as canon in the games at all or just leave it as background knowledge if u read the book 😭

[twinkdemise]

[ghostlycleric]

i dont think anyone will ever understand how bad i want little moments for byler in season 5. like i want byler in the complete background of a scene having a moment. i don’t care it could be holding hands, a comforting nudge, whispering to eachother, anything.

[designernishiki]

Fun fact: Takeuchi the guy who wrote those MineDai RGGO stories said that he thinks Mine and Daigo should be together. Like yeah bro. We got that memo loud and clear already

(if you have a link to where he said that id LOVE to see it btw)

YEAH he made that pretty fucking Obvious.

you know……with the combined power of takeuchi wanting minedai to be together and yokoyama being super into mine and wanting to bring him back…………you see where im going with this

[celestie0]

i might have to bite the dust and read the jjk manga idk

[evakuality]

Druck S3 - Five Years on