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“i wanted you to stay of course i wanted you to stay”

gets me whenever i remember… it’s the of course part for me

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other things that get me are how 15x09 features an angel trap (not a ring of fire, a trap) in the wilderness, in a land of total war, of (God’s) abandonment…

Cas was lured into a ring of blossoms, into a tiny garden he wanted to use to protect his human fam… and then Dean awoke to Cas gone and that little grove scorched.

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After Dean’s prayer, Cas was energized; he got the blossom and fought, because Dean’s prayer is the blossom in so many ways. Their initial meeting was born from Dean’s resurrection. It’s literally a love grown from death, from ashes, over and over again!

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and then! visually 15x18 Dean and Cas enter, in Dean’s words, “another trap.”

This is echoed visually, as they’re inside a Devil’s trap now, with Dean’s feet still-in-it at the end. The devil’s trap inside a dungeon, a place of (God’s) torture.

Two traps. And aborted love confession and a clearly verbalized testament of love.

The traps are in essence the very same, only… one got sprung.

snippets via @spnscripthunt-inactive

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S1E2

This show really starts out with two brothers looking for their father and ends up with them dethroning God, huh? Struck by how much they were paralleling Sam with John - like a not a new realization, but it's such a Choice to set up the younger brother that way. But then, Sam had to leave in order to experience the death of his brief foray into normalcy. Also baby Dean understanding what's happening on an intuitive level because he already watched it happen to John and he's always trying so hard to be like him and can't because the only higher priority is to take care of his little brother and the two, as he is able to conceive of them, are fundamentally incompatible.

Help me. I will never be free of this show.

Rewatch of SPN:

S1E1

Where's that post about how the entire show is encapsulated by the first episode? John is the woman in white etc. Really thinking about the first season in relation to the whole show (which for the record I have only seen 10-11 seasons of), and oof. Dean hustling Sam out of the flames, its later parallel with Cas. The bridge. The Absence of John on screen. Hunting evil, hunting your father, hunting god.

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Rewatch of SPN:

S1E1

Where's that post about how the entire show is encapsulated by the first episode? John is the woman in white etc. Really thinking about the first season in relation to the whole show (which for the record I have only seen 10-11 seasons of), and oof. Dean hustling Sam out of the flames, its later parallel with Cas. The bridge. The Absence of John on screen. Hunting evil, hunting your father, hunting god.

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Destiel n°2 Serie “Heaven knows I’m miserable now” - Like I said, I’ll watch over you… graphite on paper & tracing paper - thebluegeranium  

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“I’m so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.”

— John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

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goin for the funniest guy ever award (´ε｀ )♡

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god i love this so much

crossing lines

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I just wanted to tell you that your work (crossing lines + epilogue) has giving me clousure. I hated the way the show ended, the queerbaiting, the way Castiel was treated, Dean's ending... Everything was just awfull. And I've been, kid you not, in a supernatural rewatch insane party since the show ended because I simple couldn't move on. And after years of being crazy, your fic has finally set me free, and I can finally close this chapter of my life and start living again.

I'M FREE!

Thank you for this message, anon. I, too, was locked in a state of feeling crazy about the show (it tends to do that to people). And obviously, at the time I wrote Crossing Lines I was just massively leaning into it as a coping mechanism for the state of the world at the time. Sometimes writing is just you locked in a room giving yourself therapy...

Thank you for reading, I'm glad if it was even a little bit helpful.

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For the love of god, please, someone make a Supernatural video set to Brother's Blood by Kevin Devine

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"The ghostfacer effect" was like spn speak for what gays implicitly understood in past media: The queer content could not be shown, and would only be aired in code. You have to watch for it in the corner of your eye, always just offscreen, never looking at it directly. It's happening, but they aren't going to show it, not on screen.

It's a mixtape you didn't see Dean give, an understanding of CBGB you never saw Cas aquire, a cardigan you never saw Cas & Dean joke about, a gay bar where you never saw anyone kiss, a fivesome that happened between scenes, pictures in hats you never saw multiple characters take, tables you didn't see characters drink themselves under, taunts from vampires that don't make any sense, euphemisms that fell out of use long before the audience was born, mood lighting intentionally placed that gets waved away as coincidence, mirrors with straight couples that are very on the nose, memories being rewritten, confessions left just a teensie bit ambiguous, group reunions where the camera is framed on only two people, euphemisms applied to both straight couples and a set of same sex "friends", knowledge the characters strictly acquired off screen, declarations to groups where only two characters are emotional...

Until Nov 5, 2020

When for one day they turned the camera directly into the sun.

They filmed it and the world shut down. They aired it and it stopped turning. Just for a second. The filter slipped, before it was fit back on.

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I think the Doctor Who special healed some of my Supernatural finale trauma

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John Green does not know who I am but has been more of an avuncular presence in my life since 2007 than my actual uncles.

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brokeback mountain / supernatural

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How in god's name am I supposed to answer this

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You know it can’t be overstated that Brian Jacques was able to make vegetarian meals based off of traditional English cuisine sound absolutely delicious to an 8-12 age demographic.

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Most people not knowing that tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease is part of the reason tuberculosis remains the world's deadliest infectious disease.

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Look, I'm just here, drinking my Awesome Coffee Club coffee out of my Anthropocene Reviewed mug, twiddling my Awesome Sock toes.

[Not pictured: the three Pizza John shirts I'm wearing]