this comment on the 15x09 deancas prayer scene .

The Angel & The Righteous Man

“that kind of image [of the male power fantasy] is one marked not only by emotional reticence, but also by silence, a reticence within language. this absence of language can be further linked to narcissism and the construct of an ideal ego. the acquisition of language is a process profoundly challenging to the narcissism of early childhood. it is productive of what has been called ‘symbolic castration.’ language is a process (or set of processes) involving absence and lack, and these are what threaten any image of the self as totally enclosed, self-sufficient, omnipotent.”

steve neale, “masculinity as spectacle: reflections on men and mainstream cinema” (1983)

supernatural 1.03 // 10.16 //13.21 // 15.01

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supernatural, 4x01/5x03/15x18 || someday, we’ll say hello, @spohkh​

performative utterances and dean winchester [judith butler voice] gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original, that heterosexuality is always in the act of elaborating itself is evidence that it is perpetually at risk that it "knows" its own possibility of becoming undone. [squalloscope voice] i'm a copy of a copy of a copy of a woman you're a copy of a copy of a copy of a guy [tumblr user marcusantonius voice] this western action hero is dead [this post voice] dean winchester as a copy of a copy of a copy trying to resuscitate something that will always feel inauthentic and in fact feels increasingly inauthentic the more it tries to stabilise itself the more it tries to performatively utter itself into existence and who is the utterer? eric kripke? does dean winchester exist? can dean winchester unpeel himself from the text and from his own empty xerox can dean winchester speak? is this anything am i anything

I truly cannot be online today and im sorry to turn this into a symposium but literally this is the thing. like the insane thing about this re camp especially is you’re not supposed to be able to LEAVE camp? if you are pure camp there is not meant to be an avenue out of that. OR if there is, it is meant to be done on purpose – awareness of the camp comes to the writer, and they tip the scale to awareness, and then they either begin deliberately camping or they reroute. but there was no tipping scale with dean. and it wasn’t on purpose. his awareness occurred independently and DESPITE the text. and I still haven’t cracked how that works but I’ve been Stewing. anyway here’s to my favorite de-camped sentient male fantasy 

@marcusantonius​ fried her brain on scoobynatural

Men that Dean would have had freak nasty life changing sex with if the network and executives weren't cowards and allowed him to explicitly be bisexual instead of hiding his sexuality behind subtext and implications.

HIT HIM WHERE IT HURTS !!!!

it's always a little funny seeing people watch supernatural for the first time and they get to cas' intro and expect him to be really sweet and then he's like. threatening dean and pushing him up against the wall and chokeslamming demons and he sounds like he smokes a pack a day. and then 3 seasons from his introduction he's practically committing angel genocide. he's our little war criminal your honor <3

there was this one fic, i cant remember the title or ANYTHING else about it but it had like a paragraph that said that cas was created because gabriel asked for a little brother and like one of the reasons why cas was so different was because he wasn’t originally created to be a soldier he was created to be loved and like every time i think about it i want to slam my head against a wall 

7x17 // 15x18

“Kind of butch”: rejecting Middle America

The Winchester brothers, as their popularity on CW and fansites suggest, broadly fill the popular type of hunky heroes who fight the bad and protect the good. They drink beer out of the bottle, win fistfights, outsmart nearly everyone, can (if they want) get the girl in each episode, interact easily with children, often making them feel safer, and engage in witty banter. But despite their shared background and status as “tough guys,” the brothers are classed and gendered differently, precisely because of their different relationship to the originary supernatural trauma. Sam does not remember his mother or her death or much of what Dean associates with a difficult childhood; he is depicted as the more sensitive and soft-spoken brother, and is capable of, as well as invested in, upward mobility. Dean does remember their mother, having to carry his brother out of their burning home the night she died, and much more of their childhoods; in short, he remembers the downward turn, from the big house where his mother tucked him in to the rundown motels where he had to care for his brother. He neither pursues upward mobility nor accepts middle-class values.

— Julia Wright, “Latchkey hero: the horrors of class in Eric Kripke’s Supernatural”

YAAAAAAAAY ❤️❤️❤️

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