"Well, you guys go Highway to Heaven that bitch." ↳ 15.15 - GIMME SHELTER

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15.15 - Gimme Shelter

OK listen.

I love the confession for the absolutely heart wrecking romantic gesture it was. The act of pure love that brought a cosmic being true happiness in a way he has never known. The way he looked at Dean Winchester, still beautiful, and told him with his dying breath "I love you." Pure true romance.

But as a casgirl (TGP Janet voice: not a girl), I also think a lot about

Because you cared, I cared. I cared about you. I cared about Sam, I cared about Jack... I cared about the whole world because of you. You changed me, Dean

From a character arc perspective this makes me want to walk into the sea. It's so fucking beautiful.

Cas is talking about the transformative power of love. Metatron was right. He was in love with humanity BECAUSE he learned to love from Dean. Because he loves Dean. Even before he can put words to it. And therefore he does love the whole world.

Cas was a loyal soldier. Lobotomies acknowledged, he murdered for Heaven over and over. He killed kids.

He wasn't strolling through Hell, saw a beautiful soul, and decided to rescue it. He was on a mission and he believed it to be a righteous one. A good one. He was actively working to cause the apocalypse and thought Dean should believe it an honor to be used.

Watching him untangle that past and learn to love and more importantly to be loved is something that speaks to me.

He isn't seeking redemption. He doesn't think he's redeemable in that sense (or perhaps it's more accurate to say forgiveness is something that he can’t control. It must be given from people like Lily Sunder)

But he does believe he can change and love and build a family even though he can't undo his past.

He doesn't have to let the past define who he is, and he doesn't have to serve the purpose his family believes is set out for him.

In 15x15, Cas says:

Like he still lives with his trauma but he isn't defined by it. He rebuilt himself and found a family and has a kid. He loves and is loved.

Anyway, yes he loves Dean, but he also loves the world. He also changed. And that is just as beautiful to me.

I love this parallel so much 🥺

Do you ever think about the implications of Amara being able to smell Dean's "very distinctive musk" while he was two states away from her? Like that means they canonically made Dean an omega bro, can you believe it

aw gee sorry I’d love to help but like I’m kinda busy thinking about this

listen listen listen i don't wanna be a hater but. i can just SEE the machinations and the network's grubby fingers alllll over the way amara is presented to dean in this episode and it's very much in a "hey lets remind the audience that dean uhh once had a thing with a woman. but the only most recent semi-sorta female love interest that makes sense to bring back is uh, amara. who was...very dubiously a love interest. if you squint. but we need to frame her as such when we bring her back to remind the audience that dean has had women love interests before to add some ambiguity on dean's end to the big gay scene that's coming up in just a few eps. need something for the general audience / non-destiel crowd to be able to point to to deny dean's very obvious feelings for cas. need to leave dean's sexuality 'open to interpretation' and it's been an age since he's been within ten feet of a woman in a romantic context so lets just. remind them of amara, i guess"

and it's also the same way i feel about the very next episode, 15x16, with the random flashbacks that show us this random girl presented in a childhood crush way to once again !! remind those audience members !! that dean has liked women !! to downplay the very gay direction this is all going. and it's infuriating to me. like regardless of what you headcanon his sexuality, bi dean, gay dean, whatever, the point is that by s15 dean's done with the bachelor lifestyle, he's done with casual sex and relationships with women, he's very much settled and comfortable in his domestic situationship with cas

like i don't hate amara at all but this framing in this ep is just. so unnecessary imo

Oh my god the parallels of Sam's Hell trials to Jack's trials to kill God and Amara........ I'm going to end it rn. I always sort of thought this because of the similarities in that:

they're a set of trials which are a great burden to be shouldered by one person for the greater good (very much in a classic hero's journey sort of way).

yet despite this, the reason at the heart of WHY they're doing these trials is because of a belief in their fundamental worthlessness or corruption without completing this grand act for the greater good (Sam and his need to achieve purity from the demon blood, believing the trials are purifying him; Jack, thinking of himself as fundamentally corrupt and having fulfilled the 'monster' status he so desperately wanted to prove that he wasn't, believing that killing God and Amara is the only way he can achieve forgiveness).

But now having watched 15.15 and just finding out that Jack's going to DIE because of this and he's known it from the beginning - RAHHHFJDBFIUHRUI JUST LIKE SAM WANTED TO DIE IN THE END. Another parallel and I don't like it, it's a punch to the gut, a knife to the stomach.

Billie... when I catch you....

"Like Sam always says, when in doubt, try social media." ↳ 15.15 - GIMME SHELTER

cas + popular musician fbi aliases

I need someone to make a parallel between Dean's "I'm the boss son."/"Mr Yamashiro's son?"/"I'm adopted." (spn 1x05) and Jack's "Marvelous Marvin, the Talking Teddy, I have one."/"Uh, for my stepson. Ronald." (spn 15x15)

They are the same 😂

Married. With a kid.

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