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shallowseeker · 7 months

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Shal, I hope you are feeling better! I wanted to add something to your Silvia-Amara meta if you don't mind me putting something into the mix as a long shot. Carmen from the djinn dream in What is and Should Never Be looks a lot like both of them. That seems like something!

Thank you. I'm feeling some better, but veeery sore and sleepless for the pain. (On the flipside, I can breathe better and already have more energy.)

This is so iiiiiiiinteresting, thank you!

I'll be honest...I had to go back to remind myself what Carmen even looked like. But yes! Carmen from the El Sol ad! Carmen the nurse! (I always thought she was a nod to one of Dean's psychosexual fixations, too; that is, films with hot men who dance like Swayze (Carmen 1983). I mean, hello Antonio Gades.

Plus, you know his thing for Spanish soap operas... ("Mi amor! Mi amor! Por favor despierta!" Poor Ricardo.)

And Dean's love for soaps from 7x03 The Girl Next-door. (Yes, the "My love, my love, please wake up!" one.)

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Ahem. Anyway. Back to our Carmen. *points* Oh, my God. Yeah, it's El Sol, but it's also the specter of the beach. I am choking on my own spit here.

There's definitely something analogous in Sylvia (from season 15's Gimme Shelter) being an idealized something that Connor maybe thought he wanted, felt comfort going after, or tried to make himself want.

For that matter, I think there's something parallel here in how Amara views her love for Dean, too. Amara's view of Dean is idealized, draped in always-or-never statements, and impersonal. Meanwhile, the Dean of season 11 has grown immensely since the djinn dream in season 2. His conceptualization of love has become less romanticized:

DEAN: I can’t explain it, but to call it desire or love…it’s not that.

Carmen was an ideal, and Amara was perhaps the network's ideal, but Sylvia is actually not quite as one-to-one to either of them here. Sylvia was a real relationship with Connor, even if was perhaps a tragic childhood misstep for Connor while he was trying to figure himself out.

Of course, Carmen Porter's own words come back to haunt the Dean & Amara and Dean & Carmen relationships. Even our idealized romantic relationships falter, and they too become as baggage-ridden as our family, and our family is imperfect.

CARMEN: Well, you don't really spend a lot of time together. I mean, I just think you don't know each other all that well.

In early days, Dean's conceptualization of Carmen is adorably immature, like a teenager's dream: someone who accepts my eating habits n' idiosyncrasies, listens to me, and loves me. Someone who is "respectable" and stable. (In season 2, Dean is still, like Amara, dealing with the core wound of his nursery.)

Sylvia and Connor seemed to know each other quite well and were "a couple." He genuinely loved her, in his own way. Their connection just wasn't exactly what Sylvia thought it was, or wanted it to be. She became angry with Connor and called him a LIAR, and then she murdered him.

Dean has carried healthy relationships with dark-eyed beauties as well, like Lisa Braeden and "I-thought-we-had-a-connection" Risa from season 5's The End.

Hmmm. Okay, yes. I think your point is a good point. And it has branching points, too. There's a lot tangled up in here! Season 15's Sylvia Jones has some uncomfortable similarities to season 5's Risa, especially.

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(REF: Here's the recent stuff about Sylvia and Amara-Silvia stuff and more Amara failing to recognize romantic love and Chuck setting Amara up for disappointment.)

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burtonbabygirlguster · 1 year

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the way jack talks about having multiple dads in the same episode with the gay kid in the church thing and how a lot of people didn’t accept him and cass was the one who was told about it 🤨

#by the way sam is also a dad #i didn’t know if it seemed like i thought that only dean and cass were dads #because sam is DEFINITELY a dad :)#deancas #destiel #dean winchester #sam winchester #castiel #jack kline #15 x 15 #gimme shelter #spn #supernatural

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soullessjack · 7 months

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god I just remembered how genuinely pretty jack is

#and then of course I remember that nobody else appreciates it because they think he’s a fucking baby.#but we stay winning because we get to keep the prettiest boy in the whole world for ourselves ^_^#cal.txt #spn #jack kline #the canon Bieber Suite Life lines …. the gimme shelter girl calling him hot . all of 14x06. he is literally canonically a pretty white boy #goooodddddddddd #ooohhh the voices the fucking voices

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fandom-hoarder · 8 months

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Lmfao Mrs Butters was in that bunker for WEEKS sending the boys on hunts and celebrating holidays with them before she took them hostage, but Castiel doesn't know about any of it. #WeekendDadLife

#lolol wheretf was he #spn rewatch #spn s15 #spn: gimme shelter #castiel #spn spoilers #< jic #tfw parenting

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mxhenriksen · 6 months

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he has a...sorry hold on gimme a minute sorry. he. wait hold up. he has a marvelous marvin the talking teddy bear

#spn #gimme shelter you will always be famous to me

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peacewhendone · 2 years

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peacewhendone’s polaroids (006/320) | 15.15 Gimme Shelter (Aired: October 15, 2020)

sometimes humans can be the worst kind of monsters.

#my spn polaroids #my edits #spn polaroids #supernatural polaroids #spn #supernatural #jack kline #sam winchester #dean winchester #amara #15.15 #15.15 gimme shelter

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castiellesbian · 1 year

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John Shiban:

1.06 Skin

1.07 Hook Man

1.11 Scarecrow

1.15 The Benders

1.20 Dead Man's Blood (with Cathryn Humphris)

2.02 Everybody Loves a Clown

2.09 Croatoan

2.15 Tall Tales

2.19 Folsom Prison Blues

Davy Perez:

12.04 American Nightmare

12.12 Stuck in the Middle (With You)

12.15 Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell

13.06 Tombstone

13.11 Breakdown

13.17 The Thing

14.04 Mint Condition

14.11 Damaged Goods

14.16 Don't Go in the Woods (with Nick Vaught)

15.04 Atomic Monsters

15.11 The Gamblers (with Meredith Glynn)

15.15 Gimme Shelter

#supernatural #writers tournament #polls #i like this one because it's like a pvp between old era and new era horror writers

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self-loathing-angel-of-thursday2 · 6 days

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Beautiful Spouse’s Rewatch Thoughts SPN 15x15 Gimme Shelter

“Is this fkn prison or what? School? Church? Homeless shelter”

“This is a very weird…the people who work those establishments are not like that at all” “Is this the first time we have a preacher with a non-crazy vibe? He’s probably the monster, though. Fkn religion and all that” “how many times have I said fuck for this thing you’re writing since we started? Not to mention the other blog” “nice shoes. Actually idk. I don’t like the white but they’re red though” “cursed objects? Yup. Alright” “I don’t like the gels in the shoes, though” “that’s funny” laughter

“The what thing?”

Mrs. Butters tried to kill Jack

“There’s that shit that didn’t make the recap” “he struggles with every interaction except color palette” “security cameras zoomed into that exact spot? How fortunate” “Who was the cowboy?” It was Cas

“How can there be such a thing?” “idk if my ears are fatigued or what, but the audio mix seems off on this one” “like the ambient noise is mixed in louder than normal, and the vocals seem more compressed than normal. The layering doesn’t make sense” “it’s not like that every scene so I think it was a mistake” “they’re going to try to help with a non-hunt? Some normal activity as opposed to paranormal activity?” “I suppose humans being shitty is pretty normal” “that was a good jumpscare. Not expecting whatever the hell that was” “that was funny but I wasn’t sure…how could they make that funny? What is she going to say to make that funny?” “this is Valerie, I take it. Ooooo” “is this supposed to be like Saw or something?” “oops” laughter

“That’s just odd” “I usually associate musk, the smell, not with necessarily good things” “not very well spaced out circle’ “I understand why they did it. Good for the framing, but it looks weird” “well fkn speak up then” “pierogi? Mmmm” “the background noise is different throughout the episode” “who isn’t?” “good little speech” “didn’t see that coming” “didn’t see that coming either” “thought he was going to ask to go get the fingers. Suppose they didn’t fly off anywhere so he can still heal them” laughter

“This has got to fuck you up. Being the religious one on the wrong side of the angel” “is this a two-part episode, or does she die now?” “lot of patina on that truck” “goddammit dude. You can’t drop a bomb like that literally and not tell Sam and Dean” “those conversations never end well”

#beautifulspouserewatchesspn #supernatural rewatch #supernatural #supernatural s15

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spnmarchmadness · 1 year

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im trying to find like bottom list of episodes so that i can add that weighting to the writers stats, but i don’t want to just go off of what EYE think the worst eps were. but imdb fans are crazy and their ratings can’t be trusted.

this is what galaxy brain looks like:

1/10: Didn't feel like this episode went anywhere at all. Funniest part about this episode is the liberal leftist rights wrote "president Hillary Clinton" 😂😂 and "USA rejoined the Paris agreement" made me laugh. Only in their wildest fantasy lol

1/10: First Cas lost his power somewhere back then, no logical explanation why he didn't get them back, now same happened with Jack... And on top of it God is a bad character trying to kill everybody? SERIOUSLY? I thought the leviatan season was stupid, then the one with Darkness kicked it's ass, but this is new level of idiotism! Not only offence to a whole religion, this is absolutely out of any logic! So boys used to fight mythical creatures from the legends, then some new made up monsters, and now god?

i mean they are right about cas being nerfed. but ya know. is galaxy brain the 12th worst episode of SPN? i think not.

anyway i love the gimme shelter reviews they are all WILD intepretations of the show.

7/10: Castiel is better than dean And demon dean is better than the normal dean And god castiel is better than the normal castiel And lucifer sam is better than the normal sam And god is the best villain in the show

#spn

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shallowseeker · 9 months

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JACK: Uh, for my stepson. Ronald.

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Maybe Ronald is a cat that Jack feeds. It shows up every Wednesday on the walking trail near the bunker. In true Alleycat fashion, it's always coming and going.

#jack kline #jack never brings him inside because he's a *free spirit*#spn 15x15 #spn gimme shelter

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unhinged-jackles · 1 year

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SPN Best Episode per Season

Masterpost

#spn #supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #castiel #jensen ackles #jared padalecki #misha collins #tanoo polls #spn season 15

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soullessjack · 7 months

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been thinking a lot about soulless jack’s arc and the various way it crashed through the ceiling and one of those ways is how there was absolutely no fallout from it in s15.

between the events of Game Night and Moriah, dean opened up an fbi file that listed jack as armed + dangerous with multiple charges, he and Sam literally tracked Jack through the trail of bodies left behind with every new target. the woman swallowed by the earth was literally televised live for half of the normal world to see, and not only did jack’s second trail of bodies with the Grigori literally get him on CCTV footage eating a heart, but it also landed him as the wanted armed + dangerous fbi target. I don’t know if Chuck reversing the lie command also reversed the world’s memory of it all or what, but Jack had like an actual impact on the normal world that just isn’t there in S15.

Nobody seems to recognize him once he’s back, not civilians who saw him telekinetically bury a woman alive on national television, not police officers or actual FBI agents aware of his still-active file or the CCTV footage of him eating a raw heart. Nothing. Of course it’s because everything Jack goes through is for plot advancement and nothing else, but that only adds to how frustrating the sheer amount of loose ends in his arcs is.

While I’d personally rework the entire season to have more focus on Jack, I do think there was some potential to revisit it in Gimme Shelter especially, where the main villain is literally a Christian Jigsaw who punishes those she deemed “wicked” and “corrupt” in almost the exact same way Duma had manipulated Jack into doing. Even in the way the episode canonically plays out, Jack and Sylvia do have some connection: both dealing with loss, grief, hopelessness, helplessness, and disappointment. Now the episode doesn’t exactly bank on their emotional connection as a plot stronghold for when Sylvia is revealed to be bad, like Sam and Ava in All Hell Breaks Loose, but the ghost of a narrative foil still haunts it anyways.

Sylvia is obviously meant to be some sort of foil or mirror for Jack in the sense that she reflects what he did and what he’s currently suicidally guilt stricken about. As usual, Jack tries to reach out and help Sylvia because of their similarities, because she’s in the same pain he is in, to which she refutes: “you’re just a scared little boy trying to make his daddies happy.” The mirror for Jack’s past actions is basically belittling his guilt-driven attempt to make things right with Sam and Dean and the rest of the world. The hopelessness, helplessness and disappointment they related to each other is exactly what Jack feels within his own situation.

I mean, he’s literally suicidal. He’s actively working towards killing himself as a last resort for redemption and atonement without there even being a guarantee that he’ll actually get it in the end.

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restlesshush · 2 years

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Okay actually I’m going to pull my exploration of the discrepancy between Jack frequently seeming perfectly cheery in s15 vs the fact that logically he’s suffering horribly the whole time into its own post. Obviously, the reason this all comes about is at its core bad careless writing, but this is spn – trying to make in-world sense of bad careless writing is just the territory.

So like, the thing with Jack’s cheeriness when it crops up in s15 is that it’s very incongruous with every other indication we get of his emotional state that season. In particular, the fact that his whole arc is about feeling so guilty for accidentally killing Mary that he tries to kill himself to save the world, and get the forgiveness of Sam and Dean, even though they’re two people who mistreated him horribly at the end of the last season. Jack’s cheeriness is arguably his most consistent purposeful character trait, but here it jars massively with the reality of his situation.

Which leaves you with the question of “okay, this doesn’t really track as an emotional response, so where does it come from?” To some extent you can argue that he hasn’t quite processed the reality of his situation, and like, this is partially true, because it is true that he doesn’t realise that he’s been mistreated. But that’s sort of, more about the spin he puts on his situation than how distressing it actually is to him. It just means he doesn’t think he has any reason to feel resentful towards Sam and Dean for, y’know, having tried to lock him away forever and then trying to kill him and then not apologising for or acknowledging any of this. That doesn’t mean he’s not distressed by it, it just means he’s not holding it against them. It doesn’t in itself explain how he can be so cheerful without it being put on.

What all this does do though, is sort of grease the gears for him putting on fake sunshineyness. Like, as far as Jack is concerned, all of his suffering and distress is somewhere between entirely deserved (eg guilt over Mary) and entirely unjustified, someting he is wrong for feeling (eg any distress at living with Sam and Dean after everything). So y’know, him projecting a cheery persona for Sam and Dean doesn’t really clash in his brain with the reality of their treatment of him, even if him doing that isn’t reflective of his emotional state. He might also even feel like he owes them his best behaviour, given as far as he’s concerned it’s him who needs to make things up to them, and not the other way round. In terms of other people he interacts with, he was friendly and polite towards strangers during the widower arc too, which wasn’t a happy time for him either. He might be able to take refuge in those interactions to some extent, but that doesn’t mean how he comes across in them is actually representative of how he’s feeling. In general, there’s precedent for him faking, and he also doesn’t think any suffering he experiences is something he deserves sympathy for, so it makes sense that he’d do forced cheerfulness like that.

The main stumbling block here is the alcal doesn’t seem to play Jack’s cheeriness as put on. Which does feel like kind of an egregious (though, pretty par for the course) writing/directing/acting oversight given *gestures at s15 Jack*, but regardless I don’t think it has to dent this interpretation. It just makes it look like Jack is really good at faking things. Like, in Gimme Shelter, he seems perfectly cheerful on the case, but also clearly isn’t because 1) he can’t make himself give a speech to the prayer group and 2) until he tells Cas in the car, he is actively withholding the information that he’s going to sacrifice himself, something that indicates he must be doing quite badly emotionally, given he claims to be fine with it. This means, if you’re going to assume he’s a character with an emotional throughline, he has to have been distressed the entire time y’know?

(Also, though the scope of this argument covers all of 15x13 to 15x15 (I think it should go without saying he’s definitely not fine 15x17 onwards lol, and in 15x11-15x12 he already doesn’t seem fine), I’m pretty tempted to suggest we should discard his casual, bubblegum-popping cheerfulness in 15x13 entirely anyway, because it actively doesn’t fit with the much more subdued and anxious soulless Jack we had in 15x11 and 15x12 (who doesn’t have any particular reason to have got more relaxed in the meantime), aside from that fact that separately, Buckleming can’t be trusted with soulless Jack.)

Anway, in all of 15x13-15x15, you’ve got moments where Jack is clearly distressed, and moments where he seems perfectly fine, so if we assume he’s genuinely distressed when he seems so, then we’re left with the conclusion that he’s distressed the entire time, we just don’t always see it. His cheeriness isn’t something that can be taken at face value at all, instead it’s something he’s putting on, with various factors pushing him towards doing that. Which is super upsetting and doesn’t make for a fun viewing experience, but is also does make for a much more interesting character, so, swings and roundabouts I guess?

#spn meta #jack kline #suicide mention #spn s15 #spn 15x13 #spn 15x15 #usertabitha #my 'last holiday is psychological horror' agenda #spn #worded thoughts

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autisticandroids · 2 years

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Hi. Since you seem to be a Cas-understander with a good grasp of canon, do you mind helping me figure something out? I have a SPN theory that hinges on just how much Castiel's actions are motivated by guilt. I mean, I know they are MASSIVELY motivated by a desire to fix the stuff he thinks he broke (and often did break), but my question is: How many instances can you think of where Castiel helped spontaneously, without being asked or there being some perceived kind of debt or exchange? I can only think of the example of him healing that baby's mystery illness, and tbh I've forgotten the context of that. Oh and there was that case he took while Sam and Dean were imprisoned by the feds... bc of angel business... nevermind. Everything else is either requested (including his rebellion, though that was a Big Ask and is what my theory is about), a bribe (Soulless Sam), self-inflicted punishment, or a debt that's owed (Claire). Just... in a show about two brothers who do the shittiest volunteer work possible but which they actively seek out bc they want to help people - and sometimes kill things, but mostly it's about helping - Cas seems kind of passive until something forces his hand.

well there are a couple situations where he works cases - golden time and gimme shelter, for example. and arguably heaven can't wait - he calls dean for help in that episode but he does take initiative there. and he frequently helps people who ask him to, often other angels (see: season nine and early season ten angel plots; rachel's approach to him in the man who would be king). and of course dean, as you said. and i'll throw in kelly as well.

but you've hit on something interesting about cas because he is in fact extremely passive. he tends to just sort of stand there and wait for someone to give him an order, which, you know, kind of makes sense. he spent billions of years doing just that, it's what he's used to. so in the first few seasons, he mostly does that. then a bunch of bad things happen at least nominally because of choices he made, and that natural passivity turns into trauma-induced learned helplessness. he essentially learns that he can't do anything right, and reacts by trying to yoke himself to the nearest authority figure. i've written or reblogged a lot of posts about cas and choice and post-godstiel trauma generally, here's a selection that i might suggest:

on honey cas specifically: one / two / three

on his reactions to godstiel arc: one / two / three

on cas and free will generally: one / two / three / four

also, interestingly, the vast majority of his conflict is based in this tendency to do what other people tell him: most of his conflict is about divided loyalties, where he's trying to obey two different sets of people who hate each other, and eventually has to choose between them (usually but not always heaven vs. the winchesters).

also, interestingly, when he does help people proactively, it's him acting as a hunter (as noted before, in golden time, gimme shelter, and heaven can't wait, as well as a bunch of times offscreen in the dabb era when he goes hunting with jack bc they didn't feel like paying misha and alcal that episode). so that's something he learns from salmondean and from being around them, it's not something he would have thought of before, being an angel, essentially expected for most of his existence to be a machine that follows orders. but it also doesn't make a ton of sense - in stairway to heaven, we see cas ordering a contingent of his army to go help people with their angel powers at the local hospital, which, if later, after that falls apart, he wanted to help people, is something he could do instead of hunting, so it's interesting to see him functioning essentially according to expectations rather than thinking logically about what would help, but cas have never been the most logical guy in the universe.

and the thing is that this has a doylist explanation: cas is a side character. salmondean, as protagonists, have to Do The Plot, and cas has to just sort of sit there waiting for them to tell him what to do. this is why, for example, cas is the only one who is allowed to show his trauma and issues by collapsing and being unable to do stuff (as opposed to hitting things and yelling and drinking and flinching but still accomplishing tasks at the same rate as normal). and it's also why he only does things when other people ask: because his motivations don't really matter to the narrative, so they don't really exist.

but also re: your ask: i also think it's... kind of strange? to conceptualize such an intense moral distinction between types of motivation, and between active and passive. but let me play in the space for a few paragraphs and see where it takes me.

so like... the winchesters seem to also be significantly motivated by other things? like, revenge (notably sam in the pilot, because he wanted out of the hunting life and didn't change his mind until jessica, but also a lot of moments in the later seasons like dean killing the stynes or moriah), or family obligation (i feel like this is obvious), or, yes, guilt (at the end of season seven, once dean isn't keeping him in the life, sam dips immediately, and then when dean comes back he guilt trips him aggressively with the potential people he could have saved until sam is broken down, and this is when sam seems to give up his dream of leaving hunting; in what is and what should never be, it seems like dean's main motivation for leaving the dream instead of just dying in there, happy, is the guilt of all the people he's not saving.

plus, as the show goes on, they seem less and less interested in saving people. for example, in season eleven, sam has a few episodes of like "hey maybe we should try prioritizing saving people instead of just killing things" and dean is like you pussy idiot. and then sam is taught a lesson in 11x06 (someone literally says "pacifism doesn't pay" in it) and reverts back to the old ways of not...... really caring about victims all that much. but even in the beginning saving people was kind of a tenuous goal at best. in season four, sam and dean have this big argument over sam's powers, and sam's argument is that the powers save people instead of just killing them, and dean's argument is that... using inhuman abilities makes sam a monster and monsters are bad. and in the end, dean's side is endorsed by the narrative. so like the "saving people" in "saving people, hunting things" is frequently just sort of a bonus.

i mean, look at stairway to heaven, the episode where cas has angels (including one called flagstaff) helping people at the local hospital:

FLAGSTAFF: No. Can I go? I have lives to save. DEAN: Welcome to the club. [FLAGSTAFF smirks] Something funny? FLAGSTAFF: Not funny "ha ha." But you thinking you help people -- it's amusing. I help people. A clogged artery here, a tumor there. I do good in this world. You -- you believe every problem can be solved with a gun. You play the hero, but underneath the hype, you're a killer with oceans of blood on his hands. I hate men like you.

dean has no answer for this, and ends up just physically assaulting her. and in the end, dean ends up semi-purposefully wrecking cas' whole organization, a group whose purpose was to help angels and organize them into a nonabusive form of government, because cas can't be allowed to make choices outside of following dean's orders (echoes of godstiel arc here). like cas is actually punished for any attempts at agency he takes, including attempts to help people. so it kinda makes sense that he's like... not big on initiative.

and re: the distinction you make between active and passive altruism, how is going out and actively trying to help people so different from giving help when asked? especially if you compare him to the winchesters, who frequently refuse requests for help (especially from cas, actually). which smacks of their desire to help people maybe having more to do with control than help.

#spn #asks #katoska

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kittenofdoomage · 2 years

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Ok, so here they come. Birthday Celebration / Share the Love Fest Part 2 (since my love for you was technically part 1 ;))

I'm going to start with my original Tumblr family, though who knows how many are actually still around or will see this. I'm experiencing big nostalgia here and will probably also forgot so so many of those who made my time here special all those years ago, but here goes:

@littlegreenplasticsoldier - always and forever one of my absolute favorite story tellers. The way she puts a story together with something that looks like ease (no matter how furiously the feet are paddling below the surface - I know!) Ali always took such care with our SPN family, weaving compassion, consideration, and respect into all the relationships. And my God, the stories! All were so great and she knows my favorite **cough / Force of Habit / cough** but I recently stumbled across the Winchester Triplets saga again, and man, what fun. I have to give her props for always being willing to take our prompts and build such a great life!

@mrswhozeewhatsis - another amazing supporter of all things SPN fanfiction, Michelle is such a generous and fun writer AND reader. I know she's taken on Pond duties, but I also have a hilarious memory of some stationary!kink. I do think there was more, but here's what I found!

@manawhaat - Mana is another amazing Pond runner. So many great ideas. So much support of the SPN fanfic writer community. Also a great lover of John, along with the boys, and I remember a surfer!au that made me want to dive into the ocean of Winchester.

@sebbytrash - Kale is a writer no matter how much she'll tell you she isn't. She was a founding member of the Pond and such an amazing and giving reader. She used to compile regular fic recs of any and every SPN fic anyone tagged her in and gave such good Dean edit reblogs. She's across the Atlantic from me, so every morning I would wake up to just the stuff of dreams in my feed, mostly thanks to her. She switched to Marvel, and especially Seb, when she really picked up writing steam but it was always fun to see. And I can't forget this little Steve number she made for me.

@withoutaplease - Laur was perhaps the first Sam!girl I connected with on Tumblr. She came on the scene like a freight train and did not slow down. Her boyfriend!Sam series was a dream. These days she keeps me flush with Steve/Stancy/Eddie/Billy fic/art/dreams. It's glorious and I'm glad she found a writing bug again, even if it isn't SPN!

@saenalife - somewhere along the way I got it stuck in my head that Saena was from Scandinavia, so it was always a mystery to me how well she captured the Oregon coast in her fantastic Dean x OFC fic, Gimme Shelter. I always love to see her cross my dash, even if it's not new fic.

I unfortunately never interacted much with @thepriexperience when I was actually active in the fandom, but I follow her and love her random spams of whatever feelings are happening in the moment. You'll have to go to AO3 to find it now, but her Under the Hood Into the Heart series was amazing!

Thank you, Rhi, for letting me relive some fun memories here!

😘😘😘😘

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enfrigginfuego · 1 year

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2022 Fic in Review

I found this while I was looking for something else and decided to revive it for this year!

Tagging: @maryellencarter, @ysalamiri-queen, @called-kept, @tabbiewolfreblogs, @mistr3ssquickly, @dukeswonderousmenagerie, and @sempaiko! (Hi, SW friends, this is still @hixystix/@x-wing-junkie!)

So, for 2022, I have:

Total Number of Fics: 10 posted, 1 that will be posted, 1 I plan to write, 1 that might not get posted until the new year.

Total Wordcount: 158,099 (so far)

Fandoms: Lupin III & Star Wars: Rebels

Most Popular Fic (by bookmarks): At Sea (41 bookmarks)

Most Popular Fic (by kudos): Also At Sea (170 kudos)

Favourite Fic: Little Thefts, published 11/09

And below the cut, a month-by-month recap!

January

Nothing this month!

February

Morning Coffee: a short little Kalluzeb office AU ficlet! Pretty cute and fun to write, it was inspired by some @sempaiko art.

Ties That Bind: my first foray into multichapter Lupin fic, this is a soulmate fic that tries not to be a typical soulmate fic. After all, just cause you have a bond doesn't mean you don't have to work on your relationships, right?

Gimme Shelter: This was supposed to end up being LuZeni porn but just became a sorta sweet, sorta silly survival fic. Got to draw on my Wilderness EMT training, so that was fun.

March

The Last Prince: Part of my SPN/Rebels fusion series I wrote with Sempaiko! I wrote plot, she wrote porn, it worked well. :D

At Sea: Started in March, completed in May. This was my follow-up to Gimme Shelter and turned out to be a hell of a lot of fun to write. Because of course Lupin would tag along on Zenigata's vacation!

April

Resistance: So this wasn't intended to serve as a goodbye to the Rebels fandom, but it kind of did that anyway. I still love it, but I burned out a bit after 2 years, 58 stories, and almost a million words.

May & June

I was in a medicinal haze these months and got NO writing done. I was just glad I finished At Sea in time.

July

Smother Your Sorrows: This one is ALL @maryellencarter's fault for giving me an angsty prompt. It was an adventure to write because I was both thrilled to be writing again and challenged with characterizations and emotions I hadn't written before. Pretty proud of this one.

August, September, & October

I was working on Smother all these months!

November

Little Thefts: written for my friend @lots-o-doodles, who wanted something JigLup involving Jigen's purple shirt. It went more places than that, but it's cute and it's sweet and I have fun re-reading it!

Thief of Time: Still in progress! I actually wrote the first three chapters of this back in Jan/Feb, but it took me until November to figure out how to continue. If I can pull off this next chapter, I'll be as proud as I am of Smother.

Birthday Presents: Dashed off in a couple days for Jigen's birthday, this actually was the only smut I wrote so far this year!

December

Still to come: my Lupin holiday exchange fic, a LuZeni smut fic for Christmas (hopefully) and hopefully the end of Thief of Time!

#Susan memes #fic in review 2022

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