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Do you have any thoughts on the Empty's "you made it loud?"
The two things that come to mind are some old-school religious systems where elder gods find humans "noisy."
Enlil comes to mind, finding humans so noisy and annoying, that he can't sleep, so he sent plagues, drought, and flood.
The country was as noisy as a bellowing bull
The God grew restless at their racket,
Enlil had to listen to their noise.
He addressed the great gods,
'The noise of mankind has become too much,
I am losing sleep over their racket.
Give the order [to kill] (Dalley 18)
This of course makes me think of the Shadow's need for peace as well as Amara's complaint in season 11, that she wanted peace and quiet.
AMARA: Spoiled brat. I needed solitude and he needed a fan club, so he made all that. Then when I complained, he stuffed me in a hole for eons – with your help.
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The other more ominous association is Jack from Lord of the Flies. The story terminates with Jack as authoritarian ruler over the brainy-and-shelter oriented characters Ralph and Piggy.
This has some...implications for how Jack Kline terminates his journey with a Castiel-coded destiny, doing what Godstiel could not...becoming a better, more powerful God, and taking up Castiel's family's tragic motif of becoming absent, distant.
It's a great tragedy, I think, that the end of his journey illuminates the very worst of Cas and Dean:
CAS: What sounds good to me is Jack fulfilling his destiny.
DEAN: Okay, yeah, but… icing on the cake? I mean, Chuck wanted Cain and Abel, and… now we’re going all Biblical on him. Killed by his own grandson. That sounds right to me.
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Ultimately, it is the military tribe of Heaven that maintains its ultimate power, even moreso than the hunters.
from 14x19 script
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Jack ends the story, not as a human or a hunter for "the little guy" and championing small-time survival, but as a supreme authoritarian motif, a Heavenly King. (The Good king fallacy, imho.)
You'd think the conch motif from Lord of the Flies is a reach when it comes to SPN, except that Belphagor takes on the motif, using Lillth's Crook in a similar manner to the conch, drowning everything out as he moves to take power.
Cas destroys the crook in a fit of overpowered rage (per script), going so far as to incinerate Jack beyond any hope of recovering him into his body.
Since Belphagor is of Hell, and Cas can more easily see the problem of Heavenly-authoritarian power here. All the same, time and again, like most of us tragically, we're often okay with our own child taking power. And Jack ultimately does just that, from the questionable practice of eating hearts to going along with Billie's self-annihilatory plan.
CAS: And I know now that this child must be born with all of his power. (12x19)
And
SAM: Jack, you… you ate their hearts?
JACK: I… I had to.
DEAN (to CAS): And you let him?
[CAS nods.]
DEAN [frowning but unwilling to have an argument] Hmm.
(15x11)
I actually think Castiel has a very lovely come-to-Jesus moment in 15x18 Despair with, "We don't care about you because you fit into some grand plan...but because you're you." But like with Dean, he only comes to his senses after Jack's died twice. And it's too late!
I'm sure there's more I can think of, but it's been a very long time since I've read Lord of the Flies. :-) I'll add to this if I think of anything else, but those are the main two that come to mind!
#jack stuff#asks#the empty#you made it loud#the corruption of jack kline#jack kline#jack lucifer parallels
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i don’t know how to explain this but ssn 16 should be abt saving jack from being god
#something abt power corrupting and turning him into something he isn’t and doesn’t want to be yada yada#i want this#i can’t explain it#obviously cas needs to be there and there needs to be an adress of the confession scene#but what tips off the fact that something is wrong is that no one can find cas#it’s also cause i can’t think of anything that could follow up fighting god/the narrative and they already did that (and lost)#spn#supernatural#destiel#jack kline#castiel#spn season 16
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fucked-upnatural where sam is pregnant with jack. he begs dean to get rid of it who agrees but how the fuck are you supposed to find somewhere that will give a male abortion How Do You Explain That? so he has to resort to some back alley supernatural surgeon and sam dies in the process. except. well. he doesn't. the baby persists. jack brings him back to life. when sam wakes up again he throws up and dean doesn't know what to do. sam dies again when he gives birth to jack; how else could he get it out? But he's forced back together again soon enough. dean doesn't know what to do with jack after watching sam go through the pregnancy and neither does anyone else. Lucifer is the first person to show jack unconditional kindness and its too sweet a fruit to resist.
#try caring for this monster child after your brother suffered months of misery for it#and you know how sam tries to see the best in jack and truly believes hes good in the show?#here like... he wouldn't outwardly be horrible to jack like dean sometimes is but he can't look him in the eye. jack makes him sick#NOW somebody slap on how jack feels growing up when his parents won't be anywhere near him. lets hear it for#lucifer corrupts him by being the only loving parent he's got arc!#jack kline#sam winchester#dean winchester#lucifer#dictions#supernatural#spn
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most of those are jokes but not the one about dean going slowly insane in heaven as he realizes no one he’s talking to is real and his pseudo-son he once tried to lock in a box to keep everyone safe has now locked him in a slightly nicer box where he can talk to his Fake Mom and Fake Dad and Fake Brother all he wants, and jack even lets him think he’s escaped sometimes and made it to different universes just for fun. i want to say none of this is malicious on jack’s part, and i’m sure he believes that and that he’s being a good and kind god who doesn’t even let dean feel pain and erases his memories whenever he gets too stressed in his tiny heaven enclosure, but also. it’s a little cruel, pulling wings off of flies and all, but not evil, only the sudden overwhelming realization that he can control everything all the time in the hands of a three year old who learned all of his morality from the man he’s inadvertently torturing with paradise.
#that make sense?#jack is a benevolent god. but there is no such thing as a good god. no such thing as a creature with that much power who can be kind.#it isn’t so much ‘absolute power corrupts absolutely’ as ‘noninterference cannot co-exist with goodness. interference via omnipotence can’t#coexist with freedom.’ something like that? if that makes any sense.#he’s not corrupted. he’s exactly as he was. he just has control over everything now. including heaven. including dean.#he’s giving dean a nice afterlife :) dean is not allowed to leave or be unhappy. he’s just not.#jack kline#dean winchester
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i think jack and daniel matthews would be boy best friends tbh
#cal.txt#sawposting#spn#supernatural#saw 2#saw movies#saw franchise#daniel matthews#jack kline#girls when their corrupt father screwed everyone over and now nobody trusts them#girls when they’re just kids and life is a nightmare#daniel and Amanda is soooo jack and Mary coded if u think about it ….
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Megs Kinktober 2022
[I would just like to mention this blog is run by a 16 year old so if that makes u uncomfy then leave]
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Day one - James Potter + lactation kink
Day two - Eddie Munson + spit kink [gn reader]
Day three - Steve Harrington + corruption kink
Day four - Johnathan Byers + mommy kink
Day five - Steven Grant + body worshipping kink [gn reader]
Day six - Bucky Barnes + choking kink
Day seven - Gabriel + praise kink
Day eight - Matt Murdock + somnophilia kink
Day nine - Marc Spector + humiliation kink
Day ten - Spencer Reid + bondage kink
Day eleven - Aaron Hotchner + authority kink
Day twelve - Sam Winchester + blood kink [gn reader]
Day thirteen - John B + innocence kink
Day fourteen - Dean Winchester + a/b/o
Day fifteen - Stuart Twombly + vouyerism kink
Day sixteen - Mitch Rapp + exhibitionism kink
Say seventeen - JJ Maybank + knife kink
Day eighteen - Jack Kline + oral fixation kink
Day nineteen - Luke Alvez + marking kink
#•kinktober 2022•#•megs smutty daydreams•#eddie munson smut#mitch rapp smut#stiles stilinksi smut#harry potter x reader smut#marvel smut#supernatural smut#stranger things smut#harry potter smut#criminal minds smut#aaron hotchner smut#jonathan byers smut
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Ungod
Author: AmberXBoone
Artist: Rezal
Rating: Explicit
Pairings: Castiel/Dean Winchester; Lisa Braeden/Dean Winchester (past); Castiel/Kelly Kline (past); Eileen Leahy/Sam Winchester; Cassie Robinson/Dean Winchester; (past); John Winchester/Mary Winchester; Lee Webb/Dean Winchester (past)
Length: 58922
Warnings: Minor Character Death
Tags: Lawyer Dean Winchester; Priest Castiel (Supernatural); Lawyer Sam Winchester; John and Mary Winchester are Alive; Castiel is Jack Kline's Parent; Corrupt Priests; Explicit Sexual Content; Alternate Universe - Lawyers; Murder Mystery
Summary: Dean Winchester, Esq. never really wanted to be part of the family business. But, here he is, working at his father’s NYC law firm, being told to represent some Church whose head priest allegedly stole thousands of donated dollars from parishioners. One day, lost and confused, Dean wanders into the Church confessional, finding solace in a faceless voice. Later that night, Dean wanders out of a bar with a lonely stranger - only to wake up and realize that the body that spent the night in his bed was the same shadowy figure behind the confessional screen.
Dean soon learns that Father Castiel Novak knows all the Church’s secrets and wants to expose Father Chuck Shurley and everyone else there – but after one of the nuns, Sister Isabella, is found dead after knowing too much, Castiel and Dean have to figure out how to lose this case for the Church while making sure Castiel isn’t the next victim of the truth.
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Concept: Jack Kline was turned into an Ostium
And looking at how the Ostium was used in the season finale further underscores what will be needed in the future for the story to move forward, and for Jack and his family to heal.
Let's go through it:
LATA: Our box has a name. They call it the Ostium.
CARLOS: Oh. Latin for "an opening in the body." What, didn't any of you guys ever go to Sunday School? ...So is that thing organic? Is it a mouth or... [chuckles] any other kind of hole?
LATA: Let's just stick with a mouth, please.
ADA: So this box eats monsters?
–SPNWIN 1x07, "Reflections"
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ADAM: It's one of my ribs, dude. Everything can contain the spark of the divine, but this puppy? It's packing enough punch to create life. Or, in your case, destroy God.
SERAFINA: Jack, making your vessel strong, reclaiming your human soul, it was... it was all preparing you for this.
JACK: What'll it do to me?
ADAM: Start an elemental chain reaction. It fuses your soul and your grace into a... Like a...
SERAFINA: Metaphysical supernova.
DEAN: Meaning what?
ADAM: You'll collapse into a living black hole for divine energy. One nothing can escape—not the darkness, not God himself. But once it starts... you can't stop it. So, don't use 'til game time. You dig?
–SPN 15x17, "Unity"
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Dean: All that prep work we did to turn Jack here into a cosmic bomb? Oh. Well, it turned him into sort of a power vacuum. He's been sucking up bits of power all over the place.
–SPN 15x19, "Inherit the Earth"
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"A living black hole for divine energy" / "a power vacuum" is akin to how the Ostium functions. (And remember that Chuck orchestrated this outcome.)
The final step of Jack's transformation in 15x17 and the way the Ostium is activated are also similar:
Adam's rib, containing extra "spark of the divine," was placed in Jack's palm and he absorbed its power. After his initial explosion outward, Jack was then turned into a vessel that acted as a vacuum for divine power.
When an item was placed on the Ostium–like a rock from the Akrida's world–it absorbed the item, which determines what powerful beings the box "eats" and where it sends those beings when activated.
Both Jack and the Ostium were also wielded as weapons.
Which, of course, this show condemns explicitly:
LATA: So you had a friend stuck in a cycle of violence, and instead of helping him, you wielded him like some kind of weapon?
–SPNWIN 1x06, "Art of Dying"
And, with Joan / the Akrida Queen, we saw what happened to a hunter who absorbed monster essence: she became corrupted.
JOAN: What I decided was that the monsters weren't the problem, kid. Mankind is the problem. They always need saving. And Hunters are the ones who end up paying the price with our lives. And then what do these rescued humans do with their precious second chance at life? They waste it… kill each other, beat each other down, destroy our planet. Monsters have it right. Humans are nothing more than food.
LATA: Is that you talking? Or is it the monster essence that's powering you?
MARY: The monster essence drove her mad. She became so obsessed with making sure that Hunters were protected, and she believed the only way to do that was to wipe out everyone who needed saving.
–SPNWIN 1x13, "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"
(Joan is also a dark mirror for Dean, but that's a separate meta topic entirely.)
With how Jack is acting in 15x19 and the SPNWIN finale (and as part of Chuck Won as a concept), something seems to be wrong with him along those lines.
So in regards to the Ostium, what was the solution the team used in the season finale? What did they need to defeat the Akrida Queen?
ADA: The Queen is about to sing her swan song. We can't rewind this tape here.
CARLOS: Wait. What if we could rewind the tape? Metaphysically speaking, if you know what I mean.
–SPNWIN 1x13, "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"
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CARLOS: Well, whatever you feed it creates a portal connected to that object. So we fed it the rock, and it was able to shoot the Akrida back to their world.
MILLIE: So, if we feed it the journal and trace the sigils in reverse, the Ostium can bring here whatever was tied to the journal... the Mystery Man, if he's even alive.
–SPNWIN 1x13, "Hey, That's No Way To Say Goodbye"
They reversed the polarity of the Ostium to try to summon Dean, which required using the journal–something “personal” and “clearly connected” to him, as Mary said at one point.
Now, of course, the result when they used it on the Ostium was that it gave the team the Impala rather than Dean for plot reasons. However, the point holds: Dean's journal was the key to metaphysically rewinding the tape and getting the Ostium to release / return what it had absorbed.
That journal was filled with Dean's thoughts, which we got throughout the show in the form of the story he's telling / narrating. They're the healing lessons repeatedly demonstrated by the 1972 gang that Dean has to use in his own life to free himself from the trap he's in, break the cycle of violence, and get his own happy ending.
So, follow the through-line:
The Ostium and Jack are seemingly similar. Just like Dean's journal was used to reverse the Ostium and get it to release/return what it absorbed... The lessons inside of Dean's journal are what’s needed to reverse the polarity of Jack’s transformation, getting Jack to release the God power he absorbed too.
And what are those lessons in Dean's journal? Ah, well, that's what The Winchesters (the story Dean is telling) is dedicated to showing and telling us. That's the function of the entire show.
To highlight a few mirroring moments relevant to the topic at hand:
TONY: You're scared of your own son?
ADA: I'm not scared of you. I... you are my son, and I love you.
TONY: If you love me, you would've told me the truth.
[...]
ADA: I... was wrong to lie to you about who you are, and I was even more wrong for not believing in you. I know you're not your father. You're not the worst parts of him. You're not the worst parts of me. You're just... you're my... You're Tony.
–SPNWIN 1x05, "Legend of a Mind"
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MAC (possessing John): Why did you give up on me?
TRACY: I didn't know how to help you. I was scared.
MAC: I was scared too. I needed my family by my side.
TRACY: I know it's about ten years too late... but I'm here now, and I am so sorry.
LATA: It's not too late, Mac. You can still break the cycle.
–SPNWIN 1x06, "Art of Dying"
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MARY: Because I still want to get out of hunting. I really do. But it's not gonna be at your expense.
–SPNWIN 1x06, "Art of Dying"
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Mutual honesty, apologies, and forgiveness between Dean and Jack are the vital place where they must start. After all... Jack went through with his transformation and later with the corrupting absorption of God power simply because he was desperately trying to earn Dean's forgiveness, something that was repeatedly emphasized throughout season 15. The cycle remained intact instead of broken, and that's why they lost.
So saying that they need to reverse the polarity... What does that mean? It means that their family needs to have emotional release for there to then be the cosmic release of God power, so that that power can be put back out into the universe and no longer have personhood.
Only then will they break the cycle of violence and be able to be free of Chuck's influence once and for all.
You don't need Jack and Ostium parallels to understand and know this about the story. But I do think it's neat, further enhances the overall themes, and once again supports the fact that a Chuck won plot / what happened to Jack was deliberately being centralized! :)
#the winchesters#spnwin meta#the winchesters meta#chuck won meta#chuck won theory#jack kline#spnwin finale#spnwin 1x13#the ostium#chuck won truthing#me actually posting meta??? it's a fucking miracle#hi everyone I've been learning video editing so I haven't been writing all the meta pieces I still want to do about this show smh#my meta
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“I always felt like the kid that sat at the foot of the gods,” said Treat Williams, who has died aged 71 following a road accident. And it is true that the first decade of his movie career was dominated by one high-calibre director after another.
John Sturges put the doughy-faced, darkly handsome actor toe-to-toe with Michael Caine in The Eagle Has Landed (1976), adapted from Jack Higgins’s novel about a plot to kidnap Winston Churchill. Miloš Forman gave Williams his first lead, as the hippie Berger in the screen version (1979) of the 1967 musical Hair. He was an ill-tempered army corporal in Steven Spielberg’s wartime comedy 1941 (also 1979). Sidney Lumet drew on his cocksure swagger and his air of moral ambiguity in Prince of the City (1981), a thriller about police corruption. And Sergio Leone cast him as a union boss in the gangster epic Once Upon a Time in America (1984).
It was Lumet’s film that announced Williams as a formidable talent, with a special aptitude for ensemble playing. He starred as Danny Ciello, a corrupt drugs squad detective who becomes increasingly isolated as he informs on his colleagues in the elite Special Investigations Unit. The character was based on the detective Robert Leuci. Williams lived with Leuci while preparing for the part. He also attended drug busts and hung out with police officers. “By the time we started rehearsals, I was thinking like a cop,” he said.
Janet Maslin in the New York Times commended the “playful, arrogant, effectively brazen quality” of his portrayal. Equally integral is the seam of self-disgust that runs through Ciello, first when he is exploiting his power over drug addicts and dealers, then when he turns on his own kind.
Williams went on to display a menacing eroticism in Smooth Talk (1985), directed by Joyce Chopra and based on Joyce Carol Oates’s 1966 short story Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? When he turns up in the second half of the film as Arnold Friend, a vision of adult masculine prowess that the teenage protagonist (Laura Dern) seems to have been yearning for, he is simultaneously ridiculous, alluring and intimidating.
Williams was born in Stamford, Connecticut, and raised in nearby Rowayton, the son of Richard, a pharmaceuticals executive, and Marian (nee Andrews), an antiques dealer who also ran a sailing school. He was educated at Kent school, Connecticut, where he first began acting, and at Franklin & Marshall College, Pennsylvania. He studied in New York at the Actors Studio, where his classmates included Mickey Rourke, and was hired as understudy to four parts (including Doody, played on stage by John Travolta) in the Broadway production of Grease. Eventually he took over the lead role of Danny Zuko, which he played for three years.
Having already appeared on stage in the London production of The Ritz, Terrence McNally’s comedy about a hounded businessman hiding out in a gay bath-house, he was then cast in Richard Lester’s 1976 movie version.
Auditioning for the film of Hair was a lengthy and arduous process. During his 12th audition, he recalled: “I started removing all of my clothing. At the end of the monologue, I was standing stark naked in front of them … They applauded, and I told them: ‘This is all that I’ve got, I don’t know what else I can give you.’” It was enough.
Discouraged when Hair, 1941 and the comedy Why Would I Lie? (1980) continued a run of box-office flops, he began an alternative career flying planes in Los Angeles. A call from Lumet, who was looking for an un-starry and largely unknown cast for Prince of the City, put him back on track.
He continued to alternate between film and theatre, following Lumet’s picture by appearing in Ohio in Carlo Goldoni’s farce The Servant of Two Masters and on Broadway taking over from Kevin Kline as the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance. On television, he played the boxer Jack Dempsey in the TV movie Dempsey (1983), Stanley Kowalski – opposite Ann-Margret as Stella – in A Streetcar Named Desire (1984), the title role in J. Edgar Hoover (1987) and the super-agent Michael Ovitz, co-founder of CAA, in The Late Shift (1996), for which he was Emmy-nominated.
In Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead (1995), he played a thug working as an undertaker and using corpses as punch-bags. He was also in the noir-ish Mulholland Falls, the superhero adventure The Phantom (both 1996) and the thriller The Devil’s Own (1997), starring Harrison Ford and Brad Pitt.
Better than these were two projects that displayed his versatility: the monster movie Deep Rising (1998), in which he does battle with sharp-fanged sea-serpents, and The Deep End of the Ocean (1999), starring Williams and Michelle Pfeiffer as a couple reunited with their son many years after he was kidnapped.
He starred in Woody Allen’s Hollywood Ending (2002), played James Franco’s father in Danny Boyle’s 127 Hours, and the writer Mark Schorer in Howl (both 2010), which also starred Franco as Allen Ginsberg. He had a recurring role on the series Everwood (2002-06), as a widowed neurosurgeon settling in Colorado with his children, and on the cop drama Blue Bloods (2016-23). He also appeared in many Hallmark channel productions, including the series Chesapeake Shores (2016-22), as well as the Netflix musical Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square (2020).
He is survived by his wife, Pam Van Sant, whom he married in 1988, and their children, Gill and Ellie.
🔔 Richard Treat Williams, actor, born 1 December 1951; died 12 June 2023
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A Bit Of A Fixer-Upper
Series: Fluffy Faerie Tales
Fandom: Supernatural
Pairing: past Charlie Bradbury/Gilda, pre-Sastimmy/Jamstiel (Jimmy Novak/Sam Winchester/Castiel)
Rating: General
Tags/Warnings: Half-Fae Sam Winchester, Jimmy and Castiel Are Twins, Selkie Jack Kline, Sam Winchester Is Jack Kline's Adopted Father, Political Ramifications Of Magical Revelation, Autistic Cas and Jimmy, Supportive Charlie Bradbury, Sam Winchester Is The Best Boss Ever
Summary: Charlie Bradbury was a fixer, the kind of person who stuck it out in bad situations with needy people and tried to make things better. It wasn't much surprise that she would end up working for a half-faerie cafe owner who was exactly the same.
For: @fluffyfebruary challenge!
Prompt: Day 15: Craft
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CHARLIE BRADBURY WAS a fixer. It was in her nature to see a problem, come up with a solution or six, and then try and fix things. It was why she had lied about her age and education in order to get a job to help pay for her mother's cancer treatments when she was fourteen. It was why she had stuck it out in IT for years despite being vastly overqualified due to her abilities as a hacker. It was why she had stuck it out with her ex-girlfriend until it became abundantly obvious that, despite how much fun they had, they had wanted different things, and also why their breakup had been amicable enough to remain on friendly terms. It was how and why, when her hacking had turned up trails of corruption and embezzlement by her boss, she had contacted her ex who had put Charlie in touch with her cousin and she had gotten Dick Roman fae-cursed and sent to jail.
And it was why, when she had realized that the faerie who went by Sam and was willing to trade his cursing services for three days of help in the cafe he owned was trying to run a cafe by himself while also taking care of a small child? She had quit her IT job that she honestly hated more than she let on and moved across the country to become the first full time human employee at Lighthouse CommodiTeas. The cafe was not especially different from working IT, really, aside from her efforts to make a truly excellent cup of coffee earning much more appreciation and the lack of fear from assholish or abusive customers who threatened to have her fired if they didn't get their way. Sam had one rule for his cafe's customers, posted in plain sight for all to see and heed: be polite or else . Any dispute between Charlie and a rude, entitled customer had Sam fully on her side with no uncertainty thanks to his ability to tell when someone was lying, and the starting salary was $25 an hour on top of full coverage health and dental insurance which was unheard of in food service jobs run by humans!
When she had asked Sam why, he had shrugged. "I'm over fourteen hundred years old and have had plenty of time to amass a small personal fortune which I don't actually need much of to live simply and comfortably here in the mortal world. I have the cafe mostly to provide an employment history and proof of domicile for my son's school and to give me something to do day to day that keeps me in touch with the mortal world and the times. Since I'm independently wealthy, don't bother drawing more than a nominal salary from the cafe earnings for myself, which leaves plenty to pay any employees I might acquire a perfectly livable wage for the area after purchasing ingredients and disposable stock like the custom cups and paper napkins. Paying you a livable wage reduces your stress from worrying how to afford things like rent, utilities, and food, which means you're more relaxed and able to work the hours you need while still getting the breaks you need to remain healthy and happy working here. Frankly, I thought the logic was obvious. It's bizarre that so many human employers don't see it that way."
It was hard to argue with that, as a couple customers who tried to berate Charlie for "laziness" when she was on break found out. He wasn't wrong, either, which tended to frustrate the real douchebags who were unfortunately still smart enough to escape before magic got involved. But Charlie had since learned that many of the small businesses on Seven Mile Island, especially in the borough of Avalon, followed that same salary practice. When she had mentioned that to Sam, he had smiled fondly and only said, "Imagine that."
Rowena MacLeod, the proprietor of The Kitchen Witch who, it turned out, was also an actual witch, was more forthcoming.
"Samuel is a more influential person on this community than he is quite willing to admit, and there is a remarkably large number of magicals here," she had told Charlie, sipping at the cup of tea Charlie had brought her from the cafe as a bribe for a chat. "Regardless of what he may believe his motives were for choosing to move here with his son and open the cafe, he is of the Fair Folk. Magic calls to magic, and for all his skill in battle magics his fundamental nature is remarkably... kind. The man wants to help people, but he doesn't think most humans will trust a faerie to help them outright. And, I'm sad to say, he is frequently correct."
It made sense, when Charlie thought about it. Sam was a fixer, like her, and with far more power than she had, but limited in how he could fix things by his own nature and the mistrust of the wider human populace still getting used to the idea that magicals existed alongside them. Charlie hadn't even been born when the Magical Revelation occurred, but learning about it in school had been a frustrating mix of religious fear mongering and nationalist propaganda. She had learned a lot more actual facts about it all from her various coworkers in IT, particularly Ian who had claimed to have hacked the Pentagon and found reports about a treaty made with the United Nations and the Grand Coven headed by...
Rowena had smiled at Charlie's very wide eyes, patted her on the hand, and gotten up to return to the open kitchen behind the bar. Reeling from her own realization, and just a little turned on, Charlie had decided then and there that she was going to do everything in her own limited human power to help her new boss and brother she never had fix as much of the world as came their way to be fixed.
Case in point: Cas and Jimmy Novak.
It wasn't that there was anything wrong with them. Frankly, they were more well-adjusted than some of Charlie's old coworkers had been. The codependency had been a little concerning at first, but it was understandable considering their history and the way they had both developed their coping strategies. It had actually taken the whole first week that the twins had been working at the cafe before Charlie had realized that Jimmy was also autistic, just better at masking than Cas was. That was also when she had realized that the pair really wanted to stay on and didn't know how to bring it up.
So she did it herself. She started by honestly telling them within Sam's hearing how much more smoothly things had been going with the both of them on staff with her and the boss, and how well they fit into the controlled chaos of the cafe. She complimented the cookies Cas had made - seriously, they were amazing - and theorized that if the cafe started selling them they'd bring in even more business, especially from people who'd been frustrated by the lack of food available before because Charlie couldn't bake to save her life and it wasn't safe for Sam to make the food and risk the magical backlash of a human eating faerie-made food in a faerie's domain. And she had casually mentioned that her apartment building in Ocean City had finally cleared out the apartment two doors down from her since the previous tenant had been arrested three weeks ago.
Sam wasn't the least bit surprised when she requested one of her paid time off days coinciding with Cas's first Thursday off so she could take him grocery shopping. Cas was surprised, and just a little wary, but Charlie was patient and persistent, and eventually he relaxed around her. It took some more careful questions amid her asking about his and Jimmy's respective sensory issues as related to food to learn about his stimming and the ring Jimmy wore, and why Jimmy was the one to wear the ring Cas used to stim.
It gave her an idea, piggybacked off of the project she had helped Jack with the previous December. There was a lot more effort involved, keeping the beads smooth and the various strips of leather soft while keeping the runes she consulted with Rowena on and carved into the surface clear. She worked on it secretly for a week and eventually brought it with her, wrapped in a scrap of leftover newspaper, to present to Cas on Monday morning. The look on his face when he saw the swirling blue and white lapis and shimmering black and gold obsidian beads knotted up in black leather cord and woven with the thicker black leather rune-carved bands was gratifyingly awed.
"It's not a replacement for your primary anchor," she assured them both. "The runic spell just bolsters calm; it doesn't suppress anxiety. I just figured maybe it could help when you have your respective days off. Just give it a try today while you're both here then see if it'll help tomorrow."
"And what do you want in exchange?" Cas whispered, running his fingers testingly over the beads.
"I," Charlie reminded him with a beaming smile, "am not a faerie."
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I am not a person who fails to admit the wrongdoings of a character just because I love that character.
I am a Cas and Dean girl through and through. But there are things Cas has done that I actually hate.
I do not hate cas for working with Crowley and eating the laviathens. I do not hate castiel for trying to kill the kid jesse. I do not hate cas for doing what he did to lily sunder and Claire Novak's family.
Castiel didn't wanted to separate Dean from whatever normal apple pie life he had created for himself. Cas cared about Dean too much and he wanted Dean to be happy. Cas didn't want to ask more after everything Dean has gone through and that is understandable. Working with Crowley was wrong but cas never imagined that he would end up hurting humans. Saving the world and Dean and Sam from another apocalypse was Cas's motivation to work with Crowley. All Cas intended was eating the souls, getting powerful enough and defeating Raphael. That's it. Cas didn't knew anything about the laviathens. He didn't knew that he would end swallowing one of the corrupted creatures in the world. And from the moment cas swallowed the laviathens he was under control of them. He killed so many humans and angels because he was under control of laviathens.
Killing lily Sunder's daughter is one of Cas's greatest regret. But he didn't regret it until he found out that lily sunder's daughter was a human. He had no regret of killing that child as long as he knew that the child was a nephilim. And when he was made aware of the truth he was willing to let lily sunder have her revenge even if it means she would want to kill him. Cas was ready to kill the anti-christ jesse even though he was just a child because Cas believed that Jesse was dangerous to the world. Cas was willing to let Kelly Kline and Jack die with Jack still in kelly's womb because Jack was a nephilim and cas believed him to be a danger to the world. It is when Jack showed him a vision of future that he chose to let Kelly and Jack live. It is after Cas raised Jack that he grew to sympathies with nephilims.
Now if we are going think about what he did to Claire's family, we need to open our mind. You can't hate a lion for hunting a deer. It is in the nature of lion to hunt, otherwise the lion would starve and die. The lion is wired like that. Cas was also wired to follow the order of heaven. He was wired to not give a shit about humans. It was his nature. He was ready to destroy an entire town with its people, why would he give shit about a little girl and his family ?
But cas changed, he rebelled, he chose to care about humans. He went against his very nature, something no Angel ever attempted to do. He refused to follow the script chuck wrote for him. He literally managed to Brek out of the control of the God. Again something no one ever succeeded in doing. He felt remorse for his actions. Claire is completely valid in her anger. But we as a viewer should see things from Cas's perspective as well. It is unfair of us to hate cas for not changing sooner when no other Angel except Gabriel ever tried to change.
But the things that i do not like about cas is how he allowed the sacrifice of Rowena's son in order to remove Mark of Cain from Dean. He could have stopped it but he chose to stand there doing nothing and allowing an innocent man to die so that someone he loved could be saved. That was extremely selfish of him. I will forever hate it.
Another thing I hated was when Cas killed that nephilim in order to complete the ritual of closing the gates of heaven. Now we all know that saving humanity was an excuse and cas did all that to just save Dean. Killing an innocent nephilim who wasn't hurting anyone just to save someone he loved was evil and selfish. Given what I wrote about Cas's feeling regarding nephilims, i am a little conflicted about how to feel about this.
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The thing is, Cas does have parental authority with Jack and he wields it…to prevent Jack from staying in heaven, to get Jack to eat Grigori hearts, to take advantage of Jack’s moral weakness and instruct Jack to nearly killing him so he can get to The Empty, and to push Jack into The Big Destiny.
Man, the fandom is feeling sorry for this smol bean angel like he’s done nothing wrong. Just because the other dads go off and make bad decisions does not mean that Cas lacks agency. He does things behind their backs at too. Hell that’s what the soulless Jack thing was at it’s core right before he killed Mary. Cas assumed the father mantle solely, to solve jacks issue, and to the family’s detriment! It began a domino effect of them all acting out of sync with one another. Cas started that!
And I’m over here about destiny too because like, Cas is being Chuck with the destiny thing to boot. He’s Chuck! Cas cannot be the free will guy AND The Jack Destiny guy. Those two things are incompatible and Cas deserved to be beaten senseless by the narrative to realize his grave, thematic error.
This child will be king and fulfill his destiny if I have to fuck up the whole universe I am RIGHT
He is also like, here son slit my throat. No no it will be fine. I might die forever and I know the other dads will blame you for it but trust me… just do it
Cas should understand the concept that power corrupts. But he can’t fathom it happening to Jack because he believes in him. *hides under the table and vomits*
#don’t you see?#it’s like lucifer with the mark#Chuck thought lucifer was so good he could Handle it#like Cas things Jack is so good he can Handle God powers#and then lucifer and Jack crack and corrupt#Cas IS his father here#stop pretending Cas is a great father just because he loves him!#Jack kline#Cas has agency#he is not always outvoted#sometimes he sets the tone and the example concerning The Destiny#he refers to jacks life as A Story#it’s horrifying#I love him#this is a horror show#a child of destiny is dehumanized and idealized by his parent#in light of this…the god powers may have simply corrupted Jack rather than working as a Chuck possession#eek#he also prevents Jack from dying because he wanted to be Right about jacks Destiny#Cas FORCED it#he is more vizier than father#he also loves him but he spent so much time talking about being right and Jack’s place in the universe#tactically he will sublimate his emotions into strategy#because it’s not that he’s emotional see#he’s just RIGHT#he’s more comfortable with a rebellion than being emotional about the loss of his son#that’s not real…love#the reckoning!#Cas was Like This all the way up till 15x18 where upon he might realize something too late#anyway good morning
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by Anonymous
After Dean dies during a seemingly easy hunt, Amara and Jack bring Sam and several others into the Bunker with an offer.
Sit down and watch the past fifteen years of their lives on video, unearthing promises and secrets and old wounds, with the chance to clear the air and try to heal from their past. If they refuse, everyone but Sam will be returned to Heaven and Dean’s soul will be lost to the Empty due to the threads of Castiel’s grace his soul had absorbed due to the original rescue mission from Hell. But before they can all settle in and begin to watch their lives, Castiel is sent on a journey to find Dean’s wayward soul as it flickers between the Veil and Empty and bring it back to his awaiting body.
Can Castiel find and convince Dean to come back to the Bunker with him? Can he get Dean to understand that this is his second chance, all of their second chances, and that all he has to do is just take his hand?
And will they, once Dean is safely back in his own body, be able to hash out fifteen years of memories? Will they survive bringing up ghosts from the past and betrayals that they have long since forgiven?
Words: 2952, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005)
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/M, Gen, M/M
Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Jody Mills, Bobby Singer, John Winchester, Mary Winchester, Charlie Bradbury, Kevin Tran (Supernatural), Castiel (Supernatural), Jack Kline, Rowena MacLeod, Amara (Supernatural)
Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester, Castiel & Sam Winchester, Bobby Singer & Dean Winchester, Bobby Singer & Sam Winchester, Jody Mills & Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester, John Winchester/Mary Winchester, Kevin Tran & Dean Winchester, Charlie Bradbury & Dean Winchester, Kevin Tran & Sam Winchester, Charlie Bradbury & Sam Winchester, John Winchester & Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester & John Winchester, Mary Winchester & Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester & Mary Winchester, Castiel & Mary Winchester
Additional Tags: Characters Watching Supernatural (TV), Castiel/Dean Winchester First Kiss, Canon-Typical Violence, Characters Watching the Show, Dean Winchester Needs a Hug, Sam Winchester Needs a Hug, Bad Parent John Winchester, Bad Parent Mary Winchester, Bobby Singer is Dean and Sam Winchester's Parent, Post-Canon Fix-It, Castiel and Dean Winchester in Love, Castiel and Dean Winchester Have a Profound Bond, Dean Winchester Has Self-Worth Issues, Castiel Saves Dean Winchester, Amara is So Done (Supernatural), Winchester Family Angst (Supernatural), Fluff and Smut, Dean Winchester is Sam Winchester's Parent, First Few Chapters Are Setting Up The Plot Before They Watch The Show, Jack Kline as God, Amara as God (Supernatural), Dean Winchester's Soul, Parental Bobby Singer, Parental Jody Mills, Protective Charlie Bradbury, Charlie Bradbury and Dean Winchester are Siblings, Emotionally Hurt Sam Winchester, Emotionally Hurt Dean Winchester, Protective Castiel (Supernatural), Episodes Are Told From Dean Winchester's POV, Jensen Ackles's Headcanons for Dean Winchester, Romance, Soft Dean Winchester, Soft Castiel/Dean Winchester, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Homophobic John Winchester, Angry Sam Winchester, Angry Dean Winchester, Quote: "The Very Touch of You Corrupts", Touch-Starved Dean Winchester, The Winchesters Need to Use Their Words (Supernatural), Dean Winchester Just Wants To Be Loved, Sam and Dean Winchester Deserve Better
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Second Chances (working title)
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by Chaoscoral
Dean can no longer fight Michael. He decides to go through with the Mal'ak box plan but will throw the box into another universe's ocean. But his story is still ongoing. What he finds on the other side is a world run by corrupt superheroes, his doppelganger, and a new purpose for life. On the way, he meets many new faces and stumbles upon a very familiar one.
Words: 5849, Chapters: 6/?, Language: English
Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005), The Boys (TV 2019)
Rating: Not Rated
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: Gen, M/M
Characters: Dean Winchester, Sam Winchester, Castiel (Supernatural), Jack Kline, Billy Butcher, Hughie Campbell, Mother's Milk (The Boys), The Frenchman (The Boys), The Female | Kimiko Miyashiro, Starlight | Annie January, Queen Maeve (The Boys), The Homelander | John, A-Train (The Boys), The Deep | Kevin, Ashley Barrett, Stan Edgar, Soldier Boy (The Boys)
Relationships: Castiel/Dean Winchester
Additional Tags: Crossover
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i can’t believe we never got any claire jack interactions bc claire would be such a lovingly bitchy older sister and she deserves that!!!!!! she’s the youngest daughter of the wayward sisters (if not in reality then in spirit) and she was ROBBED of the chance to be a bitchy older sister i’m gonna die mad about it
#she would be such a good older sister too like she’s all prickly but soft on the inside#she would corrupt him but like in a FUN way and she would GET him and she would love him and be there for him#i can’t think about this rn#claire novak#jack kline#supernatural
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Title: Ungod
Author: AmberXBoone
Artist: Rezal
Rating: Explicit
Pairings: Dean Winchester/Castiel, Dean Winchester/Lisa Braeden (past-mentioned), Castiel/Kelly Kline (past-mentioned), Sam Winchester/Eileen Leahy
Length: 40000
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply; Minor Character Death
Tags: Lawyer Dean Winchester; Priest Castiel; Explicit Sexual Content; Castiel is Jack Kline's Father; Religious Rebellion; Church Corruption; Alternative Universe; John & Mary are alive; Lawyer Sam Winchester; Sexual Content in public/semi-public places
Posting Date: November 6, 2023
Summary: Dean Winchester, Esq. never really wanted to be part of the family business. But, here he is, working at his father's NYC law firm, being told to represent some church whose head priest allegedly stole thousands of donated dollars from parishioners. One day, lost and confused, Dean wanders into the church confessional, finding solace in a faceless voice. Later that night, Dean wanders out of a bar with a lonely stranger - only to wake up and realize that the body that spent the night in his bed was the same shadowy figure behind the confessional screen.
Dean soon learns that Father Castiel Novak knows all the church’s secrets and wants to expose Father Chuck Shurley and everyone else there – but after one of the nuns, Sister Isabella, is found dead after knowing too much, Castiel and Dean have to figure out how to lose this case for the church while making sure Castiel isn’t the next victim of the truth.
Excerpt: To the shadow on the other side of the hazy screen, Dean says, “Bless me father, for I have sinned.”
There’s nothing but silence at first, but it’s followed by the sound of a body shifting on the other side of the divider, of breathing that’s unsure and unsteady. “Tell me—” Castiel’s voice is low, breaking as he speaks.
Dean moves closer to the screen, pressing his fingers against it. “Last night, I was with someone I wasn’t supposed to be with. Or more like, someone who wasn’t supposed to be with me.”
“And you feel—guilt because of this?” Castiel is still just an outline in the barely-there light.
“Guilt?” Dean leans forward now, pressing his forehead into the screen. “No. I don’t know what I feel, but it isn’t guilt. Maybe regret.”
“You regret being with this person?” Castiel’s shadow has grown closer now, and just the presence of his body reminds Dean of last night, of the way Castiel was all over him.
“No.” Dean can feel Castiel’s fingertips press against his own, through aluminum mesh that separates them. “I regret that I’m not someone else. I regret that he left because of who I am. Because he found how who I am.”
“Why?” Castiel sighs against the screen, and Dean closes his eyes, remembers the way it felt when Castiel exhaled into his mouth last night, the way it felt when Castiel kissed him.
Dean isn’t sure how to answer that question. He isn’t sure he really wants to admit to last night being something different, something more than what he was used to lately. “I just wanted him to stay—or come back—I don’t know.”
Castiel leans into the mesh, fingers still running along Dean’s. “I panicked. I realized who you are—and I didn’t know what to do, or what to say. I told you that you didn’t do anything wrong.”
“I mean, I did, right? At least, you believe we did something wrong? You ran out on me.” Dean doesn’t even know what he’s saying. He shouldn’t be here, shouldn’t be doing any of this. But, right now, he can’t bring himself to care.
“No. Nothing you did was wrong. You were—perfect.” Castiel’s words trail off. “And I haven’t stopped thinking about you since I walked out of your apartment.”
Dean knows that’s a lie. No one has ever told him he’s perfect. Maybe his mother, once or twice. “Did you make up all that stuff about having a kid? About it being his birthday? Didn’t you take a vow of celibacy, or whatever it’s called?”
“No, that was the truth. I have a son. You aren’t my first indiscretion,” Castiel says.
“That’s all I am.” Dean backs up in the darkness, further from Castiel. So many times, he’s been the drunken lapse in judgment, the starting point of a long walk of shame. But he’s never felt like a sin until now.
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