he should be on tumblr

Castiel/Misha fans getting into Ben Edlund’s head. I love it. 🤣💓

https://x.com/ben_edlund/status/1783558290858996120?s=46&t=kGlo0SObdyBI3yKlwADfgw

big win for the girlies (gn) who like beelover!cas despite the haters

Post 4 of Ben Edlund commentary from SPN Then and Now podcast, 4/15/2024

Edited for clarity.

On music cues and subtext:

I love incongruous music cues. To me those are some of the most powerful strangely…how much subtext can you inject into a moment or a sequence with the right counter-intuitive sort of music with or without lyrics, but especially with lyrics and with cultural connotation.

About worldbuilding and planting things in SPN mythology that become important later:

We wanted to create an end that was made entirely of Supernatural stuff. So bringing Croatoan in again—as much as there was a shape for me for the endgame, I think this returned us to some core principles of Supernatural lore including Croatoan and the cult and it brought those back which I think was healthy when you think in terms of the shape of the story, because those are very powerful things to be introduced into a five-part epic and then just not go anywhere, but instead they came and returned and you go “Oh this makes sense,” this is why one of the earlier agendas was get the Croatoan right because we’re going to need it…that’s when you’re operating optimally, when you’re world-building and you’ve got that stuff and everyone is in sync including production and design, and conception. Where we really were in a pretty good headspace to do some really good storytelling.

Uh Supernatural amiright folks

The prismatic potential of happiness 🌈💡🎩

(A second take on this piece of mine from #suptober20)

opens my ballot for the Nov 5th election and this is mercifully the only thing on it

he needs to stop (pls continue)

“I don’t care about dumb weed jokes,” I said naively, before I saw this

experimental works idk

happy birthday mother 3!!!! its objectively the best game everyone needs to play it immediately

soldier boy core

#i love you periphery i love you queer stories (via @ghostfacerseffect)

much to be said indeed

Rob: We got this question that we’ve been avoiding because it’s a lot of words. When Castiel is talking  to Dean in a truck about being human, the line that was aired is a different line that the script reads.

Ben Edlund: Sure.

Rob: So the line that aired is, Castiel says “I used to belong to much better club and now I’m powerless, I’m hapless , I’m hopeless, I mean, why the hell not bury myself in women and in decadence, right? It’s the end, baby, that’s what decadence is for. Why not bang a few gongs before the lights go out. But then, that’s just how I roll.” But the script reads “But instead we become this. The only thing, I think,  we have left, Dean and me, is each other. If Dean says it’s time to get out in the blaze of glory, win or loose, so be it. I’m in, but then, that’s just how I roll.” It’s just an interesting little difference.

Rich: Well somebody had to rewrite that, right?

Ben Edlund: Sure, I mean, like that was either a rewrite based on a note or something that- it’s possible that there was a shift in language that came from a pass through Kripke. To me that feels like a rewrite based on “ Ok, we know what the subtext is, bury it a little bit.” 

Rob: Gotcha.

Ben Edlund: Because, you know, it’s more interesting to know that an then have language kind of be less to the core. I mean, maybe not, sometimes you really want to go to that core.  But it didn’t seem necessary in that moment because look at the larger context. This guy is still hanging around. He’s going on a mission. And previously in the prior scene when he’s kind of like, when we used the word insouciant for the first and last time in Supernatural’s history. I believe, unless it gets quoted later in 15 seasons and I missed that. At that point he is totally ride or die with Dean. He’s basically “You say we a going on a suicide mission and there’s no hope or whatever” and Dean’s going “Yes, that’s what I’m saying” and he goes “Okay, let me go get the truck.” And so, in a sense, it was like- I would’ve done the same thing today. If that makes sense. Looking at the whole. 

Rob: I like the idea of burying it more and not serving it on a platter. Letting people- 

Ben Edlund: Mainly because all the other aspects of that story tell us that. Show us that, actually. That’s the whole thing. Show us, not tell us. I’ve heard that at some kind of seminar.

-Supernatural Then and Now podcast. BONUS CLIP: Ben Edlund Talks

deep in the meadow