anti-dean

[anti-dean]

Now wait a second. Are you trying to tell me that just because people believe in Mordechai, he’s real? I dunno, maybe.

#🫢

[anti-dean]

Fun fact: base (or basic) has more than one meaning, and in relation to instinct, it sometimes refers to the more neutral meaning of something that is so deeply ingrained as to be an innate trait. ‘Base’ can be used to describe an ‘impure’ instinct, but this particular usage (this is where our handy context clues, reading comprehension, and good faith interpretation come into play) describes the former, not the latter.

Now, it’s blatantly obvious that this usage of ‘base’ is essentially shorthand for ‘basic’ and not ‘evil.’ By removing the word ‘base’ from context, you can argue that a neurodivergent person defending neurodivergent people is ableism! Through this tactic, you can also argue lots of things about a character who you have to copy/paste interesting traits onto or else he’s boring!

I love how there’s zero mention of hyperfixation being wrongly used as an insult and defined as ‘abnormal’ yet when someone with ADHD uses the term ‘base (read: basic) instincts’ to describe their own experience, it’s seen in worse faith than the actively ableist ask and ridiculed as ableist in the longest reach of the century. Who do you think, between us and the asker, hates ADHD people: the person who thinks that ADHD symptoms are not ‘normal’ or the ADHD mods?

-Mod D

it is honestly hilarious how you ignored the blatant ableism from the ask againts delusional people in favour of calling a group of neurodivergent mods ableist, i think you are projecting a little bit, ableist motherfucker

-mod S

bro u need therapy ur behaviour and hyperfixation on fictional people that don't exist irl ain't normal some of u need to stop using this app and get out into the real world because yall clearly ain't right in the head im afraid and i stand by this statement 100%

Hyperfixation is a very common symptom of ADHD. People do not experience symptoms without awareness that we are not “normal” enough for an abled-centric society; those expectations are exactly why autistic and ADHD people (especially those of us who are marginalized on multiple degrees) often mask our symptoms and spiral into depression and/or anxiety. Our repression of our base instincts in order to avoid being ostracized is linked to the trauma responses associated with our conditions.

Once again: mental illness and neurodivergency are nothing to be ashamed of! Telling people that their symptoms aren’t “normal enough” is ableist, and ableism is a very personal topic amongst those running this blog. Each of us is capable of having both a job and a part-time hobby, though we understand if you are not. It seems you have perhaps overestimated how long it takes for a few people to queue some posts highlighting our key critiques of an obscenely popular character (who other people devote much more time to out of misplaced praise). I think it would be a better use of your time to save your critiques for the people who run blogs which actively glorify abusive, bigoted behavior.

Moving forward: even if the portrayal of pedophilia, racism, misogyny, ableism, homophobia, and abuse is fictional, by justifying those actions in a fictional scenario, you are justifying them for real life scenarios. The only reason that a person would justify those actions in a hypothetical scenario is if their support of victims is only conditional. The only reason that someone would write those behaviors as sympathetic to begin with is if they are willing to excuse them. We are allowed to critique the perpetrators of our experiences, regardless of the scenario in which those beliefs are revealed. Social and visual media are two mediums where bigotry and abuse apologia are often trivialized, which we take proper offense to. These beliefs should not be normalized or tolerated! Give an inch, they’ll take a mile. We promote critical thinking and media literacy with the aim of unearthing these themes in the media we consume, beyond any singular TV show. Critical analysis has had its place in society for over a thousand years, and the questionable quality of the given media does not disqualify that media from having influence over millions of people.

At the end of the day, we are a small group who enjoy critical literary & media analysis, but we also are personally affected by the marginalization that is encouraged through the narrative bias. We occasionally log on to say a quick piece of our minds and then move on with our days. Perhaps we wouldn’t feel the need to analyze and debate if critical thinking wasn’t considered cringe. But, given the common standards, we’ll never know.

-Mod D

Edit: as we gain more mods, statements above that apply to the current mods may not apply to everyone. Those of us who were mods at the time this was posted are able to have jobs despite our disabilities, while some can only contend with school or other responsibilities at the moment. Regardless of lifestyle, our mods are not glued to Spn and live the majority of our lives outside of it. However, there is no shame in being hyperfixated on a tv show. Most of us here were, once upon a time, invested in this show to some degree! But it is important to be critical of the media we consume, which is the end point of this blog.

-Mod D

#this is an unimaginable response i’m baffled #it’s the fake indignation for me #mod d #mod s

[anti-dean]

Happy anniversary sweetheart

#rusty nail

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Sam's bodily autonomy being violated

#anti dean winchester #spn #supernatural

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i wake up real early just to be a hater

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#anti dean winchester #misogyny #Tw misogyny

[anti-dean]

soulless sam would Never slutshame a dead girl. respect women juice isnt stored in the soul its stored in the sam. on the other hand misogyny isn't store in the demon, its stored in the dean.

[anti-dean]

Never stop loving the fact that on the very first hunt Dean goes on without Chuck tipping the scales in his favor, Dean dies

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it would have been funny for me personally if sam had told dean "cas rescued you from hell because he was ordered to, he rescued me from hell because he wanted to. we are not the same."

#anti dean winchester

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ever think about the fact that in s6 sam told dean that getting an angel to erase lisa and ben’s memories is the worst thing he’s ever done

and less than three years later, dean got an angel to repeatedly erase sam’s memories lmao

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Sam (+Dean) rewriting history

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Dean: *controls sam*

Dean: *berates sam*

Dean: *threatens to hunt sam down and kill him*

Dean: *tortures sam in the panic room and says if he dies so be it*

Dean: *after all this acts like the one whose trust is sOOoo wOUnDeD*

Dean: *tells cas hanging out with sam isn’t any fun*

Dean: *runs away when sam wants his love and encouragement so he can emotionally deal with lucifer coming into his dreams and bothering him to be his forever vessel*

Dean: YOUR BEST MEMORIES AREN’T ALL ABOUT ME? HOW COULD YOU BETRAY ME LIKE THIS?

Dean: I’M TAKING OFF YOUR NECKLACE I SAID I LIKED FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS AND I’M TRASHING IT, WATCH ME TRASH IT, YOU PIECE OF TRASH

[anti-dean]

dean winchester arriving at the gates of heaven: W—

kelly kline who has been waiting for his ass to bite it ever since she watched him lock her baby in a box:

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(tags via @flareonites)

something that bothers me a lot is that one spn episode where dean basically threw the events of s6 back in cas's face ("the last time you had this kind of juice you killed humans AND angels and lied to us all the while") and this is expected of dean, using last mistakes against other people while never taking responsibility for his own, but what gets me is the fact that he's saying this after cas was finally FINALLY getting some semblance of control. he was doing so GOOD, he had a following of angels who respected him and were learning about freedom and he had them stationed at hospitals to save humans but dean has the audacity to say "you try to be a good guy, you try" like. like cas is just inherently not good. like he's doomed from the start. like he HASNT done good which he has. he literally rebelled against his entire fucking existence to help some shitty human being. in s6 he went around healing babies and making miracles. all he did was be good and try to do what was best but NOTHING had EVER worked out for him. his whole existence was just tragedy after tragedy and dean had the nerve to guilt trip him because cas is learning to be happy?? because he's not comfy with cas having power because of his own ego or something, I don't even know. but that was such a shitty thing to say, and I'm genuinely disgusted and mortified about it even years later. I hold a firm belief that everyone has the capacity to be good in them, whatever good even means, and just because cas doesn't fit deans standard, dean finds it fit to treat cas like a child, like he has any right to talk about what it means to be a good person when all dean has done is abuse those around him.

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I was thinking about how there are certain moments between sam and dean that, when you see them the first time or out of context, seem kinda harmless, but when you put them in context, they become fucking awful

for instance sam and dean teasing each other about their eating habits? seems like normal sibling banter, right? but then when you think about dean berating sam for going to the farmer’s market to buy some produce instead of hunting or about dean tricking sam into eating real bacon instead of vegan bacon or about how the types of food sam wants to eat aren’t even allowed in their home… it becomes slightly less amusing

or when sam tells dean that he prays everyday in s2 and dean says “the things you learn about a guy” all offended, as if he was somehow entitled to know about it, out of context it’s highly annoying and it makes you wanna slap dean in the face, but you can gloss over it. but when you put it in context and think about how dean acts entitled to know everything about sam and how sam isn’t allowed to keep secrets, not even about things that affect him and only him and he gets punished for it when he does, yet dean is allowed to keep all the secrets in the world… it becomes fucking terrifying

[anti-dean]

Actually I think it was wrong of Sam to kill Emma. If Sam was a good ally he would’ve let her kill Dean.