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#how are we so lucky that these two don't have huge swollen... egos? (get your minds out of the gutter) #because we do all adore the fuck out them and think they are gorgeous and super talented and all the things #and we as a fandom are not shy about sharing that with them #and they know (way too much) exactly what we think about them #and the fact that this hasn't really gone to their heads #and that they are still relatively humble about all of it #it truly extraordinary #and a big part of the reason why the show actually worked

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My holy place is [him]. And it is an abomination.

Iris Murdoch, from 'The Philosopher's Pupil'

#adja

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The two of them both need to exist in the story because the story is about them both and their relationship with each other, but...

While he is often used to provide pov for the audience, and is frequently the narrative heart, Dean's purpose in the story has always been Sam. Protect Sam. Watch out for Sam. Keep Sam alive, no matter what. Sam is Dean's function and without Sam, Dean ceases to function.

Sam's purpose in the story was to find peace with himself, his family, and his life. Even when the plot focused on Dean, Sam's narrative purpose continued beyond Dean's. It was through Sam that the family line was continued (even if he did name the kid Dean). It was Sam's choice's that inevitably saved or (temporarily) doomed the world; suppressing Lucifer long enough to jump into the cage, choosing to not finish the final trial when Dean begged asked him to stop, choosing to not go with Death when Dean begged asked him to stay alive, even offering up himself to Dean's determination (and gambling everything on his faith in his big brother's inability to kill him) to fulfill or not the demands of the MoC, and then resisting Chuck's attempts to break him. Sam's choices were the thread through the series, but he could only have made the choices he did because of Dean's love and support, without which, Sam would have made different choices.

Because while Sam is the narrative thread that the story is actually following, it would not have had the strength on its own to hold all the way through if it wasn't for Dean's thread winding around and reinforcing it.

Deep down, i believe the two brothers are both protagonists, and that's a given fact, but i have another more comprehensive reason Sam is the protagonist.

I dont wanna delve into it, but it's something along the lines that Dean has always existed as an ultimate extension of Sam. His standing within the narrative is that of a soldier, not a leader; he exists to protect (sam) and constantly needs an external drive (which sam fills) to do anything.

Dean is also heavily biased and prejudiced. He is not really a protagonist for a story who'd lead/take all under his wing bc he wouldn't. He is definitely a protagonist in Sam's life but not in the supernatural story.

He doesn't hold the axis of the general narrative as Sam does, and as he does hold Sam's.

Yea they both dont make the best selfless protags but Dean is by far the lesser chivalrous out of them, he is also unwilling to take that burden canonly, he HATES taking care of other people his role as a soldier/guardian has always kinda just extended to Sam and ended there that's why he says there's no me if there ain't no you to Sam. Dean IS the ultimate extension of Sam. Without Sam, he ends.

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we were opposites at birth / i was steady as a hammer / no one worried ‘cause they knew just where i’d be / and they said you were the crooked kind / and that you’d never have no worth 

but you were always gold to me (x)

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theeightschronicle requested: dean and, always gold by radical face

when i heard the song and read the lyrics, though, i had to throw sam in there. this might be my new song for dean omg.

#oh i love this

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i remember tears streaming down your face when i said, “i’ll never let you go.”

and all those shadows almost killed your light. (x)

#oh i love this

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baby boy, you’ll be alright

—

for my best friend claire who has ruined my life

#oh i love this

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cross my heart and hope to die, i’ll see you with your laughter lines

#oh i love this

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you are the smell before rain, you are the blood in my veins (x)

#oh i love this #sorry going through a blog and spam reblogging because it's all so gorgeous

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too old for a lullaby, too tired for life on the ledge

#oh i love this

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you’ve got a warm heart, you’ve got a beautiful brain - but it’s disintegrating 

#oh i love this

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“dean, do you think mom would have liked me?”

“probably not…she would have loved you”

#oh i love this

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via @i-already-know-im-going-2-hell

tbh this is the closest i’ve ever felt genuine in saying this but FAKE FANS

god

no appreciation for horror

and ZERO LITERACY GOD MAYE HAVE GIVEN YOU THE ABILTY TO READ BUT THE DEVIL TOOK AWAY YOUR COMPREHENSION

also don’t go argue it’s LICHERALLY not worth it like just be in shock with me pleas hold my hand

and if you do FOR THE LOVE OF GOD don’t lead em back here

#your tags are too on point to leave in the tags #Sex & Violence #is about Dean wanting his brother to be with him #in whatever why you want to interpret that #it is not about Dean's sexuality unless that involves Sam in some way #so if physical incest squicks you then it's platonic/fraternal #which is (I dare say) what it was intended to be from the get go

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The other reason I fucking love Mary Winchester is how far out of the park Jensen Ross Ackles hits it EVERY TIME he has to play Dean's mom-related pain. It really brings home for me what a fully-realised character, and like, whole-ass human being Dean is, and makes me feel every fucking year of Dean's motherless life.

Jensen just KILLS IT.

#he really is superbly talented and we are all (including him) blessed that he was cast to play Dean #and Sam Smith is really good at being Mary who is a complex and not always sympathetic character #but she (just like JDM) plays it so well

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(Θ︹Θ)

#suddenly thinking that Sam sounds pregnant here #like I'm not one for mpreg #(no judgements if that's your jam its just not mine) #but seriously he sounds like he's pregnant #and it's both disturbing and hysterical and I kinda love and hate it

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Rule one of fandom: there are some things that only exist for us.

Don’t send actors fics

Don’t give them explicit art ever

Don’t tag them in rpf questions or theories

Don’t try to bring them into fandom drama of any kind

Don’t hold them responsible for what the producers and writers decide

They’re still people.  They have private lives, which do not include fandom.

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new teenage winchesters fic up btw on my ao3…. this one’s a dean pov direct sequel/companion to my 16 y old sam fic, featuring sam jumping out of a moving car like the relatable king he is

#Sam & Dean #Winchester family dynamics #pre-series #spn fic rec

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I was thinking the same thing!

Jensen found himself another younger brother taller than him. Thanks good Jared trained him well