literally john comes back and DOTES on jack. listen azazel is dead, mary is alive. the chronic two-decade emergency is over. his wife is a stranger whose memory he has sanctified & also betrayed. his sons are strangers with a lifetime of extremely complicated feelings about him personally.
jack has zero baggage on the subject of john winchester & an eternally wide-open heart to new dads, john is lonely and it's so much easier to go for a blank slate. I think he'd be the world's #1 grandpa. and I think sam and dean would lose their minds <3
There’s reason for hope. I have to keep believing, even if Dean can’t. This can’t be like Dean back with Lucifer and Michael again. I have to believe there’s something we can do. I’ve got to keep believing — Dean’s in trouble, and… I’ve got to help. I’m here for a reason. I’m here for a reason. You, me. We’re all here for a reason. I’ll keep fighting for one if there isn’t. I have to.
Relationship: Asmodeus/Gabriel, Minor Loki/Gabriel, Previous Gabriel/Kali
Word Count: 30, 782
Summary;
A man would be born this year, and he would have a son, and that man would have a son, and then… Gabriel didn’t know.
He supposed he would die.
Fifty years left on the clock. A mere fifty years.
Hot off the heels of a recent and tragic breakup, the end of life as he knows it breathing down his neck, with so little time left and nothing to fill it Gabriel goes searching for a distraction big enough to blur the incoming pain, and might find he’s bitten off more than he can chew- no pun intended. It’s a little S&M, and he’s an archangel, so what does any of it really matter? There’s not going to be any real consequences to his actions, because the world is definitely going to end in fifty years.
"shipping and blorbofication are not inherently at odds with understanding a story's deep themes" and "some people can't grasp the themes of a story because they never learned how to engage with stories outside of the lens of shipping and blorbofication" are two statements that can coexist
I'm looking for the best and brightest of your generation. [...] You’re tough. You’re smart. You’re well-trained, thanks to your daddy. Sam... Sammy, you’re my favorite.
“If a society puts half its children into short skirts and warns them not to move in ways that reveal their panties, while putting the other half into jeans and overalls and encouraging them to climb trees, play ball, and participate in other vigorous outdoor games; if later, during adolescence, the children who have been wearing trousers are urged to “eat like growing boys,” while the children in skirts are warned to watch their weight and not get fat; if the half in jeans runs around in sneakers or boots, while the half in skirts totters about on spike heels, then these two groups of people will be biologically as well as socially different. Their muscles will be different, as will their reflexes, posture, arms, legs and feet, hand-eye coordination, and so on. Similarly, people who spend eight hours a day in an office working at a typewriter or a visual display terminal will be biologically different from those who work on construction jobs. There is no way to sort the biological and social components that produce these differences. We cannot sort nature from nurture when we confront group differences in societies in which people from different races, classes, and sexes do not have equal access to resources and power, and therefore live in different environments. Sex-typed generalizations, such as that men are heavier, taller, or stronger than women, obscure the diversity among women and among men and the extensive overlaps between them… Most women and men fall within the same range of heights, weights, and strengths, three variables that depend a great deal on how we have grown up and live. We all know that first-generation Americans, on average, are taller than their immigrant parents and that men who do physical labor, on average, are stronger than male college professors. But we forget to look for the obvious reasons for differences when confronted with assertions like ‘Men are stronger than women.’ We should be asking: ‘Which men?’ and ‘What do they do?’ There may be biologically based average differences between women and men, but these are interwoven with a host of social differences from which we cannot disentangle them.”
— Ruth Hubbard, “The Political Nature of ‘Human Nature’“
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