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scoobydoodean · 2 months
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you 🤝 me 🤝 Fallen Idols guaranteed to induce outrage on Dean's behalf because what the fuck was that, Sam???
🤝 Sam in the tail end of season 4 and early season 5 is NOT good for my health. 4.21 and 5.02 also fill me with absolute biting simmering rage at Sam. But there really is something in particular about 5.05 isn't there? One part is that it comes right on the heels of these other episodes that fill me with rage, but the other part is definitely that Dean just accepts this absolutely nonsense framing as the truth at the end of 5.05. It's brutal that it comes right after 5.03 and 5.04, because it's clear Dean doesn't meet back up with Sam again because he's actually ready to. It's because he thinks if he doesn't, the Endverse is going to happen. And anyway, despite cutting ties with Sam permanently, Dean in the Endverse never actually escapes the weight of responsibility anyway, does he? No—he's still a man crushed and jaded by the weight of the world. No matter what details he alters, he will always end up here. Why not simply add Sam back to the pile then after all?
It's also a reaaaaal nice cherry on top of a shit sundae right at the end of the episode, when Sam "generously" says Dean isn't responsible for the apocalypse either because he "didn't know" just like Sam. Oh no—breaking after 30 years of horrific reality-bending torture still makes Dean weak and is his fault (Sam is never taking that one back), but it's okay because Dean didn't know. His and Sam's "mistakes" are exactly the same. Completely equivalent!
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snorlaxlovesme · 9 months
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wait wait no you definitely have to explain how you ended up sending hate mail to a priest, I need to know how that went down
OH lmao
I went to a k-8 Catholic school that was getting smaller and smaller every year. tuition for private schools is expensive, not everyone wants to sent their kids to a religious school just to get them a good education etc etc. so by 7th grade we only had about 130 kids left in the entire school and like NO money.
so the archdiocese told us they were going to shut down our school. BUT, if we were able to raise enough money, our school would be saved. they told us this devastating news sometime after the new year, and we had until the end of the school year, so we only had a few months. but through donations and fundraising and a ton of heart we managed to raise $100k for our school, which we were told was enough to keep it open.
but apparently only about 100 kids had enrolled for the following year. we were so focused on getting the money that we weren't focusing on the student enrollment side of things. but we were told multiple times by our priest that if we raised the money, our school would be saved.
so all of us were celebrating like crazy when we heard that we had raised enough money! for weeks we all thought we were in the clear!
so for our priest to have to tell us that no, our school would be closing regardless of the money we'd raised, was crushing. he'd known that the money wasn't enough for a long time, but didn't know how to tell us, so he kept quiet.
now our priest was a younger (like 40-something), relatable, fun guy. he was amazing to have as a leader for a Catholic school because he was so kind to the students and easy to get along with. he was really great at getting his homilies across to kids so we could all understand their message. my family in particular really loved him and had a great relationship with him. my younger sister totally loved him and would make my mom buy sugar-free candy bars to give to him after church (he was diabetic). he used to roller skate in the park by our house with his black lab and we'd be so happy to see him and pet his dog.
so to find out that he LIED to us was D E V A S T A T I N G. our school was closing after all that work the kids and their families put in. we were going to lose our best friends, our favorite teachers, it felt like losing home, especially at such a young age when you've been surrounded by these people almost all your life.
me and my little sister were stuck in the Anger stage in the five steps of grief for a LONG time. and we were aiming it all at him. for getting our hopes up. for encouraging us. for telling us it was going to be alright. for not telling us immediately when he knew our efforts were in vain. so my little sister (4th grade) and I (7th grade) decided to write what we would consider "strongly worded letters" and what any sane person would see as "hate mail" to our priest.
each were about two pages long. calling him a coward. calling him a liar. saying how disappointed we were in him for how he'd let us down. absolutely scathing things to hear children say to you, mind you. we knew he'd know it was from 2 students, but we wanted to remain anonymous. we signed them like you would a Dear Abby letter, like "signed, A Student You Let Down" or some shit like that. i don't remember what we chose, but they were harsh.
here's the thing though.
when addressing the letters to the church's rectory (where our priest lived), we added return addresses to our letters.
i don't know what i was thinking. maybe that it was illegal to send a letter without a return address and the post office wouldn't send it? that he wouldn't go through the trouble of looking up the address in the school's system?
idk.
what i do know is a few days later my mom received a call from the school saying that our priest wanted to have a meeting with her and her two daughters at our earliest convenience, and she did not know why.
my poor mother had to sit in our church's cry room with us and be informed that her precocious kids had written hate mail to their priest and were also dumb enough to get caught. to our priest's credit, he didn't even really scold us for shitty things we said and spent most of the time apologizing to us while we sat quietly in our seats stewing with rage. i don't think we spoke the entire time.
after the school closed he "was reassigned" (quit) and we got a new priest for our church. he moved to a new parish somewhere north of here. i hear he's doing fine, just celebrated some sort of priestly anniversary. he doesn't come back to visit out parish ever.
it's been 16 YEARS since that incident, but my mom literally brought it up tonight while we were out to dinner as a family. i guess you don't forget shit like that lol
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spnblrcrush · 1 year
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@ilarual
@ilarual ❤️
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angelsdean · 7 months
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everything that's fanon cas, (the gardening, the knitting, the famers market) are all things dean would actually get a kick out of and enjoy sooo much while cas would probs get very impatient and wanna angel magic his plants healthy and thriving and have 200 knotted and tangled abandoned knitting projects and like this post said would absolutely walk thru a famers market in three minutes nodding at everything before leaving while dean wants to talk with everyone and try all the free samples and he likes to knit while watching dr. sexy reruns bc adhd boy needs something to keep his hands busy and he loves gardening bc it's like fishing, meditative, out under the sun, and he gets to get his hands dirty doing something productive and healing. he goes to the home depot and buys out half the gardening section. he learns everything there is to know abt gardening. it becomes one of his little projects. he needs a little project. and he loves growing food for his family, herbs to season all his dishes, and pretty follower to brighten up the house. cas will help sometimes or just bring out some lemonade and sit with him. they both wear their cowboy hats as sun hats
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shallowseeker · 7 months
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I was thinking about your stuff about Dean's theme of unconsensual sexuality. It's making me think about Demon Dean and Amara in a big new way, and I was thinking about the Dean-witchcraft stuff in season 12 Regarding Dean ep. His hookup is another unconsensual thing, isn't it? And in season 13, when that witch puts the love spell on him, too!
I'll confess that I neither keep up with nor care over-much about Dean's one-off hookups, but I'm endlessly fascinated by the whiff of roofied!Dean and dubious consent, as well as his incredible ability to forgive such things and create real, lasting friendships from the ruins.
Maybe @ilarual knows? I know they keep up with data points in timelines to a degree I don't seem able to handle. :-)
NOTE: @notrenu added some clarification in the comments about this, too! I remember the former in season 12 being consensual and lighthearted, but ofc the thing with the witch sisters in season 13 isn't, hehe. Still! You're right that the theme of roofies is def persistent, even as a cover story.
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ao3feeddestiel · 4 months
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a house is not a home
read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Mg54bNc by ComradeCastiel (Ilarual) Dean is missing, and Cas and Sam are trying to cohabitate in the bunker. Cas can't say he's particularly enjoying the experience. Words: 1221, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Series: Part 3 of Ficlet Fridays Fandoms: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: Gen, M/M Characters: Castiel (Supernatural), Sam Winchester Relationships: Castiel & Sam Winchester, Castiel/Dean Winchester Additional Tags: Post-Episode: s09e23 Do You Believe In Miracles? (Supernatural), Sam and Cas are not besties, POV Castiel (Supernatural), Pining Castiel (Supernatural), Oneshot read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/Mg54bNc
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queermania · 1 year
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Wait wait wait. Jensen picked the writer who gave Dean a lesbian best friend and made him a nerd to be the show runner for his little fixit fic show? This is amazing!
when you look at robbie's run of episodes (that he wrote specifically, not produced or was the executive story editor on), a very specific version of supernatural and dean starts to emerge and it is insanity-inducing. here's a very brief rundown of the episodes robbie wrote:
slash fiction -swayze always gets a pass -dean singing air supply -"it's like eating self-righteousness' -the creation and introduction of frank devereaux -"applications for sainthood" -dean letting sam go
time after time -"what are you gonna look up more anime or are you strictly into dick now?" -dean being a nerdy little fanboy about eliott ness (and checking out a dude in a uniform but that was probably jacting joices) -dean getting excited about dressing up in period clothing!! -understanding that rufus matters and that family isn't just blood -original sam is milf!bait (and he's into it) truther -actually writing grief in nuanced ways -dean is smart and resourceful actually! -your future is "covered in thick black ooze" (which i know is just a very lucky coincidence but i don't care!)
the girl with the dungeons and dragons tattoo -CHARLIE!!! he gave us charlie. he said "actually what if hardcore fans were cool and fun and GAY and they were dean's new best friend" -charlie/dean/security guard flirting split screen -"she's kinda like the little sister I never wanted." "how does a high-school dropout become one of the brightest minds…" -basically this entire episode is just "be gay, do crime" and i love that for me specifically
bitten -not my favorite episode but as @ilarual says "it's very fun in how it illustrates Robbie's willingness to play with form, since it's all done as found footage" -and as @doctorprofessorsong says it "has the concept of monsters aren’t always bad guys" -and apparently it contains a brokeback reference? my memory of this episode is hovering at around 1% tbh but you get it
larp and the real girl -dressing dean up in little outfits AGAIN -and he likes it!!! -and he likes being a nerd! (dean is getting into it and sam is the one who is unamused mr serious guy!!!!) -and charlie is dean's new best friend! -"belladonna" "the pornstar?" -"did you break up with someone too?" -honestly you already know all of it. this is a fan favorite for a reason. what more can i say about this episode??
goodbye stranger -yes robbie was the first writer to try to give us a destiel love confession -cas practicing killing dean over and over and over and still not being able to do it when it comes down to it -"what broke the connection?" gee i wonder -first episode writing cas and he nailed the sort of unintentional deadpan humor that makes cas so lovable ("would it kill you to watch a movie? read a book?" "a movie, no, but with a book with the proper spells—yeah, it could theoretically kill me.") -"if he's so sketchy then why are you praying to him?" -pizza man reference -"do you really think we can trust megstiel?" (we get both megstiel and jealous!dean) -dean quoting lord of the rings (because he's a nerd! and he reads!) -meg roasting the shit out of sam for the amelia stuff -etc
pac-man fever -charlie reading the carver edlund books -charlie and dean being besties/getting a montage -dean telling charlie that what happened with her parents wasn't her fault/understanding the guilt she feels -"i love you" "i know" -"what about castiel? he seems helpful, and dreamy" -again, putting dean in little outfits -charlie knows how to shoot/aim a gun
slumber party -dorothy!! -oz!!! -look, is this episode cheesy? yes. but it's fun and it's so obviously a love letter to the oz source material and i love that about robbie. he does his research and he commits
first born -cain!!!! -drowley team up!!!!! ("friends. besties, actually." im sorry but drowley means so much to me personally and this is the start of their beautiful bromance) -"this is by far the dumbest idea you've ever had." "yeah, well, it's early" -cas liked pb&js!! jelly, not jam. he found jam unsettling!! -"you have a guinea pig? where?" -"you're a terrible liar?" "that is not true. i once deceived and betrayed both you and your brother." -just. sastiel shenanigans (and hugs!) -"she only asked for one thing." "to stop" -anyway. you get it.
meta fiction -dean and cas phone call smiles!! they LIKE each other -metatron media dump -"what makes a story work? is it the plot, the characters, the text? the subtext? and who gives a story meaning? is the writer? or you?" -i think it's important to note that robbie who wrote gabriel faking his own death -cas noticing something is wrong with dean pretty much instantly and then discovering the mark of cain
fan fiction -i mean. come on. -"although we do explore the nature of destiel in act two." -"you can't spell subtext without s-e-x" -sam being such a younger brother and trolling dean about "destiel" -"BM scene" -dean "you know they're brothers, right?"-ing the w*ncest stuff but just being flustered about the destiel stuff ayyyy -dean casually referencing andrew lloyd webber -"transformative fiction" -"i want you to put as much sub into that text as you possibly can" -dean quoting rent -the samulet is back! -"i have my version, and you have yours." -"he took away our own free will" <- about john!! -THE RETURN OF CHUCK!
there's no place like home -"i forgive you dean" "yeah well i don't" "i know, kinda your move" -"you hurt my friend" -"you lied to me" "you lied to yourself. that's kinda your move." -i mean. robbie just gets it, ya know?
book of the damned -cas being a huge bitch (love that) -sam being the excessively codependent one -cas and charlie get to meet! -found family goodness if only for a little bit!!
angel heart -ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!! -"i got it at the hot topical" (and claire keeping grumpy cat) -no seriously. dean and cas went birthday present shopping together for claire and they did it at a mall -castiel feeling guilt for what he did to the novak family (and amelia recognizing that cas has changed/grown) -"you were both troubled teens. you speak her language." -"bring your daughter to work day" -"i'm saying she might be stronger on her own." which is a controversial line but i think it says something really significant about how dean feels about his childhood "in fact you're not anything to her except a constant reminder of someone that's gone." -mini golf!!!!!! dean and claire bonding!!!! -the introduction of the grigori, a class of angels which may or may not be important at some point -claire roasting the shit out of dean with "you seem pretty old" <3 -"happy birthday. don't shoot me."
baby -do i really need to explain anything about this one? -"okay first of all, never use swayze's name in vain, okay? ever." -"mistakes were made" -dean having a dream about john teaching him to drive but under normal and appropriate circumstances -werepire…. ghoulpyre… -honestly just the whole episde. you know what i'm talking about. the unique perspective. the insight into their day-to-day lives. the moments that live in between.
into the mystic -eileen! my best friend eileen! -dean x mildred otp -remembering sam's lucifer/hell trauma -the whole "follow your heart" speech -"banshees go after the vulnerable, so why'd it go after you?" -dean recognizing there's something off with cas -but really the most important thing here is EILEEN
safe house -bobby and rufus!!!! -i repeat BOBBY AND RUFUS!!!! -"were you ever nice?" "1985. worst year of my life." -robbie just really GETS that this show is more fun when it's not centered entirely on the brothers. -bobby referring to sam and dean as his boys -timey wimey shenanigans -there were some interesting implications in this episode too but i'm losing steam here so i'm gonna let you rewatch and figure it out lol
don't call me shurley -the reveal of chuck as god!!!! -bisexual chuck -dean does sam's laundry (sometimes with beer) -chuck is a shitty egotistical writer -he also plays the guitar and: "i like front row seats. you know, i figured i'd hide out in plain sight." -"i thought if i could show my sister that there was something more than just us, something better than us, then maybe she'd change. maybe she'd stop being… her. but every time I'd build a new world, she'd destroy it." -"the world would still be spinning with demon dean in it but sam couldn't have that though could he?" -"you were gonna choose amara over me."
so. yeah. jensen chose THIS GUY to helm the winchesters. bold move, sir. full respect.
also, this tweet always makes me crack up
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one of us! one of us! one of us!
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shallowstories · 9 months
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OMG Where’s the fic for this, I’d read the shit outta this? @couldnt-think-of-a-funny-name
(Posting here because, I didn’t wanna hijack @ilarual’s awesome scorned Dean post.)
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Bonus point if it’s post-series drama:
Dean’s face colors in shame. “Why did you wait till now to—?” To say it back.
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happilyfeatherafter · 3 months
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Happilyfeatherafter's ficrec Fridays
In an effort to actually post on my own blog and not just tag rant I'm going to try and start doing what makes me happy - shouting about the fic I've read and loved recently! ETA: thank you @bloodydeanwinchester for the inspiration and impetus to share recs last week!
So introducing my ficrec Fridays.
5 January 2024 ficrecs
Beggars Would Ride by tiamatv was recommended to me by @ilarual and I am so glad I dived in on their suggestion. Combining two of my great loves, destiel and disney's Aladdin, this AU fic has an absolutely gorgeous depiction of a genie Castiel, in all his trueform splendour! Tia does an incredible job interweaving the two stories, with street rat Dean doing what he must to support his brother and his community, and maybe just maybe finding love and freeing a genie in doing so.
Everlasting by @entropic-saudade (art by @golby-moon) is a recent fic from the stabfest bang, featuring a grieving post-15x18 Dean, and a still adjusting to having Kaia back Claire. It also beautifully examines the parallels between Dean and Claire, and their joint tendency for flirting with people by comparing scars. Achingly romantic, Dean is looking for a way to bring Cas back, and Claire is seeking a momento of Kaia to keep close to her forever...and what's love without a little stabbing?
As A Friend by imogenbynight (@thevioletcaptain) is absolutely best summed up by it's own summary: In which Dean accidentally learns about Castiel's porn preferences, and one thing leads to another. With one last chapter pending, this fic is a smutty delight, in which a newly human Cas in a post-Chuck defeated world and a still adjusting Dean learn a thing or two about each other and decide the best thing to do is lean into it with a secret no strings friends with benefits kink exploration set up...what could possibly go wrong?
doors unlocked and open by sidewinder (@hawkland, art by @fluffsnake) brilliantly combines The Winchesters finale with a post-canon continuation, in which Cas has become the new ruler and embodiment of the Empty whilst Jack is busy restructuring heaven. But Dean is not finding peace, not even in Jack’s improved afterlife, and has instead been traversing the Axis Mundi in the search of his family...in search of Castiel. But there might be a new fate to await them.
tie your wrists with leather by kalmialatifolia is a short but sweet post-canon D/S kinktober fic, in which Cas gets Dean spread eagle in leather cuffs leading to this exchange which captures their voices so perfectly:
“Jesus, Cas,” is all Dean says, and then, as Castiel crawls between his spread legs, “They—they smell good. They smell…” He laughs a little, a soft huff. “Like the Impala? Kind of?”
Castiel snorts, putting his hands on the backs of Dean’s knees and spreading his legs just a little farther apart. Dean goes easy. “Yes,” he says dryly, “I thought you might like that.”
and if that wets your appetite for a longer form wip, then reclusive secret romance novelist Dean and Priest with a past Cas are getting up to all sorts in their fic Benedictions.
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swordofsun · 3 months
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One of the things I have discussed ad nauseum with @ilarual and @mybrainproblems is how Dean doesn't give John a denouncement in Lebanon because he doesn't need to give John a denouncement. He's already done it. Just because John wasn't there doesn't mean it didn't serve the same purpose for Dean.
Yes, I'm talking about 03x10 Dream A Little Dream Of Me:
DREAM DEAN
Dad knew who you really were. A good soldier and nothing else. Daddy's blunt little instrument.
(angry)
Your own father didn't care whether you lived or died. Why should you?
DEAN
(angry)
Son of a bitch!
DEAN pushes DREAM DEAN hard, knocking him into the wall above the desk.
DEAN
(screaming angrily)
My father was an obsessed bastard!
DREAM DEAN tries to get up and DEAN kicks him down on the desk again. DEAN holds the weapon as a bat and hits DREAM DEAN once and then pins him to the wall with it.
DEAN
All that crap he dumped on me, about protecting Sam! That was his crap. He's the one who couldn't protect his family. He-
DEAN steps back and swings the weapon again, hitting DREAM DEAN twice.
DEAN
He's the one who let Mom die.
DEAN pins DREAM DEAN again.
DEAN
– who wasn't there for Sam. I always was! He wasn't fair! I didn't deserve what he put on me.
He backs away from DREAM DEAN.
DEAN
And I don't deserve to go to Hell!*
The catharsis is admitting that John was unfair and expected too much. It doesn't actually need to be said to John. This is stuff Dean needs to acknowledge in himself. To accept and move forward with that knowledge. It's finally verbalized this that allows him to admit to Sam that he doesn't want to die and he doesn't want to go to hell.
But I also realized today that Dean does also get that yelling at John moment. He just doesn't get to remember it until 04x15 when Tessa gives him back his memories of 02x01.
JOHN is sitting by DEAN'S bed; !DEAN STANDS NEARBY.
!DEAN
Come on, Dad. You've gotta help me. I've gotta get better, I've gotta get back in there. I mean, you haven't called a soul for help. You haven't even tried. Aren't you going to do anything? Aren't you even going to say anything?
(he starts walking around the bed)
I've done everything you have ever asked me. Everything. I have given everything I've ever had. And you're just going to sit there and you're going to watch me die? I mean, what the hell kind of father are you?**
And, again, it doesn't matter that John doesn't hear any of this. Because it's not for John. It's for Dean. Dean's the one who needed to acknowledge everything John did to him. And he does. He just doesn't have the need to then talk about it with other people or waste the short period of time he has with John in Lebanon hashing over stuff he's already dealt with.
He even gets an acknowledgment from John that he was wrong to raise Dean the way he did. He just followed it up by giving Dean one last shitty order. But he still does say:
JOHN
You know, when you were a kid, I'd come home from a hunt, and after what I'd seen, I'd be, I'd be wrecked. And you, you'd come up to me and you, you'd put your hand on my shoulder and you'd look me in the eye and you'd... You'd say "It's okay, Dad"
(pauses)
Dean, I'm sorry.
DEAN
What?
JOHN
You shouldn't have had to say that to me, I should have been saying that to you. You know, I put, I put too much on your shoulders, I made you grow up too fast. You took care of Sammy, you took care of me. You did that, and you didn't complain, not once. I just want you to know that I am so proud of you.**
By the time Lebanon comes around he's dealt with all this crap. He's had his moments of yelling about the unfairness of it all. He's dealt with his issues around Mary making the deal in the first place and not leaving them any warnings or explanations.***
Lebanon is about healing an old hurt that's been festering since he was 4 years old. It's giving him one last happy family meal. Why would he ruin that by yelling at John about things he's already dealt with?
SAM
How did this happen?
DEAN
I-I-I don’t know. You said that the – the pearl gives you what your heart desires, right? So, my heart desired – I – I’ve wanted this, man. I’ve – I’ve wanted this since I was 4 years old.
SAM
Okay, I know, and I-I-I-I love this, too, Dean. I do, honestly, but – but messing with time –
DEAN
No, no, no, Sam.
SAM
You know how this ends. Things change.
DEAN
Yeah, great – we got our family back together. I’ll take that change.
SAM
That’s not what I mean.
DEAN
Stop. Just stop, okay? Look, can – can we just have one family dinner? Just one? Us – all of us together. That’s all I want. Can you just give me that?****
I think sometimes people get so focused on what they'd like to see that they forget what would actually make sense for the characters. Dean's had his denouncements and Lebanon is about reaffirming his happiness on where he is now.
JOHN
No, son. My fight. It was supposed to end with me, with Yellow Eyes. But now you – you are a grown man, and I am incredibly proud of you. I guess that I had hoped, eventually, you would… get yourself a normal life, a peaceful life, a family.
[DEAN nods. He smiles.]
DEAN
I have a family.****
*03x10 Transcript
**02x01 Transcript
***See 12x22 Who We Are
****14x13 Transcript
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destieltropecollection · 11 months
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DESTIEL TROPE COLLECTION 2023 | DAY 17 | Friends to Lovers
Touch Me, Sit With Me, Tell Me To Stay | @aaronthe8thdemon
Rating: Teen & Up Word Count: 3,634 Main Tags/Warnings: Post-Season/Series 15, Angst, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Castiel Out of the Empty (Supernatural), Grieving Dean Winchester, John Winchester's A+ Parenting, Angel Castiel (Supernatural) Summary: The day the car dies, Castiel thinks that he (and a great many humans, too) would give up so much to be loved half as well as Dean loves Baby.
Heartcatcher | Maetheheller (AO3)
Rating: Explicit Word Count: 4,975 Main Tags/Warnings: Nick Nelson from Heartstopper is a dean Winchester parallel, hand jobs, frottage, best friends to lovers, Charlie Dean Cas movie nights, The Boys references Summary: Charlie, Dean, and Cas have a Heartstopper “movie night” and Dean doesn’t expect to relate so much to Nick Nelson, or find the courage to confess his feelings to Cas, his blue-eyed best friend, but sometimes good things do happen.
aperture | ilarual (AO3)
Rating: General Word Count: 5,000 Main Tags/Warnings: Alternate Universe - Modern Setting, Friends To Lovers, It's Not Actually Unrequited They're Just Both Idiots, Oneshot Summary: Dean keeps a photo collage of all the people he loves. Castiel is barely in it.
when the stars align | @twinone1221
Rating: General Word Count: 20,550 Main Tags/Warnings: Camping AU, Mechanic!Dean Winchester, Teacher!Castiel, Car Trouble, Stargazing Summary: Camping was something Castiel’s family loved for different reasons. Amelia loved to cook over an open fire, Jimmy enjoyed hikes the most, his niece Claire preferred riding her bicycle, and his son Jack always asked for stories while stargazing. The plan was simple. Drive to the lake, spend some time with his family, eat some good food, sleep under the stars and then drive back in time for work on Monday morning. It was the perfect plan for a perfect weekend. Then his truck broke down.
Love As Blue And Rainbow Feathers | @aaronthe8thdemon
Rating: Mature Word Count: 37,388 Main Tags/Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Season/Series 13, Major Character Injury, Wingfic, Castiel Possessing Dean Winchester, Friends to Lovers, Slow Burn, Light Angst, Fluff, John Winchester's A+ Parenting, Past Child Abuse, Internalized Homophobia, Canon-Typical Violence Summary: Narrowly escaping death in an alternate reality? Grievous injuries with only the most outrageous solutions available? Pranks as a form of flirting? Unresolved sexual tension driving everyone else nuts? Teaching a toddler how to fight an archangel and actually stand a chance of winning? Juggling a bunker of refugees and the problems in Heaven and the threat of the devil himself? Only on any day ending in Y for the Winchesters.
The barista and the bookshop | @abi-cosmos
Rating: Explicit Word Count: 55,794 Main Tags/Warnings: Coffeeshop AU, Mutual pining, Bisexual Dean Winchester, Gay Castiel, Top Castiel/Bottom Dean Winchester, Friends to lovers, Slow burn, Angst with a happy ending Summary: In a sleepy mountain town, stitched together with fairy lights, Dean Winchester has been running Squirrel and Moose Coffeehouse since his Dad died. Next door, anchored by family obligation, librarian Castiel has been tasked with taking over Chuck’s Bookshop. Wanting a distraction after his brother leaves town, Dean offers to help Castiel fix it up. It’s a job, something to get his hands on, it doesn’t matter that the librarian is hot and kinda weird. Castiel doesn’t understand why Dean is helping him, but he’s happy that he is, and their friendship grows until he can’t deny what’s right in front of him. But when their time together is cut short, both face a decision they aren't ready for. In a sleepy mountain town, stitched together with fairy lights, what's it gonna be? Peace or freedom?
The guy next door | @castielific
Rating: Explicit Word Count: 61,653 Main Tags/Warnings: AU!Neighbors, AU!NoSupernatural, Dean Smith, baby!jack, TheEnd!Cas, minor Cas/OC, Dean has a sexual identity crisis, single parent!Cas, miscommunication, self esteem issues, emotional constipation, angst with a happy ending, pining, friends with benefits Summary: When Dean Smith quit his job at Sandover, he had no idea what he was going to do with his life. He definitely didn't plan for his hippie neighbor and his four years old kid to make him question everything he thought he knew about himself.
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scoobydoodean · 10 months
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"Dean has no time for fruitless quests to find God. He's got people to protect" | 1.03 "Dead In The Water
Quote is tags from @ilarual ♥️
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spngeorg · 28 days
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Episode 147 - 7.21 Reading is Fundamental
KEVIN! This poor kid... just add him to the list of Terrible Things Chuck Did.
We have a Leviathan Tablet and a new prophet to read it, which wakes Cas into a state of abject denial and depression of what he did, brings the angels back into play, and sets Sam and Dean on a big scavenger hunt for parts for a weapon powerful enough to end the leviathans.
Also, bees.
I think that about sums it up... oh and there's a lot of suffering of the personal emotional kind for everyone! Wheeee! Thanks, Ben Edlund!
LINKS!
The Superwiki page
My tag
Chuck is a real jerk
A reminder of why I don’t give too much credence to heaven/angel hierarchy 
Rewatch notes and general yelling from October 2019
Thoughts on bees and honey on a very very old post
Cas and games and bees by ladyofthesilent
A more recent post by ilarual about the bees and guilt
A post from s13 that covers how I see the tablets and their power
Rewatch notes from January 2018 (focusing on the thread of being sorry and playing sorry connecting back to 4.22)
Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)
Also, reminder that all my notes are on ao3 now! this week's notes can be found right here.
Listen now on Spotify, or wherever you enjoy podcasts!
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Key to understanding the fun little outfits post are that it includes things that...
Dean does not wear in his day to day when he isn't hunting
Are not a specific profession's uniform
Nobody else made him wear (and that arguably he shouldn't wear if he's trying to be inconspicuous)
As others have pointed out, the Michael outfits don't get included because those were not Dean's choice.
The cardigan sweaters and fancy tailored grey suit DO get included because while he was ostensibly wearing them for undercover work, in reality nobody made him wear that specific item and arguably, he would be more believable in the undercover role if he didn't.
FBI agents are government employees that make, on average, a pretty middle class salary. They don't go around wearing tailored suits with color-coordinated silk ties to everyday cases. And as @ilarual pointed out, insurance adjusters often don't even wear suits.
Something I've also noticed moving and traveling around the U.S. is that different areas have very different standards for what is considered professional, what is considered casual day wear, etc. in general. In large cities like Boston and New York, for example, it isn't out of the ordinary to see people in suit pants and button-ups on the daily.
But in somewhere like the small towns Sam and Dean frequent, that would be very unusual for most people regardless of profession. I don't think I saw anyone wear a suit outside of church and prom the entire 22 years I lived in a small town. Most people had jobs that required a uniform for safety or brand cohesion. Even people with office jobs that didn't require an explicit uniform wore khakis or chinos with polos or button-ups. Sometimes even jeans with a t-shirt tucked in.
I'm sure Sam and Dean don suits as often as they do because most people assume that's what fancy government or corporate types always wear, and it lends them an air of authority. But beyond that, Dean goes ham on the colors, customization, and details because he wants to. Because he just likes it!
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bloodydeanwinchester · 9 months
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Hi! Do you have any SPN blogs recs? Thank you, have a lovely day!! 💗
hi!! there are soooo many spn blogs that i love but here are a just few from that list:
@angelsdean @butch--dean @monstermoviedean @horrorcas @sheepstiel @ilarual @saintedcastiel @michaelsworddean @xofemeraldstars
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shallowseeker · 2 months
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Meta Monday!
@scoobydoodean @ilarual @monstermoviedean @angelsdean @ironworked @bogwitchatrois @angelcasendgame
EDIT @minalblood esp for spnwin mythology stuff!
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