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relicsongmel · 5 months

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hi im also a raymond shields lover [you know this its no surprise] and i am also SOOO autistic about music so i totally ripped apart his theme to analyze it and i wanna hear YOUR THOUGHTS PLEAAAASEEE I NEED SOMEONE TO BE INSANE WITH

HELL YEAH an excuse to geek out about Joking Motive? You better believe I'm taking it

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Ok so right off the bat—THE FIRST FOUR NOTES. The first SEVEN notes, even—you can hear Miles’ Great Revival motif, plain as day. Close listeners will recognize that this iconic ascending minor third and whole step pattern can be heard all over the Investigations soundtrack, everywhere from the cross-examination and objection themes to the character themes—including but not limited to Kay, Lang, and in this case, Ray (there’s even an inverted version in Gregory’s theme that uses a descending half step and major third instead!). What’s really interesting is the use of this motif sort of contradicts Ray’s attitude toward Miles when we first hear the track—it’s played during his initial introduction when he still has that grudge towards him. It’s not NECESSARILY out of place considering even Quercus Alba’s theme uses the motif, but it’s a pretty strong musical foreshadowing that he could potentially be swayed over to Miles’ side, which is indeed followed through on later.

As for the main body of the track itself, it’s pretty distinctly blues-y, making gratuitous use of standard blues chord progressions (Am7 -> D7 and whatnot) and pentatonic melodies ornamented by that sweet sweet flat 5 that I have now dubbed “the Ray Note” because the man has melted my brain (what else is new). One thing worth noting that’s a bit atypical of the genre, however, is the Fmaj7 chord used a couple of times throughout (in Roman numeral notation it would be the VI chord); the first instance of it is about 44 seconds into the linked video for reference. This, in my opinion, is a really clever way of hiding emotional nuance underneath the otherwise upbeat instrumentation and playful melody—the VI chord sounds a bit more melancholic in comparison to everything surrounding it and hints that despite his jokester persona, Ray might not actually be as cheerful as he seems.

And now my favorite part—the synesthesia of it all. Idk if you’ve read my pinned post or not but basically the key of a song has certain colors, moods, scenery, etc. associated with it in my brain and it’s been a part of my life since even before I had any sort of musical training. Joking Motive is in A minor—which is represented by the color gray and its associated moods are those of emptiness and yearning (it’s a functional opposite to E flat minor which is pitch black and represents the crushing weight of despair). And I mean. Considering Ray’s whole character revolves around the void left in his life after Gregory’s death and how he desperately tries to fill it by doing everything he can to bring Miles back to his side? I’d say the key choice fits pretty well. If Capcom REALLY wanted to steal my heart away and make me even MORE smitten than I already am they could have put it just a half step higher in B flat minor (my favorite key of all time. Beautiful midnight blue queen I love her so much) but their key choice reflects him too perfectly so I’m willing to overlook it.

And that’s about it, really! I hope you enjoyed reading my insights—Joking Motive is one of my favorite tracks so I'm glad we can be autistic about it together <3

#ask #kissingonclouds #raymond shields #aa #aai2 #music nerd shit #musical analysis #if anyone needs any of the terminology i used clarified. please ask. or consult google your choice #and please know that i am ALWAYS down to talk ace attorney music or pokemon music. this shit is what i live for

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paragonrobits · 10 months

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some fun facts about Spider-Man 2099:

He’s probably older as a character than you might think; he was first published in August 1992, and was created by Peter David (who is likely most well known among Marvel fans for, alongside Greg Pak, being the biggest contributor to some of the Hulk’s best stories)

He’s not a standalone character. Miguel O’hara is part of the Marvel 2099 sub-continuity, which can be best described as a cyberpunk dystopia spinning off after a bad future for the rest of the Marvel universe as a whole. It is very much in the model of a standard cyberpunk setting with corporations running the world into the ground and oppressing people in the name of profit. In this era, there have been no superheroes and most of them are remembered only as vague stories that people desperately want to believe in, or iconic folklore that people really behind.

In this regard, it may also be possible to view O’hara as a contrast to Spider-Punk, who also comes from a dystopia oppressed by corporations, though they ultimately have broadly opposite reactions to it.

Miguel is notable for having a great deal of differences from the ‘average’ Spider-Man incarnation, with a great deal of purely physical alterations that are otherwise not very typical in spider powers.

His best friend is an AI, whom was seen glimpsed at the end of Into The Spiderverse

He arguably has a very important role in Spider-Man history; while Miles Morales has definitely eclipsed his fame and become a part of the main Marvel universe, Miguel was significantly more popular than the other 2099 stories and remained fairly well known across comics at the time, which also ties into his cameo in Into The Spiderverse; he arguably had the most amount of importance as a Spider-Man legacy character before Miles, and was the most prominent non-Parker incarnation, even moreso than Mayday Parker.

There was a short-lived animated series called Spider-Man Unlimited that I always interpreted as an attempt to adapt aspects of Miguel O’Hara, though the most it has in common is that the suit Spider-Man wears in it looks an awful lot like Miguel’s look; its otherwise not very much like 2099 at all, besides a cyberpunk angle, and features a displaced Peter Parker.

There is likely some interesting angles in comparing and contrasting the respective settings of Miles’ original world (the Ultimate universe) and Miguel’s. Miguel is, as noted, fundamentally a cyberpunk character, and was technically one of the more positive characters in it, a true hero in a world of bleak despair amid corporate control; while there were other heroes, there weren’t enough, and things were bad enough that Doctor Doom popping up to take over the world made him seem like an anti-hero at worst. In contrast, Miles was one of the few purely positive figures in the Ultimate setting, which in its attempts to imitate the likes of the Authority often depicted classic Marvel heroes in horrific ways; the Hulk was often implied to be a sexually violent cannibal, Wolverine tried to sleep with an underage girl, Carol Danvers gets downright enthusiastic at the prospect of torturing an alien who had been her friend.. even Miles’ dad was an anti-mutant bigot. Miles himself, though, was a whole and genuine hero (if a reluctant one) who was one of the few truly noble people in the setting, so there’s an element in their conflict here.

#marvel #spider man 2099 #miguel o'hara #queued

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apocalypticavolition · 8 months

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Let's (re)Read The Eye of the World! Chapter 34: The Last Village

Once again I find myself obligated to warn woolheads about spoilers. If you haven't read the entirety of the series, don't stick around. I will spoil the shit out of everything. I might even spoil stuff in this very paragraph for a laugh, so you need to stop now and flee! Well, okay, not this paragraph. That would be mean. But maybe the next one, or the one after that!

This chapter starts up with the Trolloc triptych symbol. In this case it represents the Fade that pursues the boys in Carysford, as there aren't actually any Trollocs in this chapter. So I guess this icon can occasionally mean Shadowspawn in general, though it might just be early installment weirdness.

He wondered if his whole sense of time was getting skewed. Only three nights since Howal Gode and Four Kings, two since Paitr had surprised them in Market Sheran. Just a bare day since the nameless Darkfriend woman tried to kill them in the stable of The Queen’s Man, but even that seemed a year ago, or a lifetime.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

Guess what, Jordan? You played yourself. Your timeline's wrong! Assuming we count this current evening as night 1, then the fever night is 2 and sure Paitr works, but then we have the night at the inn before him as 3 and the night in the rain immediately following Gode as 4. Maybe if you hadn't written the sequence in a pointlessly confusing fashion, it would have been easier to keep track of.

Thank fuck we never have to deal with this nonsense again.

“Two paces to the span,” he muttered. “A thousand spans to the mile, four miles to the league. . . . I’m not walking another ten paces unless there’s a place to sleep at the end of it.

Ah yes, this is going to be an infodumping chapter, so here's Jordan establishing that the metric system is long gone.

“If there aren’t a hundred Darkfriends waiting for us down the road, or a Fade or two.” There was silence for a moment, then Mat said, “I think we’re the last ones left, Rand.” He sounded frightened. “Whatever it’s all about, it’s just us two, now. Just us.”

Seriously, is this knife more about magically imparting paranoia and mistrust, or just despair? Because Mat's been more consistently convinced of everyone being dead than much else.

“Where are you bound?” Mat called. “Why, Caemlyn, for to see the Dragon,” the fellow shouted back without stopping. He raised an eyebrow at the blankets and saddlebags hanging from their shoulders, and added, “Just like you.” With a laugh he went on, his eyes already seeking eagerly ahead.

Silly man, you wanna see the Dragon you need to stop and chill with this duo. Caemlyn only has a false dragon.

Once Rand misjudged a driver’s whip, just by the length of the tip. Clapping his hand to the shallow gash over his eyebrow, he swallowed hard to keep from vomiting at how close it had come to his eye. The driver smirked at him. With his other hand he grabbed Mat, to stop him nocking an arrow.

Oh, and murder. That's the other thing the dagger seems to inspire in Mat. Frankly, I support it.

The captain’s scowl deepened as he caught sight of Rand and Mat, standing in the road nearby. He gestured down the road with a steel-backed gauntlet. “Get on with you, or I’ll have you in for blocking traffic.”

That's an interesting threat. Laws against idleness and wandering are pretty old, they date back to the 1400s in England and I wouldn't be surprised to learn of earlier examples in other nations. But blocking traffic specifically is an odd one, in no small part because they're two pedestrians on a large road and can't possibly be blocking much. Maybe the captain's just using shorthand, but I wonder if he's not just threatening the bumpkins to make them move along when he doesn't have any legal right to shoo them off the road. Not that, as a cop, he wouldn't arrest them and beat their skulls in anyway, just that he might be going, "Boo!" at the small children more than anything.

The night thickened, relieved only a bit by scant moonlight. Mat’s burst of energy faded, and his complaints started up again. Aching knots formed in Rand’s calves. He told himself he had walked further in a hard day working on the farm with Tam, but repeat it as often as he would, he could not make himself believe it. Gritting his teeth, he ignored the aches and pains and would not stop.

Again, Jordan is really good at descriptions of physical exhaustion. It's delightful.

Skin prickling, Rand watched the shape moving off in the night. He did not know why, but his uneasiness seemed to follow that one, a vague tingling in the back of his neck and the hair stirring on his arms as if he had suddenly realized something was sneaking up on him. With a quick shake of his head, he rubbed his arms briskly.

Rand's Shadowspawn sense seems to have developed nicely, since he's upset about this dude for a whole page before he finally gets proof that the man's a Fade.

He paused, then went on as if he thought he had to explain further. “He’s from Four Kings. Looking for a couple of thieves. Young men. They stole a heron-mark sword from him.”

It's really funny to me that the two chapters where Rand's sword gets him unwanted attention are the two where it isn't the chapter icon. It's just because he's not thinking about Tam with it, but it's interesting that the sword matters as a source of internal conflict, not external.

“You sound almost as if you know them to look at.” “I’ll know them when I see them,” Holdwin said confidently.

Last time I said Paitr was getting info from TAR, but it does seem as though Fades are the primary mechanism at this point. That said, Holdwin's confidence that he'd know the boys on sight suggests that there is still a subconscious mechanism of info dissemination.

“If the Queen’s Guards can’t keep the road safe this close to Caemlyn, then we’re none of us safe even in our own beds. If you ask me, one thing the Guards could do to make sure the roads are safe would be clap that friend of yours in irons. Sneaking around in the dark, afraid to let anybody get a look at him. Can’t tell me he’s not up to no good.”

Dear old Almen Bunt. He's absolutely right. The Queen's Guards can't keep the road safe this close to Caemlyn - there's a Fade walking the streets! - and no one is safe anywhere. Frankly, the Shadow would have had a much better shot of winning the conflict if it had just ordered the Myrdraal to spend the Third Age warping from shadow to shadow, ganking anyone in arm's reach, and hoping that by the end of the age humanity is too depressed to keep fighting. Course, the Dark One probably has tried that a few times and it probably doesn't work all the same.

“So you two are going to Caemlyn. To see the Dragon, eh?” ... “The false Dragon,” Rand said with emphasis.

Rand doesn't even know he's the real deal yet and he's already insisting no one respect the imitators.

Well, wait till you see it. The greatest city in the world. Oh, I’ve heard all about Illian and Ebou Dar and Tear and all—there’s always some fool thinks a thing is bigger and better just because it’s off somewheres over the horizon—but for my money, Caemlyn is the grandest there is.

The fun thing is, even with the expanded knowledge of the world we have, Bunt is still pretty much right. Caemlyn, for all of Andor's Two Rivers-related flaws, is probably the best capital city to live in. Andor doesn't hate the peasantry or channelers like so many other nations do, the monarchy is strong enough to keep the peace, it's not at constant risk of Trolloc invasion, and it's not Tar Valon where the Black Ajah are headquartered. It's also not Rhuidean, which is fancier but presently abandoned, nor Seandar or Shara's unknown capital which double down on slavery and other hideous crimes against human rights.

There's a reason that Caemlyn is an important site in the Last Battle - and why even now we have the teleportation systems being set up to justify it being potentially under threat despite its distance from the Blight. Its devastation is an echo of the fall of Manetheren and other Trolloc War-era cities.

Another Aes Sedai. If . . . when Moiraine got to Caemlyn, she might well go to a sister Aes Sedai. If the worst happened, this Elaida might help them reach Tar Valon.

Oh she'll help you get to Tar Valon alright. And seriously, Bunt is on a roll. Elaida is the worst Aes Sedai advisor a woman could possibly have and she should be sent home. Not Tar Valon, just home. Forever.

Send the Daughter-Heir off to Tar Valon to study with the Aes Sedai, and the eldest son off to study with the Warders. I believe in tradition, I do, but look what it got us last time. Luc dead in the Blight before he was ever anointed First Prince of the Sword, and Tigraine vanished—run off or dead—when it came time for her to take the throne.

Of course, Bunt can't be right about everything! Tigraine going to Tar Valon to study was the most important thing that happened in the span of human events, even if Luc had to suffer for it. Like I said, this is the infodump chapter - Bunt has opinions on everything.

Brought Cairhien into the plotting before he was done, and you know how that ended. The Tree chopped down, and black-veiled Aiel coming over the Dragonwall. Well, he got himself decently killed after he’d fathered Elayne and Gawyn, so there’s an end to it,

This is about the only hint we get as to why Laman chopped down the Tree, and I'm just fascinated as to what bizarre set of events led from, "Help Taringail end up wed to whoever becomes Queen," to "Destroy a priceless treasure that only brought the nation prosperity even if you ignore the threat of devastation from the neighbors getting pissed you metaphorically spat in their faces". What happened there? Would Jordan have ever answered that question in the prequels? Had he originally intended to answer it in Elayne's arc beforehand?

“The Queen is wed to the land,” Thom said as brightly colored balls danced in a circle, “but the Dragon . . . the Dragon is one with the land, and the land is one with the Dragon.”

More for Caemlyn being the grandest, most important city - the Queen who is wed to the Dragon is Andor's queen.

“At least. . . .” Mat yawned, cracking his jaws. “At least you got some sleep.” There was little sympathy in his bleary eyes. He was huddled under his cloak, with his blanketroll doubled up beneath his head. “He talked all bloody night.”

Mat's head is now swimming with all sorts of fascinating factoids about the Trakands, Damodreds, and Mantears, plus probably a comprehensive history of Hawkwing's empire and even Coremanda from the Compact. Little does he know that from here on out he'll be able to figure out the answer to virtually every question about the backstory that he or the others will have all the way to the Last Battle - but in a cruel twist of fate he will of course lose all of this knowledge once he's cured of his current dagger fixation.

Ah well, we've made it to Caemlyn, and so next time we'll be starting the next chapter: Caemlyn, when Rand and Mat explore the city of Caemlyn! Caemlyn.

#let's read #wheel of time #wot #robert jordan #wheel of time spoilers #wot spoilers #rand al'thor #mat cauthon #almen bunt

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braidpoll · 9 months

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BRAID POLL !! :D

currently running :

ROUND 7 PART 4

barbie as rapunzel ( barbie as rapunzel ) vs makoto kurume ( skip to loafer )

ICON BRACKET

ROUND 2 PART 1

Edward Elric ( Fullmetal Alchemist ) VS Katara ( Avatar: The Last Airbender )

ABOUT THA ICON BRACKET : tha eight most iconic braid characters ( decided both by iconicness and tha amount of submissions they received ) will compete in an adjacent bracket . tha winner will then face off against tha winner of tha main braid bracket . this is liek what they do in sports , where certain teams get to skip matches and go straight to tha finals . this way icons can be included but its more exciting ( and fair ) than watching them decimate their opponents each round before making it to tha finals anyways

entire 128 character bracket is too large to take a screenshot of but it looks liek this , and will ( obviously ) be done in sections . bracket list below tha readmore , straight down tha left side and then straight down tha right !! :D

LEFT SIDE :

susie carmicheal ( rugrats )

agent 3 ( splatoon 3 )

peko pekoyama ( danganronpa 2: goodbye despair )

sabi ( pokémon legends: arceus )

princess yue ( avatar: the last airbender )

elsa ( frozen )

mei chang ( fullmetal alchemist )

pippi longstocking ( pippi longstocking )

ran hanamichi ( delicious party♡precure )

xiangling ( genshin impact )

neiru aonuma ( wonder egg priority )

mozart ( classicaloid )

mitsuri kanroji ( kimetsu no yaiba )

cure felice ( mahoutsukai PreCure! )

ty lee ( avatar: the last airbender )

toadette ( super mario bros )

prim everdeen ( the hunger games )

joni savage ( cluefinders )

juniper woods ( phoenix wright: ace attorney - dual destinies )

ahiru ( princess tutu )

leona kingscholar ( twisted wonderland )

yoshino shimazu ( maria-sama ga miteru )

jasminka antonenko ( little witch academia )

dewey ( nurse angel ririka sos )

fiona ( shrek )

cure cosmo ( star☆twinkle PreCure )

tsukimi kurashita ( princess jellyfish / kuragehime )

yui nanase ( go! princess PreCure )

piper mccloud ( the girl who could fly )

turtle wexler ( the westing game )

elyon ( w.i.t.c.h )

lily angel ( all saints street )

pearl ( pearl )

jessica riley ( until dawn )

meg thomas ( dead by daylight )

anissa pierce ( black lightning )

miles morales [ earth 42 ] ( spiderman: into the spiderverse )

espella cantabella ( professor leighton vs. phoenix wright: ace attorney )

petra ( fire emblem: three houses )

kikuri hiroi ( bocchi the rock! )

narumi yatadera ( touhou tenkuushou ~ hidden star in four seasons )

doc mcstuffins ( doc mcstuffins )

ruffnut thorston ( how to train your dragon )

magane chikujouin ( re:CREATORS )

eiko tsukimi ( ya boy kongming! )

emma ( pokémon X/Y )

chizuru maki ( DREAM!ing )

momoko sudou ( araburu kisetsu no otome-domo yo. )

hikaru kujou ( futari wa PreCure max heart )

zossie ( pokémon ultra sun/ultra moon )

madotsuki ( yume nikki )

rin kaenbyou ( touhou chireiden ~ subterranean animism )

shenhe ( genshin impact )

draken ( tokyo revengers )

lettuce midorikawa ( tokyo mew mew )

anne shirley ( anne of green gables )

maria momoe ( ookiku furikabutte )

riley freeman ( the boondocks )

lisa yadoumaru ( bleach )

hikaru shidou ( magic knight rayearth )

demeter ( hades )

lucy maud montgomery ( bungou stray dogs )

ajimi kiki ( pripara )

himari arisugawa ( kirakira☆precure a la mode )

RIGHT SIDE :

shuri ( black panther )

cheryl ( pokémon diamond/pearl/platinum )

rana ( vocaloid )

kirari momobami ( kakegurui )

abigail lincoln ( codename: kids next door )

lila sawyer ( hey arnold! )

penny ( warioware )

fawn ( disney fairies )

sveta ( golden sun: dark dawn )

josie mccoy ( Riverdale)

libby folfax ( the adventures of jimmy neutron: boy genuis )

nori ( barbie mermadia )

ashlyn banner ( school bus graveyard )

julia lazarrett ( marionetta )

luther schneien ( ghost eyes )

naru kanda ( ikemen girl to hakoiri musume )

sid barrett ( soul eater )

kumoko ( so im a spider, so what? )

justine courtney ( ace attorney investigations: prosecutor's path )

retsu unohana ( bleach )

jack vessalius ( pandora hearts )

aika s. granzchesta ( aria )

kaname tousen ( bleach )

ludmila ( rune factory 5 )

nikolai gogol ( bungou stray dogs )

jolyne cujoh ( jojo's bizzare adventure: stone ocean )

katniss everdeen ( the hunger games )

violet evergarden ( violet evergarden )

aerith gainsborough ( final fantasy vii )

anna ( frozen )

cammy white ( street fighter ii )

ranma saotome ( ranma ½ )

barbie as rapunzel ( barbie as rapunzel )

rapunzel ( tangled )

bu-ling huang ( tokyo mew mew )

sheeta ( laputa: castle in the sky )

suzuha amane ( steins;gate )

qiqi ( genshin impact )

nah ( fire emblem awakening )

nemu hiiragi ( magia record: puella magi madoka magica side story )

jodie ( daria )

nick hoult ( all saints street )

helga sinclair ( atlantis: the lost empire )

tao ( gokurakugai )

aru shah ( the pandava quintet )

ayşe ( woven )

makoto kurume ( skip to loafer )

library ( misao )

duo maxwell ( mobile suit gundam wing )

revali ( legend of zelda: breath of the wild )

nina ( fire emblem fates )

kiana kaslana ( honkai impact 3rd )

aether ( genshin impact )

kamui ( gintama )

raiden shogun ( genshin impact )

touko fukawa ( danganronpa: trigger happy havoc )

nahyuta sahdmadhi ( phoenix wright: ace attorney - spirit of justice )

haruka hashida ( blue period )

viola ( the witch's house )

nemu kurotsuchi ( bleach )

lingji liu ( ciconia no naku koro ni )

aisha ( romancing SaGa )

ooama no ake no mitori ( len'en ten'eisenki ~ brilliant pagoda or haze castle )

marc ( flying red barrel: the diary of a little aviator )

#pinned #braid poll #braidpoll

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mlobsters · 11 months

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supernatural s5e12 swap meat (teleplay: Julie Siege story: Julie Siege, Rebecca Dessertine, Harvey Fedor)

are they gonna make a body swap not fun?

CRYSTAL Gary, I don’t want to embarrass you, but you are just – you are just a stunning-looking man.

SAM I know, right?

ignoble start. crystal needs to raise her fucking standards.

squirreling away more the little details about their childhood. maid babysitting (do you think john paid her?) summer before 6th grade (which would make sam ~11 years old) for two weeks.. practically a gold star parenting moment for john, getting an adult to be involved in watching them.

DEAN You ever think that you'd want something like that? Wife, rugrats, the whole nine?

SAM No, not really my thing anymore.

(not crying, nope) and what about you, dean. we still pretending you don't? if i start thinking too much where things end up i will end up in an existential pit of despair, so. moving on!

the old computer person inside me still compulsively screenshots computer screens in stuff i'm watching, new desktop background! and also laughing because i hadn't noticed before in this episode where dean is also using a laptop (black one instead of the silver mac) it's the same desktop icons. including the Untitled 1 and 2 documents. LOL

s5e12 / s5e5

on the whole though, they've done a good job with their computer stuff. teen wolf was comically bad.

not in any universe, especially when sam has been possessed before, do i believe that dean winchester is not going to notice sam behaving so differently. you don't get every demon, monster and psychiatrist within a 50 mile radius calling out your codependent relationship with your brother and not notice some bumbling teenager is behind the wheel of his body.

okay, writers. calling the kid a frustrated virgin because he likes star wars and has porn. eyeroll

padalecki's neck region has been sweaty a lot lately it seems like. is he doing pushups between takes? is that how he's gotten so big

attack of the weird makeup/lighting/color correction on jensen again yikes

this is like watching ooc fic come to life.

NORA/DEMON You mean to tell me you've got Dean Winchester and Sam Winchester's meat suit? An empty vessel just waiting to be filled. And you're handing them both over to me?

okay so at least that was a kind of clever way of working this into the bigger story, i didn't see potential vessel snatching coming.

DEAN That was a nice thing to say.

SAM I totally lied. That kid's life sucked ass. All that apple-pie, family crap? It's stressful. Trust me – we didn't miss a damn thing.

DEAN Or we don't know what we're missing.

some really weird writing choices. sam isn't all sad earnest puppies and rainbows, but he's also not often sharp and assholeish either. i don't know if that's trying to write him as being funny or what. spn's brand of humor doesn't land for me very often, though it has been a little better this season overall.

#supernatural #spn 5x12 #spnwatch #julie siege #and others #spnwhinge #rebecca dessertine #harvey fedor #spn desktop background update

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