#robosam no more

[mlobsters]

supernatural s6e12 like a virgin (w. adam glass)

i can never watch a stormy scary nighttime flight scene without thinking of the thing on plane wing in the twilight zone movie from 1983. that movie must have been in heavy rotation on tv at some point in my childhood (clip on youtube if you're curious)

(this is why it takes me 2 hours to watch an episode)

CASTIEL Let me tell you what his soul felt like when I touched it. Like it had been skinned alive, Dean. If you wanted to kill your brother, you should have done it outright.

great, great.

oh, dean. not gonna tell him about being soulless. why do you do this! writers, why must you do this kind of thing over and over and over 😩 please do not drag this out for ages, i'm begging you

BOBBY He's gonna find out, you know. One way or another, someone'll tell him, or he'll figure it out on his own. He's not dumb. He should it hear it from us.

DEAN Can we just leave it alone for the moment, please?

better be a short fucking moment, my guy.

the filming on this car conversation is SO DIFFERENT whoa. it's like they changed how it was filmed, different angles, you can actually see real stuff outside the window, exterior light showing inside the car. what's going on! it's nice, but whoa

DEAN I was with them for a year—Lisa and Ben.

SAM A year?

SAM So then what?

DEAN Didn't work out.

DEAN turns up the music.

MUSIC It was a new day yesterday but it's an old day now

(a new day yesterday, good choice)

every time dean lies to sam "for his own good" i just want to smack him.

PENNY'S SISTER They were just starting to get serious. She didn't want to seem, you know…Not interested. I just wish I'd told her to stay home. We don't even have a body to bury.

not sure what that look was about (wishing sam stayed home [???]->my brain could suggest leaving him at stanford but i mean no escape from their fate). dean giving sam all sorts of meaningful looks in this interview with the sister

man i hate when they have wacky hijinks in the middle of the serious episode. like when becky showed up previously. yucking it up about virgins

the show is so not subtle sometimes, sam's really gonna flex his empathy this episode

(desktop background update, no change) pins in the motel wood paneling? bold.

BOBBY Yeah, yeah. Hey, how's Memento doing over there? He caught you in any lies yet?

DEAN Everything's fine. Sam says hey.

😒

SAM Hey, did we hunt a skinwalker lately?

DEAN Doesn't ring a bell. Why?

SAM I don't know. Just...déjà vu or something. Are you sure? I could have sworn—

DEAN You got to remember, your eggs are still a little scrambled, right? But, yeah, I'm sure.

that deserves several smacks. damnit dean.

the coloring is very unfortunately orange again in a lot of these scenes :( and i don't even know what to say about bobby's ex. weird styling choices. not great lines. mmrgh

preemptively cringing at this sword in the stone bit. god it went on for SO LONG.

SAM Um...Look, I-I would hug you, but—

CASTIEL —that would be awkward.

was that really necessary?

welp, no surprise cas spills the beans. thank goodness. but also DAMNIT DEAN.

huh, so i really expected sam to get mad at dean for lying to him but i guess he's too swamped by guilt over what he feels like he did.

thought this was nell from hill house for a second. so i guess this must be eve. don't know much about her from fic lol

DEAN Cas. Friggin' child.

--

DEAN Sam, Death didn't just shove your soul back in, okay? He put up the great wall of Sam between you and the things that you don't remember. And trust me when I say that the things you don't know could kill you. That's not a joke.

SAM All right. But I have to set things right. Or what I can, anyway.

DEAN It wasn't you.

SAM You know, I kind of feel like I got slipped the worst mickey of all time...and I woke up to find out that I had burnt the whole city down. And you can say it wasn't me, but...I'm the one with the zippo in my pocket, you know? So I'm not sure it's that cut and dry. And, look, I a-appreciate you trying to protect me. I really do. But I got to fix... What I got to fix. So I need to know what I did.

DEAN But you don't know how dangerous that could be.

SAM What would you do? Right. Same thing.

DEAN Sam...

#supernatural #spnwatch #spn 6x12 #robosam no more #spn desktop background update #twilight zone the movie #now i kinda wanna rewatch bly manor and haunting of hill house thinkin about victoria pedretti #adam glass

[fandom-hoarder]

Thinking about Dean's anger over the Jack situation. How at first it's impersonal and he just doesn't trust Lucifer's kid. Then he starts to like the kid. Sees him wanting to do good, even when he makes mistakes. Then he thinks of him as family; as their kid. And then Jack's dying and Dean's scared of losing him. (The regret of how cruel he was to the kid and the time lost. How he can't make up for it.) And despite Jack making some kind of peace with dying, Dean can't handle the grief of losing him (none of them can, but this is about Dean). And despite his misgivings about using Jack's soul to power his resurrection, Dean is the one that convinces Lily Sunder. Then, of course, he's scared of losing Jack again by him burning through his soul. Only to find out too late the kid he thought was theirs...isn't there anymore. And how does he reconcile the fact that Jack likely burned his soul out killing Michael-- fixing Dean's fuckup?? Once more, the soulless embodiment of someone he loved -- who loved him enough to sacrifice his soul -- is roaming the earth doing god knows what. But this time, Dean can't fix it and he can't pretend it didn't happen -- can't pretend it doesn't cut soul deep that the kid that burned out his soul to save them killed his mom because it was gone -- so he's gonna wrap all that guilt up in anger, push the betrayal/blame on Cas, and tell himself that's not Jack just like RoboSam wasn't Sam.

#spn rewatch #spn s14 #dean and jack #me.txt #this is so rambley lmao #dean once again taking on the mantle of killing a loved one that went darkside #and in the end he still doesn't lol

[thecloserkin]

fic rec: Flying Weight by flesh

fandom: Superntural

pairing: Sam Winchester/Dean Winchester

word count: 47k

Is it explicit: yes

Bottom line: the RoboSam AU that ruined me

Do you want to watch Dean Winchester in full-throttle self-destructive mode try to push Sam away for Sam’s own good? Do you want to watch Sam respond by clinging even tighter? Do you want to experience painnnnnn? Sister have I got the rec for you.

The thing about this fic is that unlike the show, the stakes here are very explicitly not “the world will end if we don’t do X.” The stakes are “do we give up on being a significant presence in each other’s lives.” And that is somehow worse. What does it say about Sam and Dean Winchester that the notion of going their separate ways and exchanging Christmas cards once a year is more unbearable than literally dying for each other?? I love these boys sfm but Zachariah was right, have you EVER seen a pair of more psychotically codependent motherfuckers.

This is a S6 AU and an amnesia fic. A re-souled Sam wakes to find that Dean, who’s been hunting with his soulless counterpart for 3 years, wants nothing to do with him. Sam persists until he pieces together why. I think it’s fair to say that the amnesia trope is generally powered by 1/2 of otp rediscovering why they fell in love with the other half. That is not what is happening here at all!! This is like, if the protagonist woke up from a coma and found his love interest had left him for someone else and wasn’t returning his calls and instead of idk, taking the hint like a normal person would, he decides to stalk his former love interest until he puts himself in so much danger that Love Interest is obliged to come rescue him. The overriding compulsion to find Dean, to stay with Dean whatever the cost, is terrible for Sam’s mental health but he never for a millisecond entertains the option of giving up. These boys don’t give up on each other.

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This fic is first of all a marvel of structural engineering. All the load-bearing parts are elegantly incorporated into the overall structure. When I was rereading this I got to the part in the beginning where Sam is combing through RoboSam’s storage unit for clues to “what happened during the three-year gap in my memory,” and he finds a book on falconry, and that one detail gave me the same spike of unease as if someone had walked over my grave. Because I knew what was coming. Then there are the rando hunters who kidnap Sam towards the beginning: they tie him up and taunt him about Dean, looks like that animal of yours has slipped his leash. I can’t believe I didn’t figure it out then, on the first go. The clues were laid out with exquisite care: RoboSam did not treat Dean well. RoboSam only fitfully treated Dean like a human being. Dw Dean extracts Sam from his kidnappers. And Dean riding to the rescue here neatly parallels a later climactic scene where Sam rescues Dean from these same hunter bros—who evidently have got nothing better to do than chase the Winchesters from one end of the damn country to the other—but the way Sam will rescue Dean is by feeding him his own blood. Oh, yes, Dean is a vampire now. Because RoboSam let him get turned (as in canon), and RoboSam declined to cure him (in a divergence from canon). RoboSam made the call that Dean as a vampire would be 1) a more effective hunter and 2) more tightly tethered to RoboSam (ie., Dean would fear losing control & drinking a clutch of innocents dry, so he’d rely on RoboSam to stop him). Fun fact: RoboSam never let Dean drink from him. It’s fucking poetic is what it is. It’s such a good fic.

The other fine quality that struck me about this fic is the cinematic sweep of certain scenes. The prose is mostly clear but unobtrusive so it gives your mind’s eye the space to zoom in and linger on certain objects. Like in the beginning Sam wakes up in Bobby’s panic room and he comes upstairs to find …no Dean but an empty whiskey glass sporting a lip stain. The glass is still warm. I am confident we in this fandom spend at least 30% of our time thinking about Dean Winchester’s lips—nice to know Sam’s rolling around in the gutter with us, is all. The whiskey glass will reappear at a crucial juncture later on, of course, because have I mentioned this fic is a MARVEL of structural engineering.

Here’s an early conversation between Sam and Bobby. Sam has just found out Dean’s a vampire:

”I need to find Dean," Sam says.

”Why?" says Bobby. "You gonna hunt him?"

It's not the brutality of Bobby's tone that stings Sam into silence. It's the fact he'd even ask Sam that. He's unsure, briefly, whether it's right or it's wrong that he never asked himself that.

”No," he says. "Of course not. He's my brother."

How Bobby must hate that phrase. He keeps on hearing it, because Sam and Dean keep on using it as justification for the stupidest, most selfish things. Sam hears how much Bobby's hates it in his whistled hiss of breath sucked in through gritted teeth.

”You know, I should'a had the guts and the sense to tell you boys this a long time ago. But I was a damn stupid coward and I kept on looking the other way. You and Dean are better off without each other. Whatever you think it is, love or loyalty or whatever, it's not. It's just plain wrong."

Bobby is asking, not unreasonably imo, if vampire!Dean should be considered a hunter or a monster. Not just because of what he is but what he’s done: Dean has spent the past 3 years pissing off a looooooot of people (some of whom recently got the jump on Sam and held him at gunpoint). Yet “he’s my brother” is as always Sam’s only answer. There is NO SCENARIO in which Sam can envision himself playing for the opposite team as Dean. Bobby’s maybe trying to plant the suggestion that Dean might be beyond saving, but quickly gives up and pivots to “you can both go to hell in the same handbasket, I wash my hands of the affair.” Lol fair enough. Bobby’s not an eejit, he uses the word wrong to describe the Winchesters’ bond and the insane thing is that the incest isn’t even the wrongest thing about it!!!

Here’s the scene where Sam finds out Dean and RoboSam fucked on the regular:

”You had sex with me?" Sam demands. Saying it out loud makes his cheeks burn red.

”No," Dean says. He's so adamant. He shakes his head at Sam, fingers splayed in front of himself to keep the mere suggestion of it at bay before it can get its dirt on him. "I know you, and I know not you, and that was not you. It looked like you, but it was not you-"

”It was me, it was my body!" Sam shouts. The words come out frothy with rage, but they're hard too, like he's spitting up stones. His face feels wrongly stretched, pulled out of shape.

Dean shuts down. Sam sees it in every inflection of his body language: face, stance, gaze. His mouth flickers, and Sam wonders if he's feeling those teeth pressing at his gums, ready to descend, hollow and hungry.

”They said it was all of you that was gonna come back. Which was basically nothing at all. It wasn't you."

He says it like certainty. Absolute, unshakeable truth. And maybe he's right. Sam wasn't there, Sam doesn't know. But it does nothing for Sam, because he's inherited this. His body played accomplice to his soulless self, and they messed everything up, and Dean let it happen. Dean took part in it.

He stabs a finger at Dean, and it wobbles dementedly in front of him. "You had no right," he says finally. The words are mangled and blunt-ended.

The line of Dean's jaw flexes, and Sam's savagely glad to see that weakening, just for its mayfly lifespan, before Dean is solid again. Dean nods to himself slightly, like he's thinking it over and finding no argument.

He shrugs a third time, final, letting Sam roll right off him. "That's why we can't hunt together anymore."

He's destroyed it. He fucked Sam and fucked up their lives and now Sam's left with fucking nothing. He's got nothing.

The takeaway here is: 1) If he doesn’t have Dean then Sam believes there is nothing else in the world that belongs to him, you hear that fam??? 2) Sam is hurt that Dean chose someone else over him. Dean’s never chosen anyone over Sam before, and now he’s gone and fucked RoboSam when he never expressed a single scintilla of desire for actual Sam, wtf??? 3) Dean thinks Sam’s repulsed by the sex, when in fact Sam is mad that Dean cheated on him (no, Sam and Dean weren’t together pre-Lucifer and the Cage, but you can cheat on someone emotionally). Way Dean sees it, he’s on trial as a criminal and he’s also the star witness for the prosecution. Dean brings out Exhibit A: Violated My Baby Brother, in a shameless gambit to get Sam to pronounce a guilty verdict, but Sam can’t even hear any of the evidence over the sound of “somebody is trying to sEpArAtE me from Dean”. “Somebody” in this case being Dean himself. Dean could be a convicted serial killer and Sam’s first move would be to find a way to join him in maximum security lockup.

It takes the remainder of the fic to resolve this initial misimpression: Dean thinks he’s so depraved that Sam can’t possibly want him anymore, and Sam thinks Dean prefers RoboSam over real Sam. Sounds absurdly simple when I put it in those terms right? Sounds like the plot of many a romance novel. Here’s Sam musing on it:

He’s Dean's ex-boyfriend. The way Dean talks about him it's clear he's on Dean's mind a lot, to be spoken of fondly and silently missed, remembered in every minute detail. And Sam can't compete with a guy who has such inhuman superiorities that he doesn't need to eat or sleep. Sam can't compete with a guy who got to Dean in a way that Sam's soul just won't let him … It was goodbye Dean had been saying at Bobby's, not hello, not welcome back.

I want to reach through the screen and shake some sense into this child so badly. HOW DOES HE NOT SEE that Dean stuffed Sam’s soul back into his body in the CERTAIN KNOWLEDGE that re-soulled!Sam wouldn’t want anything to do with vampire!Dean? And yet Dean did it anyway, because when you love someone you want the best for them even when their best life doesn’t have space for you in it.

This fic does a lot with Sam’s issues around bodily autonomy, which is a hobbyhorse of mine and a subject I find endlessly fascinating. It does a lot with the way violence gets your blood pumping just as much as arousal does—how for Sam and Dean the violence and the arousal may in fact be difficult to disambiguate. In the course of this fic Sam watches Dean hustle pool, drink human blood, fuck a one-night-stand…all while Sam looks on. In all these scenes Dean is putting on a show for Sam and there’s nothing hotter than that. Sam’s neuroses around bodily autonomy are so deep-seated that while he is watching Dean and some other guy get it on, he refuses to touch his own throbbing dick because he’s trying to prove something (that he’s not RoboSam? that he can treat Dean better than RoboSam?). Of course it’s for nought because Dean, being a vampire, can hear Sam’s arousal in his elevated heartbeat. Christ, what a scene.

This is Dean apologizing for not being good enough for Sam:

”I’m sorry this is what you came back to." He looks Sam in the eye as he says it. "I am, I'm sorry."

And:

“I get that it might all seem pretty nasty to you, but you know what? It worked for us. He didn't expect me to be any better than I am. We were as bad as each other. "

Jfc the volume of toxicity that circulates in this man’s body!! It’s a wonder his organs are intact. Dean hates himself, and he thinks Sammy deserves the world, ergo Sam must divest himself of Dean. The conclusion follows, ironclad, from the premises.

Sam is not leaving without a fight:

Sam isn't sure how Dean expects that to work. It's never worked before. Not Stanford, not the apocalypse, not either one of them dying. They run in orbits that always come back together, like planets moving on ancient stellar math.

And:

His mind's still back at the Impala, still thinking about how it's supposed to go: Dean standing quiet by his side while Sam chooses the dowry of guns he wants to carry away with him.

The thing that hits me hardest about this fic is that noted smartmouth Dean Winchester cracks a bevy of jokes, but in 50k words not one of them lands: Not for Sam, not for the reader. The RoboSam interlude has stolen that ease from the brothers, and now they’re weird around each other and on edge all the time and it’s a goddamn crime.

Ok real quick this is my favorite scene, Sam goes rooting around Dean’s duffel for a razor and discovers ….a muzzle:

”You weren't here. You won't understand, and I'm not interested in trying to make you." He cants his head briefly towards the duffel, more particularly to what's inside it. "You stay the hell out of my stuff. You stop trying to involve yourself in something that's got nothing to do with you."

It has everything to do with Sam. It's Sam's body, and what it did to Dean, and what Dean let Sam's body do to him. And it's Dean, which means that if only because of that, Sam would be involved.

Surprisingly shaky on his legs, Sam gets to his feet. His gaze won't rise any higher than Dean's knees.

”Muzzles are for animals and monsters," he says in a controlled voice. "He shouldn't have been –" He wets his lips and forces the next word out, "fucking you if he thought of you as either.”

Whaaaaat the actual fuck!!!! Sam defending Dean against an abusive ex is everything. Also, did you notice how when Dean said “it’s none of your business” Sam doesn’t counter “it was my body—of course it’s my business,” he counters with the more primal assertion that everything that affects Dean is, ipso facto, Sam’s business.

#sam x dean #wincest #fic rec

[writinginthesecrettrees]

Rob Benedict or Richard Speight Jr.? Mystery Spot or Yellow Fever? Season two or season three? Meg or Meg 2.0?

Richard Speight Jr because I have the biggest crush on that man.

Mystery Spot because I love to see Sam suffer (I’m sorry, Sam, but you do it so pretty) and watching him unravel as he’s unable to save Dean. And then! oh, RoboSam is a thing of beauty, and I would have loved for it to have been a two part episode, with the break where Dean dies on Wednesday. Then a full episode of RoboSam hunting down the Trickster. (Also, just realizing... this episode had Richard Speight Jr, so that’s another plus)

And as much as I adore Rachel Miner, I gotta go with original flavor Meg. I think I liked demons more in the early seasons, but I really liked her interactions with Sam. 

(ask game - make me choose for my birthday)

#ask games #thanks ily 💕💕💕

[mittensmorgul]

6.13, Unforgiven.

I confess, I have a hard time watching this one. Yeah, giant spiderdude is skeevy af, but I have trouble with this one for the same reasons I have trouble with 6.20, and with 7.17, and with every episode where any of them look back at their past and just feel so damn guilty like they have to atone for everything, with a side helping of amnesia (which is something I have a REALLY hard time with, personally, for reasons anyway). So I'm kinda gonna run through this one at top speed and not think too hard about it...

Sam knows he spent a soulless year, and he's beginning to have flashbacks, or at least to recall bits and pieces of that year out of context. Disturbing enough without getting directly triggered into a full-on hell memory meltdown by the end of the episode.

(hey this is one of those things that's a borderline trigger for me, so I'm not dwelling on it)

So the first time Sam went to that town to hunt arachne, back when he was RoboSam and he thought he was god's gift to hunting and didn't doubt himself EVER, thought his brain worked better because he wasn't slowed down by his pesky feelings... well... he really screwed the pooch on this one:

ROY Yeah. That thing was playing the mating game, and I guess I fit her profile...Me and all those other poor bastards. She bit us to turn us into what she was. By the time you pulled that trigger, I wasn't human. Not anymore. So bullets didn't hurt me much. Oh, and neither did fire. So after you left, well, we ran. Me -- I hid for months, nearly starved. But you know what kept me going? Every night, I dreamed about ripping your throat out. I thought I was sending you a neon sign. The text? Taking all those girls you screwed? I was kicking so much sand in your eye, I couldn't figure out why you weren't getting it! Then Bren tells me you've got brain damage. It's just too good. SAM Where are they, Roy...the women? ROY Scattered...In the wind. They're like me now. You killed one monster, you made so many more. Congratulations. The only question is, do I kill you...Or turn you?

Kinda wonder how many other of his "successful hunts" were scrap jobs like this one? How many other jobs did he totally botch while thinking he was the most efficient he'd ever been? Kinda like his year hunting with Ruby thinking he was totally saving people and banishing demons to Hell, all the while falling further and further under her manipulation?

But with his soul back, he can't stand the idea that he did these terrible things, just as he struggles with what he did during the time he was possessed by Gadreel... even if he literally didn't do any of those things while Gadreel was in control, he still feels responsible. And I get it, but Sam's finally beginning to understand how Dean's been holding himself together for years... Earlier in s6, in 6.03:

DEAN: Hey man, I'm just trying to figure this out because... something's different with you. You know that. SAM: Yeah. Yeah, I know. DEAN: Really? SAM: Yeah. I mean... I've been hunting non-stop for the past year, kind of... kind of on the wild, you know? So, yeah, I suppose I'm a little rough around the edges. DEAN: Yeah, I get that. I just don't think I'm getting the whole scoop. You went to hell, Sam. And believe me, I know what that does to a guy. SAM: To you. DEAN: What? SAM: You know what it does to you. It -- it tortured you. You know? I think it still does. But, Dean... I'm okay. DEAN: So you're saying, what, that -- that you're stronger than me? SAM: [ Chuckling ] No. Just saying we're different.

It's easy to be that cavalier, and that cruel, when you literally have zero memories of Hell, and you're missing your whole entire soul. NOW Sam's beginning to understand what it was that Dean refused to let him see back in s4, when Dean shut down every attempt at Sam's prying for information about Hell. Chatting about it doesn't fucking help. But this is one of the first times that Sam has even been able to begin to understand what that does to someone.... which they'll discuss in the next episode...

But Dabb loves this... flipping their experiences this way, forcing them into the role the other previously experienced and finally bringing them to equal footing in some ways. And he’s still doing it in s14...

#spn 6.13 #s14 hellatus rewatch #it's spirals all the way down #lies and damn lies #spiders georg of the tnt loop #aka that one episode that REALLY makes me hate my loop tag... :P

[septic-dr-schneep]

*V tired anon walks in, holding a robotic Sam* Hey... I know I'm late, but this took some finagling and finessing to get right... Here... *Hands over Sam right before passing out. RoboSam has a tiny card attached that says "happy birthday" in cursive.* ~Anon that needs more coffee

“Ohhhhh, he’s adorable! I’m putting this little guy on my shelf so he can read comics with me! Thank you!”

#youtube #jacksepticeye #jackieboy man #happy birthday #roleplay #answered ask #Anonymous

[supernatural-firstwatch]

Season 6 Episode 10: Caged Heat

I’m sick. Have been for the last couple of days but now I’m pretty sure my cold has turned into bronchitis and I’m coughing up from deep within my chest and it’s just uncomfortable. So what is one to do when one has taken the day off? Clearly watch SPN. 

Also. Here’s a thought. If SPN were set in His Dark Material universe, everyone would have caught on REAL FAST that Sam didn’t have a soul. Because his daemon wouldn’t be there. Would have saved everyone a lot of trouble in trying to figure out what was wrong with him. 

- Wow! Crowley is beating up on Crowley. “Sorry, but your exceptional good looks aren’t going to buy you any mercy.” LOL! Oooh, does Crowley have the shapeshifter Alpha on his hands? And he found something that can hurt it! Ooops! It just spit blood all over Crowley. Well then. Crowley’s threats did not loosen his lips so now Alpha shifter has been decapitated. Hehehehehe. “Guess I kind of lost my head.”

- Ok, so! Meg and her croonies are running from Crowley cause he’s got a hit on all the Lucifer loyalists, and she wants to kill Crowley before he kills her... So that she can become Queen of Hell? I mean, if she were Queen she would have the power to let Lucifer out of his cage, maybe? Sam is the man with a plan. “You wanna work with a demon again?” “We’re working with demons now. I’m doing this cause I wanna stop.” “She killed Ellen and Jo.” “I know. But we can’t look at this emotionally. We need her.” “The hell we do. That little bitch is gonna screw us over so fast--” “Of course. Which is why we’ll screw her first. Meg and her little posse are dead the second we’re done with them.” “Yeah, if they don’t kill us.” “Oh, they won’t. Cause we’re bringing insurance.”

- Is Sam seriously trying to lure Cass by telling him the plot of Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark? It’ll likely work. I doubt Cass knows anything about pop culture. LOL! He showed up. “I can’t believe you fell for that. That was the plot for Raiders, idiot.”

- I would’t believe Crowley for a second that he’ll bring Mary back. He’s a demon. He’s now THE demon. He’s a lying liar who’s really good at lying. Dean’s right. “I’m saying stop trying. It’s going to go nowhere good. Samuel, I know we’ve had our differences, but I’m your grandson. And I’m telling you that this is wrong for so many reasons.” “You hypocrite.” “I’m asking you to learn from our mistakes. Doing this, this is how the bad guy gets us every time. It’s our Achilles heel. Apparently, it runs in the family.”

- WHAT IS CASS WATCHING?? “It’s very complex. If the pizza man truly loves this babysitter... why does he keep slapping her rear?” IS HE WATCHING PORN?? “You watching porn? Why?” “It was there.” HAHAHAHA!!!!!! “Oh, now he’s got a boner.” Cass looks SO CONFUSED over the fact he has a boner! “This is what you boys do all day? Watching pornos with angels?” “We’re not supposed to talk about it.” OMG!!! I LOVE THIS SHOW!

- RoboSam is just badass. Got Meg to give him their demon killing knife and then killed one of the demons cause he “looked more interested in killing us than the job” and then was all “You took it from us. I’m taking it back. We leave in one hour.” It’s like, you don’t mess with RoboSam because he will fuck you up. 

- Whaaaaaat?? Cass doesn’t think getting Sam’s soul is wise. Pray, tell us why. Aha! Cass is bringing up the point I have been making since the start of season 6. Sam’s soul has been trapped in the cage with Lucifer and Michael for over a year and they have nothing else to do but take their frustrations out on him. And they would because he’s the sole reason they’re both in there to begin with. “If we try to force that mutilated thing down Sam’s gullet... we have no idea what will happen. It could be catastrophic.” “You mean he dies.” “I mean he doesn’t. Paralysis, insanity, psychic pain so profound that he’s locked inside himself for the rest of his life.” “But you’re saying you don’t know anything for sure? I mean, he could be fine?” “He could be, yes.” “Okay, then.” “But I sincerely doubt it.” “Well, if he’s not fine, then you fix him.” (like it’s that easy; it’s one thing fixing physical ills, I don’t think anyone can fix a broken soul). And Sam was listening to all of that. He doesn’t look very happy about it. Man, RoboSam can sneak! 

But like, what else is Dean supposed to do? He wants his little brother back. He wants to save his little brother. At this point, even though Sam is physically there, he’s still trapped in Hell. And it’s been over a year. Dean won’t stand for that. He won’t let Sam just... be tortured in Hell by Michael and Lucifer forever. He can’t. Like, he physically and mentally can’t let that go on.

- I bet Crowley is letting them enter because they’re bringing Meg and her posse with them and he’s going to kill them all (Meg and her posse). It’s Mrs. O’Leary!!! Hmmm... Cass and Meg are making out. Why? Sam and Dean looks very confused about it, too. “I learned that from the pizza man.” LOOOOOOOL!!!!

- “Sam!” “Yeah?” “I’m standing in pee!” “Consider yourself lucky.” “Yikes. That sucks.” LOL!

- What is RoboSam doing to his arm? What did he stash inside of him? Fuck, he is so badass. He feels pain but it’s sort of like whatever. HOLY FUCK! HE USED HIS BLOOD TO DRAW A DEVIL’S TRAP??? How did he reach the ceiling? He’s tall, but not that tall. I guess maybe there was a chair in there? 

- I can’t believe they pulled the fire alarm. That’s so grade school, LOL! 

- WOAH! Cass just showed up with the bones and torched them after Crowley, again, said he can’t bring Sam’s soul back. Though, I did enjoy the discussion of why would Sam want it back when it’s been tortured for over a year by Satan since that’s his only source of entertainment. 

- Sam’s right. “When angels and demons agree on something, call me nuts. I pay attention.”

Sam walked out! Now what??? Dum dum dum!!!!!

#supernatural #sam winchester #dean winchester #season 6 #first time watching #robosam #sam doesn't want his soul back #because it's going to be broken to pieces #sam's soul has been used for entertainment fodder for over a year now #is crowley really dead? #i hope crowley isn't really dead #i liked crowley #meg is still running around #meg never dies

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[mlobsters]

i watched arrival again. and the day the earth stood still because i couldn't easily watch contact. let's see if it filled enough cracks caused by s5e22 to get through this.

supernatural s6e1 exile on main st. (w. sera gamble)

"you okay?" "yeah, i'm good :)" then immediately🙁also, hello licensed music, old friend. beautiful loser, ouch. you realize you just can't have it all, indeed. montage of all the pale replacements for life with sam. heavy sigh.

now i feel bad for always ragging on the score, i feel like i need to pay more attention. is this interesting? is it creative?

is someone sending him on wild goose chase slash scavenger hunt

this jacket, his hair being a little swooped to the side different. who are you? so my question will be, once he's back in business, does the hair revert as well as the clothes? sammy gets to change his hair up, let dean live a little.

this is a lot of dean. lying to lisa now too. oh how i wonder how her character is handled when he leaves. i'm guessing not well!

SAM You finally had what you wanted, Dean. DEAN I wanted my brother, alive!

gather this is the dreaded (by me, specifically) robosam. this is awful! he's also occasionally sounding like a frat boy/stoner/skater i dunno what the white boy youth sounds like anymore.

parker lewis can't lose (1990-93) corin nemec as parker lewis

🎶 i do not want this 🎶 (two feet below the surface I can still make out your wavy face and if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place)

well i went ahead and read the wiki to see when the soullessness gets discovered and fixed and ugh this is a lot of episodes with him like that. were the red flags not flying with i dunno, the year he refused to contact dean, his very chill reunion with dean, literally everything about the way he's acting. dean's a smart cookie, he knows that man inside and out, like he's not going to be majorly concerned day 1 (after a minute to get over the shock of it all).

i feel the base level suspiciousness and paranoia to live in their universe with his life experience is gonna outweigh his blind desperation slash theoretical happiness that getting sam back may cause. i call shenanigans! though we'll see what sera is up to, she catches me out sometimes.

what did i say about this show (and by extension us, the audience) being merely a vessel for dean's pain? oh yeah, bobby knew too, for a year.

fuck that noise.

#supernatural #spnwatch #spn 6x01 #robosam #hiky #spnhiky #parker lewis can't lose #corin nemec #sera gamble #maybe i'll sit and listen to the downward spiral instead of finishing this episode 🥴

[mlobsters]

supernatural s6e13 unforgiven (w. andrew dabb, daniel loflin)

flashback soulless!sam is just beating the shit out of this cop. grandpa. really. just gonna let that go too huh

(looks like the black desktop background is here to stay)

he looks so young in his silly little suit and bright lighting with his new(er) hair. and yes the little joke about how tall sam was endearing

DEAN And how would you... characterize their relationship?

NICOLE'S ROOMMATE Relationship? No, they weren't having a --

DEAN just the -- the -- the tone or the nature of their conversation.

NICOLE'S ROOMMATE Well... loud. And... athletic.

he went on a little face journey there

here i thought i'd seen the last of the guys having problems with the law, that particular variety of conflict stresses me out. and this time, robosam really fucked up and now our sam has to deal with it? agh

i've been reading this fic that focuses a lot more on kind of lingering effects of trauma that the guys have been through and just now watching sam have this very impassioned conversation with the lady that leads to her unlocking the cell he's in, got me thinking about like. changing gears so quickly from robosam to regular sam, i'm watching him waiting for the con. and i wonder if dean would catch himself having similar thoughts

so soulless managed to bang 5 ladies in this little town on a job. that seems... logistically challenging

(robo)SAM Well, Samuel wasn't really around when I was a kid. We have more of a, uh, business relationship.

BRENNA Uh, do you have any other family?

(robo)SAM Family just slows you down.

he was sweating after that flashback. i mean, objectively terrifying having sudden intrusive memories of an event you don't remember and with yourself being so cold and cruel.

(wiki) Sam and Samuel use the aliases "Roark and Wynand." Sam's alias (H. Roark) is a reference to the main character—Howard Roark—in Ayn Rand's novel The Fountainhead which embodied the philosophy of objectivism, where individual self-interest was held as the purpose of one's life (and so it is interesting that this is associated with soulless Sam). Samuel's alias Wynand refers to Gail Wynand, another character in the book.

oh my god that's hilarious. it is ~interesting~ supernaturalwiki 😂

i adjusted the lighting on this because it was so dark and the quality is laughable but anyway again squatting in a place with power and a janky lampshade. i liked dean's plaid, in this shot it looks more like black and white plaid which is a little bold for him (but it's more of a subdued blue in better light)

DEAN We are not the only hunters on the planet, okay? We can call Bobby. He and Rufus could come and wrap up.

he makes a good point. give bobby and rufus some quality time together

DEAN Really? You get that every time you scratch that wall, that you are playing Russian roulette?

SAM Dean, I get you're worried, okay? And I know what you think is gonna happen. But you know what? It will or it won't.

i get where dean is coming from but also sam makes a good point that it's gonna happen or not.

DEAN Sam --

SAM --look, I'm starting to think that -- that I might have done some bad stuff here, Dean. And so I don't care if it's dangerous. I have to set things right, 'cause I got a frigging soul now, and -- and it won't let me just walk away. I'm staying here. And I need you to back me

DEAN All right. Why not? Well, let's "memento" this thing, shall we?

(two memento references in as many episodes)

oh the flashbacks got even worse. using this dude as bait for the monster, which clearly went above bait to just plain food. oh, and "mercy" killing them. right. GREAT.

giggling over these weird contacts. it wasn't until after i'd been staring at them entranced for this entire speech that i realized they're probably supposed to be like. another pupil? cuz he's a spider lol 🕷️🕷️🕷️

so he's upset she ignored his sorry and went inside but i was just thinking to myself, well you got her husband killed (again) and kind of killed him (again), it's unforgivable. and then i remembered the episode title. ha ha. queuing up the unforgiven by metallica (love that album, and they totally played this at a middle school dance i attended)

did you sleep on that gross ass bed, samuel winchester

DEAN Sam, you got to understand that all that crap last year -- all of it -- none of it was you.

SAM Let's be crystal clear, okay? It was me.

DEAN Well, can I get you anything?

SAM What are you now, my waitress?

DEAN I'm just trying to make you feel better. Don't be a bitch.

SAM Yeah, I'm fine.

DEAN Yeah, you look fine. All I'm saying is everything's gonna be okay.

SAM I don't know, Dean. If I did this here, then who knows how many oth-

didn't know he was gonna have hell creep in so soon. so i guess they were like well when dean went to hell it was 40 years and we had to make it even worse by breaking his will and him enjoying torturing people. so, how can we make this even worse for sam... hmmm. not only does he get the multiplied years of torture (from what i gleaned it was a lot longer too?) but a bonus year of being a monster topside where he can suffer for feeling guilty about getting people killed etc etc. sam is totally going to win the trauma olympics

#supernatural #spnwatch #spn 6x13 #robosam #he just gets worse every time we see him! gone are the days of cute banter #ayn rand shade #love to see it #andrew dabb #daniel loflin

[supernatural-firstwatch]

Season 6 Episode 9: Clap Your Hands If You Believe

Is this an episode about Tinkerbell? 

LOOK!!! I JUST DISCOVERED HOW TO INSERT A KEEP READING TAB THING! I didn’t know it wasn’t automatic! (I did mention that I was new at this whole tumblr/blog thing, right? :P)

- I’m with her. Patrick! WTF are you doing? If you think there’s something out there in the middle of the crops, why are you going to go check it out by yourself? Don’t follow him! Aliens? Is this an X-Files episode? IT’S A CROP CIRCLE--- OMG  THE SUPERNATURAL TITLE SEQUENCE ALA X-FILES YES PLEASE AND THANK YOU!!!! THE TRUTH IS IN THERE!!!

- WOOLSEY!!!!!!! FROM STARGATE ATLANTIS!!! Played by Robert Picardo, who in this episode is Wayne Whittaker Jr. and believes that Elwood, Indiana has become the center of extraterrestial activity (except that he knows that aliens are real because he’s been to Atlantis in the Pegasus Galaxy!)

- Man, Soulles Sam continues to be hilarious. He gives ZERO fucks toward anyone or anything. “You don’t care.” “Well...” “You have to care.” “About what, exactly?” “About everything, man. About being human, at least.” “Look, Dean, you obviously care a lot and that’s great. But... But I can’t care about what-- I can’t care, you know? What do you want me to do? Fake it?” “Yes. Absolutely. Fake it. Fake it till you make it.” “What happened to you wanting me to be all honest?” “Hey, you wanna be a real boy, Pinocchio, you gotta act the part.” “I was faking it. Ever since we got back on the road together, Dean. I was picking every fricking word. It’s exhausting.” “Okay. All right. But until we get you back on the soul train, I’ll be your conscience, okay?” “So you’re saying you’ll be my Jiminy Cricket.” “Shut up. But yeah, you freaking puppet. That’s exactly what I’m saying.” LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!

- Wait, what? He just asked the watch if what he told Sam and Dean was all right. And the watch moved in response...

- Dean is gonna vanish. And Sam is going to be left to his own devices and have to make his own calls. And nothing about them are going to be judgment calls.

- HAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!! FUCK I LOVE ROBOSAM!!!! “Holy--- UFO! UFO!” “Oh, dude, stop yelling. You’re breaking up. I didn’t catch that last part.” “Closer encounter! Close encounter!” “Close encounter? What kind? First? Second?” “They’re after me!” “Third kind already. You better run. The fourth kind is a butt thing.” “Empathy, Sam! Empathy!” AND THEN HE ORDERED ANOTHER BEER!!!! AND DID NOTHING! LOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!! OMG! He really gives no fucks about anyone or anything anymore. 

- LOOOL!!!! “Your brother was abducted?” “Yeah.” Oh my God.” “It’s fine. I mean, I’ve had time to adjust,” “Did it happen when you were kids?” “No, like, half an hour ago.”  

- Man, I am really good at recognizing faces. The red-haired girl that wants to help Sam find the UFOs was Molly in Psych from “Shawn Take a Shot in the Dark” (the girl he dialed accidentally instead of Gus and who he never called back because she refers to herself in the third person) :P It was her smile that looked familiar (it’s my favorite Psych episode).

- HEY! Dean’s back! Is Sam having sex with her? HE IS!!! LOOOOL!!!!! 

- “Now, come on. Talk to me. What happened?” “Well, uh... There was this, uh... God help me, Sam, there was this bright white light.” *Sam puts his hand on Dean’s knee* “It’s okay. Safe room.” LOOOOOL!!! “I had a close encounter Sam. And I won.” “You should take a shower.” “I should take a shower. I’m gonna take a shower now.”

- OMG! ROBOSAM! I know I keep saying this, but he’s just so funny! “So, say you’ve got a soul and you’re on a case, and your brother gets abducted by aliens.” “Yeah, then you do everything to get him back.” “Right. You do. But, what about when there are no more leads for the night? I mean, are you supposed to just sit there in the dark and suffer even when there’s nothing that can done at that moment?” “Yeah! Yes.” “What?” “You sit in the dark and you feel the loss.” “Absolutely. But-- But couldn’t I just do all that and have sex with the hippie chick?” “No!” “It would be in the dark.” “No, you couldn’t because you would be suffering. And you can’t just turn that off for the night.”

- IT’S THE FAIRY! CRAZY CAT LADY WAS RIGHT! How did she know?? HE JUST KILLED IT BY PUTTING IT IN THE MICROWAVE! And it had nipples??? Dean thought the fairy was hot. PIZZA-ROLLED TINKERBELL!!!!

- It’s like Sedona, Arizona crapped in here. OMG!!!! IT’S TRUE!!! I’ve been to Sedona. It’s so pretty there. But Sam’s right :P :P

- IT’S TINY PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WATCHMAN’S STORE!! WORKING HIS SHOP! WHAT???

- Sam doesn’t remember how to do subtle. Going up to the dude and telling him that you know he has a bunch of elves working for him is likely not the way to go about this. Well, look at that. Sam is getting the guy to talk. A leprechaun?? Lucky Charms? So, Lucky Charms, in exchange for the workers, is going around town taking all the first borns?

- FIGHT THE FAIRIES!!!!! *as Dean is being arrested for assaulting a little person*

- WOOLSEY IS THE LEPRECHAUN!!! Fitting. AAAAAAH!!!! THIS IS PROBABLY WHY CROWLEY IS SO DESPERATE TO FIND PURGATORY! “Your soul is far away... But not completely out of reach.” “That so.” “Sam. I can get it back for you, for a price.” “That’s adorable. It’s locked in a box with the devil.” “Your devil. Not mine.” “There’s no freakking way a leprechaun can do what angels cannot.” “Angels. Oh, please. I’m talking about real magic, sonny. From my side of the fence. Got a way of getting in back doors.” If monsters and magic-folk have that kind of power where they can “get in the back way” into hell and, apparently, might in that sense be more powerful than angels, Crowley would be REAL INTERESTED in getting his hands on that kind of power.

- The problem with trying to lure Sam with the promise of getting his soul back is that, well... He doesn’t really care. About anything. Because he has no soul. So trying to entice him with favors and stuff? Doesn’t really work. It’s one of the things that makes him such a good hunter right now.

- What Sam needs is some salt or sugar to spill all over so that it’ll force Woolsey to count all the grains. LOOOL! “Why didn’t I do this earlier?”

I don’t think Sam is having second thoughts about getting his soul back. I just honestly don’t think he cares one way or the other. I think he wants to keep Dean because he can trust him implicitly, even if Dean doesn’t trust him. And he’ll just go along with Dean on the soul thing because it’s what Dean wants, not because he necessarily wants it back. But I don’t think he was lying at the end of the episode. I don’t think he was having second thoughts about getting his soul back. I just don’t think he ever really had a first thought in getting it back.

Question: Any preference for me using the “Keep reading” tab? Should I keep doing it? Should I keep these posting in long rambles? 

#supernatural #sam winchester #dean winchester #season 6 #first time watching #robosam is fucking hilarious #fairies and leprechauns are real #and they're douches #no surprise there #dean had a close encounter of the third degree