#spn 15x18

[jinkieswouldyoulookatthis]

There's this thing that I see over and over that just... well, it rubs me the wrong way and I want to throw my two cents out there about it.

People get so mad about Dean dying at the end of the series the way he did because they think that he got robbed of something. Or maybe it's because they feel robbed of it and are projecting that onto Dean. Because what I see is folks upset thinking Dean didn't get to live the rest of his life, that he didn't get a picket fence, apple pie ending and I gotta say, I fundamentally disagree that Dean missed out on anything.

None of us are ever promised a long life. Our lives will only ever be the length they are. No future is guaranteed except that we will each die in the end. The loss of what could have been is not something for the dead, it's the burden of the living who are trying to cope with their grief. The fact that Dean made it into his 40's is literally a miracle since he died for the first time in his 20's. He wasn't robbed of years, he was given more of them, over and over and over, he was given more years.

And Dean was happy with his life at the end there. He had his brother happily riding shotgun as they continued saving people and hunting things. They got to do all the fun stupid stuff they wanted, like go to little hyper-specific small town festivals and eat obscene amounts of pie, and they got to do it together. Dean was truly happy. And no, he didn't end up with a romantic partner, a wife and kids, but he didn't need that. The entire point of the end of the show is that you can have a truly fulfilling and happy ending without romantic love being a part of it.

That's what Castiel's ending was about too. Cas was truly happy, enough to trigger his deal coming due with the Empty, with just knowing and understanding what he felt. He didn't need Dean to reciprocate, because it wasn't at all about Dean's feelings, it was just about Castiel's, it was about knowing and accepting yourself for who you are and finding happiness in that.

Dean had Sam with him right up until the end. And Sam was happy. All Dean ever really needed was for his brother to be safe, and all he ever really wanted was for his brother to be happy, and to actually get to have him be happy while choosing to hang out, day in, day out, with him??? That was the absolute best.

Now, I'm not getting into Sam's portion of the ending because it's messier and complicated and I don't have the spoons for it right now.

But romantic love isn't the only way to be fulfilled or to be truly happy even though the vast, overwhelming majority of the stories we are told insist that those things are essential to happiness. But, they just aren't, not always. So to have a story this epic end without any of the characters in romantic relationships, but all of them being truly happy when it's all said and done is epically good, in and of itself.

#spn 15x20 #supernatural #dean winchester #spn 15x18

[thefableddestiel]

What do you think Dean is thinking right here after cas says I love you? Because I’ll tell you what I think. He’s just thinking “no” over and over again with different meanings.

“No no no no (he’s going to die) no no no no no (he’s loved me this whole time) no no no no (don’t make me acknowledge my feelings) no no no no no (It’ll change everything and I’m scared) no no no (I don’t deserve your love)”

#spn #destiel #supernatural #castiel #dean winchester #deancas #dean x cas #cas x dean #spn 15x18 #spn meta #destiel meta

[crowcountry]

i tried to avoid supernatural spoilers as much as i could in the years before i finally finished it so during that time i always thought "oh yeah the super hell thing is over exaggerated it's not really that bad" and then i got to 15x18 and then felt the most emotional pain i've ever felt for fictional characters

#supernatural #dean winchester #castiel #super hell #spn 15x18 #fictional but they're real to me #destiel #destiel confession #i also didn't realize castiel actually said 'i love you' to dean?? #so many tears #to me they are married and happy :)

[drulalovescas]

the parallels between the way their relationship started and ended might actually be the most beautiful in the history of tv

STARTED AND ENDED ON THE DEVIL'S TRAP

STARTED AND ENDED WITH A HANDPRINT

STARTED AND ENDED WITH CAS SAVING DEAN WINCHESTER

#the wings imagery gets me every time #listen i hate how their story ended #but i also believe theirs is the most beautiful love story ever #and i'm a sucker for all the parallels #destiel #supernatural #spn #spn 4x1 #spn 15x18

[sunglassesmish]

shot of all time

#my gifs #destiel #spn #spnedit #spn 15x18

[cobbbvanth]

happy 2nd anniversary besties

#spn #destiel #nov 5th #spn 15x18 #** #somehow it happened 6 years ago and it also happened last week. time isn't real #*hits #*28k

[macy2me]

Does anyone ever think about how Jensen knew this was the last time Dean would get to hug Cas when he filmed it?

#spn #spnfamily #supernatural #castiel #destiel #dean winchester #spn 15x18 #15x18 despair #jensen ackles #misha collins

[strawlessandbraless]

Possessive Castiel with a marking kink makes me feral

#marked his brothers vessel no less #cas rebuilt Dean to be his own man. not Michael’s #dean asking cas to put the handprint back while they’re having sex is my favorite headcanon #destiel #castiel #spn #supernatural #dean winchester #deancas #misha collins #jensen ackles #spn crack #handprint #hand print #cockles #spn 4x01 #4x01 #6x03 #spn 6x03 #spn 15x18 #15x18 #marking kink #gay #dean posting #cas posting #casposting #deanposting #my writing

[uh-ohspaghettio]

My professor asked what’s the relationship/difference between having and being in terms of happiness - buddy it’s to close to nov 5th for you to ask me that

#he doesn’t understand the physical reaction he set off #spn #supernatural #castiel #dean winchester #destiel #spn 15x18 #nov 5th

[deancaskiss]

I love you too

#dean winchester #castiel #destiel #spn #supernatural #meme #destiel meme #nov 5th #november 5th #15x18 #spn 15x18 #spn meme

[lillylowe]

EDIT: Prints Available

#LETS HEAR IT FOR THREE YEARS! #i know im a little late but this one is made of all my heart and soul #reminder that cas saved dean one last time by telling him the truth about himself. the truth. #crazy show about nothing and also the most powerful somethings known to man #destiel #spn #castiel #spn art #november fifth #nov 5th #supernatural #poster design #spn 15x18 #li's lines #graphic design

[casdeans-pie]

The comments on this video are literally the funniest thing [x]

Bonus absolute banger of a take:

#I just thought Id go watch the confession and died over the comments #destiel #destiel confession #spn 15x18

[angelsdean]

WAIT. can we PLEASE also consider the last shot of 15x18 where dean is sitting there sobbing and they had jensen do ADR for it. and how jensen said he played that scene as him sitting there thinking "i didn't give him anything. i should have told him i loved him" and what if. i mean. imagine IF dean had said it back then. to an empty room after the fact, just completely shattered. and they edited and redubbed the scene to cut it out. yes this is me with my conspiracy theory hat on, yes i can still absolutely see the CW ordering that shit to be cut

#vic.txt #spn 15x18 #destiel

[drulalovescas]

"Well, Dean always carries a blade, why don't we have Cas come take the blade out of my pocket and he can use it and we go from there?"

~Jensen Ackles

I can't believe we got THIS scene because Jensen Ross Ackles in his infinite wisdom was like: of course Dean would have a knife in his ass pocket. And OF COURSE Cas would know about the knife in Dean's ass pocket,

#fellas is it gay to know your buddie carries a knife in his ass pocket???? #normal show for normal people #spn 15x18 #destiel #supernatural #spn #jensen ackles

[sunglassesmish]

and he always did...

#idk if the line works on this but yk what i'm sticking with it #my gifs #destiel #spn #spnedit #spn 15x18

[vendettasfanfictioning]

Ok so. "Why does this sound like a goodbye?" Was fucking heartbreaking, right; we have the full-on uninterrupted eye contact, the head tilt, Dean's already open mouth twitching before the scene cuts to Cas' "I love you," like he had more to say, but Cas beats him to the punch. It's great, we love that. But for the dialogue to be sequenced that way, and to have Dean reply with, "don't do this, Cas."

I'm only just realizing how fucking insane it was. And sure, I might just be coping here, at the end of the day who fucking knows, but look at it. Think about it. Now let yourself feel it all over again.

It's Dean's death knocking on the door behind Cas, and it's Cas' death emerging behind Dean. Like this, they're directly facing their own demise—but they're too stuck on each other, in their moment, to give a damn. And then Dean doesn't say, "I love you too." He says, "don't do this."

He isn't disgusted or ashamed or put off in the slightest by Cas' confession, because if he is then why is he on the verge of tears? In what world would it make sense for him to want to cry after his best friend confessed to him, if the confession was something he did not want. He says don't do this here, don't do this to me now.

Even if, and that's the most unlikely if to ever exist, Dean did not reciprocate Cas' feelings—don't do this is still so fucking powerful. Because Dean's connected the dots, happiness [...] is in just saying it, and Cas said it, so where does that lead Dean? That's right, with Cas dead again, trying to save him again.

Don't do this. Don't die for me, don't love me only to die for me, don't love me at all, just stay with me.

Don't let me watch you die again and not even let me follow you—because, at the very least, that was a consolation. She's gonna kill you, which Dean knows that Billie knows will hurt him more than his own death, and then she's gonna kill me.

"Don't do this," was actually so fucking powerful, I don't know how it slipped past me until now...

#MORE destiel fuckery #supernatural #spn #destiel #castiel #dean winchester #deancas #15x18 #spn 15x18 #spn despair #dean studies #spn castiel #spn dean #spn meta #spn analysis #destiel angst