#spn 7.09

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#Dean Winchester #deanedit #SPN #spnedit #Jensen Ackles #jensenedit #spn 7.09 #danistuff

[spngeorg]

Episode 135 - 7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters

Can you guess when I joined GISHWHES for the first time? Aah, nostalgia for Team AngrySandwich! So clearly I enjoy this episode (at least until the last two minutes...) :'D

Dean finally gets a little respite from his feelings via the aforementioned sandwich, only for realty to crash back down on him ten times as hard. And he and Sam each have a heartfelt conversation with Bobby, before the aforementioned last two minutes.

But before that, we have an awful lot of fun... A return to the mytharc and Dick Roman and a glimpse at the sinister larger plans the Leviathans are carrying out while the narrative strips Sam and Dean of everything they love... even the simple things like "electricity" and "running water."

LINKS!

The Superwiki page

My tag (only 3 pages and half of them are gifs, so really here’s my rewatch notes from July 2017)

Lizbob’s Dean and Cas are In Love series

The fic I can remember off the top of my head where I sneaked Ranger Rick in: Around the World in 24 Days, technically part 5 of the Tumblr Anonymous ‘verse (aka Project Beyonce). It’s over 101k, rated M, and destiel, based on the Amazing Race. I made Rick one of the easter egg cameramen, so it’s not like he’s got a big part. But never pass up a chance to plug your own work! :D

Listen now on Spotify, or wherever you enjoy podcasts!

#spn podcasts #spn 7.09 #spiders georg of the tnt loop

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7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters

#deancas #destiel #dean winchester #spn #supernatural #Sam Winchester #bobby singer #s07e09 #7.09

[ardentpoop]

laughing because he's REALLY calling to mind kendall roy

#like even the inflection he uses #spn #liveblog tag #7.09

[castiellesbian]

Robbie Thompson:

7.06 Slash Fiction

7.12 Time After Time

7.20 The Girl with the Dungeons and Dragons Tattoo

8.04 Bitten

8.11 LARP and the Real Girl

8.17 Goodbye Stranger

8.20 Pac-Man Fever

9.04 Slumber Party

9.11 First Born

9.18 Meta Fiction

10.05 Fan Fiction

10.11 There's No Place Like Home

10.18 Book of the Damned

10.20 Angel Heart

11.04 Baby

11.11 Into the Mystic

11.16 Safe House

11.20 Don't Call Me Shurley

Ben Edlund:

2.05 Simon Said

2.12 Nightshifter

2.18 Hollywood Babylon

3.03 Bad Day at Black Rock

3.09 Malleus Maleficarum

3.13 Ghostfacers

4.05 Monster Movie

4.08 Wishful Thinking

4.16 On the Head of a Pin

5.04 The End

5.10 Abandon All Hope...

5.14 My Bloody Valentine

5.20 The Devil You Know

6.03 The Third Man

6.09 Clap Your Hands If You Believe...

6.15 The French Mistake

6.20 The Man Who Would Be King

7.02 Hello, Cruel World

7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters

7.15 Repo Man

7.21 Reading Is Fundamental

8.05 Blood Brother

8.13 Everybody Hates Hitler

8.21 The Great Escapist

#supernatural #writers tournament #polls

[sensitivehandsomeactionman]

#Dean Winchester #deanedit #spnedit #spn 7.09 #by request #green eyes by request #danistuff

[foxthefanboi]

7x09 - How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters

#oh bobby. #what do you not understand about psychotically irrationally erotically codependent'?? #spnedit #Sam Winchester #Dean Winchester #Supernatural #gif: sam #gif: spn #foxgifs #one post per episode #Bobby Singer #gif: bobby #ben edlund #s07 #spn 7.09 #brothers #sam and dean #was wondering if I should freeze sam in the first gif #cuz it looks kinda weird but he was only moving a fraction of an inch #on the other hand it saved 1.3 MB to freeze him so. #srry #spn rewatch

[mittensmorgul]

7.06, Slash Fiction.

gooey doppelganger crime spree. I love Frank. but this episode is an interesting take on point of view and perspective, in a season where the big bads are masters of deceptive identity, stealing identities to blend into human society, appearing perfectly normal at a glance but subtly shifting behavior to bring their hidden agendas to fruition...

They lie, they infiltrate and manipulate, and have a long-term plan to subjugate and devour humanity.

We get an interesting view into both Sam and Dean from the Leviathans who've assumed their identities:

Leviathan!Dean: [talking about a burger] You know, he has one of these every day? And in his heart, he thinks they're almost as good as sex. This? [gesturing with the burger] Is disgusting. Leviathan!Sam: [pushing away his own plate] Dead plants with creamy goo. It's like eating self-righteousness. Leviathan!Dean: I mean, honestly, I just... You know what? I can't stand the guy. Talk about a hero complex. And he doesn't have relationships. No, he has applications for sainthood. Oh, and he thinks he's funny. He thinks he's a damn comedian. Leviathan!Sam: Who has two thumbs and full-blown bats in the belfry? [points at himself with both thumbs] Leviathan!Sam: I'm serious. It's nothing but Satan-vision on the inside. I mean, how he's walking around in a jacket with detachable arms is beyond me. You know, I had a brother with this many issues once. Leviathan!Dean: Yeah? Leviathan!Sam: You know what I did? Leviathan!Dean: Mmm? Leviathan!Sam: I ate him. Leviathan!Dean: Of course you did. Leviathan!Sam: How are these guys even a threat? Leviathan!Dean: Boss says they gotta go, they gotta go. Leviathan!Sam: Right. Idea. You wanna trade? I mean, I'll take chuckles over schizo. Leviathan!Dean: No, I like this one's hair better. You can stay in the big one. Leviathan!Sam: All right. In that case, let's turn up the heat. The sooner I get out of this and into something more stable, the better.

Which... yep... validates Dean's mistrust of Sam right now, despite this being the episode that at the end has Sam storming off in hurt indignation:

SAM: Don't – don't lie to me again. No, don't even talk to me. Yeah, I can't. You know what, Dean? I can't. DEAN: You can't what? SAM: I can't talk to you right now! Dean... I can't even be around you right now! DEAN: Okay, so— SAM: I think you should just go on without me. Go. DEAN: All right. Sorry, Sam.

Referring back to Dean killing Amy Pond in 7.03, his guilt over which is pointed at with huge neon arrows in 7.04, but which he completely comes to terms with by 7.07, because DAMMIT HE IS NOT WRONG:

DEAN: You're pissed, okay? And you've got a right. SAM: Yeah, damn straight. DEAN: But enough's enough. SAM: Says who? Look, I'll work this damn case, but you lied to me, and you killed my friend. DEAN: No, I put down a monster who killed four people, and if you didn't know her, you'd have done the same thing. SAM: I did know her, Dean. DEAN: Yeah, which is why you couldn't do it. Look, I get it. There are certain people in this world, no matter how dangerous they are, you just can't. SAM: Don't pull that card! That's bull. Look, if I've learned one thing, it's that if something feels wrong, it probably is! DEAN: Usually, yeah. But killing Amy was not wrong. You couldn't do it, so I did. That's what family does – the dirty work. And I woulda told you, eventually, once I knew that this whole "waving a gun at Satan" thing was a one-time show. I think it's reasonable to want to know that you're off the friggin' high dive, Sam. You almost got us both killed, so you can be pissed all you want, but quit being a bitch.

Aah, all the lies, all around. Sam said in 7.04 that he just didn't feel guilty anymore, saying he just doesn't feel guilty anymore. He feels like yeah he did bad stuff, but he paid his dues in Hell, as if that suffering cancelled out all the bad. Which has long been one of Sam's go-to maneuvers. He's really REALLY good at compartmentalizing things like this, reducing his issues to equations and balancing them out. It explains his healthy food obsession-- using exercise and "healthy living" as a factor of "purity" to balance out his lifelong struggle with feeling "tainted" because of the demon blood he was fed as a baby. And he does the same thing with his own feelings of personal responsibility here. To Sam, his suffering in Hell was moral "payment" for his role in freeing Lucifer.

Dean expressed something similar when he got out of Hell (in 4.05), but for him the expression was entirely physical (the disappearance of all the evidence of his old injuries and a restoration to a baseline of physical wholeness), and in no way a "moral" restoration or absolution of his emotional state. In other words, in 7.06 and 7.07, Dean acts from an understanding that Sam is actively deluding himself, which is underscored by the Leviathan!Them coming to that same conclusion regarding Sam's inner mental state.

Avoidance works for Sam, but it's not honest. Meanwhile, Dean atones by his ongoing need to do the right thing, feeling like he will never be able to atone for the past, never truly be forgiven for the things he feels guilty over. He doesn't believe he can achieve a clean slate, in other words. No amount of good can undo the bad, but maybe in the end, his final tally will include more good than bad.

And this is the underlying message of the wound on Sam's hand. Even after the wound heals into a fading scar, he still finds himself squeezing it freaking CONSTANTLY. Skipping for a moment to 7.09:

SAM: Yeah. Yeah, I kind of mean more like, uh... more like ever since my head broke... and we lost Cas. I mean, you ever feel like he's -- he's going through the same motions but he's not the same Dean, you know? BOBBY: How could he be? SAM: Right, yeah, but what if -- BOBBY: What if what, Sam? You know, you worry about him. All he does is worry about you. Who's left to live their own life here? The two of you -- aren't you full up just playing Snuffleupagus with the Devil all the live long? SAM: I don't know, Bobby. Seeing Lucifer's fine with me. BOBBY: Come again? SAM: Look, I'm not saying it's fun. I mean, to be honest with you, I-I kind of see it as the best-case scenario. I mean... SAM presses the hand he injured in 7.01 Meet the New Boss. SAM: ...at least all my crazy's under one umbrella, you know? I kind of know what I'm dealing with. A lot of people got it worse.

This rather eerily harks back to Sam's manipulative thoughts about Dean from s4, when he was convinced that Dean was weak. Not strong enough to kill Lilith. Which led directly to Sam keeping all sorts of secrets from Dean because he'd convinced himself that only he was seeing things clearly while Dean was deluding himself. Considering Sam's lifetime of having been "manipulated" with half-truths and subterfuge John trained Dean to employ for Sam's own "protection," it's... kinda understandable to a degree, but it's so, so frustrating to watch.

But this was the line of thinking back in 7.02 that led Sam to hide the full truth of his Hallucifering from Dean, to shield Dean from having yet another thing to worry about, because Sam believed he had everything under control, consolidated under this singular umbrella that he could close and push side by explicitly refusing to acknowledge it. By squeezing his hand like it was the Ignore Lucifer Magic Button. In the short term, it worked perfectly, zapping the hallucination. But it was also something Dean could actively SEE happening. Every time Sam squeezes his hand, Dean knows Sam is experiencing a bout of Not Engaging With Reality. But he has zero guarantee that Sam would even recognize every instance of his hallucinations for what they are, and he has a history of rationalizing away whatever he wants based on what he chooses to believe. Kinda... scary...

(and this will come to a head later in the season, when Sam actively engages with his hallucination which serves to validate it as reality, at which point he succumbs to it completely-- which is what Dean's been half-expecting since 7.02...)

Heck it's all lies, all the way down.

#spn 7.06 #spn 7.07 #spn 7.09 #s14 hellatus rewatch #its' spirals all the way down #spiders georg of the tnt loop #lies and damn lies #yes i know i skipped 7.08 that one's getting its own post #spn 7.02 #spn 7.15 #spn 4.05 #breaking the codependency #well that's my later seasons tag for actually breaking it... they're not even remotely breaking it here >.> #sam sympathizes and dean empathizes

[thebratfarrar]

Wildlife Encounters

In which Sam introduces Dean to a very large cat.

In the future, Dean will look back and be able to acknowledge that two months of nothing but milk-runs had made them sloppy, and sooner or later a hunt was bound to go sideways on them. But at the moment, he doesn't think much of Sam's shout, is contemplating just shouting back instead of actually going to see--when Sam's second shout comes, this time clearly pained, and there's an accompanying growling snarl, and Dean's suddenly running back, thinking that surely they hadn't gotten this far separated--

(read on AO3)

#Sam Winchester #dean winchester #spn 7.09 #How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters #Guy Norman Bee #spn fic

[campingmonkey]

He’s too cute.

#supernatural #spn #canonspngifs #dean winchester #jensen ackles #7.04 #7.09 #7.11 #8.12 #14.08 #2.20 #sleeping #sleepy #grumpy

[corvidcas]

the filter they put on this show around season 7 is so kitschy like it’s so vibrant that it gives it a cheap, cartoony feel even tho this is supposed to be a Horror Show

#supernatural is so weird. never makes sense. compels me tho #my posts #weed induced spn rewatch #7.09

[supernatural-live]

Imagine having to look serious while attacking the unkillable monsters with cleaning supplies

#supernatural #spn #7.09 #dean winchester #sam winchester #leviathans

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7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters

#deancas #destiel #dean winchester #spn #supernatural #bobby singer #Sam Winchester #s07e09 #7.09

[tonyglowheart]

spn 7.09 be like:

Dean under the influence of the weird MotW goo all unconcerned and bringing up, completely unprompted, how he is no longer upset about Cas or black goo nor is he upset that he’s not upset

this whole scene:

SAM: Good. So you don't worry about him?

BOBBY: What do you mean? Before the Turducken?

SAM: Yeah. Yeah, I kind of mean more like, uh... more like ever since my head broke... and we lost Cas. I mean, you ever feel like he's -- he's going through the same motions but he's not the same Dean, you know?

BOBBY: How could he be?

SAM: Right, yeah, but what if --

BOBBY: What if what, Sam? You know, you worry about him. All he does is worry about you. Who's left to live their own life here? The two of you -- aren't you full up just playing Snuffleupagus with the Devil all the live long?

Like I’m just sayin......

#supernatural cw #ah... Dean doing the sad widower thing and everyone knows it.. #Bobby is right tho aren't you guys full up... #if you worry about him and he worries about you who's left to live their own life here

[castiellesbian]

Ben Edlund:

2.05 Simon Said

2.12 Nightshifter

2.18 Hollywood Babylon

3.03 Bad Day at Black Rock

3.09 Malleus Maleficarum

3.13 Ghostfacers

4.05 Monster Movie

4.08 Wishful Thinking

4.16 On the Head of a Pin

5.04 The End

5.10 Abandon All Hope…

5.14 My Bloody Valentine

5.20 The Devil You Know

6.03 The Third Man

6.09 Clap Your Hands If You Believe…

6.15 The French Mistake

6.20 The Man Who Would Be King

7.02 Hello, Cruel World

7.09 How to Win Friends and Influence Monsters

7.15 Repo Man

7.21 Reading Is Fundamental

8.05 Blood Brother

8.13 Everybody Hates Hitler

8.21 The Great Escapist

Steve Yockey:

12.06 Celebrating the Life of Asa Fox

12.10 Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets

12.20 Twigs & Twine & Tasha Banes

13.05 Advanced Thanatology

13.12 Various & Sundry Villains

13.19 Funeralia

14.06 Optimism

14.10 Nihilism

14.14 Ouroboros

14.15 Peace of Mind

15.05 Proverbs 17:3

#supernatural #writers tournament #polls

[sensitivehandsomeactionman]

Dean Winchester | SPN 7.09

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