#the werther project

[let-me-be-your-home]

Sam & Dean | SPN 10.19 

#sam edit #dean edit #spn edit #canonspngifs #dean winchester #sam winchester #jensen ackles #jared padalecki #sam winchester edit #dean winchester edit #dean winchester gifs #sam winchester gifs #jensen ackles edit #jensen ackles gifs #My Gifs #spn 10.19 #spn 10x19 #spn s10e19 #spn season 10 episode 19 #The Werther Project #jared padalecki edit #jared padalecki gifs #supernatural #spn #supernatural edit #supernatural gifs #supernatural season 10

[kaybredic]

There was no need for Dean's ""subconscious junk"" in 10×19 to make Benny so hot. Like they could've kept him his same hotness but why did Dean's brain make him so much hotter? (I'm not sure but it's pretty gay)

#supernatural #dean winchester #benny lafitte #jensen ackles #ty olsson #spn #s10 ep19 #the werther project

[amaranthhiding]

Samwena in 10x19 The Werther Project

This scene from 10x19 The Werther Project is a classic for obvious reasons, but it has taken me until today to think more deeply about this.

Sam doesn‘t go, “Can you do the spell for me?” or “What’s the Cabirian Invocation?” No, all he says about the topic is, “Great, thanks.” This absolute nerd either already knows the Cabirian Invocation or is at least entirely confident that he knows exactly where to look it up and that he will be able to cast it on his own.

That is the moment when Rowena is suddenly far more affected by this call than before.

Obviously, she thinks it’s hot as hell that Sam can do magic, too, but there’s more to this. She has been expelled from the Coven. Earlier in this season, in 10x07 Girls, Girls, Girls, Rowena was shown trying to recruit those girls as students, with... very limited success.

It’s painfully obvious this is so not going to work, neither for the girls, nor for Rowena.

But hilariously, this scene is not the first time Latin is mentioned in this same episode. No, the first time was this little gem here:

It was even made clear that while the translation for the spell’s name was on the website, Sam looked up thoughtfully and just casually translated it on his own in his head.

I must have been blind never to notice the purposeful contrast between Sam and the girls before, but I seriously never paid attention to this detail until today. And that even though I’m a linguist. Pff.

(And yes, I do believe this contrast is completely intentional. Both 10x07 Girls, Girls, Girls and 10x19 The Werther Project are Berens episodes, and he does give loving attention to detail and parallels.)

Even though she probably wouldn’t admit it, Rowena craves the companionship of joint spellcasting. She’s been lonely ever since she has been expelled from the Grand Coven. She craves a kindred spirit she can nerd out with.

Enter the dude who calls her just to chat about a spell, and who can match her own intelligence and thirst for knowledge.

Sam’s initial reaction to this proposal kind of gets me, lol.

He’s a very intuitive guy with finely tuned senses. He absolutely heard how sultry her voice had become.

He declines (much to his own disadvantage, as the episode later shows. Things would have gone so much better for Sam had he taken Rowena’s offer!)

But, er... what is his face doing? This weird little smile that flares up for just a second, half tormented and half... something else, before he goes back to a far more neutral expression again.

Know what this reminds me of? This moment from 4x09 I Know What You Did Last Summer where Ruby is trying to seduce Sam while he’s desperately trying (and failing) to resist.

And here’s a casual reminder that Ruby, too, was a witch.

Even these profile shots are mirrored (and I can’t for the life of me tell if this mirror was done on purpose, or if it was a coincidence. If this was done intentionally... man.)

The positions of Sam with Ruby and Sam with Rowena are inverted, though, and I love that considering the fact that Sam’s involvement with Ruby and the demon blood and freeing Lucifer are some of his biggest regrets, and even his deepest hurt because it’s what makes him feel tainted and unworthy.

(That heavy swallow Sam does as Rowena says “dark magic” never fails to get me.)

So of course he’s trying absolutely everything and anything to keep himself from going dark side ever again. Little does he know at the time that this connection doesn’t end with him going dark side. It ends with Rowena joining the good guys! She’s his big success. She’s the deeply needed validation for his willingness to see the world in more than black and white. She’s the cure to that deepest hurt and his feeling of unworthiness.

But, erm, back to 10x19 The Werther Project and a timeline where none of that has happened so far:

Suddenly those sexually charged Rowena hallucinations he has later in this episode are making even more sense to me than they ever have before... as does the fact that he declined Rowena’s help when having a seasoned witch around who offered her help freely sure would have seemed like the more sensible choice here.

That he hallucinated her calling him “Sammy” when that’s something he always got mad about when it was done by anyone other than Dean is... certainly something.

I very much read the “It’s opening” not only in reference to the Werther’s Box, but also as Sam’s desire that’s woken up in full here.

And I don’t even mean that in an exclusively physical way, it’s also his desire for magic and knowledge and a kindred spirit and connection and being seen and appreciated for who he is and what he can offer, much like what Rowena herself craves after a life filled with rejection and never fitting in.

Yep. He is so gone on her.

And yes, I also see “it” very much as a placeholder for both of them.

Not even to mention the fact that he 100% trusted whatever this hallucination was telling him, no matter what.

Even if it was to make a blood sacrifice of himself.

To bring this full circle, let’s not forget that he also hallucinated Rowena being impressed by and appreciative of his knowledge of Latin, which... is so painfully ironic with regard to the beginning of this post, I want to bang my head against the desk.

Sam, buddy... you realize you didn’t have to make this shit up, right? You could have had the real one. She wanted exactly the same things you did. She actually appreciated your knowledge of Latin. You both could have been your sapiophile selves around each other all day long to your hearts’ delight.

No? Okay then.

To silence the box, slake its thirst... I mean, seriously. Come on.

And yes, I absolutely see the box as a metaphor for Sam’s deepest wishes. Which takes Rowena’s fondling of the inscription to a whole new level.

Then there’s also the little fact that this is what Benny said to Dean in Dean’s hallucination of Purgatory that was happening at the same time:

And guess what?

Dean woke up on his own.

Guess who didn’t?

Sam didn’t.

Dean actually slapped him, and Sam attacked Dean with a knife for trying to break him out of the illusion.

And even through all of this, even after Dean bandaged Sam’s bleeding wound and began to sacrifice his own blood instead, the Rowena illusion still persisted until the box was opened.

Oh well, indeed. And when Sam next met the real Rowena at the end of the episode, he put her in shackles in a desperate attempt to keep control this time around. Because he had already gotten dangerously close to losing all restraint, just like with Ruby.

I... rest my case.

(Who am I kidding? I’ll never rest my case.)

(Can’t believe they went so far as to even have a similar background in both 10x19 and 15x03 when Sam and Rowena were holding hands like this. Both scenes feature dark gray stone walls with rays of light falling in through a curved window. And Rowena is wearing an iron chain around her wrist in 15x03 to ward off the ghosts when everyone else was wearing the iron chain around their neck. Was this sheer coincidence or done on purpose up to the smallest detail? I feel like I’m losing my mind here. Again all of these are Berens episodes.)

On a side note, when I used the Werther’s Box inscription repeatedly in my Samwena video, I also very much had that metaphor in mind and saw it as them growing closer and closer. In case you haven’t seen the video yet:

https://youtu.be/H0BJ-94EukE

#samwena #samwitch #sam x rowena #sam and rowena #rowena and sam #rowena #sam winchester #rowena macleod #supernatural #spn #10x19 #the werther project #amaranthmeta

[samepisodebracket]

Round 1; Group 30

#samepisodebracket #sam winchester #spn polls #spn #the werther project #sacrifice #lazarus rising #10x19 #8x23 #4x01 #surprise addition. do not blow this for me please.

[catnipster69]

Episode 10x17 "The Werther Project"

#catnipster69 gifs #my gifs #my posts #the werther project #ep 10x17 #dean winchester

[samsrowena]

it's so funny when fake-rowena is reading the latin inscription on the werther box and sam starts translating it to english and she makes a little impressed expression/noise. like he's really out here hallucinating linguistics validation from the hot evil witch he's supposed to hate. what a nerd

#and don't even get me started (for like the millionth time) on the sexually charged bloodletting #sammy i'm obsessed with you WHAT is going on in your head #spn.txt #spn rewatch #spn 10x19 #the werther project #samwena

[bloodydeanwinchester]

Bloody Dean Every Episode - 10x19 The Werther Project

#bloodydeanseries #spn 10x19 #the werther project #moc!dean #bloody dean #my beloved<3 #spnedit #dean winchester gifs #spn gifs

[deansamnatural]

#sam winchester #dean winchester #supernatural #spn #sam and dean #s10e19 #the werther project #mine

[hitchell-mope]

Well that was lucky.

#supernatural #the werther project

[liopleurodean]

Season 10, Episode 19: The Werther Project

Ooh, nice car!

Looney Tunes, nice

Rip that girl

Those are loud speakers

Borax.

She's barely been there for a minute!

That's Men of Letters!

Spooky

Whoa.

Uh oh, that doesn't look good

Okay...

Omigosh. Kevin McAllister, calling it now

Okay, not exactly

Yikes

What does that mean?

She's possessed

And what is that?

That's doable

Are you trying to impress him?

Yeah, and?

So how does that help?

I don't trust her one bit

Fair

Season 1, they didn't believe in vampires. Season 1, it took all three Winchesters to barely make it out of a nest alive. Now Dean is clearing them out single-handedly

Nice

Um.

That's concerning

He would be a puppy, though.

Valid

Aw. Sleepy

They seriously need to digitize that place

Not even digitize. Just get everything consistent

Interesting

That's concerning

Poor guys

Buddy is not okay

He's gonna regret that

That's horrifying

And there we go

I wonder if they're still around?

That's such a mood

I don't like that idea

And no one has noticed?

Oh boy

Interesting

Dean.

That wasn't it at all

The magic of Google

Wait a second. Wasn't it only a few seconds ago that Dean was technologically illiterate?

Yeah...

Yeah, he sucked

Yup

And it's also a supernatural box, so you've made it your responsibility

Okay then

Dean.

His little scared-laugh 😂

THE VOICE 💀

Sure

There's the nice car

Ah. Gus.

This is gonna go so well

Wow, that's a long time

Dang it, Sam

Don't go in the cellar

How did she survive?

Uh oh

That is suspicious

They're trying to get rid of it

Something about sizzling out

Dang it, Sam

Well crap

That was freaky

That explains some things

Poor girl

Dean...

Oh. That makes more sense

Dean's a bit preoccupied

Oh no

That can't be good

Dean's gonna kill himself

Wait. What would the Mark do for this?

That's so valid of her

Oh boy

Dean is actually pretty consistent

Ah. There she is

It was a good feeling

He is confused

Oh boy

Benny!

That's actually probably a good thing

That's great

Kinky

Dean is smart

Oh boy

Uh oh

That's weird

Fun!

What is that supposed to mean?

That is a great question

There are... many thoughts to be had here

Men of Letters blood

But how much?

I remember.

More Leviathan

How much of that is the Mark talking?

I knew it

He has to kill Benny

Absolutely not

That's a sham

Oh, Dean...

Just like it would ruin you

Dean, no

Dean. Don't do it

Star Wars music

Dean...

For a second I thought that bottle said Winchester

Dean, no!

Hurry up, Sam!

Oh boy

Dean...

Absolutely not

That's a lot of blood

There's no point in both of them dying!

Oh thank goodness

I wondered about that

It needs a host

I was right!

That's wild, I called it from the very start

Oh boy

Sam!

See? Dean's the smart one

That's concerning

So it was a vision!

That must be the codex

That's an Eye of Horus

Probably a good idea

Liar

Maybe

Again. Liar

Have I seen that warehouse before?

She really should have known

Something like that

#ashla chick flick moments #supernatural #season 10 episode 19 #the werther project

[monstermoviedean]

can't even come up with a silly little caption for this i just want to burst into tears

#spn #spn rewatch #10x19 the werther project

[cockworkangels]

very sam to have vaguely erotic hallucinations about bleeding yourself

#s10 rewatch #10x19 the werther project #samwena

[handmadehazefromtheheart]

I had some Werther's originals yesterday and I feel like the taste is still floating around in my sinuses.

Glorious.

Here's an unrelated picture of me testing a cat plushie's eye for tension safety.

It's all up to code. I just haven't had the spoons to list them in the shop. Job interview on Wednesday, birthday on Thursday.

I'm going to have another Werther's when I get out of bed. Life is worth living.

#captioned #Werther's originals #cats #product projects #craftblr #I'm tired lok #Lol*

[i-make-fun-of-spn-characters]

For OOC season 8 Sam momemts...I feel like Sam should've been obsessed with either saving Kevin (to use some prophet bs storyline to open purgatory and help get Dean back) or Dean (then save Kevin, bc lbr that's more on brand). Either way, if Sam isn't obsessed with doing at least 1 thing per season, then what are the writers even doing?

AGREED. That man is always doing things. He is never sitting around not doing things. He is on at all times. He is going to school and making killer grades, or he is on a war path looking for his father and vengeance, or he is trying to save Dean, or he is trying to save the world, or he is hunting like a machine (even WITHOUT a soul) or he is on the fuckin case... then season 8 happens to him and just what the FUCK.

Also like. LOOK at his face at the end of season 7 when Crowley disappears Kevin right in front of him then go straight to 8.01 it is thee most jarring transition in the world.

#season 8 sam #mail #being serious for 5 seconds #I actually think not doing anything for kevin is even more ooc than leaving Dean and Cas in Purgatory but NONE of it makes sense #you are right I think tho it would literally be more on brand for Sam to use Kevin in a fit of desperation than to completely abandon him #there are episodes suggesting Sam when desperate enough will use people #even though that is cetainly not imo a defining part of his character he has been driven to it before #like the dead kid in the reaper episode #the woman in season 4 who was possessed who he bled out #the woman in The Werther Project #Lester in season 10 #like I would literally rather see that Sam than whatever this podman was

[kunikidas-lost-glasses]

I need Goethe and Schiller in Bsd.

#You don't understand. I need them to be there. Please #We're currently talking about “The Sorrows of Young Werther” in german and I kept thinking about that #It would be so awesome #bsd #bungou stray dogs #bungou gay dogs #bsd manga #bungou stray dogs manga #goethe #schiller #johann wolfgang von goethe #friedrich schiller #I have to write a serious public online blog for a german project over a couple of weeks and I've picked to Blog about classical lit #Maybe I'm gonna write something about those two for Pride months #I mean. It's still Pride Month #And my German teacher only grades the blog entitys which we choose to show him (at least that was told) sooo #I really need to read the sorrows of young werther #We've read a part of it today and Werther felt really similar to the narrator of White Nights by Fyodor or to Alexei Ivanovich from #The gambler. Also by Fyodor Dostoevsky #There are theories that we will see Agatha Christie next as the final antagonist so there is a chance that we will get new characters right #So pleaaase. Asagiri I'm begging you #bungo stray dogs

[deanwasalwaysbi]

8.05 Blood Brother

10.19 The Werther Project

#spn meta #you wanted to know what about this was real? we are. #beandenny #deanbenny #dean was always bi #spn 8x05 #spn 10x19 #spn blood brother #spn the werther project #original content #beandenny gifs #deanbenny gifs #spn denny