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Uh Supernatural amiright folks

#''ooh baby baby won'tcha turn your head my way?'' - Dean Van Halen probably (he wants that autistic headtilt)

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The prismatic potential of happiness 🌈💡🎩

(A second take on this piece of mine from #suptober20)

#they say the spring means just one thing for little lovebirds #*misbehaving in Hays Code*

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#TELL YOUR KITTENS

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opens my ballot for the Nov 5th election and this is mercifully the only thing on it

he needs to stop (pls continue)

#peace and love and hellerism on planet earth 💚💙 #we already had Thompson as showrunner and it ruled like I knew it would. if we got this I'd fully expect the pony I never got when I was 6

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“I don’t care about dumb weed jokes,” I said naively, before I saw this

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#WHAT A GREAT TIME TO BE ALIVE IF YOU LOVE THE THEATER OF THE ABSURD /GordonColeYelling #if the angels hadn't all gone away at least the Badalamenti one could've scored my life (rest in peace icon)

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experimental works idk

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happy birthday mother 3!!!! its objectively the best game everyone needs to play it immediately

#apparently it's the anniversary of Mother 3's release? giving everyone who follows me surprise heartrending #and ily proto-Mewtwo <3

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soldier boy core

#''wait he has PTSD?'' ''he's bipolar?'' - that episode where Hughie was super nosy about everyone's mental illnesses lol

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#when I find myself in times of trouble Ben thee Edlund comes to me speaking words of wisdom- #(it's like that dream where he was my writing professor came true)

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#i love you periphery i love you queer stories (via @ghostfacerseffect)

much to be said indeed

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Rob: We got this question that we’ve been avoiding because it’s a lot of words. When Castiel is talking  to Dean in a truck about being human, the line that was aired is a different line that the script reads.

Ben Edlund: Sure.

Rob: So the line that aired is, Castiel says “I used to belong to much better club and now I’m powerless, I’m hapless , I’m hopeless, I mean, why the hell not bury myself in women and in decadence, right? It’s the end, baby, that’s what decadence is for. Why not bang a few gongs before the lights go out. But then, that’s just how I roll.” But the script reads “But instead we become this. The only thing, I think,  we have left, Dean and me, is each other. If Dean says it’s time to get out in the blaze of glory, win or loose, so be it. I’m in, but then, that’s just how I roll.” It’s just an interesting little difference.

Rich: Well somebody had to rewrite that, right?

Ben Edlund: Sure, I mean, like that was either a rewrite based on a note or something that- it’s possible that there was a shift in language that came from a pass through Kripke. To me that feels like a rewrite based on “ Ok, we know what the subtext is, bury it a little bit.” 

Rob: Gotcha.

Ben Edlund: Because, you know, it’s more interesting to know that an then have language kind of be less to the core. I mean, maybe not, sometimes you really want to go to that core.  But it didn’t seem necessary in that moment because look at the larger context. This guy is still hanging around. He’s going on a mission. And previously in the prior scene when he’s kind of like, when we used the word insouciant for the first and last time in Supernatural’s history. I believe, unless it gets quoted later in 15 seasons and I missed that. At that point he is totally ride or die with Dean. He’s basically “You say we a going on a suicide mission and there’s no hope or whatever” and Dean’s going “Yes, that’s what I’m saying” and he goes “Okay, let me go get the truck.” And so, in a sense, it was like- I would’ve done the same thing today. If that makes sense. Looking at the whole. 

Rob: I like the idea of burying it more and not serving it on a platter. Letting people- 

Ben Edlund: Mainly because all the other aspects of that story tell us that. Show us that, actually. That’s the whole thing. Show us, not tell us. I’ve heard that at some kind of seminar.

-Supernatural Then and Now podcast. BONUS CLIP: Ben Edlund Talks

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deep in the meadow

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The jump from 2019 to 2024 is sooo violent.

#in which Laura is the One and I am Laura

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the autistic Angel is stimming 24/7 but you can’t see it

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For my 5k Milestone Celebration - Day 2: Nature // Colors // Quiet ↳ Destiel + nature

#THEY BELONG AMONG THE WILDFLOWERS

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“This is the closest you will ever be to heaven again…” Castiel smiled.” I know. But it doesn’t matter” Because, for once, he was happy where he was

#where's that post that's like ''it's a beautiful spring day and Dean is still bisexual'' #(still bisexual still Dean Winchester)