#spn it's a terrible life

[shallowseeker]

Jack’s undercover name in Optimism was Smith oh lol forever:

JACK: I'm Jack, by the way. Jack Smith.

HARPER: Harper. I have the perfect book for you.

JACK: That would be great. (staring into each other's eyes)

Dean is waiting in Baby, looking sadly in mirror

DEAN: Old man, my ass. (watches Jack and Harper come out of library along with Miles following them)

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(In another world, somewhere far away: "Your dad is kinda fussy, Jack. Can you make him turn off NPR?")

#jack & dean #tfw + undercover #jack stuff #spn optimism #harper sayles #jack kline #spn season 14 #spn 14x06 #spn steve yockey #jack relationships #dean smith #spn it's a terrible life #tfw idiosyncrasies #tfw + personality quirks #tfw + key traits #tfw + core traits #tfw sillies #tfw funnies #tfw personalities

[theangelblood]

I'm on 4x17 of rewatching Spn along with the podcast, and now that I'm almost caught up with it, I'm kinda sad and need a new show to watch between the podcast episodes.

#supernatural #supernatural cast #supernatural podcast #spn #spn then & now #supernatural them and now #spn 4x17 #spn it's a terrible life #spn t&n #rob benedict #robert benedict #rob and rich #richard speight jr. #rich speight jr #supernatural rewatch #spn rewatch

[purgaytorysupremacy]

“Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.”

Sade Andria Zabala, Coffee and Cigarettes

Dean edition

#spn #spn edit #supernatural #supernatural edit #spn poetry #poetrynatural #stackednatural #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #deancas #them #web weaving #purgaytorysupremacy stuff #mine.art #my being a casgirl/cas apologist is confirmed because this was so much harder than the dean version #like yes of course dean did terrible things and deserves to be loved anyway #and then i do this and i'm like well but cas has never done anything wrong in his whole life and also deserves to be loved anyway #so yk #that's where i am ig #iykyk

[boywifesammy]

i feel like the boys’ representation in “it’s a terrible life” is a really accurate and insightful look into how they work on an Instinctual level.

at first it seems like just a funny bit for dean to be the one dismissing the ghost thing, but dean wesson actually fits perfectly into dean’s personality. i mean, think about it. hunter dean is OBSESSED with the job. he lives breathes and sleeps hunting. he’s proud of who he is and what he does, and he enjoys being a part of something. this episode shows how that’s part of dean’s intrinsic personality. he needs order. structure. discipline.

sam is mischaracterized as ‘the emotional one’, but i think dean’s a lot more of a romantic than him. he likes the idea of a stable life, whether that’s hunting or a cushy corporate job. he wakes up at 6am everyday, has a distinct routine and a circle of friends. he does herbal detoxes and drinks frothy rice milk lattes.

life is a package for him. dean likes fitting in. he doesn’t like breaking status quo. he instinctively looks to blend in, whether that’s in a corporate environment or with his father and other hunters. dean likes the idea of family. connection. he needs people, people who are familiar and trustworthy. he’s very community/family oriented. he’s not a lone wolf.

but sam on the other hand, he’s intrinsically in tune with weird frequencies. he’s strange and he picks up strange things. he cares about people and appreciates connection but he values himself and his gut instinct more. he loves sticking his nose where it doesn’t belong. he doesn’t give a fuck about blending in. he didn’t as a hunter so he sure as hell doesn’t in a goddamn tech support cubicle.

sam straight up tells dean that everything about this feels wrong. and you can TELL that dean feels it as well. sam tells him that he thinks he should be doing more, it’s in his blood, he hates everything about this fake life. but dean deflects. no matter how uncomfortable he seems he pushes it down in favour of predictably and routine. even if deep down, he knows its wrong, it takes him a lot more time than sam to admit it.

this shows that sam is more than ‘hunting bad’ and dean is more than ‘hunting good’. it was never about hunting. sam refuses to turn a blind eye. he WANTS to rebel. it’s his nature. he instinctively looks for things that don’t line up and he calls that out. he doesn’t care about the backlash. dean needs stability. he needs people. he needs to feel like he’s a part of something. it’s why he brushes off that feeling of wrongness so quickly at the beginning of the episode, because he’s willing to overlook some of the bad for the benefits.

it’s just like how hunter dean is willing to defend john, defend the grisly violence of hunting, and convince himself into thinking this is his only choice. sam refuses to do that. he instead latches onto that feeling of otherness and rebels even though it costs him family and familiarity.

#oc #supernatural #spn #spn meta #sam winchester #dean winchester #4x17 it’s a terrible life #sam wesson #dean smith #ok u could argue that sam was getting those visions so he had more evidence of it #but honestly i’m not completely convinced dean wasn’t getting weird vibes too #like he must’ve felt this underlying sense of Wrong the entire time #but he seems so well adjusted and happy in the opening #just shows how good he is at pushing down his negative emotions #really makes u think… how much of his Zeal for hunting is actually excitement #and how much is forced out of necessity #and the most painful part is that i fully believe dean doesn’t even register that he’s doing this #he’s so used to manipulating himself that he doesn’t pick up on it anymore

[flugame-mp3]

#per my previous reblog. needed this to exist lol #spn #dean #has ID #ID in alt #i have relatively few supernatural enjoyer mutuals so its time to tag for reach. someone has to know about this #spn textpost #dean smith #dean winchester #it's a terrible life #4x17 #spn 4x17 #supernatural #supernatural textpost #this is becoming a spn blog slowly. o7

[cas-poisoning]

The way people write John in fic bothers me so much sometimes. Not to judge other people’s writing specifically, just the general fanon characterization of John Winchester. Yes he’s bad a father. Horrible. So much to unpack there. Yet I find it so disappointing when I go to read a fic and he’s like. Cartoonishly villainous. Excluding the fans that actually like John (which is even more crazy), it feels like everyone treats him as like this big bad one dimensional monster which imo is a disservice to the complex relationship Sam and Dean have with them. It’s also a symptom of a broader pattern in media, or even real world events. It’s so much easier to flatly paint anyone bad as inhuman, one dimensional, and just plain evil. Monstrous. But the reality is, every horrible person is still a person. Humans are capable of the evil we do, not monsters.

So when it comes to John, like yes, he is deeply deeply flawed. He really hurt his kids. But often when people write him, it feels like he makes all of his terrible decisions for the sake of being mean and terrible and abusive, which undermines the dynamic because the reality is people can be abusive or neglectful or toxic without being a complete monster 100% of time. It would almost be easier for Sam and Dean if John had actually been like that. But he was their father, who did what he thought was best, and loved them even if he didn’t show it. They have fond memories with him. He’s their father. Which is what makes it so hard for them to actually unpack the trauma they have, because it is so so difficult to realize a person you love is actually actively hurting you. Harder than realizing a villain in your life is just being a villain.

#idk just felt like rambling tonight lol. whenever I read fic with John it’s always like him being as awful as possible #even when it doesn’t align with any character motivations #spn #supernatural #this is a reflection of how we treat morality in media too imo #like there has to be a good guy and a bad guy that is just bad. #and then people apply it to real life. like oh obviously that terrible person is just a monster #but no!!! the people that are kind to you. the people that love you. the people you love. are capable of doing bad things. #and we blind ourselves to realizing when people are harmful by dehumanizing these people because then it be aimed harder to accept #when someone that seems good is actually not

[shirtlesssammy]

Dean Winchester every day -- 77/326

Supernatural 4x17//It's a Terrible Life

#dean winchester #spn #supernatural #deanwinchesterseries #spnedit #deanedit #spn 4x17 #it's a terrible life

[caduceuzs]

My favourite Ken

#Dean winchester #Dean Smith #spn it’s a terrible life #supernatural #spn #supernatural fanart #spn fanart #jensen ackles #Ken doll #barbie #procreate #digital art

[spnyouresostupid]

#supernatural #dean winchester #jensen ackles #season 4 #my screencaps #listen to our podcast #dean smith #it's a terrible life #does he you know drink rice milk #spn 4x17

[thebeautyofspn]

4x17 It’s A Terrible Life

#4x17 #it’s a terrible life #thebeautyofspn #supernatural #spn #supernatural aesthetic #spn aesthetic #dean winchester #dean smith #season 4

[midnightsilver]

Swesson Holiday Party

Prompt: Dean Smith and Sam Wesson attend the Sandover company holiday party together. - prompted by Genevra1676 for Winternatural2023.

#supernatural #spn fanart #MidnightSilver #swessom #winternatural2023 #Sam wesson #dean smith #christmas party #it’s a terrible life #Kiss #mistletoe #my artwork

[acesammy]

I keep seeing that ‘spn is so yellow now’ post and it’s so wild to me that this show reached such a point of self-parody that they started unironically using in every episode the coloring they used in ‘it’s a terrible life’ to denote that the life Sam and Dean were living in that ep was fake

#So often in the late seasons I wanted them to pull the rug out like they did in it’s a terrible life #and abruptly change the coloring back to what they used in early seasons #spn #also something something the late seasons are a) actually all in sams head b) not part of the main arc therefore not /real/ #or d) chuck is a bad writer and didn’t know where to take his characters #Yknow #Like the real writers lmao #lea speaks

[mythiodic]

Me when I spend new years watching season 4 of supernatural

#supernatural #spn #s4e17 It’s a Terrible Life #I fucking love this show #new year #nye #happy new year

[purgaytorysupremacy]

friend who is watching Supernatural because I won't shut up about it: I dunno, the episode "It's a Terrible Life" feels kind of empty and doesn't really make a lot of sense. Like, the message is just "ghost hunting is mad fun, bro"

me, buzzing with murder board energy: no, no, but you see... *writes hundreds of words about how this is one of THEE Dean Studies episodes, especially when paired with the season two djinn episode and endverse, and builds important parts of the angel's lore and plans, and is a meta example of the show's creators misunderstanding their own characters and stories*

#dean winchester #dean studies #dean smith #spn meta #spn #spn 4x17 #it's a terrible life #the good supernatural in my head #mine.txt #listen. someday I'm going to have the energy and brainspace to do my in-universe meta bullshit series thing and then it's all gonna be over #the wants-vs-needs of it all #the self-loathing of it all #the who-dean-would-be-without-john of it all #the misunderstanding-of-dean-by-everyone-including-himself-and-the-supernatural of it all #the doomed-man-walking-back-into-fate of it all #the machiavellian-nature-of-angels of it all #the unreliable-narrator-of-his-own-life of it all #this episode makes me insane #it's all right there if they'd decided to take just one tiny step into something more interesting than haha what a fucking fairy amirite #also ken doll dean smith are we kidding #adorable

[cashorrors]

#eris.txt #you would not believe the amount of effort this took #(i made it in like 5 minutes) #dean winchester #spn 4x17 #it's a terrible life

[according2thelore]

Submission for @wincestwednesdays October 2023 Challenge Week 3 Prompt "Trapped"!

this is based on lizzy’s ABO swesson fic and let me just say that while I was beta reading it in public I was HOWLING. I have read 3 omegaverse fics in my lifetime and this was one of them so I was learning so much (pups??? PUPS???)

some of lizzy’s finest work—go check it out 👀

#charlotte reblogs #supernatural #sam winchester #dean winchester #samdean #sam and dean #spn #spn fanart #supernaturalart #wincest #wincest wednesday #wincest wednesdays #swesson #dean smith #sam wesson #it’s a terrible life #omegaverse #omega dean #alpha sam #ABO #my art <3