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Best Winchester Brotherly Scenes

Sam and Dean and their hunting code words and phrases. I just really want and need to know the backstories of how they settled on these words. Like, how did they decide? Did they fight over the best ones? Did Dean come up with some questionable ones and Sam is like, “I can’t say that in public!” I just love things like these that allude to their joint history. 

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Old as  mammoth sh.t ink drawings I suddenly saw in new light)

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screenshots of despair + supernatural

#the heartfelt gift one 😬😬😬😬😬😬😬

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he’s soooo beautiful and it’s weird bc he’s so tall but he’s so beautiful n dainty and pretty but he’s so tall n could probably kill me if he sat on me

#nah it's insane how pretty he is. stop that.

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«I watched a demon slaughter my parents. And the whole time it talked about how it was celebrating. Some dumb kid let Lucifer out of his cage.»

#so handsome... so baby

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#ahem.

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I swear if I felt like it, i could probably write an entire essay about how people can say that everything in supernatural is brotherly love, but no normal sibling relationship would end in them dying for the other no matter what it takes. hell, i'm not even past season 5 and i was led into the rabbit hole that is wincest before i even watched the show, just from a poster on my sister's wall and snippets of memories of supernatural. it's pure true fucking love, the show knows it, and i wholeheartedly believe that.

it's been said a lot, but that doesnt mean it gets old, right?

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1.13, “ROUTE 666”

#they're so cuuute

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HE. WAS. NINE.

#💔💔💔

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DEAN BABYGIRL WINCHESTER in 5.11 (sam, interrupted)

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not just the smile of relief but sam’s whole entire body language when dean shows up in the benders….my gray matter is scrambled. up to this point sam has been tense and guarded and alternately restless, looking for a way to escape or otherwise holding onto/pushing at the bars and generally holding himself defensively. the minute dean walks in that room, before dean has even actually figured out how to free him, sam sits back in that fucking cage, totally at ease, calm and collected and perfectly happy to wait until dean gets him out like the purity of the trust and comfort sam finds in dean is k i l l i n g me dean isn’t that much older than sam and in a situation like this is just about as fallible and vulnerable as sam but sam sees dean and instantly is like. i’m going to be okay. so much so that it’s reflected in every muscle in his body im literally rabid

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#🤨

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Sam & Dean, leadership, control, obedience, and choice

Spinning this off into a new post because this got so long – I love this topic, so I have many Thoughts! (Most of this is focused on the psychological side of it as explored through fictional tropes – the mythological side of their chosen roles is also fascinating and deserving of its own post!)

@zmediaoutlet​ wrote:

I really do feel quite strongly about this, which makes those metas where people insist on calling Dean ‘controlling’ actually a bit infuriating to read. Sam makes decisions; Dean follows. It’s not that way 100% of the time, but it is true way more often than the reverse. It’s part of the deepest core of their natures–which is explained by the archangels they were meant for. Dean is loyal, and Sam rebels. I watched ‘The Vessel’ a few nights ago and was struck so hard by how Dean announces that he shall be the one who goes back to the past. He will be the one who puts himself in danger, because he’s expendable. He states it as a fact, almost bullish… and then still waits for Sam’s permission before he and ‘Castiel’ actually go. It’s just such a fascinating dynamic, made more so by the change-up of roles.

Again yes to all of this. Dean as “controlling” I take as a misinterpretation (–alternative interpretation, though this is a case that I feel strongly enough about the characterizations that I struggle to see the alternatives) of their communication styles – and Dean’s style in particular is molded, not just by John’s militaristic upbringing, but by his relationship with Sam.

Dean can be controlling – especially with innocents in supernatural-emergency situations, it’s vital to give orders forcefully enough that you can expect them to be followed. But with Sam, that’s rarely what it’s about. Dean gives statements of intent to Sam knowing they’re not going to be blindly followed – since he was a little kid, Sam hasn’t obeyed him without question. Moreover, Sam has always known that Dean won’t actually act without his say-so. (e.g. “After School Special”, in which at 14 Sam is fully capable of letting Dean know what he wants – Dean is raging “I’ll rip his lungs out” about the bully, but he doesn’t actually do anything, lets Sam handle it on his own. And it’s not played as a “big brother finally lets his little brother out on his own” moment – Sam is talking to Dean with confidence that he can handle it himself and that Dean won’t intervene. He knows Dean has his back if needed, but he doesn’t expect Dean to do anything without his agreement.)

Some of the reason this can be misinterpreted is because of their differences in communication and thinking styles. Sam is the kind of person who likes to go into a discussion or argument informed, fully armed – he doesn’t like to talk about anything until he’s had time to think it out, to come to a conclusion and come up with counter-arguments, etc. While as Dean is less of a thinker, more of a doer; he wants to talk about what he’s thinking/feeling because verbalizing it out loud is how he understands it himself. (Or by acting it, hence him being way more prone to expressing himself through physical violence than Sam.)

The reason this works is because they both understand this about each other.

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this town or the next one.

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happy sammy sunday

#let's GOOO hot girl!!!! #sam