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Thinking of the larger context of LOTR and like, the fellowship swapping old war stories and shit and Sam just says “Yeah I killed a huge spider…Shelob, I think?”

And Gandalf just blinks and is like, “You what now?”

“Yeah, killed it. Had to save Frodo”

Gandalf elects not to tell Sam that he killed the spawn of a primordial demon.

#lotr

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1st time

2nd time

3rd time

4th time

5th time

last time

screaming, crying, fucking throwing up

#destiel #thanks i hate it

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#tumblr polls #half the decor in my guest room is sports memorabilia :'D #like i have a peter bondra hockey stick! #i have a big poster of john riggins in superbowl 17! #there's hockey tickets framed from the first three games my kid went to as a baby! #i have a number of hockey jerseys and other sports things #but yeah only from teams i actually follow #lol i hit post and then realized i lied... i have several nascar souvenirs from teams i don't really follow #but won or came into by other similar means... but mostly it's stuff for teams or athletes i at least follow :)

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I will say that it is very ~interesting~, as someone who has dedicated a lot of hours to working out What The Hell Is Going On With Supernatural, to be simultaneously watching Leverage and Supernatural the way I am right now, and comparing them both in terms of queer content.

Leverage started airing in 2008, roughly when Supernatural was on season 4. so season 5 of supernatural is kind of analogous, time-wise, to season 2 of Leverage, which is what I’m currently watching.

now, at this point in Leverage, we have had:

- bisexual Parker reveal (good, excellent, we like)

- that one time in season 1 where Hardison and Eliot pretend to be gay by making their voices higher (weird, did not like)

- that fashion episode where everyone is kind of mincing and Eliot wears mascara (hot, but otherwise a bit weird)

- Eliot’s general gender Thing (you know what i mean. you feel it. Friend of Dean Winchester in all our hearts)

- Mark Sheppard playing his classic Menacing Gay Man character (perfect, no notes)

I can’t currently think of any client they’ve had who’s been visibly queer, or much general acknowledgement of queerness as a force in the world - I might be forgetting something, but that’s my impression. No main character really displays familiarity with queer culture or makes repeated queer references.

Which is as you’d expect of a late 00s show, but somehow it is actually shocking me, because after watching 11 seasons of Supernatural I was all ready to believe that I’d just never noticed how completely gay American TV in general was during these years. I still have these lingering feelings that what I notice when I watch spn has to be either me being gay and seeing gay in everything as a result, or it just being latently where the world was at that point. BUT NO, friends! No.

Because once again, when compared to another network show that should be fairly analogous, Supernatural turns out to be a huge outlier.

Think about it. By 2009/10 on Supernatural, we had already had (and this is just top line, top of my mind stuff):

- Mark Sheppard playing essentially the same naughty little gay man but being allowed to kiss MULTIPLE other men, with tongue.

- all those cursed fucking jokes about Dean and Sam being gay for each other. absolutely hate it, but we must acknowledge it. King or two queens! Antiquers! Well, you are kinda butch!

- gay Bert and Ernie reference, on it like Divine on dog dookie reference, my own private Idaho reference, really uncountable queer cultural references

- that whole rehymenation thing post Dean’s resurrection

- Dean and Agent Henriksen’s little thing, and also every other man Dean has hit on

- Dean’s siren was a man

- Gripped you tight and raised you from perdition, I did it, all of it for you, for the first time i feel, and so on, and so on

- In fact the entire Destiel season 4 and season 5 plot. i mean!!! An essay in itself!

-the episode Free to Be You and Me in its entirety. Like jesus christ. come on.

- Doctor Sexy

- whatever the hell Bobby and Rufus had going on?

- gay love can pierce through the veil of death and save the day.

- gay Sam and Dean cosplayers

I. COULD. GO. ON.

There’s so much on Leverage about the nuclear heterosexual family as the dream - it’s what Nate lost pre-show and it’s what he’s trying to get back. Sophie is the mom and he’s the dad and the OT3 are their children. It’s the straightest possible version of the found family. But Supernatural is all about masculinity, how men relate to each other and hurt and help each other, how they live with each other and forge familial and sexual bonds, how they fuck each other up and fuck each other.

Queerness is so clearly what the Supernatural writers are specifically thinking about in a way it’s just not in Leverage, and I’m so fascinated by the contrast. I keep waiting for Eliot to have a thing with some security guard or mark and he doesn’t really and I’m … confused. Like what is going on. Where are my gays??? And then I realise I’m not watching the men are gay show right now.

#destiel #dean winchester is bilingual #leverage #yeah... the context of the general media landscape at the time is vital really

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#i considered several of these... the dust thing would be amazing lol #but immunity to unwanted effects of a drug? #i could go back on lithium without any toxicity? #and without having half the foods i love tasting like rubbing alcohol? oh hell yes please

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Talking about why this scene was rewritten/cut. Says he would get notes saying they know what the subtext is, bury it, use language less to the core but he wants to go straight to the core. Says its still clear Castiel is totally ride or die by Dean. He has to show it not tell it.

You were not crazy, folks, and I need to lie down.

#spn 5.04 #maybe now people will understand why my edlund tag for years has been #actual quote i just used elsewhere: Damn Ben Edlund #destiel #we know ben we know 😔

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#memethingy #tumblr polls #find the thing mittens #omg i say I AM LE TIRED out loud frequently >.> #so i voted for that one but.... omfg all of these honestly... #thank you for linking them all because this will now ruin the rest of my morning in a wonderful way :'D

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Congratulations to all of the incredible artists and authors who participated in the eighth round of the Dean/Cas Pinefest!

Over the past month, 34 authors and 23 artists teamed up to share a collective 1,420,869 words of pine-filled fic and 117 works of art. The talent and artistry of this fandom absolutely floors us every year, and we're so happy that you're all still here sharing your wonderful creations with us 🌲 

With that in mind, we'll definitely be back for more! An official announcement for the 2025 Pinefest -- our ninth year -- will come sometime in July. Follow us here on Tumblr to make sure you don’t miss out on any details!

Under the cut, you’ll find links to every fic & art masterpost from the 2024 round, and you can also check out the collection on Ao3. Make sure to let the authors and artists know how much you enjoyed their creations with a like, kudos, or best of all, a reblog, rec, or comment!

following the light

One Drop, when What You Need is the Ocean

Of Dust, Gunpowder and Holy Water

Books, Pies, and Roommates

A Fairy Tale Cliche!

All in Honesty

Another Kind of Memory

Not our kind of thing

Different Currencies

In The Dog Days

Whatever Makes You Happy

Significant severe

all that we intend

Something Happening Somewhen

Two Princes

Broken (The Worst Is Over Now)

Well, I Never Been To Heaven

The Reel Deal

A Fabulous Evening's Apocalypse

Foxfire

Super Double Bus

Suddenly I See

Lavender Fireflies

Heartland Flyer

Something Blue

Wouldn't It Be Nice

If Only You Return to Me

all out to sea

Dear Father

Opposites Distract

Faking It?

Given to Fly

Take The Long Way Home

A Glacial Pace

All caught up on this year’s crop of pine? There are 694 more works of art and 219 more fics to be found in the previous seven Pinefest rounds -- and if you're into numbers, you can find a full breakdown of this and past year’s stats here!

Until next time… happy pining!

#spn fanfic #spn fanart #destiel #pinefest 2024 #!!!!! CONGRATS EVERYONE ON ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL PINE-FILLED PINEFEST! so incredible :')

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Mantle

Mantle by tiamatv Rating: Teen Word Count: 16.7k

Dean doesn’t know why his little brother wants him along at this pretentious party-slash-job-interview for the Broken Seals Corporation. Dean’s just a hunter—a badass one, sure, but Sam’s the big-shot mage. And Sammy’s sure as hell not listening when Dean tells him he’s got a bad feeling about Broken Seals’ CEO, Lucifer. When fucking Ruby shows up, well, it’s all downhill from there. Until a pretty, blue-eyed mage in an ill-fitting suit says, “You’re Dean Winchester” like Dean’s the famous one.

This is a retelling of folklore that we all know, but it has some delightful twists along the way. For being fairly short, this fic packs a powerful punch as far as plot and characterization go. This is one of the most delightful "first meetings" between Dean and Cas, where you really see both of their personalities shine. Dean is kind and curious while Cas is the awkward, slightly grumpy asshole that we all know and love... at least at first. (Let's face it, no one can stand up to Dean's charm.)

This fic is very much a fish out of water epic, with Dean and Cas meeting at a fancy party, where Dean is entirely out of his depth. He finds a kindred spirit in Castiel (the food at fancy parties should always be mocked) and they embark on a lively evening of conversation. Beneath all the bantering, however, is the sense that something is very wrong with Castiel, and that not everything is as it seems regarding his partnership with the sinister Lucifer.

Cas is delightfully grouchy and yet vulnerable, and Dean is the hunter that we all know and love, covering up his insecurities with bravado and jokes. Seeing these two meet is a wonderful delight! 💖

#spn fanfic #destiel

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i miss you guys in a different life we were all organs in the same angel

#spn 7.23 #yup

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The 6th script of 7 donated by Eric Kripke as a raffle prize for our final fundraiser for Undue Medical Debt [FKA RIP Medical Debt] is 6.22 "The Man Who Knew Too Much."

Our fundraising page and our raffle open on April 25, but you can preview all of the prizes here.

#spn 6.22 #spnscripthunt #LOOK! WE FINALLY HAVE A *SECOND* SCRIPT FROM SEASON SIX!!!!!!

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1970s shag bathrooms

#from the first picture i also started saying oh no oh no #the 70's were truly horrible... #my mom put the furry toilet seat covers on but at least we never had bathroom carpet >.> #god a couple of those you could stick googly eyes on and pretend you're peeing in a muppet ffs

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#laugh rule #tumblr polls #uh... following less than 30 people is insane wtf... #i mean i thought i followed very few people but uh #it's more like 300 than 30? and still feels like very few people? wtf #wtf are people even doing here?

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Reblog and put in the tags how often you “clean” your tumblr account, deleting old posts.

#back before the tittyban in 2018 i'd been in the process of retagging a bazillion old posts #because for years i didn't bother with a coherent tagging system #so i started at the beginning of my blog and did delete a lot of really old posts along the way #but when the tittyban was announced i dropped that project to go into post-saving panic mode #and then never bothered going back and finishing that project #and also i delete nothing anymore after that :'D #i will never have that kind of time again #plus my blog has like 30k more posts now as it did back then #that's just... too many to bother sorting through

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praying to his favorite angel

#spn fanart #destiel

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Go. Have a great life. I’ll be waiting.

Kelly Kline in Byzantium (14x08): Best of SPN Ladies [111/?]

#spn 14.08 #kely kline

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Thank you to Natalie Abrams for donating a Gotham Knights script for our fundraiser for RIP Medical Debt (fundraising page + raffle open on April 25): 1.11 "Daddy Issues"

Thank you to @deanismybuddy for getting this script for us, she'll get it signed by Misha at njcon 💚

Abrams is mailing it early this week, pics TK

#spnscripthunt #this is so so wonderful! <3