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one of my favourite things about Dean is that even though he’s had such a rough, painful life he’s still incredibly loving and tender. he could have easily succumbed to the bitterness and hatred and blame it on hell or hunter’s life in general, but instead he makes burgers for his family, kisses his “little sister he never wanted” on her forehead, takes care of his brother when he’s sick and smiles so wide when he sees his friend that his eyes crinkle and his whole face lights up. he could’ve been a heartless, joyless man, it would probably make things easier for him. but instead Dean is a love-fuelled big ol’ softy and I think it’s beautiful

#dean 💚 #the most caring man on earth #dean studies

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like he always wanted a best friend, but thought he didn't deserve one. and then he got one. and he always wanted to love someone, really love someone, but thought he didn't deserve someone. and then he got someone. and he always wanted someone to love him the way he needed, but thought he didn't deserve love. and then he got love. it was all the same person. it was always cas.

#destiel dynamics #dean studies #destiel text post

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cas saving dean is so legendary even outside of supernatural itself that I’m shocked as a first time show watcher how much it’s actually about dean saving cas.

dean is probably the first person to treat cas like a human being with a choice—dean, who doesn’t believe in angels, who’s been failed by heaven again and again, who has every reason to write him off entirely. he’s furious with cas for going along with the plan to destroy humanity because he believed better of him. and like some fucked up version of the velveteen rabbit, by treating cas like a person, cas becomes human

dean calls him cas, and it sticks. dean loves humanity so stubbornly, so fucking fiercely despite everything, that cas stops and looks, for the first time in millennia. he wakes up. he doesn’t have a choice, seeing dean, who’s tortured and been tortured for decades, refusing to give up on people. dean who should be broken, who should be lying down and never getting up, spitting at god and his angels with blood in his teeth, for strangers. for people who will never know his name.

imagine, loving so much angels slip down from heaven just to see. to understand. to touch…

#destiel dynamics

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MEREDITH??????????

#what is happening? #meredith glynn #spn writers #spn drama

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have you thought about this though. it's cas and dean's weekly movie night. cas picked the movie and dean picked the snacks (they switch responsibilities every week). they're sitting under a king-size blanket and cuddling on their couch. they will throw popcorn at each other. and because dean falls asleep during the obscure biopic cas picked, cas will carry him to bed when the movie ends. have you considered this?

#movie night

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It's fascinating to me how much I've changed my mind about Dean in The Trap. I'm waaaaay more sympathetic to the whole Cas-being-forgiven aspect of it, because yes, Cas apologized initially, but the root of the issue was Cas's painful withdrawal of his partnership and his withholding of critical information. Full stop. He and Dean are NOT equally culpable in this one.

It's not just about Mary and Jack, and yet Cas keeps pivoting to "Dean blaming him for Mary." Which oversimplifies the whole thing in a terrible way. Yes, they're all culpable, and yes they all saw that things were wrong with Jack, but next to Donatello, Cas is THE authority on souls and physically the strongest of TFW. To make matters worse, he all but demanded Dean to parent Jack and take care of Jack's emotions, even though Dean expressed discomfort over his memories of soulless Sam. Dean has repeatedly expressed how he wants Cas to be open and honest with him, especially now that they're co-parenting, and although Cas demanded Dean parent Jack, he then turned around and hid Big Parenting Stuff from him and went off to meet Anael.

Barring Cas's one feeble and poorly-timed, "I tried to fix it on my own because I was afraid of losing this family," he doesn't really spell out his part in the communication failures or apologize very well for withdrawing from Dean, specifically. He sorts of sulls up and say, "I already apologized and I'm not doing it again." Yet, Cas has a continued, longstanding pattern of withdrawal from the partnership. I'm floored that my Cas goggles kept me from seeing it before, and maybe I'm a little embarrassed, too. I mean, honestly, it's amazing that Dean takes him back at all. :/ Once you look past, "Oh no! Dean said mean things!" anyway.

I think by The Trap, Dean has given up trying to get Cas to change or hold him accountable for his lack of communication. Cas sort of gave Dean ultimatums over it, if you squint, and Dean rolled over. And Dean wants to get back together. He needs Cas's support and Cas need his. He looks at everything Cas is and decides that Cas's avoidance and want to protect the family is just woven into the fabric of him, and Dean decides to accept that. It's something he loves about him as much as he resents it. Cas's chivalry is a feature and a bug. Dean loves him for it. It makes his life a Hell sometimes.

Occasionally, I still see people harping on how horrible Dean was for "forgiving" Cas, like Cas doesn't need to be forgiven. And with some distance and clarity, I find that pretty baffling now, but I also remember feeling that way when I wasn't looking at their partnership equally and giving Cas too much leeway on his continued absence from the partnership. I almost...respected Cas more. That thought makes me wince. But his bad decisions I was way more likely to stamp as protective or tactically genius, at least compared to some of Dean's similar decisions. Dean's things I tended to group as "too angry/emotional/irrational." :(

I guess I've come a long way when it comes to holding Sam and Cas accountable for their actions, too. Much of the time, my issues with Dean devolved to unfortunate tone policing or not liking him to express his anger and be angry at his boundaries being breached over and over, even when he was taking his anger out on inanimate objects. I balked just because it made a loud sound that made Sam wince (oh noes, not the wincing).

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On the other hand, I'm quite impressed that Dean and Cas were finding their way back to each other after the Death of a Child. That's about the hardest thing a marriage can go through, and they were getting back together and trying to heal even before Jack reappeared. Clearly, it's a stress-tested relationship. WAY more stress-tested than your everyday marriages; they've been through multiple apocalypses. On the whole, they often have good communication, even when they disagree, they knew where they stood (like with Donatello). It's just these huge, incredibly unusual horrible earth-shatteringly terrible things that throw them. Chuck's grooming is such a bitch.

#divorce arc #destiel dynamics #spn 15x09

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DEAN: *dropping so, so, so many hints*

CAS: *literally tripping over the hints but blaming it on his own clumsiness*

#dean's crush for cas #destiel text post

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Supernatural was a comedy and Castiel was its biggest comedian.

THERE WERE OTHER PEOPLE TOO, CAS. Not just Dean ... 🙄🙄

#single minded angel

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Dean + picking up Cas-isms

Bonus:

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Supernatural 7.23 + 8.01

#spn 7x23 #spn 8x01 #spn crowley #sam winchester #kevin tran

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no but i genuinely dont understand how you can watch 15 seasons of supernatural and just absolutely hate dean......literally in his first five minutes ever on screen they introduce him a very specific way so he instantly falls into a stereotypical macho, womanizing, douche archtype and he tears it all down in less than 30 seconds, he lets the mask slip for a second and shows its all an act.....like how are you not instantly compelled forever????

#literally he is thee character #if you don’t like dean i don’t trust your ability to read analyze and interpret media #and you just have bad taste #< prev #dean 💚 #i block deancrits like i play whack' a mole ^^

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they cut the line that dean spread cas' ashes in a meadow by the windmill because he believed cas would have loved the place

they cut some of dean and cas' reaction in the confession

they deleted "part of me always believed that you'd come back"

they deleted the "I lost Cas and it damn near broke me"

they deleted the "and me -- I -- i lose you too and that is unacceptable to me, Dean."

they made Dean and Cas' relationship a pivotal storyline in the FINAL season of the show and then erased Cas completely from the finale.

they cut, deleted, omitted, erased SO MANY pivotal Destiel moments and yet their love still bled through. they tried so hard to diminish cas' importance to dean, to make the relationship secondary. and in the end failed epically.

#deleted destiel

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can we, once again, talk about the fact that dean and cas were IN LOVE but also they were. best friends. dean on his knees crying saying you’re my best friend. they could talk to each other about the stuff that neither of them could talk to anyone else. they felt safe with each other they were like let me carry some of your burden!!!! it’s a privilege for me!!!

#i love them so much 😭 #destiel dynamics

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See Dean gets mad 😡 at Cas for ghosting him and then there’s a conflict about it and Cas makes this face 🥺 and Dean lets it go then Cas goes and does the same thing that upset Dean again 😡 immediately and then Cas makes this face 🥺 and Dean lets it go but imagine what would happen if Dean ALSO made this face 🥺 instead of this face 😡 and then maybe cried.

#destiel dynamics #polls #this one is evil #🥺 battle

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Avoiding rambling mostly off topic on another person's post, so I'll just spill it all over here instead.

Sam had a tv from pretty much the moment they moved into the bunker. We see it in Pac-Man Fever when they all gather in Sam's room to watch Game of Thrones. In s11 during Cas' recovery period Sam gets him hooked on Netflix.

Which is actually fascinating in and of itself. For years Sam was the one with a tv. Just Sam. Not Dean, the tv and movie reference guy. And once Dean gets a tv, it's in a group space. Even when he's watching something on his laptop he does it in the library.

The only time we ever see Dean watch something in his room is in Mint Condition when he's full on depression caving (and presumably took the TV from the Dean cave) and hiding from the AW!hunters. Outside of that one instance he'll read or listen to music in his room, but he doesn't watch TV or movies.

And we don't know when exactly the Dean cave was created. Just that Sam didn't learn about it until s13, long after it had clearly been finished and in use. So why did Dean put it together? We've been shown that he's okay with watching on his laptop in the library. He clearly wants a separation between his own personal living area and the tv/entertainment area.

(Presumably because motel rooms are set up with tvs right at the end of the bed and he's not living in a motel anymore.)

But, Cas loves TV as much as Dean does and with as little discrimination about the exact programming. We've seen Cas happily watch infomercials and know he enjoys trashy talk shows. Outside of the beginning of s11 Cas just doesn't spend a lot of time at the bunker. He spends most of s9 and s10 doing his own thing/supervising Sam's secret project. S11 he was posseased by Lucifer and then kidnapped by Amara for the vast majority.

So, S12 is when he really starts staying for longer periods of time. S12 is when Dean is looking at potentially weeks of Cas hanging around and sitting in the library in the middle of the night is no longer appealing. S12 is the most likely option for building the Dean cave and the most likely reason is a comfortable place to hang out with just Cas. No Sam wandering in during the middle of a movie. No one complaining that sound travels pretty well from the library and asking them to keep it down.

The Dean cave was built to spend time with Cas. The only reason Sam ever found out about it is because of the circumstances of the eventual TV acquisition. The place was fully constructed and in use by the time Sam sees it. And there is no way Dean got all of that set up by himself, Cas had to have helped.

But the Dean Cave was used as a place to hang out with Cas. Yes, movies and TV shows on the laptop, probably on a table pulled up inbetween the recliners. But also Dean and Cas sharing a drink from the bar, playing fooseball, listening to music, maybe sitting silently reading together. It's the first place Cas goes to look for Dean. They spend time there.

#the deancave #movie nights

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it’s soooo important to me that dean made cas a mixtape on a cassette specifically. kids today don’t know what that all was about. you had to sit there and push record the SECOND a song came on and the push stop the SECOND the song was over. you had to know how many minutes and seconds each song was to make sure it would fit on the tape. he sat there on the floor and lovingly did that over and over and over so he could make cas a mixtape of his favorite songs. anyway i’m not ok

#the mixtape

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this shot is quite literally insane dude I could write a whole essay about it. The director was like “Oh hey guys let’s do a close up on their hands to emphasize the importance of this gesture (as if making someone a mixtape isn’t already romantic enough), their fingers just inches apart to show have close but yet far away they are, that they share these little moments of intimacy but the weight of the unspoken feelings lingers heavy in the air oh and yeah let’s also make it look like the god damn fucking Michelangelo painting.. but nothing to see here.”

#the mixtape