#Dead Man's Blood

[arcanespillo]

“Dead Man's Blood”  

Supernatural S1E20

#spn #supernatural #sam winchester #spn screencaps #jared padalecki #1x20 #dead man's blood #jeffrey dean morgan #john winchester

[shirtlesssammy]

Dean Winchester every day -- 20/326

Supernatural 1x20//Dean Man's Blood

#dean winchester #spn #supernatural #spn 1x20 #dead man's blood #deanwinchesterseries

[shinelikethunder]

#supernatural #spn s1 #skin #the benders #something wicked #dead man's blood #devil's trap #polls

[kmilart]

Inktober Day 1 — Dead Man's Blood

Aaand starting Inktober! This year I'm going try some different coloring technique. I am liking this aesthetic 🖤🤍

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day 1 | day 3 >>

#Inktober #inktober 2023 #day 1 #dead man's blood #vampiretober #vampire au #oc #carmin #oc art #digital art #original art #my art #my ocs #artists on tumblr #kmilart

[deanstudies101]

1x20, Dead Man's Blood

Critical theory: Familial relationships, particularly the eldest/youngest child. Who is more like John?

Discussion question(s): How do Sam and Dean’s relationships with John differ? How is similarity + difference presented, and how does this impact those relationships?

Key quotes: Luther the vampire, “Revenge isn't worth much if you end up dead.”

Discussion: John and Sam’s conversation—we begin to feel a bit bad for John, but then he admits that he stopped being a father and became a drill sergeant. John says that when Sam went off to college he was just worried about Sam being alone + vulnerable… but he quite happily leaves Dean alone. When together, he knows Dean will protect Sam… but who protects Dean? Dean stands up to John despite being terrified. We’re proud of him. When Sam pisses John off, John takes it out on Dean. All Dean does is try to get between the fighting, keep the family together. 

Star student: Iga, great analysis of the family dynamic 

#supernatural #1x20 #spn 1x20 #class notes #dead man's blood

[samsrowena]

absolutely cannot get over the way sam, who regularly yells at and gets directly up in their father's face, looks SO scared here when dean even just "talks back" to john

#he's definitely seen before what happens to dean if he steps out of line even once and i just #GOD. #spn.txt #caps #spn 1x20 #dead man's blood #sam winchester #dean winchester #john winchester's a+ parenting #spn rewatch

[hauntedpearl]

yk i get why they hired JDM to play negan in twd like. his smile is supposed to come off fatherly but it still looks creepy!! to me anyway!!!

#he just has such a scary face lmaoo #spn rewatch #dead man's blood

[castiel-ten]

throwback to when sam and dean thought vampires weren't real lmao

#supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #spn #oh the fucking irony #rip dean #spn 1x20 #dead man's blood #spn rewatch

[17yearslatewithlattes]

In an effort to keep myself sane in what’s clearly gonna be a series of John episodes I’m (mostly) condensing my John rage to one post. Just ignore me I’ve gotta get it out somewhere.

Every time I think I must be being too hard on John he makes the mistake of showing up on screen and I have to dig a deeper hole to bury my expectations for him

John: I need your help finding an incredibly dangerous magical gun.

Dean and Sam: Cool. Mind telling us it’s special powers so we know what to look out for:

John: No.

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Okay I know this is the men refusing to communicate show, but even by spn standards John’s categorical refusal to give his sons basic information relevant to cases and their baseline survival is genuinely starting to feel pathological at this point.

At first I thought I was just being mean and petty by theorizing that it was a control tactic to keep them dependent on him, but I’m struggling to see any other explanation at this point. 

Edit: Okay having watched the whole episode I suppose he’d say that absolute unquestioning obedience is the best guarantor of safety. If I put in the work of remembering that John was in the army I can dredge up some empathy through recognizing that this thinking was no doubt aggressively drilled into him. 

That being said, that kinda authoritarian thinking does SO much damage wherever it’s found, and when it’s coming from a parent? Yikes. And it cannot continue to function without a high degree of arrogance, self-aggrandizing, and tearing down of those ‘under’ you (all of which we see John engaging in constantly). In John’s case it also requires a certain fundamental lack of curiosity and refusal to learn when the results are constantly exposing the fundamental flaws in the approach.

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I will fully own that I’m being petty with this, but: I would like to observe that after however long searching for a way to kill the yellow-eyed demon, when John finds out about the colt it is %100 disconnected from any of the research he insists he’s doing. He pulled a letter found by his sons out of their hands and by pure chance it says ‘go here for the kill everything gun’. 

Wait now I say that out loud I stand by it, that’s a solid point in the ‘John is a shit hunter who builds up his own legend by belittling his sons and taking credit for their accomplishments column.’

Here’s the petty part: maybe if John was capable of maintaining any relationship at all Elkins would have just told him about the gun instead of John having to wait all these years to learn about it by accident (through his sons being smart and good at their jobs).

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Credit where it is due. I was pleasantly surprised by John’s talk with Sam about why he raised them that way and why he responded so horrifically to Sam leaving for college. There’s plenty I take issue with in the particulars of the speech, but when push comes to shove that was a lot closer to an apology and involved something a whole lot closer to genuine introspection than I expected.

He’s given enough reason to distrust him that I do think it may (at least in part) be a manipulation tactic; placating Sam so he’ll stick around until John’s had use of him. But I would like Sam to have that catharsis and will give John the benefit of the doubt unless he forces me to rescind it.

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However, just in case I was considering softening towards John, the first thing he does after being nice to Sam for five seconds is use Dean as bait. I would like to observe that this is the first possible opportunity John has had during the show for using Dean as bait on a hunt and he is TAKING it.

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I would like to note that John shows 0 interest in saving the vampire’s captives at any point of this episode. I mean he’d likely have gotten around it to (assuming he’d noticed they were there) but I don’t actually have any concrete reason to assume that without once again giving him the benefit of the doubt when he’s done nothing to earn it. Funny that

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Minimal credit time part 2: This time when his son’s save his life John actually admits it instead of making them feel like it was was their fault he was in trouble in the first place. And look, going back to the authoritarianism thing, admitting that their disobeying an order had a positive effect, even going so far as to change his mind about his insistence on going it alone that he’s been so didactic about really does seem like a big deal to him, and as infuriating as his behavior has been this episode, taken by itself this episode really looks like it could be a turning point towards John learning to be a better father and building a more positive relationship with his sons. 

Like really truly I like when characters learn and grow and I think it’d be awesome if Sam and Dean’s relationship with their father improved. If I hadn’t spent so much time in Supernatural I really think I’d be holding out a bit of hope for this man right now.

Unfortunately for my optimism on this point I have spent so much time on Supernatural tumblr

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I have Thoughts about John’s relentless “it’s because I care about you” excuse for every action he takes. However they are still formulating and I have a funny feeling that it’s gonna keep coming up in the next two episodes, so I’ll let those simmer for now.

#spn watch #1x20 #dead man's blood #supernatural

[deansamnatural]

#sam winchester #dean winchester #john winchester #supernatural #spn #sam dean and john #s1e20 #dead man's blood #mine

[arcanespillo]

“Dead Man's Blood”  

Supernatural S1E20

#spn #supernatural #sam winchester #spn screencaps #jared padalecki #john winchester #jeffrey dean morgan #that poem that goes you dont understand i have to leave everyday i have to leave #dead man's blood #1x20 #spn stills

[nochickflickpodcast]

Special sneak peek into our newest episode, in which we discuss SPN Season 01, Episode 20: Dead Man’s Blood

Listen HERE, or wherever you get your podcasts!

#supernatural #cw #spn #spnfamily #fancast #podcast #fandom #comedy #humor #discussion #social #meta #analysis #spn rewatch #spn meta #spn podcast #NCFM #01.20 #Dead Man's Blood #s01e20: dead man's blood

[shinelikethunder]

that sheila o'malley line in the Dead Man's Blood recap about john, the widower, looming over the vampire couple's marital bed, like a home invader or rapist or death omen...

idk, just thinking about it while watching sam in the s3 finale, stealing into a nursery and looming over a mother and her demon-touched child with a knife in his hand

(gently & pre-emptively trapping bad-faith responses to this situational echo under a cup and releasing them outside... no, it is not some attempt to Make A Point at sam's expense, the fucked-upness and struggle of it is narratively sexy to me. for the love of god. i think i've been around this fandom too long already if i feel the need to anticipate & articulate any of this.)

#meta #no rest for the wicked #dead man's blood #sheila o'malley #john winchester #sam winchester #spn s1 #spn s3 #supernatural #shine watches spn

[samjesswinchester]

Chapters: 18/? Fandom: Supernatural (TV 2005) Rating: Explicit Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death Relationships: Jessica Moore/Sam Winchester, Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester, Jessica Moore & Dean Winchester, Castiel & Jessica Moore, Sam Winchester & Everyone, Jessica Moore & Everyone Characters: Sam Winchester, Jessica Moore, Dean Winchester, Castiel, Cas - Character, Bobby Singer, John Winchester, Mary Winchester, Original Supernatural (TV) Character(s), Real Tyson Brady, Demon Possessing Tyson Brady, Luis (Supernatural: Pilot), Missouri Moseley Additional Tags: Love at First Sight, season one, Supernatural - Freeform, Stanford Era, Jessica Moore Lives, Hurt/Comfort, emotional af, sappy af, soulmate, Angst and Fluff and Smut Series: Part 2 of What Never Was But Should Have Been Summary:

It's early in the morning on November 2nd and, with Sam Winchester's *slightly* enhanced psychic abilities, he knows he and his brother need to get back to Stanford before his nightmare comes true. Even with getting there in time, learning to navigate the newly exposed family secret and its inevitable trauma will test Sam and Jess more than ever before.

#Sam Winchester #Jessica Moore #Dean WInchester #John Winchester #Supernatural #Season One #The CW #SPN #Sam and Jess #SamJess #Sam/Jess #Vampires #Dead Man's Blood #Writing #Fanfic #AO3

[honeypiecastiel]

Do I just skip the three last episodes of s1 and the first one of s2 so I don't have to deal with J*hn?

#spn rewatch #1x20 #dead man's blood

[dean-winchester-pussy]

just finished 1x20, "dead man's blood". definitely hate john in this one. he really doesn't know how to communicate, does he? or do does, he just chooses not to, because he's an absolute dick. dean is not ruining the car!!! leave him alone!!! shut the fuck up!!!! i am gonna steal john's truck and keep it for myself though, that's such a nice truck. and i'm gonna run his ass over with it. that girl's got stockholm syndrome but i can see an enemies to lovers between her and kate. great job. spend the kids' college funds on ammo, that's a great thing to do with it (sarcasm). "you know what to do" oh no this is when john sends dean for bait because that's what he did all the time when they were younger. i've seen posts about this and its sexual undertones and i am wringing john's neck right now actually. there's a difference in treating someone like your child and treating em like a child, stop twisting sam's words you asshole. this is going to cause a lot of good argument material for jaime with john.

#dean watches spn #1x20 #dead man's blood