#dean and lamp dance dream

[lucyvsky]

genuinely. and honest to god i mean this. what the fuck is going on this episode

#everything has felt like a fever dream. just 20 minutes ago dean was dancing with a lamp and sam had collapsed on the floor #spn.liveblogs

[uh-ohspaghettio]

Yeah and at one point Dean gets told by a werewolf dentist that he has a shit ton of cavities because he’s no longer God’s special princess and he needs to be put under to get them all fixed so he has a vivid anesthesia dream where he’s doing a tap number and…hey where are you going? I haven’t even gotten to the part about the speculated symbolism of the lamp he’s dancing with!

#spn #supernatural #dean winchester #lampgate #garth fitzgerald iv #spn 15x10 #lampstiel

[clairenatural]

hey sorry to ask you but what is the destiel lamppost thing? if u know what it is

Hi anon!!! I wasn't ignoring you I just wanted to be able to sit down and type out the lore.

So "why lamp"/the destiel lamp thing starts with 15x10, The Heroes' Journey, in which Dean and Sam are stripped of the luck/protections that being written as protagonists gives them by Chuck (very meta) and Dean ends up needing cavities filled.

Garth gives him laughing gas for the procedure, during which Dean has a dream of a black and white 50s style dance sequence. It takes place in the bunker and while initially it's Dean dancing with Garth, eventually Garth leaves and Dean runs over to pick up a lamp from the corner of the room to dance with. Here's the whole thing:

But once it's Dean and the lamp, the dance becomes markedly more romantic - he's dancing with the lamp as a partner, not like the tap dancing he and Garth do side-by-side.

Also important to note that they're dancing to "Let's Misbehave," which is about sex and also was written by Cole Porter, who was gay. This is a really good breakdown of the dance itself, the significance of the song and Cole Porter and its connections to old queer Hollywood.

At the end of the episode, Dean sees Bess and Garth dancing in their living room through the window and says "You know, I always thought I could be a good dancer if I wanted to be."

This is pretty clearly associating the dream sequence, and Dean dancing with a lamp, as about Dean longing for a partner and therefore the lamp as a stand-in for that partner.

NOW. Meta was written as soon as this episode aired with people linking the lamp to Cas, and there has continued to be much better meta than I can write here - this one is in-depth and connects it to themes across the seasons and Dean's years-long character arc. "Cas is Lamp" even has its own superwiki page.

But besides all the normal meta deancas reasons and the fact that this comes at a time when Dean's character arc had been building both to him wanting to settle down with someone AND that someone being Cas (this is the episode right after The Trap and Dean's "I should have stopped you/of course I forgive you" prayer), Cas (and angels broadly) is associated with light and lamps throughout the series, perhaps most iconically in 4x16.

So, after 15x18, "the lamp thing" was something frequently cited and that we held onto as another thing they'd dropped alluding to (nay, ensuring - because they'd surely somehow have to wrap up Dean's own arc of wanting a partner to settle down with) a happy deancas endgame where Cas is rescued and they live happily ever after.

And then. 15x20 happened. And "why lamp" took off as part of a long list of "if they were just never going to mention Cas again, let alone resolve the confession or this very key part of Dean's story arc of wanting to settle down, why did they include [long list of things that make no sense with the ending we got]." Why lamp has become shorthand for a long list of missing links and loose ends and things that just don't add up. If deancas wasn't going to be the happy endgame, then why lamp. Why did they drop so many clues and work up to a very clear resolution for Dean's character arc if they were just going to drop it. Why lamp. It's one of those things that will haunt us because we will never get an answer. Okay grandma, let's get you to bed. But why lamp.

#ok im assuming this is what you meant by destiel lamppost thing lol #if it wasnt im sorry and behind on the times #but there is another anon in my inbox asking about why lamp so hopefully this helps them! #answered #anonymous #long post

[hauntedwitch04]

HALLOWEEN PARTY

Hi and welcome for the second edition of my halloween party. The first one was very liked, so I thought of making a new one this year. Hope you enjoy it.

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DAY 1: “Take my sweater, I love you and i don’t want you to transform into a popsicle” with Remus Lupin 

DAY 2: “You really did this for me?” "I made one for every single person I love, but your is the one I did first because you were the first I thought about." with Steve Harrington 

DAY 3: “Please kill that fucking spider” “Love, you know it’s fake right?” with Cassian 

DAY 4: “Eat some more soup, it will make you feel better. This is my James mother’s recipe.” “Fuck, love this is delicious.” with Sirius Black 

DAY 5: “I don’t need paradise, mine is right here with you, cooking a pie while you dance and sing an old rock song, dreaming about our future” with Dean Winchester 

DAY 6: “I got some leaves on my way here for you, they are really pretty” with Andrew Garfield 

DAY 7: “Love I swear if you light another candle our house may go on fire.” with Nyx Acheron 

DAY 8: “I have a skeleton in my closet.” “Everyone have them, love.” “No I mean literally” with James Potter 

DAY 9: “Did you really gift me an owl?” “You love the little one from Harry Potter, so i thought it would be a good gift.” with modern!Rhys 

DAY 10:  “Sweety, we are too old to play trick-or-treating.” “That’s a lie, you are never too old for it.” with Regulus Black 

DAY 11: “Look what I got from the shop down the street” “Another coat, seriously?” with Sam Winchester 

DAY 12:  “Your pumpkin is making heart eyes to mine.” with Eris Vanserra 

DAY 13:  “Oh my God, please save me from this ghost” “Love your Ghostbuster is coming” with Ben Barnes 

DAY 14: “Some friendships are like candles: they burn bright for a while and then they die because of a little wind.” with Azriel 

DAY 15: “There is someone there, you think we have to help him” “It’s a scarecrow” “I think I just had a heartache.” with Sirius Black 

DAY 16: “I love this oil lamp. How did you know it?” “I love you, and I know you, so I know you are into witchy things.” with Dean Winchester 

DAY 17: “Look mommy, a fox. Why are you crying mommy?” “Because it reminds me of your daddy.” with Eris Vanserra 

DAY 18: “You know we are not in a crime book right.” “Don’t ruin my moment. My time to be Sherlock Holmes has arrived.” with Sam Winchester 

DAY 19: “I’m not gonna watch another fucking horror movie with you” “Don’t worry darling, you have your hero by your side.” “Love, I don’t have to remind you that you are the one screaming the most right?” with Remus Lupin

DAY 20: “We are not gonna bring that black cat home.And don’t even try to make me the puppy eyes, this time won’t work. I’m over your spell witch.” with Nyx Acheron 

DAY 21: “What are these rocks?” “They are runes stones.” “Babe, since when you are a witch.” with Timothee Chamalet 

DAY 22: “We are not gonna watch Bride Corpse another time.” “You love that movie too, dont’ lie to me moose.” “Love, we already watched it like five times in two days!” with Sam Winchester 

DAY 23: “I never saw someone loving the moon like you do.” “You know what I love most about the moon? It reminds me of you, of your eyes.” with Rhys 

DAY 24: “Why are there three pumpkins? We always make pumpkin, one for you and one for me.” “Well I want to practice since, from next year we are gonna be three.” with Steve Harrington 

DAY 25: “Wow, what is that on your neck? Oh my god, it’s a bite! Did a vampire bite you? Are you going to be like Dracula? Oh my god, oh my God! That’s so cool!” “No man, another animal bit me: my girlfriend.” with Regulus Black 

DAY 26: “You are never gonna touch another drop of alcohol in front of me, you look possessed.” with James Potter

DAY 27: “Tell me a spooky story” “Love, if you don’t sleep another night because I scared you, your mum is gonna kill me.” with Cassian 

DAY 28: “Oh my god, you are bleeding!” “Love calms down, it's fake.” “You are a horrible person.” with Azriel 

DAY 29: “Boo!” “Fuck you” with Dean Winchester 

DAY 30: "Love, why are you crying?” “Neil didn’t deserve it.” “We already talked about this: you can’t watch that movie alone.” “But it’s one of my favorites.” with Remus Lupin

DAY 31: Halloween Party with College AU!Every fandom

#hauntedwitch04's writing #acotar x reader #imagine acotar #azriel x reader #marauders x reader #rhysand x reader #cassian x reader #nyx acheron x reader #regulus black x reader #sirius black x reader #james potter x reader #steve harrington x reader #eris x reader #supernatural x reader #sam winchester x reader #dean winchester x reader #remus lupin x reader

[birdyboycas]

Season 15 of Supernatural is all over the place, one episode will revolve around them trying to kill God, and then the next one is about Dean having a dream where he tap dances with a lamp that may or may not represent Castiel while he's under anesthesia getting 17 cavities fixed because he got pulled off of God's healthcare plan

#spn #supernatural #spn season 15 #spn 15x10

[malicmalicwriter]

WRITING PATTERNS TAG GAME!!

Tagged by the amazing @father-salmon

Rules: list the first line(s) of your last 10 posted fics and see if there's a pattern!

1. Mail Order Russian Alpha

“I am sooo done putting up with you,” Sera scoffed, sending Dean one of her death glares.

2. Maitasuna

The Land of Ehiztari sits West.

3. Monster of my dreams

Dodging bullets in the forest while looking over an injured tree-lined creature was not how Dean pictured his first solo hunt to go.

4. Wishes do come true

Dean stared at the lamp he got for his bedroom two weeks ago.

5. No such thing as 'too old'

“Okay, never thought I’d say this, but I am too old for this,” Dean grunts out as his knees start to protest. 

6. We are so trying that next time

“Dean– Mmmng. Are you…sure…about this?” Cas said, most words swallowed by his boyfriend's kisses.

7. Single bells

He notices the guy when he goes to the bar to get the next round of drinks for him and his friends. (CAS POV)

8. Fill my heart with love

It’s been over two months since the guy started showing up at the bakery. (DEAN POV)

9. Stab me senseless

When Anna decided to fall, she did it because she saw the corruption of her own kind.

10. Lap dance

“Wh-what are you doing?”

Aside for writing mostly Dean’s POV, I am not sure I have patterns, but I'll let you be the judge of that.

Gonna tag some peeps now, let's see...

@macy2me @reelnaturalfreak @anyreiart @hexentaenzerin @wolfiepyxie @imbiowaresbitch @mslilylashes @kingdumbass @hectatess @zationao3 @casblackfeathers @blondie20000 @dizzybunny-fan

(Consequently, all these fics can be found on my AO3 profile MalicMalic.😊)

#dean winchester #ao3 fanfic #castiel #fanfic #fanfiction #supernatural #tag game #writers on tumblr #writers

[captain039]

PART 5 Craving the wild side

Dean Winchester x reader

Warnings: AOB, mentions of medical things, mentions of needles, mentions of abuse, feral alphas, light swearing, angst, hurt/comfort, mental health issues, sexual things, eventual smut, death

Summary: after being rescued from a police raid feral alpha Dean Winchester his placed in the rehab process where he’s a struggled case till you come along. Having his feral ness cloud over his emotions and stop him feeling it’s hard to get through till him till dreams enter his mind and yours connecting you both and doctor/patient becomes more and harder.

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You went to bed early that night, too exhausted to do anything else. You fell asleep quickly which was a first also.

“Dean!” You yelled wandering around the farm trying to find the alpha.

“Dean!” You repeated huffing as Champ barked at your side.

“Go find him you have a better nose than me” you huffed but Champ just tilted his head.

“Good dog” you chuckled patting his head as you headed to the barn. You heard loud metal music and realised why he wasn’t answering. You saw him bopping his head and sang as he worked on his newly brought project a 67 impala.

“Hey!” You yelled and be turned grinning as he sang louder while pointing to you.

“I was calling for you!” You called over the music as he just continued his singing. You crossed your arms and raised an eyebrow as he danced his way to the radio and turned it down.

“What’s up?” He asked grinning.

“Mum wants to go to that new restaurant in town tonight, thought we could ask Sam and his mate too?” you said looking at the new shiny engine he put in.

“I’m cool with that” he said wiping his hand on a rag.

“It’s nice” you commented referring to the engine.

“Isn’t it?” He grinned like proud father.

“Ok Mr big head” you teased and he smirked. He grabbed you suddenly and tickles your ribs making you squeal in laughter as you tried to get him to stop.

“Dean!” You laughed as he kept his attack on.

“Stop!” You said breathlessly as he finally did but kept his arms around your waist. He smiled at you pressing a brief kiss to your nose. You giggled softly finally controlling your breathing from his tickle attack. He had soft eyes and a loving smile as he looked at you.

“What?” You asked chuckling softly.

“I love you” he said softly and you smiled.

“I love you too” you said.

Your world changed suddenly, now at the restaurant in a nice black dress, your mum laughing with Dean and Sam about something. You laughed with them too as you enjoyed your food. Dean was being immature making you slap his thigh but he just grinned at you. Dinner finished and desert came out the waiter smiling.

“This desert literally ascends you” he said and you smiled before looking to Dean who was frozen.

“De?” You asked softly as Sam called his name too. Time whizzed by and Dean was attacking the waiter, punching him to Death as you and Sam tried to pry him off. His eyes were lit up he had fangs like a monster as he snarled.

Dean jolted away, sweat covering his body as his eyes darted around the room. He flicked on the lamp by his bed and ran hands down his face. His doctor was always in his dreams a happy life turned carnage just to remind him of how messed up he was. He swore he could always feel her in his arms, he could never smell her though but he imagined the apple pie smell would suit her. He was struggling between mindsets of wanting to blank in feral state of dealing with his emotions as the doctors put it. He had no hope here, he lost hope as soon as his mother put him up on that market and ran with the money. He protected Sammy though, got him to an orphanage hopefully. He sighed sitting up in his bed, back against the cool wall. He was used to not having clothes on, he got beaten by some owners if he did. When he was younger the thought made him cringe but now, now it was like a layer of sand paper on his skin. Despite the foam mattress the rehab provided he often stayed on the floor, after the fight today though he assumed he was placed in his bed. It felt odd having some form of comfort under him.

He thought back to the fight, the only time he ever went feral and fought was in the pits or dungeons of rich omegas had under their houses or private islands. He’d been moved around a lot no owner happy with him, too tall, too big, too small, wrong scent, wrong eye colour, wrong hair colour, whatever they wanted to pick on. Course when he did get an owner he was thankful for the roof over his head instead of a crusty shelter.

He remembers the alpha police officer shooting down his handler before getting him and five other alphas out of the shelter and into rehab. He vaguely remembers the isolation and medical injections, he may have broken a few noses and bones before they made him unconscious. He was moved her two weeks later, for the first week the beta that came him made his feral state present more and he zoned out. The second beta he attacked a few times, they reminded him of a fight pit owner. Then came you, he saw you through the glass first before you went into his room on the first day. You sat down against the wall pillow under you as you tapped at your tablet. He felt strange towards you, hated that he couldn’t catch your scent by whatever implant these doctors had. He hated not being able to read you quickly. He didn’t mean to jump you but the moment you asked about his past he was on you. You weren’t overly scared, more worried as you stared at him, his hand able to easily crush your wind pipe. He could hear the guards but didn’t care as he pressed his nose to your scent gland. If he ever did this to an owner he’d be beaten and thrown in a cage for a week. He couldn’t smell you and his rage built, he was frustrated and growled that’s when a shock went through him and to you. His fear went through the roof as you jolted and he rammed the guard off you in order to protect you from more harm. When you left he knew you wouldn’t come back, but you did. You kept coming back each day talking about your farm first, you dog Champ and your occasionally your mother before going into his questions and past. He usually shut off for those, eyes glazed over in his numb feral state. Many omega owners called his broken or strange by his ability to go feral but not attack or rage at anyone and just numbly sit still. He’d been poked and rested on many times with no answer but he didn’t care. Then the dreams started, feverish dreams that had him panting and pining, waiting for you to walk in. He knew you had them too, perhaps the same dreams even. Your cheeks would be redder, you’d fidget more and avoid his eyes. When he attacked that guard he was in a feral rage, he hadn’t seen you that morning and his alpha needed it. When you appeared it was a relief and he almost collapsed on you. You had pulled him out of a feral state and he realised what he had done. He cried on you he felt broken down far too gone and craved your touch. He wanted to be one with you, let you absorb him. Then he felt the collar go on and saw your possessiveness kick in before one of the officers took you away. He saw your body exhausted as you walked away, he’d affected you too.

He hated himself for what he did and didn’t eat or drink what was given him. He avoided his medicine too till he was forced to take it. Then he fell asleep had that dream and awoke. His body once again craved his omega.

Next part ->

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@spnfamily-j2

@globetrotter28

@deans-spinster-witch

#x reader #aob #au #feral au #alpha Dean #Dean x reader #Sammy #alpha dean x omega reader

[alsaurus-loves-dean]

jackles learned to tap dance because of lamp. why lamp? we know why lamp (thanks dj <3). do you think jensen ackles learned to tap dance without knowing why lamp? do you think the guy who IS dean winchester learned to tap dance for a very long DREAM SEQUENCE without understanding why lamp?

once you understand why lamp, the jackles long con unfolds before you. why atomic monsters. why last call. why any of season 15. jackles knows.

and jackles is now the one making spn

#anyone can say spnwin isn't spn but I don't deal in pedantry I simply live in reality #why lamp #jackles long con

[angelsdean]

ok pasting my tags from this post into it’s own post because i need to really talk about this now like. dean's reaction to seeing Bess and Garth dance with each other in their kitchen is to say, “you know i always thought i could be a good dancer if i wanted to be” and...and something i’m only JUST realizing as i type this is that he doesn’t say “could have been” he says “i could be, if i wanted to” he’s realizing !!! he’s realizing he could have that !! in the episode where god has checked out of the building he realizes for the first time that...if he wants something, he can have it. there’s nothing stopping him from having it. 

and THEN. sam says, “you were awesome at the macarena.” past tense. like there’s no future. no room for change. and then, so my tags. 

#ok but this metaphor like. he wanted to dance for real he wanted to dance from the heart he wanted to feel the music and let it move him#and Sam says. well you were really great at dancing this one dance that is just pre-set moves and following instructions#like !!!!! SCREAMING BITING KILLIING#he just wanted to be in love and have this simple life#and it’s like. welp u were able to do a good imitation u were able to follow simple steps ok#which is like. all his mediocre and failed attempts at normal relationships. his time w Lisa just going thru the motions#when what he really wanted was someone (Cas) to just sway with and dance spontaneously with in their living room !!!!

it’s like. he just wants to dance with somebody. dancing is the domestic, dancing is love, dancing is the life he wants. and he thinks, maybe i could.....and sam says, well, you tried once and were ok at following that dance with the pre-set moves. which also.....in a narrative all about choice and free will and breaking out of the narrative that’s trying to dictate their every move...saying you were good at the dance that tells you exactly what to do is...well. and on top of THAT he says it DISMISSIVELY (unaware little brother sammy strikes again) 

and dean frowns :( “dick” yea sammy why >:( 

anyways so, his dancing dream. he first learns the steps from garth (garth who has the domestic life he wants), he starts off modeling garth. but then he breaks free and does his own thing !!!! and then he dances with LAMP (CAS). and then he’s dancing for himself. it’s his dance now. and that’s what he wants !!! that’s his dream. his own life, his life w/ someone he loves, his own dance. him making all the moves now. 

#not to be sam crit sjkfjsdkf #im not really but. i am sure bonking him on the head for saying that !! #spn 15x10 #vic.txt #dean studies

[thatsalrightprettymama]

IMAGINE MEETING ELVIS AT A SHOW.

A/N: Hello again! I hit a bit of a block with finishing my one shot, I decided maybe trying to write another of these while I take a pause on my WIP. I hope you enjoy this one! Also it's not proof read, and it's written on mobile.

You swear when your best friend Dolly told you that she got tickets for you two to see Elvis, that you would name your firstborn after her. Hell she could have your first born.

The day of the show, you and Dolly get ready at her house before going to the venue. Getting there hours early, there's still a small crowd, but not big enough you two won't make it up front.

After of hours of waiting, it's finally time. You and Dolly both squeal in excitement, and rush towards the stage with the crowd. The whole audience is buzzing, waiting for THE Elvis.

When he steps on stage you swear your heart stills, as your screams join the crowd's deafening roar. You can't believe your eyes as you watch him strut to the microphone.

You and Dolly jump, scream, and dance as he sings. You watch him mesmerized as he performs. Though when he starts to head over towards the part of the stage you're near, you briefly wonder if you're gonna faint. There he was right in front of you, and when he winked flashing that smirk, you swooned with the other girls.

With wide eyes you watch the surreal scene, your excitement, nerves, and lust storming inside you as Elvis dances and thrusts Infront of your section. Tranced you watch his tall form dance and command the stage.

Then it seemed like the earth quaked and stood still when he started to reach out back to the crowd and touched your hand. The whole show was like a fever dream.

After the show you and Dolly walk out the venue dazed by the whole night. On the sidewalk you two make it through the crowd going to the diner around the corner.

What you didn't expect was Elvis planned to use that as a hiding place after getting away from the crowd. Going into the diner, you sit at the table in the corner. As you two begin to look at the menu and talk, a group of guys come in. Happening to look up from your menu you happen to see him. Your eyes slightly widen and to your surprise you see Elvis smile and wink at you.

Then to further your shock, him and his band came and sat at the table near Dolly and yours. Stuttering slightly from nerves you and Dolly excitedly answer yes when they ask if they can move to your table with you after a few moments.

You swear you might just stroke when Elvis scoots into the seat next to you. His presence electrifying next to you as he smiles at you. The table begins to all talk together, when Elvis flirtatiously tells you that he remembers seeing you in the crowd tonight.

His guitarist ends up flirting with Dolly, making her become a blushing mess like you. Basking in the attention you focus on the man next to you. You two end up talking about music, and your shared love for Dean Martin and B.B King, between flirting.

Sadly, though when you glanced at the clock and noticed how late it had gotten, you knew that you and Dolly had to go home. While your sister Janice promised to cover for you to stay late, she could only do so much.

When you bring it up Daisy, you both sigh and begin to tell the boys goodbye. Ending the perfect dream of an evening, before they ask for your numbers. Giddily you both give your respective guy your number.

-As you go to pay for your and Dolly's food, Elvis comes up and asks if he can walk you home. While his guitarists walks Dolly home. Glancing back at Dolly at the table and seeing her nod, you say yes.

As the southern rock 'n ' roller walked you home, you somehow became more smitten by him. Hanging on every word you listened to his deep voice drip with that southern accent. As you he walked you home you continued to talk and flirt.

Getting closer to your house you stop him at a lamp post a few doors down to say goodbye, so you could sneak into your room. He chuckles and calls you Trouble before leaning down and pressing his soft plump lips to yours, and after a brief moment of shock you kiss him back.

Breaking apart you swear you could get drunk on his kiss. He smirks and moves a piece of your hair behind your ear. Telling you he's had a great night; he tells you to look for EP to call before watching you walk to your house.

Sneaking in, successfully thankfully, you get into bed and just lay there thinking about the whole night. As you start to fall asleep with a smile, you can't help but wondering if and when EP will call.

#Austin Butler #Austin Butler Elvis #Elvis 2022 #Austin Elvis Imagine #Elvis Imagine

[prettybumblebees]

Every few months I remember the tapdancing Dean scene from that one s15 ep and it just fuels my rage towards the writers by a thousand…

because it’s all fun and games until this part of the choreography…

Where we’re meant to understand that Dean is trying to find himself throughout this scene, where he is alone throughout the dance. Except, he doesn’t really want to be alone. Sure, he wants to “entertain” (take care of) others in his life, but he also wants someone to do it WITH. He uses the lamp to demonstrate his want to find someone to dance with, that is willing to be at his side as an equal when shit goes down.

This isn’t just shits n giggles either, there is actual meaning behind this dream sequence, or else it wouldn’t be there. Dean spends his entire solo choreography dancing around this lamp, blowing kisses. He wants more to life than what he’s had so far, but he can only show that yearning when his guard is down (in his dream).

So for the writers to then, 12 episodes later, throw his life away the same way it was “always supposed to end”, alone with no other support system than his brother, doesn’t demonstrate lazy writing, but rather shows the complete dismissal of years of character building up to that moment.

This is all to say that throughout even the dumbest parts of spn, i.e. this DRUG INDUCED TAPDANCING DREAM SEQUENCE, building blocks for Dean’s character growth, including a yearning for love and stability, has been constructed. I get that the finale wanted to make callbacks to s1, I really do, but you can make them without forcing characters into the same box they were in 15 years ago. People change so much throughout their lifetimes, and it’s hard to believe Dean, who has clearly shown he wanted more to life, was content with ending it how he always thought it would.

I just find it sad that whoever in the network decided on this finale probably didn’t even care about the emotional importance behind this growth. They only cared about continuing this “all American man” Dean persona, finishing the story with a nice bow on top and promoting further CW content *cough* Walker *cough*.

#Quick sleeping pills-induced rant #sorry if this makes no sense #english isn't my first language #please forgive me #anyways #i laughed #i cried #i screamed #time to read a fix-it fic before going to bed #spn

[prwizard]

Chalachitram National Film Festival: a grand celebration of art and heritage

Film festivals have emerged as a significant platform for the preservation and exhibition of heritage. One such, the Chalachitram National Film Festival, even has heritage as its motto and central theme. The 7th edition commenced with the ceremonial lighting of the sacred lamp by Piyush Roy, dean of film studies at RV University. Festival Director Utpal Datta expressed his elation at witnessing the festival's profound influence in inspiring the new generation of filmmakers to delve into their rich cultural history and weave both fictional and factual narratives around it. For, “the soul of a civilization is its heritage,” emphasized Christopher Dalton, the artistic director.

Advisory board member Rahul Rawail shared invaluable insights from his days in the film industry, offering guidance and techniques to budding filmmakers. Following this enlightening session, he unveiled Prantik Deka’s book 'Past Revisited,' a literary exploration of the cinema of Assamese. Prior to the screening of films, the curtains rose to a dance video interpretation by Prerona Bhuyan of Vande Mataram. The non-competition panorama included the premiere screening of Prabahini, directed by the VP of the Chalachitram Society, Prabal Khaund.

Festival Director Utpal Datta felicitates Piyush Roy

A 3-member Chalachitram Grand Jury conferred the Best Film award upon Dhrubajit Baishya’s Kameez, which jury member Piyush Roy declared to be “a celebration of solitude that creates empathy in space and time lapse.” Biswajit Das won the Best Director award for March, while Gunjan Kashyap's exceptional screenplay in Home Brews: Struggles for a Tradition was honored with the Best Screenplay award. Rajveer Pardeshi’s performance in Chirbhog was recognized with a Jury Special Mention for Best Child Actor. Sumedha Bhattacharyya's mesmerizing visuals in Mau: The Spirit Dreams of Cheraw earned her the Best Cinematographer award, lauded by jury member Shiladitya Bora for its surreal imagery.

The Best Film from NE India Award was conferred upon Pranab Sarmah’s Mukha: the Mask. The film, says jury member Meghachandra Kongbam, “highlights the rich tradition of Mukha art in Assam which was introduced by the 15th century saint and cultural icon Shrimanta Shankardev in the performance of Bhaona, a form of dance drama depicting popular stories from Hindu Mythology and gives its uniqueness in the world of the Mask arts with captivating visuals. The film covers the craftsmanship of the artisans making the masks and individual efforts on the popularization of the art, even to attract the foreign tourists. This film will motivate the audience to ensure the flourishing of the rare beautiful art forms of the country.”

In addition to the Grand Jury Awards, House of Illusions, an indie film studio founded to encourage emerging filmmakers, set up an independent jury comprising sound designer Debajit Changmai and RV University professors Meera Baindur and Deepa Ganesh. Hira Das’ Kaankhowa, a text on ethics that lays bare the evils of collective oppression, won the House of Illusions Award for Best Short Fiction Film by a Woman Director. And Bobbeeta Sharma’s Jnanada: Reflections of Light and Shade, which reveals the early years of the cinema of Assamese in an autobiographical tone through the telling of the life story of its first actress, Jnanada Kakati, won the House of Illusions Award for Best Documentary by a Woman Director.

ALL AWARDS

♣  Best Film — Kameez, Director-producer: Dhrubajit Baishya

♣  Best Film from NE India — Mukha: The Mask, Director-producer: Pranab Sarmah

♣  Best Director — Biswajit Das (March)

♣  Best Screenplay — Gunjan Kashyap, (Home Brews: Struggles for a Tradition)

♣  Best Cinematography — Sumedha Bhattacharyya, (Mau: The Spirit Dreams of Cheraw)

♣  Jury Special Mention for Best Child Actor, Rajveer Pardeshi (Chirbhog)

♣  House of Illusions Award for Best Short Fiction Film by a Woman Director

Kaankhowa — Director: Hira Das

Producers: Naren Das, Puspalata Roy, & Rachit Passi

♣  House of Illusions Award for Best Documentary by a Woman Director

Jnanada : Reflections of Light and Shade

Director-producer: Bobbeeta Sharma

About Chalachitram  

Chalachitram was founded in 2017, primarily to explore the possibilities of cinema as a weapon to create awareness; and to exhibit the uniqueness and richness of our heritage, our pride.

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[youre-a-cute-assbutt]

everyone always asks “why lamp” but no one ever asks “how lamp” :/

#in cas u were wondering #LOL CASE AUTOCORRECTED TO CAS OK OK #WELL IN CASE U WERE WONDERING THE LAMP IS NOT OK #supernatural #dean winchester #destiel #castiel #spn #deancas #jensen ackles #spn spoilers #misha collins #destiel endgame #spn s15 #spn 15x20 #carry on #spn ending #spn finale season #spn series finale #dean and lamp dance dream #why lamp

[sidecarghost]

My Lamp Meta for Dean

Notes: written by Spn fan that can’t meta my way out of a pun

After references to “Why Lamp?” have turned up a bunch on my dashboard, I looked up the YouTube video (added below), to refresh my memory on it. I then created a few GIFs to show the sequence.

And here are my thoughts, and if anyone read the lamp sequence differently that is totally valid!

The Dream

During 15x10, Dean has a dream tap dance sequence with Garth. Then Garth disappears, and Dean starts dancing with a lamp. There might be other things to think about in this scene (and I will mention them briefly), but the lamp seems to be the big deal, so that is where I focused my analysis.

Overall the Dream is Coded as Dean discovering his Bisexuality

I watched the dream sequence and considered it in the context of a Destiel shipper with the the understanding that Dean is attracted to men, but still only experienced with female partners. Prior to 15x10, Dean was a closeted bisexual, and although he gave indications of attraction to men he would vocally deny any attraction existed. The dream is where Dean no longer represses his sexuality. Even Dean’s outfit isn’t monosexual, he wears a white top and black bottom because he doesn’t need to choose between them.

This dream is Dean freely being bisexual while the laughing gas has him out.

Dean enters the stage questioning

Dean experiments with his close friend Garth and enjoys it

Dean grows confident

Dean chooses to perform with a male-coded partner

Dean finishes himself off on the bunker’s map table.

Lamp Dance is a Sex Act with Male Coded Partner

I think the part of the dance with the lamp was meant to be a classy, ambiguous representation of a blow job, but not sure that it objectively supports Destiel. The lamp could be representative of anyone.

Breakdown of Lamp as Dean’s Sex Act with Male Coded Partner

A lamp shines in the corner of the bunker.

Dean approaches the lamp.

He pulls the lamp out of where it had been tucked away, and looks over the lamp from all angles.

The lamp has a long, hard, cylindrical pole, and Dean firmly grips the circumference of that pole.

Dean makes an appreciative flourish with his hand along the length of that pole.

Dean likes the way the pole feels in his grip.

He moves in circles around the pole, and Dean and the pole bob up and down in rhythm to his movements.

His grip on the pole goes from loose to tight as he opens and closes his fingers.

The pace quickens as they get closer to finishing.

Dean adjusts his angle on the pole, so he can take up more of it.

Then Dean finishes and sets the lamp in the center of the stage.

He runs his hand appreciatively up the pole’s length one last time.

He blows the lamp a kiss and leaves

Even though, I think the lamp does not confirm Dean’s unsaid feelings for Castiel, I do think the whole tap dance dream sequence does confirm Dean as bisexual.

I guess having Dean dream of actually fucking guys would give away too much of the plot, so we have a tap dance and the song about misbehaving. And giving someone a blow job in the bunker foyer does seem like a social faux pas, so misbehavior seems accurate.

Summary

As a Destiel shipper, I would say watching Dean and his lamp fantasy is proof he’s sexually attracted to men if we didn’t already have enough proof of that.

But nothing in that dream specifically relates to Castiel. And I don’t think that’s a bad thing. It’s a good idea for Dean to explore his sexuality on his own. He is not turning bi for Castiel, he was always bisexual and is having a fantasy about sex with guys. I think it’s a good message that Dean is bi because it’s natural for him. Castiel was left out of the dream on purpose, because this was Dean facing his own true feelings, desires, and sexuality.

Like I said previously, I do not claim any kind of skill at reading subtext or meta or symbolism. But I don’t think it was an accident that this episode had the Winchester’s turned non-special and normal, and it also had the most queer subtext in the show’s run. By having the Winchesters so mundane and normal I believe the show is sprinkling the messages “queers are valid” and “bisexuals are valid” into the subtext.

And if anyone reads the dream differently from me that is valid too!

#Destiel #Spn meta #Destiel meta #spn 15x10 #dean and lamp dance dream

[sharkselfies]

house m.d. 7x15 // supernatural 15x10 

#supernatural #house md #housenatural #both of these shows really said yes we are going to make our lead actor learn to dance for this three minute highly symbolic dream sequence #except in house they followed through on the candy symbolism #and in supernatural we never did find out why lamp #anyway you really have to watch both videos to get the full experience #because taking screenshots during dance sequences is HARD it’s all motion blurred #i couldn’t get a single shot of dean dancing with the cane or up the stairs that wasn’t blurry so you must simply see it for yourself

[afannishknitter]

Let’s misbehave...

I’m sure back when 15x10 aired, I was not alone in this, but readers, when I saw this scene, I screamed. Like, alarm the neighbors kind of screaming. This is - and it’s 100% subtextual but there is no earthly way this could be overinterpreted - a clear statement that the writers want to give us “canon Destiel”. (If anything it was underinterpreted by the audience - on Twitter, you could tell who was not used to examining subtext because they were very confused about why it was there.)

We’re seeing, essentially, a drug trip - Garth has just given Dean a good dose of laughing gas, and sends him on his way. “Let the gas do its thing... everything’s fine...” So (in the way film handles these things) we are accessing Dean’s subconscious, perhaps things he hides from himself - but Garth is reassuring us, we’re gonna like this.

The scene is shot in black and white, to old-timey music, in old-fashioned costumes. It evokes the Motion Picture Production Code (or the “Hays Code”), a semi-voluntary (in that you could ignore it but no reputable theater would show your film if you did) system of censorship designed to impose moral standards on film. Among the things forbidden? “Excessively lustful” sexual content - which means filmmakers got really good at finding ways to express sexual content via visual euphemism. Ways like watching fireworks together. Ways like... dancing. Hold that thought.

Dean is venturing into some territory that’s uncomfortable for him. He’s not sure what he’s doing. But Garth appears and offers to demonstrate. Narratively, Garth has been used to show us what Dean could be if he would get out of his own way: he’s well-adjusted, content, confident without being overconfident, unafraid of showing the world his internal softness, unashamed of what and who he loves. Garth is telling Dean: Drop the front, let the real you shine - and then he vanishes, and Dean tosses the prop away; he can trust himself, he’s got this.

He dances around the room by himself for a bit, but he’s looking for something -  a partner. (Dean has been dissatisfied with the ‘unattached drifter’ lifestyle for quite a while - he maybe first expressed this in “Rock and a Hard Place”, but there was a moment in “Baby” that made the point outright, if indirectly.) When he finds someone to dance with... it’s a lamp. There was a time when I could have quoted you chapter and verse on “lamps, the sun, and other light sources as a stand-in for Cas” in the show’s language of symbolism; my helpful friends came up with this, in which light was used to hold space for Cas and highlight his absence from a scene. Trust me that the lamp is a stand-in for Cas, and at a minimum the audience is being invited to imagine who that lamp might represent...

Then there’s the song: “Let’s Misbehave”, originally written by Cole Porter - we can’t know how he would label himself if he were alive today, but it’s known that he was married to a woman while also having male lovers so “bisexual” is at least in the neighborhood of right. As he closes out the dance with the lamp by blowing it a kiss, we hear...

They say the Spring Means just one thing to little lovebirds We're not above birds Let's misbehave

and then Dean dances his way up the stairs to the top of the map table where he stands, rapturous, in a beam of light: his highest bliss, his happiness, his heaven, and if the light was holding space for Cas in the past, that space is now right where Dean is.

...so the tl; dr on the whole scene: they have used tap dancing (symbolic of sex) with a lamp (symbolic of Cas) to “Let’s Misbehave” (not symbolic so much as just straight up about sex) to tell us that among Dean’s deepest desires is a relationship with Cas - or turn the decoder ring one click to the left and they’re simultaneously tapdancing around (i.e. addressing indirectly) and hanging a lampshade on Dean’s desire for a life partner. They bring this up again at the end of the episode: Garth and Bess are dancing together while Sam and Dean look on wistfully, and Dean comments, “You know, I always thought I could be a good dancer if I wanted to be.” - a reference both to the dream sequence and to the domestic contentment they’re watching.

(The caveat I want to hang on all this is that if you turn the decoder ring one more click and then look at the Hays Code again, they may be telling us about Network Meddling: we would like to give you an explicit Dean/Cas romance but someone higher up the food chain has shut us down. The caveat to that caveat is that they’re willing to misbehave. ;)  )

#episode: heroes' journey #the destiel cannon #tapdancing around the issue #hanging a lampshade on it #my supernatural meta