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nyrawyrathepapaya · 3 years
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i LIKE the dog, okay. i don't like what the dog represents by being a cheap replacement for cas in the actual episode, but i am physically incapable of hating a dog
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boyworstie · 2 years
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seraphcastiel’s 2021 monthly roundup: NOVEMBER       ⋙  JAN | FEB | MAR | APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY | AUG | SEPT | OCT
hi guys! i wanted to do something new this 2021 and do a sort of “round up” of all the edits i make, as well as some of my personal favorite bits of content (edits, fic, art, etc) that others have made throughout the month. this is largely to keep track of my own content so i can see how my PS skills are improving as i continue to relearn how to make edits, and also i thought it’d be cool to take note of how many edits i do/what kinds of edits i do each month so i can see how i’ve grown as a content creator at the end of the year. (plus, i get to give a quick shout out to some of my favorite content creators as well hehe).
so without further ado, onto the roundup! big thanks to everyone who liked/reblogged my stuff this past month, i really appreciated it! xx
“i love you”    despair | 5 nov 2020:  if i think too hard about it being year since the confession i’ll burst into tears. i actually cried while making this (though that might’ve also been because of me being sleep-deprived and anxious about con weekend lol). i almost scrapped this idea, tbh. i had been stressing out the entire last week of october/first week of november bc i couldn’t think of what to make to commemorate the confession anniversary, and then when i landed on this concept, it didn’t feel right bc i knew i wouldn’t be using much footage from 15x18 itself. the more i thought about it though, the more i kept returning to this idea so i just decided to go for it and maybe make something else that was more 15x18 specific. as usual, because i spent too much time worrying about it, i ended up having to make it around 10:30pm the night of the 4th, after traveling all day :)))) coloring wasn’t bad, especially after making the early decision to have two panels be in black and white (both to save time and to keep the gifset from looking too overwhelming). hardest panel to make was the second to last one, bc i wanted to parallel the drinking scene from the s8 finale to the drinking scene from s15 but there were no aesthetically pleasing, no-talking shots of the two of them during that bunker scene (andrew dabb, i am once again cursing your entire production crew). i think that one panel alone took me two hours. made it work tho, and that’s all that matters
deancas, “21 guns”:  so after a stressful week of pre-con prep, and a stressful day of traveling, and a stressful 6 hours of gifmaking, i probably went to bed asap to get enough rest for the first day of con, right?.... right? well. i did say i wanted to make something else that was specifically about 15x18. in my defense, i had been thinking of a 21 guns spnedit for a while, though it focused on all of tfw 2.0 and not just dean and cas, and reconfiguring the gifset into a destiel edit didn’t take long (i was actually thinking about it while making the first nov 5 edit lol), so i figured it wouldn’t take that much time and effort to just make something that focused on only one epsiode and one specific scene. i mean, it would have a more consistent coloring i that i could work with, the shots would be easy to grab since there’s actually very few shots from the confession scene that are aesthetically decent, i had it all planned out in my head anyway, it should be easy af, right?.... right? well. i really need to stop assuming anything i plan is gonna work out. panels 1, 2, and 4 took almost no time, but the third panel took me another two and a half hours after what i had planned on doing for it (and the back up to that initial plan) ended up looking like shit. honestly, i’m not even sure if i actually like how the third panel finally ended up, or if i just settled for it bc i had to start getting dressed to go to the convention center. overall, though, i do like the edit as a whole, esp the coloring and shadows i was able to achieve. definitely a memorable set of edits from this year, if only for the context in which they were made.
(the good) supernatural finale (that lives in my head) : 15.20 “cry no more”:  hooo boy. can’t believe i can finally put this in a round up, i’ve been working on this edit on and off for fucking months.  i first got the idea after making my supernatural/live-action scooby doo manip edit, and wanted to challenge myself to see if i could make the spn finale that we deserved. turns out, it was a lot harder to do than my scoobynatural one, considering i had both much more and much less material to sort through. first, i had to make sure that all the scenes i pulled from were from later episodes to keep every character’s age/look consistent in relation to each other; easier said than done when characters like garth and claire are barely in anything past s13. that’s unfortunately the reason why i couldn’t put characters like bobby, patience, alex, kaia, and max barnes in the bunker panels, even though i mention them being there in the inspo post — i just couldn’t find shots of them that worked. once i found enough workable shots of the rest of the characters, put them together in a single shot took a lot of trial and error, and the compositions of almost all of those panels changed at least three times each before i was able to figure it out. surprisingly, the first panels i was able to finish were the rowena/jack/and amara ones, even if it was a pain in the ass to add the forest backgrounds to those shots. coloring ended up being the easiest part of the entire process, with only a few tweaks here and there depending on the scene. the dialogue was another nightmare to figure out, and walking the line between realistic-for-spn dialogue and more-suitable-for-spn-fanfic dialogue was a struggle (thank you to all the people i showed rough drafts to who offered their advice). i had way more panels planned for this gifset (including tfw 3.0 actually in the empty and talking to empty!meg, dean going through cas’ memories, and them saving not just cas but crowley, balthazar, anna, meg, etc.) but i wanted to post something to commemorate erase the series finale, so i guess i’ll just have to make a part 2 to this edit 👀
deancas, “easy on me”:  some purgaytory angst for @spockcoded‘s birthday. actually really like how this came out, i originally was only planning on using footage from the s8 but i figured a little bit of divorce arc never hurt nobody. making that middle panel and getting the timing of the fade transition took some time but the effect came out pretty well, and any kind of purgatory coloring that doesn’t make their skin tone look sickly is a win in my book. 
and now some of my favorite edits, fics, and art from this past month:

this thanksgiving fic by @one-more-offbeat-anthem still waters run deep by @thisisapaige defining heaven by @demonologist-in-denim this megstiel ficlet by @themauvesoul
castiel + food by @ne8ula sylvia plat + three women by @angelfishofthelord this rainbow cas graphic by @jactingjoices this spn + falsettos graphic by @davyperez this archangels graphic by @carrotfricker this spn + “i wanted to leave” amv by @angeltiddies
this cowboy cas art by @justcastiel roadtrip interlude by @mjulmjul team freel will 2.0 by @mishoru this endverse cas art by @hardcoremisery this cas timetravel art by @skepticalfrog this cas art by @dunkindestieldonuts this rowena and cas art by @beebudart
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2018: Twitter- pasladeuxieme, battingpractice, and TeamFreeWillBT
Context: After the SPNUK 2018 J2M panel question about eyefucking being a stage direction in scripts between Dean and Cas, several factions began engaging in discussions and arguments about the intent behind the spn writers’ word choice. In response to this, on May 8th 2018, pasladeuxieme tweeted out a series of tweets and screenshots from 8x02′s yellow pages to show where they remembered seeing the use of “eye-fuck” in the script as shorthand for an intense stare for the brothers, Sam and Dean.
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pasladeuxieme: “Was telling Bri while I couldn't remember one between Dean and Cas, I could vaguely remember seeing 'eyefuck' in the stage directs of one of the scripts we have - found it :p ‘[image:
"What's Up, Tiger..." Yellow Pages 7/26/12 9. 2  CONTINUED :                                         12
SAM So things like that don't ever happen again.
Ms. Tran takes that in the pain of Eunis still fresh. Then-- she EYES Kevin.
MS. TRAN Prophet of the lord, huh? (then, a warm smile) That does have a nice ring to it.
A note of approval-- Kevin smiles sweetly...
MS. TRAN I'll get packed. Ms. Tran makes for her bedroom.
Dean turns to Sam--
DEAN We're gonna need a new safe-house, since Crowley's been to the cabin--
MS. TRAN (stopping in her tracks) Safe house? I thought we were going after the tablet?
DEAN We are. You're taking a trip to the demon-free zone.
MS. TRAN And risk letting Kevin fall into the hands of this Crowley, again? (then, firm) I don't think so.
Sam and Dean exchange an EYEFUCK-- here we go.
SAM Ma'am, Dean's right. Crowley-- he's not just a killer. He trades in torment. And if he can find a way to separate you from your soul? He'll take it to Hell and roast it 'til there's nothing but black smoke...]’”- 9:19 PM May 8, 2018
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pasladeuxieme: “So many EXPRESSIONS being swapped between these hunter sibs. 5 dollars says Dabb wrote these stage directions with a thesaurus at hand ‘[image: "What's Up, Tiger..."   Yellow Pages   7/26/12   10.  CONTINUED: (2)                                              12
MS. TRAN So, a soul is more valuable than a life?
SAM Ma'am, a soul is forever. Your life is just a vessel... (then) It would really be best if you left this to us.
Ms. Tran takes a good long beat to consider that. Then--
MS. TRAN I understand. (then) But it's not my soul I'm worried about-- it's my son's.
She's STRONG. Sam and Dean trade an OMINOUS LOOK-- fearing the worst. Then turn to Kevin.
DEAN Gonna back us up here, Kev? (then) We came all the way out here to pull her ass out of the fire and now she wants to jump back in.
KEVIN Like I can tell her what to do.
Sam and Dean exchange a KNOWING NOD.
DEAN Coming with has conditions. Hex bags to keep you off the bad guys' radar. And you're gonna have to ink up.
KEVIN Do what now?
SAM You too, short stop--]’” - 9:24 PM May 8, 2018
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battingpractice: “wait i found it ‘[image: (then) Sunshine and sandy beaches.
Satisfied, Dean goes all-in for the PIB. Kevin processen that for a beat-- watching Dean take a fork to the pie.
KEVIN Dean. My Mom's all alone-- And surrounded by Demons. (then) Can you really not understand why I want to make sure she's okay?
That stops Dean COLD-- fork hovering by his mouth. Dean looks over to Sam-- remembering his own Mother. Sam gives him a slight shrug, knowing the kid's right.
Dean eyes his pie, perched beautifully on the end of his fork-- he wants that bite so badly.
DEAN Son of a bitch.
Dean STABS his fork into the PIE, moving out of the BOOTH. Kevin SMILES, victorious, and we're on the move--]’“ - 9:26 PM May 8, 2018
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pasladeuxieme: “Here's an eyefuck involving everyone's favorite King of Hell ‘[image: SAM all good-- just need to come up with a Plan B.
Then-- a familiar VOICE from off-camera.
CROWLEY (O.S.) what, pray-tell, could possibly have been Plan A?
The boys BURN-- and TURN to see CROWLEY.   Standing smug.
CROWLEY Bring the prophet to the most dangerous place on earth, memorize the tablet and then-- va-moose?
That one's pointed at Sam-- a weary eye-fuck from the boys.
CROWLEY Oh, and salutations, by the way.
BLACKOUT.
END OF ACT TWO]’”- 9:27 PM May 8, 2018
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battingpractice: “Meanwhile, the same episode's direction for D-C is "Dean locks eyes with Cas, FIRM" which ends up as an actual eye f-u-ck but was not actually spelled out that way in the script ‘[image:
DEAN No. (then, to Cass) Cass, we're getting outta here. We're going home.
That word hits Cass hard-- something about it makes him visibly ANXIOUS.
CASTIEL Dean, I can't--
DEAN Yeah, we can. Tell him.
He's talking to Benny. The monster shrugs.
BENNY Purgatory's got an escape hatch, but I got no idea if it's angel friendly.
Dean locks eyes with Cass, FIRM.
DEAN We'll make it work. (then) I need you, Cass. And if the Chompers wanna take a shot, I say let 'em. We ganked those bitches]’”- 9:32 PM May 8, 2018
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pasladeuxieme: “Not an eyefuck but here are some Destiel-y stage directions around the iconic "too much heart was always Castiel's problem" 😢 ‘[image:
what's Up, Tiger..."   Yellow Pages   7/26/12   28. CONTINUED: (3)                                             25
ALFIE You know, there are some in Heaven who still believe that, despite mistakes, Castiel's heart was always in the right place.
DEAN You one of 'em?
ALFIE I think... too much heart was always Castiel's problem.
Alfie moves off and we hold on Dean-- the angel's words hitting home. CUT TO--
EXT. CLEARING - PURGATORY - DAY (FLASHBACK)]’“- 9:49 PM May 8, 2018
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pasladeuxieme: “No textusl eyefucks in 9x23, but check out the stage directions for Cas reacting to Metatron advising Dean is dead - "Castiel reacts - stunned" got turned into everything Misha did there.... ‘[image:
"Do You Believe in Miracles?" Pink Pages 4/16/14 39. 44  CONTINUED:                                                    44
METATRON Ah. So, Gadreel bites the dust, the Angel Tablet, arguably the most powerful instrument in the history of the universe, is in pieces... And for what, now? That's right. To save Dean Winchester. (then) That was your cause wasn't it? You draped yourself in the flag of Heaven but, ultimately, this was all to save a human, wasn't it? Well, guess what? He's dead too.
Castiel reacts, stunned, as-- CHUNK! His arms are suddenly CUFFED to the chair.
METATRON And you're sitting in my chair.
45        INT. ABANDONED PLANT - NIGHT                45
Dean bleeds out on the ground. Alive, but barely. Sam tears up bits of his shirt to fashion a tourniquet. All business.]’“ - 2:48 AM May 9, 2018
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Context: Three years afterwards, May 20 2021, TeamFreeWillBT made a different thread on three additional instances of eyefucking plus the ones found in 8x02:
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TeamFreeWillBT: “Eyef*cks in the Supernatural scripts 8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy? 13.08 The Scorpion and the Frog 13.21 Beat the Devil ‘[image:
A note of approval-- Kevin smiles sweetly...
MS. TRAN I'll get packed. Ms. Tran makes for her bedroom.
Dean turns to Sam--
DEAN We're gonna need a new safe-house, since Crowley's been to the cabin--
MS. TRAN (stopping in her tracks) Safe house? I thought we were going after the tablet?
DEAN We are. You're taking a trip to the demon-free zone.
MS. TRAN And risk letting Kevin fall into the hands of this Crowley, again? (then, firm) I don't think so.
Sam and Dean exchange an EYEFUCK-- here we go.
SAM Ma'am, Dean's right. Crowley-- he's not just a killer. He trades in torment. And if he can find a way to separate you from your soul? He'll take it to Hell and roast it 'til there's nothing but black smoke...]
[image: SAM all good-- just need to come up with a Plan B.
Then-- a familiar VOICE from off-camera.
CROWLEY (O.S.) what, pray-tell, could possibly have been Plan A?
The boys BURN-- and TURN to see CROWLEY.   Standing smug.
CROWLEY Bring the prophet to the most dangerous place on earth, memorize the tablet and then-- va-moose?
That one's pointed at Sam-- a weary eye-fuck from the boys.
CROWLEY Oh, and salutations, by the way.BLACKOUT.END OF ACT TWO]
[image: As Dean turns the key in the lock-- it opens with A CLICK to REVEAL-- BONES. A WHOLE DUSTY SKELETON'S WORTH.
SHRIKE Bart's bones. You burn them, he dies too. THAT'S my leverage. (then) You're on the wrong side of this, boys-- (a loaded beat) Just gotta ask yourselves if you can live with that.
The boys eye-fuck. Can they?
BART (O.S.) He's right, those ARE my bones.
Sam, Dean and Smash look up-- THERE'S BART! Standing next to Shrike.]
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GABRIEL My tank's a little low right now. Getting vengeance took a lot out of me, and even on a good day, I-- (sheepish, defensive) I have a long refractory window, okay? (then, confident) But archangel grace? It's like, the Four Loko of angelic emissions. It'll be more than enough to get the job done.
Off Gabe's confidence, our heroes eyefuck. It's go time.
QUICK CUTS:
--Our heroes LOAD UP for battle, dressing/ARMING themselves for Apocalypse World. Angel blades, knives, guns. Apocalypse World-appropriate clothing.
INT--MEN OF LETTERS - LIBRARY MOMENTS LATER   4]’“- 7:39 PM May 20, 2021
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TeamFreeWillBT: “9.05 Dog Dean Afternoon ‘[image:
DYLAN --and it's not like we could go to the cops--
OLIVIA --so now we look like total douche bags *cause we have to wear sunglasses inside.
Olivia and Dylan removes their sunglasses to reveal... puffy, bloodshot eyes, surrounded by dead tissue? It looks like textbook gangrene. As Sam and Dean eyefuck--
DEAN (PRE LAP) Necrosis?
INT. MOTEL - DAY
Sam sits in front of his laptop. Dean looks over his shoulder, bottle o’ beer in hand.]’”- 7:39 PM May 20, 2021
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8.02 What's Up, Tiger Mommy?
Written by: Andrew Dabb and Daniel Loflin
9.05 Dog Dean Afternoon
Written by: Eric Charmelo and Nicole Snyder
9.23 Do You Believe in Miracles?
Written by: Jeremy Carver
13.08 The Scorpion and the Frog
Written by: Meredith Glynn
13.21 Beat the Devil
Written by: Robert Berens
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incarnateirony · 4 years
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If you had the chance to ask Dabb if he was intentionally using hermeticism/alchemy/gnosticism (spelling?) would you?
I mean not really. If I were to sit down with Andrew Dabb, I wouldn’t ask it at all. Kinda ridiculous from my POV. I’d sit down and ask why, and who introduced the idea, not *if* it was being used. Asking *if* it was being used at our current junction would be like sitting down with Kripke and asking if he intentionally used biblical inspirations. It’s fairly absurdist when you know the source text to do so and it subsumes the entire show (most flagrantly S4-5 on the christian lensing.)
Like, it’s everything from the story structure, the cosmogeny, various dogmatic quotes straight out of famous/key sources, various books Sam has had in study piles nearby, major imagery, names of temporary villains and challenges, you name it.
How that’s different from S4-5 story structure, cosmogeny, various dogmatic quotes straight out of famous/key scripture, times the bible was being studied, crosses in the background, or names of villains and challenges, I’m very unclear.
Hell, back in Kripke era they weren’t naming episodes after associated critical dogmatic/philosophical ideas routinely nor applying color coding based on the path, so rack that up in Dabb era’s favor on why it’s not even something to ask.
It’s similar to the weird expectation that gayness has to prove or question itself more than straightness, which comes with some weird concept of straight supremacy. Christian culture has similar ramifications.
But no. I wouldn’t ask him If. I would sit down and get straight down into the fine details like who proposed it, who on crew practices it with the naturalized lens it has (seriously I would bet a whole month’s income on one person on crew being a magister or adeptus of some related path with how well executed it all is), which specific denominations if any they were pulling their reads from beyond general gnostic/hermetic dual paths, etc. 
For years now, and I do mean years, the various SPN games I’ve run have religiously predicted show elements throughout Dabb era. My S12 plot rolled around S13. My S13 plot rolled around S14. My S14 plot– you get the idea.
So there’s four options here.
1. I’m a psychic who is hiding my ability and not winning the lottery to keep my cover
2. I’ve had script leaks for like 4 years
3. I’m the smartest goddamn meta person in the history of ever (protip: I’m not)
4. Dabb is using the same playbook.
I didn’t do it on purpose, it’s the same style of playbook I’ve always incorporated due to my natural lens. I didn’t expect SPN to suddenly onboard it in its end days. Hell when it first started happening I started flipping the fuck out because I didn’t catch at first he was straight-up using the same book and didn’t let myself believe it until mid-S-14. But it is what it is lmao
And I don’t mean vague like “I predicted the Darkness would show up lolol bc darkness” I mean straight up full plot runs, associations, even dialogue used in the show or the introduction of certain entities. Belphegor made people that know me shit their pants top to bottom. Chuck. Blossom. Marriage. Ouroboros. Serpent bearer. Cages. Matrixes. other shit older than that, I could go on for a small eternity but it’d sound like I’m bragging and that’s well beyond the point, because realistically, it’s not worth /bragging/ about as much as admitting: I’m not actually some kind of super genius, I’ve just naturalized into this for decades of my life long before anybody was arguing about gay angels.
Several years ago I introduced Hermes referencing himself as Baal Peor, while using the alias Jack (which I quickly had to change, thanks S12) “Oh, everybody says Hermes is younger than Apollon, like it’s a fact, like I wasn’t some protoindoeuropean god of giant penises and outcroppings of stone long before anybody was ever speaking greek.” and “Everyone calls Dionysus a god of fertility, when’s the last time you saw your grapes bumping and grinding in the vineyard? I am THE god of the dick, three actually, one for each ‘path’. If your flocks are many you know what they did down at the watering hole. Hell, sometimes they’d just carve a dick, if they didn’t have time to carve a whole dude.”
Everyone lauded how well he’d work in the show. I said, “nahhhh, if he’d been introduced years ago, sure, but this late in the game they’d use one of his christianized/demonized aspects and he’d be a contagonist turned antagonist dead within three episodes.”
Belphegor: Sup
Did this video seem sassier than normal? There’s a reason
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Like is this meta or is this an RP fanvid at this point, what is the difference, please let me out of this box. I DONT LIKE IT ANYMORE
Literally my first livetweet on the fucking season be like
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When 15.09 aired and me and my Dean ran screaming yelling “HOLY SHIT WE JUST WATCHED FRIDAY HAPPEN ON TV TOP TO BOTTOM AAAAAAAA” it just was what it was (Friday being the nickname of a famous RP advent/day from like a season and a half ago)
So again it just is what it is, and it’s far wider spread than I think people not in the given tradition can wrap their heads around.
I literally just left like 3 group chats I’ve been in for the past several years because I’ve reached my wits end with casual microaggressions or dismissals or intentional bad faith readings which essentially turn into attacks on the faith itself while people say it’s about their reading of the show, or turn around and accuse dogmatic behavior simply for pointing out the base cords that are wall to wall in S15 and how it’s driving the overall story notes of the show the same as you would christian stuff in S5. Can’t deal with it anymore. 
I’m so far past asking *if* it’s what they intended. I’m just done being exposed to supposed friendlies still trying to dismiss that it *is.* It’s one thing to not understand it all. That’s fine. I don’t expect people to understand it all. It’s a whole other kettle of fish to dismiss it out of hand because it’s not what you want and slap it away. This fandom loses their shit when it’s done over queer content to queer people with queer lenses but there’s literally nobody to play defense or protect us when it’s done to people who have their entire lives vested in a belief system that this fandom runs around shitting all over persistently, slapping down, insulting, intentionally reading in the worst light without any good faith attempts at figuring out what the invested party is saying, etc. SKDJfskjdfs I’ve been about half a hair from ragequitting fandom over it tbh.
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mittensmorgul · 5 years
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Almost everyone in my dashboard said the episode was boring and a mess and bla bla and also I think people is just not getting Michael, and they're not getting the themes... I honestly thought it was a good episode and made me excited for this season I don't understand people.
Then... almost everyone on your dashboard is just looking really hard for something to complain about? I mean, you have to really dig deep pull something out of your ass to complain about this episode. It’s thematically consistent in context with the entire series (unless you’re the sort of person to ignore context and just cherrypick random shit to compare to WHILE DELIBERATELY IGNORING CONTEXT AND CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT AND LIKE... YEARS WORTH OF PLOT TO DO SO).
I mean, sure, whatever... 
(disclaimer: this is Mittens Deep In Her Gin speaking, but it has taken A MIGHTY RESTRAINT to not reblog some of the shit I’ve seen tonight with Actual Canon Defense, because trust me, Andrew Dabb knows canon better than every bitter fan you’ve seen whining about the episode tonight, and I will probably regret having posted this in the morning but fuck it... this was a fantastic episode in every respect and I haven’t seen one single negative comment about it that I couldn’t shoot down with a 500 word essay on the subject, annotated with canon references, so fuck ‘em)
I AM THRILLED AT HOW THE SEASON HAS STARTED IN EVERY. SINGLE. RESPECT.
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juppschmitz · 6 years
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Okay, @hunenka tagged me in an ask game. Here goes:
Fictional character I relate to the most:
Lol, @hunenka, when I first saw Bernard Black chase customers from his shop with a broom I thought yep, that’s me :DDD
Other than that, Lois, Malcolm-in-the-middle’s Mom? And Lorelai Gilmore. Maybe. Not where her romantic shenanigans or her business savvy are concerned, but from a mothering POV.
Book you can read over and over without getting tired of it:
I tend to read books only once. There are so many of them! When would I have time to re-read! Having said that I recently re-read Thomas Manns “Buddenbrooks”, and I could see myself re-reading that in IDK x number of years’ time.
What’s your favorite comfort show/movie:
Cheers? Modern Family? Golden Girls? Maybe (in small doses) early seasons of Gilmore Girls?
Which fictional character are you most defensive over:
Dean Winchester. No contest.
Show you fell out of love with:
Supernatural. Thank you, Andrew Dabb.
Also Preacher (that happened fast from season one to season two :(). American Horror Story. Why do they all eventually end in blood, gore and splatter? What’s wrong with plot???
Show you’re most excited for:
Lucifer. Pleasepleaseplease don’t let me down!
What’s your aesthetic:
(Had to look it up, because I really only know aesthetic as an adjective. Here’s what the Urban Dictionary has to say: “aesthetic Something that tumblr weirdo's say way too often and use it for every damn thing under the sun. A generally annoying word.)
Okaayyy. Well, my preferences change drastically depending on my mood. But generally speaking, I like things simple. Not cluttered, like. So, a baroque church would be an absolute NO, whereas a romanic church can be a place I can just ~be~ at for a good, long while.
Also tall trees, golden summer fields and rivers.
Favorite fanfic tropes:
Actually, getting a charater (Dean) right, is what’s most important to me in fanfic. Tropes wise I like case fics. Also AUs where everything is just that little bit different, but also eminently recognizable. 
But if the author doesn’t get the main character (Dean) right, it doesn’t matter what the trope is, I won’t bother.
Fancy playing? @annoyingpeople-postingthings, @seenashwrite
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ladydeeklynn-blog · 5 years
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Supernatural Season 14: Gods and Monsters. Some Theories.
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Once again the traditional warnings for anybody who doesn`t want to get spoiled on season 14. So yeah here we go
S P O I L E R S
My first thoughts on this episode were... how awesome was Jensen`s acting?!?!
Just freaking amazing!
I especially loved the mirror scene, the scene where he`s experimenting on the Vamps, and the talk with the Werewolf Alpha. Jensen plays a bad guy so very well. His facial expressions and tone were so expressive. 
Supernatural4Ever uploaded one of the best scenes on YouTube here:
Michael and his experiments
I quite enjoyed this episode, and the ending through me for one heck of a loop.
The Ending!! ( Uploaded by the same)
Is it really Dean? If so why would Michael leave just like that? Is it Michael pretending to be Dean? Why would he do that? What is his plan for the monsters and the hunters? 
We have more questions than answers and the internet is already speculating full speed ahead. It`s only the second episode too! 
Well done writers, you`ve got us on the edge of our seats.
Soooo my brain has been trying to make sense of this puzzle we`ve been given since the episode aired. Bear with me while I gather some the pieces. 
1) Last season in the episode Funeralia Billie told Dean `See again soon you soon`
2)Jared may or may have not let it slip in a Con that Dean will die. Specifically he said to Jensen `Then we filmed that scene where you died.` Many people believe he really did let something slip while I think he said it on purpose or was told by the writers to say it. Something to throw us off. Or maybe he was just trolling the fans. LOL
3) Executive producer Eugenie Ross-Lerning says that Michael isn`t exactly The Big Bad of this season.
4) She also said * If/when Dean is freed from Michael, he will more or less be able to bounce back. The real surprise, he said, will come after.“Dean’s been contaminated by Cain. He’s a tough guy. His body’s sort of accumulated a lot of, I think, antibodies against evil, so he’ll be OK. He knows how to handle himself, even though he’s been altered. But there is a little bit of a surprise, in terms of this semi-possession, which I can’t tell you about. There’s a little bit of a twist*
Source is here. 
5) Jensen told Entertainment Weekly  "Michael does stick around longer than people might think, but Dean's not going to be gone long,"
6)Misha confirmed that the show will go back to the Empty.
7) In Gods and Monsters Michael told Dean `I own you.` and `Sit back and enjoy the ride.`
8) Michael!Dean dumped the bodies of those burned out Vamps on purpose in order to lure Dean`s family there. 
9) Michael!Dean has a plan for the hunters. 
10) I`m pretty sure the attack by the enhanced Werewolves was a diversion.
11)  Eugenie Ross-Lerning also talked about the tone of the `first six episodes` in hinting the possession thing might last that long. Here`s the interview
12) Thanks to Nick`s still being alive we know that the Archangel blade only kills the Archangel but not the host of the body the Angel is inhabiting. This has implications for Dean.
13) It has been implied by Jensen, and Andrew Dabb that there would be multiple episodes without Dean. Jensen has spoken at Cons as if he has spent multiple episodes being Michael and being away from Jared filming on his own. He has spoken of the challenge of playing Michael. Two episodes is hardly a challenge. Dabb has talked about the challenge of coming up with story lines without Dean. The implication was that Dean would be gone for several episodes
14) After the hubbub surrounding Demon Dean and how short it was, would the writers really get rid of Michael!Dean that quickly? Especially when Jensen himself wants to play the role longer?
15) Oh yeah, have we forgotten heaven is in serious trouble?
Did I miss anything?
Where do these puzzle pieces leave us? 
Most of the fans are assuming that Michael hasn`t actually left Dean and is actually pretending to be Dean in order to trick Dean`s family. For what reason we don`t know. I personally believe that it is actually Dean..but Michael has just gone dormant making Dean think he has left. I believe Michael has a plan that involves Sam, Mary, Bobby and the rest of the hunters. 
Michael could have also really left Dean, but has plans to return when he feels like it. Maybe The Scar referred to in the next episode is something Michael has done to Dean. Maybe Michael has found a way allow him to possess Dean without the hunter`s permission. Maybe Michael has done something to Dean, changed him some way that will have implications for the rest of the season.
We still have Dean in the fourth episode description they`ve made public, entitled `Mint Condition` so if Eugenie Ross-Lemming`s rather vague prediction is correct something will happen with Dean and Michael by episode 5 and will probably come to a head by episode 6.
My thoughts are, the writers have given us Dean back but they`re playing with us. They`ll yank him away again by the end of episode 4 or episode 5. It would be a nice twist, to make us think we got Dean back..but then either reveal it wasn`t really Dean or take him away from us again. In this way it holds true to what Jensen said to Entertainment Weekly. Dean wasn`t gone long, but he`ll have the threat of Michael hanging over his head for several episodes. I think that Billie will have a hand in helping them get rid of Michael, but that one or both of the boys will end up in The Empty by mid season. I`m calling The Entity of the Empty as the real Big Bad for this season. I think the boys will piss off the Entity and maybe it will come to earth to kill everybody to keep anyone else from going up there an disturbing his sleep, or they`ll somehow break The Empty and all those souls will fall down to earth. That would take care of the problem in heaven. They would get all the Angels that have died back.
My original theory was this: Michael is in charge of Dean`s body for now. He makes this clear to Dean that there`s nothing he can do. He owns Dean. Michael also knows though that Dean will not stop fighting, neither will Sam, Mary or the other hunters. The hunters are big stumbling block along the road to his plan. So I originally thought that Michael was going to do the two birds with one stone thing by going dormant, making everybody think he`s gone and Dean is free. Then come out at an unexpected moment and kill Sam. It would be a way to kick the legs out from under both Dean`s resistance, Sam`s quest to free Dean, and cut the head off of the leadership of the hunters.
However I`m not so sure anymore. 
I mean he could have killed Sam and the rest whenever he wanted. It`s not like the bunker is any defense against him. It might as well have a revolving door for as many baddies have gotten in there lately. Plus he has all of Dean`s memories so he would know to get in there. So he could take out Sam whenever he felt like it. Hell he could have killed Sam and Jack with one snap the second he took over Dean. Instead he just flew away. But he`s been spending the weeks travelling around the planet playing 20 questions and building his plan. This plan involves enhanced Vamps and Werewolves and an alliance with the Werewolf Alpha. It also includes Dean`s family. 
So trying to kill them now makes no sense. Maybe he`s gathering information as to how the hunters operate and how many of them there are. Dean knew how things were when they came back from the alternate universe, but he doesn`t know how the group is structured now. He doesn`t know Sam`s in charge, and how organized they are. Maybe he`s going to turn them into monsters?
So will Dean die? Or will Sam die?
IF it`s Dean that dies, he`ll see Billie then, as she`ll come to take him and Michael to the Empty. Thanks to Nick still being alive, Sam is sure the Archangel blade doesn`t kill the host so that probably won`t be the way Dean dies. Unless Sam is wrong.  If Sam dies the grief might give Dean the strength he needs to eject Michael once and for all. He would then maybe try to make a deal with Billie to get Sam out of the Empty. Maybe nobody will die except Michael and Billie will be the one to help them take down Michael.
There I think I got everything. These are just my theories of course. We`re probably missing big pieces of the puzzle. We`ll get some more pieces next Thursday, and by then we might know if we really did get Dean back. 
Would it bother me if that was all we`re going to get of Michael!Dean...well a little. I mean Jensen is doing such an amazing job as Michael. But I am happy to have Dean back.. I mean.. if it is really him. 
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Anybody have any thoughts or theories?
Peace
Dee
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