#metanatural

[carveredlunds]

it’s so surreal to me that supernatural went on for so long that the final arc of the show was literally the main characters screaming and begging and fighting for freedom and rest from a controlling and obsessive author/god who had been writing their lives up until that point, who simply would not let them die. it went on for so long that it went from being a show where the two leads used phones with antennae and made references to myspace, to being a show where they literally referenced the “sir, this is a wendy’s” meme and dean said “galaxy brained”. it went from being a dark and gritty show shot on film to being a show shot on digital where the saturation was so bright that it looked like a sitcom even at night. after 15 seasons, all the fear and grittiness and tension had been sucked out of the narrative. it devolved from a story about choosing free will over destiny into a story about whether or not having free will is even possible after you’ve discovered that god has personally controlled your whole life. the transformation from “classic kripke era” supernatural into “network controlled never-ending” supernatural was literally played out in the storyline of the show itself. it’s unbelievable.

#spn #supernatural #spn meta #supernatural meta #metanatural #sophie speaks #sophie talks about spn

[supernaturalsidepiece]

Credit to: @sodiumfreak @breha @stepdaddean @sundryvillains @autisticandroids @omniscientoranges

Metanatural part eight of ?

#supernatural #spn #destiel #deancas #casdean #dean winchester #castiel #sam winchester #supernatural meta #metanarrative #metanatural #mine #web weaving #spn meta

[four-of-cups]

if you think about it, the way things ended for each member of team free will is some twilight-zone levels of cosmic punishment.

season one sam wants to build a life away from his family and hey, that’s what he ends up doing. because post-finale every single member of his family is dead. the people he came to realise that he loved, that he needed, the ones who saw every dark thing he had done and been and loved him anyway - they’re gone. enjoy that life sam, it’s what you always wanted right?

and cas - it isn’t just that he learned to love humanity dean only to have that torn from him at its very culmination. what gets to me is that the empty is a return to pure stasis. his arc was defined by how much he changed - his very capacity for change and what he did with his choices. only to have those possibilities stripped from him as completely as they could be. death beyond death.

dean. oh dean. he thought he broke free of his father’s violence only to have his entire too-short life framed by it. going out bloody. caring about no one but sammy. never trying to build any other kind of life. his heaven is as mundane and limited and joyless as his father’s expectations.

and the thing is - this isn’t the way a show rounds out the character arcs they spent 15 seasons on.

this is the way that vindictive fathers punish defiant children and I will never be ok about it.

#spn finale #spn meta #metanatural #dean.txt #chuck won #destiel #spn #cups text post

[cupidswurld]

thinking about supernaturals circular narrative. how i don’t (and won’t) watch sitcoms because of the conventions of a circular narrative.

the parallels of how characters are reduced into one-dimensional imitations of who the audience perceived them to be, boiled down into their most defining, dividing traits— a phenomenon exclusive to the intrinsic nature of sitcoms. thinking about how everything that is learnt in one episode, is forgotten in the next— how there is no progress, how there is no change and everything will always, always stay the same for the sake of the audience where nothings new.

part of why dean felt he wouldve been better off dead, about why he didnt deserve to be saved, was because he could never make any difference. how they were trapped by the same story, over and over again, that nothing mattered no matter what he did, because he'd just end up in the very same position he was 15 years ago. even before the insertion of chuck's storyline, before freewill, the pervasive hand of the writers have always held them down from the very first episode

#supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #metanatural #supernatural meta #destiel #castiel #team free will #spn #spn analysis #guys I'm sorry but im seriously genuinely sickly obsessed with the metanarrative of supernatural theres nothing else like it #but also I really do stand by the 'I dont watch sitcoms bc of the circular narrative' #like are you not bored... this is referring from first hand experience to friends and community #however the good place is an exception and should always be hailed as the one good sitcom to exist #but please argue with me on that note! #me when sitcom characters are diluted into the most recognisable parody of the character they once were for greatest consumption #willowcoded's Sisyphean post was everything to me btw

[bongosblorbos]

chuck writing roy saying the lord picked dean...dean protesting this choice...a crowd of viewers watching this exchange, cheering..........the metanatural implications of it all

#1x12 faith #faith dean my beloved #metanatural #THE CROWD CLAPS LOUDLY #GETTING MORE EXCITED #spn

[rageturner]

DEAN BEING PIED IN THE FACE IN 15x20 IS A REFERENCE TO THE PIE FIGHT SCENE IN THE MOVIE BLAZING SADDLES, WHICH IS THE SCENE THAT DIRECTLY FOLLOWS A SONG THAT INSPIRED THE NAME THE FRENCH MISTAKE FOR 6x15.

The French Mistake, an episode wherein Gabriel sends Dean and Sam to an alternate, distorted reality. And we’re not supposed to believe that 15x19 and 15x20 are set in an alternate world which Dean and Sam have been sent to by Gabriel to prove to them that the endings they will get if they don’t get it together to get Cas back from the empty are NOT GOOD ENDINGS. WHAT THEY DESERVED WAS AN ENDING AWAY FROM THE CAMERA. AND I CHOOSE TO BELIEVE THAT THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY ENDED UP GETTING.

#has anyone written a fic like this #spn meta #I’m pretty sure I saw a comic #spn #destiel #supernatural #dean winchester #castiel #deancas #Sam winchester #supernatural meta #metanatural

[aheavenlycreature]

Crack Idea: Cas was there for the French Mistake and saved thirsty photos of Jensen Ackles/Jensen as Dean to his phone. Dean finds these photos on Cas' phone.

Some examples of what I think Cas would save:

And just as an extra treat, he also saved these photos not caring about what the context was because they made him laugh. Dean is VERY confused when he finds them though:

#Destiel #Castiel #Dean Winchester #Jensen Ackles #Cas has a crush #The French Mistake #SPN #Supernatural #6x15 #this is too meta #Meta #metanatural

[lateral-org]

supernatural as a show is at its best when it's trying not to be itself

#spn posting #metanatural #said this outloud last night and got sad about it #but am i wrong

[gxrlcinema]

don’t have the most developed idea about this but essentially the audience of spn was the actual g-d of the show and we see this through celestials but especially cas

#ilana.txt #spn #spn blogging #spn meta #metanatural #tagging it meta even though i’m explaining nothing #but i will expand if anyone has any interest

[casboobs]

not sure if it's a good or a bad thing that you can blame everything on chuck and everything immediately makes sense because nothing chuck does ever makes sense so

#metanatural #chuck won theory gone rogue #chuck won theory #chuck won #ali.thinks

[carveredlunds]

What part of “omniscient” do you people not understand? (insp. & insp.)

#spn #spnedit #metanatural #spn meta #chuck won #my stuff #*graphic #*supernatural

[supernaturalsidepiece]

SUPERNATURAL 2005 - 2020. (More)

#supernatural #spn #dean winchester #destiel #deancas #casdean #castiel #supernatural meta #metanarrative #spn meta #metanatural #spn themes #spn motifs #supernatural parallels #supernatural motifs #spn parallels #spn screenshots #spn screencaps #supernatural screenshots #supernatural screencaps #screencaps

[four-of-cups]

Hey remember when supernatural spent their first three seasons establishing that Dean was a mirror for John and then spent the next three seasons developing Cas as a mirror for Mary???

Because I cannot stop thinking about it please send help.

The Castiel and Mary parallels across seasons 4, 5 and 6 are just wild.

Please consider. That both thee dead wife and thee angel of the lord:

Are cosmically entwined with a Winchester, manipulated by forces beyond their control.

Are gateways. They catalyse the introduction of a previously unknown realm: John to the supernatural, Dean to heaven.

Were raised to do violence: Mary the hunter and Castiel the soldier.

Refused to play the role they were given: Mary left the life and Cas rebelled.

Made a secret devil’s bargain that would ultimately get them killed: Mary with Azazel, Cas with Crowley.

Are presented as characters doing the wrong thing for the right reasons - ultimately forgiven by others but still punished by the narrative.

Symbolically, they represent benevolent archetypes (mother, angel) but complicated individuals.

And for most of Dean’s life, he only relates to them as heavenly ‘others’ - perceiving them both as fundamentally unknowable and unobtainable.

That last point is the one that kills me. Because as long as they stay that way, Dean is safe to love them.

A mother can’t leave you if she’s already dead. And an angel can’t break your heart if you believe he isn’t capable of falling in love.

#when cas said what he wants he can never have #this is what he was talking about #castiel’s dead wife era #spn #destiel #dean winchester #spn meta #dean studies #mary winchester #castiel angel of the lord #metanatural #cups text post

[weaksspot]

15x10 where they get nerfed because chucks not helping them anymore is conceptually interesting but also annoying and i hate it actually :| i feel like that should apply to things like yeah the credit cards and techy stuff and access to other supplies but not their actual physical abilities lmao. sorry. hate it

#lb #sometimes metanatural is fun and often its not

[chanarie69]

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[the-whumping-hour]

Day 2 - Solitary Confinement

@febuwhump DAY TWO ELECTRIC BOOGALOO

CW: Lab whump, isolation, vague depressive thoughts, it as a dehumanizing pronoun, threat of forced medical coma, implied revenge murder, mention of electrowhump, mention of execution, mention of starvation as a torture tactic

Notes: Welcome to the AMF! This one honestly made me insanely fucking sad. Ayeli uses she/they pronouns. Dr. Haley Chavis-Sakye is Ayeli’s personal researcher, essentially, and “Dr. Garcia”... well, let’s just say he’s a pretty important guy.

***

Really, right now, all Ayeli wants is a watch.

It’s been five days now, she thinks, if she’s been counting the meals right. It’s hard to when it’s all the same: instant mashed potatoes and cold scrambled eggs and applesauce with a new single set of plastic silverware each time. Maybe that’s a small mercy, if anything is; if not, she would’ve had to melt her restraints again to grab the spoon from the floor every time she dropped it, and who knows how many volts that would’ve cost her.

But they think they’ve had twelve meals so far, and they know they’ve eaten all but two of them– like hell were they eating without that spoon– and if the timing’s right their restraints should be opening any minute to let them go to their tiny bathroom and change their robe and kick at the walls for a few minutes and throw things at the one ceiling tile above their cot that looks a bit more fake than all the others. They know they’re being watched. They should at least get to put on a show. 

She doesn’t even know what she did. She really doesn’t. At least not anything that she hadn’t done before, with the refusal to speak and the energy surges that broke their intercom for several weeks last time. One too many times, apparently. And now she’s here.

If they stare at the light long enough, they start seeing Marcy in the afterimage. 

Three minutes later, as expected, the restraints pop open, and as expected another white robe is on the bathroom hook. She doesn’t know who’s coming in, or from where. At least they have the decency to knock her out on semi-routine intervals. In her usual room, they never have that courtesy; the moment the lights start flickering, everyone’s out with their tranqs and she’s out cold for as long as they feel the need for her to be. Here, she can’t hurt anyone. Here, the walls don’t yield when she kicks at them. She does it once, twice. It doesn’t change much.

Or, wait. There’s a hum coming from the ceiling.

It’s very faint, barely perceptible, and Ayeli realizes it must’ve started during their kicking, or before it, because nothing they ever do prompts a response anymore. Not when they tried to break the faucet off the wall yesterday, or when they screamed at the top of their lungs for ten minutes straight two days before that. No, this is a change. 

Rarely a good thing with the esteemed Alexus Metanatural Foundation.

“Ayeli Astian,” the voice is a familiar one crackling over the intercom, soaring and terrifying and every emotion at once as her leg freezes before another kick. Dr. Haley never bothers to come when she’s done something wrong. “I’ve been making your plea deal. They’ll get you out of here by Sunday.”

They can’t help it, they laugh. Alone in a white sterile room with nothing but the off-putting fake ceiling tile above them. “When the fuck is Sunday?”

There’s no answer. As expected. “There is a condition, though.” Fuck. There’s something serious here, something bad. Haley always sounds hesitant when it’s something bad.

 “They’re putting you out for three weeks.”

“...what?” 

“I'm sure this is hard for you, it’s just… Dr. Garcia needs an unconscious subject for several trials, and I… the team agreed to do this. I hope you understand. At least you’re not… aware of it. It’ll be nothing, Ayeli.”

Nothing. Nothing, nothing, nothing.

Everything is nothing at this point.

The intercom clicks off, and Ayeli sees red. There’s no reason to scream. And they all think there’s no reason for her to do anything. Nothing but be a fake dead body.

And they think it’s bullshit.

And that’s the last thing she thinks, in fact, before something cracks, and the walls splinter with heat as the lights go out, and the ceiling tiles pop into ash.

—

“Sir, please, if I could just explain–”

“Your project just killed five people, Chavis. I’m not sure what there is to explain.”

“Listen, it’s… it’s got issues, I know, it gets scared when it’s alone, it gets scared to go to sleep–”

“Chavis, we are talking about the largest institutional threat in years. This is not a sales pitch.”

“If we could just up the power control, anything, I know you still want them as a subject…”

“No, Chavis, you know who wants it? Copán wants it. Herrets wants it. Best case, we put them on a boat and never see them again.”

“Sir, please,”

“Would you like the worst case instead?”

“Dr. Garcia, I…”

“No. Right now, it gets no energy, nothing for a week. And then we discuss action going forward.”

#febuwhump #febuwhumpday2 #solitary confinement #lab whump #medical whump #dehumanization tw #depression tw #whump #whump community #whump challenge #ayeli astian #cyres garcia #haley chavis-sakye #original writing