perhaps my most esoteric but very, very passionate spn take is that i truly believe if you haven't watched season 1 supernatural with the original music cues, you have not seen season 1 supernatural.
Seriously, if I had a nickel for every blue-haired female character that worked my heart over through her incredible trauma... I’d have about four nickels. Which is only a bit more than expected yet surprising that it happened that much.
Netflix, piece of advice. Do NOT cancel this series if you hope to maintain any subscribers period.
take my hand. play the supernatural interactive website with me
this is yet another thing i found out about through the 2005 supernatural forum when they started talking about passwords they needed for unlocking stuff
once upon a time when you visited supernatural.warnerbros.com you were greeted with this point and click game (?) thingy that was updated as season 1 was premiering, with new stuff being added periodically. for example, the key on the floor, the metal safe and the notepad weren't there in the earliest save of this website on internet archive.
as far as i can tell, the website was created on october 1st 2005, but the earliest messages about it on the forum that i could find are from november 5th 2005.
the combination to open impala's trunk is 11-2-83, which is the hint dean gave on his voicemail when you called him before 'home' premiered
john's journal has been in the game since the beginning, but new pages were being added every couple days/weeks, according to the forum.
i clicked on john's journal last in the video, because that part of the game hasn't been saved by internet archive and the game crashes, sadly, but later on i found a catalogue with all of the pages in it on spn wiki. scans of the pages, transcription of john's 1983 journal
one of the mysteries john's journal provided was, 'what is the significance of 1246?'
a while later the key to open the glove box appeared
(note the SEX:F on sam's driver's license, of course. but also the fact that it was issued in california...)
the laptop, according to WB's official description of the season 1 DVD, is dean's! but the files inside it are sam's.
and what are the files inside it? well, on the video you can see two, but there are actually three. we'll get there
'research links' brings up actual paranormal lore blogs, not created by the production team, as far as i can tell, just by regular people on 2005's internet
site links from the bottom up. ghosts2
stories/ghost
newspage126
2005's wendigo page on wikipedia
and um.... aaevp dot com... which isn't archived, so i don't know if it was a real site. if it was, it probably belonged to the American Association of Electronic Voice Phenomena
but now, well. the site looks like this
SAD!
'hunter's blogs' is locked, and the password to open it was one of the bonuses on the season 1 DVD (that 'access to dean's computer' / 'sam's files' thing)
you can read jo's blog here
the third item on the laptop, which wasn't saved on internet archive for some reason, was added on the evening of february 28th 2006, after the premiere of 'shadows'. ANDOVER3125550143
it was an audio file of morse code that translated to 'salvation', which would be s01e21
and this box from the floor, which was never opened as far as i could find, was theorized to be the box of family pictures sam and dean got in 'home'
two three more tidbits. rolling stones tickets?
john's journal runes
and after 'asylum' aired, the game added dr. ellicott's journal, but i couldn't find it archived or on the wiki. sorry to this man
and at the end of this journey, as i gazed upon a message that said 'here's a post that gathered up all the information and transcribed john's journal'
i click on it, and what do i find.
that that very post turned into supernaturalwiki.com
Welcome back to the Ineffable lyric discussion (can I hear a wahoo)
In honor of the announcement of season 3 of our beloved Good Omens, I find it completely necessary for us to discuss one of the many songs on Aziraphale and Crowley's angelic playlist that made me scream my bloody head off. One of those songs is the one and only The Book of Love by Peter Gabriel. While I UNDERSTAND this song may have just been chosen to spell out SEASON THREE, I think it goes much deeper than that because of all of the parallels it draws to Aziraphale and Crowley. And ultimately, what I think is going to happen in terms of their relationship when they finally sort their shit out. So beware if you haven't watched season 2 of Good Omens because we're about to do a fucking DEEP DIVE into this.
First, the title of the Book of Love feels almost like a call to this looming threat to the Book of Life that was consistently used in series 2. The entire season, Crowley and Aziraphale have to work oh so carefully because with the Book of Life being confirmed, they know that either of them could get the other erased, and whether they want to admit it or not, losing the other is their biggest fear. We've seen this when Crowley believed Aziraphale to be dead in Series 1 when he couldn't feel Aziraphale's presence anymore since he got incorporated. When Aziraphale isn't there, Crowley is a mess. Likewise, we saw how both reacted during the ineffable divorce scene in series 2. Crowley is full-on begging Aziraphale to stay, and Aziraphale has finally admitted that he needs Crowley and full-on mouths for Crowley not to leave him. The Book of Life inherently, from how Neil set it up, feels threatening. The Book of Love, on the other hand, raises an entirely other reaction. Throughout the series, as corny as it sounds, love has been what grounds our protagonists. It is the love of Tadfeild and his friends that keeps Adam from kickstarting the end of the world; it's what keeps him from rejecting his father, the literal devil. It is the love of the earth, of humanity and all its strange creations, and for each other that keeps Aziraphale and Crowley attempting to prevent the end of the world when it could be so much easier to just accept the fate of it all. Love is the key theme that grounds our protagonists, that makes them tick. Love is safe; love is, at times, painful but overall kind. So when we see this title on their playlist, listed amongst heartwrenching tales of grieving a relationship, you could have had, and of loss, it brings a sense of salvation and safety. The Book of Love, unlike the Book of Life, is not a threat- it's a sanctuary for Aziraphale and Crowley.
Now, diving into the lyrics.
"The book of love is long and boring
No one can lift the damn thing
It's full of charts and facts, and figures, and instructions for dancing
But I
I love it when you read to me.
And you
You can read me anything"
The first couple of verses inherently feel like Aziraphale and Crowley's original view on this notion of love. As two supernatural entities who aren't bound by human emotion or logic, love may seem superficial and downright silly at times. The courting procedures that different societies have taken on throughout the centuries and the songs and dances that come along with it may all seem like a big waste. The book of love is a manifestation of love itself, and originally, it seems unappetizing to our protagonists. That is until they refind each other, and love goes from this thing that humans feel and jump through hoops for to this tidal wave of emotions. Love felt silly and unrealistic before, but with each other, they are willing and excited to explore it, even if it comes with things that feel inherently silly.
Also, these verses draw some cute parallels to headcanons and features of cannons. If you've been involved in the Good Omens fandom long enough, you've probably stumbled across the idea that Crowley asks Aziraphale to read to him for a multitude of different reasons. Some people say it's because his eyes aren't meant to read, one of the many punishments that came with him being cast down from grace, or maybe it's just because he finds Aziraphale's voice comforting. Additionally, the line about instructions for dancing is just so heartwarming when we look at the ball scene from this past season and Aziraphale's daydreams of a romance worthy of a Jane Austin novel.
"The book of love is long and boring
And written very long ago
It's full of flowers and heart-shaped boxes
Adn things we're all too young to know
but I
I love it when you give me things
and you
You ought to give me wedding rings"
I'm sure we've all heard this idea that you'll understand love when you get older, but even when you get older, it never seems to make sense. This idea that love is too old for any of us to truly understand, and that humbles us but in the best way possible. There is no point in trying to figure out what exactly love is because you could spend thousands of years feeling it and watching it happen all around you and still not know exactly what it is besides this all-encompassing feeling. And that is exactly the perspective of Aziraphale and Crowley. They have seen countless examples of love, true, unwavering love, and they have felt it for each other. And yet they themselves cannot begin to fathom what love, true unconditional love, is exactly. These two supernatural, ethereal/occult beings are humbled by the very concept of love like humans are- and that love is drawn from each other.
And then there is this notion of giving, which pairs so well with Crowley's primary love language, acts of service and gift giving. If the first chorus was Crowley talking about how he loves it when Aziraphale reads to him and takes care of him, then this is Aziraphale talking about how Crowley displays his love. And this final notion of asking for that final commitment, one of the key ways humans express their love for each other, is just amazing. Because in a way, Aziraphale moving to make this commitment, to fully be on their side in this way, is the resolution we have been wanting since the beginning. For Aziraphale to finally feel safe enough to let go and finally let himself settle to where he finally belongs, on his side with Crowley.
I post about wincest/gencest/weirdcest/all the psychosexual samdean that I see in the show. I have not finished the entire series yet, but I pull in info from later episodes as I go when it feels relevant.
I'm going episode-by-episode and season-by-season.
Reblogs, additions, and messages always welcome <3
If you're missing Lovestruck on the second anniversary of the app going down, here are some wonderful links to indulge your nostalgia.
1. @ls-salvation-squad's YouTube Cannel with recordings of all Lovestruck stories, routes, shorts and specials. They also have Emily Verma's route from Queen's Gambit and some bits from Kisses & Curses (other Voltage US apps). More about the latter @searchingkissesandcurses.
2. Their itch.io page with a reconstruction of the Lovestruck app for Mac or PC, which has:
all seasons for all characters from Edge Case: Love's Pursuit and My Siren Crush
season 1 of Fiona Eichen's route from Wicked Lawless Love
season 1 of Mackenzie Hunt's and Vanessa Helsing's routes from Havenfall is for Lovers
3. The itch.io of the phenomenal @beamycomet, who is working on their own version of the app too. Their version works for Mac, PC and Android and has:
all seasons of Helena Klein's route from Love and Legends
seasons 1-2 of Altea Bellerose's route from Love and Legends
season 1 of Reiner Wolfson's route from Love and Legends
all specials of all characters from My Siren Crush
season 1 of Lexi Sweetwater's route from My Siren Crush
Plus, they have some of these available in a version for web browsers, although they are not developing that one further.
If there are any other projects that I have not mentioned here, please reblog and tell me!