i just experienced that one scene in the incredibles in which bob finds all the dead superheroes in distress but with old spn blogs i used to reblog from. no kidding i was literally shaking as i searched for ana's blog and felt the absolute relief bob felt when he found that elastic girl hasn't been found as i found her blog
If the spnepisodebracket craze has shown us anything, it's that the supernatural fanbase is extremely divided, with the lowly sam stan seemingly at the bottom of the pile. sam is always last in polls, so this is a bracket for the 10% or so who always votes for him. because yeah, there's 327 episodes of Supernatural, but how many are popular because of a dean or destiel moment? how many good episodes are drowned out because they focus on sam?
i've chosen, with some crowdsourced peer review (special thanks to @spneveryseason, @suncaptor, and @ambersock!) 125 episodes that are Sam Relevant. Some are extremely sam-centric, some just have a shot where sam looks like he's being crucified that gives me brain worms -- i tried to be generous about it to keep a relatively even seasons distribution! matchups will be random and polls will last 24 hours each. in the tradition of @spnepisodebracket (who this is obviously inspired by and would not be possible without!) i'll try to rb a gifset for every episode in the poll!
a final note: no this is not that serious but the criteria for voting here should be how good the episode is as a SAM episode, not as anything else, so please vote accordingly! i am making this for people who actually enjoy sam and if that is not you, then this is not the poll for you!
with that out of the way, here is the compiled list of episodes! voting starts this sammy sunday, 3/26!
Season 1
Pilot (1x01)
Bloody Mary (1x05)
Home (1x09)
Asylum (1x10)
Scarecrow (1x11)
Nightmare (1x14)
Shadow (1x16)
Provenance (1x19)
Salvation (1x21)
Devil's Trap (1x22)
Season 2
Simon Said (2x05)
Croatoan (2x09)
Hunted (2x10)
Playthings (2x11)
Houses of the Holy (2x13)
Born Under a Bad Sign (2x14)
Heart (2x17)
All Hell Breaks Loose Part 1 (2x21)
All Hell Breaks Loose Part 2 (2x22)
Season 3
Bad Day at Black Rock (3x03)
A Very Supernatural Christmas (3x08)
Mystery Spot (3x11)
Jus In Bello (3x12)
Time is On My Side (3x15)
Season 4
Metamorphosis (4x04)
It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester (4x07)
I Know What You Did Last Summer (4x09)
After School Special (4x13)
On the Head of a Pin (4x16)
It's a Terrible Life (4x17)
Jump the Shark (4x19)
When the Levee Breaks (4x21)
Lucifer Rising (4x22)
Season 5
Good God, Y'all! (5x02)
Free to be You and Me (5x03)
Changing Channels (5x08)
Sam, Interrupted (5x11)
Swap Meat (5x12)
The Song Remains the Same (5x13)
My Bloody Valentine (5x14)
Dark Side of the Moon (5x16)
99 Problems (5x17)
Two Minutes to Midnight (5x21)
Swan Song (5x22)
Season 6
Exile on Main St. (6x01)
You Can't Handle the Truth (6x06)
Family Matters (6x07)
Clap Your Hands if You Believe (6x09)
Caged Heat (6x10)
Appointment in Samarra (6x11)
Like a Virgin (6x12)
Unforgiven (6x13)
The French Mistake (6x15)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (6x22)
Season 7
Meet the New Boss (7x01)
Hello, Cruel World (7x02)
The Girl Next Door (7x03)
Season 7, Time for a Wedding! (7x08)
Plucky Pennywhistle's Magic Menagerie (7x14)
Repo Man (7x15)
Out with the Old (7x16)
The Born-Again Identity (7x17)
Season 8
We Need to Talk About Kevin (8x01)
Hunteri Heroici (8x08)
Trial and Error (8x14)
Taxi Driver (8x19)
Pac-Man Fever (8x20)
The Great Escapist (8x21)
Clip Show (8x21)
Sacrifice (8x23)
Season 9
Holy Terror (9x09)
Road Trip (9x10)
First Born (9x11)
The Purge (9x13)
Meta Fiction (9x18)
Season 10
Black (10x01)
Soul Survivor (10x03)
Fan Fiction (10x05)
Inside Man (10x17)
Book of the Damned (10x18)
The Werther Project (10x19)
The Prisoner (10x22)
Brother's Keeper (10x23)
Season 11
Form and Void (11x02)
Baby (11x04)
Just My Imagination (11x08)
Oh Brother Where Art Thou (11x09)
The Devil in the Details (11x10)
Into the Mystic (11x11)
Ouroborus (11x14)
Red Meat (11x17)
Don't Call Me Shurley (11x20)
Season 12
Keep Calm and Carry On (12x01)
Mamma Mia (12x02)
American Nightmare (12x04)
Rock Never Dies (12x07)
The Raid (12x14)
Who We Are (12x22)
Season 13
Lost and Found (13x01)
Patience (13x03)
The Big Empty (13x04)
Various & Sundry Villains (13x12)
A Most Holy Man (13x15)
Funeralia (13x19)
Beat the Devil (13x21)
Exodus (13x22)
Let the Good Times Roll (13x23)
Season 14
Stranger in a Strange Land (14x01)
Mint Condition (14x04)
Nightmare Logic (14x05)
Byzantium (14x08)
Prophet and Loss (14x12)
Lebanon (14x13)
Peace of Mind (14x15)
Game Night (14x17)
Moriah (14x20)
Season 15
Back and to the Future (15x01)
Atomic Monsters (15x04)
The Rupture (15x03)
Golden Time (15x06)
The Gamblers (15x11)
Unity (15x17)
Inherit the Earth (15x19)
Finale: Carry On (15x20)
Edits: Bugs (1x08) will be added, polls will not be completely random bc im not doing this for science im doing this to see a good episode win and my randomizer pit when the levee breaks against swan song in round 1
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@spneveryseason’s I’m 26 Dude Celebration
Day 2 ~ The Special Children
soldiers in a coming war? that’s true. you are. but here’s the thing: I don’t need soldiers. I need soldier. I just need the one.
happy almost birthday! :)
image description: scenes from episodes “Nightmare,” “Simon Said,” “Hunted,” “All Hell Breaks Loose: Part One,” and “All Hell Breaks Loose: Part Two.”
1x14: Sam and Dean are in the impala, and Sam is on the phone while Dean drives. Dean says, “Sammy, relax. I’m sure it’s just a nightmare.” Sam holds the phone away and replies, “Yeah, tell me about it.” Dean says, “I mean it, y’know. A normal, everyday, naked-in-class, nightmare.”
1x14: Max sits on the couch, watching as he makes a knife spin on the side table. He says to Sam, “When I first found out I could move things... It was a gift. My whole life I was helpless.”
2x05: Andy and Sam sit outside near a chain-link fence. Andy tells Sam, “Dude that sucks.” Sam rolls his eyes slightly and shrugs. Andy continues, “I mean like, when I first got my mind thing? It was like a gift. You know, it was like I won the Lotto.”
2x10: Andy and Ava stand in a motel room, while Ava paces, nervous. She gestures animatedly and says, “Okay, look, I know how all this sound, but I am not insane and I am not on drugs. Okay? I am normal, and this is way, way off the map for me.”
2x21: outside in Cold Oak, Lily tells Sam, “Whatever. I feel like I’m in a nightmare, and it just keeps getting worse and worse.”
2x21: Azazel has come to Sam in a dream, he tells Sam, impassioned, “I needed you sharp, on the road, honing your skills. Your gifts.”
2x21: Jake points the colt at Azazel, who is unsurprised. Azazel says, “Go ahead, Jake. Squeeze that trigger. Be all you can be!” The view shifts to Jake, who stands unwavering. Azazel continues, “This’ll all be over. Your life can go back to normal.”
Hi ash! Do you have any recs for blogs to follow if you're a samgirl but don't like inc*st ships?
Hiya! I had to wrack my brains a little for people who are still relatively active samposters in this, the era of spnblrs slow death, but here's a very nonexhaustive list of folks whose content i enjoy. I'm sure they could all also rec more people :)
#i am tired of finding fics that are not solely midam fics but insist having destiel in the storyline too
My Top Posts in 2022:
#5
So who knew a teen TV show about two boys who go to the same school, become best friends and then realise they both like each other and wanna be boyfriends would be the reason I finally acknowledge my bi disaster self just like Nick does but instead I discover this when I'm 26 and in a fully and happily committed relationship with a man 😅😅
"Why are we like this?"
No, why am I like this?
12 notes - Posted September 2, 2022
#4
Can someone please write a Midam fic that doesn't involve Destiel.. like at all?? Kfanksbye
13 notes - Posted February 19, 2022
#3
Can you please reblog/like this post if you're still interested in reading more chapters of my Sastiel fanfic, Electric Indigo?
It's not a finished story yet and I wanna make sure that I'm not continuing it for no reason except for my own benefit. I mean, I wanna finish it but I also wanna make sure I still have readers!
Because let's face it - What's a story without the reader, eh?
If I have solid encouragement to continue it then that would be great because the smutty chapter I'm writing (chapter 14 the next one that is) is really hard to finish and well, I don't know if I'm any good at writing smut so you're going to need to tell me when it's finally completed! ;)
A Midam fluffy and soft domestic life AU one-shot fanfic
Plot: Adam and Michael go on a little winter trip and stay at a cabin. Adam is desperate to keep warm and Michael decides that he's adamant that Adam will be comfortable no matter what it takes.
Rating: T
Additional tags: friends to lovers, fluff, au human, unrequited but not really unrequited love, winter, cuddles and snuggling, hot chocolate, first kiss
Link on Ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36340774
24 notes - Posted January 10, 2022
My #1 post of 2022
Hey guys so my first text post of 2022!
This is a bit later than I intended, but here we go...
So, 2021 while stressful due to obvious pandemic reasons, was also a weirdly decent year for me. It's a year that I discovered more of who I am and how good life could be now that I have finally begun to move on from past traumatic experiences and mental health problems, these problems I was still dealing with regardless of a pandemic or not. They had been lingering years before the worst shit happened to the whole world and I am grateful that I have worked them out, whether covid affected that or not. I can't say if it did to be honest. But anyway.
My point is that while yes, my mental health could always potentially get bad again, it seems that for the time being, I'm actually and honestly doing well. So there is that.
Life has also got pretty busy lately, so that would be why I don't use tumblr that often these days, but in spite of this, there have been some great peeps on here that I'm glad to have gotten to know in the last year or two on a semi regular basis, perhaps only spoken to a little or even just mutually followed.
So said peeps, I would like to give a special mention to. These peeps are just plain awesome and lovely (and I hope I don't forget anyone - sorry in advance if I did!!) are as follows:
Basically, I just wanna wish you all an amazing and prosperous 2022. It's been a harrowing couple of years for us all but let's just go into it without much expectations. Let's just hope it's an easier one!
Also, if anyone that I tagged or anyone who follows me wants to reach out and send a DM for any particular reason, then I am happily open to that! Especially if you're struggling. I like to help where I can if at all possible. And I genuinely mean that. Mental health is important!
Anyway, see you guys on the flip side yo (i'm such a dork).
Cheers,
Luna x
32 notes - Posted January 3, 2022
Get your Tumblr 2022 Year in Review →
This really goes to show that I have been using tumblr a lot less which I do deeply regret.
2022 has been a busier year than previous years and life got in the way from my creativity so I guess that's why!
Will try to come to this more often again because I have missed it
@spneveryseason’s I’m 26 Dude Celebration
Day 4 ~ Possession
what a peculiar thing you are.
sorry, this is late, but happy birthday!!
image description: scenes from “The Rapture,” “Abandon All Hope...,” “Swan Song,” “The Man Who Would Be King,” “The Born-Again Identity,” “The Devil’s in the Details,” and “The Vessel.”
4x20: a light beam pours over Jimmy Novak’s body and then fades as Castiel possesses him. His trenchcoat flutters in the wind and his eyes are wet as he looks around. Castiel slowly raises his hand and watches it as he flexes his fingers.
5x10: Castiel advances on Lucifer slightly, before he realizes he is still trapped in a circle of holy fire. He and Lucifer look down at the ring as Castiel backs up. Lucifer looks at him appraisingly. Castiel stares defiantly at him, saying, “You are not taking Sam Winchester. I won’t let you.”
5x22: Sam and Dean stand across from Lucifer in Nick’s body, which is decaying significantly. Sam holds Lucifer’s eye contact as he says to himself, “So he knows. Doesn’t change anything.” Dean watches him and interrupts with Sam’s name. Sam doesn’t respond and continues, “We don’t have any other choice.” Dean quickly pleads with him, saying, “No.” Sam raises his chin and Dean looks to Lucifer, who continues staring. Sam says, “Yes.” Lucifer closes his eyes as the whole room is flooded with a bright light, at which Dean shields his eyes as Sam braces himself.
5x22: Lucifer in Sam’s body walks slowly into a circle of demons standing stock still. He repeatedly flexes his hand into a fist and rolls his shoulders, then comes to a stop. He says, “Sam.” as he looks down at his hand. He looks up and speaks slowly, condescendingly. He continues, “Come on. I can feel you. Scratching away in there.”
6x20: in Stull Cemetery, Lucifer in Sam’s body snaps his fingers, and Castiel and his vessel explode in slow motion. A voiceover reads [I was done. I was over. And then the most extraordinary thing happened.] Suddenly the particles reconstitute themselves in Castiel’s form as he looks down at himself, shocked.
5x22: still in the cemetery, Sam’s hand slowly unclenches from a fist as his eyes slowly focus, then his hand falls entirely to his side as Sam regains control of his body from Lucifer. Sam’s face twists as he chokes with the effort, and he staggers back, as Dean falls to the ground against the impala. Sam breathes raggedly as Dean, beaten and bloody, looks over at him. They make eye contact and Sam says, still panting, “It’s okay, Dean. It’s gonna be okay.”
7x17: in Sam’s hospital room, Castiel sits on Sam’s bed as his eyes glow red and streaks of bright red veins fade into his skin as he absorbs Sam’s cage trauma. Sam gasps and flails as he is relieved of that pain, and Castiel removes his hand from Sam’s face, staring at it fixedly. Dean calls to Sam, rushing to his side. The red fades from Castiel’s eyes as he rocks back and forth slightly. Sam sits up and recognizes him, saying, “Cas? Cas, is that you?” Castiel slowly looks up to Sam’s place on the bed, his eyes widening in fear as he hallucinates Lucifer in place of Sam. Lucifer sits relaxed with his hands folded, greeting him with, “Hello, brother.”
11x10: standing in a visualization of the cage, Sam speaks to Lucifer, steadfast, “I’m ready to die. And I’m ready to watch people I love die.” Lucifer stares at him coolly, as he finishes, shaking his head, “But I’m not ready to be your bitch.”
11x10: Castiel sits against the bars of the cage, bloodied as Lucifer has him in his hold ready to attack again. Castiel glares at him and asks, “Can you really beat her?” Lucifer smiles slightly with satisfaction and answers, “I can.” Castiel responds, “Then yes.” Lucifer closes his eyes as the cage fills with bright light, Sam and Dean shield their eyes in the background and then the light recedes.
11x14: in the library of the bunker, Lucifer in Castiel’s vessel has Sam pinned to a column with his hand in Sam’s chest crushing his soul. Lucifer makes a face, clenching his jaw, as his hand pulls out and Sam falls to the floor in a heap. Lucifer tries to look away as his gaze is pulled to his hand. He blinks and grimaces, speaking with some effort to say, “Hello, Castiel.” as Castiel regains control of the vessel.