#supernatural confused

[diazpatcher]

I can't even imagine what it must have been like to watch supernatural live over the years, they went from monsters, to angels and demons, to God and Darkness, to multiversal travel 😭💀 what??

#supernatural #spn #supernatural confused #castiel #lucifer #dean winchester #sam winchester #jack #michael

[secretmellowblog]

People who try to analyze what happened on Tumblr on November 5th, 2020, often really overstate how much it was actually “about” Supernatural. As someone who has never been in the supernatural fandom ever but dID join in on the hysterical destielposting—it was really more about the stress of the pandemic and the 2020 presidential election.

The two biggest Youtubers I’ve seen try to dissect “what happened that November 5th” in video essays both weren’t American—- and I think that explains why they both tried to explain the hysteria primarily via analyzing the Supernatural fandom/the original show, rather than through the lens of the election. And while those videos are cool, valid, informational, and make lots of really well-considered interesting points— I can tell you that me and almost all my mutuals had literally no knowledge or interest in the fact that “oh supernatural had made nods at the ship in the past but the creators were adamant that I wouldn’t be canon” or etc etc etc etc. the first time I learned about any of that context was way later, watching videos where people claimed that fandom history context (that I did not know anything about) was the actual reason for the hysteria.

But the reality is that people latched on to the Destiel stuff because it was a piece of big useless inane zero-stakes fandom news in a time when we were desperately waiting for serious high stakes election news. We were latching onto a “positive “ piece of inane stupid fandom news in a time of great stress, with all the desperation of a drowning man who latches onto whatever piece of wood will keep him afloat.

The core of the hysteria was that Americans (who make up a huge chunk of tumblr’s userbase) were currently glued to their laptops watching the live presidential election vote counts come in. These vote counts were taking an extended amount of time due to the pandemic causing high numbers of mail-in ballots, resulting in a constant state of Election Day Stress for multiple days straight.

This was also during the height of the Pandemic. People had predicted Trump’s presidency would be bad; no one had predicted it would be this apocalyptically bad. No one had predicted pandemics and lockdowns and hospitals overflowing with bodybags. remember Trump spreading Covid lies and conspiracies?? There were so many Qanon conspiracies about democrats being Satanic child traffickers who had to be put to death, and coup threats were mounting from the right wing side. It seemed like this election was a choice between ‘centrist democrat’ and “apocalyptic right wing conspiracy theory authoritarianism,” in the midst of pandemic conditions that people feared would never ever improve— and it seemed like a close election.

Another major point was that Trump voters were more likely to be antimaskers/Covid deniers, while Biden voters were more likely to take the pandemic seriously— so Biden voters were more likely to send in mail-in ballots instead of risking the in-person voting crowds, which meant their ballots would take much longer to count. And so, in many state electoral vote counts, it would initially seem like Trump was very far in the lead— only for Biden to slooooowly build up an agonizingly small lead as the mail in ballots came in, and then defeat Trump at the very end.

So you’re just watching these news sites giving live election updates, refreshing the page every 2 minutes to see if you’re going to live under a spineless centrist democrat or a literal Qanon Dictatorship. And then you go on tumblr to distract yourself, and there’s more election posting, and more agonizing over the votes, and more stress and despair—-

And then it’s been days and we’re right at the crucial tipping point where it’s anyone’s game and the next few hours will determine whether Trump will win, so you need to keep your eye on the vote count, because the next hours will determine the future of the pandemic and your country and your plans for your entire life—

And then stupid Destiel becomes canon! And it becomes canon in the silliest way possible!

If Destiel had become canon at any other time, it would have been a big goofy tumblr celebration? But we wouldn’t have gotten the insane explosion of hysterical interaction.

The entire core of it was the contrast between the inane meaningless stupidity of fandom news vs the actual stressful election news you wanted to hear! It really is best conveyed in that meme where Castiel says “I love you” and Dean indifferently responds with a piece of important election news.

It’s about the contrast between the low-stakes inanity of fandom and the massive life-destroying stakes of a terrifying election. There really was no reason it had be Supernatural specifically, except that Supernatural was a thing everyone knew basic things about from dashboard osmosis— it could’ve been any other equally huge silly fandom ship news about a ship everyone *knew of* but might not necessarily be invested in (ex. Stucky becoming canon, Johnlock becoming canon, Kirk/Spock becoming more canon somehow, etc etc etc.)

I think it’s true that people who weren’t paying agonizingly close attention to the American election news got swept up in it, and that non American Supernatural fans also were extremely excited for purely fandom reasons — but the entire reason it blew up to an unprecedented degree was because of that core of stressed out terrified Americans glued to their computers watching election results and suddenly receiving stupid fandom news instead, and deciding to just hysterically parodically hyper-celebrate this absurd useless zero-stakes news.

I think it was also all elevated by the fact that, as I said before, this happened at the crucial “tipping point” of the election where the next few hours would determine the winner. The fact that Biden began to slowly develop a lead in the hours after made it feel, hysterically, as if the hours after Destiel became canon was somehow the turning point where he began to win; so celebrating Destiel felt like celebrating that slow turn towards victory.

The tl,dr is that it’s so important to Remember the Fifth of November …..in preparation the inevitable hysteria that will happen in the presidential election on November 5th of next year. XD. Personally I’m rooting for Johnlock or Frodo/Sam to somehow become canon in the eleventh hour right before the democrats win

#November 5th #november 5 2020 #the fifth of november #just a random ramble #November 5th 2020 is such an important day to me #it really is a holiday #but it does confuse me when I see people analyzing it primarily as a supernatural thing #instead of a ‘hysteria over an election reaches a breaking point when inane zero stakes fandom news comes out and we all latch onto it’thing #but yeah!! #this is my personal essay out of love for the holiday

[missingmoonflowers]

supernatural x tumblr posts

#spn #supernatural #destiel #castiel #dean winchester #deancas #jack kline #if anyone’s confused the second to last one is about Dean but Jack’s in there so he’s tagged #supernatural crack #destiel crack #spn memes #spn crack #supernatural memes

[cthulhum]

does anyone realize how crazy it is to have the actor of a mostly headcanoned queer ship say the fans were never crazy and they were right all along after 10+ years of everyone just absolutely going nuts over the said queerbaited ship

#supernatural #dean winchester #spn #destiel #castiel #deancas #misha collins #im 20 i have been Experiencing supernatural and johnlock since i was 12 and merthur since wayy before that i have fought Wars #this is crazy #i love u hannibal i love u 911 (if u make eddie gay) #for the love of god by 'mostly headcanoned' i dont mean that it was never intentional #i am aware that they put the subtext in on purpose #they knew what they were doing #but my focus here is on the actor actually saying it because like #if its not mostly headcanoned then y was the entire cast denying it for years AND YEARS #like do yall not remember what jared and jenesn used to say #there have been many many many instances where the cast has made us feel crazy/stupid for saying anything abt destiel #im just saying TO ME its crazy that actors and creators talk so openly about these things now !!! again i was raised on merlin and sherlock #ok also im confused on the queerbaiting part #everyones saying its queer coding and not queer baiting but cant they be true at the same time ? #im not being dumb on purpose i swear im just confused #like yes dean is very much bi coded and their relationship is queer coded but if the creators deny everything #and we only get a last minute confession after 11 years #that doesnt count as queer baiting ? #someone smart explain this to me 🙏

[beebox-illustrations]

I’ll finish the rest up till next Sunday🌻✨

Have a great weekend :)

Part 2:

#supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #supernatural fanart #web comics #procreate #my art #illustration #digital art #beebox-illustrations #food challenge #you can’t tell me he wouldn’t have done it ever #castiel #being confused

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

Me: hey brain, can we think normal things tonight?

Brain: PALEONTOLOGIST!DEAN FINDS AN ANGEL THAT GOT BURIED DURING THE EXTINCTION OF THE DINOSAURS.

Me: *quietly* ...what the fuck

Brain: Dean is working on an excavation in a cave system when he uncovers this. fcking HUMAN BEING WITH *WINGS* AND *TOO MANY EYES*. PRESERVED IN ROCK IN THE SAME STRATA AS THE DINOSAURS. And ofc Dean is really freaked out and scared of this thing, but then he notices that the figure is curled forward over something, and as he looks closer he sees the skeletons of a nest of baby raptors that the "human" figure was holding tight to its chest, like it was trying to shield them from something. And he realizes that this... Thing... died protecting them.

Except the "human" figure isnt a skeleton, its preserved fully in the rock. Or perhaps...

#also submitted for consideration: archeologist!Dean ends up in one of those “they found something they shouldnt have oOoOoOoO” scenarios #and unleashes a fallen angel #but instead of anything horrific and civilization-ending they're gay and in love and having gay sex now #...what. #destiel #deancas #supernatural #spn #??????? #sorry someone let grade-school-me out of the subconscious for a sec. i was a Dino Kid #yes ik the extinction wasnt one big event but YOU GET THE VIBES #also funny concept: Cas actually succeeded at protecting the baby dinos and they were preserved along with him #Dean now has a VERY confused and sad biblically-accurate (hot) angel who doesnt know what humans are #AND a clutch of baby velociraptors

[beatsheetromanroy]

body swap episode let’s go!!! it’s a cursed object or some nasty, powerful spellwork. it zaps rowena, dean, and cas who are all in the same room together. rowena becomes dean, cas becomes rowena, dean becomes cas. jack walks into the room and with the ability to see people’s souls, recognizes everyone immediately. poor sam now has to see the woman he has feelings for in the body of his brother and he’s NOT having a good time!! rowena in dean is all loose, confident, flirty, she charms cas in her own body which drives sam and dean INSANE (for totally different reasons obviously.) it would be so fun to see rowena-cas stiff, serious, and genuine. cas realizes the deep attachment he’s grown to his body. dean’s freaking out about the possibility of needing to pee or take a shower. “I’m not gonna look at some other dude’s junk, that’s not cool!” meanwhile cas informs him that he won’t need to, “there’s enough grace left over in my vessel that will eliminate the need for bodily functions” forcing dean to act disappointed “oh, good” (he says lying) while he tries to actively avoid feeling up cas’ pecs.

#i need to rewrite this so it’s not a horribly confusing run on sentence of a paragraph #HOWEVER #do you see my vision…. #spn #this episode is about performance it’s about love it’s about mirrors #i don’t think rowena would be that bothered. i think she’d just stir up chaos #supernatural #dean winchester #cas #rowena macleod #deancas #destiel #samwena #derryth.txt

[skz-miroh]

Nothing will ever match up to November 5th 2020 but June 24th 2023 came pretty damn close

#destiel #supernatural #spn #russia #ukraine #titanic #titan #news #someone please help i am so confused and only getting news updates through the destiel meme #november 5 2020 #apparently something is going on with the stock market now too ?? #stockmarket

[horrorshow]

SUPERNATURAL 14.13 Lebanon

#old men arguing in the street confused by technology😔 #spnedit #samdeanedit #sam winchester #dean winchester #supernatural #you and me #14x13 #draft cleaning #**

[isa-belle1367]

Dean gets drunk and goes into excruciating detail about Cas

Dean to Sam: the way that I would let this man *extremely long censorship noise*

Cas, who is in the other room and can hear everything: 😦😰😰

Sam, who is used to deans drunk rants: yeah, sure, Dean. Idk if he can bend like that tho, but you can try.

#just imagine #cas doing that slow head turn #like “IM DOING WHAT IN WHERE?!” #he would be so confused #supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester #castiel #destiel

[coward2coward]

i'm sure you haven't forgotten how much you love the taste

#insert coom joke here Hyahyahya #this didnt show up in tags last time i tried 2 post so we'll see how this goes... #my art #fanart #samdean #wincest #deanmon #this is meant to be demon blood forced relapse if you're confused #spn #supernatural #dean winchester #sam winchester

[jadegr8]

They don't even know how special they are to me

#yes I am aware that I'm being crazy about this #thanks for asking #also the fact how confused cas is #like “we're not gonna tell them about the angels and demons?!” #“what's a president?” #sorry I'm just gonna crawl right back under the rock I came from #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #castiel #destiel #stuff

[raisedmefromperdition]

I requested that we all “look as irritated with each other as possible.”

#spn con #minncon #supernatural #spn #Jensen you beautiful damsel of a drama queen #mark why are you confused??? #the speed with which Jensen said ‘yes’ to this request for a pose makes me grin #jensen ackles #misha collins #jared padalecki #mark sheppard #misha your ARMS sir

[bylizhand]

people are always putting cas on top of xmas trees, but I think he'd go well under one, too. 😌🎁🎄📼 (dean gave him this ugly sweater, of course.)

#misha collins #fanart #artists on tumblr #fanartist #misha #my artwork #supernatural #castiel #spn fanart #my art #destiel art #destiel #castiel fanart #castiel supernatural #my cas art #cas art #confused cas #it's a gift

[sweetpapercroissant]

it’s very very interesting to me when fandom looks at dean, the guy who consistently sacrifices his own life to save/bring back sam, and goes ‘he’s so scary so mean he’d kill anyone and destroy the world to keep sam chained to him’ meanwhile sam, the guy who actually did sacrifice the world to save dean and said with his whole chest he’d do it again zero hesitation, gets the ‘poor baby <3 he wants to be free from dean so bad someone save him’ treatment

#and by interesting i mean equal parts confusing and hilarious #which is not to say dean wouldn’t do terrible things to save sam #but he does have limits. and after a point he’s like we should both be dead actually. meanwhile sam’s ready to harvest organs and #be frankenstein-esque zombies together forever #just say you can’t handle who they actually are #supernatural #sam and dean #samdean #.txt

[gabriels-golden-kazoo]

I’m just saying we were robbed (both on the screen and in some fics) of Dean and Gabriel being that one weird duo.

Like what do you mean they didn’t get a chance to drunkly sing karaoke whilst Sam cringed at his brother and boyfriend and Cas just sat there not really sure how to react?

Of course they did, and they fucking smashed it.

(Gabriel fell off the stage before the song finished and Dean absolutely lost it and laughed so hard he got a stitch, they were dragged out by their boyfriends.)

#supernatural #sabriel #gabriel spn #sam winchester #headcanon #archangel gabriel #sam x gabriel #destiel #dean x castiel #castiel #dean and gabriel bestie agenda #dean winchester #deancas #Sam and Cas both just utterly confused #I’m thinking it’s raining men #can you see the vision